HOME 2023: WORLD REFUGEE DAY AT MILWAUKEE CITY HALL

FREE
Milwaukee City Hall, 200 East Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202

Join the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families – Bureau of Refugee Programs and Lynden’s HOME program to celebrate World Refugee Day, and our refugee communities, through art, food, fashion, and performance, in Milwaukee’s beautiful City Hall.

Master of ceremonies Biluge Ntabala will direct a program that includes welcomes from Mayor Cavalier Johnson, City of Milwaukee; Bojana Zorić Martinez, Director, Bureau of Refugee Programs, and Wisconsin State Refugee Coordinator, Wisconsin Department of Children and Families; and others. There will be hands-on art making with Fanana Banana; poetry from Brenda Cárdenas, former Milwaukee Poet Laureate and Afghan poet Khatera Nazari; dance performances from the South Division High School Multicultural Club and Dnipro Ukrainian Dance Ensemble’s Promin Youth Group.

Hope Away from Home, an exhibition of work by local refugee children and youth, will be on display in the City Hall Rotunda from June 14-27.

Food trucks in attendance: Taste Amir’s Roti, Chemo’s Halal Taco Truck, Isa’s Ice Cream.