Events Calendar

FREE
This is a virtual event.
Watch live on our Facebook page.
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm: Yosan Yosief (Eritrea/Milwaukee, WI) in conversation with Lidya Gebrekidan (Eritrea/Milwaukee, WI)
Wednesday, June 5, 2024, - 2:00pm - 3:00pm: TBD
Wednesday, September 11, 2024, - 2:00pm - 3:00pm: TBD
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, - 2:00pm - 3:00pm: TBD

Stories As We Move: A HOME Interview Series is an ongoing project that launched in 2020 as part of Lynden's HOME virtual platform. The series pairs individuals who have faced forced displacement in its many forms in a conversational setting. Refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants interview those that have resettled to the United States, including friends and family that are based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as well as those that remain overseas. The series covers a range of backgrounds and narrative identities, professions, and interests; participants include artists, community members, advocates and leaders, healthcare workers, caseworkers, interpreters, and students and educators. These interviews are reflections of relationships and conversations that we continue to have long after resettlement; they explore issues that our refugee friends and family members continue to face as they remain in their country of origin or interim country.

As we approach World Refugee Day 2024, Lynden’s community engagement specialist Kim Khaira will begin screening interviews from the series on one Wednesday each quarter on our Facebook page.

Schedule:
NINA GHANBARZADEH
Wednesday, October 30, 2024, at 7:30 pm
***VIRTUAL***
For information: https://uwm.edu/arts/event/artists-now-guest-lecture-series-nina-ghanbarzadeh/
Nina Ghanbarzadeh (Afkhamian) is a visual artist whose work is informed by the geometric and biomorphic patterns, colors, and textures of her Persian cultural traditions. Ghanbarzadeh emigrated from Tehran, Iran in 2001. She earned her BFA in painting, drawing and graphic design from the UW-Milwaukee in 2013 and completed a two-year Artist in Residence Program with Redline Milwaukee in 2015.

JOVANNY HERNANDEZ CABALLERO
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, at 7:30 pm
***VIRTUAL***
For information: https://uwm.edu/arts/event/artists-now-guest-lecture-series-jovanny-caballero-hernandez/
Jovanny Hernandez Caballero is a community artist and photographer based in Milwaukee. He is a first-generation American and descendant of Mixtecs, an Indigenous people based in present-day Mexico. His work centers around themes of cultural heritage and identity. Jovanny documents the beauty of Milwaukee’s South Side and his family’s native land of Oaxaca, Mexico. He completed his BFA in Photography & Imaging at UW-Milwaukee in 2023, and is a 2024 Mary L. Nohl Emerging Artist Fellow.

NICHOLAS PERRY
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, at 7:30 pm
***VIRTUAL***
For information: https://uwm.edu/arts/event/artists-now-guest-lecture-series-nicholas-perry/
Nicholas Perry is a painter and 2024 Mary L. Nohl Emerging Artist Fellow based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received a BFA from UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts in 2018. Nicholas makes figurative paintings that draw on art-historical influences, personal photography, and other visual languages.

FREE
This is a virtual event.

HOME Multilingual Story Time features children’s books written or illustrated by artists who have faced forced displacement as refugees, asylum seekers, or immigrants, and come from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Designed for children aged 4-8, we believe that reading picture books is a way to share and discuss big ideas with young children. We end each virtual session with an art activity from Lynden art educator Claudia Orjuela.

Scheduled to screen every third Wednesday of the month from 10:30 to 11 am, HOME Multilingual Story Time is a collaboration with the Milwaukee Public Library, Alliance Française de Milwaukee, Hanan Refugee Relief Group, the Islamic Resource Center, Milwaukee African Women's Association, Milwaukee Taiko Group Hibiki, UWM Department of French, Italian and Comparative Literature - French Program, UWM Libraries, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, and Wisconsin Ukrainians, Inc.

Videos remain on view once they are posted, and can be accessed at any time. Download our resource handout for parents, teachers, and advanced readers here.

Schedule, Recordings, and Activities

January 17, 2024: Who Are We?, written by Anneke Forzani and illustrated by Maria Russo, read in Burmese and English by Mala Lue. Archival recording. View the recording here.
February 21, 2024: The Boy Without a Name, written by Idries Shah and illustrated by Mona Caron, read in Dari/Afghan Persian and English by Khatol Nazari. View the recording here.
March 20, 2024: Un Jour, Tu Découvriras.../The Day You Began, written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by Rafael López, read in French and English by Marie Sandra Aloka. View the recording here.
April 17, 2024: Flicts, written and illustrated by Ziraldo, read in Brazilian Portuguese and English by Cris Siqueira of Lion's Tooth. View the recording here.
May 15, 2024: Soñadores/Dreamers by Yuyi Morales, read in Spanish and English by Claudia Orjuela. Archival recording. View the recording here.
October 16, 2024 M is for Myanmar, written by Elizabeth Rush, and illustrated by Khin Maung Myint, read in Burmese and English by Mala Nan Leth. View the recording here.
November 20, 2024 El Día de los Muertos/The Day of the Dead: A Bilingual Celebration, written by Bob Barner, read in Spanish and English by Claudia Orjuela.
December 11, 2024 Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood / Quizás Algo Hermoso. Cómo el Arte Transformó un Barrio, written by Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell, and illustrated by Rafael López, read in Spanish and English by Joan Luciano.

Access prior HOME Story Time videos and activities here.

Fall 2024 Session II: (7 weeks) Thursdays, October 31-December 19, 2024(no class 11/28) | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | $154/$112 members per 7-week session. Registration is closed.

Winter 2025 Session: (7 weeks) Thursdays, January 16-February 27, 2025 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | $154/$112 members per 7-week session. Register here.

Spring 2025 Session: (7 weeks) Thursdays, March 6-April 24, 2025 (no class 3/27) | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | $154/$112 members per 7-week session. Register here.

Lynden’s Art + Nature Lab engages participants aged 7-11 in inquiry-based art and nature learning, problem solving, and creative making. Over the course of two seven-week sessions, art educator Jeremy Stepien will take you on a series of art challenges and studio projects. Art + Nature Lab will meet indoors in the studio at Lynden with occasional excursions in the garden.

To view our Safety Guidelines for Parent-and-Child, Youth Workshops, click here.

Registration: Group size is limited; advance registration required. Register online now.

2024 Summer Session (June 4-August 27): Tuesdays, 10:30 am-11:30 am
2024 Fall/Winter Session (September 3-December 17): Select Tuesdays, 10:30 am-11:30 am

Tuesdays in the Garden, designed for children aged 1-3, provides a nurturing environment where children’s curiosity and wonder are extended through play and exploration, and children and their caregivers learn and discover side-by-side. Join art educators Claudia Orjuela and Denice Niebuhr for hands-on art making and all-senses-engaged exploration of the outdoor world at Lynden. We’ll consider different themes, each designed to connect Lynden’s environment with children’s interests. We will encourage experimentation and the manipulation of art and natural materials to tell stories, solve problems, and develop relationships.

Fee: $16/$12 members for one adult and one child.
Registration: Group size is limited; advance registration is required. Register online now. In the event of inclement weather, sessions move indoors.

To view a list of the session themes, click here.

Fall 2024 Session II: (7 weeks) Thursdays, October 31-December 19, 2024(no class 11/28) | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | $154/$112 members per 7-week session. Registration is closed.

Winter 2025 Session: (7 weeks) Thursdays, January 16-February 27, 2025 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | $154/$112 members per 7-week session. Register here.

Spring 2025 Session: (7 weeks) Thursdays, March 6-April 24, 2025 (no class 3/27) | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | $154/$112 members per 7-week session. Register here.

Lynden’s Art + Nature Lab engages participants aged 7-11 in inquiry-based art and nature learning, problem solving, and creative making. Over the course of two seven-week sessions, art educator Jeremy Stepien will take you on a series of art challenges and studio projects. Art + Nature Lab will meet indoors in the studio at Lynden with occasional excursions in the garden.

To view our Safety Guidelines for Parent-and-Child, Youth Workshops, click here.

Registration: Group size is limited; advance registration required. Register online now.