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SUMMARY:Taste & Toast
DESCRIPTION:A small plates and craft cocktails promotion\, offering discounted bottles and bites from 4 to 7 p.m. at 24 downtown Milwaukee restaurants\, bars and lounges. \n
URL:https://urbanmilwaukee.com/event/taste-toast/
LOCATION:Milwaukee\, WI\, 53202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Food & Drink
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SUMMARY:Sneaker Soiree (benefiting Girls On The Run)
DESCRIPTION:Girls on the Run of Greater Milwaukee (GOTR)\, a non-profit organization that encourages life-long learning and health and fitness among girls\, welcomes Paralympic Ski Medalist\, Fortune 500 Business Consultant\, Rhodes Scholar\, Former White House Official and Best-Selling Author Bonnie St. John as keynote speaker for its annual Sneaker Soiree fundraising event on Friday\, March 10 at Marquette University. \nSt. John\, who has risen to the highest levels of achievement in a variety of endeavors throughout her life\, had her right leg amputated at age five\, but went on to become the first African-American ever to win Olympic or Paralympic medals in Winter Olympic Competition\, taking home a silver and two bronze medals in downhill skiing events at the 1984 Paralympics in Innsbruck\, Austria. \nThe celebrated author of seven books\, including the just released\, Micro-Resilience: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus\, Drive and Energy\, St. John co-authored the #1 bestseller\, How Great Women Lead\, with her teenage daughter\, Darcy. Together they traveled the world on an extraordinary mother-daughter journey into the lives of fascinating women including Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\, Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice\, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf\, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. \nSt. John will keynote the Girls on the Run of Greater Milwaukee fundraising event\, which is open to the public. During her presentation\, she will challenge the audience to question their own limitations\, providing practical\, actionable tools and techniques to help achieve peak performance. \nSt. John\, a Harvard graduate and a Rhodes Scholar\, served under President Bill Clinton as a director for Human Capital Issues on the White House National Economic Council. Twice she represented the United States as a member of President Obama’s official delegation to the Paralympic Games; first at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver\, and again last summer at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio. St. John regularly appears in national and international media\, and NBC calls her\, “One of the five most inspiring women in America.” \nThe money raised at the Sneaker Soiree will help Girls on the Run fulfill its mission. In 2016\, the program awarded more than $80\,000 in financial aid for girls to participate\, regardless of their circumstances. \nTo register\, visit:\nhttps://www.gotr-milwaukee.org/sneaker-soiree \nWHEN: Friday\, March 10\, 2017\n5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Reception\, cocktails\, silent auction\n7 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. Dinner\, presentation by Bonnie St. John\, dancing \nWHERE: Marquette University Alumni Memorial Union\, Monaghan Ballroom\n1442 West Wisconsin Ave.\nMilwaukee\, WI 53233 \nParking available in the 16th Street Parking Structure\, located between Wisconsin Avenue and Wells Street or the Wells Street Parking Structure\, located between 12th and 13th streets. \nOTHER: The GOTR Sneaker Soiree event welcomes men and women interested in supporting the mission of GOTR. Ticket Price: $175 for individual registration\, (the cost of sponsoring one girl in the program). \nAbout Girls on the Run\nGirls on the Run is a national physical activity-based positive youth development program for 3rd-8th grade girls. Participants develop and improve competence\, feel confidence in who they are\, develop strength of character\, respond to others and oneself with care\, create positive connections with peers and adults and make a meaningful contribution to community and society. Each session is led by trained volunteer coaches that guide and mentor the girls. The ten-week program concludes with all participants completing a celebratory 5k event which gives them a tangible sense of achievement as well as a framework for setting and achieving life goals. Since 1996\, Girls on the Run has served more than 1.2 million girls nationwide. Girls on the Run of Greater Milwaukee has served more than 5\,000 girls over the past ten years. \n
URL:https://urbanmilwaukee.com/event/sneaker-soiree-benefiting-girls-on-the-run/
LOCATION:1442 W. Wisconsin Ave.\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53233\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Entertainment,Food & Drink
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SUMMARY:Danceworks Professional Company: Stories From A Life
DESCRIPTION:What is memory? How do we define ourselves by our memories? This multi-media work reflects on the story of guest choreographer Daniel Burkholder’s grandmother – Sophia Saren. Filmed interviews about her childhood\, marriage and her journey are interwoven with athletic dancing\, monologues\, diverse music and audience interactions that invite guests to consider how our own story will live on in history. \nDanceworks Performance Company will also present Stories From A Life at Dance Place\, Washington D.C. March 25-26\, 2017. \n
URL:https://urbanmilwaukee.com/event/danceworks-professional-company-stories-from-a-life-4/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:Arts & Entertainment
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SUMMARY:Rise Up and Sing! Ruthie Foster & The Heritage Blues Orchestra Quintet
DESCRIPTION:From blues to soul\, gospel and folk\, The Heritage Blues Orchestra Quintet (HBO) and Ruthie Foster expertly intermingle the richness of the American music experience. Performing separate sets and collaborating for the first time on stage\, these celebrated artists promise a concert experience of unforgettable depth and power. HBO’s acclaimed 2013 debut\, “And Still I Rise\,” garnered their first Grammy nomination and a Living Blues Critics Award for best debut. \nBlues-folk legend Taj Mahal deemed HBO “elegant\, fabulous and refreshing\,” and NPR commented that HBO performs “up to the minute music that draws upon the glorious past of African American genres.” Of the supremely talented Ms. Foster\, Rolling Stone raved “overwhelmingly pure and powerful … Ruthie Foster was magic to watch and hear.” \nRuthie’s list of achievements include three consecutive Grammy nominations including for her current album\, “Promise Of A Brand New Day;” Best Female Vocalist wins in 2007\, 2008\, and 2013 from the Austin Music Awards; the 2010 and 2013 Living Blues Critic’s Poll winner for Female Blues Artist of the Year; and recent Blues Music Award wins for Best Contemporary AND Best Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year. \n
URL:https://urbanmilwaukee.com/event/rise-up-and-sing-ruthie-foster-the-heritage-blues-orchestra-quintet/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:Arts & Entertainment
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SUMMARY:The Few
DESCRIPTION:by Samuel D. Hunter \nRunning Time: 90 minutes \nStudio Theatre\nDirected by C. Michael Wright\nFeaturing Mitch Bultman\, Mary MacDonald Kerr and James Ridge \nIt’s 1999; uncertainty and instability are in the air. Four years earlier\, Bryan had abandoned his labor of love\, a newspaper for truckers. Now he’s returned to small-town Idaho – with no word of where he’s been – and things have changed. His former lover is filled with rage\, his new coworker is filled with incessant adoration\, and his paper is filled with personal ads. From Samuel D. Hunter\, award winning-author and recent recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant\, comes this compassionate\, gently-hued drama about lonely lives desperately searching for a renewed faith in humanity. [Contains mature language] \n
URL:https://urbanmilwaukee.com/event/the-few-16/
LOCATION:158 N. Broadway\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53202\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Entertainment
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