Calling all teen actors, directors, designers, and stage managers! From July 11-July 23, work with other teens to create a full-fledged theatrical production in just two weeks! Then perform it onstage at Milwaukee's premiere professional theater! This summer, get a taste of being a member of a professional theatrical company by participating in The Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Summer Play Festival. Teens will get the chance to take part in every step of the production process during an intensive two weeks guided by professional theater staff. Their capstone project will be to mount a performance in the Milwaukee Rep’s Stiemke Studio that is acted, directed, designed, and produced by teens. Students will receive professional training aspects of theater each morning, and will apply the techniques during afternoon rehearsals. This is a WONDERFUL opportunity for students to receive intense theater training in all facets of production! Choose your track and immerse yourself in it! Partial need-based scholarships are available. July 11 – 23, 2016 Monday – Friday 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM Performances: 7:30 pm Friday, July 22, 2016 4:00 pm Saturday, July 23, 2016 Age Range: 13 – 18 Application Deadline: May 20, 2016 Find out more here: http://www.milwaukeerep.com/Education/Teen-Council/

MARN is partnering with Creative Capital to offer a year-long webinar series to teach creatives the business, marketing and management skills needed to be independent professionals. Led by arts consultant Susan Koblin Schear, this webinar will define what values and guiding principles are, and why they are important to and for you. Examples of values and guiding principles will be shared. Developing and implementing goals will also be addressed and supplemented with examples and best practices. Finally, values-based goals will be examined and discussed in depth, substantiated by examples, as this may be or is a new concept to many artists participating in the webinar. This webinar is for you and about you. Be prepared to share, engage, learn and work towards enhancing your business practice. Webinars are instructed in real-time, giving MARN participants the opportunity to ask questions. Webinars are also recorded by Creative Capital and will be shared with each MARN participant. ABOUT SUSAN SCHEAR Susan Koblin Schear founded ARTISIN, LLC in 1995 to offer comprehensive, process-oriented and holistically-based planning and business development, management and implementation services to the arts and cultural sector. Her visionary strengths and grassroots approach are particularly resourceful to nonprofit and for-profit entities. She is proud to also introduce a2a® / Artist-to-Artist™, a new program from ARTISIN designed to help artists, arts-related/creative-sector businesses, and artists in hybrid careers, develop the business side of their creative practices. Structured as a series of professionally-guided peer groups, a2a guides participants in goal-setting, accountability, creative problem-solving and entrepreneurial skill-building.

Join us as John Gurda, historian and storyteller, shares stories about Milwaukee’s neighborhoods from his newest book, Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods. He’ll be signing books after the lecture. $35, includes reception.

SMPAC presents artists sponsored by Classic Cargo International, Inc. at SM Market at 11th & Milwaukee Ave. Tweed Funk with Joseph “Smokey” Holman consists of some of Milwaukee’s top notch horn players. ”With a fascinating story singing with soul greats at both Motown and Stax during it’s heyday, Smokey’s been bringing his trademark sound to the blues in Tweed Funk.” Formed in late 2010, Tweed Funk’s national ascent has been driven by their horn-fueled, Memphis flavored blues, roots, and soul. This Milwaukee, Wisconsin 6 piece soul-blues revue is fronted by Joseph “Smokey” Holman, who recorded under Curtis Mayfield in the early 70’s. Tweed Funk boasts 5 Wisconsin Area Music Industry (WAMI) Wins in the last 4 years for the band and its members. Building on the success of their 2014 CD Release, Tweed Funk is releasing a new album “Come Together” in the spring of 2016 consisting of 10 new original tunes.

Free outdoor concerts taking place at the wonderful Midsummer Festival of the Arts at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. 10:00 a.m.—Plutoniates, Sheboygan rockers 12:00 p.m.—Battle of Santiago combines Latina and Canadian sounds for a tight, Afro-Cuban post-rock sound. 3:00 p.m.— WiFEE and the HUZz BAND will rock your socks off with their 10-piece powerhouse sound which will carry you back to the glory days of Motown without abandoning today’s cutting-edge sound.