Wisconsin folksinger and songsmith David HB Drake presents the music of Great Lakes and saltwater sailors in “A Sailor’s Songbag”. He plays the music and tells stories of the seven seas and dockside pubs performing on guitar, concertina, and handmade banjo, dulcimer, and Native American flute. David has been the resident musician for the Wisconsin’s flagship, the three masted schooner “Denis Sullivan” and has served as shantyman, interpreter, and performer aboard tall ships on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Great Lakes.

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.

The Kids From Wisconsin revue is produced in collaboration with some of this country's best writers, arrangers, and choreographers. Costumes are designed and created in Broadway style, adding to the already exciting performance. Performing a broad repertoire of music that includes the American favorites, big band, 50's- 80's classics, Motown, country, Broadway and current top hits, filling a two hour fully staged Broadway style performance.

Free outdoor concerts taking place at the wonderful Midsummer Festival of the Arts at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. 10:00 a.m.—áthas 11:00 a.m.—The Hollows play free-wheeling, roots-rock 2:00 p.m.—Copper Box will perform their Cajun/Zydeco/rock brand of music.

Enjoy a moonlit evening at North Point Lighthouse in Lake Park. With admission, you'll receive a slotted, 15-minute time period to go to the top of the tower to view the full moon. Adults, $20 • Kids under 12, $10 Tours and Refreshments • Rain or shine! Make a reservation via email/phone: keeper@northpointlighthouse.org or (414) 332-6754

Featuring a Gallery Talk with the Artist at 7:00 p.m. The Grohmann Museum is well known for its outstanding collection of industrial landscape paintings, may from centers of European industry like Germany's Ruhr River Valley. However, more regional and local depictions are less common. This exhibition provides an opportunity to highlight Milwaukee's industry and changing views of the city in post-industrial situations. The works selected for this exhibition-many executed in Michael Newhall's trademark Regionalist/Ashcan style-capture engaging scenes of Milwaukee's urban landscape and provide the viewer an opportunity to reflect on the city's recent past. Newhall has taught art and Buddhism at Naropa University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and other universities in the Midwest. His works can be found in a number of public and private collections.

This biennial exhibition highlights the extraordinary talent in Wisconsin art featuring paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints and photography by the state’s best known contemporary artists. It is the Gallery’s largest and most diverse exhibition of the year. Exhibition Dates: July 9 – September 10 Exhibiting artists are: Rodger Bechtold, Mary Bero, Craig Blietz, Mark Brautigam, Derrick Buisch, Jessica Calderwood, Marion Coffey, Terrence Coffman, Laura Dronzek, Andy Fletcher, Ben Grant, Michael Gross, Doug Hatch, Kathy Hofmann, Breehan James, Flora Langlois, Ed Larson, Clare Malloy, Cathy Martin, Mark Mulhern, Charles Munch, Katie Musolff, Dennis Nechvatal, William Nichols, Mark Ottens, Jeremy Popelka, Bill Reid, Jeffrey Ripple, Jason Rohlf, Jim Rose, Jan Serr, Trina May Smith, T.L. Solien, Nathaniel Stern, Fred Stonehouse, Paula Swaydan Grebel, Richard Taylor, Stephanie Trenchard, Tom Uttech, Michael Velliquette, and John Wilde.

FREE tour of 27 beautiful East Side gardens! Pick up a tour map on day of tour at either the Northpoint Lighthouse, 2650 N. Wahl Ave., or the Urban Ecology Center, 1500 E. Park Pl. Organized by Eastside Milwaukee Community Council.

When Caroline, a veteran social worker, removes infant Luna Gale from the custody of her struggling young parents, the best course of action seems clear and Baby Luna is placed temporarily with her devoted grandmother. However Caroline quickly realizes that the situation is more complicated as she uncovers a shadowy and secretive family past. Struggling with the limitations of an overburdened bureaucracy, Caroline is forced to make a risky decision with potentially dangerous consequences. LUNA GALE explores the tough situations welfare workers must contend with daily to ensure the well-being of children and their families.