The United Nations Association of Greater Milwaukee supports and encourages you to participate in the:
2024 World Refugee Day Celebration at the Milwaukee City Hall, 200 East Wells Street, on June 20th,2024 from 11:30 AM - 2 PM
The World Refugee Day events at Lynden Sculpture Garden – 2145 W. Brown Deer Road on:
June 22nd, 2024 from 11 AM - 4 PM
July 13th, 2024 at 3 PM
August 17th, 2024 from 11 AM - 4 PM
Now in its sixth year, the HOME Refugee Steering Committee at the Lynden Sculpture Garden invites you to observe HOME 2024: WORLD REFUGEE DAY in a series of outdoor events and programs that celebrate Milwaukee's refugee communities through art, food, fashion, and performance.
HOME is the theme of our work with refugee community leaders, community members, Call & Response artists, and allies. The HOME Refugee Steering Committee is building a space of leading, coming together, and celebrating refugees.
Our first gathering will be on Thursday, June 20 2024, the day the United Nations has designated World Refugee Day, at Milwaukee City Hall, 200 East Wells Street, from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm.
The event, co-hosted with the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families – Bureau of Refugee Programs will include art, music, dance, and poetry from refugee communities, hands-on art making activities, and food trucks.
World Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to honor refugees around the globe. It falls each year on June 20 and celebrates the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.
This June 20, 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 poetry and performance, in Milwaukee’s beautiful City Hall.
The day’s program includes the presentation of the City of Milwaukee Mayor’s Declaration for Milwaukee’s World Refugee Day; and welcomes from Bojana Zorić Martinez, Director, Bureau of Refugee Programs, and Wisconsin State Refugee Coordinator, Wisconsin Department of Children and Families; Chris Her-Xiong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Hmong American Peace Academy; and others. There will be performances and readings by members of local refugee communities, and food trucks parked outside City Hall.
Our annual exhibition of work by local refugee children and youth will be on display in the City Hall Rotunda. Special thanks to the Hmong American Peace Academy, the International Newcomer Center at Milwaukee Academy of Chinese Language, and others.
Our WORLD REFUGEE DAY celebrations continue with a series of HOME “days” on Lynden Sculpture Grounds, 2145 W. Brown Deer Road, involving old and new community partnerships:
WORLD REFUGEE DAY – Saturday – June 22, 2024 from 11 am to 4 pm
THREADS OF POWER: A HOME Fashion Showcase Celebrating Diversity and Uplifting Cultural Communities - Saturday – July 13, 2024 at 3 pm
HOME COMMUNITY, CULTURE, & CITIZENSHIP CELEBRATION – Saturday August 17, 2024 from 11 am - 4 pm
To participate, partner, or volunteer, contact Kim Khaira at kkhaira@lyndensculpturegarden.org.
If you are interested in sponsoring 2024 HOME events, please download our sponsorship form here or contact Kim Khaira at kkhaira@lyndensculpturegarden.org for more information.
To make a donation to support HOME, click here.
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