This family-friendly event is free and open to the public. Celebrate Diversity Fox Cities (CDFC) provides main dishes and beverages. There will be a Dignity & Respect Campaign conversation activity, a dance performance coordinated by IndUS of Fox Valley, music presented by DJ Rayon tha Don, children’s activities, a piñata, and more.
Fox Valley Technical College, Room C190ABC (Entrance 15), Appleton
Learn about the present state of affairs in the Fox Cities with human trafficking—Grand Chute deals with this issue on a regular basis. We will listen and learn from Five Stones and local law enforcement.
5-STONES is a non-profit established for the purpose of raising awareness about the magnitude of sex trafficking in Wisconsin. We are invested in educating communities to:
INCREASE awareness of human trafficking
DECREASE the demand for commercial sex
PREVENT victimization
NETWORK with other organizations which fight against human trafficking
Fox Valley Technical College, Room C190ABC (Entrance 15), Appleton
Join us as we watch the play, Like an Animal in a Cage: Voices from Solitary Confinement. Melissa Ludin from EXPO (Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing) will provide a first-hand account of the horrors she survived in solitary confinement.
A replica solitary confinement cell, created by Wisconsin’s Prison Ministry Project based on the exact specification of a segregation cell in a Wisconsin state prison, will be available for you to see, hear (there’s a sound track), and reflect on. Cell available beginning at 5:00 pm and after the program.
This event is part of the Pathways to Recovery Lecture Series, sponsored by Bev Kelley-Miller and the Megan Kelley Foundation. ESTHER and EXPO are co-sponsors of this event.
Fox Valley Technical College, Room C190ABC (Entrance 15), Appleton
Join us as we listen and learn from Teresa Gross, a licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, SAC-IT, who will speak about Adult Survivors and Thrivers of Childhood Abuse Moving Forward.
Fox Valley Technical College, Room C190ABC (Entrance 15), Appleton
Join us as we learn from Patti Heffernan, who has lived experience in the foster care system, about the high number of children in foster care and the work of advocates for children whose parents are struggling with addiction and/or mental health issues.
Fox Valley Technical College, Room C190ABC (Entrance 15), Appleton
Join us as we listen and learn from Teresa Gross, a licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, SAC-IT, who will facilitate an interactive activity on resiliency.
Reeve Union Ballroom, UW Oshkosh, 748 Algoma Blvd, Oshkosh
“The Gift of Our Wounds” authors Pardeep Singh Kaleka, a Sikh, and Arno Michaelis, a former white supremacist, share a message of forgiveness and compassion while addressing a host of social issues, including violence, racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance, Holocaust remembrance and genocide prevention.
The co-authors are also co-founders of Serve2Unite. They will speak about how to understand incidents of hate and how to intervene when encountering hateful acts or incidents. Kaleka, who lost his father Satwant Singh Kaleka in the August 5th, 2012 Sikh Temple shooting in Oak Creek, and Michaelis, a former white supremacist who helped to start a gang back in the late 1980s that produced the August 5th shooter, founded Serve2Unite in 2013 to share their message of forgiveness after hate.
Fox Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2600 E Phillip Ln, Appleton
“You Get the Government You Deserve”
Thomas Jefferson
Americans know that “We the People” are no longer represented by our politicians. ESTHER and Citizen Action of Wisconsin invite you to attend a presentation by George Penn of United to Amend to talk about why we have lost our democracy to the corrupted big-money system and how we can Fix This!
Join us as we watch the play, Like an Animal in a Cage: Voices from Solitary Confinement. Melissa Ludin from EXPO (Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing) will provide a first-hand account of the horrors she survived in solitary confinement.
Join us as we listen and learn from Teresa Gross, a licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, SAC-IT, who will speak about Adult Survivors and Thrivers of Childhood Abuse Moving Forward.
Join us as we listen and learn from Teresa Gross, a licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, SAC-IT, who will facilitate an interactive activity on resiliency.
Theme: Why Keep Dreaming? A Time For Action
“The Gift of Our Wounds” authors Pardeep Singh Kaleka, a Sikh, and Arno Michaelis, a former white supremacist, share a message of forgiveness and compassion while addressing a host of social issues, including violence, racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance, Holocaust remembrance and genocide prevention.
“You Get the Government You Deserve”
