Residents of Milwaukee remembered the departed during the annual Day of the Dеаd celebration, known as Día de los Muertos, held on October 29 at Walker Square Park on the city’s Southside.
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Celebrating seven decades of local and global contributions, the Mayor’s Committee on the United Nations commemorated the anniversary on October 24. More than one hundred participants attended the UN Day gathering at the City Hall Rotunda. “The United Nations has survived 71 years without a major world war since it was created in 1945, unlike the league of Nations which did not last very long was unable stop World War Two.” said Steve Watrous, President of the United Nations Association, Greater Milwaukee. Tom Barrett, Mayor of the City of Milwaukee, talked about the United Nations in terms of individuals...
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The 12th Annual Hunting Moon Pow Wow, hosted by the Forest County Potawatomi, was held from October 14 to 16 at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena.
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Internationally acclaimed filmmaker and author Chip Duncan premiered his latest documentary at the Milwaukee Film Festival, about legendary authors J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, on October 3 at the Fox Bay Cinema. The screening was packed to theater capacity with two hundred viewers. Even though Duncan and his production group are based in Milwaukee, his features do not often have an opportunity to be presented locally. “Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination and the Quest For Meaning” highlights a rainy evening in 1931 at Oxford University’s Magdalen College. On that night, C.S. Lewis invited fellow scholar J.R.R. Tolkien, and Hugo...
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To celebrate upcoming broadcast premier of The Making of Milwaukee: The Next Chapter, the program’s producer, MPTV, held a special sneak peek on September 28 at the Historic Pabst Brewery’s Best Place. Historian, writer, producer, and host John Gurda and director, producer and editor Claudia Looze renewed their partnership to bring viewers an updated installment of the highly popular documentary series. “What we came up with is a half-hour program that’s different from the original series but also the same,” said Gurda. “We tried to achieve the same thematic perspective, find the same balance, and end in the same...
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“The State of Cinema Address” is a keynote discussion held each year at the Milwaukee Film Festival. This year, Festival Director Jonathan Jackson interviewed Milwaukee native John Ridley, director, producer, and Academy Award winning writer of “12 Years a Slave.” Ridley returned to his hometown overnight to take part in the festival, which he also recently joined Milwaukee Film’s Board of Directors. He is currently producing two television shows on opposite sides of the world, one in Los Angeles and the other London. Many topics were covered during the talk, particularly what Milwaukee would need to accomplish in order...
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