Author: Correspondent

Ex Fabula has produced StorySlams over the last 8 years and the Milwaukee nonprofit is not ready to relax, as it rolls out the new theme for the first Slam of Season 9, “What Could Go Wrong?” Ex Fabula’s mission is to strengthen community bonds through the art of storytelling, and at monthly StorySlams, they invite attendees to put their name in the hat if they’d like to share a true, personal story onstage. Stories should be related to the evening’s theme and told in five minutes or less, without props or notes. Themes are selected with audience input;...

Study finds that female representation on Wisconsin Top 50 Public Company Boards has increased 4% over the past dozen years. Milwaukee Women Inc. recently released its annual research report, Measuring Change 2017. In 2017, the percentage of women holding director seats on the boards of the 50 largest publicly traded Wisconsin companies (WI 50) grew for the fourth consecutive year to 17.6 percent, a four percent increase over 16.9 percent in 2016 and slightly above the U.S. median. “We are seeing progress, albeit slower than desired. Since Milwaukee Women inc began reporting the percentage of women on the boards...

The Digital Yiddish Theatre Project announced the digital publication of volume 7 of Zalmen Zylbercweig’s “Encyclopedia of the Yiddish Theatre.” The digital publication allows users around the world, for the first time, to browse the volume from the convenience of their computers. The user-friendly interface created by Familiar Studio allows users to read the text onscreen or to print PDF files of individual entries. The volume can be found on the Digital Yiddish Theatre website at https://yiddishstage.org/encyclopedia. Zylbercweig compiled and published the previous six volumes between 1931 and 1969. The seventh volume was all but complete at the time...

The 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival, presented by Associated Bank, announced this year’s festival jury award winners, who were awarded $87,000 in cash and more than $60,000 in production services. Among the top films selected include Scott Road, a film with local ties shot entirely in China; Rat Film, a documentary exploring the rat infestations and their socioeconomic connections in Baltimore; and Quest, a documentary following a North Philadelphia family over the course of a decade. In addition to the festival awards, recipients of the 2017 Brico Forward Fund were announced. This year awarding $50,000 in cash and over $60,000...

Bublr Bikes, Milwaukee’s nonprofit bike share system, recently launched its first ever community-driven campaign to fund a new Riverwest neighborhood station. The crowdfunding campaign launched on October 9, and will be working toward the goal of $50,000 to completely fund the installation and upkeep of a 9-dock Bublr station. This station will connect the restaurants and businesses of the Riverwest neighborhood with the nearby UW-Milwaukee campus and Downtown Milwaukee. Community members of Riverwest have expressed a great amount of interest in bringing Bublr to this neighborhood of Milwaukee. Bounded by Holton on the west, Capitol on the north, and...

The Northwest Side Community Development Corporation (NWSCDC) organized a “Rally for Safe Streets” at North 31st Street & West Capitol Drive on October 9 to combat an increase in speeding and reckless driving that has been impacting the community. Traffic safety is becoming an issue of huge concern in Milwaukee neighborhoods. Recent crashes and fatalities in many local communities point to the need for solutions that will make streets safer for everyone, including people of all ages who walk, use the transit system, bike, or drive. The growing epidemic of reckless driving in Milwaukee, particularly on arterial streets like...