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You're invited to A TRAVELING EXHIBIT AND COMMUNITY DINNER CONVERSATION TOUR CURATED BY YOU
The LANDS WE SHARE INITIATIVE of the Wisconsin Farms Oral History Project
Wisconsin Black Historical Society/Museum
Wednesday, February 20th
5:00pm to 8:00pm
A traveling exhibit on race, ethnicity, food production and agricultural history in Wisconsin has arrived in Milwaukee. The Lands We Share exhibit is now on display at the Wisconsin Black Historical Society/Museum and will stay up at the museum through March 1st. Five diverse farm sites around Wisconsin, including the Legacy Garden in Metcalfe Park, are featured in the interactive traveling Lands We Share exhibit intended to spark public dialogue and community engagement.
The February 20th community dinner conversation will focus on urban agriculture, the diversity of farmers in Wisconsin, and the links between rural and urban farmers in Wisconsin. We will also discuss the history of farming and the generational and family links that many Milwaukee residents have to farming even if they no longer farm.
Both the exhibit and community conversation are open to the public. (To sign up to reserve a seat, please visit landsweshare.com or go directly to the sign-in form:
https://landsweshare.org/sign-up-for-feb-20th-dinner/ )
The exhibit debuted in Oshkosh on Oct. 10 and has traveled the state with stops on the Oneida Reservation near Green Bay, UW-Oshkosh campus, Fort Atkinson and Johnson Creek, UW-Whitewater, and now, the Wisconsin Black Historical Society/Museum. From the Black Historical Museum, the exhibit will travel to the Golda Meir Library on UW-Milwaukee campus and in April to Madison where it will be on display for over a month at various venues, culminating with a final gala at the Madison Public Library’s main branch near the Capitol.
Project Director, James Levy, an Associate Professor in UW-Whitewater’s history department, says the central goal of the initiative is “to bring people and groups from diverse backgrounds together who are often separated despite living and working in the same towns or regions.” Levy says the traveling tour and community dialogue idea was “a response to political and cultural divisions made evident in the wake of the 2016 election, divisions which have become increasingly defined by geography, in particular by the urban-rural divide.” The exhibit tour features community farm-to-table “Dinner and Conversation” events at each town along the way in addition to panels and conversations on UW campuses.
To learn more about the Wisconsin Farmer Oral History Project, please contact: James Levy, Project Director,
[email protected] or 917-547-101
Project Website: landsweshare.org
page: Wisconsin Farms Oral History Project
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