Senior Citizen

This program will highlight aspects of Wisconsin’s history and current cheesemaking/culinary culture.

Historical presenter Michelle Gibbons will discuss the last meals of some of the most infamous serial killers and the deeper meanings behind their choices; she will also explain their possible thought processes as well as their psychological state when choosing their final meal, and contemplate if they had any remorse for their actions.

This program will tie into the Wisconsin Department of Tourism’s “Top Chef Wisconsin”-inspired 2024 “Culinary” theme. Delve into letters that first class Titanic passengers wrote to loved ones at home, describing the elaborate lunch feasts and other delicacies.

This program will tie into the Wisconsin Department of Tourism’s “Top Chef Wisconsin”-inspired 2024 “Culinary” theme. Delve into letters that first class Titanic passengers wrote to loved ones at home, describing the elaborate lunch feasts and other delicacies.

This program will tie into the Wisconsin Department of Tourism’s “Top Chef Wisconsin”-inspired 2024 “Culinary” theme. Delve into letters that first class Titanic passengers wrote to loved ones at home, describing the elaborate lunch feasts and other delicacies.

This program will tie into the Wisconsin Department of Tourism’s “Top Chef Wisconsin”-inspired 2024 “Culinary” theme. Delve into letters that first class Titanic passengers wrote to loved ones at home, describing the elaborate lunch feasts and other delicacies.

This program will tie into the Wisconsin Department of Tourism’s “Top Chef Wisconsin”-inspired 2024 “Culinary” theme. Delve into letters that first class Titanic passengers wrote to loved ones at home, describing the elaborate lunch feasts and other delicacies.

This program will tie into the Wisconsin Department of Tourism’s “Top Chef Wisconsin”-inspired 2024 “Culinary” theme. Delve into letters that first class Titanic passengers wrote to loved ones at home, describing the elaborate lunch feasts and other delicacies.

In this interactive, introductory workshop we will read together to see and hear Lorine Niedecker’s astonishing poetry. We’ll look at her exemplary short poems as well as an example of her late, great long poems in the context of Niedecker’s remarkable life and letters.

This program will introduce attendees to Hmong music and what makes it unique. Hmong music is the last surviving musical language in the world. It is able to mimic Hmong speech by using musical intervals, ornamentation, and chords to mimic linguistic tones, consonants, and vowels. This enables Hmong musicians to speak with music. As such, Hmong music not only gives us a window into where music and language meet, but also into the ability of human brains to assign and attribute meaning and significance.