Near West Side Partners

Twilight Tours at the Pabst Mansion
2025-12-06 16:30 - 19:30, 2025-12-11 16:30 - 19:30, 2025-12-12 16:30 - 19:30, 2025-12-13 16:30 - 19:30, 2025-12-18 16:30 - 19:30, 2025-12-19 16:30 - 19:30, 2025-12-20 16:30 - 19:30, 2025-12-22 16:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) and 4 more dates | Pabst Mansion, 2000 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53233, United States
A self-guided evening tour with twinkling lights, live holiday music, and drinks for purchase like glühwein and hot pecan whiskey cider to give you that warm Christmas glow!

Free Community Yoga Classes
2025-12-08 17:30 - 18:30 | SWIM Movement Room, 831 N 27th St, Milwaukee, WI, 53208, United States
Enjoy a variety of free yoga classes led by local instructors. Participants are encouraged to wear tennis shoes and bring their own water. Yoga mats are provided, and all skill levels are welcome! Register at www.swimke.org!

Free KICKBOXING CLASS
2025-12-09 17:30 - 18:30 | SWIM at Concordia 27, 831 N 27th St
Join us for a powerful cardio workout blending kickboxing, hand weights, and emotional release in a supportive community in a energizing space. Open to beginners and all experience levels.
Taught by Alvin Wang. Register at www.swimke.org!

Coffee & Community
2025-12-11 09:30 - 11:00 | Summit Credit Union
Join us for coffee and networking! Each event brings in different guest speakers and a diverse group of community members to discuss a variety of issues around Milwaukee.
To learn more about the upcoming event or if your company would like to sponsor this event, please email Sherry at sherry@rtmilwaukee.org or call us at (414) 312-7531.

Free Breath Work & Meditation Class
2025-12-12 12:00 - 12:45 | SWIM Movement Room, 831 N 27th St, Milwaukee, WI, 53208, United States
Take a break in your day to reenergize with the power of breath! Wear light, comfy clothes and bring a water bottle—and we’ll handle the rest. Feel refreshed, calm, and focused. Discover simple, daily breathing techniques to boost energy and tranquility.
Led by SKY Schools. Drop in or register
www.swimke.org.

Line Dancing
2025-12-12 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-19 18:00 - 20:00 | The Amani Place, 401 N 35th St, Milwaukee, WI, 53208, United States
Urban line dancing class

Healthy Futures: Empowering Kids & Families to Fight Childhood Obesity
2025-12-13 09:00 - 13:00 | ThriveOn King, 2153 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, Milwaukee, WI, 53208
This is a free family Health Summit with:

Cooking demonstrations
Family fitness
Nutrition Experts
Community Resources

ThriveOn King (3rd Floor)
2153 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53212
Register for free: bit.ly/HealthyFuturesFamilies
For more information call: Health Connections, Inc. 414-999-1099

Milwaukee's Waters, Our Future - Celebrating Progress, Shaping What Comes Next
2025-12-16 17:30 - 20:00 | Urban Ecology Center – Washington Park, 1859 N 40th St, Milwaukee, 53233, United States
Enjoy a free community dinner, add your voice to Milwaukee’s next water story, and explore how Area of Concern cleanup and restoration efforts are opening doors – from recreation to new job opportunities. Come be part of the community voices guiding the next chapter of cleanup and restoration across the Milwaukee Estuary.

Free Dinner from Mekong Cafe!
Milwaukee Kayak Company 2-hour rental and MMSD rain barrel voucher giveaway
Art & Storytelling
Community Conversations
Job & Partnership Opportunities

Please register for the event.

Leaked It*
2025-12-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Third Space Collective MKE, 500 N 29th St, Milwaukee, WI, 53208, United States
An evening for a few select local artists to showcase new work.

NWSP Offices Closed - Christmas Eve through New Year
2025-12-24 - 2026-01-01 | W
The NWSP offices are closed December 24th – January 1st.

New Years Eve at Noon
2025-12-31 09:00 - 14:00 | Betty Brinn Children’s Museum, 929 E Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States
Can’t stay up ’til midnight? The Betty Brinn Children’s Museum has you covered! Ring in 2026 early during our annual celebration. Enjoy a live DJ and dance party with Kid Boogie Down, face painting, festive programming (confetti poppers, wishing wand noisemakers, party hats) and an exciting countdown to the beach ball drop at noon!
Let the whole family celebrate together in a fun, kid-friendly environment!
Members get exclusive, early access from 9-11 a.m. Special event tickets are required.
This event will sell out. Advance online reservations are highly recommended. Walk-up tickets will not be guaranteed.

Washington Park Monthly Meeting
2026-01-05 17:30 - 18:30 | UMCS, 3910 W Lisbon Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Information sharing and an opportunity to connect with neighbors and providers.

Family Support Group - NAMI Southeast Wisconsin
2026-01-13 18:30 - 20:00 | SWIM at Concordia 27, 831 N 27th St
1 in 5 adults lives with a mental illness, but 5 in 5 are affected. Mental Illness can take a toll on family, friends, and co-workers. You want to help, but everything you’ve tried hasn’t worked, or worse, has backfired. Or maybe your loved one is newly diagnosed, and you want to make sure you have skills at the ready for the inevitable challenges that will arise.

You are not alone.
Your loved one’s illness is not your fault
The more you understand, the better able you are to communicate and navigate
Led by trained facilitators with lived experience.

Deborah Bent and
Rick Schultz

Beginning on January 12, 2026.
2nd Tuedays from 6:30 to 8 pm.
No registration required.
For more information, please email: family programs@namisoutheastwi.org or visit our website at www.namisoutheastwi.org

Community Access Day
2026-01-15 09:00 - 19:00 | Betty Brinn Children’s Museum, 929 E Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States
All guests to the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum (excluding groups of 10 or more) receive free admission on the third Thursday of every month from 9 a.m-7 p.m. Some restrictions apply. Advanced reservations are recommended.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day - NWSP Offices Closed
2026-01-19 | W

MLK Celebration - "Building Hope and Inspiring Change"
2026-01-19 09:00 - 17:00 | Milwaukee Public Library – MLK Library, 2901 N. MLK Drive, Milwaukee, WI
Various events all day long.

Spring 2026 Exhibition Opening Reception
2026-01-22 18:00 - 19:00 | 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI 53233, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, 53233, United States
Celebrate the opening of four new exhibitions! Meet the curators and artists, enjoy seasonal refreshments, and be the first to view freshly interpreted works commemorating 250 years of America, Robert Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday, and an artist’s 10th anniversary project with local community members. The free-to-the-public opening reception features:
This Side of the Stars: Rauschenberg’s Stoned Moon in the Company of Kite, Paglen, and Yi
Let the Real World In
Defying Empire: Revolutionary Prints from Britain and America
Declaration of ____
Image: Robert Rauschenberg, Trust Zone (Stoned Moon), 1969, Lithograph, 40 x 33 inches, Ed. 22/65, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University ©Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Gemini G.E.L.

This Side of the Stars: Rauschenberg’s Stoned Moon in the Company of Kite, Paglen, and Yi
2026-01-23 10:00 - 16:30 | Haggerty Museum of Art, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, WI, 53233, United States
In the 100th year since the birth of pioneering artist Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008), this exhibition highlights a selection of the artist’s “Stoned Moon” prints from the Haggerty’s collection shown alongside the work of three active artists: Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer Kite; artist, geographer, and author Trevor Paglen; and Milwaukee-based multimedia artist Jason S. Yi. Rauschenberg’s color lithographs spark a conversation about humanity’s technological ambitions across the modern era that is brought into our current moment through these artists’ recent work. Kite’s dyed deer hides embroidered with Lakȟóta geometric semiotics are meditations on black holes, functioning also as sonic scores. Paglen’s sumptuous photographs capture unidentified flying objects both in and beyond Earth’s atmosphere, raising questions about surveillance by human and non-human actors. Yi’s installation of Red-crowned cranes cast from mulberry pulp, forms a towering column of the endangered birds that have found a resurgent nesting ground in the demilitarized zone separating North Korea and South Korea.
For his large-scale “Stoned Moon” lithographs, Rauschenberg drew on his experience witnessing the Apollo 11 lunar launch, melded with a range of popular imagery and NASA-provided photographs to reflect on a new sense of human possibility brought about by a leap in technological potential. The three contemporary artists featured in this exhibition consider the ethics of technological innovation and its varied outcomes by taking up current issues such as covert surveillance, humans’ relationships with the non-human, and the upspring of new life under repressive conditions. These artists prompt us to reconceive the dividing lines between what we know and what we believe, between human and non-human agency, and between our impact on nature and its response.
“This Side of the Stars: Rauschenberg’s Stoned Moon in the Company of Kite, Paglen, and Yi” is curated by Jennifer Johung, PhD, Professor of Contemporary Art and Architecture, and Director of the Center for 21st-Century Studies, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and Kirk Nickel, PhD, Haggerty Museum Curator of European Art.
Support for this exhibition is generously provided by Friends of the Haggerty Museum of Art Forward Funders and the Martha and Ray Smith, Jr. Endowment Fund.
Image: Robert Rauschenberg, “Trust Zone (Stoned Moon)”, 1969, Lithograph, 40 x 33 inches, Ed. 22/65, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University ©Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Gemini G.E.L.
