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Mid America Association of State Transportation Officials (MAASTRO) Annual Convention
2023-08-14 - 2023-08-16
The Mid-America Association of State Transportation Officials (MAASTO) Annual Meeting will be held August 14-16, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. More than 500 transportation leaders and professionals from the ten MAASTO states will be in attendance, including federal partners, state department of transportation CEO’s and executives, chief engineers, executive leaders, managers, and technical experts. Academic and private sector leaders will also be a significant part of the robust discussion and engaging meeting sessions.

Baird Center Hiring Event
2023-08-19 09:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
“Exciting jobs working in live events are available now! The Wisconsin Center District (WCD), owners and operators of the Baird Center, Miller High Life Theatre and UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena is looking for Bold, Proud and Experience Obsessed people to join our team!
If this sounds like you, check out the WCD Hiring Event on Saturday, August 19 between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena.
We are looking for:

Ushers
Ticket takers
Box Office Staff
Cashiers
Servers
Public Safety Officers
Set up and Cleaning

We will be hiring qualified people on-the-spot.

We offer:

Flexible hours during all shifts
$15 an hour or higher starting wage
Free parking
Fun and exciting job environment
On-site job training

To Pre-register for the hiring event, CLICK HERE. Walk ups are also welcome!
Please bring your resume and a photo ID and enter through the front doors at 400 W. Kilbourn Ave. You must be 18 years of age or older to apply.”

Wisconsin Bridal and Wedding Expo
2023-09-10 13:00 - 17:00
“The Bridal & Wedding Expo features an amazing selection of wedding professionals ready to help you find the perfect gown, reception venue, invitations, photographer, music, menu, honeymoon destination, and much more!

Get Your Free Passes Today! https://www.bridalshowswi-wi.com/free-pass
Interested in Exhibiting? https://www.bridalshowswi-wi.com/info-for-exhibitors“

Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF) International Educational Symposium
2023-09-25 - 2023-09-28
The ARFF Working Group Annual Int’l Educational Symposium is the premier event for the aviation firefighting industry. More than 60+ companies are expected to exhibit at this year’s program. This is the perfect opportunity to visit and shop for products and services that deal specifically with the aviation fire safety and protection industry.

Cream City Convergence
2023-09-30
The first large-scale, regional esports tournament run by an NBA franchise, Bucks Gaming. The tournament will consist of brackets for four games: Street Fighter 6, Guilty Gear—Strive, Super Smash Bros and Super Smash Bros Melee.

EVENT CANCELLED: Every1In Wellness & Abilities Fair Presented By: Hope Instilled Inc.
2023-09-30 09:00 - 17:00
“THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Every1in is an event presented by Hope Instilled, Inc, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Hope Instilled’s mission is:
To help people living with chronic pain take an active role in their recovery process which creates ways to improve the quality of their lives and reduce their sense of suffering. Hope Instilled accomplishes this by being a resource for information about alternative treatment options, exercise, nutrition, and positive lifestyle changes. Hopp Instilled also provides Hope Against Pain which is proprietary action-based, peer-to-peer support designed specifically to address chronic pain. Members are taken along their own path towards a better tomorrow.”

National Association for College Admission Counseling College Fair 2023
2023-10-01 15:00 - 18:00
The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), founded in 1937, is an organization of more than 26,000 professionals from around the world dedicated to serving students as they make choices about pursuing postsecondary education.

2023 R2R USA Conference
2023-10-02 - 2023-10-05

The 13th Annual Milwaukee Tattoo Arts Festival
2023-10-06 - 2023-10-08
“Show hours:
Friday 2 PM – 11 PM
Saturday 11 AM – 11 PM
Sunday 11 AM – 8 PM

$20 Day / $40 3-Day Pass
Admission is free for children under 12
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St. Francis Seminary Dinner 2023
2023-10-06 17:30 - 21:00
5 p.m. – registration and coat check open
5:30 p.m. – cocktail reception
7 p.m. – dinner
8 p.m. – program

Battle Hardened: Milwaukee
2023-10-07 - 2023-10-08
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Sit down, pour a pint, and get ready for some great games!
Battle Hardened is coming to Milwaukee from October 7th-8th, and with it the chance at a Gold Foil, PTI, and share of $2000 USD!
There’s no messing around, it’s straight into the Classic Constructed Battle Hardened on Saturday, followed by a Super Armory and Classic Constructed PTI event on Sunday.
Hosted by the cream of the crop MinMaxGames, come join us for some fun!
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CULTURE BY DESIGN: A SNEAKER & STREETWEAR SUMMIT
2023-10-07 12:00 - 19:00
“A celebration of sneaker & streetwear culture, Culture By Design brings together a like-minded community of “”sneakerheads”” and streetwear aficionados for a multifaceted exhibition featuring prominent national designers, as well as pop-up exhibition spaces, immersive activations, and mixed-media displays curated by local and national brands.
BUY TICKETS HERE >>“

Bitchcraft Fair 2023
2023-10-08 12:00 - 18:00
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A Magickal Marketplace, Trick-Or-Treat, Witches Brew & More

a Halloween experience like no other, shop local creatives, peer into the future by consulting a mystic, bring your witchlings or wizard apprentices 10 & under free to trick-or-treat, sip witches brew while sitting in on a class, strike a pose at the professional costume photo booth & more

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Wisconsin Veterans Business Conference
2023-10-10 09:00 - 17:30
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Key highlights of this year’s conference include expert panels and workshops with various industries, discussing trends, challenges, and opportunities for veteran business owners as well as employers looking to develop Wisconsin’s veteran and military workforce.
In addition, the conference includes a business expo highlighting leading veteran-owned and veteran-friendly businesses and resource partners supporting those businesses.
Finally, the conference will feature an awards luncheon, celebrating outstanding achievements in the Wisconsin veteran business community over the past year.
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Tonight's Conversation Live & Uncut
2023-10-12 20:00
“The Tonight’s Conversation Podcast is coming to Milwuakee this fall for a LIVE recording experience you cannot miss! Join Ace Metaphor and some the nation’s top love and relationship influencers for an evening of real, raw, and hilariously funny interactive conversations on all of your favorite relationship topics. Here’s your chance to be up-close and personal. No, this is not another of those boring seminars – prepare to laugh, interact, and even dance in your seats! Tickets are extremely limited, so act fast. This intimate event is perfect for a date night, a girls’ night out, or a mature outing with the fellas. See you there!”

Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience
2023-10-13 - 2024-01-06
“Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience celebrates 101st Anniversary of tomb discovery with special student promotions
In celebration of the 101st anniversary of the discovery of King Tut’s tomb, National Geographic’s Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience is offering free admission to 6th grade students who come with a full paid adult. For each 6th grader to receive free admission, there must be a full price paid adult accompanying them.
Tickets are ON SALE NOW at beyondkingtut.com
Tickets are timed and dated, and advance purchase at www.beyondkingtut.com is strongly encouraged with sellouts expected. Prices start at $29.99 for adults and $23.99 for children ages 5-15. Package rates are available for families, seniors and groups. VIP Tickets include a flexible entry time, merchandise and a VR companion piece.
Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience, a new exhibition created in partnership with the National Geographic Society and produced by Paquin Entertainment Group, invites visitors to leave the modern world behind and experience an ancient time like never before. By harnessing projection mapping and new technologies to create stunning visual environments, the magic and mystery of Ancient Egypt will be brought to life in Milwaukee in an exhibition that opens at the Baird Center for a limited run beginning October 13, 2023. Tickets are on sale now at www.beyondkingtut.com.
Commemorating the historic discovery of King Tut’s tomb 100 years ago, the experience brings the National Geographic archives to life through a beautifully constructed and thoroughly informative exhibition. The power of technology, combined with cinematic storytelling and soaring imagery, whisks visitors on an immersive journey exploring the mysterious golden boy-king’s life that ventures beyond the mask. Beyond King Tut goes beyond a traditional artifact display to fascinate guests—while ensuring that the artifacts from King Tut’s tomb remain in their country of origin.
The multi-gallery, multi-sensory exhibition is a magnificent, time-traveling adventure that makes guests feel as if they are actually in Ancient Egypt. With nine galleries to explore, Beyond King Tut: The Immersive Experience takes visitors on an epic journey through King Tut’s life—his rule as a child pharaoh, his family, the discovery of his tomb and the mysteries surrounding his early death, and his journey to the afterlife.”

Hometown Heroes 2023 Gala
2023-10-14 18:00
This year, we are raising funds for Camp Hometown Heroes, Camp Reunite and Turning Rivers. Camp Hometown Heroes is a free week-long summer camp for children who lost a parent or sibling through service in the U.S. Military. These children made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. Camp Hometown Heroes provides them with restored hope and healing. In addition, with a long-term lease of the beautiful Turning Rivers camp facility north of Milwaukee, funds will be utilized for Camp Reunite, a groundbreaking program for children who have an incarcerated parent. Turning Rivers is a unique facility that welcomes thousands of children and volunteers each year. The Grand Slam Charity Jam funding allows this facility to serve even more children.

WIDA Annual Conference
2023-10-16 - 2023-10-20
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A conference by teachers, for teachers
The WIDA Annual Conference is the largest conference dedicated to educators of Pre-K through grade 12 multilingual learners. Educators from around the country submit session proposals, which are reviewed and selected by a panel of internal and external reviewers. Sessions examine research-based strategies and instructional practices on topics that align with the conference theme and are designed and delivered in an engaging format. Topic areas include

Equity and Social Justice
Family and Community Engagement
Bi/Multilingual Education
Language Assessment
Professional Learning in Schools and Districts
Specific Populations: Multilingual Learners with Disabilities, Newcomers, Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE), Migrant, Refugee, Long-term Multilingual Learners
Early Language Development and Pre-Kindergarten
Effective Instructional Practices – Implementation of WIDA ELD Standards Framework, 2020 Edition
Program Administration & Policy

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Women's Convention
2023-10-20 - 2023-10-22
“Tickets are ON SALE NOW at www.thewomensconvention.com!
What is the purpose & urgency of the convention?
We’re at an inflection point in our country. What we do in the next five years will impact the next five decades. If we are going to protect our personal rights, our communities, and democracy itself, we need to build the most significant movement possible.
We need to consolidate women and allies around shared values, experience, and culture to build a nation that works for all of us. The 2023 Women’s Convention will provide a space for you to rejuvenate and find connection and support.
Whether you are brand new to social change work or a veteran activist, this space is built for you. You will gain tools, make connections, and experience the feminist future we want to live in. While Women’s March is a key vehicle for the new power of everyday women, our Women’s Convention connects you to the network of the movement. It equips you with the skills, training, and opportunities you’ll need to become change agents in your own communities.
You’ll experience a weekend of workshops, strategy sessions, inspiring forums, creative expression, and intersectional movement building. It will be a place where cause, community, and creativity intersect. We will provide a space where people can meet, share common interests, and engage on issues of civic engagement, accelerated by pop culture. We will engage activists by melding traditional organizing programming with non-traditional programming, including salons, art spaces, screenings, social programming, and women’s workforce development.
This convention will leverage the power of culture shift through skilling up and storytelling to create an empowered space of feminist momentum. This event will mobilize and unite movements for gender justice, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, and environmental justice and bring thousands of participants to combine activism and creative expression among everyday people.
Learn more: www.thewomensconvention.com“

Great Lakes Adult and Teen Challenge Gala and Auction
2023-10-26 16:00
“Great Lakes Adult & Teen Challenge is a one-year, live-in Christian discipleship program for adults struggling with life controlling problems such as drugs and alcohol. Their goal is to help students become established in society through holistic recovery and Christ-based mentoring, education, and job training.
Teen Challenge was originally founded in 1958 with the intention of providing a safe place for drug addicts and alcoholics to come off the streets and learn a new, responsible way of living.

Great Lakes Adult & Teen Challenge holds true to this divine purpose and provides effective, low-cost drug rehab, faith-based residential recovery programs for both men and women struggling with life controlling addictions.
Their drug and alcohol recovery centers are located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and offer a combination of group and personal studies, duties and responsibilities, and work therapy. This allows participants to learn and develop useful skills in order to re-enter society as sober, stable, and productive individuals.

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TEMPO Milwaukee 18th Annual Leadership Event
2023-10-27 11:00
The 18th annual event with feature speaker Alli Web in a conversation moderated by Shannon Sims.

NAACP Milwaukee Annual Freedom Fund Dinner 2023
2023-10-27 17:30 - 20:00
Reception at 5:30p | Dinner at 6:30p
2023 is the 99th year of the Milwaukee branch of the NAACP. As the oldest, largest, and strongest civil rights organization in the nation, the NAACP continues to work for political, educational, social, and economic equality for people of color through nonviolent use of the press, the petition, the ballot, and the courts.

38th Annual Black and White Ball
2023-11-04 18:00
“The Annual Black and White Ball benefits Greater Milwaukee Urban League (GMUL) programs.
For more than a century, the GMUL has stood in the gap, working hard to empower communities and change lives for African Americans living in the greater Milwaukee area.
GMUL was founded in 1919 and is one of 90 affiliates across 34 states and the District of Columbia. The founders, a racially diverse coalition, believed that working together, the lives of every American can be made better. GMUL partnerships in Milwaukee and Wisconsin reflect that same diversity. GMUL’s commitment to empower communities and change lives is as strong now as it was in 1919.
Collaborating with partners, donors, and staff, GMUL offers programs in education and employment that open doors to opportunities that give individuals and families the chance to improve their lives and their community. GMUL’s advocacy and civic engagement efforts tackle serious issues impacting the community and seek partnerships and solutions to successfully address them.”

World Oddities Expo 2023
2023-11-11
WOE is a place where all things weird are celebrated! WOE curates events that bring people who enjoy the stranger side of life together. You’ll experience a unique shopping experience filled with a variety of artists and small businesses. WOE offers hands-on workshops to help you learn new skills, like basic taxidermy, insect pinning, and owl pellet dissection. WOE features guest speakers to educate and entertain on various intriguing topics. WOE also offers tattoos on site at our Oddity Ink Parlour, sponsored by Villain Arts. Come explore the land of WOE and experience this magical, macabre world for yourself!

Anthony Pettis Presents APFC 9: Milwaukee Fight Night III featuring Nate Diaz
2023-11-19 14:00
“Anthony “”Showtime”” Pettis presents an electrifying night of MMA action from Milwaukee WI, featuring special guest host UFC Legend Nate Diaz.“

2023 Marketplace Wisconsin Conference
2023-12-05 - 2023-12-07
Presented by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, MARKETPLACE is the Governor’s Annual Conference on Diverse Business Development. With a particular focus on small businesses, this event connects business owners from across Wisconsin with state, federal, and local government as well as private sector business opportunities. The conference provides a chance for businesses owned by minorities, women, veterans, LGBTQ+ people, and people with disabilities to learn from and connect with resource providers, government representatives, corporate buyers, and business professionals.

Black & Diverse Business Showcase
2023-12-08 10:30 - 20:30
“Early Bird Day Pass: 35.00 (Available til 12/7)
Day Pass: 50.00 (on sale til 1:30p day of)

A’la Carte
10:30a-8:30p Shop our Emerging Market/Retail Vendors  FREE
11a-1:30p    Morning Session                              $25.00
Lunch is served
Coach LaTasha Brooks & WPI
Strategies for Government ContractingSuccess:
A Proven Roadmap That Works

1:30-5p       Speed Coaching provided by WWBIC in partnership with
The Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce   FREE
2p-4:30p     Afternoon Session                             FREE
George Fraser: Networking Expert
Stem Competition
Panel Discussion: Community Investment: Mission & Vision

5-8:30p      TWBCC Gala                                   $30.00
Dinner is served
Pitch Competition Finale!
Award Recognition
Party to the sounds of DJ LBoogie”

2024 RNC Impact Series
2023-12-14 08:30 - 10:00
What business opportunities will the major conference bring for southeastern Wisconsin and how can Milwaukee-area firms get involved in the convention to be held in our city in the summer of 2024.
Panel Discussion with Mark Kass, Editor-in-Chief, Milwaukee Business Journal:
-Elise Dickens, CEO, 2024 Republican National Convention
-Aaron Lipski, Fire Chief -Milwaukee Fire Department, City of Milwaukee
-Jeffrey Norman, Police Chief – Milwaukee Police Department, City of Milwaukee
-Paul Schwartz, Executive Director, Milwaukee Public Market
-Beth Weirick, CEO, Downtown Milwaukee Business Improvement District

The Salvation Army's 34th Annual Christmas Family Feast
2023-12-25 11:00 - 14:30
Christmas Family Feast is the largest feeding event hosted by The Salvation Army on Christmas Day in the country. About 1,400 volunteers typically help serve more than 8,000 people at the Baird Center.
The meal is a homestyle dinner that consists of turkey, ham, yams, mashed potatoes, green beans, dessert, and beverages.
