Don’t miss these warm weather concert events Heid Music Summer Concert Series May 30-August 29 Move, groove and relax to the rhythm of the region’s hottest live bands during free concerts every Thursday. No concert July 4. 5:30-8:30pm. Houdini Plaza, Appleton. 954-9112. Lunchtime Live! Concerts May 30-August 29 Enjoy free live music during your lunch break! READ MORE
The Home Builders Association of the Fox Cities (HBA Fox Cities) is launching a virtual Parade of Homes on June 10. “This is a virtual online event where consumers will be able to do walkthrough tours of properties from the comfort of their own home,” says HBA Fox Cities Director of Marketing and Business Development READ MORE
Immerse yourself in a world of butterfly wonder at Green Bay Botanical Garden’s new “Butterflies & Blooms” exhibit. Open since June 1, an 1,800-square-foot mesh house will hold close to 500 butterflies on any given day. Over the course of the summer there will be a whopping 2,200 different species of butterflies on view. Visitors READ MORE
Sierra Club Fox Valley Group’s Loop the Lake Earth Day Hike on April 20 is a fun way to get your fitness on, enjoy nature and learn more local businesses and environmental groups in the Fox Valley. The 3.5-mile hike takes advantage of last year’s Loop the Lake project which built a trail around scenic READ MORE
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond will make his way to the Fox Cities on April 11 and 12 to share his experiences with homelessness, poverty and the affordable housing debate during this month’s Fox Cities Reads panel hosted by the Fox Cities Book Festival. The presentation will focus on Desmond’s New York Times nonfiction Bestseller READ MORE
The Aylward Gallery’s latest art exhibit captures the life and artistic legacy of prolific Wisconsin painter, ceramicist and UW-Milwaukee art professor Adolph Rosenblatt, who passed away in 2017. Rosenblatt was best at capturing humanity at specific historical moments in ways that are simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary. In the sculpture “Arafat No Hitter,” he recreated the READ MORE
Returning to The Grand Oshkosh on March 23, the monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery will be performing their “Sacred Music, Sacred Dance.” It is an exciting, family-friendly show with music, chanting dance and giant puppets that show many aspects of Tibetan culture. The performance is in collaboration with the week-long Mandala Sand Art project hosted READ MORE
The ninth season of Jazz at the Trout, “Women do Jazz,” is continuing with MRS. FUN coming to perform at Trout Museum on March 21. MRS. FUN plays nu jazz with Connie Grauer playing the bass-driven keyboard and Kim Zicks on the drums. Their music is an adventurous and unique blend of jazz, ultra-funk, spoken READ MORE
“Deep Practise” // Photo Credit: Virginie Sueres Lawrence University’s Margaret Sunghe Paek, professor of dance and curator of Dance Series, will work with music director Loren Dempster and director/choreographer Gabriel Forestieri to bring to life BREATHE: a multidisciplinary water opera, inspired by the practice of dancing underwater. Forestieri and Dempster have been collaborators on various READ MORE
“The Lion King” will return to the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center this month, making this the third time the show has been performed at the P.A.C. A popular show, the P.A.C.’s Director of Marketing and Communications Tricia Witt says she expects a full house every single night of the show’s three-week run. “Thousands of READ MORE
