Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin
2022-01-06 12:30 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin, 2802 Dairy Drive, Madison, 53719, United States
Help out and have fun!

Friendship Force Board Meeting
2022-01-13 12:30 - 14:00
Friendship Force – Wisconsin’s board meets in person or via Zoom!

Winter Potluck Party
2022-01-15 11:30 - 15:00 | Fitchburg Public Library, 5530 Lacy Road, Fitchburg, Wisconsin, 53711
Enjoy a winter potluck party with FF Members!
On Saturday January 15, 2022, from 11:30am until 3pm, members will enjoy a winter potluck party at the Fitchburg Library, 5530 Lacy Road.
Social time begins at 11:30, and potluck at noon.
You are asked to contribute a main dish, salad, vegetable, dessert or a favorite specialty.
Mike Lambert of the Programs Committee will offer us an international trivia game program, so be prepared to have fun and test your knowledge.

Book Club - My Forbidden Face – Growing Up Under the Taliban
2022-01-24 19:00 - 21:00
The next Book Club Meeting is on January 24th at 7:00 pm on ZOOM.
That gives you lots of time to read “My Forbidden Face – Growing Up Under the Taliban” by Latifa.
It is available at the local library or on Amazon if you wish to buy it.
Google says that the book “……. provides a poignant and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend.”
Email Marian Ehrenberg at: marianeh2014@gmail.com for the Zoom key.

Second Harvest
2022-01-27 12:30 - 15:30 | Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin, 2802 Dairy Drive, Madison, 53719, United States
Help out and have fun with us!

Dining on the 6th - A Chazen Museum Tour!
2022-02-06 14:15 - 16:00 | Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Ave, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
For February we offer less food and more art and music on the 6th. You are invited to a feast for your eyes and food for your mind and heart when you join us at the Chazen Museum of Art at 2:15 PM on Sunday, February 6th, inside the main entrance lobby at 800 University Ave. Masks are required for entry – but no cloth masks.
Maureen Kind will be our very own guide. She has 20-plus years of experience as a trained docent at the Chazen. She will explain some particulars about the current exhibit – the Audubon prints. We also will walk a short distance to other rooms to admire and learn about the works of the great masters.
If you want to add to your experience, you can arrive shortly after 12:00 noon to listen to a free concert in the Chazen’s Sunday Afternoon Live series. The February 6th concert will feature a rare combination of classical guitarist Dr. Christopher Allen and bassoonist Dr. Juliana Mesa. The program will include Variations on Mozart’s The Magic Flute, pieces by Villa Lobos and Maurice Ravel, and more.

Friendship Force Board Meeting
2022-02-10 12:30 - 14:00
The FFI Madison Board meets VIRTUALLY on the second Thursday of the month @ 12:30pm

International Institute Program
2022-02-12 08:00 - 17:00 | Zoom – within your own home!, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
On Saturday, February 12, Sandi Wysock, leader of our International Institute, and
Sandy Drew will be hosting an American Institute virtual program. The topic will be investigating
and prosecuting human rights violations. Guests are from Burkino Faso, the Czech Republic,
Rawanda, and Tanzania.

Second Harvest Food Bank
2022-02-28 12:30 - 15:00 | Second Harvest Food Bank, 2802 Dairy Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 53718
Welcome in the New Year and join the fun by volunteering with Second Harvest Food Bank, 2802 Dairy Drivein Madison on Thursday February 28. From 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm.
This is a safe working environment with precautions in place. There is a real need for food pantries to provide for folks in our community who are food insecure. Second Harvest really needs volunteers! Please consider giving three hours of your time this month to help others.
Let Lois Schulz know by Tuesday noon, January 4th at 608–243–9761 or loisschulz1942@gmail.com if you want to participate.

Book Club - "Everything Inside"
2022-02-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom – within your own home!, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
On February 28 at 7:00 pm we will meet on Zoom to discuss “Everything Inside” by Edwidge Danticat.
Published in 2019, it is a collection of eight family stories of people from Haiti and the Caribbean. A Google books review says the book is “a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.”
Email Marian Ehrenberg at: marianeh2014@gmail.com by February 24 for the Zoom key.

LET’S WALK / LET’S HIKE - 5K and 10K
2022-03-05 12:00 - 15:00
Our March hike will be the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Freeze For Food event on March 5th. This event coordinates with our FF initiative to help Refugees as a fundraiser for Open Doors for Refugees.
The event is a 5K or 10K run/walk starting and finishing at the Vilas Park Shelter. (5K at 12pm and 10K at 1pm). The 5K walk goes out and back along Lake Wingra. See: www.rpcvmadison.org/cpages/freeze–for–food.
The donation/cost to sign up is $20 (or more of course). Members can “walk” virtually also, but it would bewonderful to have a group do it together. Members and friends can sign up to participate by going to the website: runsignup.com/Race/WI/Madison/RPCVFreezeForFood.
Contact Maureen Kind to let her know you want to participate with your FFWisconsin–Madison friends:Maureen Kind – dmkind@sbcglobal.net or 608–274–6754

Friendship Force Board Meeting
2022-03-10 12:30 - 14:00
The FFI Madison Board meets VIRTUALLY on the second Thursday of the month @ 12:30 pm.

Zoom on Native German Culture
2022-03-23 08:00 - 17:00 | Zoom – within your own home!, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
On March 23 the Program Committee will offer members a 1 hour ZOOM presentation by Patricia Haberkorn, a German graduate student from the UW International Reach Cross-Cultural Speakers Program.
Patricia will talk about her native German culture and her experiences here at UW-Madison.
More details and sign-up information from the Program Committee of Mike Lambert and David Blado. They will follow via email to our members.

Second Harvest Food Bank
2022-03-31 12:30 - 15:30 | Second Harvest Food Bank, 2802 Dairy Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 53718
Thursday March 31st from 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm is our Club’s March volunteer day with Second Harvest Food Bank, 2802 Dairy Drive in Madison. This is a safe working environment with precautions in place.
Please consider giving three hours of your time this month to help others, Let Lois Schulz know by Tuesday noon, March 29th if you want to participate. loisschulz1942@gmail.com / 608-243-9761

Dining on the 6th
2022-04-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Global Market and Food Hall, 2161 Zeier Road, Madison, Wisconsin, 53704, United States
This month, on April 6 at noon, we will experience the many wonderful international foods served at the Global Market and Food Hall. We’ll gather at the Food Hall at 2161 Zeier Road, Madison. It’s in the strip mall east of East Towne Mall. The building entrance faces south and is up near Party City.
You may want to come early so as to be able to survey the various options by walking around the edge of the large food hall.
The center of the food hall is filled with tables, and I am hoping that one of the large ones can be reserved for our group. There are many menu boards listing their plentiful food offerings which are far greater than my brief notes below.

Don’t miss out on this spectacular dining experience! To participate in this gastronomical adventure, register by Monday, April 4, with Gail Holmes at glholmes@wisc.edu or phone 608 249-1846. Looking forward to seeing you at this fun event!

The food stores beginning on the left as you enter are:

Bubble Tea — shakes, milk, tea
Kawasaki Instant Noodle — ramen, udon, sushi, bento boxes
Taiwan Street — rice, noodles, pho
A-Rods Tex Mex –burritos, tacos, quesadillas, enchiladas
Nice Flavor Stir Fry — beef, pork, lamb, chicken
Poke-mi — sandwiches, Pad Thai, Poke bowls, pho
Captain Frank Seafood Boiler — shrimp, crab, crawfish, lobster
Dumpling House — noodle soup, dumplings, Chinese bun
Hmong Kitchen — sausage, pork belly, chicken, Pad Thai, papaya salad
To view complete menus and prices visit global market and food hall and select store menus. After dining, you may also wish to walk through the Global Market to view their products and shop.

Appreciation to Helen Ann Rugowski for her recommendation. Check out the article in the Capital Times about this new venture and below that is a blurb about them..

https://captimes.com/food-drink/find-birria-to-bubble-tea-at-the-global-market-food-hall/article_36342059-8374-56bd-a202-0eb5ca367964.html

Sierra Leone Cultural Presentation (via Zoom)
2022-04-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Zoom – within your own home!, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
The Program Committee invites members to join them on April 22nd for a Sierra Leone cultural ZOOM presentation by UW grad student Aruna Kallon.
Aruna was born and raised in Sierra Leone. He is currently a PhD student in the area of Educational Policy and a teaching assistant at UW-Madison. He will share information about Sierra Leone culture, and his experience as a Sierra Leone citizen in the United States and at UW.
The presentation will begin at 5:30 p.m., and last approximately an hour. There will be a question-and- answer period after the presentation. The ZOOM room will open the meeting at 5:00 p.m., to give all participating club members a chance to sign in by the time the presentation begins.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING THIS PRESENTATION, PLEASE CONTACT MIKE LAMBERT AT lambertmichaelj@gmail.com

Adopt-A-Highway Cleanup
2022-04-24 15:00 - 17:00
Adopt-A-Highway Cleanup on Sunday, April 24, at 3:00 (about 2 hours) led by Stephanie Vanden Bush.

Book Club - The Beekeeper of Aleppo
2022-04-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom – within your own home!, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
The next meeting is Monday, April 25 at 7:00 pm on Zoom. The book will be “The Beekeeper of Aleppo” by Christy Lefteri. It is a compassionate story of a refugee couple’s journey from their home in war torn Syria to find their cousin who had become a beekeeper in England. Several books are available in the Dane County library system.
Email Marian Ehrenberg at: marianeh2014@gmail.com by February 24 for the Zoom key.

Annual Meeting
2022-04-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom – within your own home!, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Join us for the Friendship Force of Wisconsin-Madison annual meeting. The meeting will be held via Zoom at 7:00 pm.

Second Harvest Food Bank
2022-04-28 12:30 - 15:30 | Second Harvest Food Bank, 2802 Dairy Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 53718
Thursday April 31st from 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm is our Club’s April volunteer day with Second Harvest Food Bank, 2802 Dairy Drive in Madison. This is a safe working environment with precautions in place.
Please consider giving three hours of your time this month to help others, Let Lois Schulz know by Tuesday noon, April 26th if you want to participate. loisschulz1942@gmail.com / 608-243-9761

South Korean Student Discusses Korean Culture
2022-05-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom – within your own home!, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
On Tuesday, May 3rd, from 5-6 pm. Jihyo Ha, a chemical engineering student from Busan, South Korea, will showcase Korean culture in a virtual presentation. She will focus on her experiences in the US and compare these with life in her home town—things that surprised her. As time allows, she will showcase aspects of Korean culture. She writes, “I am bringing some photos, short videos, or simple pop quizzes/questions of the prior knowledge that the people may have about South Korea and would love to hear their opinions too!”
If you wish to participate in Jihyo Ha’s presentation, please email David Blado at david-blado@sbcglobal.net or Michael Lambert at lambertmichaelj@gmail.com by April 28th. You will receive a link to the virtual meeting on May 1st.

Dining on the 6th - Dorf Haus
2022-05-06 16:30 - 19:00 | Dorf Haus Supper Club, 8931 CR-Y, Roxbury, WI, 53583
It’s time for a good Wisconsin Friday Fish Fry! Members are invited to the Dorf Haus Supper Club in Roxbury on May 6. The reservation is for 4:45 pm; the bar opens at 4 pm in a casual atmosphere. The fish fry menu is baked, breaded or fried haddock with the usual sides, from $13 to $15, The full food menu is also offered.
Come for the food and stay for the “Gemutlichkeit.” Dorf Haus is approximately 25 minutes west of Madison located in the quaint village of Roxbury across from historic St. Norbert’s Church at 8931 County Hwy Y. Drive west on Hwy 12 until you reach Hwy KP. Turn right (North) off Hwy 12 and proceed 2 miles to Hwy Y and turn left. The restaurant is a short distance on the left.
If planning to attend, please email Donna Hussin, djhussin@yahoo.com or call 608-770-0980 by Wednesday, May 4, 2022.
If you would like to carpool, please include that request when making your reservation and Donna will do her best to make it happen.

Friendship Force Board Meeting
2022-05-14 12:00 - 14:00, 2022-06-09 12:00 - 14:00 | Zoom – within your own home!, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Board meetings are every month on the second Thursday.

Book Club - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2022-05-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom – within your own home!, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
The final book club meeting before taking a break for the summer will be on May 23. The group will discuss All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. which is “…a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II…Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.”
Many have already read and loved this book, so please join the discussion whether you read it years ago or have it still fresh in your mind. To join on May 23 please email Marian Ehrenberg by May 21 for zoom link – marianeh2014@gmail.com.

Friendship Force Ukrainian Travelogue
2022-05-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom – within your own home!, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
On May 25 at 4 pm, Friendship Force member Tom Miller will take us on a “zoom” trip to Ukraine several years before the Russian invasion. In 2019 Tom and his wife Donna traveled to Ukraine, bringing along their daughter and son-in-law for sightseeing and searches for family roots. Friendships were also renewed with visits to Open World delegates the Millers had hosted in 2013 and 2017.
We hope that, In this current time of tragedy and upheaval in Ukraine, members will join Tom in this program, with time for questions and discussion.
To RSVP and receive your link for this program, please contact David Blado at: david-blado@sbcglobal.net or Mike Lambert at lambertmichaelj@gmail.com by May 23rd.

Second Harvest Food Bank
2022-05-26 12:30 - 15:30 | Second Harvest Food Bank, 2802 Dairy Drive, Madison, Wisconsin, 53718
Thursday May 26 from 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm is our Club’s March volunteer day with Second Harvest Food Bank, 2802 Dairy Drive in Madison.
This is a safe working environment with precautions in place.
Please consider giving three hours of your time this month to help others, Let Lois Schulz know by Tuesday noon, March 22nd if you want to participate. Contact: loisschulz1942@gmail.com / 608–243–9761

World Refugee Day Panel Discussion
2022-06-20 17:30 - 19:30 | Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E Gorham St, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703
Jewish Social Services (JSS) of Madison is pleased to invite you to our World Refugee Day Panel Discussion.
This special event will take place in-person for the first time since 2019. Each year on June 20, the world celebrates World Refugee Day. This year JSS Madison will celebrate the communities that are growing and thriving as refugee families resettle in and around Madison.
The theme this year as directed by the United Nations: “Every person on this planet has a right to seek safety – whoever they are, wherever they come from and whenever they are forced to flee.”
When: June 20, 2022 from 5:30-7:30pm
Where: Christ Presbyterian Church
944 E Gorham St, Madison, WI 53703
Refreshments and snacks provided. Masks required to keep everyone safe. This event is open to the public so please share widely.

Friendship Force Annual Picnic
2022-06-22 17:30 - 21:00 | Tenney Park John Wall Family Shelter, 300 N Thorton Ave, Madison, Wisconsin
It’s time for the Friendship Force Annual Summer Potluck Picnic Buffet!
Please provide a dish to share for the potluck such as potato salad, vegetable salad or platter, baked beans, hot dish, meat dish, hors d’oeuvres, chips and dip, fruit tray, variety of desserts, etc.
Please bring your own beverage – park rules prohibit glass containers and alcohol. Paper plates, utensils, napkins, and cups will be provided.
Easy directions: From Sherman Avenue across from the lock, turn onto North Thornton Avenue which runs parallel with the Yahara River. Drive to the parking area at the end of the road. Follow the sidewalk to the shelter.
Reservations are due by Monday, June 20, so that tables and seating can be prepared. Please indicate your potluck contribution when you make your reservation with Gail Holmes at glholmes@wisc.edu or phone 608-249-1846.
Please wear your name tag!
Hope to see you there!!

Friends of Chernobyl Centers United States - Presentation
2022-06-23 03:00 - 17:00 | Zoom – within your own home!, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
On Friday, June 23rd, our very own Member at Large – Donna Ulteig, who served as FOCCUS vice-president for 15 years, will present her experiences with survivors of the Chernobyl disaster.
As a clinical social worker, Donna, along with other FOCCUS colleagues, traveled to Ukraine four times to learn about the impact of the 1986 Disaster. There she trained mental health professionals in five community centers established by the United Nations.
She was also instrumental in launching Bethel Lutheran Church’s hosting program for Ukrainian children needing a summer of clean air and water—a program lasting 20 years. Assisting her in the presentation will be one of those children, Maryna, who recently fled Ukraine and now stays with her former host family in Madison.
Social time will be 3:00-3:30 pm; the program will start at 3:30 pm and continue until after 4:30 pm.
Contact David Blado by June 20th for the Zoom meeting.
