Board meetings are every month on the second Thursday.
Zoom on Native German Culture
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
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
Book Club – The Beekeeper of Aleppo
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
Join us for the Friendship Force of Wisconsin-Madison annual meeting. The meeting will be held via Zoom at 7:00 pm.
International Institute Program
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
Welcome in the New Year and join the fun by volunteering with Second Harvest Food Bank, 2802 Dairy Drive
in 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.
LET’S WALK / LET’S HIKE – 5K and 10K
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 be
wonderful 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
Book Club – “Everything Inside”
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.
Dining on the 6th – A Chazen Museum Tour!
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.