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Doors Open Milwaukee 2012 at Bucketworks

Yesterday we had the great pleasure of participating in Historic Milwaukee, Inc's wildly popular event Doors Open Milwaukee. We hosted tours from 10:00am - 5:00pm. Approximately 200 people joined us and we were so pleased!

Bucketworks isn't open for tours today, but there are lots of other great spaces to see: http://doorsopenmilwaukee.org/buildings/

We managed to catch a snippet of one of the tours with Director Tim Syth, if you weren't able to join us, check it out:

Tim's torso would have disappeared!

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A picture's worth a thousand words...

Youngblood presents [sic] a play by Melissa James Gibson

Youngblood presents...

[sic] by Melissa James Gibson

Directed by Jason Economus

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Remembering Alisa Strautmanis

In 2008, a young martial artist and actor named Alisa Strautmanis joined Bucketworks. She participated in Maureen Cashin Bolog’s acting classes, and came to showcase her martial arts skills when WTMJ-4 came to do a story on us in March of that year.

When most of Milwaukee was still sleeping, she arrived every morning at Bucketworks to practice her craft, to make her space to create, and best of all...to play. She had a special fondness for riding her bike around the ring that made up the Bucketworks space on 6th Street. (Our only regret is that this was never caught on film.)

She stuck with us through the first flood in June 2008 and through the changing landscape of the space as we restored it. Through it all she always had a smiling face and an amazing attitude that lifted the spirits of those of shouldering the work of re-developing the Bucketworks space. In 2009 she left Bucketworks to pursue other opportunities in the community and we wished her well.

Recently, we learned that Alisa passed away from breast cancer. She passed away at her farm in Germantown with her husband Sig and her daughters Uve and Anna at her side. While this knowledge tempers our grief, we would like to take a moment to honor Alisa, her contribution to the personality, quality, and flavor of our organization. We honor the contribution she made to the minds and hearts of our staff and...

PINK for October

THE SKINNY

Pink for October II is the reprise to the highly successful and very popular Pink for October held in Chicago in 2010. Presented this year by Richard Allen, Femme Forte Productions, and Executive Assistant Christina Mogel, this group shoot and networking event is designed to highlight Breast Cancer Awareness and ALL funds will be donated. The original raised $1500; that is our benchmark for this event.

The nitty gritty - Doors at the 20,000 foot Bucketworks facility will open at 9AM for models and MUA's, 10AM for photographers and shooting will start at 11. The shoot will end promptly at 6. Bucketworks has been kind enough to donate roughly 20,000 sq feet of space to make this event a reality.

Models, please arrive prepared to shoot. While we will have MUA's and Hair Stylists participating, they oft times get backed up quickly and there can be a significant wait time.

Photographers, pls bring your own lights and backdrops if desired. The concrete walls of the facility do create a fine background, but a backdrop will give you more variety. In addition to the indoor space, a indoor parking garage with numerous graffiti murals will also be available all day.

Attendance for this event will be limited to 10 photographers and 20 models.

Photographers - $100 each, plus a $25 deposit which will be...

BuildHealth - Reframing and Reformatting

On Monday afternoon I sat down with Tim Syth, Director of Bucketworks and co-founder of the Build Health initiative. The mission of BuildHealth is to raise awareness and activity around the idea of healthy community. It is designed to enable engagement and accountability, as well as be the glue that connects current efforts across the city that build healthy communities

To that end, Bucketworks and its parent organization, the School Factory agreed to host and sponsor a series of events that support BuildHealth. Originally, the organizations were planning to offer an Unconference, a Workshop, and a continuing Engagement session. However, Tim recently decided to change the format and duration of the event in response to a series of conversations he had with some of the community health organizational partners. In the video above, Tim describes the improved approach.

Bucketworks and the School Factory have long traditions of fostering these types of activities. We support Tim and the vision for BuildHealth. As they work to deepen their community engagement, the team has found that awareness-building of current efforts is a key element to developing the initiative in a way most meaningful to the community.

We hope you’ll join us for the Unconference, scheduled to take place on October 20th at Bucketworks....

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