The nearly five-acre Davidson Park, 3725 W. Juneau Ave., hosts The Big Dance, an NCAA Tournament viewing experience, on Saturday, March 22, from noon to 7 p.m.
The park – which opened last summer and was designed by the internationally acclaimed Heatherwick Studios – will show tournament games on giant screens and have food and drinks.
The event, which is free and open to the public, includes interactive basketball-themed activities, like basketball cookie decorating and crafts; Pop-a-Shot, Connect 4, Skeeball, and NBA 2K & NBA Jam with Carcade games; team-themed face painting; and live performances by the Milwaukee Flyers, Bucks Beats drumline and 414 Crew.
There will also be merch giveaways, the chance to create game-day signs and a life-size tournament bracket board.
Music will be provided all day long by DJ Quadi, the official Marquette Men’s Basketball DJ.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
