On Saturday, May 12, Lloyd Barbee Montessori School, 4456 N. Teutonia Ave., will host the sixth annual Milwaukee Public Montessori Peace Summit, which this year focuses on the theme of "Kindness Rocks."
The event, which is free and open to all, kicks off at 12:30 p.m. and runs until 4.
The annual Peace Summit brings together students, teachers, staff and families from MPS’ unmatched community of eight public Montessori programs to help promote peace in the city. It offers a chance to meet, greet, collaborate and build community to hopefully then work together to promote leadership and positive expression, work for social justice and build community.
There will be workshops, student-led panel discussions, local organization networking, collaborative art projects, gardening, a drum circle, cultural performers, meditation, mindfulness, family yoga, origami, karaoke, storytelling, henna, face painting and speakers.
Most of the activities are free, including henna, face painting, yoga, origami, Black Lives Matter kite-making, the painting of "kindness" rocks and more.
There will also be a variety of food trucks on hand at the school, in the Garden Homes neighborhood, as well as screen printing of "Straight Outta Montessori" T-shirts. Bring your own shirt and you can print for $5, or buy a shirt and print it for $10.
Ajamou Butler will present the keynote address, Brother Heal the Hood.
For more information, contact Emily Schubot here.
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.
