Home 2024: World Refugee Day

The HOME Refugee Steering Committee at the Lynden Sculpture Garden invites you to observe World Refugee Day in a series of outdoor events and programs that celebrate Milwaukee’s refugee communities through art, food, fashion, and performance.

Bring a picnic and a blanket to enjoy the outdoors with friends, family, and community. Or bring along cash to “taste the world” by purchasing food and refreshments from community chefs who have participated in HOME programs throughout the years. You’ll be able to grab a snack, sample dishes, or purchase a full meal from different chefs from the refugee community.

World Refugee Day at Lynden, co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families – Bureau of Refugee Programs, is organized as both a resource fair and a celebration of many cultures. In addition to making art, tasting food, and listening to stories, poems, and music and dance, visitors will be able to gather information on local services for refugees.

Under our resource tent, you’ll find new and existing partners: selected vendors from the HOME handicraft community, refugee-serving agencies, and community-based organizations.

About Home:

HOME is the theme of our work with refugee community leaders, community members, Call & Response artists, and allies. The HOME Refugee Steering Committee is building a space of leading, coming together, and celebrating refugees.

World Refugee Day 2024 celebrations extend into two additional HOME “days” featuring music, dance, food, fashion, and craft. For all HOME 2024 programming, click here.

HOME 2024 is sponsored in part by the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, Refugee Programs.