Community Programs

Tuesday, June 6 at 6:30 p.m.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.

Victims’ rights activist Teri Jendusa-Nicolai and Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling come together for a program aimed at teenagers and their families.

Speaking out about domestic violence awareness, Racine County native Teri Jendusa-Nicolai provides personal accounts from her own experience on surviving domestic violence and abuse, from the victim’s perspective. Sheriff Schmaling shares an account of the law enforcement side of domestic abuse including what he sees in the jails every day.

Together they talk about warning signs, where to go for help and how to break the domestic abuse cycle. The focus is to share both sides with kids – how to not be a victim and how to not be a perpetrator who winds up in jail.

Teri Jendusa-Nicolai is a spokesperson for Domestic Violence Awareness and has been on 20/20, the Bio Channel’s television show “I Survived,” CNN web, newspapers across the country and in Europe, on radio, and has presented to middle and high school students as well as college students nationwide. In March 2017, Teri and Sheriff Schmaling appeared together on “The Dr. Oz Show.”

There will be time for Q&A during this evening’s program.

featuring Fifth House Ensemble

Friday, June 9 at 6:00 p.m.
Doors open for seating at 5:30 p.m.

Fresh Inc Festival is a one-of-a-kind chamber music festival that redefines the training process for emerging musicians. Since 2012, the Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble has helped performers and composers to envision and launch their own authentic careers in music, rooted in adventurous genre-defying collaboration, entrepreneurial thinking, and meaningful partnerships with audiences and the community. Enjoy an evening of performances by the best young talent from around the nation attending this year’s festival!

The musicians will briefly speak about each piece to discuss its historical significance and highlight important features to listen for during the performance. A Q&A session with the musicians will allow an opportunity for the audience to learn more about the musicians, their repertoire and instruments.

Fifth House Ensemble’s Fresh Inc Festival, a two-week series of workshops, rehearsals and performances, attracts composers and instrumentalists from renowned music schools such as Juilliard, Eastman, the Cleveland Institute, and more. For the fifth consecutive year, the Fresh Inc Festival is being held at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. While rehearsing and performing are important to festival artists, the festival is not just about performances. The festival provides emerging artists with needed information to help start new ventures in the professional world. Workshops cover topics such as how to start a small business, how to market, how to fund-raise, how to budget, and how to sell and appeal to performance venues.