I will be leading a FREE workshop for the community at Sheboygan County Museum: 3110 Erie Ave, Sheboygan, WI 53081.
PRESS RELEASE
Sheboygan County Museum offers “Enacting Equity: A Community Workshop” for a collaborative conversation to understand what equity can mean locally Sheboygan, WI, (February 2023) - Sheboygan County Museum (SCM) will host a community workshop that invites participants to share experiences, consider local history, and build toward a more equitable future throughout Sheboygan County. The event is free and open to the public.
Schedule
● Tuesday February 13, 4:30–5:00pm | Exhibit Tour of Spies and Space: Toys of the
Cold War
● Tuesday February 13, 5:00–6:00pm | Community Workshop
Inside the Main Museum, the traveling exhibit Spies and Space will provide building blocks to consider the diversity of care people in a community need, from security to play. SCM Curator of Collections and Exhibits Tamara Lange will highlight impacts of rhetoric, conflict, and exploration on the humans experiencing it through a display of over one hundred items of toys, games, comics, and media of the Cold War Era.
Equity 2.0 Consultant Kelly D. Holstine, owner of local bookstore WordHaven BookHouse, provides context for evolving the definition of “equity” and gives space to workshop ideas and hold compassionate conversations. The experience will include background about Sheboygan County’s history in equity, opportunity to explore personal trajectories, and time to consider what it takes to build the future that each person and the larger community desires.
This program invites anyone over the age of 16 to engage in the bold and crucial act of striving toward equity personally, at SCM, and throughout the community we are building.
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About the Sheboygan County Museum
The Sheboygan County Museum has a mission to collect, preserve, and educate about the history of Sheboygan County. It boasts five historic buildings with twenty-four exhibits of objects from their collection. The education program hosts five different curriculum-aligned school programs to nearly 3,000 per year. Community programming strives to create connections between community members, history, and material culture in divergent ways.The museum rebrand starting in this Centennial year applies the mission with a focus on diversifying connections and audiences.
About Equity 2.0 with Kelly D. Holstine
Equity 2.0 is a consulting service that provides speaking and training with the core belief that human beings who feel seen, safe, respected, valued, and celebrated are the ones who will thrive. In redefining Equity to “ensuring that every individual can access whatever they need to thrive,” Equity 2.0 moves away from traditional concepts of fairness and moves into a dynamic process of learning, understanding, and growing through courageous conversations. Kelly believes it is their job to find out what a person needs and help them find it, not to tell a person they are doing “wrong” or try to “fix” it. Equity 2.0 Consulting is for learning together in conversation, facilitator included, to create safer environments through understanding oneself, understanding history, and planning for an impactful future.