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Egg Day 2025 - Milwaukee County Zoo
A child enjoys face painting during Egg Day at the Milwaukee County Zoo (April 2025)
Thursday April 2
Spring Break Nature Storytime at Retzer Nature Storytime
Sort of appropriately, the final day of these stories for kids at the Waukesha preserve is Rabbits Rule. Adults who must accompany any child attending get in free for the 70-minute story time starting at 10 am. If weather is pleasant enough, there may be an outdoor component to this otherwise outdoor event, for which tickets may be purchased from tinyurl.com/4zar6vxm.
Pitch-A-Friend at Lion's Tail Brewing Co.
This is a free opportunity to recommend your unattached friends to other singles looking for friendship and closer companionship. It involves getting together a three-to-five-minute slide show of the friend you're “pitching” to those assembled. A less formal mixer follows the 7 p.m. event, more about which may be learned at tinyurl.com/2cjtp2b9.
Friday April 3
Draft Night with the Daily Harold at Interchange Theater
The title may not give a great clue, but the six-member Harold improv team will base a show on what makes for perfect wedding. As is so often with this kind of comedy, audience participation is an integral element; in this case, the sharing of firsthand wedding memories is encouraged. The 90-minute show begins at 7:30 p.m.; tickets may be had from tinyurl.com/pm7mzjw2.
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Saturday April 4
Bodies Race Company's Do Not Stop Half Marathon
As the weather warms, the Buzz thinks runners who gather at 6:30 a.m. at Lincoln Memorial Drive for the lengthy jog Bodies has organized aren't exhibiting suspect behavior. The event includes a course for kids, awards, swag bags and donuts! It's too late to get customized T-shirt with registration, but runners can still get in on the action by going to tinyurl.com/4y69wtte.
From Tulips to Bumblebees at Mitchell Park Domes
This exhibit about pollinators and pollination opens today. Visitors will become bee ambassadors and learn about the endangered Rusty Patch Bumblebee and other Wisconsin native bee species. The exhibit runs through Sunday May 25 at the Domes' usual times, which may be found along with other pertinent info at tinyurl.com/yejuukw4.
Racine Danish Kringles Egg Day at Milwaukee County Zoo
The makers of the Scandinavian pastries have activities aplenty and more for minors and the adults who bring them to the county's massive menageries: bunny ears, live Dixieland jazz, spring-themed bingo, chalk art creation, egg hunting, face painting, three Easter Bunny parades, etc. It all comes with regular paid 9:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. admission, which may be paid via tinyurl.com/27x86w3n.
Undisciplined Workshop Analog Art Sanctuary at Milwaukee Central Library East View Conference Room
Call this an anti-event, and you may be right. Without the distractions of screens, teachers and music (wear zero-leakage headphone if you like), the library offers 90 minutes to draw, starting at 10:30 a.m. Use free gear, too, including 18" x 24" newsprint sheets, markers, crayons and graphite pencils. There should be something about this creative respite at www.mpl.org.
Station 1846's Day Drinks & Handmade Things Market
A pop-up crafts market at a tavern? Why not?! The W. Bruce St. watering hole's variation on the theme not only includes the titular goods made by hand, but live music, coffee and—naturally, considering the location—cocktails. Shop, sip, and take in tunes at this free event from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., and visit the Station's website at station1846.com.
Monday April 6
Polish Center of Wisconsin's Dyngus Day Celebration
The free party at the Franklin venue to note the end of Lent and its Easter Sunday culmination is set to go from 4-8 p.m. and will feature food and drink specials. The Larry Lynne LTD Show provides the music. Find out more by heading to tinyurl.com/y4rhhm72.
Tuesday April 7
Wisconsin Historical Society Presents “Experience History: The History of Brewing in Wauwatosa” at Lion's Tail Brewing Co.
Each ticket to this 90-minute presentation includes a beer or other beverage to quaff while listening to this 90-miute history of beer in the burb, including Alex and Kirsten Wenzel's own Lion's Tail craft brewing enterprise. Obtain admission to the event at tinyurl.com/49jp6khw.
Wednesday April 8
Renaissance Theaterworks' Barefoot in the Park Sensory-Friendly Performance at Next Act Theatre
The Neil Simon romantic comedy under Renaissance co-founder Suzan Fete's direction is performed with more sensory sensitivity than usual at 1:30 p.m. Be informed as to the parameters of sensory friendliness by going here: tinyurl.com/mr2k4d2a. Purchase tickets for this special presentation from tinyurl.com/3aa2fwye.
Care for the Land Series: Container Gardening with Native Plants at Urban Ecology Center-Menomonee Valley Branch
This hands-on workshop should teach attendees to grow plants that contribute to ecosystems' health in urban spaces such as balconies and patios, Pollinator Patios business owner Felecia Stelsel leads the two-hour, 5 p.m. class, the price for which includes a plant valued at $8. Learn more about and sign up for it when you reach tinyurl.com/27tz5a2f.
Ex Fabula's Deaf Stories Project StoryShare at Pilot Project Brewing
Deaf storytelling coaches guide participants in activities that help to hone their narrative skills, connect with other storytellers and develop powerful personal stories of their own in this 75-minute event starting at 5:30 p.m. Attendance for deaf folk is free, and other details may be fund once your cursor gets you to tinyurl.com/57m5vd85.
Lyrical Sanctuary Songwriting Workshop and Open Mic featuring Social Cig at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Fireside Lounge
Local indie/skate rocker Parker Schulz leads a 45-mnute session ay 6 p.m. with songwriting prompts, group activities and other tips. At 7 p.m., Social Cig performs, preceded by an open mic (with songs composed in the earlier session?). It might not seem that such an active evening would be free, but it is. More about it may be gleaned from tinyurl.com/ysv5nd94.
Lily Lalios' Over the Prairie/Under the Prairie Poetry Workshop at Woodland Pattern
The E Locust St. bookseller hosts the first of six events throughout 2026 helmed by hometown poets. In this installment, Milwaukee Emerging Poet Practice Fellow Lalios guides her students in writing autobiographical, oracular verse that imagines its authors in a better world. Sign up and get further details about the 6-8 p.m. Event upon getting to tinyurl.com/3pjuvhpv.
Songs for a New World at UWM Kenilworth Square East Kenilworth Five-0-Eight
Tonight marks the first performance out of five of triple-Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown's first musical at the university. It's a contemporary song cycle about a group of adult friends facing their quirks and challenges amidst extraordinary change. Tonight's two-hour show starts at 7:30 p.m. Other dates, times, and tickets may be had from tinyurl.com/msbcjkwx.
