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  1. Adult Swim: Camp Camp

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    June 16, 2023 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm

    Pack your bug spray & your feather boa for the most sensational Adult Swim mashup ever!

    Adult Swim at Madison Children’s Museum honors the public pool tradition of kicking the kids out so adults can have the space to themselves (without the water or need for a swimsuit). This 21-and-up event series offers adults the opportunity to play like a grown-up for the evening—crawling, sliding, crafting, and dancing their way through the museum.

    Camp Camp channels the DIY, try-new-things spirit of classic summer camp along with the outrageous and joyful expression of campy style. It’s an evening loaded with crafts, performances, and plenty of chances for everyone (ages 21+) to shine. 

    This Adult Swim is presented in partnership with OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center.

    Camp Camp activities

    Special events at special times

    • Enjoy an epic Camp Camp Talent Show with DVJ Ravyn and special guests Cass Marie Domino, Lucy Von Cucci, and Ja’Nyiah Moné Diamond-Banx, 7–7:30 & 8–8:30 pm
    • Strut your stuff at the Camp Camp Fashion Show, 8:30–8:45 pm
    • Team trivia with Premier Trivia; sessions at 6, 6:45, 7:30, and 8:15

    Activities all evening

    • Glam up with a glitter tattoo
    • Decorate a souvenir bandana to take home
    • Explore Wisconsin’s LGBTQ+ history at a popup exhibit and make a button with Wisconsin Historical Museum
    • Put your eagle eyes to work in our Summer Camp Movies & Unicorns Scavenger Hunt
    • Put a Pride (including allies) spin on classic summer camp crafts including Shrinky Dinks, leather crafts, friendship bracelets, and more
    • Camp postcard station: write an affirming message to a LGBTQIA+ young person in our community. Postcards will be distributed to local youth by Teens Like Us, a program of Briarpatch Youth Services.
    • OutReach community LGBTQ+ resource table

    Food & Drink

    • Bars on floor 2 and Wonderground
    • Mexsal Taco truck in the Wonderground
    • Little John’s Lunchbox cafe, floor 1

    Tickets

    • $20 in advance
    • $25 day of the event
    • Bring the whole gang! A 10% discount will automatically be applied to orders of 10 or more tickets.
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    Ages 21 & up

    Ticket cancellation/exchange policy.

    Please note, this event is not affiliated with ‘Camp’ Camp in Maine, or ADULT SWIM, the television and entertainment network—also, we don’t have a swimming pool.

    Adult Swim is presented by

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  2. Adult Swim: Death & Taxes

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    April 14, 2023 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm

    Ben Franklin once said, “in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes,” but that doesn’t need to be a bad thing. Come explore the irreverent side of what scares us most.

    Adult Swim at Madison Children’s Museum honors the public pool tradition of kicking the kids out so adults can have the space to themselves (without the water or need for a swimsuit). This 21-and-up event series offers adults the opportunity to play like a grown-up for the evening—crawling, sliding, crafting, and dancing their way through the museum.

    Featuring:

    • Madison Shakespeare Company performs the Bard’s ultimate death scene montage
    • Kicking the Bucket: Murder Ballads with Hoot’n Annie, live from the Wonderground’s Giant Bucket
    • Play chess (or Boggle, or Uno, or…) with Death!
    • (Un)Certainty: Instant Poems for Joint and Separate Filers
    • Get crafty with upcycled and shredded tax forms and ledgers
    • Answer life or death questions with Premier Trivia
    • Examine owl pellets under the microscope to determine what creature met its fate
    • Make a shark tooth fossil necklace
    • Explore the Wonderground while playing Star Trek Redshirt Bingo
    • Seal your fate with Oregon Trail Death Plinko

    Tickets

    • $20 advance (advance sales end at noon on day of event).
    • $25 at the door
    • Bring the whole gang! A 10% discount will automatically be applied to orders of 10 or more tickets.
    Get Tickets

    Ages 21 & up

    Ticket cancellation/exchange policy.

    Please note, this event is not affiliated with ADULT SWIM, the television and entertainment network—also, we don’t have a swimming pool.

    Adult Swim is presented by

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  3. STRUT! on the Square

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    By Corinne Burgermeister
    Communication Coordinator

    Giant-Puppet-Workshop-Madison-Children's-MuseumMadison Children’s Museum, the UW-Madison Arts Institute and the UW Design Studies Department are collaborating to bring a day of art, music and community to the Capitol Square through STRUT!.

    On Saturday, May 2, STRUT!, a parade showcasing artistic expressions and community collaborations, will unite over thirty of Madison’s creative and cultural groups through stilt-walking, dancing, music-making, puppetry and more.

    This event is the culmination of UW Artist in Residence, Laura Anderson Barbata’s spring course, Community Arts Practice.madison-childrens-museum-strut-schedule

    Much of Barbata’s work aims to bring together communities through art, music and dance –and this project is no different. Special guests will include Bently Spang, a Northern Cheyenne multidisciplinary artist and writer, and the Brookyln Jumbies, a group specializing in stilt-walking, fire-breathing and traditional African dance and drumming.

    All are welcome to join in the STRUT! parade, whether it be as an individual or with a community group. Following the parade, participants are invited to the Funkyard for a a lively celebration and dance party.

    Deb Gilpin, president of the museum, says “STRUT! is right in line with our mission. We make space to nurture creativity and play, in a central place where kids and families from all communities can celebrate together—and strut their stuff! The new Funkyard  behind the museum was made for this. And we are honored to display Laura’s beautiful work in our museum.”

    Upcoming Workshops

    In the final weeks leading up to the STRUT! celebration, Madison Children’s Museum will hold several workshops where participants can meet to design unique costumes and pieces for the parade.

    Art with Jennika
    Wednesdays, April 15, 22 & 29
    Work alongside our resident artist, Jennika, to create giant puppets and banners out of recycled materials.

    Fiber Fun 
    Thursdays, April 16, 23 & 30
    Work alongside museum staff to create giant puppets and banners, with a focus on the recycled materials used.

    Adult Swim: Word Freaks
    Friday, April 17
    Enjoy an evening at Adult Swim climbing, playing and gerbil-wheeling. Plus, create print posters and Cartoneras in the Art Studio.

    Giant Puppet Workshop 
    Sunday, April 19
    Learn how to make a giant puppet using recycled materials and simple construction techniques. Hands-on demonstrations, instructional materials and some supplies will be provided.

    STRUT! Workshop with Laura Anderson Barbata
    Sunday, April 26
    Meet UW-Madison interdisciplinary artist in residence, Laura Anderson Barbata, and learn how to make costumes and masks out of recycled materials.

    STRUT! is sponsored by UW-Madison Arts Institute, UW-Madison School of Human Ecology and Madison Children’s Museum. For additional information, including costume tutorials and more ways to get involved, visit go.wisc.edu/strut.

  4. The Next Generation of Chefs and Journalists Talk Edible Bugs

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    Anika interviews Liliana in a "pod" in the Wildernest

    Anika Derby interviews Liliana Heide at the Edible Insect Banquet, part of Adult Swim: Sustainability Sideshow (3/6/15), held at Madison Children’s Museum to benefit the museum and Sustain Dane.

    At the recent Adult Swim: Sustainability Sideshow, Wisconsin State Journal reporter Samara Kalk Derby arranged to attend the event so that she could interview Chef David Heide of Liliana’s about his work on the Edible Insect Banquet. That dinner, with multiple seatings, has become the centerpiece of the annual benefit event.  Afterward, Samara wrote a great “Around Town” piece called Insects, They’re What’s for Dinner Now.

    Now, technically, we don’t allow kids at Adult Swim events. This is the time we clear the museum for the adults to play while enjoying a few adult beverages, if they choose. But Samara needed to bring her 9-year-old daughter, Anika. And Chef Dave brought his 8-year-old daughter, Liliana (namesake of the family restaurant), to help prepare and serve. Liliana was clearly there to work, sporting a smart chef’s coat. We gave Anika a press badge, just like her mom’s, to make it clear she was there in an official capacity.

    It was pretty clear what needed to happen next. While Samara interviewed Chef Dave, Anika interviewed Liliana. That interview follows.

    Interview with Liliana Heide

    By Anika Kalk Derby, exclusive for the Madison Children’s Museum blog

    I interviewed 8-year-old Liliana at the Edible Insect Banquet held at the Madison Children’s Museum.

    Liliana had mixed feelings about coming, wondering if her Dad, Dave Heide, who was asked to cook food for the banquet was going to prepare whole bugs. But Liliana informed me that the crickets were in a powder. “I think that eating insects is a lot better of an idea than eating regular meat because if you think about it, a bug actually only needs a little bit of food to keep it alive while a cow needs to drink a bathtub of water a day to keep it alive and edible.”

    Liliana told me “I say this because less goes to waste when eating insects and cows are so big and only a little bit of it is used when making meat products, plus there are only so many cows.”

    Well, there are a lot of cows in Wisconsin.

    So overall I thought that Liliana showed a lot of knowledge about the topic and was open minded to the idea of insects being a new food option.

    Anika Kalk Derby is the daughter of Samara Kalk Derby and Jamie Derby. She is a fourth-grader at Lowell Elementary School on Madison’s East Side who enjoys rock climbing, skateboarding, swimming, biking, basketball, Z104, playing piano, drawing and learning Hebrew.

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