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• Civic Health of Wisconsin: September Luncheon

  • When
    September 09, 2025
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    The Madison Club, 5 E Wilson St, Madison, WI

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  Tuesday, September 9, 2025 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
  The Madison Club

  Speaker: Mary Beth Collins, Executive Director, Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies

  Online Registration Closes on Wednesday, September 3 at 5 pm 

  Email tempomadison@tempomadison.org to be added to a waitlist
  after online registration closes, include your choice of meal. 

  The Civic Health of Wisconsin initiative is dedicated to strengthening current civic health efforts around Wisconsin, to spur innovation and foster more connected and engaged communities. We define “Civic Health” to mean individual and collective engagement for communities to define and address public problems and work toward conditions which allow all Wisconsin communities to truly thrive, and promote democracy in which all can participate.The Initiative includes a steering group and broader network of nonpartisan organizations involved in civic health efforts spanning democratic participation, volunteerism, civics education, and connecting across difference, among other issues. Please join key facilitator of the Initiative Mary Beth Collins to hear about findings and updates from the Initiative’s work and reporting on the state of Civic Health in Wisconsin in dynamic and historic times. Collins will also share about current interpretations of these issues by leading scholars and global civil society. Consider critical opportunity areas for civic health – including the media landscape, education, polarization, loneliness, trust in institutions, and civic engagement. Learn and exchange about tangible ways we can all be a part of the movement, or enhance our commitment and engagement, for better civic health in our communities and in the world.

  About Our Speaker:

  Mary Beth Collins, J.D., M.A., currently serves as the Executive Director of UW-Madison Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, where she and her team conduct teaching, research, and outreach about community efforts and the nonprofit and civil society sectors. She has almost 20 years of experience as an attorney, advisor, teacher, and organizer working for a strong civil society sector, effective organizations, healthy communities, and the people who support and lead them. She is the lead author of the Civic Health of Wisconsin Report and helps to facilitate the Civic Health of Wisconsin Initiative.

  Luncheon Choice:

  • Smoked Chicken Poke Bowl, Avocado, sesame, edamame, shaved market vegetables, jasmine rice 
  • Crispy Walnut and Black Bean Cake, Guajillo chili crisp, onion puree, baby bok choy, sauteed spinach

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• MSO Celebrates 100 Years

  • When
    November 11, 2025
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Madison Club

  Registration Open October 1, 2025

  MSO Celebrates 100 Years

  Speaker: John DeMain, Music Director

  Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm |The Madison Club

  The Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO) reaches a milestone with the 2025-26 season, celebrating its 100th Anniversary season and joining the ranks of many of the leading U.S. symphony orchestras who have provided symphonic music to the communities they have served for 100 or more years. Join Music Director John DeMain as he discusses his professional journey that has led him around the world and eventually as the Maestro of the Madison Symphony Orchestra. John also will chat about his final season and the highlights of the 100th Anniversary Season. 

  About Our Speaker: In his 32nd and final season as music director of the Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO), Grammy and Tony Award-winning conductor John DeMain is noted for his dynamic performances on concert and opera stages throughout the world. During more than three decades in Madison as the MSO music director, DeMain has consistently raised the quality of the orchestra and elevated the relevance of the organization in the community.

  His active conducting schedule has taken him to the stages of the National Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the symphonies of Seattle, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Columbus, Houston, San Antonio, Long Beach, and Jacksonville, along with the Pacific Symphony, Boston Pops, Aspen Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of Seville, the Leipzig MDR Sinfonieorchester, and Mexico’s Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional.  DeMain also serves as principal conductor for Madison Opera.

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