Register to hear Tonda Thompson!

Event details
🗓️ Date: Friday, March 21st
⏰ Time: 8:30 – 10:00 AM
📍 Location: Relics Rentals – 420 S 1st St, Milwaukee, WI 53204
🎟️ Tickets are FREE!

Learn about our keynote speaker

As the CEO of Valor Creative Collective, Vogue Dreams Production, and the owner and founder of She Slangs Wood, Tonda Thompson considers it her life’s mission to encourage others to walk with authority in everything that they do.

While a runway model in Los Angeles, Tonda learned how to accept rejection as a fuel to keep going. Following the tragic death of her first son, Terrell, Tonda spearheaded a career as a serial entrepreneur and community advocate. She took this path to find solutions and preventative methods to reduce Social Determinants of Health that have negative effects to the wellbeing of Black maternal, infant and fetal health within the United States. She is the founder of The National Coalition for Healthy Black Families, Inc (NCHBF) and has created events such as the HaRUNbee 5K, that honors Terrell’s life.

Tonda is a developer, a carpenter, a teacher, a model, sometimes a politician, and a mother who is aiming to find life changing solutions for the future.

Our theme for March is PARALLEL.

It was chosen by our Kuala Lumpur chapter in Malaysia and illustrated by OLI.

Like train tracks receding into the distance, our lives eventually reach the end of the line. And for a large part of our journey, most people tend to live parallel lives. We go to school, hang out with friends, get jobs, and take care of our families.
 
Just look out the window at the home or office across the street. We exist side by side with strangers. Always keeping the same distance of anonymity between us – even though we have so much in common. All of us are trying to build a better life for ourselves and our loved ones.
 
Of course, we are not carbon copies. The differences make our lives our own. Her black coffee. His energy drink. Their chamomile tea. So, we may never see eye to eye. After all, mathematics proves that parallel lines never meet.
 
But unlike those train tracks, our paths don’t run in straight lines. We can meet someone new at every turn. Look someone in the eye and smile. Reach across that gap between us and make a connection.
 
We may be living parallel lives. But we don’t have to go through them alone.

Photo + directions by John December

About Relics Rentals

Relics Rentals is a Milwaukee treasure. As a boutique specialty rental company and prop house located in the heart of Milwaukee, they maintain a carefully curated inventory of gorgeous and distinctive furniture, decor, dishware, and details both grand and small. They are the ace up your sleeve with their unrivaled selection of goods for creating one-of-a-kind visual displays and unforgettable events: from intimate soirees to epic galas, from trade shows to residential & commercial staging, from styled shoots to theater.

Relics’ sustainability approach results in remarkable design while minimizing their environmental footprint and preventing unsustainable overflow compared to other event industry practices. They rise to the challenge of cutting their carbon footprint, and they embrace the challenge of an acquisition process that does not exploit, and they understand the time commitment this involves and, more importantly, the unrivaled end result it produces for their clients.

Public Transit

The Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) bus routes 15, 18, and Green stop right outside of Relics Rentals on South 1st Street at Virginia Street. For details, see RideMCTS.com. 

Parking

Northside–Less than 50 parking spots available. Entrance via Florida Street. Do not park by Central Bark Doggy Daycare nor by the Bartolotta’s dock.

Southside– Limited spots available. Entrance via Virginia Street. Park adjacent to building only. Parking in front of overhead doors ok. Do not park in southside lot or vehicles will be towed.

Entry

Enter through northside doors. Look for the CM sign!

🎶🎵 DJ Jim Q’s March playlist + blog is live and as always, wonderful to explore.

The theme is Parallel, and these tracks are aligned. March with me through these 30-plus songs; it’s a straight walk from Beyoncé’s “Formation” to Gerry Rafferty’s “Right Down the Line,” all the way to Celeste’s “Both Sides of the Moon.”

Did you know the #1 way people learn about CreativeMornings/Milwaukee is through their friends? 

This month, we invite you to forward this email to a friend. Invite them to sign-up for our newsletter & register for this event with you!

We can’t wait to see you and your buds, pour out some more coffee, and expand our circle of morning people.