As the C21 staff prepares for next week’s Slow Digest, which will preview our Story Cart: Attention interviews highlighting how Milwaukeeans practice slow care through deliberate attention, this week is an invitation to pause. Take a breath. Inhale…Exhale… Let’s practice …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Grief is an ongoing process that ebbs and flows depending on the day, the month, the weather, a random song, or the unexpected encounter with my mother’s …
Attention Activism Toolkit, Vol. 1 emerges from C21’s Story Cart: Attention, a mobile, community-based storytelling project that brings humanities practices into public spaces across Milwaukee. Developed through workshops led by C21’s Story Fellows, the toolkit introduces attention activism, a practice …
This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell. On April 1, C21 will lead an edition of the Cactus Book Club focusing on the book Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement by The Friends of …
Skyward Ho! At Milwaukee Winter Farmer’s Market, we’ll meditate on the sky with our mind, body and soul with Story Fellow Adam Carr and yogi Matthew Lewis (@stillhoneyblk), gathering thoughts on sanctuary and refuge, especially for attention. Then, we’ll talk …
Crystal Quest At the Greene Geological Museum’s Darwin Day celebration, we’ll ask you to find the mineral that moves you the most. Who knows? Maybe you’ll glean some ancient wisdom from a rock of ages. Then, we’ll ask you to …
C21’s Story Cart program invites you to join Katie Waddell, C21 Managing Director, for the April 2026 edition of the Cactus Book Club. Cactus Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30 in the back room …
The Listening / Soundbath of the Ordinary At the Haggerty Museum of Art’s Community Art & Wellness Retreat, we’ll attend to silence, noise, and everything in-between. Then, we’ll talk about it, recording our conversations for the Story Cart’s digital archive. …
About Memory Activation Memory Activation, led by artist and THE CR8TV HOUSE founder Symphony Swan Zawadi, focuses on the celebration and reconciliation of family histories through archival photographs, artifacts, and other forms of ephemera. The work invites participants to tap …
Palmer Room @ Turner Hall, 1040 N Vel R. Phillips Ave, Milwaukee, WI Overview: Join C21 and the Milwaukee Turners for a day-long series of workshops led by the Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA), an organization that promotes human …
