The United Nations Association of Greater Milwaukee supports and encourages you to participate in the:
2025 World Refugee Day Celebration at the Milwaukee City Hall 200 East Wells Street – June 20, 2025 from 11:30 AM - 2 PM
Co-sponsored by the United Nations Association of Greater Milwaukee
And
The 2025 World Refugee Day “HOME” Events at
Lynden Sculpture Garden – 2145 W. Brown Deer Road on:
June 22, 2025 from 11 am - 4 pm: World Refugee Day
July 19, 2025 from 11 am – 6 pm: HOME Family Workshop Day
August 9, 2025 from 11 am - 4 pm: HOME Citizenship Celebration*
*Co-sponsored by the United Nations Association of Greater Milwaukee
All events are free and open to the public.
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2025 HOME World Refugee Day Theme
“Walking Together, Weaving the World”Join us to celebrate our refugee communities through art, food, fashion, and performance.
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For more information, go to: home-at-lynden.org
To participate, partner, sponsor, or volunteer, contact Kim Khaira at kkhaira@lyndensculpturegarden.org
In its seventh year guiding the Lynden Sculpture Garden’s HOME Program and leading the World Refugee Day celebrations, the HOME Refugee Steering Committee presents, alongside event co-host, the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families – Bureau of Refugee Programs—and our sponsors and partners, our 2025 World Refugee Day theme:
Lynden’s Refugee Steering Committee hopes that this year’s World Refugee Day theme, “Walking Together, Weaving the World,” will “thread the needle” that speaks to each local community and its efforts for unity and interconnectedness, and to refugees worldwide and the global community they belong to.
Our 2025 World Refugee Day theme, “Walking Together, Weaving the World,” and our celebration in the arts, include the following message:
(1) to uplift the cultures and strengths of refugees “who have made it to the other side” as they create a new life and home in our cities and neighborhoods, and to acknowledge the journey of being forcibly displaced;
(2) to highlight the work and importance of community, and to appreciate those who provide ongoing support, services, and programs to refugees—including leaders, grassroots workers, and those working in all sectors and fields, from governments, to non-profits and businesses;
(3) to gather and to celebrate alongside refugees who lead, organize, and participate in World Refugee Day, and in their own community building and development—in addition to those who work in service in refugee communities;
(4) to envision a brighter future for all of humanity—a future of resilience and beauty, that includes refugee artists, advocates, and scholars in the arts and the creative field.
With “an embodiment of everything that is happening,” the HOME Refugee Steering Committee’s World Refugee Day theme extends its message to support Black/African American and African communities, Indigenous communities, and those who are close to the refugee community and that share similar stories of displacement.
This year’s World Refugee Day theme relates to Lynden’s HOME work with the Refugee Steering Committee, which is building a space of leading, of coming together, and of celebrating refugees via the arts.