District 214 Community Education

Spend a day exploring the surprising highlights of Milwaukee with renowned local guide Kay Collins. Learn about the city’s rich history and how it became the world’s largest beer producing city. See the sparkling lakefront and its architectural wonder, the Milwaukee Art Museum and its brilliant Brise Soleil, the wing-like sunscreen on top of the Museum. Check out the new Fiserv Forum, the Hoan Bridge built over the Port of Milwaukee and much more. At Grohmann Museum, formerly Milwaukee’s Federal Reserve Bank, we'll enjoy more than 900 sculptures and paintings dedicated to the evolution of organized work. We’ll also tour the new Bucyrus Museum. The namesake factory was a world leader in producing railroad, excavating, and dredging equipment instrumental in the city’s development and also in digging the Panama Canal. A delicious lunch is included at the renowned Mader’s German Restaurant.

Cruise on the spectacular fully glass-enclosed Odyssey Chicago River vessel. This relatively new 200-seat single-level boat treats you to an upscale, three-course order-from-the-menu, full-service luncheon as it sets sail from near the NBC Towers on the Chicago River Esplanade. The two-hour lunch cruise with light architectural narration travels along the Chicago River’s scenic main branch and then onto the river’s south branch to Chinatown’s Ping Tom Park. The glass-covered boat gives passengers an unparalleled 360-degree view of Chicago’s iconic and historic buildings while enjoying some culinary excellence!

Explore the world of magic, comedy and illusions in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, at the Tristan Crist Magic Theatre, a new tour in 2025! Named the Lake Geneva area’s number 1 “thing to do” for 8 years in a row by TripAdvisor, the show’s magic and illusions, performed in the Vegas-style showroom, will amaze you. Crist, awarded the 2021 Master Illusionist of the Year, will entertain you with an epic levitation routine and a disappearing helicopter in his brand-new theater! A tasty lunch is included at the Tuscan Restaurant in downtown Lake Geneva before the show.

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed eight times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, the passengers rely on detective Hercule Poirot to identify the murderer–in case he or she decides to strike again. Join us for this theatrical thriller from Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime. Lunch precedes the show in the Fireside's lovely restaurant before the matinee performance in the 700-seat theatre in the round. You’ll also have time to shop before the show in the popular gift shops, offering a complete selection of gifts and collectibles for all ages and occasions.