Milwaukee Recreation rules. For more than 100 years (!) the Milwaukee Public Schools program has made the city a better place by offering innumerable recreational and educational opportunities to folks of all ages. Its seasonal Recreation Guide is loaded with sports, art, music, aquatics, outdoor stuff, and classes on just about anything and everything you could possibly imagine.

Like Yoko Ono! Yes, buried in Milwaukee Rec’s Fall Recreation Guide—under the Adult Enrichment and Music sections—is a new class called “Yoko Ono – Artist, Icon, Messenger, Muse.” Oh, Yoko!

Here’s the deal:

Explore Yoko Ono in this interactive class as we take a deep dive into her life and artistry. Yoko has been a creator on the cutting edge. A leader in the participatory art movement of the 1960s, Yoko capture the heart and imagination of John Lennon, and together they inspired a generation.

Hell yeah.

The class will be held at the Beulah Brinton community center on Saturday, November 9, from 12:30-1:30 p.m.; and Saturday, November 16, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. It’s $9 for Milwaukee residents, and $14 for non-residents. Early registration has passed, but you can still register in-person at the Milwaukee Rec office (5225 W. Vilet St.) or the Citywide Programs Office (2414 W. Mitchell St.) one week before the class.

Okay, about Yoko: She rules, too! You’re not going to get any Yoko hate in these pages—if you’re looking for some, just peruse the comments on that (admittedly funny, NSFW) Bill Burr/Chuck Berry video. Yoko’s conceptual art was whimsical and subversive, her music was weird and forward-thinking, and she didn’t take shit from anyone. Was she herself full of shit in the ’60s and ’70s? Sure, but so was John Lennon. (And don’t get us started on Lennon—or the modern Lennon discourse, to be exact. The recent revisionism painting him as history’s greatest monster has gotten waaay out of hand. Yes, the long-standing image of him as some sort of beatific peace-loving hippie was beyond simplistic, but c’mon…)

Anyway, here’s Yoko’s “Sisters, O Sisters,” which rules.

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