Be Our Guest Curated Cocktail Tour: Featuring Leisl Chatman

This set of new tour experiences at ASI builds on the success of our curated cocktail tours, allowing the creative culinary talents from FIKA to shine, while inviting a different guest to lead our tour of the historic Turnblad Mansion.

On these tours, you’ll discover more about the history of the house and who lived here, how the American Swedish Institute used this historic asset to build a vibrant cultural center, and more about the colorful people who have been invited to share their stories with us.

ASI’s Curator, Curt Pederson will be on hand to answer questions about the house and the objects on display, and FIKA’s creative culinary staff, Kara Sweeney and Blake Meier, will present you with custom drinks (non-alcoholic options available) and lite bites that will allow your senses to connect to the spaces we explore and stories we tell.

Be a guest. Bring a guest. Meet our guest Liesl Chatman, who is a White House Champion of Change, and is currently the director of Teacher Professional Development at the Science Museum of Minnesota working on increasing scientific literacy and eliminating achievement gaps in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). She also happens to be an accomplished wood carver and craft artisan who has discovered the power of handcraft and the intergenerational and intercultural transference of knowledge that comes with the practice of making.

Registration is required by February 17; call for availability after that date.

Cost: $30 ASI members / $35 general public