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  • Dance Incubator Showing Halie Bahr Promo Image

    鈥渨here do we go from here鈥� Halie Bahr’s End-of-Alumni-Incubator-Residency Showing

    Mitchell Hall, Room 395 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee

    With equal parts sincerity and spectacle,聽Halie Bahr (she/her)聽creates wildly vivid and visceral dances that feel like puzzles. On Saturday, she will show work-in-progress, 鈥渨here do we go from here,鈥� the third and final solo in a make-shift-trilogy that all started in 2019. Halie (BFA Dance Alumni, 2015) returns to Milwaukee as part of 51猎奇鈥檚 Department of Dance Alumni Incubator Residency Program. Join us for a brief show-and-tell of what she has been working on all week.

  • Continuum 2024 Promo Image

    Continuum 24: Where Everything Begins

    Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI

    Continuum聽24:聽Where聽Everything聽Begins combines selected pieces from distinct bodies of work by Raoul Deal created both individually and in collaboration with other artists and communities in the United States and Mexico over a period of聽35 years.

  • Multiple overlapping images of a person wearing a plaid shirt standing in different orientations against a dark background.

    Experimental Tuesdays: From the Archives (51猎奇 Film Faculty)

    51猎奇 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    To kick off the semester, the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres will be presenting a very special edition of it鈥檚 long-standing 鈥淔rom the Archives鈥� series. This series presents selections from the department鈥檚 singular 16mm Cinema Arts Archive. This edition focuses on films from the archive made by faculty members past and present. Expect drama, documentary, experimentation, comedy, appropriation, and the unexpected.

  • Gan Golan Climate Clock

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Gan Golan

    Virtual Event

    Gan Golan's work combines grassroots community organizing with public spectacles that shift popular narratives and mobilize communities. In 2015 he was awarded a Rauschenberg Foundation 鈥淎rtist As Activist鈥� Fellowship as a member of People鈥檚 Climate Arts. He is a co-collaborator of the Climate Clock that counts down the critical time window to reach zero emissions.

  • A person stands with arms extended to the sides in front of large industrial machinery in a monochrome setting.

    Experimental Tuesdays: Films by Henry Hills

    51猎奇 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    Join filmmaker Henry Hills in-person for a Q&A after the screening! Hills has been making dense, intensely rhythmic experimental films since 1975. A longtime resident of New York's East Village, he has ongoing working relationships with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets, composer John Zorn, and choreographer Sally Silvers.

  • Jenie Gao Cycle Breaking Making woodcut

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Jenie Gao

    Virtual Event

    Jenie Gao is a full-time artist, creative director, and entrepreneur. She runs an anti-gentrification arts business, specializing in printmaking, public art, social practice, and storytelling. Jenie pulls from personal and professional experiences as a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American, woman of color, and descendant of working class immigrants.

  • A close-up photo of the neck of a classical guitar with text next to it promoting the 51猎奇 Classical Guitar Concert Series.

    CANCELED – Jack Hancher Guitar Recital

    Music Building, Recital Hall 2400 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    Described by Gendai Guitar Magazine as a 鈥減oet and a painter, coloring sounds out of the guitar as if his imagination and the guitar were one鈥�, Jack Hancher is a rising star of the classical guitar.

  • A group of people wearing matching bright orange shirts that read 鈥榊ou wouldn't understand鈥︹�� sit in a row on a blue open鈥慳ir vehicle with trees in the background.

    Experimental Tuesdays: The Dells by Nellie Kluz

    51猎奇 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    Join filmmaker Nellie Kluz in-person for a Q&A after the screening of The Dells. This film observes the clash between fantasy and reality faced by international student workers newly arrived in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin 鈥� the self-described 鈥淲aterpark Capital of the World.鈥�

  • Brema Brema Artists Now

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Brema Brema / Unfinished Legacy

    Virtual Event

    Brema was born in war-torn Sudan until age five, when his family fled to a Kenyan refugee camp. His family settled in Milwaukee in 2010. While still in high school, he began to experiment with photography, videography, and screen-printing. That鈥檚 where his streetwear label - Unfinished Legacy - emblazoned with bold fonts and bright colors, was born.

  • Four people sit in a dimly lit room arranged in a loose circle, engaged in conversation.

    Experimental Tuesdays: Regrouping by Lizzie Borden

    51猎奇 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    While Lizzie Borden鈥檚 features BORN IN FAMES and WORKING GIRLS have taken their place as landmarks of feminist cinema, her debut鈥攖he fascinating experimental documentary REGROUPING鈥攈as gone largely unseen. A multilayered, self-reflexive portrait of a 1970s New York City feminist collective, the film charts the rifts that form within the group and between its members and the filmmaker鈥攁 breakdown that is reflected in the film鈥檚 radical splintering of sound and image.

  • Tuwile Raizes and Mirella Maria Artists Now

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Tuwile 鈥淩oots鈥� Raizes / Mirella Maria

    Virtual Event

    Tuwil锚 Raizes uses the visual language of Hip Hop, graffiti, and stencils. His murals appear on walls throughout S茫o Paulo. Mirella Maria鈥檚 installation applies photography, performance, the body and sewing to construct a critical and sensitive perspective on narratives that traverse the memory(ies) of the Black Brazilian population.

  • Still from Erased (Izbrisana)

    2nd Annual Slovenian Film Festival

    Mitchell Hall, Fine Arts Cinema Room B91 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI

    Announcing the 2nd Annual Slovenian Film Festival at UW-Milwaukee co-hosted by the Slovenian Arts Program and the Peck School of the Arts Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres. We will be screening a selection of Slovenian films that have all received honors in European and/or Slovenian film competitions. They will be presented in Slovenian, with English subtitles.聽

  • Everyone Sang Promo Image

    Everyone Sang: A Collaborative Choral Celebration

    Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI
    Virtual Event

    Join 51猎奇鈥檚 flagship choral ensemble 鈥� the Concert Chorale 鈥� for an afternoon of choral music. They will be joined by several area high school choirs!

  • A farm landscape with barns and silos is seen through a barbed鈥憌ire fence, overlaid with a white hand鈥慸rawn electronic circuit diagram.

    Experimental Tuesdays: Everything Everywhere Again Alive

    51猎奇 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    Everything Everywhere Again Alive is a landmark work of Canadian underground cinema, a film diary with mystic and symbolic overtones. In the early 1970s, Toronto filmmaker Keith Lock moved to Buck Lake, where members of the Toronto art scene were undertaking an experiment in communal living.

  • 51猎奇 Theatre: Bright Star Promo Image

    Bright Star – Concert Performance

    Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    A tale of love and redemption set in the mountains of North Carolina in the mid-20th century. Written by American icon Steve Martin and singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, Bright Star features a Tony-nominated score with a bluegrass musical style all its own. This uplifting and heart-rending story inspired by true events follows a literary editor and a young soldier just home from World War II on their transformative journey through loss and separation to grace, reconciliation and reunion.

  • Sharif Bey Artists Now

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Sharif Bey

    Virtual Event

    Sharif Bey is a Syracuse-based artist and educator. Inspired by modernism, functional pottery, Oceanic Art and Art of the African diaspora, Bey鈥檚 works investigate the cultural and political significance of adornment and the symbolic and formal properties of archetypal motifs, while questioning how the meaning of icons and function transform across cultures and time.

  • Person wearing a jacket stands behind a large irregular hole in a damaged wall with exposed brick and graffiti.

    Experimental Tuesdays: Direct Action

    51猎奇 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    Winner of the Grand Prize at Cin茅ma du R茅el 2024 and Best Film of the Encounter Program at Berlinale 2024. Direct action is a tactical strategy of protest that seeks to achieve an end directly and by the most effective means.聽

  • Trevor Paglen They Wath the Moon 2010 Artists Now

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Trevor Paglen

    Virtual Event

    New York/Berlin-based artist Trevor Paglen spans numerous disciplines. He has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.

  • Popular Music Ensemble Concert Promo Image

    Popular Music Ensemble

    Music Building, Recital Hall 2400 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI
    Hybrid Event

    Get ready to be transported through decades of iconic tunes as the Popular Music Ensemble ignites the stage with an electrifying performance! From the foot-stomping beats of the 1950s to the chart-topping hits of today, prepare for a musical journey like no other. Witness the fusion of Pop, Rock, and Folk genres as talented students come together in small groups, each adding their own flair and creativity to reinvent beloved classics.

  • Experimental Tuesdays: From the Archives

    51猎奇 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    Curated by MFA candidate聽Tom Dixon聽this program will feature 16mm prints from the 51猎奇 Film Department鈥檚 Cinema Arts Archive. From the Archives is an ongoing series curated by MFA candidates in the 51猎奇 Film Department. For each program, the curator is invited to program a selection of films around a theme of their choosing.