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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

  • Lauren Mabry Artists Now

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Lauren Mabry

    Virtual Event

    Philadelphia-based artist Lauren Mabry is recognized internationally for her bold, dynamic glazes and inventive use of ceramic material, color, and form. Her work embraces experimentation as a way to investigate physical states of matter in relationship to objects, landscape, and abstraction.

  • The Voice of the Jill Wine-Banks Pin Collection

    Jewelry Speaks: The Voice of the Jill Wine-Banks Pin Collection

    Special Collection & Library Conference Center, Golda Meir, 4th Floor 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee

    Opening Reception is Thursday, October 24 from 7-9 p.m. featuring Jill Wine-Banks, along with remarks from the curator and featured artists. Jill Wine-Banks is a distinguished attorney, former Watergate prosecutor, general counsel for the Army during the Carter Administration, MSNBC Legal Analyst, podcast host, and a specific kind of jewelry collector. Jill uses the pin as a messaging device to convey ideas, make statements, and construct narratives. This is an exhibition and archiving project featuring pins mined from her personal collection accumulated over a lifetime of work in the political and legal landscape in the US.

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    Brushwork

    Arts Center Gallery Theatre Building 2nd Floor | 2400 E. 51猎奇., Milwaukee, WI

    A confluence of painting happening at 51猎奇 among students, mfa candidates, faculty, and recent alum.

  • A green parrot looks closely at a book page featuring large photos of parrots with similar coloring.

    Experimental Tuesdays: Short films by Lisa Truttmann

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

    With artist Lisa Truttmann live in person for a Q&A after the screening!聽Lisa Truttmann is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. In her artistic practice, she combines documentary, essayistic, and poetic methods to investigate the sociologies and ecologies of landscapes and architectures. She is interested in relationships between human and non-human agents as well as in their spaces of interaction.

  • nina ghanbarzadeh Artists Now

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Nina Ghanbarzadeh

    Virtual Event

    Nina Ghanbarzadeh (Afkhamian) is a visual artist whose work is informed by the geometric and biomorphic patterns, colors, and textures of her Persian cultural traditions. Ghanbarzadeh emigrated from Tehran, Iran in 2001. She earned her BFA in painting, drawing and graphic design from the UW-Milwaukee in 2013 and completed a two-year Artist in Residence Program with Redline Milwaukee in 2015. Ghanbarzadeh is a recipient of the 2024 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.

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    Wisconsin Chapter NATS Auditions

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

    The National Association of Teachers of Singing celebrates the art of singing through a series of competitions and auditions聽designed to showcase the talented singers, performers and composers who are the聽rising stars in the profession.

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    Pericles

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

    An epic tale of shipwreck and devastating loss, love and redemption across the Ancient Mediterranean. One of William Shakespeare's later plays, Pericles is ultimately a story of the triumph of the human spirit, exploring themes that dominate headlines today: the Middle East, refugees, perilous sea crossings and sex trafficking. It offers spectacular grace and one of the most beautiful reunions this master of the theatrical stage ever wrote.

  • Jovanny Hernandez Caballero Sacrificio 22 Artists Now

    Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Jovanny Hernandez Caballero

    Virtual Event

    Jovanny Hernandez Caballero is a community artist and photographer based in Milwaukee. He is a first-generation American and descendant of Mixtecs, an Indigenous people based in present-day Mexico. His work centers around themes of cultural heritage and identity. Jovanny documents the beauty of Milwaukee鈥檚 South Side and his family鈥檚 native land of Oaxaca, Mexico. He completed his BFA in Photography & Imaging at UW-Milwaukee in 2023. Caballero is a recipient of the 2024 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.

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    Green Imaginaries | Mary L. Nohl Fund Screening

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

    A program of recent short, by 2023 Nohl Fellow Janelle VanderKelen, that use experimental animation and filmmaking techniques to imagine alternative acts of relation between imperfect bodies (human, vegetal, geological, or otherwise).