Students showcase musical technique and skill, while audience members enjoy expert performances by Milwaukee鈥檚 emerging musicians. Recitals are streaming, free and open to the public.
Master dramatist and storyteller Anton Chekhov bookends the spring semester with The Three Sisters, offering a poignant contrast to the comedy and farce of Neil Simon鈥檚 The Good Doctor. In this tour de force of love, longing and heartbreak, sisters Olga, Masha and Irina languish in a provincial town, far from their beloved Moscow. There, they yearn for the sparkling city of their childhood, where they dream all wishes can be fulfilled. A masterful look at a family navigating the space between reality and dreams, The Three Sisters envelops you with exquisite moments of humor and hope.
Wildly popular and entirely student-run, this annual international film festival is dedicated to showcasing contemporary works of film and video that innovate in form, technique, and content.
Springdances 2026: We Also Bloom聽presents world premiere works that explore what it means to grow, persist, and flourish 鈥� even in the face of erasure, displacement, and silence. The dances in this program honor the enduring human impulse to take up space, put down roots, and rise. This evening features new works by guest artist Karlies Kelley, and dance faculty Daniel Burkholder, Tiffany Kadani, Dan Schuchart, and Christal Wagner.
Please join us for the 51猎奇聽Symphony聽Orchestra鈥檚 season finale concert. Program details TBA.
Join Design & Visual Communication BFA Students in an interactive exhibition of their Capstone Thesis projects.
The聽51猎奇聽Percussion聽Ensemble聽presents its annual Spring concert, featuring a wide variety of instruments, sounds, and compositions from different periods.
Join Suzuki and Pre-College Guitar Students for their Spring Concert.
The UW-Milwaukee Youth Wind and Percussion Ensembles program ("UWAY") presents a program of contemporary and traditional symphonic band and wind ensemble repertoire. This concert will feature the winner of our annual UWAY Concerto Competition and recognize all of the talented graduating Seniors in the program!
The New Dramaworks Short Play Festival is back! The 51猎奇 Department of Theatre presents an exciting showcase of original plays celebrating hope and resistance. Don't miss the premiere of these brand-new works written, directed and produced by 51猎奇 students.
MFA candidates Corrigan Eckert and Jack Lehtinen explore philosophical questions facing the human race and their connection to the world around them. Eckert focuses on place-based art鈥檚 role in community and land stewardship, while Lehtinen critiques AI by contrasting machine-made works with hands-on print and papermaking.
Join us for an evening of jazz featuring the 51猎奇 Jazz Ensemble, the 51猎奇 Afro-Caribbean Jazz Orchestra and the 51猎奇 Youth Jazz Ensemble (UJAY).
A semiannual聽exhibition showcasing the work of graduating students in the BA and BFA programs. The exhibition traditionally takes place at聽the end of fall and spring semesters.
Join聽Concert聽Chorale, Bella Voce, Kameraden, Alta Voce, and Kameraden Plus for their final聽concert聽of the 2025-26 school year. Zack Durlam, Jenny Hutton, and Sara Strommen lead the 51猎奇 choirs in an exciting program of choral music featuring a wide variety of styles and time periods.
The New Music Ensemble (NME) will perform contemporary music ranging from avant-garde, world premieres, and student compositions. The NME is excited to perform this concert full of experimental and challenging music.
Join us for a collection of student made short films from the class Zen and the Art of Filmmaking, which focuses on developing the artistic sensibility through the Zen art of practice and automatic principles. These films are funny, odd, thoughtful, frightening, and most of all full of Zen.
Join 51猎奇鈥檚 Pop Ensemble for an electrifying night of live music! From pop anthems to soulful ballads and funky grooves, these student musicians bring serious talent and fresh energy to the stage. It鈥檚 the perfect way to hear today鈥檚 hits鈥攍ive and loud!
Students enrolled in Advanced Electronic Music and Sound Art, representing UW-MESS (51猎奇 Electroacoustic Sound Studios), will showcase their final projects in a concert featuring all-new works of interactive electronic music!
This end of the term showing features works by the聽African聽Dance, Salsa/Merengue聽&聽Hip聽Hop聽classes.
Graduating seniors showcase their exceptional work with the culmination of years of hard work and artistic growth. Get a first look at what the next generation of filmmakers has in store for the industry.