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Chamber Music Milwaukee – A Celebration of Yehuda Yannay

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Hybrid Event

For its opening concert, Chamber Music Milwaukee celebrates the late composer Yehuda Yannay (1937-2023). Yehuda taught composition at UW-Milwaukee and enjoyed an international career spanning six decades. UWM faculty and guests will perform a sample of Yehuda's chamber music including his piano trio, Hidden Melodies for horn and cello, Tandem pieces for horn and Bayan and The Exquisite Viola transcribed for solo violin.

Experimental Tuesdays: Direct Action

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Winner of the Grand Prize at Cinéma du Réel 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. DIRECT ACTION is a contemporary portrait of one of the most high-profile militant activist communities in France: a 150-person strong rural collective that successfully resisted an international airport expansion project in 2018, created an autonomous zone between 2012 and 2018, survived multiple violent eviction attempts by the French state and spawned a new ecological movement in 2021. 

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Trevor Paglen

Virtual Event 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

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event 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

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

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

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Lauren Mabry

Virtual Event 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.

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

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.

Jazz Ensembles

Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI

The 18-member UWM Jazz Ensemble performs music written or arranged specifically for a large jazz orchestra. The repertoire includes music from Duke Ellington and Count Basie as well as contemporary composers such as Maria Schneider, Tom Matta and Bob Mintzer.

UWAY Concert

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The UW-Milwaukee Youth Wind and Percussion Ensembles program ("UWAY") will present a concert of chamber ensemble pieces and repertoire for a large, symphonic wind-band.

Experimental Tuesdays: Short films by Lisa Truttman

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

With artist Lisa Truttmann live in person for a Q&A after the screening! 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.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Nina Ghanbarzadeh

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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.

Wisconsin Chapter NATS Auditions

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

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

Pericles

Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., 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.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Jovanny Hernandez Caballero

Virtual Event 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's South Side and his family's native land of Oaxaca, Mexico. He completed his BFA in Photography & Imaging at UW-Milwaukee in 2023.

Choral & Orchestral Masterworks

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The UWM Choirs and Symphony Orchestra present choral/orchestral major works under the baton of UWM Director of Orchestras Dr. Jun Kim.

Lights, Camera, Action! A Day in the Life of Film & Animation Majors

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

Are you a high school student with a passion for film or animation? Whether you’re already experimenting with movie making and animating or you’re simply a curious film or animation buff, we’re hosting an exciting event that provides a glimpse inside of our Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres! Join us for a series of hands-on workshops for a taste of what it feels like to get creative at the Peck School of the Arts.

pax duo | Percussion Guest Artists

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

pax duo is a dynamic percussion project created by Tristan Swihart and Micah Detweiler. Based in Goshen, IN and Madison, WI. pax duo aims to break preconceptions of contemporary percussion through collaboration and creation of new genre bending works. Their repertoire moves percussion music beyond the concert hall, incorporating lighting and electronics, and blending genres like indie, hip-hop, and funk into a contemporary classical context.

Experimental Tuesdays: Short Films by Ayanna Dozier

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Join artist Ayanna Dozier live in person for a Q&A after the screening! Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based artist-writer working across film (both motion picture and still), performance, and installation. Her films have screened at film festivals across the world including Crossroads, Prismatic Ground, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Open City Docs, and Aesthetica Film Festival where she was the recipient of Best Experimental in 2020 for her film Softer. Her work has been exhibited at Microscope Gallery, The Shed, Westbeth Gallery, Evening Hours, Anthology Film Archives, and the Block Museum amongst other places.  

Premieres of New Music

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The Composition & Technology program will present a concert of original works by UWM students. The program will include freshly composed pieces for acoustic and electronic mediums.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Justin Favela

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and known for large-scale installations and sculptures that manifest his interactions with American pop culture and the LatinX experience, Favela is the recipient of the 2018 Alan Turing LGTBIQ Award for International Artist. Favela hosts two podcasts, “Latinos Who Lunch” and “The Art People Podcast.”