• Animation Showcase

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

    The Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres presents their annual Animation Showcase featuring the latest work of prospective BAs. Programmed by Ethereal Animation prize winner, Elizabeth Whelan, the theme for the animated showcase this year is expression. Student work demonstrates creative expression and highlights their passion for animation in all forms: 2D, stop motion, cutout and 3D animation. Come and show your support for the animation area and the future animators of today!

  • One-Act Operas | Suor Angelica and Curlew River

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

    Join us for UWM's Spring Opera Production featuring a double bill of one-act operas!

  • Moving Between Tongues: Choreographing Translation

    Mitchell Hall, Studio 254 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI

    Department of Dance Student Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) Lia Smith-Redmann, Libby Steckmesser, and Rae Zimmerli collaborate with faculty mentor Maria Gillespie to present an informal showing of their choreographic research.  Moving Between Tongues developed from choreographic research exploring meaning making in the pre and post lingual forms of dance. The dancers share the products of their aesthetic practice as a nexus in which auto-ethnography, embodied storytelling, and interdisciplinary performance practice reveal how translation is an embodied and ongoing practice.

  • Jazz Concert Featuring Mitch Towne

    Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Room 250 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    Join us for a collection of Jazz performances featuring Mitch Towne on Jazz Organ.

  • Experimental Tuesdays: An Evening with Parastoo Anoushapour

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

    DatesLocationApril 16, 2024 (7–9 p.m.)UWM Union Cinema Join us for an evening of short films by Parastoo Anoushahpour and stay for a Q&A after the screening. Anoushahpour is an Iranian artist based in Toronto with a moving image practice working …

  • Concert Chorale Performance

    First Congressional Church 310 Bluff Ave., Sheboygan, Wisconsin

    The UWM Concert Chorale travels to Sheboygan! Join us for an afternoon of choral music at First Congregational Church in Sheboygan.

  • UWM Bands – Celebrations!

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

    The UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will share a concert that celebrates the end of the academic year and feature a performance of the winning entry from the UWM Bands annual Concerto Competition.

  • UWM String Academy at the Holiday Folk Fair

    Exposition Center, Wisconsin State Fair Park 8200 W Greenfield Ave, West Allis
    Virtual Event

    Join the talented students of the UWM String Academy for a festive half-hour performance at the Holiday Folk Fair All Nations Theater this weekend! Celebrate the season with music from our enthusiastic young musicians as they showcase their hard work. The Folk Fair is a family-friendly event celebrating Milwaukee's rich cultural diversity, featuring music, dance, food, and traditions from around the world.

  • University Community String Orchestra (UCSO)

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

    University Community String Orchestra (UCSO) is proud to preset it's inaugural concert! Tonight's program will consist of works from Corelli, Resphigi, Grainger and Mozart. Please join us and support our very first combined student and community member string ensemble.

  • University Community Band Spring Concert

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

    The UWM University-Community Band wraps up its year with a Spring Concert featuring a number of musical styles and traditions.

  • Experimental Tuesdays: Three Films by Kevin Jerome Everson

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

    This screening will serve as a prelude to Kevin Jerome Everson’s on-campus visit the following Friday and Saturday. The program will feature two medium-length films, Ten Five in the Grass and Company Line, as well as one short film, Undefeated.

  • Classical Guitar Chamber Music concert

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

    Classical Guitar end of the semester Chamber Music concert.

  • Saxophone Studio Recital

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

    The UW-Milwaukee Saxophone Studio presents an evening of chamber music featuring our saxophone quartets and saxophone ensemble.

  • Visions Unveiled: Contemporary Photography Showcase

    Arts Center Gallery Theatre Building 2nd Floor | 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

    Visions Unveiled: Contemporary Photography Showcase is an exhibition that highlights the works of contemporary Milwaukee artists who are making thoughtful and engaging photographic-based work from a broad range of diverse perspectives, thematic elements, and expressions. This exhibition is collaboratively curated by UWM students in the Spring 2024 Contemporary Issues in Photography course— a course created to address critical issues, theories, and practices surrounding contemporary photography and how photographers have worked to challenge, expand, and reinvent the medium. Join us in celebrating the works of artists in our community!

  • Short Ends presents: Recent Short films by Kevin Jerome Everson

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

    Any conversation about the most important artists and experimental filmmakers working over the past quarter century would be incomplete without the name Kevin Jerome Everson. His distinctive and singularly nuanced work blends documentary and fiction to articulate the profound within the ordinariness of everyday life. Kevin will be present to introduce and discuss a collection of his short works, ranging primarily from 2022-2024.

  • UWM Symphony Orchestra Season Finale – Beethoven Triple Concerto

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

    The UWM Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Jun Kim, concludes its season with Beethoven's Triple Concerto, featuring violinist Bernard Zinck, cellist Adrien Zitoun, and pianist Jean-Louis Haguenauer. The concert also features Symphony No. 5 by Ralph Vaughn Williams, a beautiful, powerful, and hopeful work by one of England’s greatest composers.

  • CANCELED – Short Ends presents: Artist Presentation by Kevin Jerome Everson

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

    Any conversation about the most important artists and experimental filmmakers working over the past quarter century would be incomplete without the name Kevin Jerome Everson. His distinctive and singularly nuanced work blends documentary and fiction to articulate the profound within the ordinariness of everyday life. Kevin will present an artist talk on his practice and celebrated filmography.