Spring Hangout

939 Curtin Hall 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

“...mutual aid and pleasure are linked, that the ties that bind are grounds for celebration as well as obligation.” ― Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster  -- We get it. The weather is cold. The …

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Slow Film Series: Twilight

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Time TBD After discovering the murdered body of a young girl deep in a mountainous forest, a hardened homicide detective pushes himself to increasingly obsessive ends in his quest to catch the serial killer — known only as “The Giant” …

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Slow Film Series: Nainsukh

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Time TBD Experimental filmmaker Amit Dutta is a singular presence in Indian cinema... This debut feature, shot on 16mm film, is an imagined biopic of Nainsukh, an 18th-century miniature painter from the Himalayan Kangra Valley. Taking inspiration from that age-old …

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What Winter Did to Us: A Nature & Poetry Walk 

Curtin Hall 3242 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States +1 more

Join Student Involvement and the Center for 21st Century Studies for a nature and poetry walk celebrating the work of Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate of the United States.  Spring is coming to Milwaukee. So is Ada Limón. Prepare for …

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Attentive or Absentminded: Habits of Mind in the Age of AI with Meghan O’Gieblyn 

Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Join the Center for 21st Century Studies and the AI and the Humanities Collaboratory for lecture by Meghan O'Gieblyn, author of God Human Animal Machine and the essay collection Interior States, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award.  At a …

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Slow Growing in the Time of Trees – Writing Workshop

Center for 21st Century Studies 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

We’ll engage in a generative writing workshop about art and the most generative of living things: fungi. Come with a writing implement and paper, or birch bark, or whatever material you want to use for composition (and perhaps decomposition).   Workshop …

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Slow Growing in the Time of Trees – Panel   

Lynden Sculpture Garden 2145 West Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Lisa Moline, Lane Hall, Katharine Beutner, and Jim Charles will discuss the outcomes of the speculative projects undertaken by the Slow Growing in the Time of Trees Collaboratory. Katharine Beutner will do a reading of work produced during …

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Attention Activism with the Strother School of Radical Attention 

Turner Hall 1040 N Vel R. Phillips Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Join C21 and the Milwaukee Turners for a day-long series of workshops led by the Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA), an organization that promotes human well-being through attention activism.    As the 21st century waxes, our attention wanes. Digital …

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