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Verified Reading Group with Milwaukee Public Library
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJoin Milwaukee Public Library librarians at the Center for 21st Century Studies for a small-group discussion of Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions About What to Believe Online by Mike Caulfield & Sam Wineburg. …
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UWM Gallery Night
Center for 21st Century Studies 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesExplore galleries across UWM’s campus with six exhibitions to peruse. Celebrate the work of Milwaukee’s Latine-identified artists at Union Art Gallery. Think politics with two shows that examine the ways we engage with modern political systems. Check out prints and Picassos with exhibitions honoring prolific collectors. More into artifacts than art? Head to the American Geographical Society Library to learn more about the history of American explorations of Antarctica.
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Spring Hangout
939 Curtin Hall 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesCurtin Hall, 9th Floor “...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 …
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Slow Knowing: An Immersive Podcast
FeaturedManfred Olson Planetarium 1900 E Kenwood Blvd #139, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesJoin the Center for 21st Century Studies and the UWM Planetarium for an immersive podcast release party under a simulated starry sky. Listen to a conversation C21 recorded with Mark Freeland, Director of the Electa Quinney Institute, who discusses …
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Slow Growing in the Time of Trees: Carving Workshop with Daniel Minter
Lynden Sculpture Garden, 2145 West Brown Deer Road Milwaukee, WI 53217Call & Response artist-in-residence Daniel Minter pays a visit to Lynden Sculpture Garden as part of Slow Growing in the Time of Trees, a C21 Collaboratory. The Collaboratory brings together Lynden artist-in-residence Yevgeniya Kaganovich, her collaborators—Lisa Moline, Lane Hall, Kate …
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What Winter Did to Us: A Nature & Poetry Walk
Curtin Hall 3242 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States +1 moreJoin Sociocultural Programming 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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Slow Growing in the Time of Trees: Writing Workshop
Center for 21st Century Studies 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesWe’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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Kyle Whyte: Kinship, Our Experience of Time, and Environmental Responsibility
FeaturedGolda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesC21 Spring Lecture with Kyle Whyte Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center Join the Center for 21st Century Studies for our featured 2024-25 lecture with Kyle Whyte, the George Willis Pack Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University …
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Slow Growing in the Time of Trees: Panel
Lynden Sculpture Garden 2145 West Brown Deer Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesYevgeniya 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
FeaturedTurner Hall 1040 N Vel R. Phillips Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United StatesPalmer Room @ Turner Hall, 1040 N Vel R. Phillips Ave, Milwaukee, WI Overview: 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 …