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French Film Festival: Nin e tepueian – Mon cri (My Cry)

UWM Union Cinema 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Santiago Bertolino, DCP, 82 min Québec, 2019 (French, English, Innu) This documentary tracks the journey of Innu poet, actress and activist Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, at a pivotal time in her career as a committed artist. To heal the wound of …

Free

French Film Festival: Antigone

UWM Union Cinema 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Sophie Deraspe, DVD, 109 min. Québec, 2019 (French, Kabyle) Best Canadian Feature Film, 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. In this modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy, Antigone is a brilliant teenager with a promising future. When tragedy strikes her …

Free

Planetarium Show: Stars, Stories, & Rhythms of Africa

UWM Manfred Olson Planetarium 1900 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Celebrate Black History Month under the stars! Join us for a night of live music, dancing, storytelling, and stargazing in different African cities. This free event is cosponsored by the Black Student Cultural Center and Sociocultural Programming at UWM. The …

$5 – $6

French Film Festival: Marcher sur l’eau (Above Water)

UWM Union Cinema 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Aïssa Maïga, DCP, 89 min France/Niger, 2021 (Peuhl, French) US premiere Official Selection, 2021 Cannes Festival. Co-written by French actress Aïssa Maïga and Ariane Kirtley, this film documents the dire consequences of climate change in the Sahel. Focusing on a …

Free

French Film Festival: 35 rhums (35 Shots of Rum)

UWM Union Cinema 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Claire Denis, 100 min, 2009 (French, German) The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man. All firms shown in their original language with English subtitles. Masks are required at all times …

Free

French Film Festival: Nous (We)

UWM Union Cinema 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Alice Diop, 115 Min, 2021 (French) Documentary. Encounters on a rail line crossing north to south thru Paris and its outskirts: A cleaning lady, a scrap merchant, a writer, a nurse, a follower of hunts and the filmmaker herself. All …

Free

French Film Festival: Iya tundé, la mère est revenue (Iya Tundé, The Mother Came Back)

UWM Union Cinema 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Laure Malecot, 52 minutes Senegal, 2017 (French, English) Documentary. A portrait of legendary dancer Germaine Acogny, Iya Tunde, The Mother Came Back explores the legacy of Acogny’s dance practice, fusing West African and contemporary dance, and the dance school she …

Free

Event Series Game Night at the Honors College

Game Night at the Honors College

UWM Honors House, Room 196 3363 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The Honors College Equity Team welcomes all UWM students to join in this role-playing game event. We’ll gather in the Honors House to play the Deep Forest — a collaborative, world-building game focused on monstrosity and decolonization. Even if you’ve …

Free
Event Series Game Night at the Honors College

Game Night at the Honors College

UWM Honors House, Room 196 3363 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The Honors College Equity Team welcomes all UWM students to join in this role-playing game event. We’ll gather in the Honors House to play the Deep Forest — a collaborative, world-building game focused on monstrosity and decolonization. Even if you’ve …

Free

Clube Lusófono Online Brazil Series: Facing It

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Juliana Vicente is a film director and founder of Pret a Portê Filmes, a production company created 11 years ago. It carries out socially and artistically relevant content, aiming to train and improve audiovisual professionals and to create new narratives …

Free

United We Read – Creative Writing Faculty-Student Reading Series

Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee, WI, United States

UWM Creative Writing Program literary event (in-person and livestreamed) with graduate students and faculty reading their creative work, featuring: Elizabeth Hoover Juan Rodriguez Beth Vigoren Claire Davis. Limited in-person attendance. Advance registration required. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/united-we-readapril-7-2022-tickets-291434196527 This event will …

Free

Planetarium Show: Asian Universe

UWM Manfred Olson Planetarium 1900 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Explore our universe and Asian cultural perspectives. We will have two planetarium shows featuring live indoor stargazing and a storyteller. In between the shows, students from South Division High School will perform traditional Indian, Karen, and Lao cultural dances. Light …

Free

Virtual Book Launch for Ruth Schwertfeger’s A Nazi Camp Near Danzig

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The German program is proud to host a virtual book launch and discussion of emerita professor Ruth Schwertfeger’s latest monograph, "A Nazi Camp Near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof," published in 2022 by Bloomsbury press …

Free

Film Screening of Maksym Osa

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

A Ukrainian film production that was interrupted by the Russian invasions in 2014 and again in 2022, Maksym Osa is a fantasy thriller set in the 1600s, yet deeply resonant with the present. Here, the contemporary tenacity of Ukrainians in …

Free