46th Annual Latin American Film Series
2025-04-07 19:00 - 2025-04-14 21:00, 2025-04-08 19:00 - 2025-04-15 21:00, 2025-04-09 19:00 - 2025-04-16 21:00, 2025-04-10 19:00 - 2025-04-17 21:00 (America/Chicago) | UWM Union Cinema, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Presented by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with UWM Union Student Involvement and Union Cinema
UWM’s Latin American Film Series (LAFS) returns this April for its 46th year, showcasing recent feature-length films from across Latin America and the Caribbean. This year’s lineup includes a variety of dramatic, comedic, and documentary titles, with stories set in urban capitals (Lima, La Paz), rural communities (Mexico’s Michoacán, Colombia’s Caribbean coast), and places in between. Join us to explore society, history, and the human experience.
All films will be shown in the original language with English subtitles.
Free and open to the public
Visit our website for titles, showtimes, trailers, and more: https://uwm.edu/clacs/news/the-46th-annual-latin-american-film-series/

Demoted Exhibition
2025-04-14 10:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-15 10:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-16 10:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-17 10:30 - 14:30 | Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
“Demoted” is an exhibition featuring research by UWM undergraduate Art History students from the Fall 2024 colloquium taught by Associate Professor Richard Leson. The paintings in this exhibit raise questions about authenticity, value, and the ethical implications of traditional art-historical work.
Demoted opens in the Mathis Art Gallery, first floor Mitchell Hall, Thursday, March 13th and runs through May 1, 2025, with an opening reception from 5:00pm until 7:00pm featuring remarks from undergraduate co-curators at 5:30pm. The gallery hours are Monday through Thursday from 10:30am until 2:30pm. Gallery and events are free and open to the public.

Creative Writing Workshop with Slow Growing in the Time of Trees
2025-04-17 15:00 - 16:00 | UWM Curtin Hall, Room 939, 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Join the Center for 21st Century Studies and Slow Growing in the Time of Trees for 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 led by Katharine Beutner. Space is limited. Registration is required.
For more information and a registration link, visit: https://uwm.edu/c21/event/slow-growing-writing-workshop/
Slow Growing in the Time of Trees is a C21-sponsored collaboratory formed to cultivate an interdisciplinary creative space that examines the long duration of tree-time in the face of human and non-human interventions. This workshop is part of C21’s Slow Knowing program series.
