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FREE FOR EVERYONE! What would you do if you woke up alone in space? Join us at the Union Cinema for a screening of Project Hail Mary, the thrilling sci-fi adventure based on Andy Weir’s bestselling novel. Don’t miss your chance to … |
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Join the Union Art Gallery for A Tending, featuring UWM alumna Jennifer Bastian. Through fiber, sculpture, installation, and photography, Jennifer creates environments that invite reflection, vulnerability, and care. Drawing from personal experiences, her work transforms everyday materials into vessels that … 
Start the school year right with free parking, donuts, and coffee! Stop by the UPARK lot anytime between 8am-11am on September 2nd and 3rd to meet the Off-Campus Resource Center team and fuel your day with a treat. Whether you …
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Please join us for the opening of A Tending, featuring UWM alumna Jennifer Bastian. Through fiber, sculpture, installation, and photography, Jennifer creates environments that invite reflection, vulnerability, and care.
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FREE FOR EVERYONE! We’re all in this together! Kick off the semester with our second Fall Welcome film, High School Musical on Wednesday, September 2nd! This film follows Troy and Gabriella as they step outside their comfort zones, challenge expectations, and … |
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Start the school year right with free parking, donuts, and coffee! Stop by the UPARK lot anytime between 8am-11am on September 2nd and 3rd to meet the Off-Campus Resource Center team and fuel your day with a treat. Whether you … |
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Join us at the Union Cinema and step into 1980s London to see a powerful story of love, identity, and resilience. My Beautiful Laundrette follows Omar, a young Pakistani man, as he transforms a struggling laundromat with the unexpected help …
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Follow your dreams, break the rules, and bend it like Beckham. Joins us at the Union Cinema for a screening of Bend It Like Beckham, the beloved coming of age comedy about family, friendship, and finding courage to chase your goals. This … |
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You CAN sit with us. Join us outside in Pangea Mall Sunday, September 6th for our third Fall Welcome Film, Mean Girls, the beloved comedy that introduced audiences to Regina George and the Plastics. Experience the film behind iconic quotes like “That’s … |
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We're celebrating the end of the summer on the water! Take a cruise with CAB - guaranteed great tunes, epic skyline views, and nonstop vibes as we turn the lake into a party at sunset. Registration begins at 5PM. This … |
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35mm Print! What is real? Experience The Matrix the way audiences did in 1999, with a rare 35mm screening at the Union Cinema. Rediscover the groundbreaking sci-fi classic that changed action movies forever, featuring unforgettable visuals, iconic action sequences, and one of … |
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Calling all UWM student parents! Kick off the semester with coffee, conversation, and community at our Student Parent Coffee Hour during Fall Welcome! Whether you're a new student parent or returning to campus, this is a great opportunity to connect …
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Meet up with other commuter students in the Off-Campus Resource Center for snacks and games before the Involvement Fair! At 11:00am, we will all head up to the Involvement Fair in Spaights Plaza to explore different student organizations and UWM … |
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35mm Print! Set on one block of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy "Do or Die" neighborhood at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece confirmed Spike Lee as a writer and filmmaker of peerless vision and social engagement. Over the course of a … |
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One of our favorite campus tradition is back! The Block Party is guaranteed to be a big-time blast filled with tons of food, fun and great energy all around.
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4K Restoration! A sleeper hit at the time of its release, Jeong Jae-eun’s perceptive debut chronicles the lives of five graduating friends whose bonds begin to fracture as they contend with a postgrad reality of squashed dreams and unequal opportunities. … |
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Kick off the semester with other UWM student parents and families at our Student Parent Welcome! Join us at the Lake Park Playground for a relaxed afternoon of connection, community, and fun. Enjoy popsicles, let your kiddos play, and meet …
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Beautiful, haunting, and unforgettable. Join us at the Union Cinema for a screening of The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola’s acclaimed debut feature. In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five …
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35mm Print! Arthouse Classics At the turn of the twentieth century, a small group of students from an all-female college vanish during a Valentine’s Day outing to a strange geological formation in the Australian outback in this sensual and striking … |
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Free For Everyone! Location, location, location. A neighborhood of experimental shorts, drawn from our Cinema Arts Archive and the world at large, focusing on place. We are where we are, often here, sometimes there, always where. And the cinema too … |
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Please join the Union Art Gallery for a workshop/crafternoon led by the featured artist from A Tending, Jennifer Bastian!
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Free For Everyone! In 1952, two Argentinean students took off on a sputtering Norton 500 motorcycle to discover their magnificent continent. Traveling northward through Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and finally ending in Venezuela, the two discover not only the complex …
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Get ready for a high-energy night of slams, flips and nonstop excitement as Brew City Wrestling Night hits campus! Local favorites and rising talent will go head-to-head in intense, must-see matchups that brings the ring to life. Expect hard-hiting action, … |
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Family Friendly! Free for Everyone! To infinity... and beyond the fall semester! Join us at the Union Cinema for our first Fall Welcome screening!! We will be showing the animated classic, Toy Story! Released in 1995, Toy Story follows a … |
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Queer International. 4K Restoration! Heavily censored upon release in director Lino Brocka's native Philippines but hugely successful overseas, Macho Dancer blends a flair for socially conscious melodrama with niche erotic pulp provocation. Upon losing a reliable American client, 18-year-old gigolo … |
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Free for everyone! Filmmaker in Attendance! Join archivist Shiraz Bhathena in conversation with Dick Blau to celebrate a major archiving and remastering project. Blau—a co-founder of the UWM Film Department, longtime professor and fixture of the Milwaukee art community—works across … |
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New Release! International Documentary! From Oscar-nominated documentarian Gianfranco Rosi comes Below the Clouds — a monumental meditation on life lived on the edge of catastrophe. In Naples, beneath the looming threat of Vesuvius and the simmering Campi Flegrei caldera, Rosi … |
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35mm print! Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, written and directed by Academy Award-winner Hayao Miyazaki, is an epic masterpiece of sweeping scope and grandeur that remains one of the most breathtaking animated films of all time. A thousand …
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Choose your crew! This film is part of our Pirates vs. Pilots weekend at the Union Cinema. Celebrate legendary adventures on the sea and in the sky! At night in Barranca, a South American port jammed up against the Andes, … |
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Choose your crew! This film is part of our Pirates vs. Pilots weekend at the Union Cinema. Celebrate legendary adventures on the sea and in the sky! 35mm print! In this spectacular romantic adventure, a new era of Hollywood swashbuckling was born, as …
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35mm Print! Choose your crew! This film is part of our Pirates vs. Pilots weekend at the Union Cinema. Celebrate legendary adventures on the sea and in the sky! From the legendary Studio Ghibli comes a dazzling aerial adventure set in and above … |
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Milwaukee Premiere! In the wake of a scandal involving several of her students, Jeonim, an artist and lecturer at a women's university, asks her actor-director uncle, recently blacklisted after a scandal of his own, to step in to direct a …
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Milwaukee Premiere! A famous actress, having stepped back from her career after marriage and a subsequent divorce, returns to the profession with a role in an independent film. As the film’s release approaches, she takes part in a series of … |
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Free For Everyone! Director in Attendance! TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker, and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to … |
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Experimental Documentary New Release! River of Grass is a present-day reimagining of environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s celebrated book, The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), which forever changed the public understanding of the region from a worthless swamp to an essential … |
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Crisp air, cozy sweaters, and fresh apples. Step into the orchard and experience the magic of fall! Join us for a relaxing day of apple picking, fresh air, and seasonal treats. Fill your basket, enjoy the scenery and make sweet … |
