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  • A grainy, high-contrast, black-and-white medium shot from Jim Jennings's film Silk Ties features a person standing outdoors on a city sidewalk next to a street. The person is wearing a large sandwich board sign that reads "SILK TIES" in bold, vertical, capital letters. In the background, the front of a dark car and the wheel of a passing vehicle are partially visible.

    Being Where | Experimental Tuesdays at The Union Cinema

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …

  • Colorful illustration of a diverse group of women holding a banner that reads "Feminism is for everybody."

    WRC/WGS Welcome Back Coffee Hour 

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join fellow feminists and advocates on campus for a Women’s and Gender Studies and Women’s Resource Center Welcome back! Sip coffee, enjoy a breakfast treat, and share in community.    

  • Promotional flyer for the "Habit Tracker Hootenanny" event, designed with a scrapbook aesthetic featuring a spiral notebook background, paper cutouts, and hand-drawn doodles of stars and hearts.

    Journal & Habit Tracker Hootenanny

    Join us to personally customize a free journal for your fall semester. Relax, enjoy some snacks, and express your creative side while getting organized for the Fall semester.

  • A wide-angle, medium shot from The Motorcycle Diaries shows two men riding a vintage motorcycle across a vast green field. The man driving wears a dark jacket, while the passenger behind him is dressed in brown and holds a camera up to his face. A woman in a light-colored sweater and dark green pants stands nearby on the right, looking toward them. A dense line of green trees spans the background under an overcast sky.

    The Motorcycle Diaries | Latine Heritage Month

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …

  • An animated cowboy doll (Woody from Toy Story 2) stands inside a blue, cylindrical "Tinkertoy" container, holding a white and yellow toy microphone to his mouth and waving with his right hand. He is positioned on a wooden shelf in front of a row of colorful books, including titles like "Tin Toy" and "Knick Knack".

    Toy Story | Fall Welcome

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …

  • Five people sitting in a row at a restaurant counter simultaneously hold up large ramen bowls, completely covering their faces as they drink the broth.

    Tampopo

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Arthouse Classics The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure …

  • A wide, distant shot of two figures—one riding a horse and one walking beside it—traveling across vast, rolling desert sand dunes under a clear sky.

    El Topo

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Midnight Classics! 35mm print! Alejandro Jodorowsky’s legendary, notorious cult hit arguably created the genre of the midnight movie — a spectacle so stunning and bizarre that normal hours couldn’t contain it. Melding influences from tarot reading to the Bible to …

  • A group of young men wearing matching white tank tops and numbers pinned to their chests crowd behind a glass window labeled "SHOW WINDOW" under a glowing "Adonis" sign.

    Macho Dancer

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …

  • A graphic banner for a bullet journaling event set against a white, dotted journal page background. The title "Bullet Journaling" is written in black script inside a white banner outlined in orange. Below the title, two overlapping circular images show a notebook, a coffee cup, and various pens and journaling supplies on a wooden desk. The banner is decorated with small, playful doodles of stars, hearts, and arrows, with logos for student leadership and union programs at the bottom.

    Pages with Purpose

    Pages with Purpose
    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Drop in and get organized! Pages with Purpose is a creative bullet journaling session designed just for student leaders. Set goals, track habits, and plan your semester—all while learning how to use journaling as a tool for leadership growth. We'll …

  • Graphic for "Commuter Study Socials" set against a light blue background with subtle cloud-like shapes. The main text is written in a yellow retro script font with a thick black outline, flanked by two small black star outline icons. In the bottom right corner, the UWM Off-Campus Resource Center logo is displayed in black and gold text.

    Commuter Study Social

    Commuter Study Social
    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Come to the Off-Campus Resource Center's Study Social, located in Union EG42, to grab a snack and connect with other commuters! This low-key event offers free snacks and a comfortable and focused environment where you can stay on top of …

  • A white cat sitting inside an open window of a white brick building.

    An Evening With Dick Blau | Experimental Tuesdays at The Union Cinema

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …

  • A wide-angle, black-and-white photograph capturing a vast expanse of land and a distant city spreading out toward a prominent, double-peaked mountain on the horizon. The sky is filled with a dramatic, heavy blanket of clouds, with distinct rays of sunlight breaking through on the far left, illuminating the edge of the landscape. The foreground features darker, elevated terrain looking down over the sprawling, densely patterned plains below.

    Pompei: Below the Clouds

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …