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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 us during our Open House and create your FA26 mini planner. Grab a journal Set up important calendar dates Personalize your cover Get ready for success! 
Welcome! Stop by the Military and Veterans Resource Center for coffee, a snack, or a place to study. Learn about upcoming events. Get organized, and grab a free 2026–2027 Pocket Calendar Planner and stickers while supplies last!
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Join the Women’s Resource Center, Student Health and Wellness, and UWM Police for Awareness, Knowledge, Action, an empowering and anti-victim-blaming self-defense training by Officer Parsons from the UWM Police. Join us after the workshop for pizza and a discussion on …
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Join the Women’s Resource Center, Student Health and Wellness, and UWM Police for Awareness, Knowledge, Action, an empowering and anti-victim-blaming self-defense training by Officer Parsons from the UWM Police. Join us after the workshop for pizza and a discussion on … |
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Join us during our Open House and create your FA26 mini planner. Grab a journal Set up important calendar dates Personalize your cover Get ready for success!
Welcome! Stop by the Military and Veterans Resource Center for coffee, a snack, or a place to study. Learn about upcoming events. Get organized, and grab a free 2026–2027 Pocket Calendar Planner and stickers while supplies last!
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We'll kick off this trip by learning the rules of the road and how to bike safely on Milwaukee city streets. Then, put your skills to the test with a ride around the city using bike lanes and local trail … |
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Join us during our Open House and create your FA26 mini planner. Grab a journal Set up important calendar dates Personalize your cover Get ready for success!
Welcome! Stop by the Military and Veterans Resource Center for coffee, a snack, or a place to study. Learn about upcoming events. Get organized, and grab a free 2026–2027 Pocket Calendar Planner and stickers while supplies last!
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Furnishing your apartment or dorm doesn't have to be expensive or wasteful! Swing by the Student Union Concourse for the Free Store Pop-Up: Reuse and Redecorate Edition, hosted by the Off-Campus Resource Center. We're giving a second life to tons …
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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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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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The Mobile Vet Center (MVC) offers confidential help for Veterans, service members, and their families at no cost in a non-medical setting. Services include counseling for needs such as depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the psychological effects of military …
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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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The Mobile Vet Center (MVC) offers confidential help for Veterans, service members, and their families at no cost in a non-medical setting. Services include counseling for needs such as depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the psychological effects of military …
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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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City Girls 101 is a fun, empowering event designed to help new students navigate campus and the city with confidence. Join us for conversations about simple, effective ways to stay safe and take care of yourself in an urban environment. …
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UREC is for Everyone! Come find out why UREC is more than a gym at our annual kickoff event! We’ll have open rec, tables, free food, and exclusive shirts too! |
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The Mobile Vet Center (MVC) offers confidential help for Veterans, service members, and their families at no cost in a non-medical setting. Services include counseling for needs such as depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the psychological effects of military …
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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 single day, … |
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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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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. 
Did you know that the Milwaukee area is one of the surfing capitals of the Midwest? Lake Michigan is great to learn how to surf and provides a practice ground for bigger water. This surfing class is geared toward first …
Did you know that the Milwaukee area is one of the surfing capitals of the Midwest? Lake Michigan is great to learn how to surf and provides a practice ground for bigger water. This surfing class is geared toward first … |
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Join us as we spread hope, raise awareness, show support, and share vital information for those affected by suicide. The first 75 students to sign up for the Community Walk will receive fun UWM swag! Sign up below!
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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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Outdoor Pursuits is offering a women's backpacking trip led by women trip leaders in an effort to grow the backpacking community. The Porcupine Mountain Wilderness is a Midwest gem featuring Lake Superior's shoreline, inland lakes, waterfalls, and remote campsites. PHYSICAL … |
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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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Getting quality sleep is a critical key to academic performance and well-being. Drop in to explore the benefits of sleep! Learn about effective sleep strategies Complete a sleep assessment Practice calming breathing techniques Make an essential oil roller Decorate a …
Did you know that the Milwaukee area is one of the surfing capitals of the Midwest? Lake Michigan is great to learn how to surf and provides a practice ground for bigger water. This surfing class is geared toward first …
Did you know that the Milwaukee area is one of the surfing capitals of the Midwest? Lake Michigan is great to learn how to surf and provides a practice ground for bigger water. This surfing class is geared toward first … |
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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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Now is your chance to try our inflatable stand up paddleboards! Join Outdoor Pursuits as we launch from the inlets of Lake Michigan and learn how to paddleboard into the sunset. Whether you kneel, stand, or sit off the boards, … |
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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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Doors Open Milwaukee is an annual celebration of Milwaukee's architecture, history and neighborhoods. The event opens 160+ locations throughout the metro area to tour for free. Outdoor Pursuits and you will design a biking route through the city stopping to …
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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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Stop by the display in the Student Union hallway East to honor the service and sacrifice of many U.S. Veterans during Hispanic Heritage Month. |
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Stop by the display in the Student Union hallway East to honor the service and sacrifice of many U.S. Veterans during Hispanic Heritage Month.
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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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Stop by the display in the Student Union hallway East to honor the service and sacrifice of many U.S. Veterans during Hispanic Heritage Month. 
Outdoor Pursuits has brand new sea kayaks equipped to paddle on Lake Michigan! Join us as we launch from UWM's School of Freshwater Science public boat landing on the Kinnickinnic River and paddle out on to Lake Michigan. We'll have …
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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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Stop by the display in the Student Union hallway East to honor the service and sacrifice of many U.S. Veterans during Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Free for everyone! UWM’s department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres is home to a faculty and staff who are not only exceptional educators but also accomplished artists, whose creative work spans disciplines, genres, and modes of production. Expect … |
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Experience Wisconsin’s famous peninsula, Door County! We will be camping and exploring at Peninsula State Park known for its overlooks, beaches, and trails. Expect to hike, relax on the beach, and spend down time cooking and relaxing at camp. All …
Stop by the display in the Student Union hallway East to honor the service and sacrifice of many U.S. Veterans during Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Filmmaker in person! A young filmmaker stumbles on a hidden book tied to a vanished art forger and the perfect mystery for his next film pitch. But as coincidences mount, he begins to question what’s real, who’s watching him, and …
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While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, a respected academic becomes entranced by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce images from any point in history on a television screen. Her obsession … |
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