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  • 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.    

  • A medium shot from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing captures a group of people standing on a city street in front of a brick building. In the center foreground, Mookie stands looking forward, wearing a white short-sleeved button-up shirt with red and green collars, a large round medallion necklace, and green and yellow shorts. To his left, Sal stands in white pants and a black-and-white patterned shirt, gesturing with his hands while looking upward. To Mookie's right, a crowd of neighborhood residents, including Buggin Out and Radio Raheem, stand close together watching the interaction.

    Do the Right Thing

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

    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 …

  • Close-up of a person's hands assembling a geometric stained glass panel using the lead came method. The hands use pliers to adjust a lead strip around vibrant red, blue, and yellow glass pieces, which are held in place by horseshoe nails on a wooden work surface.

    Intro to Stained Glass Session 1

    Intro to Stained Glass Session 1
    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    In this workshop, you will learn how to score, cut, foil, solder, and assemble your own stained-glass motif. Class participants will choose their own colors for a sunrise pattern which they will be able to then assemble to make a …

  • A medium shot from Jeong Jae-eun's film Take Care of My Cat shows five young women walking together outdoors on a wide, concrete pedestrian walkway or pier. The woman in the center wears a light gray zippered hoodie, blue jeans, and a dark bucket hat with a black strap across her torso. To her left, another woman wears a brown coat, a black scarf, and holds an orange stuffed toy. To the center woman's right, a woman in a dark denim jacket holds a yellow stuffed toy. Two other women walk slightly behind them under an overcast sky, with a blurred railing and water visible in the background.

    Take Care of My Cat

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

    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. …

  • A close-up shot from Sofia Coppola's film The Virgin Suicides captures four young women with long blonde hair clustered tightly together. They are dressed in matching white, short-sleeved collared shirts, looking in different directions with subtle, somber expressions. One woman in the lower-left corner holds open a book or binder, which is partially visible at the bottom of the frame.

    The Virgin Suicides

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

    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 …

  • A medium close-up from Peter Weir's film Picnic at Hanging Rock shows a young woman with long blonde hair outdoors under a bright orange, patterned parasol. She is holding a small, delicate yellow flower in her right hand while looking down at it through a magnifying glass held in her left hand.

    Picnic at Hanging Rock

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

    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 …

  • Overhead view of a potter's clay-covered hands gently shaping a small ceramic bowl on a pottery wheel.

    Intro to Wheel Throwing Session 1

    Intro to Wheel Throwing Session 1
    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Are you curious to try out the pottery wheel? Join us for five weeks to familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of wheel throwing and clay! Between classes, participants will have access to the studio space to practice and work through …

  • 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 …

  • An overhead view of a wooden workbench with sewing supplies and a hands-on fabric project. Hands at the bottom hold a needle and thread, working on stitching colorful patterned fabric patches onto a long strip of light purple cloth. Surrounding the workspace are a yellow pincushion with colorful pins, clear organizer boxes with thread spools, spools of black thread, and glue sticks.

    A Tending – Community Grief Garland Workshop

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

    How can creating with our hands help us to move through challenging life experiences? Join Jennifer Basitan in the Union Art Gallery for a workshop to explore grief through a community workshop. Whether you’re dealing with life transitions, unresolved grief, …

  • 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 …

  • Close-up of a person's hands assembling a geometric stained glass panel using the lead came method. The hands use pliers to adjust a lead strip around vibrant red, blue, and yellow glass pieces, which are held in place by horseshoe nails on a wooden work surface.

    Intro to Stained Glass Session 1

    Intro to Stained Glass Session 1
    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    In this workshop, you will learn how to score, cut, foil, solder, and assemble your own stained-glass motif. Class participants will choose their own colors for a sunrise pattern which they will be able to then assemble to make a …

  • 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 …