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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 …
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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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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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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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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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6 events,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 … 
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 … 
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 …
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 … |
5 events,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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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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Lyrical Sanctuary Featuring Steven Espada Dawson Wednesday, September 9 | Workshop, Open Mic & Performance 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM | Creative Writing Workshop | Union 119 Embracing Change: On Trapdoors, Trojan Horses, and Quicksand In this generative workshop, we will explore how the trajectory of a … 
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 … |
4 events,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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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.
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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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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 …
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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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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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Have you been wanting to try the MCTS bus but don’t know where to begin? We’ve got you covered! UWM is collaborating with MCTS to provide a bus orientation. Stop by the bus outside of Sandburg Hall on Tuesday, September …
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 …
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 … |
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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.
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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, …
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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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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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Are you stuck in the middle of a knitting or crochet project and need some help with technique or pattern reading? Bring your questions to the help desk and consult our knitting and crochet teacher, Jeannie Baker (an actual old lady who has knitted and crocheted … |
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You Can Help! Prevent Suicide is a bystander intervention program that enables students to help fellow students experiencing emotional distress and/or thoughts of suicide. Please visit the link below to register for a session! |
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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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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 …
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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 …
You Can Help! Prevent Suicide is a bystander intervention program that enables students to help fellow students experiencing emotional distress and/or thoughts of suicide. Please visit the link below to register for a session! |
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Did you know that 82% of students experience imposter syndrome? Join us for a round table discussion about imposter syndrome, and how to overcome it!
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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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Stop by for short demos, individualized advice from our Ceramics Technicians, or to chat with other Craft Centre ceramicists! RSVP in advance through our website or just drop in!
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Stop by for short demos, individualized advice from our Ceramics Technicians, or to chat with other Craft Centre ceramicists! RSVP in advance through our website or just drop in!
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Interested in learning the foundations of crochet? Granny squares are a great place to build or hone skills in fiber art! Individual squares can be displayed or combined to create larger objects like scarves, blankets, or clothing pieces! Join us for this one-night course, to learn the basics, including successfully selecting yarn, reading a pattern, planning your project, and creating foundation stitches! Fiber arts like … |
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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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If you are curious about screen printing but not sure where to begin, or want to perfect your technique, this class is for you! Participants will first learn how to create a suitable design, then create their screen. Finally, participants … |
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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 … 
Step back in time and discover a vintage photography technique from the 1840s! In this workshop, you’ll work with a light-sensitive solution to create stunning, blue-toned images. By arranging objects on the surface and exposing them to light, you’ll craft unique, one-of-a-kind prints that …
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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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Got financial aid questions? FAFSA got you in a twist? Trouble breaking down your tuition? Drop into the First-Gen+ Resource Center (below the PantherShop) to meet with a financial aid expert. No appointment needed. Open to all.
You Can Help! Prevent Suicide is a bystander intervention program that enables students to help fellow students experiencing emotional distress and/or thoughts of suicide. Please visit the link below to register for a session! 
Learn basic techniques of surface decoration on ceramic forms! This course will cover underglaze techniques such as stenciling, shaving cream swirl, and Mishima inlay, as well as overglazing processes such as dripping, brushing, and marbling. We will dive right in, … |
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Interested in learning the foundations of crochet? Granny squares are a great place to build or hone skills in fiber art! Individual squares can be displayed or combined to create larger objects like scarves, blankets, or clothing pieces! Join us for … |
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