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Milwaukee Underground Fllm Festival: Opening Night!!!
Film Festival | Free for Everyone! Join us at the Union Cinema for the opening night of The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival! MUFF is a student run film festival devoted to showcasing independent, artist driven cinema. For two decades we …
De-stress, Not Distress
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesLet’s take a break! As busy college students, experiencing stress is common. The impact of ongoing or unresolved stress can lead to feelings of anxiety, depression, irritability, poor concentration, physical illness, fatigue, and sleep difficulties. In this workshop, we will …
Coffee With a Cop
Join SHAW and UWMPD for coffee, treats, crafts, and a break with Ezmae!
You Can Help! Prevent Suicide
Northwest Quadrant Building (NWQ) 2025 E Newport Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesYou 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 Suicide Prevention Training – Student Health and Wellness Center to register for a session!
Cultural Food Fair
Discover new tastes and traditions at the Cultural Food Fair right here on campus. Wander through booths featuring international foods, meet students representing cultures from across the globe.
Experimental Tuesdays Presents: The Great Lakes Listening Series
Free For Everyone! Artists in Attendance! Experimental Tuesdays is proud to present the inaugural Great Lakes Listening Series a new annual listening event that presents multichannel sonic artworks within a cinema space. This year’s edition will feature new works of …
Lyrical Sanctuary Presents Student Showcase
Celebrate the final Lyrical Sanctuary of the semester with an evening dedicated to the incredible talent within our own UWM community! Join us as our amazing student poets take center stage, sharing their voices, stories, and artistry. Come be inspired, uplifted, and reminded of the power of creativity as we close out the year with this special showcase of campus brilliance.
Forgetting Vietnam
One of the myths surrounding the creation of Vietnam involves a fight between two dragons whose intertwined bodies fell into the South China Sea and formed Vietnam’s curving S-shaped coastline. Influential feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha’s lyrical film …
Self-Care Celebration
End your year with a celebration of self-care! Join us to finish off the semester and participate in: journal decorating, write a letter to your future self, lawn games, arts and crafts, and so much more!
Special Event: Blue House
Blue House Film Screening is a D.I.Y. film organization showcasing short films and building cinematic connections in Milwaukee. Join us at the Union Cinema for a shorts program curated by the members of the Blue House collective!
Sustainability Sips
UWM students and staff are working to reinvigorate campus's largest rain garden with the help of Corrigan Eckert, a local artist and current UWM graduate student in the MFA program. This team hopes to engage the campus community and educate …
Two By Black Audio Film Collective: Handsworth Songs
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesIn October 1985 Britain witnessed a spate of civil disturbances in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and in urban centres of London. These were violent, tragic events, marked by the death of an elderly black woman, Joy Gardner and a …