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  • A collage featuring vertical panels of four distinct artworks: a painted ceramic vessel, a black-and-white zebra-stripe pattern, a detailed marbled abstract texture, and a mossy green sculpture with wire details.

    Common Ground – Exhibition Run

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

    Common Ground explores the possibilities of working with natural materials, bringing together artists whose practices engage with these mediums. The featured works demonstrate the diverse ways artists transform raw materials into objects of beauty, meaning, and innovation. Each work reflects …

  • Website banner for Body Acceptance Week featuring the text "Body Acceptance Week: Affirmation Station".

    Affirmation Station

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

    Stop by the Affirmation Station in the Student Union Hallway-East during Body Acceptance Week to view the mirrors, affirmative messages, and practice positive self-talk through make-and-take inspirational quote items.

  • An event flyer for "Creepy Cosmos" at the Manfred Olson Planetarium (UWM). It features an astronaut with a glowing jack-o'-lantern for a head against a starry background. Text on the flyer indicates the event takes place on Fridays in October (October 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2026) with shows at 7:00 PM and 8:00 PM, priced at $7 for General admission and $3.50 for Students.

    Creepy Cosmos

    Manfred Olson Planetarium 1900 E Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Embark on a spook-tacular adventure through the creepiest parts of space with haunting cosmic visions and chilling stargazing tales. Join us for UWM’s favorite Halloween tradition and wear your favorite space costumes to the show. Will we trick or will …

  • A view from the bow of a yellow kayak paddling across open water toward a large tied-arch bridge under a clear blue sky.

    Kayaking Lake Michigan

    Kayaking Lake Michigan
    Klotsche Center (KC) 3409 North Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 …

  • Screamplay Movie Still

    Screamplay

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

    An aspiring screenwriter comes to Hollywood to make it in the movies... only to wind up as janitor of a fleabag apartment run by a greasy ex-boxer (George Kuchar). When the writer channels frustrations with his kooky neighbors into fodder for a new screenplay, the vivid murders he imagines start to happen for real, and the line between fiction and fantasy begins to smear. A singularly charming tribute to Old Hollywood and a marvel of low-budget, high-concept filmmaking.

  • Killer Condom Movie Still

    Killer Condom | Staff Picks

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

    In the seedy underbelly of midtown Manhattan, the male patrons of the Hotel Quickie are getting their genitals bitten off by a carnivorous condom. Ace detective Luigi Mackeroni, assigned to the case, is skeptical–until he finds himself maimed by one of the man-eating prophylactics. As an army of ravenous rubbers besieges the Big Apple, Mackeroni must find a way to contracept the escalating emasculation epidemic.

  • We Can't Go Home Again Movie Still

    We Can’t Go Home Again

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

    Made with his students in upstate New York, Nicholas Ray's experimental masterpiece embodies the director’s practice of filmmaking as a communal way of life, featuring Ray variously as mentor, friend, and index to his students' stories of love, rebellion, and lost innocence.  Reconstructed and restored from its 1973 release, the film's unique, almost anthropological approach to multiple-image storytelling, records the history, progress, manners, and mores of everyday life at a critical moment in 1970s America.

  • A collage of horror-themed characters and settings, featuring Leatherface on the right, figures in a dark, atmospheric environment in the center, and a greenish, shadowy figure on the left.

    Horror Games Night

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

    On October 24th from 5 to 7 PM, please join the Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Association for a night of flash talks and gaming at the Union's eSports Lounge! Media studies graduate students Jordon Jacobson, Emma Culver, and Alyssa Lambert …

  • In a Lonely Place Movie Still

    In a Lonely Place | 35mm print!

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

    When a washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper (Humphrey Bogart) becomes prime suspect in a Tinseltown murder, his only alibi is a seductive neighbor (Gloria Grahame) with her own troubled past. Nicholas Ray's emotionally charged thriller is a turbulent mix of suspense-wracked noir and devastating melodrama. An uncompromising tale of two people desperate to love in spite of their demons, one of the greatest films of the 1950s and a benchmark in the career of the legendary Hollywood auteur.

  • Minamata Mandala

    Minamata Mandala

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

    Filmed over fifteen years, this six-hour epic by documentarian Kazuo Hara chronicles the history of struggle for a fishing community suffering from a debilitating neurological disease caused by industrial methylmercury contamination of fish as they wage a decades-long battle for legal recognition and government reparations. A deeply humanizing portrait of the survivors, care providers, researchers, and their supporters, and a comprehensive chronicle of one of the worst environmental tragedies in human history.