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Common Ground – Exhibition Run
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 …
Affirmation Station
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesStop 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....
Creepy Cosmos
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 we treat you? Come and find out! Tickets are $7 General Admission/$5 UWM Students and can be purchased at uwm.edu/planetarium...
Kayaking Lake Michigan
Klotsche Center (KC) 3409 North Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesOutdoor 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
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 | Staff Picks
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.
Men’s Club Soccer Home Game
Engelmann Stadium 2033 East Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesCome cheer on the Men's Club Soccer teams at Engelmann Field! Interested in joining this or another UREC sport club?
We Can’t Go Home Again
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.
Horror Games Night
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 will present short presentations on the topic of horror in gaming, followed by a chance for attendees to play the games discussed in the presentations along with a selection of others. The event will serve as a great introduction to critical video game scholarship, as well as provide a fun social opportunity for those interested in the horror...
In a Lonely Place | 35mm print!
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
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.
Military Ofrenda – Latine Heritage Month
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesHonoring our fallen is an important part of military culture. As part of Latine Heritage Month programming, stop by the Military Ofrenda in the Student Union concourse to honor the lives and service of UWM students who are no longer with us....