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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 …

  • **Alt Text:** A close-up shot of a hand holding a wooden paddle dipped in water next to the side of a red canoe.

    Canoeing the Milwaukee River

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

    Experience the joy of canoeing on the Milwaukee River with Outdoor Pursuits, perfect for beginners. We'll provide everything you need – transportation, canoes, and friendly guidance – to make your first canoeing adventure in downtown Milwaukee memorable and fun. No …

  • A view looking out from inside the dark opening of a cave toward a bright green, lush forest framed by the rocky archway.

    Exploring & Camping Maquoketa Caves

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

    Maquoketa Caves State Park in Iowa is a caving gem! About 13 caves can be found in the park, some of which can be explored by walking, while others are better suited for serious spelunkers who enjoy crawling in tight spaces. Outdoor Pursuits will spend the weekend exploring the park's trails, bluffs, and caves.

  • A four-panel vertical collage featuring distinct visual textures side-by-side: a colorful ceramic vessel, zebra-like black and white stripes, a marbled pebble pattern, and green mossy plant life.

    Common Ground – Opening Reception

    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.

  • An overhead, high-angle shot showing a person lying face down on dark green bedsheets with their bare back exposed and dark sheets partially covering their legs.

    What Happened Was…

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

    Winner of Sundance's Grand Jury Prize, Tom Noonan’s directorial debut is a darkly humorous take on the dread of dating. Featuring powerhouse performances by Noonan and Karen Sillas as two lonely hearts spending one claustrophobic Friday night together, the film exposes with startling clarity the ways in which people struggle to connect, as relevant now as ever.

  • A high-angle shot from the movie Trainspotting showing Renton seated cross-legged on a mattress on the floor in a light-blue shirt and jeans with a tourniquet on his arm, framed between the dark silhouette legs of two figures standing over him.

    Trainspotting | 30th Anniversary Restoration

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

    An adrenaline shot to the heart of British cinema, Danny Boyle’s darkly comic breakthrough relates the life and times of live-wire Scottish heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his misfit mates, who get high, get in trouble, get clean, and get high again, all in a heroic bid to outrun the banality of modern existence. Cut to an iconic soundtrack of Nineties techno, rock, and Brit-pop, the restoration of this cult classic chooses life again in all its ugly, beautiful, terrifying exultation.

  • A women's rugby team engaged in a scrum during a match on an outdoor grass field, with a referee watching closely.

    Women’s Club Rugby Home Games

    Women’s Club Rugby Home Games
    Klotsche Center (KC) 3409 North Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Come cheer on the Women’s Club Rugby team this fall! Interested in joining this or another UREC sport club? Visit our website to learn more. 9/26 and 10/3 games held at Brown Deer Park, 10/10 game held at Lake Park …

  • A vintage 1960 Topps Hank Aaron Milwaukee Braves baseball card displayed against a dark background, with white handwritten cursive text visible beneath the card reading, "...is a hard job weren't going".

    American Dreams (lost and found)

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

    Milwaukee-born filmmaker James Benning's austere personal history of the USA from 1954 to 1976, told through an amalgamation of his Hank Aaron card collection with the scrolling scrawl of would-be Nixon assassin Arthur Bremer's diaries. Benning describes the film as an homage to his own coming-of-age, combining his love of baseball with interests in American history, politics, and popular culture to achieve a formally complex and aesthetically challenging take on the American Dream.

  • A concrete bridge with arched supports stretches far across open water into the distance toward a horizon filled with white, fluffy clouds and a pale blue sky.

    Eight Bridges | Milwaukee Premiere

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

    “It seems to be the time to consider bridges.” James Benning’s latest exercise in looking and listening centers on meeting points between built and natural worlds, ranging from the cinematic (San Francisco’s Golden Gate) to the historical (Selma’s Edmund Pettus) to the self-referential (North Dakota’s Hi-Line Railroad). Its rich sound and painterly compositions seize variously on the passing of clouds, the flowing of water, and the churn of commuters to link physical manifestations of the American project with contemporary flows of people and capital.

  • Photo of the artist fair. In the foreground are two tables with a number of drawn portraits. The two artists are sitting behind the table, smiling. There are customers standing in front of the table looking at the assorted drawings.

    Fall Artist Fair

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

    Please join us in the Student Union Concourse for our Artist Fair. Individual students, Student Orgs, and local artists will be showing their wares like pottery, jewelry, prints, greeting cards, and so much more. Please contact us at the Craft Centre if you’re interested in vending.

  • A silhouetted surfer crouching low on a surfboard as they ride along the face of a large, breaking ocean wave.

    Learn to Surf Lake Michigan

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

    Did you know that the Milwaukee area is one of the surfing capitals of the Midwest? Lake Michigan is great to learn how to surf and provides a practice ground for bigger water. This surfing class is geared toward first …