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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County’s Bowl for Kids’ Sake 2025

Bowl for Kids’ Sake is a peer-to-peer fundraising event that is fun for companies and community members to engage in. (Teams of 4-6 people are formed, and the team and individuals set fundraising goals. Team members raise money from co-workers, friends, and family.) As a thank you for the team’s support and enthusiasm, Big Brothers Big Sisters […]

Ongoing

Michelle Grabner: Under the Sink

Milwaukee-based artist, writer, and curator Michelle Grabner pays homage to custodial labor through this installation of household sinks and replicated everyday objects. Largely unseen janitorial work is instead foregrounded through the presence of commonplace objects used to keep institutional spaces sanitary. In the traditionally orderly gallery space, rests a silver leafed garbage can, cast bronze […]

Free

Parallel Play: The Art of Science & the Science of Art

Parallel Play was created as an integral component of Marquette’s Biology class, Creative Problem Solving. This cross-disciplinary course teaches STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) students to embrace divergent thinking as a path to innovative problem solving. Through art-based activities and small group interactions with artists and STEM faculty, the class emphasizes the similarities between […]

Free

The Big 4-0, Vol. 2: New Views of the Collection

The Big 4-0, Vol. 2: New Views of the Collection reimagines the Haggerty Museum of Art’s six lower galleries for the spring semester, presenting an entirely new installation of outstanding works from the Museum’s own holdings. The exhibition expands on collection favorites such as Keith Haring and Salvador Dalí paintings with rarely seen works on […]

Free

Waupun Fine Arts Gallery

Waupun Fine Arts in cooperation with the Waupun Public Library Gallery, hosts artist exhibits showcasing the talents of local artists. Nancy Swenson will be the featured artist from March 28 through May 21, 2025.  A wonderful display of her work to view and purchase includes paintings in acrylic, watercolor, Sumi-e technique, alcohol ink airbrush, brusho, […]

Free

Learn to Backyard Compost

Lussier Family Heritage Center 3101 Lake Farm Rd, Madison

Turn your kitchen scraps and yard waste into nutrient-rich soil! Join us for Backyard Composting 101, a beginner workshop that will teach you the basics of composting at home. Learn […]

$5

20th Annual Global Health Symposium

Discovery Building 330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI 53715, Madison

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, April 8th, from 4-8pm, as UW–Madison’s Global Health Institute (GHI), Office of Global Health in the School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), and CALS Global at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) invite you to attend the 20th Annual Global Health Symposium: Why Global Health Networks Matter. […]

Free

Benny Benack III Quartet

Great Northern Distilling 1011 2nd Street, Stevens Point

Voted #1 Rising Star Male Vocalist and Rising Star Trumpeter by DownBeat Magazine! 6:00 & 8:00 Showtimes | Info at JazzCoterie.com Jazz Coterie concert series presents Benny Benack III on his Midwest Jazz Collective tour with Tyler Henderson (p), Caleb Tobocman (b), and Charles Goold (d). New York trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Benny Benack has been […]

$35