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Jerome Rand – Sailing Into Oblivion

UW Madison Memorial Union 800 Langdon St, Madison, United States

The UW Hoofer Sailing Club is pleased to welcome renowned sailor Jerome Rand to the Memorial Union for an unforgettable evening of sea stories. From his solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe to countless daring sailing adventures, Jerome’s tales will inspire, amaze, and ignite your wanderlust. Jerome Rand is a midwestern sailor most known for […]

Free – $15

Wisconsin Young Artists Compete: The Final Forte

Overture Center for the Arts 201 State Street, Madison

Wisconsin Young Artists Compete: The Final Forte is a free concert that is broadcast live on PBS Wisconsin and Wisconsin Public Radio. This competition has captured an enormous following and numerous honors, including an Emmy nomination, First Place in the “Special Interest” category from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association in 2007, and fifth most-watched program in […]

Free

Michelle Grabner: Under the Sink

Haggerty Museum of Art 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee

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 […]

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

Haggerty Museum of Art 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee

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 […]

Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Life

UW-Eau Claire — Barron County, Fine Arts 1800 College Dr, Rice Lake

Our audience will gain knowledge about everyday uses of AI, but more critically, they will be able to consider why they might embrace or resist artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) has entered contemporary life with a vengeance. Since OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public in late 2022, media and scholars have grappled with generative artificial […]

Free

Bach Around The Clock

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church 1833 Regent Street, Madison, United States

Beyond The Notes – Bach at the ORGAN — Four student organists will perform and receive coaching from T. Jared Stellmacher, Director of Music at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Madison.This class will be an opportunity for organists to experience playing Bach on an “authentic” instrument. St. Andrew’s Taylor and Boody (Opus 33) tracker action […]

Free

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Kohler Memorial Theater 260 School St, Kohler, United States

part concert – part musical – all heart! It has never been easier to connect with others, yet our world has never been more divided. The struggle to understand and […]

$20 – $40

Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues and The Good Body

My Place Bar and Grill 1515 New Jersey Avenue, Sheboygan

Seven Ages Theatricals is excited to present two plays by Eve “V” Ensler in repertory – The Vagina Monologues and The Good Body, directed by Amanda Ellis and Trudy Berger respectively. The Vagina Monologues is the result of hundreds of interviews about a topic so taboo, few women dare to speak its name. At the […]

$20

Eilen Jewell

Stoughton Opera House 381 E Main St, Stoughton, WI, United States

Hailed by American Songwriter as “one of America’s most intriguing, creative, and idiosyncratic voices,” Eilen Jewell rises from the ashes on her captivating new album, Get Behind The Wheel, picking up the pieces of her shattered world and finding new purpose and meaning after watching her marriage, her band, and what felt like her entire […]

$30

Michelle Grabner: Under the Sink

Haggerty Museum of Art 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee

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 […]

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

Haggerty Museum of Art 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee

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 […]

Bach Around The Clock – Friday Musicale “Bach’s Other Voices II”

Unitarian Meeting House 900 University Bay Dr., Madison

The program will feature Bach’s “Other Voices”: music composed by J.S. Bach performed by voices and instruments other than what he originally wrote for. You’ll hear new and interesting arrangements for vocalists (Swingle Singers), trombones, saxophones, and even a theremin!

FREE (donations accepted)