Peck School of the Arts ++ April Calendar

MILWAUKEE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
May 1-3, 2008 (multiple screenings)
filmmilwaukee.org
Opening night: May 1 at 7 pm (free) at the UWM Union Theatre
Opening night for the annual student-run festival featuring a program of international short films and videos; the festival continues at various Milwaukee venues through Sunday.

COLLOQUA IN CONCEPTUAL STUDIES: SENATIONAL! SENSING MEDIA ARS THEORY AND PRACTICE - CANCELLED
MAY 2, 2008

UWM DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: CONVOCATION
May 2, 2008, 12-12:50 pm
Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
The Music Department gathers for its weekly convocation featuring the department’s piano students.

UWM GUITAR PROGRAM STUDENT RECITAL: SOLOS
May 2, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Location:
UWM Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall
2400 East Kenwood Boulevard
Milwaukee, WI

UWM DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ART: BFA INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION
May 2-18, 2008
Opening reception: May 9, 5-8 pm (Awards ceremony at 7 pm)
Inova/Arts Center, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., 2nd floor
FREE
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12 noon-5 pm
The annual invitational exhibition of work by students receiving their BFA degrees in 2007-2008.

UWM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
May 2, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni.
The UWM Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Margery Deutsch, welcomes the winners of the 2007-2008 UWM Concert & Aria Competition, held in December: Chiung-Fang Hsu, cello, and Melissa Bravo, flute. Hsu will perform Saint-Saens's Cello Concerto and Bravo will perform the Liebermann Concerto for Flute and Orchestra.

MAKE YOUR OWN HISTORY
May 2-17, 2008
Opening Reception, May 9, 7-10 p.m.
Closing Reception, May 16, 6-9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Mon-Sat: 12-5 p.m.
www.makeyourownhistory.com
The Blatz Building
270 East Highland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53202 (enter gallery from Broadway St.)
Make Your Own History is a group exhibition featuring 15 graduate students in the UWM Department of Visual Arts that uses the historic Blatz Building (a former beer brewing facility) as both a subject and location for narrative experimentation. Responding to the transitional state of the space, as well as how the site symbolizes Milwaukee's own shifting identity, these artists have created site-specific works and interventions that complicate and challenge how history gets told and remembered. Led by Marcelino Stuhmer, UWM assistant professor of visual art, the exhibition showcases students in his graduate workshop "Narrative Strategies."

UWM CHOIRS: SPRING CHORAL CONCERT
UWM Women’s Chorus & Men’s Glee Chorus
May 3, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni

UWM GUITAR PROGRAM STUDENT RECITAL: ENSEMBLES
May 3, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Location:
UWM Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall
2400 East Kenwood Boulevard
Milwaukee, WI

UWM WIND ENSEMBLE & SYMPHONY BAND
May 4, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Zelazo Center, 2419 E. Kenwood Bd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students & seniors.
The Symphony Band, under the direction of Scott A. Jones, performs works by Stamp (Cloudsplitter Fanfare), Whitacre (Equus) Lauridsen (O Magnum Mysterium) and Nelson (Aspen Jubilee). The Wind Ensemble, conducted by Scott R. Corley, plays selections from The Danserye by Susato/Dunningan with Rene Izquierdo, guitar; Gillingham’s Waking Angels; and Ticheli’s Symphony No. 2.

FILM: COMMUNITY MEDIA PROJECT
Africa Beyond Film Series: Culture & Confrontation
Bamboozled
(Spike Lee, USA, 138min., video, 2000)
May 5, 2008 at 7 pm
UWM Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Information: (414) 229-2931 or www.communitymediaproject.blogspot.com.
This spring The Community Media Project will continue its inquisition into radicalism in film in a new Monday Night series.

Spike Lee's film explores how old, stereotypical images of Black people are projected through new media. Television writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans), under pressure from his boss, Dunwitty (Michael Rapaport), to make a hit show, creates a variety show that resurrects degrading images of African-Americans from the minstrel show era. Anticipating protest, the show, to the surprise of many, becomes a hit, yet the success they receive leads to a fatal culmination.

UWM DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE: GREAT EXPECTATIONS
A Benefit Reading
May 5, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Mainstage Theatre, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $25
Students, faculty and illustrious alumni of UWM’s Department of Theatre gather to raise money for scholarships for theatre students. Join them for a staged reading of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, adapted by Jonathan Smoots.

UWM PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
May 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Zelazo Center, 2419 E. Kenwood Bd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni

KEVIN HORRIGAN FINGER-STYLE GUITAR SENIOR RECITAL
May 6, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Location:
UWM Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall
2400 East Kenwood Boulevard
Milwaukee, WI

UNION THEATRE: LOCALLY GROWN
May 8, 2008 at 7 pm
Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE

LUISA CAPETILLO: LA MUSA ACTIVA (THE ACTIVE MUSE)
Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.

STUDENT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
May 9, 2008 at 7 pm
Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $5 general/$4 students & seniors & UWM community
Information: (414) 229-4070
A juried showcase of the best short films and videos from the students of the pioneering UWM Film Department. Followed by an exhibit of work by students in the department’s Photography area.

DANCE DEPARTMENT: HIP HOP SHOWCASE
May 9, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE The students in the Dance Department’s hip hop classes present their final projects: their own choreography and pieces set on them by their instructor, Kasper. Special guests include The Hip Hop ConnXion (Chicago) and ICON (Ian Eastwood, Chicago).

UWM JAZZ COMBOS
May 10, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni.

UWM DEPARTMENT OF FILM: SENIOR PROJECT SCREENING
May 10, 2008 at 7 pm
Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Information: (414) 229-4070
A special evening showcasing the films and videos completed by the UWM Department of Film’s graduating seniors.

UWM JAZZ ENSEMBLE & YOUTH JAZZ ENSEMBLES
May 10, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni.
The UWM Jazz Ensembles perform with guest Michael Mossman.

DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ART: FOUNDRY: EXPERIMENTAL TYPOGRAPHY INSTALLATION
May 10, 2008, 7-10 pm
Kenilworth Square East, 1925 E. Kenilworth Pl. $5 suggested donation

UNIVERSITY-COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
May 11, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni
The University-Community Orchestra, conducted by Margery Deutsch, is made up of UWM students and community members.

UWM DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: BRAHMS FOR THREE
Yuri Gandelsman, Viola & Wendy Warner, Cello with Irina Nuzova, piano
May 14, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $19 general/$10 students, seniors & alumni
Yuri Gandelsman, violist with the Fine Arts Quartet, is joined by cellist Wendy Warner of the String Academy of Wisconsin faculty and pianist Irina Nuzova in an all-Brahms recital. The program includes theSonata for cello and piano in E minor, the Sonata for viola and piano F-minor, Op. 120, No. 1, and the Trio for viola, cello and piano in A minor, Op. 114.

UNRULY MUSIC: ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC MUSIC CENTER SALON 24
May 15, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Music Building B60, 2400 E. Kenwood Bd.
Electro-acoustic and multimedia works by UWM students.

2008 UWM PHOTOGRAPHY THESIS EXHIBITION
May 16-18, 2008
Spackle Gallery, 2674 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.: opening reception 5/16 at 5 pm
Works by Sara Anderson, Liz Beveridge, Beth Bossert, Rollin Kunz, Nancie Moore, Erin Therrien
More info: www.spacklegallery.com
Art Bar Riverwest, 722 E. Burleigh St., opening 5/16 at 7 pm
Works by Laura Dierbeck, Amanda Donajkowski, Shane Engelking, Tom Harris, Rollin Kunz, Jeremy Novy
More info: www.artbar-riverwest.com The graduating students in the photography area exhibit their thesis projects at two local venues.

WOMEN’S VOICES MILWAUKEE - CANCELLED
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.

HERITAGE CONCERT CHORALE
Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.

EMANU EL B’NE JESHURUN CANTOR CONCERT
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.

Experimental Film/Video Series at Woodland Pattern
Athleticism vs. Aestheticism
May 30, 2008 at 7 pm
Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St.
Tickets: $2 at the door
This fall, the director of athletics at Princeton suggested that sport be made a topic for academic study, and that to study athletics is no different than studying other performative art forms. He received, along with the journalist reporting the story, many hostile reactions. In answer to the prevailing attitude that sport and art are mutually exclusive, this program of short film and video will showcase underground/avant-garde artists’ conceptions of sport and athleticism.

FINE ARTS QUARTET: SUMMER EVENINGS OF MUSIC
Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $19 general/$10 students, seniors & alumni. Subscriptions available.
The Fine Arts Quartet embarks on their four-concert summer series: June 1, 8, 15, 22

SUMMERDANCES: STATES OF MIND
June 6-8, 2008
(all performances 7:30 pm except Sunday matinee at 2 pm)
Mainstage Theatre, Arts Center, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni
New choreography by Dance faculty members Ed Burgess, Dani Kuepper, Luc Vanier and guest choreographer Uri Sands.

SUMMER WORKSHOPS IN JEWELRY AND METALSMITHING 2008
June-August, 2008
(Five workshops and two open studios, schedule below. All workshops meet 10 am-4 pm, Saturday & Sunday)
Art Building Room 391,2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Fees: $140 for each workshop; $45 for each open studio.
To register, call (414) 229-4308
More info: arts.uwm.edu/outreach
Jewelers and metalsmiths of all skill levels are invited to join us for a series of exciting and challenging two-day summer intensives at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. We will investigate a variety of techniques and processes, learn new ways to solve problems in metal, and explore our creative potential. Take all six or pick the ones that intrigue you most! All workshops are taught by Jennifer Harris. Harris received her M.F.A. in Metals from the State University of New York-New Paltz and a B.F.A. in Jewelry/Metalsmithing and Industrial Design from the University of Michigan. She teaches Jewelry and Metalsmithing as well as 3D Design at UWM. Although recommended levels are indicated for some workshops, workshops are open to all levels.

Saturday, June 7 & Sunday, June 8 INTRODUCTION TO JEWELRY
Learn the fundamentals of jewelry making: sawing, piercing, filing, sanding, and surface enrichment. Students will create a pair of earrings or a pendant. Recommended for beginners.

Saturday, June 21 & Sunday, June 22 ETCHING AND PATINATION
Students will explore the process of etching to create patterns and images in metal. To enhance these etched metal surfaces, students will learn to use patinas to achieve unique colors and rich surface textures. Please bring high contrast black and white images to transfer. Students will create a series of brooches. Recommended prerequisite: Introduction to Jewelry Workshop.

Saturday, July 28 & Sunday, July 29 INTRODUCTION TO JEWELRY
Learn the fundamentals of jewelry making: sawing, piercing, filing, sanding, and surface enrichment. Students will create a pair of earrings or a pendant. Recommended for beginners.

Saturday, July 12 & Sunday, July 13 SOLDERING
In this silver soldering intensive workshop, students will learn to sweat, pick, and chip solder. After learning these basic techniques, students will fabricate a sterling silver ring. Recommended prerequisite: lntroduction to Jewelry Workshop.

Saturday, July 26 & Sunday, July 27 BEZEL SETTING
Learn how to measure and make round bezels, square bezels with sharp corners, stepped bezels, and bezels for found objects such as shells or beach glass. Recommended prerequisite: lntroduction to Jewelry Workshop.

Saturday, August 2 & Sunday, August 3 OPEN STUDIOS
Two Open Studio sessions perfect for finishing a workshop project or making something new. Sign up for one or both!
Saturday, August 2 Sunday, August 3 OPEN STUDIO
Guided studio time for students to work on projects of their choice. Make something new or finish a project started in an earlier workshop. Prerequisite: lntroduction to Jewelry Workshop or equivalent

SOUNDS OF SATURDAY: WILLIAM LAVONIS, JEFFRY PETERSON & DIANE LANE
June 7, 2008 at 2 pm
Lubar Auditorium, Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive Tickets & information: 414-224-3840 Tenor William Lavonis and pianist Jeffry Peterson provide an introduction to the Gilbert & George exhibition by performing several works by gay artists, among them Ralph Vaughan William's On Wenlock Edge, a setting of poems by the gay poet A.E. Housman, and — with mezzo-soprano Diane Lane--gay composer Benjamin Britten's Canticle II, Abraham and Isaac (1952).

FINE ARTS QUARTET: SUMMER EVENINGS OF MUSIC
Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $19 general/$10 students, seniors & alumni.

FINE ARTS QUARTET: SUMMER EVENINGS OF MUSIC
Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $19 general/$10 students, seniors & alumni.

UWM DANCE DEPARTMENT: TRIPTYCH
June 20-21 & 27-28, 2008
Kenilworth Square East, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni
Performance Schedule:
Friday, June 20 at 7 pm (reception follows performance)
Saturday, June 21 at 7 pm & 9 pm
Friday, June, 27 at 7 pm & 9 pm
Saturday, June 28 at 4 pm & 7 pm
Collaborators Luc Vanier (Dance), Leslie Vansen (Visual Art) and Christopher Burns (Music) explore their coexistence in real and imaginary canvas/stage spaces. Their resulting Triptych aims to reveal a world credible but not true. It will inhabit three distinct spaces at Kenilworth Square East as both performance and exhibition.

FINE ARTS QUARTET: SUMMER EVENINGS OF MUSIC
Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $19 general/$10 students, seniors & alumni.

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC (PRE-COLLEGE): SUZUKI GUITAR CAMP
(Grades 3 and up)
June 23-27, 2008
9:00 am-noon
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Room 188, 2419 E. Kenwood Bd.
Fee: $150
A two-level guitar camp designed to build a solid foundation in classical guitar, equipping students with the basic skills required to be versatile in any style. Instructors Elina Chekan, director of the Peck School's Pre-College Guitar Program, and René Izquierdo of the school's Guitar Program, will introduce Beginners to the basic elements of music and guitar in a supportive environment. Level I students (those with at least a year of experience; must be able to read notes and play in first position) will also develop their proficiency in sight reading and ensemble playing. All students will learn about the guitar and its history, and will be exposed to a full range of guitar styles through video, recordings and live performance by instructors and guests. Each student will receive a 30-minute private lesson during the week, as well as daily group lessons and coaching. The camp will culminate in an informal performance for family and friends on Friday, June 27 at 11 am. Enrollment limited to 12 per group. All participants must have a guitar.

UWM DANCE: REBECCA STENN COMPANY
July 18-19, 2008
Danceworks Studio Theatre, 1661 N. Water St.
Ticket information: 414.277.8480
Graduate student Rebecca Stenn brings her dancers from New York to the Danceworks Studio for her MFA Thesis concert, produced in collaboration with Danceworks.

DANCEMAKERS 08
July 25-26, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Mainstage Theatre, Arts Center, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni
New works by our graduate students — a diverse group of professional choreographers and performers from all points of the compass.

Past Events
February 2008 top

UWM DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: CONVOCATION
February 29, 2008, 12-12:50 pm
Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE The Music Department gathers for its weekly convocation featuring the department’s voice students.

EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO SERIES AT WOODLAND PATTERN
Carousel: The Second Revolution
February 29, 2008 at 7 pm
Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St.
Tickets: $2 at the door
Climb aboard! The second annual Milwaukee Invitational Slide Show will feature photographers amateur and seasoned sharing any number of slides in any manner of show. Corralled by Naomi Shersty and Carl Bogner

March 2008 top

UWM GUITAR PROGRAM: ERIC LOGOSCH FINGER-STYLE GUITAR WORKSHOP
March 2, 2008, 1-4 pm
Kenilworth Square East, Room 594, 1925 E. Kenilworth Pl.
Tickets: $10 at the door (free to UWM Guitar students)
Finger-style guitarist Eric Lugosch will present his arrangement of "Marching Through Georgia: and an original composition entitled "Sovereignty". He will discuss his approach to arranging for solo guitar and the imperatives of his style.

UWM PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE March 3, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Room 250, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni.

FILM: EXPERIMENTAL TUESDAYS
Site Specific: the cinema of Olivo Barbieri
(Olivo Barbieri, Italy, approx 70 mins, 35mm film and video, 2004-2007)
March 4, 2008 at 7 pm
UWM Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Information: (414) 229-4070
Italian photographer Olivo Barbieri has been questioning the representation of urban landscapes for the past thirty years. In 2003 he began working on the "Site Specific" project, an ongoing collection of aerial photographs of European, Asian, and North American cities. The photographs are taken from a helicopter using an optical bench that allows for the manipulation of the plane of focus. The resulting photographs (exhibited worldwide as large panoramic prints) and 35mm films are characterized by odd distortions of scale and peculiar blurring effects. When confronted with these uncanny images, the spectator is often disconcerted, unsure of what one sees. Barbieri’s images portray the city as an avatar of itself; "resembling miniature sets that evoke archaeological reconstructions of bypassed eras or fantastic urban projects destined to an undetermined future" (Mark McElhatten, NYFF).

ARTISTS NOW! DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ART GUEST LECTURE SERIES
CLAIRE PENTECOST: IN MEDIA RES
March 5, 2008 at 7 pm
Arts Center Lecture Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Chicago-based artist and writer Claire Pentecost considers the great tradition of drawing and its current place as a mediator between self and the social (in conjunction with the current exhibition in Inova/Kenilworth).

UWM DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ART: MA/MFA THESIS EXHIBITION I
March 7-29, 2008
Opening reception: March 7, 5-7 pm
Gallery talk: March 11, 5:30 pm new gallery talk time!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Inova/Arts Center, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., 2nd floor
FREE
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12 noon-5 pm
The first of two exhibitions of work by students receiving their MA and MFA degrees this spring.

UW DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ART: PAINTING WITHOUT BORDERS
March 7-April 6, 2008
Opening reception: March 7, 5-7 pm
Inova/Zelazo (the Mary L. Nohl Galleries), Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., 2nd floor
FREE
Marcelino Stuhmer of the Department of Visual Art works with his advanced painting students on Paintings Without Borders, a series of projects emerging from semester-long discussions. Using the title as inspiration, the exhibition will serve as both a conceptual and formal means of exploration.

UWM UNIVERSITY BAND
March 7, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni.
Undergraduates from all parts of the University perform under the direction of graduate conductors Nathan Langfitt, Jake Polancich, David Shaw and Megan Sweeney. The program includes Ito (Festal Scenes), Markowski (Shadow Rituals), Dello Joio (Scenes from the Louvre), Fillmore (Americans We) and a Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto with guest soloist Ryan Hobbs, trumpet.

GRAND VIENNESE BALL & PASSPORTS TO THE ARTS
March 8, 2008
Kenilworth Square East, 2155 N. Prospect Ave.
Tickets: Grand Viennese Ball: $195 (individual)/Passport to the Arts: $30 in advance/$35 at the door
The Peck School throws open the doors at Kenilworth Square East for the 31st Annual Grand Viennese Ball (5:30 pm-midnight) and the informal Passport to the Arts dessert/performance event (9 pm-midnight). Whether you come for an evening of fine dining and dancing at the Ball, or drop in later for dessert and the building-wide performances and exhibitions that make up Passport to the Arts, you’ll spend a grand evening with students, faculty, alumni and friends of the Peck School on March 8. Admission to the Passport includes six floors of performances, screenings and exhibitions-- choose among scenes from plays, opera and the musical Oklahoma!; new choreography; film and video projects; cabaret, choirs, chamber music and more—complimentary dessert stations, cash bar, silent auction and art sale. In addition, the dance floor will be opened to everyone at 10:30 pm for the final set by the UWM Jazz Ensemble.
More information at arts.uwm.edu/gvball.

EARLY MUSIC NOW
Hesperus: Shameless Commerce – Musical Merchandising in Renaissance England
March 8, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $38 adults/seniors & $19 students available from the Peck School of the Arts Box Office
www.earlymusicnow.org

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC FACULTY RECITAL: FLORESTAN DUO
March 9, 2008 at 3 pm
Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni.
Stefan Kartman, cello, and Jeannie Yu, piano offer an all-Schubert concert. The program will include the “Arpeggione” Sonata and “Wanderer Fantasy” for solo piano, as well as the C Major Cello Quintet.

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: WISCONSIN FLUTE FESTIVAL
March 9, 2008, 9 am-9 pm
Concert by Mathieu Dufour at 7 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Festival fees: $20-$30 (by March 1); $35 thereafter
Tickets to Dufour concert: $19 general/$10 students, seniors & alumni.
Registration, tickets, competitions, information: (414) 229-4308 or arts.uwm.edu/flutefestival

The first Wisconsin Flute Festival features a variety of events for flutists of all ages and abilities, as well as for lovers of flute music. Activities include a Master Class and evening concert with Chicago Symphony Principal Flute Mathieu Dufour; recital and Master Class with Cleveland Orchestra Solo Piccolo Mary Kay Fink; a high school flute competition with $250 first prize; performances by Caen Thomason-Redus, Nan Raphael, Mihoko Watanabe and alumni of the UWM flute program; Flute Choir; Alexander Technique; Trevor Wye Books Class; Online Learning Environments; and exhibitors. The day concludes with the Dufour recital at 7 pm. Stop in for a few hours or stay the whole day!

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: HARP MASTER CLASS WITH JESSICA SUCHY-PILALIS
March 10, 2008, 4-6:30 pm
Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.

UWM FILM DEPARTMENT: WOMEN WITHOUT BORDERS FILM SERIES 2008
March 11-15, 2008 (multiple screenings, all beginning at 7 pm)
UWM Union Theatre, 2200 East Kenwood Boulevard, 2nd floor
FREE
Information: 414.229.6015 or melchior@uwm.edu
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Women Without Borders Film Series will present new work by and about women that tests the boundaries of women’s lives and experiences. A program of newly released documentary and experimental work will showcase film and video fresh from internationally renowned festivals, including titles from pioneering distributor Women Make Movies (www.wmm.com). Co-sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center, Union Programming, Sociocultural Programming, Union Theatre.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 7pm
MadCat Women’s Film Festival Touring Program: ID Docs!
Identity cannot be reduced to stats on a badge. It is both personal and public, elusive and fixed. Using a patient camera and lyrical imagery, these filmmakers gently probe how society, biology, place, and even appliances play a role in who we are and how we think of ourselves and others. Titles/filmmakers included: Miriam, Impression of Light, by An Coenen; Lost Without You! by Fiona McGee!; Benidorm by Carolin Schmitz; Portraits & Testimonies #3: Cris Sequeira by Kyja
Kristjansson-Nelson (both UWM Film Dept MFA alumni); The Widows' Coast by Janina Lapinskaite; I Am Me by Kathrin Resetarits.

Wednesday March 12 7pm
The Women’s Kingdom
A film by Xiaoli Zhou, Produced by Xiaoli Zhou & Brent E. Huffman; China/US, 2006, 22 minutes, Color, DVD, Chinese, Subtitled. Distributed by Women Make Movies.
Keepers of one of the last matriarchal societies in the world, Mosuo women in a remote area of southwest China live beyond the strictures of mainstream Chinese culture – enjoying great freedoms and carrying heavy responsibilities. Filmmaker Xiaoli Zhou takes a fascinating journey into the heart of The Women’s Kingdom to discover a society of powerful women whose future is on the brink of change.
followed by:
My Home/Your War
A film by Kylie Grey. Produced by Denoux Films Productions, Australia, 2006, 52 minutes, Color,
VHS/DVD, Arabic, Subtitled . Distributed by Women Make Movies.
An exceptional look at the effect of the Iraq war through the eyes of an ordinary Iraqi woman. Shot in Baghdad over three years that span the time before, during and after the invasion of Iraq, this profoundly moving film brings a perspective that – until now – has rarely been available to U.S. audiences. This film combines insightful interviews with Layla Hassan and her family, vibrant scenes of Baghdad and intimate footage shot by Layla herself to paint a compelling picture of how the war has affected average Iraqis. As Islamic fundamentalism takes hold in the chaos of Baghdad, her shy teenage son turns to militancy, her once-progressive sister dons the veil, and whatever freedom Layla once had under Saddam Hussein’s secular rule is steadily being eroded. While facts about the Iraq war garner much U.S. media attention, MY HOME – YOUR WAR is a deeply compelling account of something seldom discussed: how the Iraq war has created a situation where the rise of fundamentalism is putting women’s rights increasingly at risk. Winner: Gold World Medal, Best Doc in NY 2007; Australian TV ATOM, Best Doc.

Thursday March 13 7pm
Winner: Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2008!
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
A film by Lisa F. Jackson 2007, 76 minutes, Color, VHS/DVD, French, Swahili,
Lingala, Mashi, Subtitled . Distributed by Women Make Movies.
Shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this extraordinary film shatters the silence that surrounds the shocking plight of women and girls caught in this country’s intractable conflict. Since 1998 a brutal war has ravaged the DRC, killing over 4 million people and resulting in many tens of thousands of women and girls being systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army. Until now, the stories of these women have never been told to the rest of the world. A survivor of gang rape herself, Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Lisa Jackson travels through the DRC to understand what is happening and why. This moving documentary, produced in association with HBO Documentary Films and the Fledgling Fund, features interviews with activists, peace keepers, physicians, and even – chillingly – the indifferent rapists who are all soldiers of the Congolese Army. But the most moving and harrowing moments of the film come as dozens of survivors recount their stories with an honesty and immediacy pulverizing in its intimacy and detail. Heart-wrenching in its portrayal of the grotesque realities of life in Congo, this powerful film also provides inspiring examples of resiliency, resistance, courage and grace.

Friday March 14th 7:00pm Part I
Saturday March 15th 7:00pm Part 2
All 6 episodes shown in two parts (each part 2 h 55min)
FLYING: Confessions of a Free Woman
Jennifer Fox, Denmark, 2006, 450 min., color, in English. www.flyingconfessions.com - www.artlic.com
Director Jennifer Fox will be present for both screenings!
Never before in our collective human history have so many women had such autonomy to construct a life of their own creation. Yet, the terrain is still rocky and 'choice' does not necessarily bring happiness, let alone freedom. Meanwhile, old models of femaleness still haunt women everywhere. In this six-hour tour de force, FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN, master storyteller Jennifer Fox lays bare her own turbulent life to penetrate what it means to be a free woman today. As her drama of work and relationships unfolds over four years, our protagonist travels to over seventeen countries to understand how diverse women define their lives when there is no map. Employing an ingenious new camera technique called "passing the camera,” Fox creates a documentary language that mirrors the special way women communicate. Over intimate conversations around kitchen tables from South Africa to Russia, India and Pakistan, she initiates a groundbreaking dialogue among women, illuminating universal concerns across race, class and nationality. Part delectable soap opera, sociopolitical inquiry, and narrative experiment, FLYING sweeps us up into an addictive international adventure chronicled with sincerity, innovation and elegance. —Caroline Libresco, SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL catalogue. SCREENINGS: Sundance Film Festival, 2007, IDFA: International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, 2007; Edinburgh Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival; Hot Docs Film Festival.
" Fox travels the globe to talk sex, marriage, babies, divorce, work, identity, oppression, socialization and abuse with her fascinating, far-flung friends. And their combined stories add
up to something remarkable: a kaleidoscopic meditation on gender-as-destiny.” LA Times

April 2008 top

ARTISTS NOW! DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ART GUEST LECTURE SERIES
MICHAEL BANICKI: NICHOLAS FRANK INTERVIEWS MICHAEL BANICKI
April 2, 2008 at 7 pm
Arts Center Lecture Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Michael Banicki rates overlooked or underappreciated things and compiles them into brilliantly-colored abstract paintings. Curator Nicholas Frank asks Banicki if his Americana is a form of nostalgia or an implicit critique of the throwaway consumerist culture. (In conjunction with Indexical Frontiers at Inova/Kenilworth.)

FILM: EXPERIMENTAL TUESDAYS
Zoopraxia: The Films of Karl Kels
Karl Kels in Person!
April 3, 2008 at 7 pm
UWM Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Information: (414) 229-4070
Karl Kels is a German experimental filmmaker who has sometimes taken the controlled environment of zoos as the site for his cinematic exploration as in Elephants (2000), Hippopotamuses (1993), and Rhinoceros (1987). Out of this endeavor a number of extraordinarily poignant portraits of the captive animals has emerged. Using carefully chosen camera angles and 35mm black and white film stock, he accrues his material slowly over periods of years. A great subtlety of nuance forms in the apparent endurance of the captive animals as it is mirrored within the shape of the film itself. As the elephant patiently waits, so, too, does the filmmaker. The result is a strikingly unsentimental observation of considerable emotional depth. In other films he has used numerically-based editing strategies that elicit the most surprising sensuality over the duration of the pieces. Kels will present these as well as his new film, shot in the Tribeca area of downtown Manhattan, NY.

UWM DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: CONVOCATION
April 4, 2008, 12-12:50 pm
Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
The Music Department gathers for its weekly convocation featuring the department’s woodwind students.

UWM GUITAR & MUSIC HISTORY AND LITERATURE PROGRAMS
“ Spider” John Koerner
April 4, 2008
Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
1-2:50 pm: Lecture/Demonstration ($10 at the door)
7:30 pm: Concert ($10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni)
“ Spider” John Koerner, guitar stylist and singer/songwriter, spends a day at the Peck School as a guest of the Guitar and Music History & Literature programs.
“ The songs of John Koerner are noted in books from Bob Dylan’s autobiography to a Kinks’ diary of recording sessions. The Beatles, specifically John Lennon, cited him as an influence. With Dave “Snaker” Ray and Tony “Little Sun” Glover, he recorded a ground-breaking series of albums from Elektra Records in the sixties; Koerner, Ray and Glover set the new standard for recuperating historic songs and artists, and defined all that was hip about the era when it came to making your own music that sounded traditional but was so brand new that it was tomorrow’s yesterday.” --Dr. Martin Jack Rosenblum

FILM: 30TH ANNUAL LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
April 4-11, 2008 (screenings each night at 7 pm)
UWM Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Information: (414) 229-4070
Co-sponsored by the Film Department. For a full schedule, visit http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/

UWM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA with UWM CONCERT CHORALE
April 4, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni.
The UWM Symphony Orchestra, Margery Deutsch conducting, is joined by the UWM Concert Chorale, under the direction of Sharon A. Hansen, in a concert featuring Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 and Handel’s Utrecht Jubilate.

UWM DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: KEYS TO THE FUTURE
note new price!
Saturday, April 5, 2008, 8:30 am-3:00 pm
Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
To register for Keys to the Future, call 414.229.4308. The fee is $30, which includes lunch.
The Music Department’s Piano area offers a career day for young pianists, grades 9-12, and their teachers. Sessions are offered by UWM faculty and guests, and include “Business Careers in Music” with David Jahnke, Vice President for National Sales at Hal Leonard Corp.; “Organ for Pianists—What do I do with my feet?” with Martha Stiehl; “Music Criticism” with Tom Strini of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; “Careers in Piano Pedagogy” with Peggy Otwell; “Careers in Music Technology, Composition and Sound Recording” with Kevin Schlei; “Jazz and the Piano” with Steve Nelson Raney and Curt Hanrahan; “The Unashamed Accompanist: Careers in Collaborative Piano” with Jeffry Peterson and Teresa Seidl; and “Piano Chamber Music” with Elena Abend. A small number of students will be chosen to play for a Master Class with Judit Jaimes.

UWM WIND ENSEMBLE & SYMPHONY BAND
April 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Zelazo Center, 2419 E. Kenwood Bd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students & seniors.
The Symphony Band, under the direction of Scott A. Jones and Scott Corley performs works by Boysen, Jr.(Kirkpatrick Fanfare), Respighi (The Huntingtower) and Wilson (Dance of the New World).The Wind Ensemble, under Scott Corley with Scott Jones assisting, plays works by Hartley (Concerto for 23 Winds), Schoenberg (Theme and Variations, Op. 43a) andGrainger (The Warriors - Music from an Imaginary Ballet).

UWM DANCE DEPARTMENT: DEBORAH LOHSE LECTURE
April 7, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Mitchell Hall, Room 341, 3202 N. Downer Ave.
FREE
New York-based choreographer Deborah Lohse, artist-in-residence in the Dance Department from April 7 through April 25, talks about her work.
Deborah Lohse, artistic director of ad hoc Ballet, is a classically trained choreographer and dancer from Sacramento, California. Lohse's ballet foundation was provided by Dame Sonia Arova and Thor Sutowski and continued with modern under Jean Isaacs, Kevin Wynn and Joe Goode. Her eclectic training also includes theatre, comedy improvisation and ballroom. As a dancer, she has performed with a variety of companies, including The Sacramento Ballet, Jean Isaacs' San Diego Dance Theatre and Monica Bill Barnes & Company. Lohse founded ad hoc Ballet in New York City in 2007 to explore the evocative place where classical collides with avant-garde. While maintaining a strong presence in both ballet and contemporary worlds of dance, ad hoc Ballet makes work that questions assumptions, redefines line and embraces radical musicality. Drawing inspiration from experimental music, Lohse makes work with poignant meaning and underlying social commentary.

JEWELRY & METALSMITHING VISITING ARTIST SERIES: NANZ AALUND
April 9, 2008
Arts Center, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
8-10:30 am Professional Practices Discussion, ART 390
Although her fascination with jewelry design was evident at the tender age of six, Nanz Aalund's first recognized jewelry piece was a silver pendant that won her a "Gold Key" Scholastic Art Award in high school. She continued her training by serving an apprenticeship in Chicago and receiving her BFA in Jewelry Arts from Northern Illinois University. While in Seattle, Washington, Aalund completed her MFA in metalsmithing and traveled to Berlin, Paris, London, and Florence to studied jewelry design and manufacturing. Aalund has worked as a fine jewelry consultant and designer for Nordstrom, Rudolf Erdel, Neiman Marcus, and Tiffany & Co. Some of Aalund's professional awards include finalist standing in the 2007 Saul Bell Awards, as well as an AGTA Spectrum Award, two Platinum Guild International Awards, and two DeBeers Diamond’s Today Awards. She will jury the Metals!08 student exhibition (opening April 17).

UWM LIBRARIES: MUSIC IN THE LIBRARY
Woodwind Chamber Music
April 9, 2008, noon-12:30 pm
UWM Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.
FREE
A series of free, informal concerts in the UWM Golda Meir Library’s Gathering Place (first floor, east wing, next to the Grind), featuring students from the UWM Peck School of the Arts Department of Music.

ARTISTS NOW! DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ART GUEST LECTURE SERIES
PATRICK RYOICHI NAGATANI: DESIRE FOR MAGIC
April 9, 2008 at 7 pm
Arts Center Lecture Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Patrick Nagatani, a consummate story teller, shows selected work and attempts to demystify some of the narratives by revealing source material from his readings and working processes. The New Mexico-based photographer will be in residence with the Film Department’s photography area April 9 & 10.

FILM: COMMUNITY MEDIA PROJECT & BLACK HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
DISPARITIES & MISCONCEPTIONS SERIES: Dark Exodus
April 10, 2008 at 7 pm
Black Holocaust Museum, 2233 N. 4th St.
Information: (414) 264-2500 or www.communitymediaproject.blogspot.com
Iverson White’s film Dark Exodus (US, 28min., 1985) focuses on how a family copes with one of the members being the victim of a lynching as they struggle to adjust to migrating from the South to the North in the early 1900s. This program is part of UWM’s Woodson Week.

UNRULY MUSIC: MUSIC FROM ALMOST YESTERDAY STUDENT ENSEMBLE
April 10, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
The MFAY student ensemble performs acoustic and electronic works by UWM Music Composition students.

MUSICAL THEATRE: OKLAHOMA!
April 10-13, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $19 general/$10 students, seniors & alumni.
Music by Richard Rodgers
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Based upon the play "Green Grow the Lilacs" by Lynn Riggs
Directed by Bill Watson
Choreography by Darci Brown Wutz
Vocal Direction by William Lavonis
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical drama will be presented by the Peck School of the Arts’ Inter-Arts Musical Theatre Program in an imaginative, semi-staged concert version featuring the talented students of the Departments of Music, Theatre and Dance.

UWM DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC: CONVOCATION
April 11, 2008, 12-12:50 pm
Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
The Music Department gathers for its weekly convocation featuring the department’s string students.

UWM DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ART: MA/MFA THESIS EXHIBITION II
April 11-26, 2008
Opening reception: April 11, 5-7 pm
Gallery talk: April 15 at 5:30 pm New Day & Time!!!!!
Inova/Arts Center, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., 2nd floor
FREE
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12 noon-5 pm
The second of two exhibitions of work by students receiving their MA and MFA degrees this spring. This exhibition features work by Jennifer Bastian, Max Estes, Chunlok Mah, Bill Miller and Annushka Peck.

UWM DEPARTMENTS OF FILM & VISUAL ART: FOUNDATIONS EXHIBITION IX: Hybrid
April 11-18, 2008
Opening reception: April 11, 5-8 pm
UWM Union Art Gallery, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., 2nd floor
FREE
Information: (414) 229-6310
Gallery hours: M-W & F-Sa, 12-5 p.m.; Th 12-7 pm.

The Foundations program provides first-year visual art students with a broad background in basic drawing, 2D & 3D concepts and the digital arts. The core curriculum in film provides the first-year film student with a similarly broad background in the film experience, media arts and film production. The Foundations year is a time of artistic and personal development, when students choose their areas of concentration and begin to see themselves becoming visual artists. Students from the Departments of Film and Visual Art will exhibit work created in their first year of study at UWM.

Each year Foundations assignments are structured around a general theme—this provides a sense of consistency as well as providing the students with programming that facilitates their concept development. This year’s theme is “hybrid.” In their work, students interpreted various ways in which a hybrid is created, through the combining, mixing, or crossing of two or more different entities or elements, with the intent of achieving a particular objective or goal.

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC GUEST RECITAL
EVGENIJ GRIDIUSHKO, GUITAR
April 11, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni
Guitarist, composer and pedagogue Evgenij Gridiushko is the most important figure in classical guitar in Belarus. The recipient of many awards as a composer and performer, Mr. Gridiushko is a professor in the Belarus Academy of Music where his students are consistently successful in competitions. His recital will include his own compositions as well as works from the guitar repertoire. While in residence at the Peck School, Mr. Gridiushko will give master classes to UWM students and UWM Pre-college guitar students.

SOUNDS OF SATURDAY: RENÉ IZQUIERDO
April 12, 2008 at 2 pm
Lubar Auditorium, Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive
Tickets & information: 414-224-3840
Classical guitarist René Izquierdo returns to the museum for an hour-long chamber music concert with guests Elina Chekan, guitar, and Valerie Errante, soprano.

FINE ARTS QUARTET
April 13, 2008 at 3 pm
Pre-concert talk with Interim Dean Scott Emmons begins at 2:15 pm.
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $19 general/$10 students, seniors & alumni.
The Fine Arts Quartet, artists in residence at the UWM Peck School of the Arts, are joined by pianists Fabio and Gisele Witkowski for a program that includes the String Quartet No.1 in E Minor, Op. 112 by Camille Saint-Saëns; Samuel Barber’s Souvenirs Ballet Suite, Op. 28; The Gaiety of a Children’s Band (from Children’s Carnival) by Heitor Villa-Lobos; two pieces by Francisco Mignone; and Robert Schumann’s Quintet in E Flat Major, Op.44.

FILM: COMMUNITY MEDIA PROJECT
Africa Beyond Film Series: Culture & Confrontation
Tongues Untied & Looking for Langston
April 14, 2008 at 7 pm
UWM Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Information: (414) 229-2931 or www.communitymediaproject.blogspot.com.
This spring The Community Media Project will continue its inquisition into radicalism in film in a new Monday Night series.

Tongues Untied
(Marlon Riggs, US, 55min., video, 1990)
Marlon Riggs' 1989 semi-documentary film seeks, in its author's words, to "...shatter the nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference." The film blends documentary footage with personal account and fiction in an attempt to depict the specificity of black gay identity. The "silence" referred to throughout the film is that of black gay men who are unable to express themselves because of the prejudices of white and black heterosexual society.
shown with:
Looking for Langston
(Isaac Julien, UK, 42min., 16mm, 1989)
In a meditation on Langston Hughes and other poets of the Harlem Renaissance, Isaac Julien combines archival footage with reenactments of the 1920s and poetry from various authors to present a film that privileges Black gay identity within a historical and contemporary context. The film features poetry by Hughes, Essex Hemphill and Bruce Nugent.

FILM: EXPERIMENTAL TUESDAYS
Mock Up on Mu
(Craig Baldwin, video, 120 minutes, 2008)
Craig Baldwin in person!
April 15, 2008 at 7 pm
UWM Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Regional premiere of the new “collage narrative” from filmmaker/media archaeologist/zeitgeist correspondent Craig Baldwin. Mock Up on Mu, per Baldwin, hurls "an exploded, pulp-fueled, found- footage-obsessed (mostly-) true historical narrative at hyper-speed from a slowly tumbling space- (and time-) station hosting experimental research on the intersection of aerospace, alternative religion, and outsider art and literature in post-War California.” With assorted short works prior and Q & A to follow. Artist will be in residence April 15-17.

ARTISTS NOW! DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ART GUEST LECTURE SERIES
SARA VELAS: ON THE VELASLAVASAY PANORAMA
April 16, 2008 at 7 pm
Arts Center Lecture Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Sara Velas introduces The Velaslavasay Panorama, a Los Angeles exhibition hall, theatre and garden dedicated to the production and presentation of an art form that has been all but lost, overtaken by technological advances and new forms of mass entertainment.

METALS! 08
April 17 – May 7, 2008
Opening reception: April 17, 6-8 pm (Juror’s choice awards will be announced at 7 pm)
Inova/Zelazo (The Mary L. Nohl Galleries), 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd. (second floor)
FREE
This annual exhibition of work by students in the Metals area, juried by Nanz Aalund, is a perennial favorite.

UWM LIBRARIES ACADEMIC ADVENTURERS SERIES: PROF. CAEN THOMASON-REDUS
" Flute Music of the African Diaspora" (A Lecture/Performance)
April 18, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
American Geographical Society Library, located on the 3rd Floor, East Wing, of the UWM Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.
FREE
Information: 414-229-6282 or agsl@uwm.edu
UWM's Academic Adventurers is a continuing series of informal Friday afternoon programs which give members of the UWM community the opportunity to hear of their colleagues adventures abroad and afield. There is tea and talk after each Academic Adventurers lecture, courtesy of the Friends of the Golda Meir Library. Caen Thomason-Redus is on the faculty of the Music Department.

FILM DEPARTMENT & UWM UNION THEATRE: DOCUMENTARY FRONTIERS
Taiga
(Ulrike Ottinger, Germany/Mongolia, in Mongolian and German w/ English subtitles, 501 min. 35mm, 1993)
April 18-20, 2008
Part I will play each day from 1-5 pm and Part II will play from 6-10 pm.
UWM Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Information: (414) 229-4070
Taiga is Ulrike Ottinger's rarely seen, legendary epic documentary shot within Mongolia. Focusing on the daily lives of the Darchad nomads and the Tuvan people of the North, Ottinger observes their shamanic rituals, celebrations, hunting expeditions, real Mongolian barbecues and other aspects of their nomadic existence amidst spellbinding landscapes. Taiga mirrors the slow, unhurried pace of Mongolian life.

" Ulrike Ottinger's Taiga comes as cool relief and a stark reminder of how 'civilization' has shifted focus from community to individual. Ottinger's staggeringly patient ethnographic project - recording the way they live now - is a labor of exemplary attention and reticence." -Georgia Brown, The Village Voice

KENILWORTH SQUARE EAST OPEN HOUSE
April 18-19, 2008
Friday, April 18, 5-9 pm
Saturday, April 19, noon-5 pm
Stop in at the Kenilworth Square East Building, the Peck School’s recently renovated facility, in conjunction with Gallery Night and Day to check out our latest creative research. Faculty, staff and graduate student studios, project rooms and temporary spaces will be open for viewing, as will the Inova/Kenilworth gallery.

COLLOQUIA IN CONCEPTUAL STUDIES: SENSATIONAL! SENSING MEDIA ARTS THEORY AND PRACTICE
Caroline Jones & Sissel Tolaas: Sensorium
April 18, 2008, 6 pm
Kenilworth Square East, 1925 E. Kenilworth Pl., 4th Floor
FREE
Caroline Jones, professor and director of the History, Theory, Criticism Program in the Department of Architecture at MIT, and conceptual artist Sissel Tolaas, whose work explores the sense of smell, engage in a talk, discussion and installation. (This event is part of the Kenilworth Square East Spring Open House.)

UWM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
April 18, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall, Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni.
Graduate student Motoaki Kashino conducts the chamber orchestra in Gounod’s Petite Symphonie, Exultate Jubilate by Mozart, and Copland's Appalachian Spring. The soprano soloist is Meaghan Reider.

PASSOVER: APRIL 19-27, 2008

YOLANDA MARCULESCU VOCAL ARTS SERIES: A TRIBUTE TO JANE HEINEMANN
Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 3 pm
Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni
Soprano Tanya Kruse Ruck and pianist Jeffry Peterson offer an evening of art songs by Verdi, Debussy, Laitman, Struss, Marx and Turina.

FILM: COMMUNITY MEDIA PROJECT
Africa Beyond Film Series: Culture & Confrontation
She’s Gotta Have It
(Spike Lee, USA, 86min., 35mm, 1986)
April 21, 2008 at 7 pm
UWM Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Information: (414) 229-2931 or www.communitymediaproject.blogspot.com.
This spring The Community Media Project will continue its inquisition into radicalism in film in a new Monday Night series.
Nola Darling (Tracy Camilla Johns) is a young, attractive, sexually independent Brooklynite who juggles three suitors: the polite and well-meaning Jamie Overstreet (Tommy Redmond Hicks); the self-obsessed model Greer Childs (John Canada Terrell); and the immature, motor-mouthed bicycle messenger Mars Blackmon (Lee). Nola is attracted to the best in each of them, but refuses to commit to any of them, cherishing her personal freedom instead, even though each man wants her for himself.

FILM EXPERIMENTAL TUESDAYS - Craig Baldwin in Person
THIS EVENT HAS MOVED TO APRIL 15

UWM THEATRE MAINSTAGE SERIES: THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE by Bertolt Brecht
April 22-27, 2008 (all shows at 7:30 pm except Sunday, 2:00 pm)
Mainstage Theatre, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni.
Additional events: The performance on Wednesday, April 23, will be preceded by an informal talk beginning at 6:45 pm. The Inova/Arts Center gallery, above the Theatre Lobby, will remain open until 7:30 pm on Friday, April 25. On view: a Department of Visual Art MA/MFA Thesis Exhibition.
Grusha is a maid caught holding a baby in the middle of a revolution. Her mistress has fled, taking the fancy dresses but forgetting the child, and Grusha is off to the mountains with the soldiers of the insurgent Fat Prince hot on her heels. After peace is restored, a court must decide who should have the child—his royal kin who abandoned him, or the peasant who suffered unimaginable hardships to keep him safe. Directed by Raeleen McMillion.

UWM LIBRARIES: MUSIC IN THE LIBRARY
Cole Heinrich, finger-style guitar
April 23, 2008, noon-12:30 pm
UWM Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.
FREE
A series of free, informal concerts in the UWM Golda Meir Library’s Gathering Place (first floor, east wing, next to the Grind), featuring students from the UWM Peck School of the Arts Department of Music.

ARTISTS NOW! DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ART GUEST LECTURE SERIES
DAN ANDERSON: How I got from Hudson, Wisconsin to where I am today in Edwardsville, Illinois
April 23, 2008 at 7 pm
Arts Center Lecture Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
FREE
Dan Anderson received his BS degree in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls in 1968 and his MFA degree in 1970 from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills Michigan. A noted artist/educator, he headed the ceramic program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville from 1976 until August 2002, when he retired after 32 years of teaching. A frequent workshop presenter, Anderson has lectured and demonstrated at over 150 venues over the past three decades, including: the Archie Bray Foundation, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School, Anderson Ranch, Peters Valley Craft Center, Watershed and Arrowmont School. A multiple grant/award recipient, he has received an NEA Artist Fellowship, twelve Illinois Arts Council grants (including six Artist Fellowships) and a Ford Foundation Grant. Major galleries represent Dan across the United States and his work is in numerous private and permanent collections. Dan currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Edwardsville Arts Center and Vice-President on the Board of Directors of the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana.

MUSIC FROM ALMOST YESTERDAY: BALLET ON TEN FINGERS
April 23, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Recital Hall, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Tickets: $10 general/$7 students, seniors & alumni
Pianist Louis Goldstein, the stellar performer of “Triadic Memories” by Morton Feldman in Milwaukee in 2004, will realize a new multimedia version of Yehuda Yannay’s “Continuum” incorporating choreographed hand and finger movement. Also piano music by Stephen “Lucky” Mosko, the legendary composer and conductor from L.A. who died in 2005.

FILM DEPARTMENT; IN ANTICIPATION OF MAY DAY: CATCHING UP WITH CHRIS MARKER
April 24 & 25, 2008
Presented as part of a cross-city celebration of films by Chris Marker

April 24 at 7 pm: Cream City Collectives, 732 E. Clarke St.
À bientôt, j'espère/Be Seeing You ((Mario Marret & Chris Marker; produced by SLON, 16mm on vhs, 39 min., 1968)
A documentary of and a conversation with the striking workers of Rhodiaceta, a textile plant owned by the Rhone-Poulenc trust in the city of Besançon, France. Refusing to disassociate the industrial conflict from a social and cultural agenda, the striking workers' demands concerned not only salary and job security, but also the very lifestyle imposed on them by society. Produced by SLON, which translates as the "Company for the Launching of New Works.” Marker was a member of this filmmaking collective from 1967-1976.

April 25 at 7pm: WOODLAND PATTERN EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO SERIES
Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St.
Tickets: $2 at the door
The Embassy (super8 on DVD, 21 min., 1973). One of Chris Marker's few fiction films, The Embassy, shot in Super8 in the wake of the coup d’etat in Chile in 1972, shows political dissidents seeking refuge in a foreign embassy after a military coup d'état in an unidentified country. Over the next few days, more and more people fleeing the military assault-teachers, students, intellectuals, artists, and politicians-arrive at the embassy.
&
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (Chris Marker & François Reichenbach, 16mm on DVD, b&w/sound, 26 min., 1967) Marker’s doc on the October 21, 1967 march on the Pentagon for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. "If the five sides of the pentagon appear impregnable, attack the sixth side." -- Zen proverb