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  • 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
  • Anytime Anywhere Meditation Course

    Anytime Anywhere Meditation Course

    Join Tergar Madison for a 5-week hybrid workshop designed to make meditation enriching and accessible from anywhere. This program will guide you through the essential topics of awareness, compassion, and wisdom, blending traditional teachings with modern insights. The workshop will be led by Scott Anderson, an experienced meditator and teacher who combines his expertise in […]

    $25 – $75
  • Thursdays@U

    Why do Birds Sing? Scientists have known how birds sing for decades but why they sing is still a puzzle. Please join us to learn more from Dr. Lauren Riters about birds and their songs. The focus of research in Dr. Riters lab is on the neural regulation of vocal communication in songbirds. She and […]

    Free
  • The Arcadian Wild ~ River & Rail supports

    The Arcadian Wild is a four-piece indie folk/pop group from Nashville, TN. Led by songwriters Isaac Horn and Lincoln Mick with Bailey Warren on fiddle, The Arcadian Wild confidently inhabits and explores an intersection of genre, blending the traditional with the contemporary. Combining elements of progressive bluegrass, folk, and formal vocal music, The Arcadian Wild […]

    $25
  • 1776, the musical

    1776, the musical

    1776, America’s Prize Winning Musical May 1st, 2nd and 3rd at 7:30pm; May 4th at 2:00pm, Theatre Arts Center It is the summer of 1776, and the nation is ready to declare independence… if only our founding fathers can agree to do it! 1776 follows John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania and Thomas […]

    $14
  • The Fourth Wall- Fruit Flies Like a Banana

    Part of the Community First Credit Union ArtREACH Series Additional Support provided by Wisconsin Public Service Foundation Few musical ensembles earn top marks for their “deft choreography,” but this is no ordinary ensemble. Part chamber music group, part devised theatre company, part modern dance troupe, part circus act, The Fourth Wall blends music, theatre, dance, […]

    $32
  • Chris Smither

    The sound and imagery of the 20th release by Chris Smither, All About the Bones, on Signature Sounds/Mighty Albert, distributed by Redeye) is as elemental as the inky black shadows cast by a shockingly bright moon. The listener is welcomed into some gothic mansion on an imaginary New Orleans street, and there in the lamplit […]

    $35
  • Henry the Fifth

    Henry the Fifth

    The young and wild Prince Hal is now King in his own right. His enemies and allies have something in common: they all underestimate him. Now, King Henry will make his indelible mark on the world, silence the doubters, and set England on the path to decades of chaos and infighting. Directed by Sam D. […]

    $25
  • 1776, the musical

    1776, the musical

    1776, America’s Prize Winning Musical May 1st, 2nd and 3rd at 7:30pm; May 4th at 2:00pm, Theatre Arts Center It is the summer of 1776, and the nation is ready to declare independence… if only our founding fathers can agree to do it! 1776 follows John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania and Thomas […]

    $14
  • Blacksmithing Workshops at Wade House

    Blacksmithing Workshops at Wade House

    Learn the art of blacksmithing at Wade House!  Strike while the iron is hot, hear the “clang” of the hammer and feel the heat from the forge as you learn the art of blacksmithing in our 1860s-era Dockstader Blacksmith Shop at Wade House. During your forging tutorial, you’ll shape unique knives from various materials and […]

    $125 – $225
  • Lakefly Book Fair

    This free event will be held at the Oshkosh Convention Center on May 3rd. Wisconsin has some great local authors and this is a chance to find some great reads and support the people in our community. Authors can register for a table at https://lakeflywriters.org/registration/.

    Free