Manitowoc Public Library Winter Reading Program 2026: Warm Up to a Good Book!
2025-01-11 00:01 - 2025-02-28 23:59 (America/Chicago) | Manitowoc Public Library, 707 Quay Street, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 54220, United States
The Winter Reading Program is open to All Ages! Read or be read to for a total of 10 hours from Sunday, January 11 through Saturday, February 28. Everyone who finishes receives a raffle ticket to enter to win one of a variety of fantastic prize baskets! Participate by tracking your reading on the Beanstack app, by visiting manitowoclibrary.beanstack.org or by picking up a paper tracker at any MPL Service Desk! For a full list of sponsors for the Winter Reading program, click HERE!

Michelle Grabner: Under the Sink
2025-01-17 08:00 - 2025-05-24 17:00 | Haggerty Museum of Art, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233, United States
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 broom, and cast porcelain buckets, caddies, wash brushes, toilet paper rolls, washcloths, “wet floor” signs, and cleaning supplies.
The majority of the work in Grabner’s exhibition is produced in the Kohler MakerSpace, an invitational project space for artists and designers based in Kohler’s Pottery. In addition, the display includes work from Kohler Co.’s commercial production line including single basin wall-mounted sinks.
Grabner’s display celebrates the labor of sanitation, highlights the design of those objects, and creates a conceptual link to Cleaning Woman, a photograph by August Sander in the Museum’s adjacent collection display.

Parallel Play: The Art of Science & the Science of Art
2025-01-17 08:00 - 2025-05-24 17:00 | Haggerty Museum of Art, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233, United States
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 the creative processes of scientists and artists. The class is team-taught by Dr. Deanna Arble, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences and Lynne Shumow, Curator for Academic Engagement, Haggerty Museum of Art.
Featuring work from the Haggerty’s permanent collection, Parallel Play is divided into four sections that coincide with the scientific method—clarify, ideate, develop and implement. Through the exhibited art pieces, connections have been made between the work of artists and scientists with a special emphasis on the essential elements of scientific research—rejection, revision and the formulation of new ideas. Parallel Play aims to demystify the process of innovation across disciplines and to illuminate the multiple routes of discovery and interpretation that art has to offer.
Support for this exhibition is generously provided by the Stackner Family Endowment Fund.

The Big 4-0, Vol. 2: New Views of the Collection
2025-01-17 10:00 - 2025-05-24 17:00 | Haggerty Museum of Art, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233, United States
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 paper brought out for the special anniversary. The show of modern and contemporary art contains distinct themes within each gallery such as artistic composition through chance, the role of personal biography, artistic use of commercial printing, and artistic creation following wartime.
The Big 4-0 Vol. 2 is the second of a two-part installation of the exhibition galleries. Vol. 2 features a completely new display to demonstrate the breadth and depth of the Museum’s collection. In combination, the Fall and Spring anniversary exhibitions feature more than 100 works of art. Both installations are curated by Dr. Kirk Nickel, Marc and Lillian Rojtman Curator of European Art.
Support for this exhibition is generously provided by the Emmett J. Doerr Endowment Fund and in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Power of Visual Storytelling
2025-02-20 12:30 - 13:30 | UW-Eau Claire — Barron County, Fine Arts, 1800 College Dr, Rice Lake, 54868
Jesse Roesler is an Emmy and James Beard award-winning filmmaker whose work has moved millions via PBS, The Travel Channel and The New York Times.
His debut feature film The Starfish Throwers was named “The Most Heartwarming Film of the Year” by The Huffington Post. Jesse’s most recent film Breaking Trail follows Emily Ford’s historic Ice Age Trail thru hike in winter and won dozens of film festival awards.
He currently resides in Chetek, WI with his wife and two sons where he is Principal and Creative Director at the creative content studio Credo Nonfiction.
These and other sessions in the lecture series are free and open to the public, thanks to financial support from the campus foundation. Neither seating reservations nor parking permits are required. Most talks are livestreamed at www.ricelaketv.com; they are also archived and can be watched later at www.uwec.ly/Thursdays. For more information, call the campus at 715-788-6244 or email holdenlk@uwec.edu. The next session on February 27 will feature Abbey Fischer Geeking Out About the Boundary Waters.

Expert Series: “Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History”
2025-02-20 18:15 - 19:15 | Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Dr, Milwaukee, 53202
Hear from Robert Longo and a panel of art historians for a conversation about history painting moderated by Margaret Andera, senior curator of contemporary art and curator of the exhibition “Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History.”

Songwriters Showcase Featuring Weary Ramblers
2025-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Galena Center for the Arts, 971 Gear St, Galena, Illinois, 61036, United States
Songwriter Showcase encourages the creation and sharing of original music by regional singer songwriters.
Iowa folk duo, Weary Ramblers bring years of experience to the stage with award-winning songwriting and chemistry. Chad Elliott and Kathryn Fox showcase multi-instrumental performances with tight harmonies and great storytelling.
This concert is free and open to the public, donations welcomed. Refreshments available.
Special thanks to sponsors Mark and Mary Ellen.

St. Bernadette Parish Fish Fry
2025-02-21 16:30 - 19:00 | St. Bernadette Parish, 8200 W Denver Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53223, United States
St. Bernadette Parish, 8200 West Denver Avenue (about three blocks south of Good Hope Road) invites you to enjoy their fabulous fish fry in the parish hall. Included in a $17 dinner are fish, coleslaw, fries, rye roll, tartar sauce, lemon wedge, and coffee. Soda, beer, and desserts are available for purchase. A small portion dinner is available for $14. In addition to individual dinners, we also offer a family bucket for $44, which includes 1.5 pounds of fish and the sides, as well. We offer carryout and sit-down dining.
​We can accommodate large groups. Just give the parish office a call (414-358-4600) or send an e-mail (stbernadette@nwmcp.org) ahead of time and we will reserve enough tables for your group members to sit together.
Future fish fry dates: March 7, March 21, April 4, April 18, May 16
Our facilities are handicapped accessible.

WPR Music Bingo at Art of Joy in Cedarburg
2025-02-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Art of Joy Social House & Mercantile, W63N664 Washington Avenue, Cedarburg, 53012, United States
Join Wisconsin Public Radio for Music Bingo where you can test your music knowledge while playing bingo for a chance to win WPR swag!

Joe Hill: Alive As You and Me
2025-02-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Muso Madison, 2040 Winnebago, Madison, United States
One man play featuring Tom Kastle on the life, songs, and time of Joe Hill

Greco-Roman Myths & Mischief at the Bartell
2025-02-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Bartell Theatre, 113 E. Mifflin St., Madison, Wisconsin, 53703, United States
Four Short Plays set in ancient Greece and Rome
Step into the world of gods, heroes, and classic hijinks with SBR’s upcoming production of four unique and thrilling tales from the mythic times of ancient Greece and Rome, with satyrs, epic Trojan plots, and plenty of humor and adventure. Greco-Roman Myths & Mischief, Four Epic Escapades by local playwright Nick Schweitzer, directed by Jasmine Ridler, will be playing at the Bartell Theatre February 21 – March 1. Information and tickets at bartelltheatre.org.
Even before epic stories were told in the Greek theater, Homer and other bards were reciting and singing the heroic and tragic stories of the Trojan War, which most likely occurred around 1200 BCE. “Helen of Troy, Pretext for War” provides a novel psychological explanation for her flight that precipitated the conflict. The stories of the Trojan War, of which the Iliad is but one, were transmitted orally until written down around 800 BCE. “A Song of Troy” imagines the first time one of Homer’s songs was committed to paper (or parchment).
Around 600-500 BCE, the western theater tradition developed in what is now Greece out of dances and choral recitations to which individual speakers were added, first one, then two, then three. All of the epic Greek tragic plays were written as tetralogies, three serious plays followed by a humorous, even farcical, satyr play. The most famous Greek cycle of three tragic plays, written by Aeschylus, tells the story of Orestes, who murdered his mother, because she murdered his father, because he murdered their daughter, and the cycle is collectively referred to as the Oresteia. The satyr play of the Oresteia has never been found, but “Orestes in the Underworld” fills that deficit.
The Romans venerated the earlier Greek culture, copying it in many ways, including adopting Greek theater architecture and traditions, along with almost all of its many gods, with or without changed names. The Roman playwrights penned some notable comedies, and Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors combines the plots of two plays by Plautus. “Touched by the Gods” illustrates the role that the anthropomorphic Greek and Roman gods played in people’s lives. As Jupiter says, “We are the anger, fear, debauchery, fidelity, tranquility, and lust that motivate your puny human lives.”
For further information, contact
Nick Schweitzer, jnschweitzer@gmail.com, 608-692-8002,
or Jasmine Ridler, jasmine.lucille.ridler@gmail.com, 330-419-9166.

On A Winter’s Night
2025-02-21 19:30 - 22:00 | Stoughton Opera House, 381 East Main Street, Stoughton, Wisconsin, 53589, United States
Presenting the Reunion Tour of “On A Winter’s Night” from veteran singer-songwriters that remain among the brightest stars of the singer-songwriter movement for the past three decades. In 1994 Christine Lavin gathered them together, along with folk and Americana artists to showcase music of the Winter Season on the now-classic On A Winter’s Night CD, followed by several years of touring collaborations. These artists have released dozens of recordings and toured steadily through the decades, with fond memories of their touring days together. The winter season is again celebrated by these unique and popular performers, back together by popular demand.

Café Crawl
2025-02-22 08:30 - 12:00 | Downtown Green Bay
Explore Downtown Green Bay’s unique flavors at the Café Crawl, a delightful event showcasing local coffees, teas, and tasty treats. Hop aboard a trolley provided by Lamers Bus Lines or use your own transportation to visit participating cafés and small businesses, including the new Kompound Cafe.
Each ticket includes a punch card for sampling items at each stop. Once completed, the punch card can be turned in at any participating location for a chance to win a gift card.
Check-in will be available at The Daily Buzz and Grounded Café, where you’ll receive your punch card to start your journey. Trolleys will continuously loop through the districts, making it easy to explore at your own pace. Free parking is available throughout downtown.
Thank you to our sponsors, Cellcom and Lamers Bus Lines!
To purchase tickets and discover the participating businesses, visit https://tinyurl.com/mkr8h9nu

Folk Arts Festival
2025-02-22 12:00 - 17:00 | Chippewa Valley Museum, 1204 E. Half Moon Dr., Eau Claire, 54703, United States
Ready to engage your curiosity? Attend our Folk Arts Festival to enjoy live demos, talented artisans showcasing their craft, and hands-on activities for all ages on Saturday, February 22 from 12-5pm at the Chippewa Valley Museum. There’ll be music, activities for kids, and food available for purchase.

Storytime with the Enduring Families Project
2025-02-22 13:00 - 14:00 | La Crosse Area Heritage Center
Book Reading by the Author of new book; Long Way to Find a Home, George Edwin Taylor as a Child

6th Annual Butterfly Ball
2025-02-22 17:00 - 22:00 | The Edgewater Hotel, 1001 Wisconsin Pl, Madison, 53703
The Alana Rose Foundation will be hosting the 6th Annual Butterfly Ball on Saturday, February 22, 2025 at the Edgewater Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin. Kids are welcome to attend the Butterfly Ball Kids Party!
This year’s theme is “Among the Clouds”. Dress in all white and join us as we honor the angels who are among the clouds and learn more about the impact of pregnancy and infant loss on siblings.
Proceeds from this year’s event will help support the mission of the Alana Rose Foundation to raise awareness and provide hope, healing, and support to families who experience pregnancy and infant loss. 10% of proceeds will benefit the nonprofit organization “Siblings Among the Clouds”.
Together, we can help transform families after loss.

Elvis Through The Years
2025-02-22 18:00 - 23:00 | Loxley, 5264 Verona Road, Fitchburg, 53711
On the 90th Anniversary of Elvis’ birthday – relive the songs of the Rock n’ Roll legend as we roll through the years.
A Lifetime Award Winning artist Garry Wesley’s tribute to Elvis Presley is more than an act; it’s a soulful communion with the King’s legacy.
Doors open at 6 PM – Show starts at 7:30.
Full Bar and snacks available for purchase.
Check out the venue at Loxleyvenue.com

Il Grande Carnevale
2025-02-22 18:11 - 22:11 | Italian Community Center, 631 E Chicago St, Milwaukee, 53202, United States
The 46th Annual Il Grande Carnevale celebration, hosted by the Italian Community Center, will be held on February 22nd. Doors open at 6:11 PM, with complimentary champagne aperitif and passed hors d’oeuvres to begin the evening. At 7:11 PM, enjoy a sit-down dinner by Bartolotta’s Catering, with a choice of Braised Short Ribs (boneless short ribs, baby carrots, and Yukon potato puree, GF) or Pasta Pomodoro (penne pasta with fresh tomato, garlic, olive oil, basil, and grated parmesan cheese). The meal includes a Caesar salad and Flourless Chocolate Cake (GF). Indulge in Italian desserts at the sweets table at 9:11 PM. Throughout the night, participate in a silent online auction, wine & spirits pull, and compete for a cash prize for the best costume and mask, all while dancing to live entertainment by Enzo Scarano and Stella Raimondi. A cash bar will be available for drinks throughout the evening. Dress to impress in semi-formal attire for a night filled with fun, food, drinks, and dancing. Member price: $70, non-member price: $85.

Mike Dowling In Concert
2025-02-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Pittsville School Auditorium, 5459 Elementary Ave, Pittsville, 54466, United States
Pittsville Area Foundation for the Arts Concert Series

Wisconsin Music Trivia with WPR - Sturgeon Bay
2025-02-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Cherry Lanes Arcade Bar, 127 North 4th Avenue, Sturgeon Bay, 54235, United States
Gather your friends to play Wisconsin Music Trivia with WPR! Test your Wisconsin music knowledge and win WPR prizes!

It Came from Hollywood: An evening of film music
2025-02-22 19:30 - 21:00 | United Presbyterian-Congregational Church, 214 Vaughn Ave., Ashland, WI, 54806, United States
Enjoy a musical program filled with film music that is memorable, poignant, joyful, and at times obscure. Brought to you by the Ashland Chamber Music Society and a quintet of talented area artists, the audience is invited to meet the musicians at a free reception following the concert.

Star Wars: A New Hope
2025-02-22 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-02-23 14:30 - 16:30 | Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703, United States
The second Madison Symphony Orchestra MSO at the Movies of the season presents Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert featuring the complete film with composer John Williams’ iconic Oscar®-winning score performed live to the film. Since the release of this first Star Wars movie over 45 years ago, the Star Wars saga has had a seismic impact on both cinema and culture, inspiring audiences around the world with its mythic storytelling, captivating characters, groundbreaking special effects and iconic musical scores composed by Williams. Fans will experience the scope and grandeur of this beloved film in a live symphonic concert experience.
Kyle Knox, Conductor

Eccentric Acoustic and Paul & Andy
2025-02-22 19:30 - 21:30 | The Coffee House, 2717 E. Hampshire St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53211, United States
Eccentric Acoustic is a trio featuring Ruth Williams on mandolin, Sandy Stehling on guitar, and Scott Emmons on bass. Together they perform a wide variety of music, ranging from swing era jazz and country blues to more contemporary country, folk, and Americana.
Paul Smith & Andy Jehly come from very different musical backgrounds including 1960’s psychedelic and folk rock, traditional folk, R&B and country. What they share is a passion for music with history, great harmonies, and evocative lyrics.

The Flat Five
2025-02-22 19:30 - 22:00 | Stoughton Opera House, 381 East Main Street, Stoughton, Wisconsin, 53589, United States
The Flat Five is Chicago’s beloved band of in-demand music biz touring and recording ringers – Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor (Neko Case, Mavis Staples, The Decemberists, The New Pornographers) Scott Ligon and Casey McDonough (NRBQ, Brian Wilson) and Alex Hall (J.D. McPherson, The Cactus Blossoms.)
For over 17 years, these shameless harmony junkies have come together in their limited off-time to make their own kind of twisted sunshine pop. Their 2016 debut album It’s a World of Love and Hope scored big with critics and fans alike (including high-profile Flat Five fanatics like Nick Lowe and Wilco) and their 2020 follow-up Another World has kept the flame burning bright.
From the laid-back simple to the oddly romantic to the slightly subversive, there is a spirit of wide-eyed sweetness at the heart of The Flat Five’s music. The charms of this band are manifest — in-the-pocket harmonies, a vastly diverse genre-hopping repertoire, the infectious energy of their sold-out live shows, and their undeniable love for the music and each other.

41st Annual Garbage Omelet Breakfast
2025-02-23 08:00 - 12:00 | Holy Assumption Church Hall, 5601 Tower Ave, Superior, 54880
Knights of Columbus Council 7106 Garbage Omelet Breakfast
Holy Assumption Church Hall
5601 Tower Ave. Superior, WI
Cost: $12.00 adults, $6.00 children 12 and under
Includes beverage, toast and hash browns.

Anishinaabe Music: More Than Pow-wow
2025-02-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Memorial Union, Play Circle, 800 Langdon Street, Madison, 53715
Lyz Jaakola, Nitaa-Nagamokwe (The lady who knows how to sing), will share traditional and modern Ojibwe-Anishinaabe songs and knowledge from her life-long study of Native American music, especially Anishinaabe women’s music. Using an Indigenous Informance style, weaving story, visuals and song she will be joined by her 18 year old son to offer their 21st century American Indian perspectives.

WPR Music Bingo at The Grand Theater
2025-02-25 18:00 - 19:00 | The Grand Theater, 401 North 4th Street, Wausau, 54403, United States
Test your knowledge of classical music at WPR Music Bingo!

Limmie Pulliam, Tenor with Greg Zelek, Organ: Overture Concert Organ's 20th Season
2025-02-25 19:30 - 21:00 | Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703, United States
Limmie Pulliam awed our Madison audience with his performances in Madison Opera’s Tosca and our own 2023 Madison Symphony Orchestra Christmas concert. He and I will join forces in a program featuring some of the most well-known operatic arias, gospel works arranged for organ and tenor, and solo organ arrangements of opera overtures and instrumentals. I can’t wait to bring Mr. Pulliam back to wow our audience once again! – Greg Zelek
Program
Giuseppe Verdi, Celeste Aida from Aida
Giacomo Puccini, Nessun Dorma from Turandot
Giuseppe Verdi, La donna è mobile from Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi, Grand March from Aida
Giacomo Puccini, E lucevan le stelle from Tosca
Moses Hogan, Give Me Jesus
Traditional, Steal Away
Traditional, Ride On, King Jesus
Andraé Crouch, Through It All
Take Note: Drinks Allowed in Overture Hall
As of this season, drinks are allowed inside Overture Hall during all Madison Symphony Orchestra concerts. Refreshments may be purchased at bars and concession stands located around the Overture Hall lobby before each concert and during intermission. Please enjoy food in the lobby and unwrap any candy or cough drops before the performance begins. Thank you!

Slow Art Saturday
2025-02-27 08:00 - 17:00 | Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Dr, Milwaukee, 53202
Explore a single work of art from the Museum’s collection in depth with Amy Kirschke, Barbara Brown Lee Senior Director of Learning and Engagement, during this program that encourages presence and promotes well-being.
