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The Big 4-0: An Exhibition Celebrating the Haggerty Museum of Art’s Forty Years
2024-08-23 10:00 - 2024-12-22 16:30 (America/Chicago) | Arts and Entertainment District, 1 Division St, Stoughton, 53589
The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University presents an exhibition in celebration of its 40th anniversary. Curated by Dr. Kirk Nickel, Marc and Lillian Rojtman Curator of European Art, the show comprises a two-part installation of the exhibition galleries, in fall 2024 and spring 2025, and features well over 100 works of art from the museum’s collections.
Ranging widely within time periods, geographies, and artists’ careers, the exhibition highlights major works in the Haggerty’s collection, organized into six curated galleries each semester. These distinct but conceptually linked spaces reflect the museum’s enduring commitment to the work of modern and contemporary artists, while also featuring a select group of Renaissance and Baroque artworks. The exhibition draws particular attention to the ideas and impulses that have fueled artists through the recent century, including novel approaches to modern materials + processes, political satire, kinetic and op art, migration, photography’s relationship to truth, mail art, and the challenge of representing life after war. Artworks by Mark Bradford, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Enrique Chagoya, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jeffrey Gibson, Sam Gilliam, Philip Guston, Keith Haring, Wifredo Lam, Elizabeth Murray, Diego Rivera, and Richard Serra will appear in the opening installation. Many of the works on view have benefitted from new research and conservation efforts, shedding additional light on their fabrication and display histories, and in some cases, the identity of their maker.
At its opening in 1984, the Haggerty Museum of Art was envisioned both as a repository for Marquette’s collection of fine art and as a center for learning through the visual arts in a way that emphasized necessary connections to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. Four decades later, the museum reaffirms that commitment to interdisciplinary connection. The Haggerty’s broad and varied collection is the product of passionate art collectors and supporters in the Milwaukee area and beyond, to whom we are exceedingly grateful. Their gifts to the museum allow us to present the brilliant and inspiring work of artists who speak boldly to their time and place, and to generations to come.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the museum will host a slate of curator-led gallery talks and a lecture series with invited specialists to address works on view in the exhibition.
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.

SOS Color Code 2024
2024-08-31 10:00 - 2024-12-21 16:30 | Haggerty Museum of Art, 1234 W Tory Hill St, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233, United States
“SOS Color Code 2024” is an indoor and outdoor installation by Luftwerk, the Chicago-based artist team of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero. Using the universal languages of Morse code and color theory, “SOS Color Code 2024” transforms the international signal of distress into a sign of solidarity and connectedness.
Luftwerk collaborated with design studio Normal to create the outdoor component of the project that is comprised of three-flags placed in front of the Museum, while the indoor component pairs a painted mural with a display of changing colored lights. Dots and dashes of Morse code representing the letters S (three dots) O (three dashes) S (three dots), appear on the flags and in the mural creating a playful visual excursion while investigating color as a system of language and symbols and a marker of emotion. Visually, the SOS pattern is an effective distress signal, an ambigram that can be read upside down or right side up.
“SOS Color Code 2024” was scheduled to coincide with the 2024 presidential election and the International Day of Democracy. Celebrated around the world on September 15th each year, the International Day of Democracy was established through a resolution passed by the UN General Assembly in 2007, with the aim of encouraging governments to strengthen and consolidate democracy.
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Support for this exhibition is generously provided by the Lacey Sadoff Foundation. In partnership Sculpture Milwaukee.

43rd Annual Villa Louis Carriage Classic
2024-09-06 08:00 - 2024-09-08 16:00 | Villa Louis Historic Site, 521 Villa Louis Rd, Prairie du Chien, 53821
At the 43rd Annual Villa Louis Carriage Classic, teams from across the country will jockey for first place in the Midwest’s largest, most elegant and lavishly appointed equine sport driving event. Watch as riders in hats and gloves maneuver through driving competitions, take part in judging a picnic class competition and enjoy the dog class, where drivers steer carriages accompanied by their faithful pets (don’t worry—dogs are strictly prohibited from taking the reins).
Friday, September 6 – Sunday, September 8, 2024 | 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Paul Kosower in his 80th Birthday Celebration Concert
2024-09-08 14:00 - 17:00 | Haas Fine Arts Building, 121 Water St, , WI, Eau Claire, 54703
On Sunday, September 8th at 2 pm, the University of Eau Claire Department of Music and Theatre Arts presents Faculty Professor Emeritus Paul Kosower in a solo concert of organ and cello. The program will center on J. S. Bach’s most famous work for organ. It will be followed by Solo Suites 1 & 3 for cello and a solo work Kosower wrote entitled “Vista con Amore”. The program will conclude with Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in a minor (“The Great”) for organ. The Gantner Organ is a 1972 Aeolian-Skinner Pipe Organ of 47 ranks of pipes totaling nearly 3,000 pipes.
This program is open and free to the public on September 8th at 2 pm. in the Gantner Concert Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Building on the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire campus.

Token Creek Chamber Music: VISIONARIES - A Life in Concert
2024-09-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Token Creek Concert Barn, 4037 State Road 19, DeForest, Wisconsin, 53562, United States
John & Rose Mary Harbison, who with far-reaching vision founded the Token Creek Chamber Music Festival more than 30 years ago,return to the stage! Joined by pianist Jeffrey Stanek.
Music of Bach, Beethoven, and Harbison.

Token Creek Chamber Music: Visionaries
2024-09-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Token Creek Concert Barn, 4037 State Road 19, DeForest, Wisconsin, 53562, United States
John & Rose Mary Harbison, who with far-reaching vision founded the
Token Creek Chamber Music Festival more than 30 years ago,
return to the stage! Joined by pianist Jeffrey Stanek.
Music of Bach, Beethoven, Harbison.
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In 1989, founders John & Rose Mary Harbison wrote: “We think that the Token Creek Chamber Music Festival is an idea whose time has come…We want to make the shortest, most coherent, most compact festival anywhere, to reflect—and reflect on—the beautiful landscape that surrounds us at Token Creek.” And indeed the festival ran for 33 robust summers. Now, after a brief hiatus, the Harbisons return to the stage for a rare appearance. Join us to celebrate their vision and their legacy.

Grammy Winner! KURT ELLING in Concert
2024-09-08 18:00 - 21:00 | North Shore Golf Club, N8421 N Shore Road, Menasha, Wisconsin, 54952, United States
2X Grammy Winner — Jazz Coterie presents Kurt Elling with Joey Calderazzo! A rare opportunity to experience a living legend in such an intimate setting.
2 Showtimes — 6:00pm & 8:00pm | Info & Tickets at JazzCoterie.com | $40 General Admission | FREE for Music Students | 50% for Musicians & Educators
Renowned for his rich sound, innovative delivery, robust swing, and poetic insight, Kurt Elling has secured his place among the world’s foremost jazz singers.
“The standout male jazz vocalist of our time.” — The New York Times
Over a 25-year career of touring and recording, Elling has won three Prix du Jazz Vocal, two German Echo Awards, two Dutch Edison Awards, and has been nominated for a GRAMMY Award 16 times. He has had a 14-year run atop the DownBeat Critics and Readers polls, and has won twelve Jazz Journalists Awards for “Male Vocalist of the Year.”
“A kind of Sinatra with superpowers.” — The Guardian
Kurt Elling has worked with almost every luminary in the jazz world and performed as a featured soloist with many of the world’s leading ensembles, including the NY Philharmonic, The BBC Concert Symphony, The Count Basie Orchestra, and The Village Vanguard Orchestra. He has twice performed at the White House — one of them being with the National Symphony Orchestra for President Obama’s first State Dinner. He has served as Artist-In Residence at the Monterey and Singapore Jazz Festivals. As a music industry leader, Elling spent six years serving as a Trustee and two years as Vice Chairman of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

The Broad's Way: An ALFE Fundraiser
2024-09-09 18:00 - 22:00 | Slowpoke Lounge & Cabaret, 137 W Jefferson, Spring Green, WI, 53588
Join us for a night of FUNdraising for the American Players Theatre ALFE (Actors Looking for Future Employment) group! Come early for a silent auction including local goods, APT related experiences, and special surprises. At 8:00, join us in the cabaret for the Spring Green premiere of The Broad’s Way – a celebration of musical theatre featuring drag artists and live singers, including members of APT’s core company and hosted by Regina Thorne-DuBois.
Suggested donation of $10 at the door, please bring cash for the performers. Silent auction winners will be announced at the end of the night.

Ben Mulwana + Sirsy
2024-09-12 19:00 - 22:00 | Wisconsin
Ben Mulwana
Ben Mulwana is a Ugandan-born and raised artist residing in Wisconsin. With songs about love, loss, and everything in between. Ben’s band project “Ben Mulwana and the Village” is made of a groovy, rock, and soulful sound from a group of amazing musicians.
Sirsy
SIRSY is a rock, pop, and soul duo from upstate NY. They write honest songs, full of sing along melodies, with lots of heart and just the right amount of sass. “It’s edgy-feel good music that’s fun to watch”. (— The Houston Music Blog).

Angels in America by Tony Kushner
2024-09-12 19:30 - 23:00 | Vilas Hall UW-Madison, 821 University Ave, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
University Theatre presents Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Part I
Tony Kushner’s two-part epic Angels in America chronicles the intersecting stories of a diverse group of Americans during the early days of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, Utah and around the country. Considered one of the most important American plays of the last century, Kushner’s drama weaves political, social, religious, cultural, and historical themes for a powerful message of love and hope, as relevant today as it was at the approach of the millennium. Part I is presented in repertory with a staged reading of Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika as a kickoff to the University Theatre season.
Audrey Lauren Standish directs Aris Awes, Grant Borcherding, Nicky Chier, Ava Childs, Jayquan Jaeger, Maria Kolb, Malcolm McCanles, and Sophia Schmidt, with Noah Kohn-Dumbuya, Chloe Maier, Lane O’Meara, and Cooper Swanson as understudies.
Clara Molina Blanco and Amber Palson serve as dramaturgs, Emily A. Rollie is the intimacy director, Cooper Skubal is the fight director, Liz Cassarino is the vocal coach, Jim Greco is the scenic and costume designer, Aly Amidei is the costume designer, Zak Stowe is the lighting designer, Jono deLeon the associate lighting designer, Ethan White is the sound designer, Rob Wagner is the technical director, Becky Hicks is the props director and Mckayla Murphy is the stage manager.
Part II
Tony Kushner’s epic comes to a stunning conclusion in the powerful and boundary breaking Perestroika. In a staged reading directed by UW-Madison alumnus Harry Waters, Jr., who created the role of Belize in the original production in 1991, Kushner’s sweeping exploration of fraught and conflicted times conveys a resounding message of hope and communion – “More Life!”
Content Advisory: this play contains mature language, racial and ablest slurs, references to explicit sexual situations, and depictions of violence, and of illness and death.
For more information visit https://theatre.wisc.edu/
This production is made possible through generous support from the Brittingham Fund, the Anonymous Block Grant, and the Lorraine Hansberry Fund.
Performances for Part I will be held in the Gilbert V. Hemsley Theatre and Part II in the Ronald E. Mitchell Theatre, Vilas Hall 821 University Avenue Madison WI 53706. Performance times are as follows:
Thursday September 12 @ 7:30pm
Friday September 13 @ 7:30pm
Saturday September 14 @ 7:30pm
Sunday September 15 @ 2:00pm
Thursday September 19 @ 7:30pm
Friday September 20 @ 7:30pm
Saturday September 21 @ 7:30pm
Sunday September 22 @ 2:00pm
Performance Calendar
Part I
Part II
Wednesday September 18 @ 7:30pm
Thursday September 19 @ 7:30pm
Friday September 20 @ 7:30pm
Saturday September 21 @ 2:00pm
Sunday September 22 @ 7:30pm

Ticket Prices:
$28 Adult
$23 Senior (62 +)
$23 UW Faculty/Staff (ID)
$10 UW Students and other College Students (ID)
$10 Children (K-12)
$17 Group Sales (10 tickets or more)
To Order Tickets:
1. Call 608-265-2787 (Open M-F 2-6 PM)
2. Online www.artsticketing.wisc.edu
3. Walk up sales: Mitchell Theatre Lobby Box Office opens 1 hour prior to performances for walk up sales.

Seven Ages Theatricals presents Much Ado About Nothing
2024-09-13 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-09-14 19:30 - 21:30 | City Green, 710 New York Ave, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 53081, United States
Seven Ages Theatricals will present its annual “Shakespeare in the Park” September 13th – 15th at City Green with the merry comedy of errors, Much Ado About Nothing. The show stars Kim Koeppen as Beatrice and Duncan Doherty as Benedick, with supporting stars Jack Colombo (7AT’s Hamlet) and Kate Boyce as Claudio and Hero, respectively. Lisa K. Adams (Romeo & Juliet) returns to the City Green stage as Leonata and 7AT regular Daniel Hennell also stars in the dual roles of Antonio and Dogberry. Daniel Zepp plays the villainous Don John and both he and Mr. Hennell are aided by Noah Bratz in the dual roles of Conrade and Verges, with additional “bad guy” support from David Boyce as Borachio. Kiana Liesch and Will Forman make their 7AT debuts as Margaret and Don Pedro, respectively. Natalie Grimm plays Ursula and several other supporting roles, in addition to serving as the assistant stage manager. 7AT regular Brandon Otten handles all other roles.
Much Ado About Nothing is Shakespeare’s hilarious tale of mistaken identities and quarreling lovers, centering on two romantic plots with plenty of twists: Benedick and Beatrice, longtime foes who engage in verbal olympics every time they meet are tricked by their friends to believe that each is in love with the other. Meanwhile, Claudio and Hero love each other but the evil Don John and his cronies Borachio and Conrade have a plot to besmirch Hero’s reputation until they’re cornered by the dutiful but hapless constable Dogberry and his deputy, Verges.
Much Ado About Nothing will play September 13th and 14th at 7:30 p.m. and September 15th at 2 p.m. Attendance is free to the entire community; 7AT recommends that audiences bring along a lawn chair, a snack, and their whole families for this beloved comedy (well-behaved pups are welcome, too!). The show is directed by 7AT Executive Artistic Director Tom Berger, with assistance and sound design from Associate AD Emily Sandoval. Lee Koeppen designs the sets and lights, with Trudy Berger stage managing and Tara Jackson designing the costumes, assisted by Brittany Robles and Sam Krueger. Seven Ages also traditionally announces its next season at the summer Shakespeare performance, so make sure you attend to hear 7AT’s exciting 2024-2025 season announcement! More information can be found at 7AT’s Facebook or Instagram pages or by emailing sevenagestheatricals@gmail.com.

Gloria Hayes
2024-09-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center, 504 S. Brearly St., Madison, Wisconsin, 53704, United States
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Steam Machine
2024-09-13 19:30 - 22:00 | Slowpoke Lounge & Cabaret, 137 West Jefferson Street, Spring Green, WI, 53588, United States
Steam Machine is a midwest based old time/bluegrass music project fronted by award winning Minneapolis fiddler AJ Srubas and Twin Cities old time music & dance instigator Rina Rossi on guitar. A shortlist of spectacular musicians perform with the band on banjo and bass, and when possible, mandolin.
Originally formed in Minneapolis in 2017, Steam Machine brought to the national stage a midwest influenced string band aesthetic that didn’t draw such hard lines between bluegrass and old time music. Smooth powerful fiddling, driving three finger banjo, front-of-the-beat rhythm backup combined into a “suspiciously entertaining” sound.
Tickets $10 in advance/$15 at the door

“The People and the Land” Talk at Pope Farm Conservancy
2024-09-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Pope Farm Conservancy, 7440 West Old Sauk Rd, Middleton, Wisconsin, 53593, United States
The Friends of Pope Farm Conservancy invite you to join State Archeologist Dr. Amy Rosebrough as she leads an archeological tour of how the landscape of Pope Farm Conservancy and southern Wisconsin influenced, and was used by, Indigenous peoples and European settlers. This walking tour will invite visitors to contemplate the impact of the land around them on human history. What resources were available to local communities, and how were they used? How did ice and water determine where and when people came to stay? From the Ghost Ports of Lake Michigan to the Gulf Coast trade, the land shaped Wisconsin’s people and the people shaped the land.”
Cost: Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Website: https://www.popefarmconservancy.org/events/
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Contact: info@popefarmconservancy.org

5th Annual Shorewood Feast
2024-09-14 12:00 - 21:00 | Shorewood Business District, 4400 N. Oakland Avenue, Shorewood, WI, 53211, United States
The 5th Annual North Shore Bank Shorewood Feast & Street Festival presented by the Shorewood Foundation is back again for 2024!
Running from the 4200 to the 4400 blocks of Oakland Avenue, this is a family-friendly foodie event with free entertainment and activities for every age. There will be music, entertainment, a harvest dinner, artisans, and more!
With two stages of bands, more than 6 food trucks, a free kids area including a rock wall, face painting, caricature drawings and balloon creations, this is a not to miss event for you and your family!
This street festival not only has free activities and entertainment for all, it also includes a dinner down Oakland Avenue with some of the best chefs in town! Tickets for the dinner will go on sale to the public in early August, so save the date!
We look forward to seeing you all and check back soon for more details!

Tapestry String Band Concert
2024-09-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Mt. Morris Town Park, N3837 County Road G, Wild Rose, Wisconsin, 54984, United States
Tapestry String Band, five talented musicians, will perform Americana, bluegrass, folk, Celtic, and more tunes in Mt. Morris Town Park, a beautiful lakeside park (rain site: Mountain View Community Center N3137 21st Lane, just off Highway 152, south of Mt. Morris). Bring lawn chairs and whatever you need to enjoy this outdoor experience. The afternoon begins with an optional potluck lunch. General admission at park entrance. Free on-site parking.
