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Sexpo Series Presents:
Relationships 101 - Dating and Hooking Up
Tuesday, March 4, 7pm
UWM
Union Fireside Lounge
Come discuss the current rules of dating, give and receive advice for how to meet that special someone or just mingle with your fellow students. Everyone is welcome: couples, those dating or singles looking for that special someone – who knows, you can get some advice here and find your mate! This interactive discussion will touch on some of the most recent trends in romantic and/or sexual behavior. Sponsored by UWM Union Sociocultural Programming, UWM Women’s Resource Center, UWM LGBT Resource Center, UWM Multicultural Student Center, and the UWM LINKS Peer Outreach and Mentoring Center.
For more info: 414-229-3894 or www.sociocultural.uwm.edu
Carmen La Salsera
Carmen La Salsera
Thursday, March 6, 9pm
UWM Union Gasthaus
Join us for a night of music and dancing with Carmen La Salsera. This local musician has been called an “inspiration for other salsa singers.” Her Caribbean, tropical salsa, and reggeaton sound, have made her a rising star in the local and national music scene. Carmen’s thoughts on her success, “My passion in life is to share with the world my life experiences through song. I hope everyone enjoys it, because I feel privileged to share it with the world.” Sponsored by UWM Union Programming, UWM Roberto Hernandez Center, UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UWM Women’s Resource Center, UWM Restaurant Operations, and Burger King.
For more info: Becca Grassl, 414-229-3728 or grassl@aux.wm.edu
Women Without Borders Film SERIES (WWB Film Series)
Tuesday, March 11 through Saturday, March 15, 7pm screenings
UWM Union
Theatre
See individual dates for film
details
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Women Without Borders Film Series presents new work by and about women that test the boundaries of women’s lives and experiences. Sponsored by UWM Department of Film, UWM Women’s Resource Center, UWM Union Sociocultural Programming, UWM Union Programming, and the UWM Union Theatre.
For more info: Annie Melchior, 414-229-6015 or melchior@uwm.edu
WWB Film Series:
MadCat
Touring Program - ID Docs
Tuesday, March 11, 7pm
UWM Union Theatre
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. MadCat Women’s Film Festival Program.
“MIRIAM, IMPRESSION OF: LIGHT”
(An Coenen, 2005, 11:50 min, Belgium)
An adopted albino girl and her boyfriend talk about her identity and appearance.
How does it feel to be different in a world that strives for uniformity and perfection?
“LOST WITHOUT YOU”
(Fiona McGee, 2006, 5:22 min, Australia)
Girls and their mobile phones. How attached can they get?
“BENIDORM” (Carolin Schmitz; 2006, 19 min, Germany) US Premiere
In high tourist season eager sunbathers flock to Benidorm’s concrete coast on the Mediterranean for its endless sun and cheap amusements. Off season, its residents are largely pensioners. This documentary examines the changing age structure of our society and its obligatory clichés through the lens of this small Spanish town.
“PORTRAITS & TESTIMONIES #3: CRIS SEQUEIRA”
(Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, 2006, 1 min, US)
Part of a series of animated interviews, this film features Brazilian Cris Sequeira discussing her beliefs on life, death, and life after death.
“THE WIDOWS’ COAST”
(Janina Lapinskaite, 2006, 25 min, Lithuania)
A poetic portrait of the residents of a Baltic seacoast village whose lives are marked by painful loss. The heroes of the film are widows who face their seemingly tragic destiny with the strength and vitality usually reserved for the unscathed.
“I AM ME”
(Kathrin Resetarits, 2006, 30 min, Austria)
Twin ballerinas can be made to dress alike and look identical, but when they dance the part of the dying swan, their movements demonstrate two individual personalities. Following two sets of twins, the filmmaker explores the meaning of individuality in uncommon and everyday routine.
For more info: Annie Melchior, 414-229-6015 or melchior@uwm.edu
Jana Brevick
Jewelry & Metalsmithing Visiting Artist Series: Jana Brevick
Wednesday, March 12, Various Times
UWM Arts Center (2400 E. Kenwood Boulevard)
The Seattle-based artist “Jana Brevick cannot remember a time when she was not involved in making some kind of art, whether it was building projects in the garage of her childhood home or creating clothing from vintage pieces and apparel she designed herself. She blurs boundaries between jewelry and conceptual art and whatever interests her becomes the intellectual foundation for a new body of work. She has made jewelry based on mathematical formulas, robots, computer technology and spoofy James Bond-style spy gadgets. Brevick likens some of her break-down-the-walls approach to jewelrymaking to punk rock, and when you look at a piece such as her Everchanging Ring, you can see why.” --Ornament Magazine, Winter 2006. Sponsored by UWM Peck School of the Arts.
For more info: art-info@uwm.edu
WWB Film Series:
“The Women’s Kingdom”
Wednesday, March 12, 7pm
UWM Union Theatre
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. (Xiaoli Zhou, China/US, 2006, 22 min; Chinese, Subtitled)
Followed by -
“MY HOME-YOUR WAR”
A deeply compelling account of how
the Iraq war has created a situation
where the rise of fundamentalism
is putting women’s rights increasingly
at risk. Shot in Baghdad over
three years that span the time
before, during and after the invasion
of Iraq, 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. (Kylie Grey, 2006, 52 min; Arabic,
Subtitled)
For more info: Annie Melchior, 414-229-6015 or melchior@uwm.edu
Darlin' Nikki
Lyrical Sanctuary Open Mic with Darlin’ Nikki
Wednesday, March 12, 8-10:30pm
UWM Union Fireside Lounge
Lyrical Sanctuary acknowledges Women’s History Month by featuring one of Milwaukee’s dynamic female voices, Darlin’ Nikki. This event is an open mic series that welcomes poets, singers, rappers, visual artists and other performers. Lyrical Sanctuary is held every second Wednesday of the month throughout the semester. Sponsored by UWM Union Sociocultural Programming and the UWM Women’s Resource Center.
For more info: 414-229-3894 or www.sociocultural.uwm.edu
WWB Film Series:
“The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo”
Thursday, March 13, 7pm, UWM Union Theatre
Since 1998 a brutal war has ravaged the Democratic Republic of Congo (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. Shot in the war zones of the DRC, “THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO” shatters the silence that surrounds the shocking plight of women and girls caught in this country’s intractable conflict.
(Lisa F. Jackson, 2007, 76 min; French, Swahili, Lingala, Mashi, Subtitled)
Co-presented by the UWM African Student Association.
For more info: Annie Melchior, 414-229-6015 or melchior@uwm.edu
WWB Film Series:
“FLYING: Confessions of a Free Woman” - Parts 1 & 2
Friday, March 14, 7pm-- UWM Union Theatre (Part 1)
Saturday, March 15, 7pm-- UWM Union Theatre (Part 2)
*All 6 episodes shown in two parts (each part 2h 55min)
“What does the modern woman want? Where does she fit in today’s world?”
Over intimate conversations around kitchen tables from South Africa to Russia, India and Pakistan, master storyteller Jennifer Fox initiates a groundbreaking dialogue among women, illuminating universal concerns across race, class and nationality. “Part delectable soap opera, sociopolitical inquiry, and narrative experiments, “FLYING” sweeps us up into an addictive international adventure chronicled with sincerity, innovation and elegance.” -Caroline Libresco, Sundance Film Festival catalogue.
Adelheid Mers
For more info: Annie Melchior, 414-229-6015 or melchior@uwm.edu
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Adelheid Mers
Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 7pm
UWM Arts Center Lecture Hall
Chicago-based artist Adelheid Mers unveils her diagram of the UWM Peck School of the Arts made for Indexical Frontiers at Inova/Kenilworth and talks about her work as an artist who maps her readings of ideas, metaphors, organizations and other systems she encounters. Sponsored by UWM Peck School of the Arts Department of Visual Art.
For more info: art-info@uwm.edu
“Daughters of the Dust”
Monday, March 31, 7pm
UWM Union Theatre
Set in the legendary sea islands of the South at the turn of the century,
Daughters of the Dust
For more info: 414-229-2931 or
www.communitymediaproject.blogspot.com
UWM Women’s Studies Student Awards Ceremony
March 31, 7 p.m.
UWM Hefter Conference Center
3271 N. Lake Drive, Milwaukee
Celebrate the end of Women’s History Month with winners of the UWM Center for Women’s Studies’ annual student paper and project contests. Middle-school and high school students from Milwaukee Public Schools submitted entries to the Center’s “Wisconsin Women Making History” essay contest, and UWM undergraduate and graduate students submitted papers and projects on issues concerning women, gender, sexuality, feminism, or feminist thinking. Sponsor: UWM Center for Women’s Studies, 414-229-5918.