With the end of Halloween festivities taking us straight into a new month, it’s time to welcome November. The University of Wisconsin offers numerous opportunities daily to enjoy anything and everything arts related for free.
Whether you’re ending an intense bout of midterms, or about to begin studying for the next round of exams — here is a list of events happening on campus this weekend to take your mind off school.
WUD Film is presenting the What is Family? Film Festival 2018 at The Marquee Cinema at Union South from Nov. 1-4. The festival features a variety of 10 films centered around the definition of family. Storylines often include relationships among characters that fall outside the lines of a traditional context for what it means to be family.
Carl Broemel set to bring chilling chords to High Noon Saloon
Friday, Nov. 2
- Free Art Friday: Celebrate Earth’s Bounty at Wheelhouse Studios in Memorial Union from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- Behind the Beat from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. at Memorial Union – Der Rathskeller
- Native November kicks off with Film and Dialogue: First Daughter and the Black Snake from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Wunk Sheek
- Leave No Trace (2018) at 6 p.m. at The Marquee Cinema
- inDIGenous Jazz Series presents Immigré for the series’ fifth and final performance. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Union Play Circle
- Powerhouse folk trio I’m With Her performs at 8 p.m. at Shannon Hall, Memorial Union. Doors open at 7 p.m.
- Searching (2018) at 8:30 p.m. at The Marquee Cinema
- WUD Music presents Bonny Doon w/ ts foss at Memorial Union – Der Rathskeller at 9 p.m.
- Madeline’s Madeline (2018) at 11 p.m. at The Marquee Cinema
Saturday, Nov. 3
- Badger Bash: Wisconsin vs. Rutgers at Union South from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
- Never Goin’ Back (2018) at 6 p.m. at The Marquee Cinema
- Madrigal Singers at Mills Concert Hall at 8 p.m.
- Skate Kitchen (2018) at 8:30 p.m. at The Marquee Cinema
- Supper Club w/ Bear in the Forrest at Memorial Union – Der Rathskeller at 9 p.m.
- Nancy (2018) at 11 p.m. at The Marquee Cinema
Sunday, Nov. 4
- Follow the Glacier nature walk at the Arboretum from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
- Three Identical Strangers (2018) at 3 p.m. at The Marquee Cinema
- Support the Girls (2018) at 6 p.m. at The Marquee Cinema
Kamasi Washington, Butcher Brown expected to bring intriguing night of jazz, genre bending
Life, Love and Marriage in Renaissance Italy will be displayed at the Chazen Museum of Art until Nov. 4.
The School of Human Ecology is presenting Dutch Complex Housing at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery until Nov. 18.
Under the Surface of Lake Superior: A Photographic Journey of Hope and Healing is displayed at Memorial Library in the first-floor lobby. This art exhibit is open until Dec. 7.
Debut: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions in Special Collections is on display at Memorial Library on the 9th floor until Dec. 24. This exhibit is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.