The Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for Arts and Humanities
THEATRE: The Wolves
By Sarah DeLappe
Directed by Rachael Swartz
Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist) follows a high school women’s soccer team. As they prepare for weekly games, the Wolves challenge and support one another through moments that will define their lives.
THEATRE: The Wolves
By Sarah DeLappe
Directed by Rachael Swartz
Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist) follows a high school women’s soccer team. As they prepare for weekly games, the Wolves challenge and support one another through moments that will define their lives.
Individual ticket sales open July 2022
THEATRE: The Wolves
By Sarah DeLappe
Directed by Rachael Swartz
Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist) follows a high school women’s soccer team. As they prepare for weekly games, the Wolves challenge and support one another through moments that will define their lives.
THEATRE: The Wolves
By Sarah DeLappe
Directed by Rachael Swartz
Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist) follows a high school women’s soccer team. As they prepare for weekly games, the Wolves challenge and support one another through moments that will define their lives.
This performance is presented as part of the matinee program.
THEATRE: The Wolves
By Sarah DeLappe
Directed by Rachael Swartz
Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist) follows a high school women’s soccer team. As they prepare for weekly games, the Wolves challenge and support one another through moments that will define their lives.
THEATRE: The Wolves
By Sarah DeLappe
Directed by Rachael Swartz
Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist) follows a high school women’s soccer team. As they prepare for weekly games, the Wolves challenge and support one another through moments that will define their lives.
MUSIC: Russ Johnson Quartet (FREE NOON CONCERT)
12 pm
The Rita, Bedford Concert Hall
The Noon Concert Series is a highly popular series of free performances presented Friday at the noon hour during the Fall and Spring semesters, featuring an interesting and diverse range of performances, including solo and chamber recitals, large group concerts, and lecture/recitals.
Tickets are not required for this free event. All performances are held in Bedford Concert Hall. Free parking is available in Lots B & C. Noon concerts are not ticketed. Seating is first-come, first-serve.
MUSIC: Inti Raymi (FREE NOON CONCERT)
12 pm
The Rita, Bedford Concert Hall
The Noon Concert Series is a highly popular series of free performances presented Friday at the noon hour during the Fall and Spring semesters, featuring an interesting and diverse range of performances, including solo and chamber recitals, large group concerts, and lecture/recitals.
Tickets are not required for this free event. All performances are held in Bedford Concert Hall. Free parking is available in Lots B & C. Noon concerts are not ticketed. Seating is first-come, first-serve.
MUSIC: Mariachi Mexico International (FREE NOON CONCERT)
12 pm
The Rita, Bedford Concert Hall
The Noon Concert Series is a highly popular series of free performances presented Friday at the noon hour during the Fall and Spring semesters, featuring an interesting and diverse range of performances, including solo and chamber recitals, large group concerts, and lecture/recitals.
Tickets are not required for this free event. All performances are held in Bedford Concert Hall. Free parking is available in Lots B & C. Noon concerts are not ticketed. Seating is first-come, first-serve.
MUSIC: Symphony and Community Orchestra
3 pm
The Rita, Bedford Concert Hall
Purchase tickets in advance while supplies last.
MUSIC: Wind Ensemble and Community Band
7 pm
The Rita, Bedford Concert Hall
Purchase tickets in advance while supplies last.
MUSIC: Choirs (FREE NOON CONCERT)
12 pm
The Rita, Bedford Concert Hall
The Noon Concert Series is a highly popular series of free performances presented Friday at the noon hour during the Fall and Spring semesters, featuring an interesting and diverse range of performances, including solo and chamber recitals, large group concerts, and lecture/recitals.
Tickets are not required for this free event. All performances are held in Bedford Concert Hall. Free parking is available in Lots B & C. Noon concerts are not ticketed. Seating is first-come, first-serve.
GALLERIES: Le’Andra LeSeur: As Night Comes Again (reception)
3 pm-5 pm
The Rita, Foundation Gallery
We are pleased to announce, Le’Andra LeSeur: As Night Comes Again. This exhibition presents a selection of work created in the last five years that epitomizes multidisciplinarity and synthesizes the movement of a body—and of a body of work—over time. As Night Comes Again is organized by guest curator aryn kresol and the artist.
GALLERIES: Elemental (closes)
The Rita, Emile H. Mathis Gallery
We are pleased to announce, Elemental, an exhibition featuring Jonathan Adams, Jessica Campbell, and Sean McElroy; three artists who have transformed their art practices while working during Covid. Quarantine is not the subject, but the limitation that provided each artist the opportunity to reimagine their work.
GALLERIES: Le’Andra LeSeur: As Night Comes Again (closes)
The Rita, Foundation Gallery
We are pleased to announce, Le’Andra LeSeur: As Night Comes Again. This exhibition presents a selection of work created in the last five years that epitomizes multidisciplinarity and synthesizes the movement of a body—and of a body of work—over time. As Night Comes Again is organized by guest curator aryn kresol and the artist.
FOREIGN FILM: Belfast
Oct 6-9, 2022
Famed actor and director Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographical project is a sentimental look back at his youth and the connection to his career as a filmmaker. Belfast depicts a violent, tumultuous time in Northern Ireland, but it does so through the innocent, exuberant eyes of a nine-year-old boy. In recalling his youthful days in an insular neighborhood in the titular city, Branagh has made a film that is both intimate and ambitious. Belfast tears at the heart-strings and will bring back memories of people’s own migration stories. Despite the grim facts of the story, Belfast is full of light and laughter and positively glows with warmth and the love of hearth and home. Belfast shows that even in the darkest of times, there is light to be found.
FOREIGN FILM: Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
Oct 20-23, 2022
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom is a sweet, understated, and wistfully beautiful film about an antsy young cynic sent to teach in the most remote schoolhouse on Earth. He is ordered to Lunana to fulfill his national service. He soon finds himself improvising, using charcoal on the walls since there is no blackboard. He teaches nursery rhymes in Dzongkha and math in English. The film invites us to imagine interior lives, a narrowing of the pursuit of happiness to tasks at hand, modest goals, music, food, and love. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom captures the juxtaposition of big-city living and small-town surviving in a way that resonates beyond its cultural specificity.
FOREIGN FILM: Two of Us
Nov 3-6, 2022
There are countless real-life cases in regional towns all over the world of mature male and female couples in communities unaware that what passes for friendship is actually a long-term committed gay relationship. A variation on that scenario forms the heart of Filippo Meneghetti’s terrific debut feature, Two of Us. Driven by a powerhouse, impassioned performance from Barbara Sukowa and one of contrastingly delicate brushstrokes by Martine Chevallier, the drama begins as a gentle love story and then takes a series of unpredictable turns as the clandestine life partners are separated by an unfortunate circumstance. The film transitions from tender romance into penetrating sorrow before taking on notes of mordant humor and unexpected quasi-thriller elements. Beautifully filmed, with an assured grasp of framing as a storytelling tool, this is a quality film that should connect especially with older art house and LGBTQ audiences.
SPECIAL EVENTS
AUTHOR TALK: FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA
Meet and greet to follow
“Latinx Stories Matter!” Professor Aldama, aka Professor Latinx, will unzip his brain, offering a performative multimedia extravaganza of all things Latinx pop culture in the 21st century. This includes an exploration of how contemporary mainstream pop culture simplifies and straightjackets Latinx identity and experience. He will then contrast this with today’s abundance of Latinx created pop cultural phenomena—including performative readings from his own fiction and comic books—that vitally complicates and enriches our understanding of Latinx identity and experience. Along the way he will present a dynamic model for understanding Latinx subjects as active transformers of the world we live in today.
ABOUT FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA
Frederick Luis Aldama is the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin, where he is also founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab. He is an award-winning author, co-author, editor, and coeditor of over 48 books, including an Eisner for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. He is author of several children’s books, including The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (published in English and Spanish) and Con Papá / With Papá as well as co-creator of the animation short, Carlitos Chupacabra, currently on a world film festival tour. He was recently inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters and the Ohio State University's Office of Diversity & Inclusion Hall of Fame.
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About The Rita
Since 1968, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside has continued to build a reputation as an outstanding liberal arts institution with particularly strong fine arts programs. With The Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for Arts & Humanities, our state-of-the-art instructional facilities and stunning performance venues match our award-winning academic programs and provide even greater community access. Read more.