THEATRE: The Laramie Project
In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
THEATRE: The Laramie Project
In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
THEATRE: The Laramie Project
In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
THEATRE: The Laramie Project Matinee
In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
THEATRE: The Laramie Project
In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
THEATRE: The Laramie Project
In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
MUSIC: Toty Ramos Sextet (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
More information coming soon...
MUSIC: Funmilayo Afrobeat Orquestra (Noon Concert)
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: Wind Ensemble and Community Band
More information coming soon...
MUSIC: Joe 2.0 (FREE Noon Concert)
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: Chandler Dillingham (FREE Noon Concert)
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: I am here, and you are where you are - Artist Talk
Rafael Francisco Salas is a Wisconsin based artist. Salas is also an arts writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Newcity Art Chicago, The Isthmus Magazine and Urban Milwaukee. In 2022, Governor Tony Evers appointed Rafael Francisco Salas to the Wisconsin Arts Board, the state agency responsible for the support and development of the arts throughout Wisconsin. He also serves on the Executive Board of the Museum of Wisconsin Art. Salas is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Ripon College in Ripon, WI.
GALLERIES: New Domesticity - Artist Talk
Lois Bielefeld is a queer series-based artist working in photography, audio, video, and performance. Currently settled in Milwaukee, Lois has lived on both coasts with a graduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts. Besides photography, they feel passionate about traveling, hiking, eating, and gardening adventures with their wife.
Their work is in the permanent collections of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, Saint Kate Arts Hotel, the Warehouse Museum and the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin. Bielefeld has shown at The International Center of Photography in New York City, The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, de Young Museum in San Francisco, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and Dom Wein in Vienna.
GALLERIES: I am here, and you are where you are - Reception
I AM HERE, AND YOU ARE WHERE YOU ARE
RAFAEL FRANCISCO SALAS
My artwork reflects on American tradition and identity. It speaks to an indignant desire for a dream continually just beyond reach. It is a strange, rural poetry of aspiration and poignant reality, a striver’s endeavor of high and low culture, situated between the elevated and the abject.
Country music is the appropriate soundtrack.
Presented in alliance with The Laramie Project.
GALLERIES: New Domesticity - Reception
New Domesticity
Lois Bielefeld
Presented in alliance with The Laramie Project.
The Emile H. Mathis Gallery
Upper Gallery
Sep 6-Nov 17, 2023
Artist Talk Wed, Oct 18 | 2:20 pm
Reception Wed, Oct 18 | 4-6 pm
In New Domesticity, Bielefeld digs into how home and our roles within them are culturally constructed. Mainstream advertising, television, and movies contribute to the creation of heteronormative ideas about home that Bielefeld actively seeks to disrupt. Bielefeld photographs people from a wide range of identities, while making a point of queering the photographic canon. She spotlights the intentional and deliberate choice of domestic roles within the queer home, and thus draws an explicit contrast to traditional gender-identity formation that is often assumed unthinkingly. She depicts individuals and families, including her own queer family, as they relate to home and domesticity. In so doing, Bielefeld expands on the long history of the private space of the home providing both refuge and safety to people, but especially within queer communities.
The home is a space for potential where our most inner beings are nurtured, developed, examined, and satisfied.
-Lois Bielefeld
Lois Bielefeld is a queer series-based artist working in photography, audio, video, and performance. Currently settled in Milwaukee, Lois has lived on both coasts with a graduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts. Besides photography, they feel passionate about traveling, hiking, eating, and gardening adventures with their wife.
Their work is in the permanent collections of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, Saint Kate Arts Hotel, the Warehouse Museum and the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin. Bielefeld has shown at The International Center of Photography in New York City, The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, de Young Museum in San Francisco, The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and Dom Wein in Vienna.
GALLERIES: Al Fredrickson: A Master Photojournalist - Closes
Fredrickson worked for the Kenosha News, Racine Journal Times, Waukegan News-Sun, Waukesha Freeman newspaper and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Most significantly, he served for a decade as a special Photo Correspondent for the British- based Reuters international news agency. He also contributed work to the Associated Press (AP) and Universal Press International (UPI).
He also served in the U.S. Army as a military police officer (MP) in the early 1970s. Born on August 23, 1951, Al Fredrickson passed away on April 9, 2021 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. We welcome you to discover his unique and inspiring photos.
Foreign Film Series: Corsage
Set in the 1870s, Corsage depicts Elisabeth Empress of Austria at 40, struggling to maintain her flawless image and that of the empire she is expected to incarnate. Elisabeth’s aura of lofty grace depends on her rigorous control of her body, which involves the corsetry of the title being laced mercilessly tight, as well as workouts with exercise rings in her private gym. Enduring a politely loveless marriage to the emperor, Franz Joseph, Sissi yearns for affection, or libidinous release, but it evades her. One candidate is an English riding master, whom she visits in Northamptonshire; significantly, although Corsage does not specify this, Elisabeth’s actual historical visit was to none other than the Spencers at Althorp. Elisabeth is most relaxed when spending time with her famously troubled relation Ludwig of Bavaria, but he discreetly rejects her less cousinly attentions, prompting her to ask, in the film’s drollest line: “So the rumours about the stable boys are true?”
Foreign Film Series: One Fine Morning
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair. The film explores love, both romantic and familial, with no trace of drama or sappiness, and without ever feeling slight. It is a balm of a film and another glorious showcase for Hansen-Løve’s light touch when dealing with complicated emotions. One Fine Morning is concerned with life’s curveballs and catastrophes as well as its unforeseen joys.
Foreign Film Series: Broker
A young lady decides to give up her newborn child to a church for adoption but discovers that there is an active group that steals these children for sale. She catches the group red handed and joins them in an exciting road trip to find customers ready to buy the child. Broker is an accessible, high-concept genre movie that brings to mind the Coen brothers. Sang-hyun is the owner of a small launderette in Busan. He is proud of his work, but he is being leaned on by local gangsters, so he resorts to another, far less legal job: he sells babies. A church near his launderette has a "baby box" by the front door, a hatch with a basket inside where new mothers can leave unwanted infants.
Sang-hyun's big-hearted right-hand man, Dong-soo, works part-time at the church, so if a baby arrives while he is on duty, he spirits it away and erases the CCTV footage. The partners in crime then set up a black-market adoption. The going rate for boys is a lot higher than it is for girls, but they always take care to ensure that the baby is going to suitably caring parents. Broker keeps on getting funnier and knottier, as secret motives are revealed, sympathies shift, mysteries deepen, and dangers multiply. It is, on one level, a farcical crime caper, but it is so elegantly plotted that it never seems contrived.
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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.