Save the date for a benefit concert! UW-Madison’s Agroecology Master’s Program will present a "rousing night of class-grass music". What is "class-grass" you might ask? This concert fusion of bluegrass and classical music traditions will feature Graminy and The Blue Dog Consort (aka: faculty, staff and students in performance with band-mates). Proceeds from the concert will benefit graduate student research in sustainable agriculture and food systems. Concert-goers will be welcomed to the event by Stephanie Elkins, Host of Simply Folk on Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR).
Date: Friday, April 13
Time: Doors open at 7:00 PM; Show begins at 8:00 PM
Place: Mills Hall, (445 N. Park Street)
Ticket prices: $9.00 ($6.00 students) in advance; $12.00 ($9.00 student) at the door
For more information, visit the Agroecology Department Website.
Come visit the UW Arboretum for a special public reading from Aldo Leopold’s seminal treatise on life in the natural world and conservation ethos, A Sand County Almanac, Saturday, March 3 (beginning at 9:30 AM). Scheduled readers include Kevin McSweeney (Director of the Arboretum), Madelyn Leopold, Ray Guries, Ron Seeley, Marie McCabe, and Chuck Quirmbach, among other students, naturalists and leaders from community organizations.
The "Madison Reads Leopold" events are free and open to the public with light refreshments to be served in the visitor center lobby.
The Arboretum Visitor Center is located at 1207 Seminole Highway.
On Sunday, the Arboretum will host a "Walk with Leopold" tour beginning at 1:00 PM.
For more information about these events, phone the UW-Arboretum Visitor Information Desk (608-263-7888) or visit the Website.
View the campus press release.
For those of you who have been reading the Go Big Read selection, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, do you have any questions you would like to ask the author? Due to the scale of the author event at the Kohl Center, the question and answer period will be moderated. If you would like to suggest a question, please post it as a comment to the original Go Big Read blog post by October 18.
Please also consider including some very brief information about yourself. The moderator will select a representative group of questions and ask them of Rebecca Skloot during the event.
Save the date! Rebecca Skloot will speak at the Kohl Center on October 25, 2010. This event is free and open to all; doors open at 6:00 PM with the presentation to begin at 7:00 PM. We hope that you will attend!
Campus libraries are the place to be--not only as spaces for serious study, but as interesting social spaces for group work and the occasional party.
Need an opportunity to feed the mind and stir the soul? If so, consider taking a break to sample the bountiful harvest of author presentations and book discussion forums that comprise the annual, fall Wisconsin Book Festival. The theme for the book festival this year is that of “courage” and what that may connote for writers and their readers—as they step outside their comfort zone to examine a world of ideas, learning to honor and to appreciate the other—be it a place, an experience, or a point-of-view.
Featured speakers include: Lynda Barry, Wendell Berry, Jane Hamilton, Gregory Maguire, Lorrie Moore, Agate Nesaule, Harvey Pekar, Michael Perry, among many others.
See the full list of presenters.
View the schedule of events.
UW-Madison Libraries and the Friends of UW-Madison Libraries are among the festival sponsors.
The concert will be held, Thursday, March 12, (1:15 - 2:10 PM) in Seminar Hall (Room 1315) of Daniels Chemistry Building.
For more information about the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy and its programs, visit its site at: www.scifun.org.
Illumination: the Undergraduate Journal of Humanities provides a terrific publishing venue for students to showcase their talents in art/design and creative writing.
With Science Expeditions, UW-Madison hosts an exciting day of hands-on Exploration Stations and “Science Spectaculars”—special demonstrations and lectures. All events are free and open to the public.
While the exploration stations and spectaculars will be held on the engineering campus (Engineering Hall, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Centers, Tong Auditorium), this is a great day to check out other campus science venues including the Geology Museum, the Botany Greenhouse and the Primate Center Learning Lobby.
UW-Madison graduate students were invited to lend their creative-writing talents to an exhibit featuring texts documenting their experiences of a Wisconsin winter. Memorial Library contributed to this dialogue about the cold and wintry mix by including a selection of books from its collections that treat this topic in some fashion. Visit the exhibit at Memorial Library in the front entrance corridor or enjoy the texts online.
A reading and reception will be held on Tuesday, March 11 from 7:00-9:00 PM in the Tripp Commons, Memorial Union. Memorial Library expresses its appreciation to Global Studies, a co-sponsor for the event, and to Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza who will be the special guest for the reading.
Wind Chill Factor, Reading and Reception
Tuesday, March 11
7:00-9:00 PM
Tripp Commons, Memorial Union
Looking to attend a great live show? Support some local causes? If so, then head down to the Wisconsin Union Theater (Memorial Union) on Friday, March 7 to take in the A Cappella Showcase.
All four UW-Madison a cappella groups will perform (show begins at 7:00 PM). Proceeds will be donated to local charities including the American Red Cross (Madison chapter), Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, Relay for Life and the St. Vincent De Paul Food Pantry.
(Tickets are $7.00 for students; $10.00 for faculty/staff/community)
See the Wisconsin State Journal article!
Links to the a cappella groups:
Come listen to the sweet sound of UW-Madison men’s a cappella group, Fundamentally Sound. The group will give a short performance on Steenbock Library’s front terrace, September 4th at 4:30 PM.
As the group will be looking to recruit some additional talent, do plan to nab a brochure and schedule a time with them to audition. For more information and a schedule of future appearances, visit the Fundamentally Sound website.
Steenbock Library staff thanks Fundamentally Sound for supplying this great Welcome Week entertainment!
Come listen to the sweet sound of UW-Madison men’s a cappella group, Fundamentally Sound. The group will give a short performance on Steenbock Library’s front terrace, September 4th at 4:30 PM.
As the group will be looking to recruit some additional talent, do plan to nab a brochure and schedule a time with them to audition. For more information and a schedule of future appearances, visit the Fundamentally Sound website.
Steenbock Library staff thanks Fundamentally Sound for supplying this great Welcome Week entertainment!
