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January 2022

Confucius & The World: China’s Greatest Teacher Speaks to Our Era

January 27, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Warehouse Art Museum, 1635 W. St. Paul Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53233 United States
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Free

Please join us in welcoming Professor Robert LaFleur, Professor of History, Anthropology, and Chinese Literature at Beloit College, who explores Confucius' fascinating ideas about relationships - Individual, Family, Society, and Government - which continue to offer us great benefit in our contemporary society. About Confucius: Confucius was a Chinese philosopher, poet and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who was traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Confucius's teachings and philosophy formed the basis of East Asian culture and society, and continues to remain influential across China and East Asia as of today. About Professor LaFleur: Professor Robert André LaFleur is Professor of History and Anthropology at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where he has taught since 1998. Having graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Carleton College, Professor LaFleur received his doctorate from The University of Chicago’s John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, where he combined work in three distinct fields: anthropology, history, and Chinese literature. Professor LaFleur’s current work combines historical research using Chinese, Japanese, and Korean sources with anthropological fieldwork on each of China’s five sacred mountains. He is also doing research for an intellectual biography of Marcel Granet, a French scholar of China. Professor LaFleur received the Charles S. Bassett Teaching Award from Colby College in 1998, as well as the James R. Underkofler Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award from Beloit College in 2001 and 2011. He was also a finalist in 2010 for the Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Historical Association. He is the recipient of a Millicent C. McIntosh Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and has been a frequent visiting scholar with the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Research in the Humanities and the East-West Center in Honolulu. In 2013, Professor LaFleur gave a month-long series of lectures and seminars at Beijing University. He spent 2014 on a research fellowship at the Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung (International Consortium for Research in the Humanities) in Erlangen, Germany. Professor LaFleur is the lead author and editor of two textbooks: China: A Global Studies Handbook and a thoroughly revised and expanded version, Asia in Focus: China. He has published book chapters and articles about topics ranging from Chinese historiography, literature, and calendars to ethnicity and mythology. He also has presented dozens of research papers on topics ranging from China, Japan, and Korea to the history and anthropology of Oceania.

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UW-Milwaukee Science Bag: Proteins – Magical Workers Inside our Bodies

January 28, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
UWM Physics Building, Room 137, 1900 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI 53211 United States
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Proteins are complex molecules responsible with doing most of the work inside our cells and play critical roles related to the structure, function and regulation of our tissues and organs. Join UW-Milwaukee in exploring how proteins are made, how they acquire their structure and how they use this structure to accomplish their functions. Presented by Associate Professor Ionel Popa, Department of Physics. Science Bag is a family-friendly educational program designed to engage all from ages 8 to 88. Shows are every Friday in January at 7 pm plus a matinee on Sunday, January 16 at 2 pm. Location is the UWM Physics Building on the corner of Kenwood and Cramer, Room 137. No registration necessary.

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Jorge Vallentine // Anja Elise // Next Paperback Hero

January 28, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Anodyne Coffee, 224 W. Bruce St.
Milwaukee, WI 53204 United States
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$8 - $10

$8 adv/ $10 at the door (advance sales until 3pm day of show, then available at the door). Doors at 7pm, showtime 8pm COVID POLICY FOR LIVE SHOWS We want to ensure we are doing everything we can to help keep our community safe, so we are now requiring the following for entry to Live Shows: Proof of Vaccination -OR- Proof of a Negative COVID 19 Test taken within 72 hours of the show. Masks are encouraged but not required. // Jorge Vallentine: Merging folk, rock, and punk influences from acts such as Bright Eyes, Arctic Monkeys, and Violent Femmes, Jorge Vallentine finds catharsis in his unique style, which ranges from bittersweet, fingerpicked ballads to blistering, rhythmic tracks. In early 2020, he was selected to perform at Milwaukee's PrideFest as part of folk duo Feral Rabbit and he has twice been featured at the legendary Linneman's Riverwest Inn open mic. A prolific songwriter, Jorge has penned over 100 songs in just the past few years and is now recording his debut release. Anja Elise: Anja Elise is a Milwaukee-based artist who has been writing music and performing locally for almost three years, and over a decade of experience throughout her life. Eerie melodies, extremely personal lyrics, and unconventional song structures make up her definitive style. She recently released her debut record titled “Salt & Sugar” on December 11th, 2020. Anja has worked with many local powerhouses in the Milwaukee music scene, including Kevin and Will Bush of Immortal Girlfriend and Ben Harold of Ben Harold and the Rising. With airplay on 88.9 Radio Milwaukee, interviews on Riverwest Radio, a spot with Heist TV, and multiple performances on Amplified Artist Sessions, she's been making a splash on the local scene. Anja looks forward to continue writing and collaborating on projects with other musicians, and looking forward to releasing another project in the future! Next Paperback Hero: With confessional, wistful lyrics full of wanderlust and hunger, Next Paperback Hero's menagerie of indie folk/rock influences come together to create songs that walk the line between hope and heartbreak. NPH's debut album 'Morning Skies & Heavy Eyes' is now available on all digital platforms. "Like a good paperback, 'Morning Skies & Heavy Eyes' is hard to put down, thanks to the vivid lyrics and arrangements from the songwriter behind Hero, Nathan Honoré." - Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel For fans of Field Report, Elliott Smith, Lucy Dacus, The National, Phoebe Bridgers $8 adv/ $10 at the door (advance sales until 3pm day of show, then available at the door). Doors at 7pm, showtime 8pm

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re:Craft and Relic Winter Market

January 29, 2022 @ 10:00 am - January 30, 2022 @ 4:00 pm
$5 - $10

re:Craft and Relic is a two-day, indoor, ticketed shopping event held three times a year at the Milwaukee County Sports Complex in Franklin, WI. This curated market is one of the largest of its kind in the region, featuring 150 vendors selling only the best in vintage, handmade, and upcycled goods. Masks required.

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MilBillies’ Winter Heater w/ two special guests

January 29, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 11:30 pm
Anodyne Coffee, 224 W. Bruce St.
Milwaukee, WI 53204 United States
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$10 - $15

The MilBillies will be back in Milwaukee on Jan. 29 for their first hometown show in months with two special guests: High & Rising and Good Morning Bedlam. It will all go down at Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co.’s Walker’s Point Roastery, 224 W. Bruce St. All three bands have established themselves as fixtures of the Midwest bluegrass and Americana scenes. Together, their complementary but not over-lapping styles will give fans more than enough reason to venture out on a cold winter’s night for drinks, dancing and conviviality. The show starts at 8 p.m. (Doors open at 7.) Tickets cost $15 the day of the show. Or you can pay $10 if you buy them in advance by going to eventbrite.com and searching for The MilBillies. We want to ensure we are doing everything we can to help keep everyone safe, so we are now requiring the following for entry to Live Shows: Proof of Vaccination -OR- Proof of a Negative COVID 19 Test taken within 72 hours of the show. See you there!

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February 2022

Clem Snide

February 9, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Anodyne Coffee, 224 W. Bruce St.
Milwaukee, WI 53204 United States
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$12 - $15

$12 adv/ $15 at the door (advance sales until 3pm day of show, then available at the door). Doors at 7pm, showtime 8pm We want to ensure we are doing everything we can to help keep our community safe, so we are now requiring the following for entry to Live Shows: Proof of Vaccination -OR- Proof of a Negative COVID 19 Test taken within 72 hours of the show. Masks are encouraged but not required. // “The last ten years have been a rollercoaster of deep despair and amazing opportunities that somehow present themselves at the last possible second,” says Eef Barzelay. “During that time, the band bottomed out, I lost my house, and I had to declare bankruptcy. The only way to survive was to try to transcend myself, to find some kind of deeper, spiritual relationship with life. Once I committed to that, all these little miracles started happening.” ‘Forever Just Beyond,’ Barzelay’s stunning album under the Clem Snide moniker, may just be the most miraculous of them all. Produced by Scott Avett, the record is a work of exquisite beauty and profound questioning, a reckoning with faith and reality that rushes headlong into the unknown and the unknowable. The songs here grapple with hope and depression, identity and perception, God and the afterlife, humanizing thorny existential issues and delivering them with the intimate, understated air of a late-night conversation between old friends. Avett’s production is similarly warm and inviting, and the careful, spacious arrangement of gentle guitars and spare percussion carves a wide path for Barzelay’s insightful lyrics and idiosyncratic delivery. “I look up to Eef with total respect and admiration,” says Avett, “and I hope to survive like he survives: with total love for the new and the unknown. Eef’s a crooner and an indie darling by sound and a mystic sage by depth. That’s not common, but it’s beautiful.” Named for a William S. Borroughs character, Clem Snide first emerged from Boston as a three-piece in the early 1990’s, and the group would go on to become a cult and critical favorite, picking up high profile fans from Bon Iver to Ben Folds over the course of three decades and more than a dozen studio albums. NPR highlighted the Israeli-born Barzelay as “the most underrated songwriter in the business today, with a sneakily firm grasp on poignancy and humor,” while Rolling Stone hailed his songwriting as “soulful and incisive,” and The New Yorker praised his music’s “soothing melodies and candid wit.” Barzelay currently resides in Nashville, TN. $12 adv/ $15 at the door (advance sales until 3pm day of show, then available at the door). Doors at 7pm, showtime 8pm

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MJI Presents the Brian Lynch Quartet in Concert

February 10, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
$20.00

Multi-Grammy-winning trumpeter Brian Lynch returns for a concert in his hometown with Mark Davis on piano, Jeff Hamann on bass, and Kyle Swan on drums.

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March 2022

Space Night

March 4, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
UWM Manfred Olson Planetarium, 1900 E .Kenwood Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI 53211 United States
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Free

Don your favorite space attire for a night of free, space-themed fun at the planetarium with indoor stargazing, space trivia, and yummy treats.

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54th Shamrock Club of Wisconsin St. Patrick’s Day Parade

March 12, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
St. Patrick's Day parade. Photo courtesy of the Shamrock Club/Westown.

Featuring over 100 units including floats, Irish dancers, bagpipe & marching bands and local celebrities & dignitaries, this is a party you'll want to be a part of!

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World Water Day

March 20, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Urban Ecology Center – Riverside Park, 1500 E. Park Pl
Milwaukee, WI 53211 United States
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$35

You’re invited to World Water Day, a special event to celebrate partnerships in Latin America and to raise awareness about the importance of clean water.

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