This year UEC and the Great Waters Group of the Sierra Club will be sponsoring a contest for people of all ages to artistically answer the question: “What is your favorite local green space or park, and why?” We encourage all people in the Milwaukee area to answer this question in words, artwork, video, song or dance. Prizes will be given out to all age groups (12 and under, 13-17, and 18+), with the winners announced at the Earth Day celebration on April 23 at UEC’s Washington Park branch. Entrants will display their work in the auditorium and winners are asked to perform or exhibit their work onstage. Rules and other information on the website. Please call 414-344-5460 with any questions, or email UECUrbanwilderness@gmail.com.

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Under the direction of Darcy Drexler, members of the String Academy of Wisconsin will perform a variety of solo and ensemble musical selections in a Showcase Recital, "Spring Strings."

A concert reading of the play by Jan Maher and Nikki Nojima Louis with music, celebrating a century of the Women’s Peace Movement around the world, told through the voices of peace activists from World War I to the present, and performed by a diverse local student and professional cast.

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The Marquette University Symphony Orchestra, lead by Music Director Robin Engl, will present their final concert for the 2015.16 season on Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. in the Varsity Theatre

The Marquette University Symphony Orchestra, lead by Music Director Robin Engl, will present their final concert for the 2015.16 season on Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at the Marquette University Varsity Theatre (1326 W. Wisconsin Ave. | Milwaukee, WI 53233). This performance is free and open to the public. The first half of the program will feature Gershwin's joyful and spontaneous "Cuban Overture," as well as guest artist, Rick Aaron, on Georg Telemann's "Suite for Flute and Orchestra in A minor." Aaron, a Milwaukee residential musician, has performed with a wide range of ensembles from playing in pit orchestras for Broadway shows at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts to performing in jazz clubs in downtown Milwaukee, and even serving as a substitute flutist for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He has studied flute with Eldridge Meyer, Sam Baron, John Burgess, and Israel Borouchoff. For the second half of the program, the symphony will conclude their year with Ludwig van Beethoven's famous Symphony No. 7, Op. 92. Additionally, the graduating seniors of the MUSO will be recognized for their years of hard work and dedication. So mark your calendars for what's certain to be a truly unforgettable musical experience. For more information on the MUSO, visit www.marquette.edu/orchestra. For more information on this concert's guest artist, visit http://www.fluteman32.com.

This choral concert, commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, will feature musical settings of texts by Shakespeare and several other well-known English poets. Texts will include excerpts from “Much Ado about Nothing,” “Measure for Measure,” “As You Like It,” “Hamlet,” “Othello,” Twelfth Night,” “The Winter’s Tale,” and “Two Gentlemen of Verona.” The music will be as varied as Shakespeare’s works, ranging from lush, haunting settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Orlando Gibbons and John Rutter to lilting, joyful and even boisterous settings by Thomas Morley, Franz Schubert, Emma Lou Diemer, Brian McLinden and others.