The Briarpickers are a mandolin/fiddle/banjo trio featuring Brian Ray, Paul Kienitz and Jon Peik.

The ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan has prompted emergency response at city, state, and federal levels, as well as heated debate here in Wisconsin and nationally.

Try it Thursdays are back, by popular demand!

While our own solar system is a mere speck in our galaxy that is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, there are many more enormous galaxies in existence. In fact, there are over 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Join us in exploring the beautiful shapes, collisions, and black holes all related to the unimaginable glory that is a galaxy.

THE LAST REVEL W/ THISTLEDOWN THUNDERS Fri Feb 5 2016 8pm @ 224 W Bruce St. $8 From the budding music scene of the Upper Midwest comes the cutting edge Front Porch Americana soundscapes of The Last Revel. This powerfully talented trio of multi-instrumentalists from Minneapolis, Minnesota so naturally blends the genres of Folk, Rockabilly, Old Time String-Band and Rock to create a sound that is as equally original as it is timeless. The Last Revel is known for crafting a soul stirring live performance that further enthralls crowds with every tune. The Last Revel honed their style at a weekly open mic night at a dive bar in Southern Minnesota. Their performance spread by word of mouth until the bar was at maximum capacity every Thursday. When the dance floor was full, folks danced on tables. The Last Revel strives for such wild performances at every show. Thistledown Thunder's dulcet ballads and screaming fiddle tunes are sure to get your toes tapping and boots stomping! $8 https://anodynecoffee.com/shop/product-category/events/

The School Sisters of St. Francis welcome Janan Najeeb, president of the Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition and director of the Islamic Resource Center for free two-part series that will explore commonalities between Islam and Christianity and the role of women

Félix et Meira Saturday February 20 • 9pm Sunday February 21 • 5pm Maxime Giroux, Blu-ray, 105 min, Québec, 2014 (French, Yiddish, English, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian) felixetmeira Meira, a young Hasidic housewife and mother, and Félix, a hipster mourning the death of his father, unexpectedly meet at a local bakery in Montreal’s Mile End multiethnic district. What starts as an innocent friendship becomes more serious as the two strangers find comfort in one another. Co-sponsored by the The Quebec Government Office in Chicago and the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies.

ALBERT LEE BAND W/ GUEST THE MOSLEYS Wed Feb 10 2016 8:00 pm @ 224 W. Bruce Street Milwaukee $28 "The greatest guitarist in the world."- Eric Clapton “Albert is in every sense of the word, a genuine guitar wizard".- Earl Scruggs “When Saint Peter asks me to chronicle my time down here on earth, I'll be able to say - with pride if that's allowed - that for a while I played rhythm guitar in a band with Albert Lee."- Emmylou Harris Albert made his name touring with the likes of Eric Clapton, The Everly Brothers and Emmylou Harris' Hot Band through the seventies and eighties, and has maintained a highly devoted fanbase. The Albert Lee Band includes John Thomas, aka “J.T’, on keyboards. J.T.’s musical resume includes 23 years with Bruce Hornsby, who graciously called John “the greatest keyboard player in the band.” Emmylou Harris, Don Henley, Sparks, Tracy Chapman and a host of other have called upon John’s gifts. Bass playerWill MacGregor’s credits are a testament to his wide-ranging talents, having worked with the likes of the Pretenders, Pat Boone, Exene Cervanka, and more. Jason Smith brings both the subtlety of jazz and pounding pulse of rock to his drum stylings. Among his many credits: his jazz trio released the celebrated “Tipping Point” and “Think Like This” CD’s , and on the rock side Jason toured with Five For Fighting, supporting the “America Town” CD with it’s smash single “Superman (It’s Not Easy)” http://albertlee.co.uk/home The Mosleys open the show! "Power-pop trio with amazing musical talent. Hand-crafted songs with rip-your-heart-out melodies and harmonies to make the birds stop singing". www.linnemans.com Support Guitars for Vets by purchasing raffle tickets at the show for a brand new Gretsch guitar! Big thanks to Cream City Music in Brookfield for helping to make this incredible show possible. Advance tickets available here-- https://anodynecoffee.com/shop/product-category/events/

Join us at Racine Art Museum, 441 Main Street for a family-oriented art project. Each one coincides with a current exhibition.

While our own solar system is a mere speck in our galaxy that is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, there are many more enormous galaxies in existence.

Sign up for both Valentine Day workshops and get a discount! (Children staying all day will be supervised between programs and can bring a lunch!)

Create colorful round pendants by fusing layers of colored opaque and transparent glass onto embossed thin copper. Use liquid and powdered enamel and learn to use embossing folders. This class is appropriate both for beginners and more experienced enamelists. Online registration closes three days before class begins. Workshop is held at RAM's Wustum Museum, 2519 Northwestern Avenue, Racine, WI.

Create unique embellished gift/jewelry boxes for yourself or someone special using polymer, paint, origami and trinkets. Perfect gift for that special valentine!

Belle et Sébastien Sunday February 14 • 3pm Sunday February 21 • 1pm Nicolas Vanier, Blu-ray, 104 min, France, 2013 (French) Belleetsebastien It’s 1943 and Germans are hunting down Resistance fighters in the French Alps where Sébastien, an orphan, lives with his grandfather, a shepherd, and his aunt, a baker. When sheep are found slaughtered, his grandfather and the local villagers believe that a stray dog is responsible. Sébastien finds the dog, names it Belle and they become inseparable. Will Sébastien save Belle and foil the Nazis’ efforts? Co-sponsored by the Master of Arts in Language, Literature and Translation Program (MALLT) and the Alliance Française of Milwaukee. Presented as part of the Tournées Film Festival

Port-au-Prince, dimanche 4 janvier (Port-au-Prince, Sunday, January 4th) Sunday February 14 • 7 pm Monday February 15 • 7pm François Mathouret, DVD, 80 min, Haiti/France, 2014 (French/Kreyol) portauprince This adaptation of Haitian novelist Lyonel Trouillot’s 2004 Bicentenaire was filmed in post-earthquake Port-au-Prince and Guadeloupe. After months of student and mass protests against the “Prophet” President Aristide, two brothers sharing a shack above the city find themselves in diametrically opposed political camps. Lucien, a student in philosophy, believes that protest demonstrations can bring about democracy, and Little Joe, a recruit of the Chimera militia, follows their gang tactics to disrupt the students’ march to the presidential palace. Co-sponsored by Union Sociocultural Programming, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and the Department of Africology.

Verdun: Visions d’histoire Tuesday February 16 • 7pm Léon Poirier, DVD, 151 min, France, 1927 (Silent) Verdun visions This screening of Poirier’s epic silent film coincides almost exactly with the hundredth anniversary of the start of this horrendous World War I battle. Filming began on the tenth anniversary of Verdun using many war veterans as actors (including Marshall Pétain who plays himself!) and combining documentary footage with meticulously staged reenactments. Its pacifist message is delivered through a realistic chronicling of the terrible human toll taken by ten long months of fighting. With musical accompaniment by Renato Umali. Co-sponsored by the Alliance Française of Milwaukee.

Ady Gasy/ The Malagasy way Wednesday February 17 • 7pm Lova Nantenaina, Blu-ray, 84 min, Madagascar, 2014 (Malagasy, French) poster-ady-gasy-the-malagasy-way-s-2 This vibrant documentary offers a bittersweet satirical critique of global over-production and consumption. In Madagascar, where people are defying the country’s economic and environmental crisis with great ingenuity, a Malagasy narrator sets out to tell their stories. Just as they waste nothing, transforming tires into shoes or cans into lamps, toys and instruments, he finds himself rewording the tools of his oral traditions as he undertakes his journey. Shown in conjunction with Union Cinema’s Share the Earth Environmental Film Series.

Do something fun with the kids that is budget friendly. DROP-IN FOR ART Kids ages 4 and up, accompanied by an adult, are welcome to drop-in for some FREE art fun at RAM's Wustum Museum, 2519 Northwestern Avenue. Spend a little time in the galleries to learn about the current exhibition and create an art project, for a well-rounded art experience! Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:00 pm December 17 - Holiday Paper Prints January 21 - Winter Watercolors February 18 - Card Craft Make cards for year round gift giving. March 17 - Color Madness April 21 - Earth Day Art May 19 - Patterned after Klimt

While our own solar system is a mere speck in our galaxy that is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, there are many more enormous galaxies in existence. In fact, there are over 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Join us in exploring the beautiful shapes, collisions, and black holes all related to the unimaginable glory that is a galaxy.

Bande de filles Friday February 19 • 9pm Sunday February 21• 7pm bandedefilles In this intimate coming of age story set in the Parisian suburbs, Marieme is looking to escape her abusive family situation. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school. Hanging out with her three new girlfriends, and living under the protection of an older man, she realizes that her new found freedom comes with a price. Opening Film, Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2014. Co-sponsored by the Community Media Project & the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres and the Dept. of Africology. Presented as part of the Tournées Film Festival

These are a series of informal public lectures aimed at anyone interested in getting a taste of modern science, all from the comfort of your local coffee shop. Members of the Leonard E Parker Center for Cosomology, Gravitational and Astrophysics will guide you through the interesting, unusual, and sometimes bizarre concepts that guide the modern understanding of our universe. At the end of each lecture, we hope to have rekindled or ignited a passion for astrophysics!

PAUL CEBAR TOMORROW SOUND Sat Feb 20 2016 8:00 pm @ 224 W. Bruce Street Milwaukee $10adv/$12door Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound bring forth a funky, lyrically charged racket that is explosive, yet intimate. Taking cues from the dance bands of western Louisiana (and his native Midwest,), the streets (and 45's) of New Orleans, touring African and Caribbean combos and the soul, funk & blues of his youth, Paul Cebar is a masterful synthesist of rhythmic culture. His time spent in his second home of New Orleans, as a musicologist in Florida, and as a journeyman wanderer in Cuba, is reflected in his musical worldview. At the core is gifted songwriting, and the company Paul keeps bears it out: Bonnie Raitt, Nick Lowe, Chris Smither, John Hiatt and Cesar Rosas are among his friends and admirers. Tomorrow Sound are an elite crew. Drummer Reggie Bordeaux, New Orleans native percussionist Mac Perkins, and bassist Mike Fredrickson, throw down some of the best dance grooves in the business. Multi-instrumentalist Bob Jennings adds the luxury of implying a much larger ensemble with his multi-hued contributions on keys and reeds. Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound's latest album is “Fine Rude Thing” . The songs “Baby Shake” and “You Owe it to Me” feature Cebar's unique mixture of R&B, Caribbean and New Orleans style. http://www.paulcebar.com/ https://anodynecoffee.com/shop/product-category/events/

Learn to create a website using Wordpress, integrate social media, and develop online audiences with returning speaker Frank Juarez.

A great introduction for the young artist to explore the world of art. The program includes a mini museum tour, art project, and story for one child and one adult.

While our own solar system is a mere speck in our galaxy that is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, there are many more enormous galaxies in existence.

The School Sisters of St. Francis welcome Jana Najeeb, president of the Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition and director of the Islamic Resource Center for a free, two-part presentation of commonalities between Islam and Christianity and the role of women.

Join us at Racine Art Museum, 441 Main Street for a family-oriented art project. Each one coincides with a current exhibition.