Events That Will Have You Falling for Fall Vibes 🍂
It’s officially the season when we exchange our flip-flops for boots, and pumpkin spice becomes a food group ☕️. So bundle up, and gear up for fall fun at Wisconsin Union events! Gather your crew to enjoy it all, or find your crew at experiences for a lifetime. Free Pumpkin Carving, Oct. 23 Carve a pumpkin outside of Union South! Hosted by the Wisconsin Union Directorate Global Connections Committee. Open to all students, staff,...
Save the Date to Flock Together to Make a Difference: Fill the Hill, Oct. 24-25
Once upon a time, some clever students filled an iconic University of Wisconsin–Madison location, Bascom Hill, with plastic, pink flamingos to welcome students to campus. In homage to the sassy scholars, once a year, Badgers and Badgers-at-heart around the world fill Bascom Hill with pink flamingos again; but with a twist the tradition’s inventors never predicted. Starting at 5 p.m. on Oct. 24 through 5. p.m. on Oct. 25, each...
Wisconsin Union Theater presents cinematic shadow puppet and music company’s reimagining of ‘Frankenstein’
The worlds of film, music, shadow puppetry and theater combine in Manual Cinema’s performance of “Frankenstein” on Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Shannon Hall at Memorial Union, as part of the Wisconsin Union Theater (WUT) 2024-2025 season. The Manual Cinema production combines Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” with biographical elements from Shelley’s life. The Emmy Award-winning team’s reimagining retains the original novel’s...
Bear? No. More Like a Friendly Golden Retriever.
The TV show “The Bear” has sparked conversations and news stories around the world about the toxic cultures found in far too many restaurant kitchens. The show centers on the story of an award-winning chef, who returns home to the Midwest to manage his passed brother’s sandwich shop. “The Bear” shows scenes of chefs berating colleagues, asking rhetorical questions intended to belittle them and engaging in name-calling, all with...
Unleash the Magic and Possibilities this Day of the Badger
Help us unleash the magic and the possibilities of leadership, learning and gathering during the 2024 Day of the Badger. WHAT IS DAY OF THE BADGER? What is Day of Badger, you ask? It’s an annual call to you, our Badgers and Badgers-at-heart around the world, to give to campus efforts you believe in. It all begins at 10:12 a.m. CDT on April 16 and runs until 5 p.m. CDT on April 17 (1,848 minutes in honor of the year the University of...