Outdoor Adventure Tips and Ways to Prepare for Outdoor Adventures
Outdoor explorers and explorers-to-be, adventure awaits you in Wisconsin’s outdoors, and our team at Outdoor UW wants to help you build the skills for your next excursion. Photo by Andy Manis Outdoor UW offers courses through the Outdoor Explorer Series for outdoor enthusiasts and soon-to-be enthusiasts at every level of their adventuring. In this story, we’re sharing some outdoor tips as you consider your next venture into nature as...
Your Year-Round, Free Madison Movie Theater
The moment when the lights go down leaving only subdued lights in the aisles, a hush cascades into the movie theater and the movie screen illuminates bringing with it the start of your movie-going experience. It’s a moment when escape begins and you’re drawn into a story, into moments and lives that are not your own but in which you become enveloped. We invite you to experience the magic of films at our free film showing experiences...
Into the WUDs – Finding your Place on Campus
Finding your place, the place that feels like home can feel overwhelming at college. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, though, an organization headquartered in the University’s campus living room helps students find their way: the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD). WUD leads the creation and promotion of more than 1,000 events at the spaces that makeup the campus living rooms, called Memorial Union, the Memorial Union...
Souper Bowl Brings Super Artists Together to Make a Difference
A chance to make a difference and bring home a one-of-a-kind art piece comes to Madison, Wis., March 26 at a food and entertainment charity event called Souper Bowl XXVI. At the Bowl, visitors can support the building of affordable housing in Dane County in many ways, including purchasing bowls of soup and the bowls in which the soup is served. Many of the bowls at the event will have had their starts at the Wisconsin Union’s...
Marking 20 Years with Director Mark Guthier
Twenty years ago, we welcomed Mark Guthier to the Wisconsin Union team as our third director in our organization’s more than 110-year history. Mark Guthier speaking at the kick off the start of the Tong Family Marina project on Sept. 15, 2018 – photo by Sam Molinaro Mark has led us through many milestones, beginning with the 75th anniversary of the Wisconsin Union and continuing with the rebuilding of our south campus...