Culture

Seon Joo So specializes in origami art, the art of folding paper into a finished sculpture. She has been practicing origami since 1996 in South Korea. She moved from South Korea to Milwaukee in 2006 and since then, she has obtained a Master’s Degree at UWM. In 2012, she opened a studio called “So Cool […]

UW-Madison student Youn Ku Choi says that learning percussion was passed down to him from his older peers in a Korean percussion club in Madison. “It was founded in UW-Madison in 1998 with four students; they just kind of started from the bottom, and they passed it on to generations and generations and now we’re […]

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Union Concourse was filled with ceremonial decorations in commemoration of Día de Los Muertos, otherwise known as The Day of the Dead. Día de Los Muertos takes place every year on Nov. 2, and this year, the Union Art Gallery and the Roberto Hernandez Center sponsored a free and public event […]

Up the rain spattered steps of UWM’s Helene Zelazo Center, past the origami vending tables and traditional hanbok dresses sheathed in glass display cases, through the sea of audience members and into the Helen Bader Concert Hall, the members of the UWM Symphony Orchestra readies themselves for their impending Korea Day performance. Yeng Thao, 21, […]

Metalsmithing major Ryan Socia displayed an array of crafts and necklaces formed from recycled scrap plastic and empty bullet casings he collects from a shooting range. He also uses scrap metals and plastics gathered from a junkyard near his home to imbue a “darker, grittier” theme to his work. He was one of several UW-Milwaukee […]

Young poets gathered at a studio on Lisbon Avenue to showcase their talents and find common ground.

Nature inspires local poets at a gathering in Riverside Park.

The Jazz Jam is an open invitation event held every Tuesday at the Jazz Gallery, 926 E. Center St. Jazz Guitar students from UW-Milwaukee sponsored the night. One student and performer interviewed is Nathan Pflughoeft. According to Mark Lawson, the representative for the Gallery, the purpose of the jam is to provide musicians with a […]

Game Start. Many retro gamers gathered Friday, the 7th of November, at the 8th Note Coffee House in the Union for Retro Game Day to play their favorite Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo and PlayStation games. Level 1. Gamers surrounded 4 T.V.s around the 8th Note, playing their timeless classic favorites including Super Smash Bros., Legend […]

Self-proclaimed “Gender Outlaw” Kate Bornstein received many laughs and tears throughout her recent talk at UW-Milwaukee and even provoked an outburst by several attendees, which led to their removal. Bornstein, who spoke in the Union Ballroom on Oct. 30, explained to the audience of around 100 about her struggle with lung cancer and how the […]

Throughout the beginning of fall semester, students took part in the creation and formation of a theatrical piece by the name Mil-wonky Too! (Sex, Drugs, and D2L).  The improvised production, designed to capture the realities of college life at UW-Milwaukee, provoked some audience members into tears with its stories of the system making it harder […]

Use one Korean television show for inspiration and add in riddles and a scavenger hunt. That’s what board members of the Asian Student Union and Hmong Student Association did, sending teams of students around campus in a version of the Amazing Race. The board members created a fright week of events that led up to […]