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• Educators to learn about using hip hop, spoken word as classroom tools July 1, 2009 More than 40 educators from nine states will attend the fourth annual Hip Hop and Spoken Word Teacher/Educator Institute on campus July 6-10.
• Sounds of early music to fill Madison air June 29, 2009 Study with virtuosos and early music vocal masters, and perform period music at the Madison Early Music Festival July 11-18.
• Summer campus film schedules announced June 17, 2009 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Cinematheque and the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Film Committee have assembled summer programming that will entertain and enlighten.
• Incoming freshman reflects on singing for Obama June 12, 2009 UW-Madison incoming freshman Kayla Jenerson kicked off President Barack Obama’s visit to Green Bay June 11 by singing the national anthem.
• Freshman vocalist to perform for Obama June 11, 2009 President Barack Obama will experience the vocal talents of an incoming University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman during his stop today (June 11) in Green Bay.
• Community engagement moves World Dance Alliance Assembly May 26, 2009 Madison, Wis., will become the world's dance hot spot May 28-31 when the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dance Program hosts the World Dance Alliance-Americas (WDAA) General Assembly.
• UW-Madison alumnus nominated to chair National Endowment for the Arts May 14, 2009 Rocco Landesman, a well-known Broadway producer and University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus, has been nominated to be the next chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
• Notable graduates: Tom Curry — Double major toots his own horn with the tuba in the Wisconsin Brass Quintet May 14, 2009 Though he can't tell you exactly why he began playing the tuba, other than it was a challenge, Tom Curry can assure you of his passion for music and incorporating it into today's culture.
• Canceled: Film documents African American experience on campus May 12, 2009 A student-produced documentary film, "Like Touching A Hot Stove," which provides a window into student life for African Americans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is set to premiere on Tuesday, May 12.
• Music professor to be honored at gala May 12, 2009 A University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music professor will be honored with one of four awards presented at the 2009 Wisconsin History Makers Gala on Wednesday, May 27, at Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel.
• Thoreau Elementary students to demonstrate importance of literacy through song May 8, 2009 More than 200 Madison Metropolitan School District students will come together on Monday, May 11, to share what they have learned from a literacy program that stresses self-esteem through music.
• Art Lofts opening celebration continues May 7, 2009 The tower of bright red steel girders signals that the former university warehouse at the edge of campus has been transformed. Facing the Kohl Center across Frances Street, the tower marks the main entrance to the Art Lofts, the new state-of-the-art facility for the Art Department.
• Film and theater center digitizes three new collections May 6, 2009 Three new collections in the holding of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research have been sifted, winnowed, digitized and posted to the Web.
• Lecture explains the science behind ‘Angels and Demons’ April 29, 2009 Physics professor Wesley Smith will discuss the science behind the movie in a public lecture titled “Angels and Demons of the Large Hadron Collider” at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, May 4, in 2103 Chamberlin Hall.
• Weeklong celebration marks opening of UW-Madison's Art Lofts facility April 28, 2009 The tower of bright red steel girders signals that the former university warehouse at the edge of campus has been transformed. Facing the Kohl Center across Frances Street, the tower marks the main entrance to the Art Lofts, the new state-of-the-art facility for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Department.
• Chazen groundbreaking ceremony planned for May 1 April 27, 2009 The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will celebrate the beginning of construction on its expansion with a groundbreaking ceremony at noon on Friday, May 1, on the building site at 750 University Ave.
• Poet, alumnus returns to campus for landmark reading April 23, 2009 Prize-winning poet Martín Espada has sometimes been referred to as “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors.” Like the great Chilean poet, whose work he now teaches, Espada’s life and work have had many facets. Neruda speaks most to Espada as a poet of justice, an advocate for those who remain unheard.
• Slide show: The Making of “Hair” April 20, 2009 UW-Madison’s production of “Hair”, which will close University Theatre’s season, has entailed 24 undergraduate cast members, a guest director, a grueling rehearsal schedule and an ambitious goal of being as authentic as possible.
• Art of the very, very small to debut at Dane County Airport April 15, 2009 Artful images of the very, very small - cells, molecules and nanoscale structures - will be on display beginning Friday, April 24, at the Art Court of the Dane County Regional Airport.
• Artist celebrates Yiddish music with ‘KlezKamp’ April 9, 2009 If Henry Sapoznik has his way, Madison will become the capitol of “Yiddishland” during a three-day “KlezKamp Road Show,” a celebration of klezmer music and Yiddish folk arts Saturday–Monday, April 18–20.