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  • Family Business Center hosts family-business play Oct. 27, 2004 The one-act play, “A Tough Nut to Crack’”by Ira Bryck and the Play@work Performance Group, will be performed Tuesday, Nov. 2., at the Howard Auditorium in the Fluno Center.
  • Performance artist Anderson to mingle media at Union Theater Oct. 19, 2004 Poetry, music, storytelling, travelogue and more will converge in the performance art of Laurie Anderson on Friday, Oct. 29.
  • Pull your own proof at Silver Buckle event Oct. 19, 2004 The Silver Buckle Press, 236 Memorial Library, is offering a behind-the-scenes look as staff members ink up and proof their newest acquisition of type — a face based on the type Johann Gutenberg used for the 42-line Bible — during an open house from 1-4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22.
  • Opera, Theatre perform 'Threepenny Opera' Oct. 19, 2004 The University Opera and University Theatre combine forces to bring "Threepenny Opera" to the stage beginning Friday, Nov. 5, in Vilas Hall's Mitchell Theatre.
  • UW students explore life issues in dance concert Oct. 15, 2004 Issues ranging from death, autism, empowering relationships, immigration and identity inspired emerging artists in the Dance Program to choreograph and create new, innovative works for the Fall Student Concert entitled “text.â€
  • Theater, scientific scholarship come together in 'Copenhagen' Oct. 14, 2004 Playwright Michael Frayn ruminates on what may have been the substance of a 1941 visit between atomic physicists Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr in the Tony Award-winning "Copenhagen," at the Madison Repertory Theater on Thursday, Oct. 22-Sunday, Nov. 14.
  • Pulitzer-winning cartoonist, business editor to visit Oct. 13, 2004 Matt Davies, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, and Charles Zehren, deputy business editor of Newsday, will visit UW-Madison this month as writers in residence.
  • Arts Institute in search of new director Oct. 7, 2004 Wanted: an arts leader and advocate to direct UW-Madison's Arts Institute. The opening comes as Tino Balio, AI director since the body's inception in 1998, retires.
  • Art permeates (prehistoric) life at special events Oct. 7, 2004 According to Joseph Skulan, the assistant faculty associate who is coordinating the series, this first symposium will outline the need that science has for art.
  • A love of profession, a passion for painting Oct. 7, 2004 Jerry Jordan stays busy working for the Office of Admissions, and creating mural-size art.
  • Dance critic to discuss impact of AIDS on American dance Oct. 5, 2004 David Gere's book is the first examination of the impact that AIDS has had on the dance community, particularly on its gay men.
  • Why Files designer flies solo in new exhibition Oct. 5, 2004 While she hasn't quit her day job (designing UW-Madison's Why Files science-education Web site for the last five years), of late Sue Medaris has been mighty busy outside of work. She's been readying a 40-piece gallery exhibition, "A One-Chick Show: Of Cocks and Hens," for its opening Wednesday, Oct. 6, at the downtown Madison Public Library on Mifflin Street. A free public reception will be held at 5 p.m.
  • Animation from Iran presented Oct. 5, 2004
  • UW Opera begins season on spooky 'note' Oct. 5, 2004 The University Opera will open its 2004-05 season with "The Turn of the Screw" on Friday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. Other performances are Sunday, Oct. 17, at 3 p.m. and Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Music Hall.
  • Plan comes to life for East Campus Oct. 5, 2004 A seven-block-long pedestrian mall, seen as the unifying feature of the East Campus redevelopment plan, has new momentum after lingering on university drawing boards for 96 years. The East Campus Mall, first proposed in a 1908 campus master plan, is a key element in today's plans to revitalize the area with an arts-and-humanities district and new student housing.
  • Students help set the stage at Wisconsin Union Theater Oct. 5, 2004 Russo oversees a wealth of programming
  • Original music honors memorial library's 50th anniversary Sept. 24, 2004 The Memorial Library will premiere five original musical compositions with a theme of libraries and librarians this Monday, Sept. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in the Petrovich Reading Room, 212 Memorial Library. This original music has been commissioned by the Mills Music Library to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Memorial Library.
  • Avant-garde filmmaker, dancer to speak Sept. 21, 2004 Yvonne Rainer, contemporary dance pioneer and co-founder of the Judson Dance Theatre, will speak at the Dance Program's Friday Forum on Sept. 24, at 3:30 p.m. in Lathrop Hall.
  • Distinguished Lecture Series announced Sept. 21, 2004 The 2004-05 Distinguished Lecture Series will kick off Oct. 27. The series is designed to give students the chance to invite provocative speakers to campus, manage and promote their appearances, and get to know them up close and personally.
  • Keyboard conversations slated Sept. 21, 2004 Acclaimed pianist Jeffrey Siegel will open his four-part 2004-05 Keyboard Conversations series on Tuesday, Sept. 28.