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Wisconsin Union Theater: Cory Henry’s Voice of Gold, Virtuosic Musicianship Combine During Night of Future Soul on Nov. 3

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 25, 2022

Contact Information:
Shauna Breneman, Communications Director
Email: sbreneman@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-8862

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READ RELEASE ONLINE: union.wisc.edu/about/news/cory-henry.

CORY HENRY’S VOICE OF GOLD, VIRTUOSIC MUSICIANSHIP COMBINE DURING NIGHT OF FUTURE SOUL ON NOV. 3

MADISON – Renowned composer, producer, and keyboardist Cory Henry’s musical journey began at just two years old when he started playing the organ at church. Quickly recognized for his talent, his musical skill grew, leading him to perform at the legendary music venue the Apollo Theater in New York at just six years old.

The chance to experience Henry’s talent and passion for music first-hand comes to Shannon Hall in Memorial Union on Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. CDT and through online streaming as part of the Wisconsin Union Theater’s Jazz Series.

Since his early start in music at church, he has toured with well-known artists, such as Bruce Springsteen, P. Diddy, Boyz II Men, and The Roots; won three GRAMMY Awards as a member of Snarky Puppy; and been nominated for four GRAMMYs for his album “Something to Say” as well as for co-producing and co-writing albums, such as Eric Bellinger’s album “New Light.”

While often referred to as a jazz artist, Henry does not limit himself to one genre; he allows genre to take a backseat to prioritize producing great music without genre constraints. Patrons will hear influences of gospel and the artists that inspire him, such as Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Prince and James Brown. He has called his music future soul.

He values the messages in these artists’ music, which still resonate with listeners, and wants to incorporate lasting messages in his work as well as inspire people through his music.

“Cory Henry delivers powerful, progressive funk and soul,” Wisconsin Union Theater Director Elizabeth Snodgrass said. “He’s as dynamic to watch perform as he is to listen to. People should come in person if they can to get the full live music experience.”

Patrons can purchase virtual and in-person tickets online, by phone at (608) 265-2787 or in person at the Memorial Union Box Office. Wisconsin Union members, guests under the age of 18, and University of Wisconsin–Madison students, staff and faculty are eligible for discounted tickets.

The Jazz Series will also feature performances by Cécile McLorin Salvant on Feb. 7, 2023, Samara Joy on Feb. 16, 2023, and Immanuel Wilkins on March 25, 2023. Other 2022-23 Wisconsin Union Theater events include Sō Percussion with Caroline Shaw on Nov. 5; American Patchwork Quartet on Nov. 17; Geneva Lewis with Evren Ozel on Jan. 27, 2023; PILOBOLUS Big Five-OH! on Feb. 1, 2023; Imani Winds on Feb. 5, 2023; Anthony McGill with the UW-Madison Symphony Orchestra on April 4, 2023; and the Danish String Quartet on April 18, 2023.

The Wisconsin Union Theater presents its 2022-23 season with the UW–Madison student-led Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Performing Arts Committee. Patrons’ tickets and their purchases at Memorial Union partly support professional development experiences offered through WUD.

Patrons can click here to learn more about the Nov. 3 performance by Cory Henry.

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About the Wisconsin Union Theater

For more than 80 years, the Wisconsin Union Theater has served as a center for cultural activity in the heart of the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. The Theater hosts performances in multiple locations, including Memorial Union, and has an extensive history of remarkable performances. The Wisconsin Union Theater is committed to social justice and works to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive place for all who engage with the Theater’s programming, events, and activities. The Wisconsin Union Theater is part of the Wisconsin Union, a membership organization that blends study and leisure to create unique out-of-classroom opportunities. Learn more: union.wisc.edu/wisconsin-union-theater.

About the Wisconsin Union Directorate Performing Arts Committee

The Wisconsin Union Directorate Performing Arts Committee is part of the Wisconsin Union’s leadership development program for UW–Madison students and supports the Wisconsin Union Theater’s mission of serving students through the performing arts. By helping to program the Theater’s annual season of performing arts presentations, the students learn about program curation, relationship-building, marketing, communications, budgeting, and production. Learn more: union.wisc.edu/get-involved/wud/performing-arts.

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Old National Reports 24% EPS Growth from 2Q22, 11% on an Adjusted Basis, Driven by Robust Commercial Loan Growth and Net Interest Margin Expansion

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Dane Buy Local: Soup’s On! Returns!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 2022

Colin Murray, Executive Director
Dane Buy Local
2801 International Lane, Suite 110
Madison, WI 53704
608.712.3440
colin@danebuylocal.com
danebuylocal.com

SOUP’S ON! RETURNS!

The third season of the incredibly popular Soup’s On! premiers October 26. The seasonal program, which began in 2020 during the pandemic, will once again sell frozen quarts of freshly made, homemade soup created and prepared by local restaurants. The weekly sales help the restaurants, who continue to struggle because of staffing shortages and increased food costs.

Last season, 5,633 quarts of soup were sold with the $83,746 going directly to the local restaurant participants. And of those quarts sold, 503 were donated to the Healthy Food for All food security program. A double win. New this year, purchasers will have the option to add FEED Bakery’s Cookie of the Week to their order.

Soup’s On! is supported, organized, and presented by Arcus Communications, Bunky’s Catering, Cap Times, Communication Concepts, Dane Buy Local, FEED Kitchens, Madison Essentials, Northside News, and Ulla Eyewear. The 2022‒2023 season starts October 26 and will run through March 2023. Orders can be placed weekly (Wednesday‒Saturday) at danebuylocal.com/soups-on and picked up on Tuesdays at FEED Kitchens (1219 N. Sherman Ave. Madison). Delivery is also available.

Dane Buy Local is part of a growing national movement of communities rallying to support independent businesses, ensuring the opportunity to operate an independent business endures. Dane Buy Local is a non-profit member organization helping to create a sustainable, vital local economy through collaboration, education, and promotion.

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Black poet and performance artist Jasmine Mans returns to UW–Madison as Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence with the Division of the Arts and Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 20, 2022

Media Contact: aryn kresol, Arts Residency Programs Coordinator at UW–Madison Division of the Arts, akresol@wisc.edu

URL: go.wisc.edu/Mans

Link to media kit: https://uwmadison.box.com/s/wevmw4kmr8ueol0udc30qnugjm3hz9es

Link to article: https://artsdivision.wisc.edu/2022/10/20/mans-nov-22-iarp/

Black poet and performance artist Jasmine Mans returns to UW–Madison as Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence with the Division of the Arts and Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives

Madison, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts and the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) welcome Black poet, performance artist and UW–Madison alumna Jasmine Mans to campus October 31–November 5, 2022, through the Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program.

The 2022–2023 Division of the Arts’ Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program presents a series of short-term residencies with artists in collaboration with OMAI. Each artist-in-residence in the series will represent the three pillars of OMAI: academics, arts and activism.

The second in this series, Mans’ residency will include presentations and workshops in partnership with various departments on campus and a panel discussion with the 2022–23 Go Big Read author Clint Smith. Mans, who holds a B.A. in African American Studies from UW–Madison, will also cast and direct a small group of UW–Madison scholars to debut a choreopoem performance at OMAI’s Just Bust! Open Mic at the Wisconsin Historical Society on Friday, November 4.

Public Events

Monday, October 31 | 7–9 p.m.

Residency Welcome Reception

Cafe Coda (1224 Williamson St)

A Halloween meet and greet with Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence Jasmine Mans with faculty, students (21+), staff and community members. Please register in advance. First 20 guests in costume get a free drink ticket!

Free, 21+ and open to the public

Friday, November 4 | 8–10 p.m.

Just Bust! Open Mic

Wisconsin Historical Society (816 State Street)

Madison’s long-running, all-ages open mic, Just Bust! Open Mic, includes community performances, First Wave and alumni spotlight performance, and a debut performance of a choreopoem by Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence Jasmine Mans, with a cast of UW–Madison scholars. Interested in performing during the open mic portion of the event? Sign up (in-person) begins at 8 p.m. and goes on throughout the night until all slots are filled. Make sure to arrive early to guarantee a spot in the lineup!
Free, all ages and open to the public

Saturday, November 5 | 1–3 p.m.

Just Bust! Workshop at the Level Up! Music Conference

MYArts – Madison’s Youth Arts Center (1055 E Mifflin Street)

A poetry workshop led by Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence Jasmine Mans, followed by residency closing reception from 3–3:30 p.m. The Level Up! Music Conference, presented by the Urban Community Arts Network, continues 3:30–5 p.m. Register here with promo code: OMAI.

About the Artist

Jasmine Mans is a Black poet and performance artist from Newark, New Jersey. Jasmine’s poetry book, “BLACK GIRL, CALL HOME” (Penguin Random House) has been named one of Oprah’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books and a TIME Magazine Must Read, to name a few; and Jasmine herself named as Essence’s #1 Contemporary Black Poet to Know. Jasmine most recently collaborated with the Brooklyn Ballet on an original performance piece titled “Unnatural Surrounding” at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music. Prior to this, she opened for Nikole Hannah-Jones at the launch of “The 1619 Project” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and co-hosted The Kennedy Center’s Arts Across America digital series alongside renowned poet, Jason Reynolds. Jasmine’s poetry has gone viral many times over on YouTube. Jasmine is a MUSE100 icon and can currently be heard as the voice of Ulta Beauty’s national “Muse” campaign, honoring Black women in the hair and beauty industry. She has opened packed shows for Mos Def, Janelle Monae and Goapele, and performed at such esteemed venues as the Kennedy Center, Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theater, the Wisconsin Governor’s Mansion and the Sundance Film Festival. Mans also participated in “Brave New Voices”, an 8-episode poetry documentary on HBO.

About the Presenters

The Division of the Arts’ Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program (IARP), originated through the Cluster Hiring Initiative of the Office of the Provost, brings innovative, world-class artists to the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. Since 1999, the program has hosted over 40 residencies involving more than 100 guest artists from 20 different countries, engaging over 60 university units and community organizations.

All residencies center interdisciplinary arts, recognizing that interdisciplinarity can break down barriers and silos, advance intellectual artistic diversity and give opportunities to people who do not fit into the traditional modes of inquiry and practice (see the Division of the Arts’ guiding principle of The Arts for Everyone, Everywhere). The program often brings together artists, faculty, staff and students from various disciplines across the arts, sciences and humanities. Integrated with curricular activities, all arts residencies in this program are proposed by academic departments or officially recognized interdepartmental programs, centers or institutes at UW–Madison.

While in residence, artists teach interdisciplinary workshops and participate in public programming with campus and Madison communities. The program provides students with extended learning experiences with a working artist, including options to earn course credit; increases diversity of teaching staff on campus; and strengthens programmatic ties among individual departments, programs and other campus and community arts entities.

The Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) within the Division of Diversity, Equity, & Educational Achievement provides culturally relevant and transformative arts programming to promote positive social dialogue and to give cultural art forms a legitimate academic forum. By harnessing the broad cultural influence of spoken word, hip hop and emerging as well as traditional art forms, OMAI’s events and programming create learning environments that directly affect UW–Madison’s campus climate, improving retention and graduation success, preparing future leaders to reinvest in their communities. By continually refreshing this paradigm that integrates traditional academics and cutting edge arts activism, OMAI empowers transnational leaders with new tools for inclusive community building.

One of OMAI’s most prominent initiatives is the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community, a cutting-edge multicultural artistic program for incoming students which offers a four-year full tuition scholarship to the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Bringing together young artists and leaders from across the United States and beyond, the First Wave Learning Community offers students the opportunity to live, study and create together in a close-knit, dynamic campus community. First Wave is the first university program in the country centered on urban arts, spoken word and hip-hop culture.

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David Seno Joins M3 Insurance as Senior Director of M&A Insurance and Transactional Risk

M3 Insurance is excited to announce that David Seno, JD/MBA has been named the senior director of M&A insurance and transactional risk, a division of M3 Insurance. His primary role is to establish strong business relationships, acting as the lead interface between clients, underwriters, attorneys, and M3 account executives for the placement of bespoke transactional insurance.

Seno joins M3 after 16 years at Foley & Lardner LLP, where he was a partner and M&A lawyer focused on representing public and private companies and sponsors with a variety of M&A transactions in a wide array of industries. During his legal career, he represented buyers, sellers, investors and target companies in over 80 domestic and international transactions with an aggregate transaction value exceeding $9 billion.

He specializes in assisting public and private companies with obtaining bespoke insurance solutions in connection with domestic and international business transactions. He is also a member of the American Bar Association and Wisconsin State Bar Association.

Seno is an active member of the community, and has served as a pro bono attorney for the Wisconsin Wills for Heroes Program and a Junior Achievement volunteer for third grade classes.


About M3

M3 is a top insurance broker and risk management firm in America. We’re leaders in the products we represent and the industries we serve. M3’s people are an extension of your team, providing world-class resources to help you manage risk, purchase insurance, and provide employee benefits. And our focus on community builds better places to live and work.