Wisconsin Union Theater: Concert Series Brings Cutting-Edge, Contemporary and Traditional Classical Music to Madison Stages

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May 2, 2022

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

CONCERT SERIES BRINGS CUTTING-EDGE, CONTEMPORARY AND TRADITIONAL CLASSICAL MUSIC TO MADISON STAGES

MADISON – The Wisconsin Union Theater’s 2022-23 classical music series, called the Concert Series, will bring both world-renowned artists and fresh faces in classical music to Madison, Wis., stages.

The Concert Series runs from Sept. 24, 2022, to April 18, 2023, and includes seven in-person events, all of which will have a livestream ticket purchase option. The Theater team and student leaders in the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Performing Arts Committee created a season that includes contemporary, cutting-edge classical music as well as traditional chamber music.

The 2022-23 Concert Series will include:

• Emerson String Quartet, Sept. 24
• Manhattan Chamber Players, Sept. 29
• Sō Percussion with Caroline Shaw, Nov. 5
• Geneva Lewis with Evren Ozel, Jan. 27, 2023
• Imani Winds, Feb. 5, 2023
• Anthony McGill with the UW–Madison Symphony Orchestra, April 4, 2023
• Danish String Quartet, April 18, 2023

Patrons can purchase a subscription to attend six events with the option to add-on the Anthony McGill performance at a discounted rate here. Single tickets for the McGill concert and for the other Concert Series events will become available for sale in August here.

Wisconsin Union members and University of Wisconsin–Madison students are eligible for discounted tickets.

“With the blending of traditional and contemporary classical music, the 2022-23 Concert Series is the perfect opportunity for everyone, from classical aficionados and those who have never experienced classical music, to experience this truly beautiful genre,” Wisconsin Union Theater Director Elizabeth Snodgrass said.

The Wisconsin Union Theater team will announce its jazz series in June during the Madison Jazz Festival event at the Memorial Union between June 18-19 and anticipates making information about additional 2022-23 Theater season performances available here in August.

The 103-year-running Concert Series season brings classical music artists from around the world to Madison. Each year consistently upholds the highest artistic quality.

By attending Wisconsin Union Theater performances, patrons not only support the arts but also support hands-on student leadership opportunities available through the WUD Performing Arts Committee.

The Wisconsin Union Theater is part of the Wisconsin Union, a nonprofit organization that provides spaces at Memorial Union and Union South as well as year-round activities and more than 2,000 events each year.

The Emerson String Quartet’s, the Manhattan Chamber Players’, and the Danish String Quartet’s performances are part of the David and Kato Perlman Chamber Music series supported by the David and Kato Perlman Chamber Music Fund.

For more information about the Concert Series, visit union.wisc.edu/concert-series.

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About the Wisconsin Union Theater

For more than 75 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 expansive 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.

[Click here to download photos of the Concert Series artists.]

To read this release online, visit union.wisc.edu/about/news/concertseries2022.

Your Underground Adventure Awaits: Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums’ 2022 Tour Season opens on May 1

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Media Contact:
Erik Flesch, Museum Director
The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums
Phone: (608) 348-3401
Email: museumdirector@platteville.org  

Your Underground Adventure Awaits: Museum’s 2022 Tour Season opens on May 1

PLATTEVILLE, Wis., April 22, 2022 — The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums are pleased to announce the opening of our 2022 Tour Season on May 1. To thank the citizens of Platteville for their continued support, The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums is excited to offer two community free days: season opening day, May 1; and season closing day, October 31. Museum admission, including a guided mine tour and train ride (weather permitting) is free to Platteville residents (proof of residency require). Reserve your spot today! Visit www.mining.jamison.museum/programs to register.

We have many programs and initiatives in store this year that celebrate human ingenuity, inquiry, enterprise, and development — what might be called the pioneering spirit. Perhaps the most important of these is a new exhibit highlighting the museum’s Native American tool collection —13,000 Years of Driftless Ingenuity. The exhibit tells a story of time and place, and how the cycles of each year informed different activities of survival and culture-building, based on Native American knowledge of the Driftless Area and the invention of new technologies using its rock, plant, and animal resources. The exhibit builds on a year of work behind the scenes with financial support from Wisconsin Humanities. Working with Driftless Pathways archaeologists, Museum staff members Rachel Vang and Sherri Hall analyzed, labeled, digitally cataloged, and organized more than 1,100 Native American stone tools both chronologically and typologically. Most of these were collected by Rollo Jamison, who deeply appreciated their historical significance but actually underestimated their age. He imagined they were 5,600 years old, but they actually span 13,000 years of human history. We hope you will come check out this and other new exhibits.

This year’s tour season brings the full complement of tours, including guided tours of the underground Bevans Mine, train rides, self-guided tours of interior museum exhibits, school fieldtrips, group tours, and private tours. The Museums are open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from May 1 through October 31. We also offer a variety of virtual experiences for youth and adults.

The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums are located on Main Street in Platteville, Wisconsin, in the heart of the historic Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc mining region. Founded in 1964, the museum is a nearly three-acre campus with scenic greenspace, the underground 1845 Bevans Mine, and a 1930s-era narrow-gauge mine train pulled by a 1931 Whitcomb locomotive. The mission of the Museums is to continue in the pursuit of excellence in the areas of regional and mining history. To achieve that purpose, the Museums are commissioned to be custodians of the past; to interpret the rich lead and zinc mining heritage of the region, as well as to preserve, interpret, and display the artifacts that define Southwest Wisconsin. Follow The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums on Facebook @MiningJamisonMuseum and visit our website at www.mining.jamison.museum for more information on current and upcoming programs or call (608) 348-3301 or email Museums@platteville.org.

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Wisconsin Union Theater: Comedy Star, Actress Dulcé Sloan Takes the Stage at Shannon Hall May 7

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April 15, 2022 

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

COMEDY STAR, ACTRESS DULCÉ SLOAN TAKES THE STAGE AT SHANNON HALL MAY 7

MADISON, Wis. — Hailed as one of the sharpest, fastest rising voices in comedy, standup comedienne and actress Dulcé Sloan is bringing her comedic talent to the Wisconsin Union Theater’s Shannon Hall on May 7 at 7 p.m. for a free performance.

Crowned “The New Queen of Comedy” by SLiNK Magazine, Atlanta-born Sloan is known for her comedy that combines sharp wit with joyous energy that Salon.com called “vivacious zest.”

The Atlantic Journal-Constitution quoted her comedy mentor Big Kenney Johnson as saying, “She’s like a Picasso in the middle of finger painters. She has something that is obviously different and special.”

Sloan’s career has included serving as a correspondent on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,” starring in the animated series “The Great North,” hosting her podcast “That Black Ass Show,” a role in the film “Chick Fight,” and more.

“After just 10 years in the entertainment industry, Dulcé Sloan is already a comedy star worldwide,” Wisconsin Union Theater Director Elizabeth Snodgrass said. “Dulcé has a talent for making people laugh and think about important issues at the same time.”

The Wisconsin Union Theater originally scheduled Sloan’s performance to occur in 2021, but the event was canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. Originally scheduled as a welcome to a new academic year, the Wisconsin Union Theater and the Wisconsin Union Directorate Performing Arts Committee are now hosting Sloan’s performance as a celebration of the community getting through a challenging year together and ending the year in community with one another.

Patrons can register for free tickets online, by phone at (608) 265-2787, or at the Memorial Union Box Office.

Those interested in attending can learn more about Sloan’s upcoming performance here.

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About the Wisconsin Union Theater

For more than 75 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 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.

[Click here to download a photo of Dulcé Sloan. Photo by Gabriel Michael.]

To read this release online, visit union.wisc.edu/about/news/dulce-sloan-2022.

Madison Public Schools Foundation: 16th Annual Circle of Friends Luncheon

It’s that time of year again! Join the Madison Public Schools Foundation for the 16th Annual Circle of Friends luncheon on Tuesday, May 17 from 11:30am-1:30p.m.

Your support helps fuel our mission to raise funds, award grants, develop community partnerships, and advocate for Madison’s public schools. Get your ticket today on our website: https://fmps.org/circle-of-friends/

WPS Health Insurance® plans to expand Medicare supplement insurance offering in 45 states

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Contact:
DeAnne Boegli
Vice President of Communications
608-512-5754
deanne.boegli@wpsic.com

WPS Health Insurance^® plans to expand Medicare supplement insurance offering in 45 states

MADISON, Wis.—April 11, 2022—One of Wisconsin’s most popular Medicare supplement insurance products will soon be available in even more states. WPS Health Insurance and its wholly owned subsidiary, The EPIC Life Insurance Company^®, are planning to expand Medicare supplement insurance, already being sold in 16 states, to 29 more states over the next 36 months. 

Medicare supplement insurance helps customers pay for costs left over after Medicare pays its share for covered medical services. The insurance plans from WPS Health Insurance and The EPIC Life Insurance Company offer customers no-worry, no-hassle service backed by friendly, concierge-level customer support.

“WPS Health Insurance has been selling Medicare supplement insurance in Wisconsin since the Medicare program began. We’ve already expanded into select states across the country. It’s an exciting time for us as we introduce our Medicare supplement insurance to even more customers in more states,” said Thomas Spelsberg, Vice President of Medicare Market Solutions.

When launched, the plans will be available through select insurance agents and retiree exchanges in the new states. The Medicare supplement insurance plans offer a variety of coverage options for Medicare beneficiaries plus special programs and services included at no additional cost. All plans include value-added benefits such as fitness, wellness, vision, and hearing programs, with the option to purchase dental coverage. Identity theft and fraud review services are also included for all customers.

WPS began selling Medicare supplement insurance when the Medicare program began in 1966. Since then, tens of thousands of customers have enjoyed the dedicated service the company provides. Today, WPS and The EPIC Life Insurance Company have more than 60,000 Medicare supplement insurance customers. In 2021, WPS celebrated 75 years of serving customers and beneficiaries. With a rich legacy of caring and innovation, WPS is committed to making health care easier for the people it serves.

About WPS Health Insurance

As one of the largest health benefits providers in the state, Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS Health Insurance) offers a variety of services and coverage with Preferred Provider Organization health plans for individuals and groups, third-party administrator services, and Medicare supplement plans. Headquartered in Madison, Wis., and with employees throughout the state, WPS Health Insurance is deeply committed to Wisconsin and its residents. Visit wpshealth.com for more information.

The intent of this advertisement is solicitation of insurance, and contact may be made by the insurer or a licensed agent. Neither Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation nor The EPIC Life Insurance Company, nor their products, nor agents are connected with or endorsed by the United States government or the federal Medicare program. All policies have exclusions, limitations, and reductions. For costs and complete details of the coverage, call or write your insurance agent or the insurance company.

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