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UWSP | Michelsen Hall Noel Fine Arts Center, 1800 Portage Street, Stevens Point, United States
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Cosmic Cycles (Live presentation)
FeaturedUWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United StatesWhat are the natural cycles in the cosmos? Join a special LIVE presentation in the UWSP Blocher Planetarium on May 26. Planetarium director, Dr. Sebastian Zamfir will talk about fundamental units of time as they relate to natural cycles in cosmos: day, month, year. We will also relate the days of the week and some […]
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UWSP Filmmakers’ Camp
UWSP Communication Arts Center 1101 Reserve Street, Stevens Point, WI, United StatesCalling all young storytellers and movie fans! The UWSP Media Studies department invites curious and creative 8-12-year-olds for a four-day-long camp on the art of filmmaking. With the guidance of experienced Media Studies professors and local filmmakers, campers will explore every step of the filmmaking process—from brainstorming ideas and writing scripts to shooting scenes and editing […]
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FREE Screening of “Possession”
DUC Theater 1015 Reserve Street, Stevens Point, WI, United StatesThe UWSP Media Studies area in partnership with CREATE invites you to a screening of "Possession" in the Dreyfus University Center Theater on Friday, October 10 at 7 p.m. All are welcome, tickets are $5 and popcorn is FREE! If you’re starting to get into the Halloween Spirit, consider joining us for a dose of […]
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Homecoming/ Family Day Planetarium Shows
UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United StatesMake time to enjoy one of the Family Day Planetarium shows available to you! Our schedule for the day is as follows: 10 a.m. “From Earth to the Universe” 11 a.m. “Supermassive Black Holes" 1 p.m. “Out There – The Quest for Extrasolar Worlds” 2 p.m. “Phantom of the Universe – The Hunt for Dark […]
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Musica- Why is the Universe Beautiful?
UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United StatesThis all-ages show in the planetarium presents the idea that art, music, physics and mathematics are fundamentally related and an integral part of the beauty of the Cosmos. With vivid, detailed descriptions of the spiral designs inherent in natural phenomena such as DNA, sunflowers and galaxies, the concepts of harmony and harmonics resulting from maths […]
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Practicing Farewell
Chemistry Biology Building 2101 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United StatesAs life changes, we find ourselves saying farewell to people, places, activities, and things. What makes a farewell successful? Are there ways to practice saying farewell to make it easier and to help us appreciate what we have now? Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Scott Davison of Morehead State University will explore those questions in his […]
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Badger Talks: How Can We Find Other Life in the Universe?
FeaturedChemistry Biology Building 2101 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United StatesAre we alone in the universe? This question has been asked for over two thousand years, and we now possess the tools and techniques necessary to answer it. Assistant Professor Thomas Beatty of the University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Astronomy will discuss what we want to look for on other planets to see if […]
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Spark: The Universe in Us
UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United StatesJourney across space and time as we explore the remnants of stellar explosions, tracing the movements of elements through our galaxy to understand how stars live, die, and seed the Universe with the elements to build new generations of stars, planets, and life. Narrated by Diego Luna, the California Academy of Sciences’ all-new, original planetarium […]
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Screening of “High Score” and Q&A with guest Audra Arnaudon
DUC Theater 1015 Reserve Street, Stevens Point, WI, United StatesAudra is an excellent guest coming in from Minneapolis (and before that, New York) to talk with us about producing for Netflix. We’ll watch one episode and then discuss it. View the show's trailer: https://youtu.be/jyl4fLVH6hw?si=s4G0nBzxJijrqTy_