The University of Wisconsin – Marathon County Foundation will host the 29th Annual EATS (Educational Assistance Through Scholarships) event on Saturday, March 3, 7 – 9 p.m., on the UWMC campus.
“This one-of-a-kind event provides a wonderful opportunity to support students seeking the advantages of higher education while also enjoying gourmet food, live music and a silent auction,” said Brad Zweck, executive director of the UWMC Foundation. More than 400 people attended last year’s event, which raised nearly $27,000 in support of scholarships for students attending UWMC.
EATS 2012 will feature more than 35 area chefs and restaurants, who will be sharing a wide variety of appetizers, soups, entrees and desserts. Newcomers will be Allister Deacon and The Wright Place. EATS is open to the public and advance registrations are suggested. Tickets are $40 in advance or $45 at the door.
Attendees will be treated to a few other new features, including:
• The wine selection from Trig’s Cellar 70 and John Newburg will be more diversified than past years.
• Bull Falls Brewery will return with its locally-brewed favorites.
• The silent auction will offer a wide variety of new items, highlighted by:
o A $1,000 gift certificate for a high school senior photo package from Junion Photography.
o A $1,000 gift certificate for a family photo package from Junion Photography.
o A two-night, group-stay valued at more than $1,000 at a seven-bedroom lodge near Menominee, Mich.
“We’ll have some great musical groups, too,” Zweck said. “The night will be topped off by a post-event performance at nine o’clock by Hometown Harmony, a popular country, rock-n-roll band with a strong following in central Wisconsin.”
Major sponsors of EATS are: Liberty Mutual Insurance, Charter Communications, Midwest Communications, Ministry Health Care, Trig's Cellar 70, Peoples State Bank, Bremer & Trollop Law Firm, Wipfli LLP, Delta Dental, Evolutions in Design and Wausau Paper.
For more information, visit www.uwmcEATS.com or contact Brad Zweck at 715-261-6280 or brad.zweck@uwc.edu.
The Tournées Festival, featuring five French films, will be back at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County (UWMC) campus this month for the third straight year.
The two-week festival will begin Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. with Queen to Play, a story about Hélène, a dutiful, middle-aged wife and mother and hard-working maid at an exclusive Corsican resort who undergoes a transformation when she discovers a love of chess. It will end Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. with Farewell, a Cold War spy thriller based on the little-known true events that helped bring down the Soviet Union.
“This year’s festival promises to have something for everyone, including romance, drama, family and spy films,” said Julie Bunczak, UWMC associate lecturer in French. “Several of them feature familiar faces in unfamiliar settings, including academy award winners Kevin Kline in Queen to Play and Juliette Binoche in Certified Copy. They also include great cinematography, highlighting scenery from France, Corsica, Algeria, Tuscany and Moscow,” she explained.
Also being shown this year are:
• The Illusionist, Feb. 12, 1 p.m., an animated family film based on an unproduced script by the French comic Jacques Tati.
• Of Gods and Men, Feb. 16, 7 p.m., a sublime tale of faith and doubt based on real incident involving eight French Trappist monks living in an impoverished Algerian village.
• Certified Copy, Feb. 19, 1 p.m., plays with the question of what is fake versus what is authentic and centers on the relationship between an English writer and an anonymous woman.
All of the movies are free and will be shown in the UW Center for Civic Engagement Theater on the UWMC campus, located at 625 Stewart Ave. in Wausau; they will be in French with English subtitles.
“One of the plusses of being able to show these films locally has been the UWMC faculty-led discussions that have followed,” Bunczak said. “This year, James Powell will lead a discussion following Of Gods and Men. Eric Giordano will do so for Farewell, and I’ll be leading discussions for the other films.”
The Tournées Festival is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture. Locally, the festival is sponsored by the UWMC Department of World Languages and the UWMC French Club, with funding from the Student Government Association.
“Each year, the grant for this festival is awarded to approximately 85 colleges and universities in the United States,” noted Bunczak. “UW-Marathon County is one of a very few two-year schools to receive the grant.”
Ohio native and artist Luke Ahern describes his work as blurring the lines between images, surfaces and objects. “My studio practice involves breaking down barriers between the past and present and constantly questions my role as an artist involved in contemporary culture.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate art student will be displaying his works Feb. 6 -24 in the Ahnsbrak Room at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County (UWMC). Ahern also will explain how he uses multiple media, including visual art and music, when he gives a free lecture on Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. in Room 180 at UWMC.
“By experimenting and improvising with multiple mediums, the work infiltrates my everyday life and questions what is art and how it reflects upon my life,” said Ahern, whose work has also appeared in national exhibitions. “I keep the work constantly on the border between humorous and pathetic, just like I find life.”
His appearance in Wausau is part of UWMC’s Lecture & Fine Arts program. “I am thrilled to have this opportunity to come to Wausau,” said Ahern, who earned his bachelor’s degree in art from Bowling Green State University. “My work is very dependent on space, and it is rare for artists to have such an accommodating atmosphere in which to create. I am hopeful the show and lecture will leave the viewers with more questions than concrete answers.”
Brian Becker
Office:
(715) 261-6296
Fax: (715) 261-6333
E-mail: brian.becker@uwc.edu
