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Banned Book Club – Gender Queer
June 4, 2024
7:00 PM -
8:00 PM
Presented by the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center's Tapestry Arts & Ideas in partnership with Jewish Museum Milwaukee. Why are so many states and school districts banning books? We’ll dive into reading and discussing books that are... Read More
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Opening Preview of Chagall’s Dead Souls: A Satirical Account of Imperialist Russia
June 6, 2024
7:00 PM -
9:00 PM
Artist Marc Chagall’s 96 imaginatively exaggerated illustrations bring the tragic and humorous characters populating the provincial country town in writer Nikolai Gogol’s renowned satire, ‘Dead Souls’, to vivid life. Commenting on the political and social divides in 19th-century Imperialist Russia,... Read More
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Where Gogol Got Souls: Slavery and Society in 19th-Century Russia
June 18, 2024
7:00 PM -
8:15 PM
One key fact of Russian history is mostly absent from our Western take on the country: enslaved people (known as "souls" in Gogol's time) made up the vast majority of the Russian population right up until their Emancipation in 1861.... Read More
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Forged Identities, or, Where’s the Art and What’s the Deal in Nikolai Gogol’s ‘Dead Souls’?
July 31, 2024
7:00 PM -
8:15 PM
Nikolai Gogol’s 1842 novel Dead Souls, arguably the strangest work of Russian literature, was for its author an “epic poem” that would “finally solve the riddle of my existence.” Join Andrew Reynolds, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages at UW-Madison, for... Read More
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Where Does Russia End? Russian Imperialism & Anti-Ukrainianism from Past to Present
August 8, 2024
7:00 PM -
8:15 PM
Marc Chagall's art and biography reflect the multi-ethnicity and transnational cultural life of his birthplace, the Russian Empire. Yet Russia's political leaders have violently rejected Chagall's art as alien and embraced it as quintessentially Russian at different historical moments. Mykola... Read More
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SPARK!
SPARK! is a free program for caregivers and loved ones experiencing beginning to mid-stage Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of memory loss.