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We’re proud to once again sponsor Maroon Tunes at Moon Tunes La Crosse!

Date: Thursday, September 10
Time: 5:30–8 p.m. 
5:30 p.m. Opening Act: High Mileage
7 p.m. Main Act: UWL Screaming Eagles Marching Band
Location: Riverside Park Bandshell - 100 State St, La Crosse, WI, 54601

You're invited to join the UWL Alumni & Friends Foundation for Maroon Tunes, a special Moon Tunes concert celebrating community, connection, and live music. Bring a lawn chair or picnic blanket and enjoy a special performance by the UWL Screaming Eagles Marching Band!

Joined by UWL Admission and Graduate & Extended Learning, we'll be at the Foundation tent with fun giveaways for the whole family. Come say hello and celebrate this incredible La Crosse tradition with us.

To stay up to date on the event, join the Facebook event here!

Join the UWL Police Department for a golf scrambler to raise money for Officer Bear, the UW-La Crosse PD K9! There will be hole games and live drawings as well.

• Registration begins: 8 a.m.
• Flight I Shotgun Start: 9 a.m.
• Flight II Shotgun Start: 11:30 a.m.

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The La Crosse Area Suicide Prevention Initiative is committed to promoting awareness that suicide is a preventable public health concern. Join us at the 2026 Suicide Prevention Summit!

Join us to:

• Increase your understanding of suicide and its prevalence
• Explore the risk factors for specific populations
• Acquire tools for prevention, assessment and intervention

UWL CEUs are available.

Sessions include: 

• 988 & Crisis Support
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Suicide Prevention
• College Student Mental Health
• Neurodiversity & Crisis Care
• First Responder Trauma
• Men's Mental Health
• Hmong Community Advocacy
• Practitioner Self-Care
• Suicide Loss & Families
• Veteran Mental Health
• Youth Mental Health
  
  uwlax.edu/ex/suicide-prevention

Join us for a 1 hr Performance followed by a discussion/Q&A and pizza gathering.

Yalla Drum is a community Arabic percussion ensemble based in Minneapolis and presented by New Arab American Theater Works.

Learn more at uwlax.edu/go/yalla-drum

Sponsored by the College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities, as well as the Departments of History and Music.

Yalla Drum is a community Arabic percussion ensemble based in Minneapolis and presented by New Arab American Theater Works. The ensemble brings together people of diverse backgrounds and experience levels to learn, preserve, and share the rich rhythmic traditions of the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) region through performance, education, and community engagement. Their performances feature traditional rhythms and interactive audience participation, offering an engaging introduction to Arabic music and culture while celebrating the power of rhythm to connect people across communities.

Learn more about Yalla Drum

This event is open and free for the public to attend.

Join UWL Art Department and the School of Visual & Performing Arts for an artist talk by Ger Xiong in advance of the opening reception for his exhibition "Hold on Tight." Artist talk begins at 4 p.m. in room 116 in the Lowe Center for the Arts, followed by the exhibition opening reception. Opening reception. Reception and gallery visits are both free & open to the public. 

UWL Gallery Hours:

1 - 8 p.m. Mon – Thur;
1 - 5 p.m. Fri – Sun
Closed during UWL breaks, holidays, and between exhibitions

Join UWL Art Department and the School of Visual & Performing Arts for our first exhibition of the season, featuring the work of our very own Ger Xiong with his exhibition entitled "Hold on Tight." Additional details forthcoming. Opening reception September 18 starting at 5 p.m. Reception and gallery are both free & open to the public. 

UWL Gallery Hours:

1 - 8 p.m. Mon – Thur;

1 - 5 p.m. Fri – Sun

Closed during UWL breaks, holidays, and between exhibitions

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Enjoy the energy and excitement of the Screaming Eagles Marching Band in a festive outdoor performance at Elmaro Vineyard.

This is a ticketed event. 
Tickets, $30 in advance available at www.exploretock.com/elmarovineyard
$35 day of the event. 

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Please join us on Thursday, September 24th for our annual Oktoberfest children's parade!

More information coming soon

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Part of the UWL Spotlight Series: Bringing campus and community together

This year's event explores the Driftless Region through land, air and water. Attendees will hear from a UWL art professor who explores how creative practice in nature can cultivate a meditation-like state of flow, a UWL geography and environmental science professor who demonstrates how drones can reveal subtle environmental changes, and a nationally-recognized songwriter who reflects how the Driftless Region’s rivers, streams, coulees and ridgetops have influenced his compositions and approach to music-making.

TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At TEDxUWLaCrosse, TED Talks video and live speakers will come together to spark deep discussion and connection. 

Tickets: Tickets are free, but advance registration is required to reserve your spot. Please bring your email confirmation to the event, either on your phone or as a printed copy.Reserve your spot. 

Parking: Parking will be available near the Student Union on level one of UWL's North Parking Ramp, at the intersection of 16th and Farwell streets. Campus map.

Learn more on the TEDxUWLaCrosse webpage.

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Join us for this virtual event!

The Rural Health Promotion Symposium will explore the complex factors shaping health and healthcare in rural communities. Participants will examine social connection, loneliness, and isolation, and how rural environments can both support and challenge overall well-being and long-term health outcomes.

Topics include:

• lifestyle medicine
• culturally responsive care
• advocacy
• storytelling
• sustainable approaches to strengthening healthcare access and building healthier, more connected rural communities.

Who should attend: public health professionals, students, health educators, community leaders, and clinicians from across the nation

Register today & learn more. 

Join archaeologist and author Dr. William Green in conversation with Dr. Heather Walder, Assistant Professor of Archaeology & Anthropology at UW-La Crosse, as they explore Green's new book.  Discover the little-known history of the Ioway people and their deep ancestral connection to Wisconsin through oral traditions, written records, and archaeology.

Join us for this virtual event!

Expand your professional network and build lasting connections with public health professionals, health educators, community leaders, and clinicians from across the nation.

Participants will learn how narrative can influence public opinion, health, and policy and how it can be used as a tool to move people to act. During breakout sessions, participants will collaborate, exchange ideas, and practice strategies to combine narrative with advocacy, data, and storytelling to strengthen their existing programs and build new, winning campaigns and interventions. Participants will be taught the Theory of Change model, which organizations can apply to their own initiatives, creating clear pathways to comprehensive action plans. 

Early registration discount by September 14.

Register Today!

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Enjoy an evening of engaging concert band music performed by the UWL Concert Band under the direction of Dr. Martin I. Gaines.

Free and open to the public. Additional program details will be announced as they become available.

Visiting composer Russell Platt will speak and introduce his piece Arizona Echoes: Sinfonia for Concert Band prior to the Wind Ensemble's performance in this afternoon performance. 

Program:

RUSSELL PLATT (b.1965) Arizona Echoes: Sinfonia for Concert Band (2024-2025) 

I. Recollection: Largo  

II. Pastimes, Premonitions: Con moto  

III. Obligation: In modo marziale, poco pesante  

IV. Remembrance: Grave 

Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin is a sweeping, provocative drama that plunges audiences into an isolated 18th‑century English village where justice, morality, and womanhood collide. Set in 1759 rural England, a young woman, Sally Poppy, is convicted of murder and claims she is pregnant to escape execution.  A jury of local women is assembled to decide whether she truly carries new life or faces the gallows. What unfolds is a gripping examination of power, privilege, and the silenced voices of women, as each juror’s own history, hardship, and belief shapes the verdict. By turns tense, surprising, and darkly witty, The Welkin asks urgent questions about who gets to decide truth, whose lives are valued, and how personal experience becomes political. The Welkin asks: What does justice look like when women are finally allowed to speak? And who gets to decide the truth when belief itself becomes a battlefield?

Performance Dates
October 16-17 & 23-24 at 7:30 p.m.
October 18 & 25 at 2:00 p.m.
Toland Theatre, Lowe Center for the Arts
Assigned Seating.
Contains mature content and themes.

ONLINE TICKETS: $20 adults; $18 senior citizens/non UWL students/military; $8 UWL students.  Online tickets will have a small credit card processing fee added at checkout.  Patrons are encouraged to buy their tickets online and download the tickets to their phone/email.  Tickets may be purchased online at www.uwlax.edu/theatre-and-dance    beginning October 1, 2026. 

IN PERSON/PHONE TICKETS:  $22 for adults, $20 for senior/non UWL students/military and $10 for UWL students (processing/printing fee already included in the price).  Tickets are available for purchase in person at the box office in the Lowe Center for the Arts or by calling 608.785.6696. Box office hours are Monday through Friday 1:00-3:00 p.m. and one hour prior to each performance during the run of the show (October 12-25).

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Join the Screaming Eagles Marching Band and students from across the area in a pregame and halftime performance at UWL's 14^th Annual High School Band Day. 

Please join the Seven Rivers Region Fulbright Alumni Chapter with a featured panel of Fulbright alumni who will share about their experiences abroad, network, and learning more about the many Fulbright opportunities available. Light refreshments will be provided and students, faculty, staff and community members are welcome! Please bring your questions to this stimulating session. 

Fulbright U.S. Student Program: The Fulbright U.S. Student Program expands perspectives through academic and professional advancement and cross-cultural dialogue. Fulbright finds solutions to complex global issues and creates connections in a changing world. In partnership with more than 140 countries worldwide, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers unparalleled opportunities to advance knowledge and innovation across all academic disciplines. Awards are available to passionate and accomplished graduating college seniors, graduate students, and young professionals from all backgrounds. Program participants pursue graduate study, conduct research, or teach English abroad.

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program: Explore opportunities for U.S. citizens to go abroad with the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. With more than 400 awards annually in over 135 countries to teach, conduct research, and carry out professional projects, find the right Fulbright opportunity for you.

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Featured Public Event: Free Speech & Civic Courage with Dr. Jason M. Williams and Dr. Michael Bitzer 

This event is free and open to students, faculty, staff, and community members.

Join UW-La Crosse for a featured Free Speech Week conversation with Dr. Jason M. Williams and Dr. Michael Bitzer on free speech, civic courage, public accountability, polarization, democratic participation, and the skills needed to engage difficult public conversations.

This moderated conversation will bring together two scholars and public educators with  complementary areas of expertise. Dr. Williams brings a focus on justice, advocacy, accountability, and community engagement, while Dr. Bitzer brings a data-informed perspective on polarization, depolarization, civic participation, and democratic conversation.

This 90-minute public event will be structured as a facilitated conversation with time for reflection and audience engagement. Participants will be invited to consider how free speech shapes public life, how communities can engage disagreement with greater care and courage, and why civic participation requires both speaking up and listening well.

Experience an intimate evening of jazz featuring student combos performing a variety of styles under the direction of Prof. Jon Ailabouni.

Free and open to the public. Additional program details will be announced as they become available.

Caring for someone living with Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia can be one of life's most meaningful experiences—but it can also be physically, emotionally, and mentally demanding. Join us for a free public talk to learn how to recognize caregiver burnout and discover practical strategies to care for yourself while continuing to provide compassionate, person-centered care.

• In person: 0120 Theatre, Student Union, UW–La Crosse
• Online: Live stream

View details and RSVP to attend this free talk.

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Join us at the Truman T. Lowe Center for the Arts as the UWL Department of Art hosts the annual Art Open House on Thursday, October 23 from 5 to 7 p.m.

The annual Art Department Open House is an opportunity for both campus and community members to learn more about UWL Art with hands on experiences, offering opportunities to see student artwork, view and participate in technical demonstrations, meet current students and faculty members, and learn about the different studio areas within the Art Department.

Studios that visitors may visit as they tour include design, print media, drawing, sculpture, painting, art education, ceramics, art history, and metalsmithing. Student artwork will also be for sale at this event.

The Open House is always an exciting time for the community as the Art Department opens its doors to students, faculty, staff, families, and community members of all ages. “Anyone who is curious about art is always welcome,” remarks Professor Kate Hawkes, who teaches photography in the Art Department. In addition to exploring studio spaces, various activities are planned for the evening including temporary tattoos, hot aluminum casting in sand molds at 6pm, and more!

Free and open to the public, all in the community are invited to explore their artistic curiosities  at UWL. For more information, visit uwlax.edu/vpa.

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Celebrate orchestral music with outstanding high school musicians joining the UWL Symphony Orchestra for an inspiring afternoon performance.

Free and open to the public. Additional program details will be announced as they become available.

Enjoy an evening of dynamic jazz performed by UWL's outstanding jazz ensembles under the direction of Prof. Jon Ailabouni.

Free and open to the public. Additional program details will be announced as they become available.

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The UWL Occupational Therapy Program would like to invite you to an open house event to give you the opportunity to explore our program and assist in your decision as you determine if the UWL OT program is the right fit for you. This is an optional event, and your attendance or non-attendance will not impact your admission in any way.

We welcome you to visit our campus, meet current OT students, your potential future classmates, and the OT faculty.

Please RSVP to this event by completing the QR code survey by October 29th, 2026.

Please include your name and the number of guests that will be attending. All family and friends are welcome.

If you are unable to attend in person, please RSVP so that we can connect you with an OT student after the event and join us virtually at 2:15 p.m. at:

https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/94713070126?pwd=sXq7FsqZyvqBjCOQRy7A6KDRSI7DnH.1

We look forward to meeting you!

The Students and Faculty at the University of WI-La Crosse Occupational Therapy Program

Parking is available in parking lots and street parking via pay stations for $1/hr. Please avoid permit only lots, or you may be ticketed. See campus map for parking lot locations. The Health Science Center is building #21 on the linked map.

Join UWL Art Department and the School of Visual & Performing Arts for our second exhibition of the season, featuring the work of our alumni, including Marlie Voigt, Brooke Denney, Madeline Thomas, Allison Rae Johnson, Jim Dunn, Matthew Duckett, Emiko Wilks, Kyra Litwin, and Blade Menjes. Additional details forthcoming. Opening reception October 30 starting at 5 p.m. Reception and gallery are both free & open to the public. 

UWL Gallery Hours:

1 - 8 p.m. Mon – Thur;

1 - 5 p.m. Fri – Sun

Closed during UWL breaks, holidays, and between exhibitions

Gruesome Playground Injuries is a raw, darkly funny, and deeply affecting exploration of love, pain, and the marks we carry from childhood into adulthood. Tracking the lives of Kayleen and Doug through a series of out‑of‑order vignettes, the play reveals their complicated bond through moments of physical injury and emotional vulnerability—skinned knees, broken bones, broken hearts. As they reconnect again and again over three decades, their relationship becomes a haunting portrait of intimacy, dependency, and the ways we both hurt and heal one another. By turns tender, unsettling, and unexpectedly humorous, Gruesome Playground Injuries invites audiences to piece together a story that feels strikingly human, asking how much pain we endure for love—and whether some connections are impossible to escape. Tender, unsettling, and unexpectedly funny, Gruesome Playground Injuries is a powerful portrait of two people bound by timing, trauma, and the complicated ways we learn to love.

Performance Dates
November 5-7 at 7:30 p.m.
November 8 at 2:00 p.m.
Frederick Theatre, Morris Hall
General Admission.

ONLINE TICKETS: $20 adults; $18 senior citizens/non UWL students/military; $8 UWL students.  Online tickets will have a small credit card processing fee added at checkout.  Patrons are encouraged to buy their tickets online and download the tickets to their phone/email.  Tickets may be purchased online at www.uwlax.edu/theatre-and-dance  beginning October 1, 2026. 

IN PERSON/PHONE TICKETS:  $22 for adults, $20 for senior/non UWL students/military and $10 for UWL students (processing/printing fee already included in the price).  Tickets are available for purchase in person at the box office in the Lowe Center for the Arts or by calling 608.785.6696. Box office hours are Monday through Friday 1:00-3:00 p.m. and one hour prior to each performance during the run of the show (November 2-8).

Wind Ensemble  
Dr. Martin I. Gaines, conductor 
Viet Cuong, composer in residence 

Epiphany
Thursday, November 5, 7:30 p.m. 
Annett Recital Hall, Lowe Center for the Arts
Free & open to the public

Featuring works by Cuong, Hailstork, Thomas, and Williams 

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Relive the excitement of the marching season as the Screaming Eagles present their award-winning field show in concert.

Free and open to the public. Additional program details will be announced as they become available.

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Join world travelers during International Education Week in exploring global cultures, languages, and perspectives through interactive sessions on behalf of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (UWL), Viterbo University, and Western Technical College through food, table displays, and more with the generous support of La Crosse International Committee & Sister Cities of La Crosse.

Featured food represents the home countries of UWL, Viterbo University, Western Technical College international students, and the tentative food menu includes:

• To Be Determined (TBD)

Tickets:  TBD for students & TBD for staff/faculty/general public

Schedule:

• 5:00 p.m. Doors Open
• 5:30 p.m. Presentations
• 6:00 p.m. Booth & Food Sample Exploration
• 7:30 p.m. Closing

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Enjoy an evening of creative small ensemble jazz featuring UWL student performers.

Free and open to the public. Additional program details will be announced as they become available.

Join UWL Art Department and the School of Visual & Performing Arts for our third exhibition of the season, featuring the work of our senior art students. Additional details forthcoming. Opening reception December 4 starting at 5 p.m. Reception and gallery are both free & open to the public. 

UWL Gallery Hours:

1 - 8 p.m. Mon – Thur;

1 - 5 p.m. Fri – Sun

Closed during UWL breaks, holidays, and between exhibitions

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Celebrate the season with an afternoon concert by the UWL Concert Band.

Free and open to the public. Additional program details will be announced as they become available.

Experience the artistry and power of the UWL Symphony Orchestra in an afternoon of orchestral music.

Free and open to the public. Additional program details will be announced as they become available.

Enjoy memorable musical theatre and opera scenes and songs performed by talented UWL student vocalists.

Free and open to the public. Additional program details will be announced as they become available.

Swing into the season with an evening of outstanding jazz performed by UWL's jazz ensembles.

Free and open to the public. Additional program details will be announced as they become available.

Free Family Fun Day at UWL
Part of the UWL Spotlight Series: Bringing campus and community together.

Join us on Saturday, December 12, for a full day of free family fun!

The day begins at 12 p.m. with Charlie's Kids Fest, a free children's festival featuring inflatables, activity stations, and interactive sports-themed games led by UWL student-athletes.  Youth in 8th grade and younger accompanied by an adult are welcome to attend.  Registration required.

Then head to Mitchell Hall Gymnasium for Bubba's Youth Day as the UWL Women's Basketball Team takes on Dubuque. Tipoff is scheduled for 3 p.m.

Bubba's Youth Day honors the memory of Charlie "Bubba" Lonning Weber while celebrating children and encouraging youth participation in sports. The event also provides an opportunity for families in the La Crosse community who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss to come together and remember their children.

Admission to both Charlie's Kids Fest and the basketball game is free and open to all community members. Enjoy a special day of family activities, community connection, remembrance, and Eagles women's basketball.

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Outstanding high school musicians join the UWL Wind Ensemble for an exciting concert celebrating the wind band tradition.

Free and open to the public. Additional program details will be announced as they become available.

Enjoy an inspiring performance by the UWL Treble Chorus under the direction of Dr. Kourtney Austin.

Free and open to the public. Additional program details will be announced as they become available.

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