On Tuesday, Madison’s poet laureate presented several works including her monologue about the lynching of Mary Turner at the Works in Progress Café in the Fern Young Terrace. We also hear two works by Erica Meier, UWW senior.
Yesterday, there was an opening event at the Fiskum Gallery in the UC, featuring art by Phenomenal Women. We were also treated to music, poetry, and readings.
Peter Pan will be presented this weekend. Since we will be out-of-town at an alumni event, we will be unable to attend the performance. Fortunately, we will have the opportunity to see the production at a dress rehearsal this evening.
Last night I had the opportunity to attend the 10th annual UW-Whitewater Darwin Day event. I missed the “World’s Largest Edible Tree of Life,” because I had earlier been in Elkhorn for the Walworth County Board’s recognition of the UW-Whitewater football team’s national championship. I’m told the tree was delicious!
We had a full house at the Hamilton Center for a lecture by Michael Novacek, senior vice president, provost, and curator of the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Novacek traced 100-million years in our history, identifying 5 major extinction events and discussed patterns of extinction and threats to the ecosystem. In addition to UW-Whitewater students and faculty, there were students and faculty from UW-Parkside and Beloit College and from many high schools in the region. This event was part of a coordinated Wisconsin Darwin Day outreach program along with events at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.
Darwin Day 2009 will celebrate his 200th birthday.
