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SUMMARY:RRR at Marcus Point Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Rama Raju (Ram Charan) and Komaram Bheem (NTR Jr.) smile while in the midst of a choreographed dance move. \nNo prior knowledge of Indian historical figures Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem is necessary to appreciate as S.S. Rajamouli’s bombastic action film RRR (2022). This three-hour epic reimagines the two real life anti-Raj activists Bheem (N.T. Rama Rao Jr.\, often referred to as NTR Jr.) and Rama Raju (Ram Charan) as near-superhuman strongmen\, an analogue to Goku and Vegeta for 1920s India. It’s returning to theaters for just shy of a week\, on the strength of an Oscar nomination for best song and Rajamouli’s hobnobbing with the likes of James Cameron and Steven Spielberg since the film’s initial release last year. \nRajamouli’s infectious enthusiasm for over-the-top action set pieces have led to RRR becoming a crossover hit with audiences who aren’t usually tuned in to Indian cinema\, both in America and worldwide. (Of course\, having the highest production budget of any Indian film to date surely has something to do with it.) \nThe plot in brief: Bheem hopes to rescue a kidnapped child from cartoonishly evil British Colonialists. Rama Raju works for the British police. Both go undercover\, and the men become best friends without ever realizing each other’s true identity. Tension dramatically comes to head after the requisite dance number. \nRajamouli is clearly having a blast staging CGI-heavy action. Among 2022 action movies\, only Top Gun: Maverick‘s plane scenes come anywhere close to RRR’s level of excitement\, and the Indian production didn’t have to utilize taxpayer-funded fighter jets to do it. (That is not to say RRR doesn’t have its own problematic implications.) But at the end of the day\, it’s a giant spectacle that highlights the strengths of the theatrical experience. So please take the chance to see this film big and loud. \n—Lewis Peterson \n \nThis preview was slightly modified and republished from last September for this special re-release event.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/rrr-at-marcus-point-cinema/
LOCATION:Marcus Point Cinema\, 7825 Big Sky Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Monsters Of Poetry: Erika Meitner\, Paul Tran\, Nate Marshall\, and Matthew Guenette at Genna's Lounge
DESCRIPTION:At what cost are we alive? Erika Meitner\, Paul Tran\, Nate Marshall\, and Matthew Guenette grapple with this question in their poetry. As they take the Monsters of Poetry stage\, expect to hear their testaments of survival\, grit\, and endurance through the lyric.  \nThree of the four are faculty of the English Department at UW-Madison. Meitner joined last fall as a professor and the director of the MFA program. In her latest book Useful Junk\, published by BOA Editions in April 2022\, she writes about desire and the body—the liminal and the physical—through documentary poetry. She writes a liturgy for the masses: “we who collect regular explanations of benefits / we who worry about food security.” \nTran is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies. Their debut poetry collection All The Flowers Kneeling\, published by Penguin Random House in February 2022\, explores American imperialism and intergenerational trauma. In “Orchard Of Knowing\,” Tran writes\, “All of them point at me / as the kill to complete your mission.” Through history and the lyric\, they unflinchingly challenge how we see liberation and control. \nIn his 2020 book Finna\, Nate Marshall\, also an English professor at UW\, writes about survival: “imagine this\, a man / made donut\, chest open\, / hollow\, everything poured / out\, available\, nowhere.” Amidst his painful reckoning with his lineage and the ruptures violence has caused\, Marshall imagines a future of hope. \nMatthew Guenette teaches English at Madison College. In his book Doom Scroll\, which will be released this year from the University of Akron Press\, he talks about the anxiety of living today. He describes the lockdown\, the political state of our world\, and “a field of dandelions to break me in half” all within the same stanza. This existential plea encapsulates the experience of living through the pandemic and its aftermath. \nAll of these poets do not leave us with clean-cut answers as we go through the questions of life. But as we read their work and listen to their poems\, we know that we are not alone in the fight to remain here. The lyric testifies to this. \n—Hannah Keziah Agustin
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/monsters-of-poetry-erika-meitner-paul-tran-nate-marshall-and-matthew-guenette-at-gennas-lounge/
LOCATION:Genna’s Lounge\, 105 West Main Street\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Matt Ulery Nonet at Café Coda
DESCRIPTION:Matt Ulery’s Mannerist 11 performs at Constellation Chicago in September 2021 as part of the Ear Taxi Festival. \nLast I caught up with Chicago bassist and composer Matt Ulery in the late 2010s\, his Woolgathering Records label had begun to take off as a platform to spotlight not only his own prolificacy and ever-evolving projects but also the endeavors of his colleagues Russ Johnson\, Tim Haldeman\, and Leslie Beukelman. \nAfter a memorable set at Arts + Literature Laboratory with trio Triptych back in spring of 2018\, Ulery has been both figuratively and literally expanding his repertoire in a myriad of configurations that include a string sextet (Become Giant) and special orchestra with more than 20 members (Sifting Stars). \nFor this BlueStem Jazz-presented show\, a regional collaboration between Ulery’s core rhythm section (pianist Paul Bedal and drummer Jon Deitemyer)\, plus six other Midwestern-based woodwind and brass players (Dave Cooper\, Allen Cordingley\, Hunter Diamond\, Tom Gullion\, Chad McCullough\, and Ryan Shultz)\, the collective nonet will be performing pieces at Café Coda from the upcoming Mannerist record. Like all the sweeping\, swooning chamber jazz Ulery has been making for more than a decade\, the music here\, as conceived for this larger ensemble\, captures Ulery’s predilection for duality—resonantly vast in sonic palette\, but delicately intimate in scope. The slower tempi of his precise songcraft tend to build with silken elegance\, stirring romantic pangs for slow-waltzing in an ethereal ballroom. \n“The Brink Of What\,” one of Mannerist‘s absolute standouts\, at first feels like a quietly pensive nocturne\, but then quickly hits with the force of overwhelming emotion and instrumental interplay—the richness of its polarity forged from the same aura as the tortuously gorgeous\, subtly dissonant horn and woodwind arrangements on These New Puritans’ best record\, Field Of Reeds (if artsy post-rock is your kinda thing). As with several other compositions on Mannerist\, like “Another Book Of Ornaments\,” Ulery harnesses his best impulses in steadily reaching for a transcendent\, ineffable intensity through sound dynamics\, while at once trying to pierce the veil of universal human yearning. \n—Grant Phipps \n \nThis event preview was updated on March 1 to reflect a change in the nonet’s lineup.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/matt-ulery-nonet-at-cafe-coda/
LOCATION:Café Coda\, 1224 Williamson St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Proud Parents\, Scrunchies\, Graham Hunt\, Jane Hobson at Crystal Corner Bar
DESCRIPTION:A few dozen bands played the Dirtnap Records Super Show Extravaganza at the High Noon in June 2022\, Madison’s biggest punk show of recent memory. One of the newer acts that played the two-day event was Minneapolis’ Scrunchies (pictured above)\, an indie-punk trio who will be making their return to Madison on March 4 at the Crystal Corner Bar. Proud Parents\, Graham Hunt\, and Jane Hobson will play as the night’s local support. Each of those three local acts has left an impression on Tone Madison‘s coverage over the past few years\, with each claiming well-deserved spots in our year-end coverage of Madison music. \n\nHobson’s solo project has steadily evolved since debuting but hit a new high with 2022’s crushingly beautiful\, bittersweet single “If You Ask.” Historically\, Hobson’s recorded output has flittered between quiet\, introspective folk and something more aggressive and sinister. Recent footage of Hobson playing live demonstrates that her band’s live show gains some punch when the gloves come off. (This video of Hobson covering The Cranberries’ “Zombie” at Mickey’s neatly encapsulates that willingness to lean into brute force.) Softness isn’t entirely absent in Hobson’s live show\, though\, and does still elevate the material. At Crystal Corner\, it’ll also provide some balance amid an inordinately high-energy slate of indie-punk bands. \n\nArtistic restlessness has driven Graham Hunt’s work for over a decade. From Midnight Reruns to Sundial Mottos\, Midwives\, The Reptile Fund\, and everything in between\, Hunt’s been a consistent force in Wisconsin’s punk community—which remained true even after a brief relocation to Chicago. Three records into a solo career (2019’s Leaving Silver City\, 2021’s Painting Over Mold\, 2022’s If You Knew Would You Believe It) that’s shown virtually no signs of slowing\, Hunt’s consistently proven to be a versatile artist who excels in attention to detail. Each of Hunt’s records is stylistically distinct\, yet couldn’t have come from anyone else. Live\, Hunt’s band—a rotating cast of musicians that includes members of Disq\, Cult Of Lip\, Sat. Nite Duets\, and more—is a powder keg of volatility and exacting precision. Whenever Hunt’s name is on a bill\, it’s a non-negotiable\, can’t-miss occasion. \n\nSimilarly unmissable are Proud Parents\, who have been consistently invigorating Madison audiences with their distinct brand of sugar-rush indie-punk/power-pop catharsis since the mid-2010s. Everyone interested in attending this one should know what to expect from the jittery quartet by now\, and subsequently know how infectious their unfettered joyfulness has always proven. Scrunchies are likely to be the biggest question mark to most of the audience\, but as they ably demonstrated last year\, they are a wrecking ball of a live act. Heavy\, melodic\, discordant\, and unapologetically punchy\, they are perfectly suited to the Crystal Corner Bar’s punk-leaning aesthetics. \n\nAll four of the bands on this bill are worth seeing on their own\, but packaged together make up an incredibly enticing prospect. If you haven’t been to the Crystal since they started hosting live music again—or haven’t been at all—there may not be a better occasion to finally take foot inside.  \n—Steven Spoerl
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/proud-parents-scrunchies-graham-hunt-jane-hobson-at-crystal-corner-bar/
LOCATION:Crystal Corner Bar\, 1302 Williamson St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Laminal Animil\, Pawan Benjamin at Communication
DESCRIPTION:In a mood-lit gallery space\, Laminal Animil (L to R: Tim Russell\, Ari Smith\, and Luke Leavitt) improvise. Photo by Grant Phipps. \nSince their live debut last summer as part of the Madison Jazz Festival\, Laminal Animil have become veritable sonic explorers of our fair city. While each member of the trio—Luke Leavitt (on Fender Rhodes electric piano and Roland Juno-106 synth)\, Tim Russell (on drumset\, percussion\, and Novation Launchpad)\, and Ari Smith (double bass and percussion)—has a background in jazz study\, their performances are less tethered to those identifiable modes than free improvisation with all the explosive discordance\, softened textural interplay\, and sudden\, harmonious synchronizing that follows. \nA commitment to extended technique has allowed the group to sort of fit the bill for any experimental occasion\, whether it’s part of a jazz or electroacoustic lineup\, or even something altogether more eclectic (as so often happens at DIY spaces around town). Laminal Animil share a versatility with another experimental trio\, Brennan Connors And Stray Passage (Geoff Brady\, Brian Grimm)\, who\, as of 2023\, should be regarded as a Madison mainstay. \nListen to Leavitt\, Russell\, and Smith chat about their backgrounds\, methods\, motivations\, and academic preoccupations (especially during this silly\, witty Laminal Animil interview from a few months ago)\, and you’ll ascertain just how their personalities interact in a musical setting with such playful intention. \nAt this Communication show\, saxophonist\, shehnai player\, and Bansuri flutist Pawan Benjamin will open with a solo set that’s equally inspired by Western jazz disciplines\, Hindustani\, and ceremonial Nepalese music. As a former member of the Brooklyn Raga Massive\, New York-based composer Benjamin has a knack for seamlessly blending a diversity of influences\, as heard on his last record Tinte Baja. \nWhile the latter is composed and adeptly arranged with an ear for a “jazzier” sound\, it often feels fundamentally rhythmic\, with all three players (drummer Sean Mullins and double bassist Martin Nevin) credited with malleted\, auxiliary percussion on some of the pieces like “Prayer.” But if you’re also attending for the Indian raga side of Benjamin’s repertoire\, he’s sure to indulge. \n—Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/laminal-animil-pawan-benjamin-at-communication/
LOCATION:Communication\, 2645 Milwaukee Street\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Let There Be Light Art Market at Bur Oak
DESCRIPTION:Ethan Jackson is perhaps best known around Madison for his dazzling electro R&B project Mr. Jackson. Enmeshing visuals from close collaborators like artist Terrence Adeyanju and videographer Michael Doyle Olson\,  Jackson has always treated his music as part of a bigger vision. Recently\, he’s been introducing the world to more of his mixed-media art and fashion projects\, including a clothing line called Dripsphere. At this afternoon art market\, he’ll be showcasing Dripsphere’s exuberantly adorned shirts and hats\, but more importantly\, keeping all his work tethered by bringing in more than a dozen fellow artists\, retailers\, and musicians. \nVendors slated for the Let There Be Light Art Market include Milwaukee-based jewelry maker Wrapped Up\, CBD shop Herbal Aspect\, Madison vintage outlet Good Style Shop\, the recently opened Boneset Records\, and the electronic-focused JiggyJamz Records. Artists\, both selling and showing\, range from tattoo artist Derek Anderson\, to off-the-wall clothing brand MartianMucus\, to From Scratch Comics. At 8 p.m.\, the event turns into a ticketed dance party\, with DJ sets from techno-centric Madison staple Kitty Spit and Milwaukee’s Jules\, and video projections by VJ and digital artist arktik.foxtrix. Plus\, Ahan is right there inside the venue\, and they’ll be serving chef Jamie Hoang’s recently James Beard Award-nominated Lao-Thai cuisine.  \n—Scott Gordon \n \nPulse · Kitty Spit – Live @ Pulse Sep ’22\nIllustration by Shasya Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/let-there-be-light-art-market-at-bur-oak/
LOCATION:Bur Oak\, 2262 Winnebago St\, Madison\, WI\, 53704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Music
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SUMMARY:Four Star Video Subscriber Drive Celebration Party at Four Star Video
DESCRIPTION:Throughout February\, Madison movie-rental institution Four Star Video Rental has been calling on customers to sign up for subscription plans\, which enable customers to check out three or more titles at a time for a flat monthly rate. It’s a continuation of the good work co-owner Lewis Peterson has done to keep Four Star alive through multiple twists and turns\, including a move that happened just before the pandemic hit home. (Full disclosure\, Peterson writes for Tone Madison\, as do two of the DJs playing this event.) \nAnd Four Star—always Four Star Video Heaven in my heart\, though the “Heaven” dropped out of the official name when the store briefly became a cooperative—is not an endling in the streaming-fueled extinction of video stores. It survives because it’s dedicated to maintaining a deep selection of DVDs\, Blu-rays\, and even some VHS tapes\, embodying an infectious love for everything from prestige cinema to the most unhinged genre gems. \nIf the movie you were planning to watch suddenly vanished from one of your streaming services\, or was never available on streaming or VOD in the first place\, you can probably find it at Four Star. In the meantime\, you should probably go sign up and subscribe. \nOn Saturday\, March 11\, hang around after Four Star’s usual business hours as they wrap up the subscription drive with food\, music\, and movie conversation. A true home for local weirdos\, Four Star has brought in Madison DJs Destructo\, Emili Earhart\, Evan Woodward\, and Mu to spin throughout the evening. Their selections run from post-punk to techno to far-flung ambient. Whatever they play\, it’ll be a fitting sonic companion to an eclectic Four Star browsing experience. \n—Scott Gordon  \n\nIllustration by Shasya Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/four-star-video-subscriber-drive-celebration-party-at-four-star-video/
LOCATION:Four Star Video Rental\, 459 West Gilman Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Music
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SUMMARY:Project Projection: Spring 2023 at Arts + Literature Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:Alex T. Jacobs colorfully modifies the halo of a streetlamp (with outward-moving reds\, greens\, yellows\, and blues) on a snowy night in the short “snow light” (2023). \nThe Mills Folly Microcinema series returns this week at Arts + Literature Laboratory for 2023’s first installment of Project Projection\, its wide-ranging\, seasonal showcase of film and video shorts by Madison-based filmmakers. This program’s 14 films fall roughly into two categories; the first of these is music videos\, and any fan of Madison music will find something to love in the selections’ diversity of musical genres and visual styles. ViBRATiONLAND’s video for “Stabacab” (dir. Eric J. Nelson) may take the cake for most ingenious of the bunch\, using everyday objects like a CPAP tube and silly putty to make an alternately adorable and horrifying piece of stop-motion creature horror. \nMoving further into pure abstraction\, B. Hayes’ video for “Ovation” (dir. Max Wasinger and Peregrine Balas) is similarly visually voracious\, with its collaged and datamoshed black-and-white footage smearing into gorgeous swirls. The only non-contemporary piece on the program\, Gretta Wing Miller’s Man In Space (1981) splits the difference between the musical pieces and the rest of the video work\, editing spacewalk footage to Beatles songs and reveling in nostalgia for the late ’60s. \nFor the other half of the works\, experimental video like David Boffa’s A Due Remembrance Of Wolves (2021) takes the mantle. This minimalist nature doc trains its eye on two wolves at their leisure for most of its runtime; a narrator reads 19th century texts on the danger of the animal\, usually offering bounties for hunters to exterminate the “vermin.” This penchant for appropriated text is shared by another standout of the program\, Chloë Simmons’ Passing Through (2020)\, with its short GIF-like loops that are littered with digital detritus as scrolling words recite the textbook definitions of broad concepts like cause and effect\, truth\, and signs. Simmons’ piece is  dense and heady\, but also one that skillfully explores its title’s double entendres with a thoughtful reflection on queer identity. \nSome other videos are more abstract\, content to explore an aesthetic for its own sake like in Alex T. Jacobs’ serene snow light (2023). As ambient-treated piano rolls underneath the eight-minute shot of a streetlight under snowfall\, Jacobs manipulates the footage so that the light’s halo expands into a dazzling pixelated rainbows. It’s one of the simplest works on the program\, but one that ties it all together in highlighting both the natural beauty and artistic skill that can be found in Madison. \n—Maxwell Courtright
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/project-projection-spring-2023-at-arts-literature-laboratory/
LOCATION:Arts + Literature Laboratory\, 111 South Livingston Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture,Film
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SUMMARY:Invaders From Mars (1953) at UW Cinematheque
DESCRIPTION:The amphibious-looking Martians cradle an incapacitated David (back left) and Dr. Patricia Blake (center). \nInvaders From Mars (1953) follows one of the biggest trends of 1950s horror films\, reflecting the fears of Communist invasions and rampant McCarthyism of the era. Directed by William Cameron Menzies and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox\, it clocks in at just under 80 minutes\, which is a beautifully approachable length for a B-movie. \nPredating even The Twilight Zone series\, the film opens with narration over footage of the cosmos\, which declares that\, thanks to science\, we know more about the other planets in our solar system. Science is still breeding curiosity about the likelihood of other forms of life. \nFollowing this\, the camera follows young David (Jimmy Hunt) after he sees a flying saucer crash in a sandpit. The nameless town’s residents\, including his parents and classmates\, start acting strangely when they investigate the crash site. They all soon begin disappearing into a mysterious butthole in the sand. The multicolored backdrops here in the shots of the elusive sandpit evoke similar images of scenes of the Yellow Brick Road in The Wizard Of Oz\, while other sets use exaggerated proportions\, stark symmetry\, and geometric framing ripped from German Expressionism. Filmed with Eastmancolor stock\, initial prints of the film used SuperCinecolor\, which is showcased towards the end when the townies eventually explore underneath the sandpit. \nAfter David’s parents fall under the influence of the invaders\, David gets taken in by two scientists as his surrogate parents (Dr. Stuart Kelson and Dr. Patricia Blake\, played by Arthur Franz and Helena Carter)\, the only two adults who believe something funny is happening in their town. One of the scientists gets the U.S. Army on the horn and convinces them to send in the troops. \nDuring the climax of the film\, David and Dr. Blake plummet through one of the sand’s many buttholes and into the arms of the Martians\, whose costumes look more like frogs than creatures from another world\, only adding to the tonal whimsy. Luce Potter\, the actor playing the Martian inside the glass (as seen gracing the front cover of the latest paper edition of the spring Cinematheque calendar)\, had previously played a Munchkin in The Wizard Of Oz\, which perhaps implies the similarities to the classic film were intentional. \nSeeing the new restored 4K version of this film with all its vivacious colors and practical effects on the big screen is guaranteed to be a delight! \n—C Nelson-Lifson
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/invaders-from-mars-1953-at-uw-cinematheque/
LOCATION:UW Cinematheque\, 821 University Ave / 4070 Vilas Hall\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Day Of Resistance To Trans Genocide March and Resistance Rally at Capitol Square
DESCRIPTION:This preview is adapted from “Now\, Not Later\, Is The Time to Speak Up For Trans People\,” initially published in Emily Mills’ newsletter\, Grist From The Mills. \nIf you’re in the Madison area on Saturday\, March 18\, a grassroots group of people is organizing a Day Of Resistance To Trans Genocide that aims to raise awareness and drive action to oppose the onslaught of anti-LGBTQ\, particularly anti-trans\, legislation and rhetoric that’s begun to swamp our state and country. \nThe event will begin at or near the Wisconsin State Capitol with a march at 2:30 p.m.\, followed by a rally with trans and non-binary speakers. It’ll be a great way to show solidarity\, get connected with other people engaged in the work\, and find resources and support. Here’s the Facebook listing for the event—which is worth checking up on because the final route of the march and exact location of the rally is still to be determined. And here are some notes about safety: \n\n Wear a mask if at all possible. There’s still a pandemic on\, and we want to help protect our immune compromised and disabled community. Masks can also help prevent having your picture taken by possible anti-trans counter-protesters who could use your image for making threats/harassment/doxxing.\nHaving a protest buddy is always a good plan. Someone you can check in with before\, during\, and after the event to make sure everyone is accounted for and for moral support.\nSome masks\, water\, snacks\, etc. will be provided for by organizers but also please bring your own and/or some to share if you can. Wear comfortable shoes or boots for walking\, and/or plan for transportation through a short (~1 mile) march.\nIn the unlikely event of disruption or police involvement\, have your phone’s biometrics switched off (police can make you use the thumbprint unlock option to get into your phone but they can’t force you to use your PIN)\, and keep the number of a legal help group written down in your pocket/on your person.\nDo not engage with counter-protesters\, when possible\, or if you do–keep it positive: the focus should be on the message of LGBTQ resistance\, rights\, and joy. \n\nWhether or not you can make this particular event\, I strongly implore you to seek out any and all ways of getting involved: speak out\, contact your legislators\, support LGBTQ-led organizations doing the work (with your time\, your money\, your skills\, or whatever you can offer). This is a nationwide and also deeply local issue. And it is URGENT. \nOne specific (and fun!) way to help? Tune in for and donate to my friend Mercury Stardust’s upcoming Tik-Tok-a-Thon to raise money for trans healthcare. The event runs March 30 through 31\, but you can donate in advance here (and learn more about what the money will do). Then be sure to tune in via the Tik Tok and/or Instagram accounts of Mercury or her co-host\, Jory\, for the livestream! \n—Emily Mills
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/day-of-resistance-to-trans-genocide-march-and-resistance-rally-at-capitol-square/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:Politics
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SUMMARY:"Animation Is Film!" Festival at Union South Marquee
DESCRIPTION:In the black-and-white “Persepolis” (2007)\, a young Marjane Satrapi is reprimanded by two lanky Islamic fundamentalists for wearing a jacket emblazoned with the words “Punk is not ded.” \nAs a festival title\, “Animation Is Film!” reads like a resounding call to action. There’s an urgency embedded into its exclamatory nature\, as if the organizers are fighting an uphill battle for the medium to gain respect and recognition. They shouldn’t have to\, but the hierarchical structure of the film world continuously suggests—especially at the most visible levels—that animation isn’t worthy of the respect afforded to “traditional” film. Fortunately\, for the sake of discerning viewers everywhere\, events like Animation Is Film actively combat depressingly regressive viewpoints. \nFrom March 23 to March 25\, WUD Film will host five free screenings at Union South\, featuring modern or established animated classics. Leading things off on March 23 at 7 p.m. will be Don Hertzfeldt’s recent World Of Tomorrow trilogy\, which stands apart as both an existential masterpiece and one of the greatest short film runs in cinematic history. On March 24\, Brad Bird’s debut feature The Iron Giant will screen at 6:30 p.m. The Iron Giant‘s legacy\, impact\, and influence still resonates across today’s animation\, nearly 25 years after its release. Directly following The Iron Giant will be Fantastic Planet\, René Laloux’s experimental—and occasionally brutal—sci-fi parable for respectful coexistence. The film is also celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2023\, and its central plea for societal peace still carries weight. \nAnimation Is Film will close on the 25th with another double-feature\, starting at 6:30 p.m.: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue. Both features are united by way of adaptation: Perfect Blue‘s source material is the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis while Persepolis has Satrapi adapting her original graphic memoir of the same name (alongside co-director Vincent Parronaud). Both films share other commonalities but are visually and thematically distinct. Persepolis‘ wars are both literal and figurative\, while Perfect Blue‘s are cultural and internal. Each remains essential viewing more than a decade after their respective releases (Perfect Blue in ’97\, Persepolis in ’07). \nAll five films feature protagonists who undergo a coming-of-age—or\, in the case of World Of Tomorrow\, coming-to-age—and learn extraordinarily harsh lessons about the nature of their surrounding world. Through their trials\, an element of profound humanity emerges even in the most fantastical circumstances. Above all\, these are films about hope\, about perseverance\, and\, importantly\, about animation’s transcendental power. All of the screenings will impart instrumental lessons about what can be accomplished within the medium. It’s up to us to continue to champion and celebrate those accomplishments\, and Animation Is Film is a perfect means to do just that. \n—Steven Spoerl
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/animation-is-film-festival-at-union-south-marquee/
LOCATION:The Marquee Cinema\, 1308 W Dayton St #245\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:The Godfather at UW Cinematheque
DESCRIPTION:The Corleones pose for a photographer at the wedding of Constanzia “Connie” Corleone (Talia Shire) and Carlo Rizzi (Gianni Russo). Don Vito (Marlon Brando) stands in the middle. \nReviving cinematic magic is one of the many things UW Cinematheque does best. Not only do they bring rare screenings to our increasingly small film market\, but they present unique opportunities to see classics on the big screen—like Francis Ford Coppola’s seminal epic\, The Godfather (1972)\, screening here in a new 4K digital restoration. \nA cherubic Al Pacino stars as Michael Corleone\, the youngest son of the Corleone mafia in New York City in the mid-1940s. Having just returned home from WWII as a decorated vet\, Michael has rebuffed a great deal of his father Don Vito’s (the brilliant Marlon Brando) guidance through the years and never really considered himself the type to take over the family business. His oldest brother Sonny (James Caan) is next in line\, or so he believes\, to take over. But after an attempt on the Don’s life\, Michael is forced to show his gall and mettle\, and has a chance to run things his way for the extended crime family. \nCoppola adapts the essence of the Mario Puzo novel\, with its prevalent themes of loyalty\, love\, sibling rivalry\, and unfiltered violence. Watching Pacino struggle internally between his personal and family values demonstrates what Coppola saw in him after his daring performance in The Panic In Needle Park (1971). \nThe Godfather ended up garnering numerous nominations for its cast and crew\, and won Oscars for Best Actor\, Best Screenplay\, and Best Picture. Consistently in top-10 lists for the greatest films of all-time\, The Godfather is a masterstroke in the categories of writing\, editing\, acting\, and production. The film remains one of the most influential of the “gangster” genre\, spanning over 50 years. Once Upon A Time In America (1984)\, Goodfellas (1990)\, and The Sopranos (1999-2007) all imitated its exploration of how the business of la cosa nostra and big business in America are often two sides of the same coin. \n—Edwanike Harbour
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/the-godfather-at-uw-cinematheque/
LOCATION:UW Cinematheque\, 821 University Ave / 4070 Vilas Hall\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Line Breaks Festival at Memorial Union and A Room of One's Own
DESCRIPTION:The annual Line Breaks Festival offers an ever-shifting testament to the bold visions of the students in UW-Madison’s First Wave program. Rooted in hip-hop and spoken-word\, First Wave attracts artists who tend to mix together all sorts of disciplines\, from theater to dance to fashion to visual art. As a result\, the alumni who’ve come through the program since it launched in 2007 cover extensive ground: Poet Danez Smith\, Black Arts Matter Festival founder Shasparay Irvin\, writer/musician Hiwot Adilow\, dancer/rapper/filmmaker James Gavins\, blisteringly focused MCs like Defcee and CRASHprez\, and that’s barely scratching the surface. \nThe Line Breaks schedule is a bit different each time out\, but you can always count on showcases of multiple works from current First Wave students\, alums\, and some exciting guests. Visiting this year from Chicago is poet and scholar Eve L. Ewing\, whose published works include the poetry/visual art collection Electric Arches and the nonfiction book Ghosts In The Schoolyard\, which examines the decimation of Chicago’s south-side public schools under the mayoral administration of Rahm Emanuel. Another can’t-miss guest this year is Chicago singer-songwriter\, poet\, and playwright Jamila Woods—if you haven’t heard her expansive take on R&B on 2019’s LEGACY! LEGACY!\, do yourself a kindness and catch up. \nRegistration is already full for a March 30 talk with Ewing and poet/UW-Madison professor Paul Tran at A Room of One’s Own—but you can still register for the waitlist. Either way\, don’t fret: The real heart of Line Breaks is the performance showcases\, taking place this year on March 31 and April 1\, both nights at 6 p.m. in the Union Theater. Across these two nights\, performers will include Diya Abbas\, Azura Tyabji\, Jackson Neal\, Shasparay Irvin\, Nate Marshall\, Woods\, and Ewing\, among others. Trying to succinctly sum up just what you’ll be seeing here is beside the point. Instead\, just set aside any expectations and get ready to embrace a remarkably fertile overlap of words\, movement\, music\, narrative\, and the myriad ways they can be combined. \n—Scott Gordon \nIllustration by Shaysa Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/line-breaks-festival-at-memorial-union-and-a-room-of-ones-own/
LOCATION:Wisconsin Union Theater\, 800 Langdon Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Culture,Music,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Wonder\, Weirdness And Writing About Animals at Goodman Community Center
DESCRIPTION:The first thing I did when I finished Sabrina Imbler’s new book was run to Room of One’s Own and buy a second copy to share with friends. The book\, How Far The Light Reaches\, explores what it means to be a human—specifically\, what it means to be a queer\, Asian-American human—through Imbler’s memories and the lives of 10 sea creatures. \nImbler—who currently works the “creature beat” for Defector\, combining deep scientific context with that publication’s spirit of zany obsession\, and has also published work in The New York Times\, Atlas Obscura\, and The Atlantic—is coming to UW-Madison in late March as the Sharon Dunwoody Science Journalist in Residence. On March 30 at 6:30 p.m.\, they will participate in a panel discussion at the Goodman Community Center titled “Wonder\, Weirdness And Writing About Animals.” Panelists will also include Stacy Forster\, from the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication\, and Mary Magnuson\, a graduate student who studies urban canids like coyotes and foxes. \nImbler’s work brings us into the deep at the time we need it most. So many beautiful possibilities for our collective future depend upon humans’ ability to recognize that every part of our world is alive and worthy of protection and celebration. In their writing\, Imbler brings us face to face with mothering octopus arms reaching out to hold us\, gooey salps that dance in community\, feral goldfish that gobble up space when set free\, and shows us how magnificent we really are. \nIf the panel at the Goodman Center is half as good as How Far The Light Reaches\, everyone in attendance will leave transformed and ready to build expansive\, loving communities in Madison and beyond. \n—Sam Harrington
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/wonder-weirdness-and-writing-about-animals-at-goodman-community-center/
LOCATION:Goodman Community Center\, 214 Waubesa Street\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture
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