MYArts, Starlight Theater @ 6:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Passing the Mic 2025 Festival Showcase
The mic is open. The stage is yours. And the feature? YOU. Join us for the Everything is Everything Open Mic Showcase—the culminating Saturday night event of Passing the Mic 2025. Inspired by Lauryn Hill’s …
MyArts, 4C @ 4:10 pm - 4:55 pm
Passing the Mic 2025 Festival Workshop
A community engagement fair featuring various opportunities within and beyond UW–Madison. Youth will learn about programs, creative organizations, and educational resources local to Madison. Designed to plant seeds for how they can bring activism into …
MyArts, 4D @ 3:10 pm - 4:10 pm
Passing the Mic 2025 Festival Workshop
How Clothing Became My Curriculum is a Ted-style talk and live-making experience that explores how fashion can become a form of protest, storytelling, and education. Centered around Insert Apparel, a clothing line designed to spark …
MyArts, 4D @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Passing the Mic 2025 Festival Workshop
This dynamic movement workshop led by Papa-Kobina is meant to be a space to explore the history of Hip-Hop and Street Dance by tracing back the origins of Viral Dance Trends. Join Papa-Kobina in breaking …
MyArts, 4C @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Passing the Mic 2025 Festival Workshop
In this collaborative visual arts workshop led by Adam Villegas participants will explore stenciling as a tool of personal expression, cultural storytelling, and collective creation. Participants will explore the historical roots of stenciling within Hip-Hop …
MyArts, 4A @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Passing the Mic 2025 Festival Workshop
Hip Hop is revolutionary, it always has been. Since the late 70s, rappers and poets have used verse to speak on the political climate of the time and been the voice for the oppressed. In …
MYArts, Starlight Theater @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Passing the Mic 2025 Festival Workshop
In order to sustain our movements, we must establish sustainable rest and care practices. Without real, authentic rest and mutual care—for both self and others—we often find ourselves reproducing the very harm and oppressive conditions …
Featuring: Angel Nafis
Playcircle, Memorial Union @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Passing the Mic 2025 Festival
OMAI welcomes acclaimed poet Angel Nafis, who will present a collaborative, interdisciplinary work developed in collaboration with the First Wave Touring Ensemble.
Richard Good
Collins Recital Hall @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
The first Interdisciplinary Arts Community Session for Wisconsin Union Theater’s Classical Series will be with none other than Richard Goode! Witness this living legend share his time and his decades of expertise with Mead Witter …
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Playcircle, Memorial Union @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Through moderated conversation and intimate Q+A, we will explore artistic vision and identity, storytelling as a political act, and how artists can leverage both digital and in-person platforms to advance their values and purpose. Together, …