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The Post – May 22 at 12:30 PM, Seniors in the Park

The Post is a 2017 American historical political thriller film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer. It stars Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham, the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee, the executive editor of The Washington Post, with Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, and Matthew Rhys in supporting roles. Set in the early 1970s, The Post depicts the true story of attempts by journalists at The Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers, classified documents regarding the 30-year involvement of the United States government in the Vietnam War.

When: May 22 at 12:30 PM

Where: Seniors in the Park

Upcoming City Meetings: Week of May 21 through May 27

Police & Fire Commission Meeting – Monday, May 21, 2018, 12:00 pm, City of Whitewater Municipal Building – Community Room. For agenda, 

Urban Forestry Commission –  Monday, May 21, 2018, 4:30 pm, City Municipal Building, Cravath Lakefront Room. For agenda, 

Irvin L. Young Memorial Library Board of Trustees – Monday, May 21, 2018, 6:30 pm, Irvin L. Young Memorial Library – Community Room. For agenda,  

 

High School Student Art Show: Calling all artists!

As part of its mission, the Whitewater Main St. Festival is to support the arts and one of those ways is through a special high school student show during the event on September 15, 2018. It is open to all high school students in the state.

Committee member, Lisa Dawsey, states, “It’s important that we support our creative youth with this type of encouragement through a show of their work. The Festival will be selecting a Best of Show and a cash award will be given from funds raised as part of the Festival’s mission.” “The Festival is an arts-infused event with music, art & craft booths, food, painting on the street and other hands-on activities for visitors”

The Festival is organized by Downtown Whitewater, Studio 84, Whitewater Chamber, and the Whitewater Arts Alliance.

It is free to enter up to two pieces; images of each piece must be submitted. From these images, one piece will be selected by a juror and guaranteed in the show. It will be in the running for the Best of Show award. Depending on the total number of entries received and if space is available the second piece submitted will also be on display also. Artists will be notified via email or phone which piece/s they should deliver.

Deadline for submission of entries is June 15th. Art needs to be delivered to Studio 84’s gallery, the host of the show, by August 1. Awards will be announced during the Festival @ 2 pm on Sept. 15.

Details and entry form are available at www.wwmsfestival.blogspot.com.

UW-Whitewater Commencement set for May 19

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater will celebrate the achievements of its graduates Saturday, May 19, 2018, as proud families gather for spring commencement ceremonies.

A total of 1,644 graduates will cross the stage to receive their degrees. The morning ceremony, which begins at 10 a.m., recognizes 739 undergraduate students and 98 graduate students from the College of Arts and Communication and the College of Business and Economics. The afternoon ceremony begins at 3 p.m. and recognizes 694 undergraduate students and 113 graduate students from the College of Education and Professional Studies and the College of Letters and Sciences. Both ceremonies will be held in the Kachel Fieldhouse.

The commencement speaker for both ceremonies is Timothy Hyland, a 1982 accounting graduate of UW-Whitewater who has specialized in public utilities, real estate, and healthcare. From 1989 to 2004 he worked at the Phoenix-based healthcare management and consulting firm Schaller Anderson, Inc., beginning as its sixth employee and retiring as senior vice president and CFO. Hyland and his wife Natalie formed Hyland Real Estate Investment Group, LLC, which owns and operates residential investment properties nationwide, and he is the naming donor of Timothy J. Hyland Hall, the home of the College of Business and Economics on campus that opened in 2009.

Brandon Fong, an entrepreneurship and marketing double major from Brookfield, Wisconsin, will be the student speaker for the morning ceremony. Elected president of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Association his freshman year, Fong is also an avid blogger who wrote a book for college students that became a category bestseller on Amazon. He is one of the many UW-Whitewater students hired before graduation, currently serving as head of customer experience at California-based SuperHuman Enterprises, LLC.

Rajhon White, who is receiving his Master of Science in Education in professional development, will be the student speaker for the afternoon ceremony. A native of Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, White has worked as a graduate assistant in University Housing and in the First Year Experience office, helping students with the transition to college. Also hired before graduation, on July 1 he will start his new job in Colorado as a resident director at the University of Denver.

The ceremonies will include 71 students who are veterans, 25 international students and 207 nontraditional undergraduate students, defined as undergraduate students who are 25 years of age or older. In addition, 115 self-identified students with disabilities will receive degrees.

Commencement will be broadcast live online by UWW-TV, the university television station.

For more information: http://www.uww.edu/commencement

Allisan Barrett, WHS senior, to play with Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra

 

The musical heritage of the Josh and Carrie Barrett family will be on proud display during the final concert of the 2017-18 Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra season on May 19 at Calvary Community Church in Williams Bay starting at 7:30 p.m.

Allisan Barrett, a senior at Whitewater High School, will play horn with the LGSO in the first (Allegro) movement of Horn Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss.

Allisan is the winner of the 2017 Young Artist Concerto Competition sponsored by the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra and the recipient of the Rotary Club of Lake Geneva Neal Heffenan Art Scholarship.

The concert will also showcase the musical talents of Josh Barrett, a long-time member of the LGSO, playing trumpet, and Nathan, a 2015 graduate of Whitewater High School, playing trombone.

Tickets for the May 19 concert will be available for purchase before the concert begins.

The concert will also include performances of Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 by Edvard Grieg and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.

The LGSO has performed regularly in Walworth County since 2001. The all-volunteer musicians reside throughout southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.

A chamber music concert series is also sponsored by the LGSO.

For more information about the LGSO, visit lakegenevaorchestra.org.

WHS Choirs and WHS Ringers Concert – Wednesday, May 16, at 7:30 pm

The WHS Choirs and WHS Ringers will present their “Eye of the Beholder” concert on Wednesday, May 16, at 7:30 pm. in the WHS Auditorium.  Admission is free.

The concert’s theme is focused on the visual arts, color, and beauty. The concert will also feature two student visual artists who will each create a painting during the concert. Near the end of the concert, the paintings will be revealed and awards and special recognitions will be presented. Art created by choir students will be on display.

Come and enjoy this unique concert at WHS!