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Weekend to include live music, cap-decorating, big sunburst chair photo opportunities

The Wisconsin Union will offer special events and activities as well as photo opportunities to graduating seniors during graduation weekend at Union South and Memorial Union.

The festivities begin on May 9 at 2 p.m. when graduating seniors are invited to decorate their graduation caps at Wheelhouse Studios in Memorial Union’s lower level. Students can also paint with watercolors. Wheelhouse will provide decorations and paint, while supplies last.

The Wisconsin Union team looks forward to the opening of the new Tong Family Marina along the Memorial Union lakefront in early summer 2019. While the previous marina served the Union well for more than 40 years, the soon-to-debut pier system furthers the Union’s commitment to accessibility, while also creating a durable docking system.

On May 6, the University of Wisconsin–Madison 2019 senior class, with support from the 4W Initiative (Women, Well-being, Wisconsin and the World), the UW Foundation and the Wisconsin Union, will unveil the 2019 senior class gift, which will be a sculpture, called “The Monarch,” that celebrates the 150th anniversary of women earning undergraduate degrees at UW–Madison.

[image class="left" title="" src="/assets/Uploads/d243369e67/cowchair1.jpg" alt="cowchair1" width="300" height="199" id="10448"]The Wisconsin Union and the UW School of Veterinary Medicine have unveiled a dairy-inspired, limited edition, mini Terrace chair that celebrates our state’s agriculture industry and helps support the school’s building expansion project.

Terrace season kicks off April 18 at 4 p.m. with the annual return of the Memorial Union Terrace’s iconic sunburst chairs, and the Wisconsin Union team welcomes community members to take part in the chairs’ arrival.

The return of the chairs marks the beginning of Terrace Season, Madison’s longest-running summer entertainment series.

MADISON - Moda Magazine, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s premier source of fashion and style, will hold the 8th annual UW Fashion Week March 25-29.

UW-Madison students Tanvi Tilloo, Alison Hovind and Gretchen Trast elected by Union Council

Tanvi Tilloo

The Wisconsin Union’s governing board Union Council has elected University of Wisconsin-Madison students Tanvi Tilloo, Alison Hovind and Gretchen Trast to serve as the Union’s 2019-20 president, vice president of external relations and vice president of internal relations, respectively.

We are about halfway through construction of the Tong Family Marina, a new pier system along Lake Mendota. Once finished, the marina will enhance safety, increase boat storage efficiency, allow for the creation of a new park, and provide more on-land space for programming.

Construction began in October 2018 and continues today, even as temperatures fall into the sometimes below freezing.

Each week, the lakefront continues to evolve into the modern, safe new space of which the Union team, including its incredible student leaders, have dreamt for years.

The Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Society and Politics (SoPo) Committee will welcome writer and cohost of pop culture podcast “Keep It” Kara Brown for a discussion on pop culture and politics to kick off Women’s History Month on March 1 at 7 p.m. in Varsity Hall at Union South.

In a surprise addition to the annual Winter Carnival, the Wisconsin Union brought the Statue of Liberty tradition back to Lake Mendota Feb. 1 as a to-scale, inflatable replica of the Statue’s head, arm and torch.

This marks the return of a decades-old tradition of placing Styrofoam portions of Lady Liberty on frozen Lake Mendota.

Photo by Bryce Richter. Photo provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.