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Kate Lochner, Program Associate Lea Jacobs, Faculty Director Marina Kelly, Creative Arts & Design Learning Community Coordinator Jim Healy, Director of Programming Here’s to an eight day celebration of the Alan Carr, Project Assistant Jay Burlingham, Project Assistant Mike King, Senior Programmer, Technical Director incredible range of cinema that exists beyond UW ARTS INSTITUTE Matt Connolly, Print Traffic Coordinator, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Wisconsin’s Own Coordinator the multiplex; let’s get together and watch some Norma Saldivar, Executive Director; Ann Archbold, Theatre & Drama; Patricia Boyette, University ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING BY movies! Theatre; Susan C. 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PROJECTIONISTS DAILY SCHEDULE GRIDS ARE ON PAGES 20 & 21 Doug McLaren, Olivia Babler, Tanner Engbretson, Roch Gersbach, FILM SERIES LISTS ARE ON PAGE 33 Becca Hall, Rebecca Lyon, and Kyle Westphal A CHECKLIST OF ALL FILMS IS ON PAGE 34 The Arts on Campus website is a collaborative project COMMUNICATION ARTS SUPPORT STAFF sponsored by the Arts Institute and University Communications TICKET INFORMATION