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Looking to get more creative this year? Arts at Michigan and University Unions Arts & Programs are excited to announce the new Art Workshop Series for Winter 2009. Creative dance, clay adventures and theatre are all available this year! Register today!

The new UMMA museum expansion will re-open on March 28 with a wonderful celebration. Check out images of the new museum.

March 10 is the deadline for the Agora Fine Art competition in Chelsea New York. Get more details online.

 
This Week's Contest
 

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"As I See It" This Week
 

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Featured Events
 
Beats N' Eats
Thursday, February 19 — 11-1pm
Michigan League Underground

Sit and Eat while listening to a Beat by your friends and peers at this weekly lunchtime event. Interested in performance opportunities? Contact University Unions Arts & Programs at uuap@umich.edu or 734-763-3202.
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China Upside Down
Saturday, February 28 — 7-8pm
Angell Hall Auditorium A

Directed by Freddy Coppens; 2008; 52 minutes (Mandarin with English subtitles).In 1992, Deng Xiaoping's infamous slogan "it is glorious to get rich" unleashed one of the biggest revolutions in the thousand year-old country of China. This film profiles several families who rose from subsistence incomes to fabled luxury through the inventiveness and ambition of the extended family. The stories of these families provide an insight into the unique fusion of capitalism and communism that is becoming present day China. The film series is free and open to the public.
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Urban Flow
Thursday, February 19, 2009 — 7:30pm
Duderstadt Center Video Studio

Developed by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Center for South Asian Studies, with support from Arts on Earth. "Urban Flow" is an innovative education and theater project on the built environment of cities in Asia. Created by area studies students and faculty, this multimedia theater piece will explore the changing nature of city spaces, the lifeways those spaces help enable, and how transformations in the built urban environment brought about by globalization and economic change affect the daily life of residents in South and Southeast Asian cities. This performance will be free and open to the public.
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In The Arts Lounge...
  Read the latest Attender Corps reports:
Lily Allen Album Review - Steph_A
Waltz with Bashir Film Review - by Jesslax
  		 
Audition/Call of the Week
 

Sava's State St Cafe Call for Art

Hey students! Enjoy the delicious food at Sava's? Well here's your chance to see your artwork featured in the cafe. Sava's wants to support the UM community and display the art of talented student artists. Contact Sophie Grant at sophgran@gmail.com for details and questions.

 
Exhibit of the Week
  500 Years of American Grapes and Wines: A Remarkable Journey
Until May 29, 2009
Weekdays, Through May 29 - 1-4:45pm
William Clements Library, 909 South University

Curated by Professor Daniel T. Longone, this exhibition features books and ephemera that define the history of American wine making from early failures and disasters to ultimate emergence in the twentieth century of wines with a wine industry second to none. The incongruous cast of characters Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon's soldiers, prohibitionists, Boston Brahmins, John Locke, the American cocktail, and more.
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