Introducing... Passport to the Arts, a new program designed especially for first-year students, but open to all students! Here how it works:
(1) Find your very own “passport” on pages 214-215 of your 2008-09 M-Planner. Don’t have an M-Planner? Download a printable passport here (PDF).
(2) Check out the Passport Events calendar below for a list of featured arts and cultural events on campus and around Ann Arbor. When you attend one of these designated events be sure to look for the Passport sticker dispenser to collect your stamp! The Passport Events calendar will always feature an up-to-date schedule of featured events, so be sure to check it out often.
(3) Collect these passport stamps to be eligible for great prizes and incentives throughout the year. Collect at least 2 stamps by the end of March to earn admission into an exclusive Passport to the Arts party in April!
Did you attend a Passport event but didn’t receive a stamp? That’s okay, just email us and we can help you get your stamps.
August
August 28, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Union, 8 - 11pm
Arts at Michigan and the UM Museum of Art celebrate Welcome Week by introducing more than 3,000 incoming students to the wide array of possibilities for arts participation on campus at an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes.
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August 31, 2008, Sunday
Shapiro Undergraduate Library, 4pm-6pm
Come and Explore The Great Indoors at the Shapiro Library! The library can be confusing, but with the right tour guide, you’ll find yourself on the path to wild and wonderful things! Library staff will be giving tours and will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have about the library.
We’ll also have games, activities, and a book design workshop. We’ll even have free pizza!
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September
September 1, 2008, Tuesday
Lane Hall Gallery, 204. South State Street, 8am-5pm
Artists Statement: I asked to go to Haiti for an assignment in 2005 - but that first trip was not enough. I needed to photograph Haiti in depth, for myself.
For some time, violence had grown there, with hostages being taken, including journalists who were savagely tortured and killed. In this climate of insecurity and strife, I wanted to concentrate on the daily lives of the people living on the island. Because, as is always the case, the majority of the population doesn't participate in these tragic events.
Almost immediately, I knew that I needed to talk about the plight of Haiti in a new and different way. First of all, color imposed itself -- because of the stark land in constant play with the unique Caribbean light and the bright hues favored by the culture. Since I usually work in black and white, but because color seemed a natural obligation there, I found myself favoring a certain aesthetic in the images I produced, along with the reportorial content.
I made three more trips to Haiti, and photographed ordinary Haitians in their daily lives. I deliberately avoided Port au Prince, the only area covered by the press. I began to put together a set of pictures about what I found, eschewing the cliches of violence and voodoo so often associated with Haiti. I wanted to do a story that would have the journalistic merit of revealing the ordinary in an exciting way, through color and form and light. These pictures were taken in Haiti between 2005 and 2007, in Gonaives, Jeremy, Port-de-Paix, Anse Rouge, Fatima la Coupe, La Pointe, Anse a Foleur, Sainte Anne, Chansolme, Saint-Louis du Nord, Sources Chaudes, et Bassin Bleu. Exhibit runs through December 15, 2008
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September 9, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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September 11, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Illustrator, sculptor, painter and photographer Stasys Eidrigevićius, (Stasys) is perhaps best known for his graphics and poster art. Characterized by pierced bodies, grotesque demons, and masked faces, his style was shaped by his experiences living in an eastern European communist world. Stasys has had over 60 solo exhibitions in 20 countries and been honored with numerous awards for his work.
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September 11, 2008, Thursday
Power Center, Pizza at 6:30pm, Performance at 8pm
Following its triumphant production of The Elephant Vanishes in 2004, the theater company Complicite (pronounced kum-PLIH-si-tay) returns to Ann Arbor for the exclusive US presentation of its award-winning hit, A Disappearing Number. In the chilly English surroundings of Cambridge on the cusp of the First World War, the English mathematician GH Hardy unexpectedly receives a letter filled with mathematical theorems from a young Indian visionary, Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose idiosyncratic and creative approach to mathematics ultimately led to some of the most complex and beautiful mathematical patterns of all time.
Complicite’s innovative, multimedia approach frames past, present, and future simultaneously, with the Hardy/Ramanujan collaboration serving not only as a central aspect of the narrative, but more so as a window into a larger world of ideas: about the awesomeness of infinity and its relationship to human mortality, about the beauty of science and our quest for meaning and knowledge, about who we are and how we connect to one another − and ultimately about what is permanent and what disappears forever.
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September 12, 2008, Friday
Power Center, 3pm
Simon McBurney, artistic director of Complicite has said “the space of theatre is in the minds of the audience” (Financial Times). In the case of A Disappearing Number, the space of the theatre is also made by the superb technology and breathtaking visual images of the production. In this special behind-the-scenes look with the production team of A Disappearing Number, audiences will have a chance to see how the show is created and what it takes backstage to make this work so spectacular.
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September 15, 2008, Monday
Trotter Multicultural Center (1443 Washtenaw Ave.), 8pm
Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, theater, video projection, dance, shadow art, and a sound collage of personal testimonies, Hurricane Season connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the “unnatural disasters” disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide on a daily basis. Popular education through cultural activism, the performance brims with stories missing or mangled in mainstream media. With a set built of bamboo, calabash, and water that surrounds the audience in a circle of shadow and light, Hurricane Season transforms spaces into sanctuaries of healing, witness, and imagination. The show is both brutal and uplifting, taking the audience on a voyage of unthinkable tragedy and undeniable promise from the eye of a systemic storm. Want more information on how you can get involved in programs like this? Email mesastaff@umich.edu today! Sponsored by: Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA), Spectrum Center, Ginsberg Center, Arts at Michigan and Arts of Citizenship
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September 16, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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September 18, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Michael Moore is an Academy-Award winning filmmaker, author, actor and political commentator. He is the director and producer of three of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Bowling for Columbine. He has also written and starred in the TV shows “TV Nation” and “The Awful Truth,” which continue his trademark style of presenting serious documentaries in humorous ways.
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September 18, 2008, Thursday
Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons, 8:30-10:30pm
Jammin’ session with students of the Department of Jazz and Improvisation studies.
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September 19, 2008, Friday
Harlan Graduate Library, The Gallery Room 100, library hours
This exhibit features selections from the Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Library, providing a snapshot of a complex and pivotal year in history that was characterized by protest and revolutionary change. The Vietnam War and the draft, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, activist groups for social change such as Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, the White Panthers and the Yippies, international events such as the Soviet invasion of Prague and the May uprising in Paris are represented. The exhibit will run through December 19, 2008. An afternoon panel discussion featuring activists from the era and a live performance in the evening by Country Joe McDonald will take place in The Gallery on November 13.
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September 23, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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September 25, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. He works with governments, corporations, educational systems and cultural organizations throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies. The UK Government invited Robinson to establish and lead a national commission on creativity, education and the economy; he was a central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland; and he is currently mentoring the development, the Oklahoma Creativity Project, a statewide strategy for innovation, as well as advising and working with school districts and with cultural and corporate organizations across the United States.
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September 30, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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September 30, 2008, Tuesday
1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 S. University, 4pm
Ai Xiaoming is a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong Province, China, and head of the Sex/Gender Education Forum established in 2003. She is a feminist academic, a human rights activist, and director of several documentary films on issues of health, human rights, the legal system, and the election system in China, among other topics.
Films she has directed include Care and Love (2007), the story of a villager who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion during childbirth and her attempts to seek legal redress against the hospital; The Epic of Central Plains (2006) on villagers in Henan Province who contracted AIDS while seeking to alleviate their poverty by selling their blood, and Tai Shi Village (2006) on the events surrounding a village’s attempts to remove their appointed local officials. Professor Ai’s film Care and Love will be shown in the Center for Chinese Studies Chinese Documentary Film Series on Saturday, October 4, at 7:00pm in Auditorium A of Angell Hall. The film series is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the U-M Center for Chinese Studies at 1.734.764.6308.
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October
Due October 2, 2008, Thursday
On the Diag - Rain or Shine!
It's time to participate in the LS&A theme semester, Energy Futures. Both "Smarts and Crafts" and "Art in an Hour" ask you to think about art, the environment and sustainability in concise competitions. Prizes and displays in the Michigan Union are offered to both categories. More information can be found at the LS&A these semester site.
Who: teams of 2-5 people, anyone can participate!
Your mission: to create a work of art on the theme of energy or sustainability using only non-perishable, recyclable materials (e.g. paper, cardboard, plastic, glass, metal) that will be provided to you. You must construct your artwork on the Diag in an hour or less on Thursday, October 2 between 11am and 3pm. (In the event of inclement weather, the location will be in front of the Haven Hall Posting Wall.) Since a Liberal Arts education is all about making connections and putting things together, each team will be given a kit of connective/adhesive materials to utilize in their project. Entries will be judged both on aesthetics and how well they address the theme. The top three teams will receive prizes and the entries will be displayed in The Michigan Union.
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October 2, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Cary Fowler is the Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which recently drew global media attention when the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened its doors to 100 million seeds for permanent safekeeping in the Artic. The Trust will fund the Global Seed Vault and the work of developing countries and international seed banks to send their seeds for safekeeping. In his presentation, Dr. Fowler will address the history of the Trust and its efforts to secure crop diversity in the midst of global climate change.
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October 2, 2008, Thursday
Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons, 8:30-10:30pm
Jammin’ session with students of the Department of Jazz and Improvisation studies.
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October 4, 2008, Saturday
Auditorium A, Angell Hall 435 S. State Street, 7pm
A film by Ai Xiaoming; China, 2007; 108 minutes (in Mandarin with English subtitles). Care and Love draws its inspiration from 'Investigation of AIDS in Xingtai', an article by Wang Keqin, a senior journalist of China Economic Times. The documentary tells the story of Liu Xianhong, a villager who contracted HIV though a blood transfusion during childbirth, and how she publicized her story, filed a lawsuit with her 8-year old son against the hospital, and eventually received compensation. The bitter experiences of several families, and the collective effort by people living with HIV to defend their rights, resulted in the 'Care Group' and the growing awareness of the possibility for grassroots efforts in the countryside to lead to real social change.
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October 7, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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October 7, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan League Ballroom, 7pm
The film "A Jihad for Love" explores lives at the intersection of Islam and homosexuality. Join us for this National Coming Out Month event. A viewing of the film will be followed by a short Q&A session with the filmmaker, Parvez Sharma.
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October 9, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
In 2001, a group of designers from AIGA launched an initiative to "re-enfranchise" voters through design. Dubbed "Design for Democracy," the group is working to redesign and improve the voting experience for US elections. Projects include redesigned ballots and information for voters; guidelines for navigating a polling place; behind the scenes poll worker administration material; and national models for the Election Assistance Commission. Design for Democracy is currently working on new initiatives to demonstrate the importance of design in science, education, business and sustainability.
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October 11, 2008, Saturday
Michigan League Underground, Sign-up at 7:30pm, show begins at 8:30pm
Open Mic Nights provides a venue for musicians, singer-songwriters, and spoken-word artists to perform in a diverse show of creative expression. Each semester culminates in the Best of Best Show, where perfromers from previous events who impressed our judges perfrom and earn a $40 prize.
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October 14, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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October 15, 2008, Wednesday
Power Center, pizza at 6:30pm, performance at 8pm
Heddy Maalem works with the body as a poet works with words − as material. Fourteen utterly distinctive dancers from Mali, Benin, Nigeria, and Senegal come together for Maalem’s explosive interpretation of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). Stravinsky’s story of a pagan spring ritual is transported to Africa, inspired by Maalem’s time in Lagos, Nigeria, the cacophony of a city of 12 million people echoed by Stravinsky’s music. Highly dynamic dance sequences and overwhelming group scenes are interlaced with atmospheric film projections and intense scenes of silence that provide provocative contrast to the music.
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October 20, 2008, Monday
Michigan Union Art Lounge
This exhibit features over 70 posters created by University of Michigan students as part of the annual Bridging Art and Awareness Challenge, a call for art that encourages the campus community to create public awareness of social injustices through art and creative engagement. This year’s theme, "Redefining the American Dream" encourages us to think about the popularized notions of the so-called American Dream and move beyond this narrow definition by exploring the diversity of dreams that reside on this land. What is your vision of the American Dream? This exhibit will run until November 7, 2008.
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October 23, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Jane Evelyn Atwood is one of the world's leading photojournalists. Fascinated by people and concepts of exclusion, she has managed to penetrate worlds that most of us do not know, producing work that reflects her deep involvement with her subjects over time. In 1976, Atwood bought her first camera and began taking pictures of a group of street prostitutes in Paris. In her presentation, Atwood will speak about how she started and how she works, beginning with pictures from the prostitute series and including work from a story of the first person with AIDS in France to allow himself to be photographed for publication; a ten-year study of blind children; photos from Too Much Time (2000), her investigation of female incarceration in forty prisons and nine countries; and, finally, pictures from a four-year project on landmine survivors in Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Kosovo, and Afghanistan.
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October 23, 2008, Thursday
Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons, 8:30-10:30pm
Jammin’ session with students of the Department of Jazz and Improvisation studies.
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October 23, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Union Art Lounge, 7-9pm
You are cordially invited to attend the opening reception for our upcoming exhibit, "2008: Redefining the American Dream." This exhibit will feature over 60 posters created by University of Michigan students as part of the Bridging Art and Awareness Challenge, a call for art that encourages the campus community to create public awareness of social injustices through art and creative engagement. Join us for an evening of activities and refreshments as we engage and reflect on the themes conveyed in these powerful posters. Poetry Slam to follow in the U-Club!
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October 24, 2008, Friday
Slusser Gallery, Art + Architecture Bldg, 2000 Bonisteel, 6-9pm
Jane Evelyn Atwood is one of the world's leading photojournalists. Fascinated by people and concepts of exclusion, she has managed to penetrate worlds that most of us do not know, producing work that reflects her deep involvement with her subjects over time. In 1976, Atwood bought her first camera and began taking pictures of a group of street prostitutes in Paris. In her presentation, Atwood will speak about how she started and how she works, beginning with pictures from the prostitute series and including work from a story of the first person with AIDS in France to allow himself to be photographed for publication; a ten-year study of blind children; photos from Too Much Time (2000), her investigation of female incarceration in forty prisons and nine countries; and, finally, pictures from a four-year project on landmine survivors in Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Exhibit runs October 10 - November 7, 2008.
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October 28, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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October 30, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Antanas Mockus is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician. As mayor of Bogotá for two terms, Mockus became known for his surprising and often humorous initiatives. He has taken a shower in a commercial about conserving water, walked the streets dressed in spandex and a cape as Supercitizen, hired 20 mimes to make fun of traffic violators, and established one "Night for Women" to honor women's roles in society. Under Mockus's leadership, Bogotá saw improvements that included a 40% decrease in water usage, creation of 7000 community security groups and a 70% drop in the homicide rate. Traffic fatalities decreased by over 50%, drinking water was provided to all homes.
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November
November 4, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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November 6, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba's films explore Vietnamese history and national identity. Born in Tokyo and trained in the U.S., Nguyen-Hatsushiba returned to live in his father's homeland of Vietnam in 1990. His video work, Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards, replaces visions of conflict with far more subversive and magical images of Vietnam, offering scenes of Vietnamese fishermen pulling cyclos (rickshaws) underwater toward an area where the artist stretched about thirty mosquito nets across the sea bed. For Nguyen-Hatsushiba "The meaning of 'memorial' in these works refers not only to recalling and acknowledging the past, but it is also something that brings us to the present and urges us to question for the future." During his presentation he will discuss his creative paths returning to Vietnam and his ongoing series of memorial projects.
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November 6, 2008, Thursday
Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons, 8:30-10:30pm
Jammin’ session with students of the Department of Jazz and Improvisation studies.
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November 7, 2008, Friday
Michigan Theater, 8:30-10:30pm
Joe Lovano's lush, inimitable saxophone sound will be on display within the contexts of both his virtuosic, two-drummer quintet and in duets with the exciting pianist/composer/improviser Jason Moran. The first half of the evening features solo piano ruminations from Blue Note recording artist Jason Moran in addition to musical conversations between two of today's modern jazz masters. Ordering ends on Wed, Nov 5, at 5pm.
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November 9, 2008, Sunday
Downtown Library 4th floor meeting room, 3 - 4:30pm
Richard LeSueur, retired music specialist at the Ann Arbor District Library, will discuss Tchaikovsky's great opera which the UM School of Music, Theatre & Dance presents Nov. 13 - 16. The historical background of the opera as well as the plot will be the focus of the presentation. Musical examples will be played to highlight the great moments of this opera.
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November 11, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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November 13, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Since about 1990, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been working hard on new forms of life. Plastic yellow conduit is used as the basic material of this new nature. He makes skeletons that are able to walk on the wind. Eventually he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.
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November 13, 2008 at 8pm, Thursday until December 19, 2008
Gallery (Room 100), Hatcher Graduate Library, library hours
In this 40th anniversary year of 1968, the University of Michigan Library presents 'The Whole World Was Watching: Protest and Revolution in 1968, Selections from the Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Library.' This exhibit provides a snapshot of a complex and pivotal year in American history highlighting protests against the Vietnam War and the draft, the highly fractured Presidential election and the violence that erupted outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago against anti-war demonstrators, and the activities of student and other protest groups such as the Ann Arbor-founded Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, the White Panthers, and the Yippies. The exhibit notes the women's movement and international matters such as Prague Spring and the May Paris uprisings. The Library will host a discussion panel in association with this exhibit moderated by University Librarian Paul Courant. A performance by 60's legend Country Joe McDonald will follow at 8pm.
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November 14, 2008, Saturday
Michigan League Underground, Sign-up at 7:30pm, show begins at 8:30pm
Open Mic Nights provides a venue for musicians, singer-songwriters, and spoken-word artists to perform in a diverse show of creative expression. Each semester culminates in the Best of Best Show, where perfromers from previous events who impressed our judges perfrom and earn a $40 prize.
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November 13 at 7:30pm, 14-15 at 8pm, 16 at 2pm, 2008, Thursday-Sunday
Power Center
In the Russian countryside, a shy, young woman is struck with love at first sight for a handsome, melancholic aristocrat from the city whose only enjoyment comes from toying with other people’s emotions. When Tatyana ardently declares her love, Onegin cruelly dismisses it. Later at a ball, a bored Onegin flirts with her sister - to fatal consequences. Years later, when Onegin encounters a now radiant and sophisticated Tatyana, he realizes his missed opportunity. He tries to win her back and while she admits that she still loves him, she now has the power to weigh his own declaration of love. Will he win her back, or will she dismiss his attestation of love? Sung in Russian with projected English translations.
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November 18, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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November 20, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Daniel Joseph Martinez lives and works in the Crenshaw District of South Los Angeles. Using forms of strategic engagement and illusion, his work focuses on themes of contamination, history, nomadic power, cultural resistance, dissentience and systems of symbolic exchange. One ongoing project is the building of a doomsday machine, a transporter and a time machine to change the past in order to affect the future. Martinez has participated in the Whitney, Cairo, and Moscow Biennials; exhibited at the Orange County Museum of Art and El Museo Del Barrio. Upcoming exhibitions and projects include Dublin, Ireland; Santiago, Chili; Tijuana, Mexico and the 2008 California Biennial. In the spring of 2009 Hatja Cantz in Germany will publish a new artist monograph. Martinez is a Professor of Theory, Practice, and Mediation of Contemporary Art at the University of California Irvine, where he teaches in the Graduate Studies Program and New Genres Department.
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November 6, 2008, Thursday
Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons, 8:30-10:30pm
Jammin’ session with students of the Department of Jazz and Improvisation studies.
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November 22, 2008, Thursday
Angell Hall Auditorium A, 7pm
A film by Wu Wenguang and Su Ming (Mandarin with English Subtitles) Verite doumentarist Wu Wenguang records an unconventional dance performance project entitled "Dance with Farm Workers." Initiated and organized by choreographer Wen Hui, along with artists Song Dong and Yun Xiuzhen and staged in a former textile factory, ten actors and dancers are brought together with thirty farm workers who came from poor regions of sichuan province to work on construction sites in Beijing. Drawn to this dance project by the promise of 30 yuan a day for their efforts, the laborers later discover that even they have an opportunity to stand center stage and make a statement.
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November 25, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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November 22, 2008, Thursday
1636 School of Social Work Building, Noon-1pm
As a classical genre of Chinese theatre, kunqu features sophisticated and coordinated performances of elaborate singing, stylized chanting/speaking, and intricate acting/dancing. To reveal the artistic creativity involved, and the expressions it generates, Mr. Wen Yuhang, an internationally known artist of the genre will discuss and perform a number of representative arias and monologues, demonstrating kunqu manipulations of words, singing, chanting/speaking, and acting/dancing.
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January
January 22, 2009, Thursday
5:10pm Michigan Theatre
Clarinetist and Composer Kinan Azmeh and Visual Artist Kevork Mourad have collaborated to illuminate the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, using both music and painting as vehicles for story telling. In this presentation, prior to their weekend UMS performances, the artists discuss the origins of the project and their creative collaboration. They also demonstrate the fusion of music, painting, and technology through performance excerpts and examination of the more technical aspects of their work.
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January 22, 2009, Thursday
8:30-10:30pm Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons
January 23, 2009, Friday
5:30-11:30pm Detroit Repertory Theatre
Radio Golf is August Wilson's final play, which presents a complex character study of two men who see their futures through the lens of race, culture and politics in 1990's Pittsburgh. One aspires to be the first African-American mayor of that great city - interested in a new vision for urban renewal. The other pursues the American Dream of money and power by aligning himself with the old power elite. There will be pre-show pizza and a reading by Professor Glenda Dickerson from the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at 5:30pm. in the Michigan League Kalamazoo Room before departing at 7pm for the Detroit Repertory Theatre.
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January 23, 2009, Friday
Leage Underground Sign up begins at 7:30pm and the show begins at 8:30pm
Open Mic Nights provides a venue for musicians, singer-songwriters, and spoken-word artists to perform in a diverse show of creative expression. Each semester culminates in the Best of Best Show, where perfromers from previous events who impressed our judges perfrom and earn a $40 prize.
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January 27, 2009, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG from 8pm – 11pm.
Arts Break is FREE -supplies provided- arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are: painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves, etc.
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January 29, 2009, Thursday
5:10pm Michigan Theatre
Graphic designer Hannah Smotrich's work centers on issues of community, cultural history, identity and voice. Her projects explore the stories of our individual lives and the collective narratives of our communities, the many ways in which we communicate—and the walls we construct that complicate connection. Recent work includes a participatory public art project at the Jewish Cultural Festival in Krakow, Poland, an integrated system of street signs and publications for Neighborhood Heritage Trails in Washington, DC, and an exhibit for Museum L-A on the lives and community of textile workers in Lewiston, Maine.
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January 29, 2009, Thursday
Power Center
The University Dance Company presents Arcs in Time. Headlining the concert is the first revival in twenty-one years of Impact by contemporary American choreographer Laura Dean. Anna Kisselgoff of the New York Times declared “Impact is terrific…dazzlingly intricate in its integration of patterns and original movement. There is a thoroughgoing richness in the entire work.” The UM Percussion Ensemble plays Steve Reich’s “Sextet,” which was written expressly for this high energy work. Faculty member Amy Chavasse, who danced in the 1985 premiere, will restage the dance. Melissa Beck Matjias creates a new work that is set to Schubert’s “Impromptu No.1 in c minor” and is played live by Christian Matjias. Door to the River, choreographed by Peter Sparling, features dancers set against a video backdrop of water surging over Ann Arbor’s Barton Dam during different seasons. A juxtaposition of human movement and the powerful forces of nature held in check by man-made restraints, the dance uses the sounds of the water as its musical score. Robin Wilson creates a new dance inspired by her work with Urban Bush Women and Dianne McIntyre that features dance improvisation, wordless vocalization, and live music to examine shifting emotional terrains through the vehicle of the human voice while the body is in motion. Rounding out the evening is a new work by faculty member Bill De Young.
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January 29, 2009, Thursday
6:30 PM A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104) Art + Architecture Building
Marie Sester is a media artist, trained as an architect. She currently in-residence at the Institute of Advanced Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan. Her website is www.sester.net.
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February
February 2, 2009, Monday
7-9pm Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League
$20 per 3-session series or $8 per individual session
Ever feel like you "dance to your own groove?" Through games and creative play, this 3-week workshop will challenge participants to let go of inhibtions and explore improvisational movement. Absolutely no experience necessary! SPACE IS LIMITED - REGISTER EARLY! Sponsored by UUAP and Arts @ Michigan. ***To pay for the workshops, please visit: http://www3.arts.umich.edu/programs/workshops/order.php
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February 2, 2009, Monday
8:30-10:30pm Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons
February 3, 2009, Tuesday
5:30-7:30 p.m. Shapiro Undergraduate Library
February 3, 2009, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG from 8pm – 11pm.
Arts Break is FREE -supplies provided- arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are: painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves, etc.
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February 4, 2009, Wednesday
7-9:30 p.m. Palmer Commons 4th Floor Forum Hall
This documentary tells of a group of female Army support soldiers who were sent into ground combat for the first time in US history. Without sufficient training but with commitment, bravery and honor, these women ended up fighting some of the fiercest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war. Lioness exposes the cost of combat, the changing landscape of war and the expanding role of women in today's military.
For more information visit the Lioness web site: http://lionessthefilm.com
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February 5, 2009, Thursday
5:10pm Michigan Theatre
Astronomer and science visualizer José Francisco Salgado uses his skills in astronomy education and visual arts to create multimedia works that communicate science in engaging ways. Currently on staff at the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum in Chicago, Salgado’s education and outreach efforts include Spanish-language programs, an Emmy-nominated astronomy news segment, and astronomy video suites created to accompany live performances of classical music concerts. In his presentation, Salgado discusses these programs and techniques and the ways Adler astronomers use the museum's Space Visualization Laboratory to communicate science.
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February 7, 2009, Saturday
2:00 p.m. Michigan Theater Screening Room (reception following film)
Admission is free! Empress Chung (2005) is the first North and South Korean animated film. It is directed by Nelson Shin, a producer of The Simpsons. The story is an epic adventure based on a famous Korean folk tale about a daughter who sacrifices herself to restore her blind father's eyesight. As a personal project, Shin spent eight years getting the project off the ground, including three and a half years of pre-production. It was the first film to have been released simultaneously in both North and South Korea, on August 15, 2005. The film was featured at the 2004 Annecy International Animation Festival, (France) and was also recognised with several awards in Korea. (90 minutes)
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February 9, 2009, Monday
7-9pm Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League
$20 per 3-session series or $8 per individual session
Ever feel like you "dance to your own groove?" Through games and creative play, this 3-week workshop will challenge participants to let go of inhibtions and explore improvisational movement. Absolutely no experience necessary! SPACE IS LIMITED - REGISTER EARLY! Sponsored by UUAP and Arts @ Michigan. ***To pay for the workshops, please visit: http://www3.arts.umich.edu/programs/workshops/order.php
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February 10, 2009, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG from 8pm – 11pm.
Arts Break is FREE -supplies provided- arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are: painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves, etc.
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February 10, 2009, Tuesday
6:30 PM A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104) Art + Architecture Building
Nicolas Delon and Julien Choppin have worked together since they met while studying architecture at Toulouse. Their firm is Encore Heureux, and the website is www.encoreheureux.org.
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February 12, 2009, Thursday
5:10pm Michigan Theatre
Anne Pasternak is the President and Artistic Director of Creative Time, an organization that has been commissioning and presenting innovative art in New York City since 1972 Pasternak is committed to initiating projects that give artists opportunities to innovate, preserve public space as a place of creative expression, and respond to timely issues. Over the past decade, she has worked closely with such artists as Doug Aitken, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Steve Powers, Cai Guo Qiang, and many many more. Pasternak also curates independent exhibitions, consults on urban planning initiatives, and contributes essays to cultural publications
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February 12, 2009, Thursday
Pizza at 6:30, Performance at 8
The metaphor of “sweet honey in the rock” captures completely these African American women whose repertoire is steeped in the sacred music of the Black church, the clarion calls of the Civil Rights movement, and songs of the struggle for justice everywhere. Rooted in a deeply held commitment to create music out of the rich textures of African American legacy and traditions, Sweet Honey In The Rock possesses a stunning vocal prowess that captures the complex sounds of Blues, spirituals, traditional gospel hymns, rap, reggae, African chants, hip-hop, ancient lullabies, and jazz improvisation.
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February 12, 2009, Thursday
5:15 Duderstadt Center Video Studio on U-M's North Campus
The endless cycle of water -- rain to earth, to river, to lake, to ocean, to sky, to rain -- is the inspiration for this 40 minute performance created by an interdisciplinary group of U-M faculty members. Our own Huron River provides a central narrative for the work. The work was premiered in November 2008, as a special series of events entitled “Arts & the Environment” and is back by popular demand. The project melds science and the arts in an experience meant to surprise, delight, and re-awaken participants to the life-giving power of water, and its central importance in our lives.
Featuring
*Music by Evan Chambers and Tan Dun
*Performances by UM Percussion Ensemble, directed by Joseph Gramley
*Choreography and direction by Jessica Fogel
*Poetry by Keith Taylor
*Graphic design by Doug Hesseltine
*Videography by Christie Vedejs
*Visual Art and Scientific support by Sara Adlerstein
*Lighting Design by Mary Cole
*Costumes by Suzanne Young
This performance will be free and open to the public.
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February 13, 2009, Friday
Leage Underground Sign up begins at 7:30pm and the show begins at 8:30pm
Open Mic Nights provides a venue for musicians, singer-songwriters, and spoken-word artists to perform in a diverse show of creative expression. Each semester culminates in the Best of Best Show, where perfromers from previous events who impressed our judges perfrom and earn a $40 prize.
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February 13, 2009, Friday
5:15 Duderstadt Center Video Studio on U-M's North Campus
The endless cycle of water -- rain to earth, to river, to lake, to ocean, to sky, to rain -- is the inspiration for this 40 minute performance created by an interdisciplinary group of U-M faculty members. Our own Huron River provides a central narrative for the work. The work was premiered in November 2008, as a special series of events entitled “Arts & the Environment” and is back by popular demand. The project melds science and the arts in an experience meant to surprise, delight, and re-awaken participants to the life-giving power of water, and its central importance in our lives.
Featuring
*Music by Evan Chambers and Tan Dun
*Performances by UM Percussion Ensemble, directed by Joseph Gramley
*Choreography and direction by Jessica Fogel
*Poetry by Keith Taylor
*Graphic design by Doug Hesseltine
*Videography by Christie Vedejs
*Visual Art and Scientific support by Sara Adlerstein
*Lighting Design by Mary Cole
*Costumes by Suzanne Young
This performance will be free and open to the public.
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February 14, 2009, Saturday
6:00 - 10:00 p.m. Exhibit Museum of Natural History
February 12, 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and this year also celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of his landmark work, The Origin of Species, which many would argue is the foundation of modern biology. Our celebration of Darwin’s contributions will include a lecture on the Evolution of Sex (also in honor of St. Valentine’s Day), a chocolate birthday cake and a sparkly toast, an award ceremony for a student creative art competition to artistically interpret a passage from The Origin of Species, and an exhibition of the student work.
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February 14, 2009, Saturday
5:15 Duderstadt Center Video Studio on U-M's North Campus
The endless cycle of water -- rain to earth, to river, to lake, to ocean, to sky, to rain -- is the inspiration for this 40 minute performance created by an interdisciplinary group of U-M faculty members. Our own Huron River provides a central narrative for the work. The work was premiered in November 2008, as a special series of events entitled “Arts & the Environment” and is back by popular demand. The project melds science and the arts in an experience meant to surprise, delight, and re-awaken participants to the life-giving power of water, and its central importance in our lives.
Featuring
*Music by Evan Chambers and Tan Dun
*Performances by UM Percussion Ensemble, directed by Joseph Gramley
*Choreography and direction by Jessica Fogel
*Poetry by Keith Taylor
*Graphic design by Doug Hesseltine
*Videography by Christie Vedejs
*Visual Art and Scientific support by Sara Adlerstein
*Lighting Design by Mary Cole
*Costumes by Suzanne Young
This performance will be free and open to the public.
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February 16, 2009, Monday
7-9pm Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League
$20 per 3-session series or $8 per individual session
Ever feel like you "dance to your own groove?" Through games and creative play, this 3-week workshop will challenge participants to let go of inhibtions and explore improvisational movement. Absolutely no experience necessary! SPACE IS LIMITED - REGISTER EARLY! Sponsored by UUAP and Arts @ Michigan. ***To pay for the workshops, please visit: http://www3.arts.umich.edu/programs/workshops/order.php
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February 16, 2009, Monday
5:00-6:30 p.m. Ross School of Business R2210
Panelists include: Doug McCraken, MBA ’04, Guitar Hero/Activision Global Brand Manager Daniel Pipski, University of Michigan ‘99, SVP Production, Groundswell Films Ben Simon, Entertainment and Media Marketing Strategy, Wal-Mart
Shelby Jordan, Controller, AEG
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February 17, 2009, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG from 8pm – 11pm.
Arts Break is FREE -supplies provided- arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are: painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves, etc.
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February 19, 2009, Thursday
6:30 PM A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104) Art + Architecture Building
Cheryl Durst is currently the executive vice president and CEO of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA), and has overall responsibility for guiding the efforts of the 14,000 member Association. Durst has extensive background in product and program marketing development and implementation, and has created sales and marketing programs for Reff, Inc. and the federal sales division of Knoll. She headed meeting planning for the Washington Design Center/Washington, D.C. (a division of Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc.). In 2001, in recognition of Durst's accomplishments within the Association and her contributions to the industry at large, the IIDA Board of Directors conferred Honorary Member status to her.
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February 19, 2009, Thursday
7:30 p.m. 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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February 20, 2009, Friday
7:30 p.m. 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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March
March 2, 2009, Monday
6-8pm Art Lounge, Michigan Union
$20 per 3-session series or $8 per individual session
Polymer clay is a fun, exciting medium with oodle of creative possibility. We will cover the basics, such as color blending and texturing, and also more advanced techniques like the Skinner blend (which produces beautiful color gradients) and millefiori canes. In addition, you'll learn how to apply these methods to make one of kind beads, as well as tiny figurines of penguins, class movie monsters, pirates, dragons, snowmen, wombats, etc. SPACE IS LIMITED, SO REGISTER EARLY! Sponsored by UUAP and Arts @ Michigan ***TO PAY FOR THE WORKSHOPS, PLEASE VISIT: http://www3.arts.umich.edu/programs/workshops/order.php
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March 3, 2009, Tuesday
6:30 PM A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104) Art + Architecture Building
Mark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using packing tape. His work has been featured in various newspapers and magazines including Time Out: New York, The Washington Post, The Independent, the book Hidden Track: How Visual Culture is Going Places, and on the street art blog Wooster Collective. He has shown indoors in galleries in the U.S., Europe and Brazil and is represented by Lazarides Gallery in London. He maintains the Website tapesculpture.org and teaches his tape casting process in workshops in the cities he visits. Mark's website is www.xmarkjenkinsx.com, and he currently lives in Washington, DC.
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March 3, 2009, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG from 8pm – 11pm.
Arts Break is FREE -supplies provided- arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are: painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves, etc.
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March 5, 2009, Thursday
6:30 PM A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104) Art + Architecture Building
Julie Bargmann is internationally recognized as an innovative designer in building regenerative landscapes and with interdisciplinary design education. Her on-going design research Project D.I.R.T. (Design Investigations Reclaiming Terrain) continues to excavate the creative potential of degraded landscapes.
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March 5, 2009, Thursday
5:10pm Michigan Theatre
Jacque Fresco is a futurist, industrial designer, behavioral scientist, artist, inventor, author and a master of "out of the box thinking". Fresco offers a bold new way of looking at our world and its unworkable social systems. He envisions a global civilization in which science and technology are applied in tandem with human and environmental concerns to secure, protect, and encourage a more humane world for all people, where human rights, are no longer paper proclamations but a way of life.
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March 9, 2009, Monday
6-8pm Art Lounge, Michigan Union
$20 per 3-session series or $8 per individual session
Polymer clay is a fun, exciting medium with oodle of creative possibility. We will cover the basics, such as color blending and texturing, and also more advanced techniques like the Skinner blend (which produces beautiful color gradients) and millefiori canes. In addition, you'll learn how to apply these methods to make one of kind beads, as well as tiny figurines of penguins, class movie monsters, pirates, dragons, snowmen, wombats, etc. SPACE IS LIMITED, SO REGISTER EARLY! Sponsored by UUAP and Arts @ Michigan ***TO PAY FOR THE WORKSHOPS, PLEASE VISIT: http://www3.arts.umich.edu/programs/workshops/order.php
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March 10, 2009, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG from 8pm – 11pm.
Arts Break is FREE -supplies provided- arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are: painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves, etc.
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March 12, 2009, Thursday
8:30-10:30pm Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons
March 12, 2009, Thursday
6:30 PM A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104) Art + Architecture Building
Julia Czerniak is a registered landscape architect and founder and principal, with Mark Linder, of CLEAR, a transdisciplinary collaborative between architects and others that aspires to both strengthen its disciplinary identity and to expand its range of operations. She is associate professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture where she teaches architectural studios as well as seminars on landscape theory and criticism. Educated both as an architect and landscape architect her research and practice focus on the intersection of these disciplines. Czerniak's design work has been recognized with numerous awards: most recently, her collaborations with Field Operations won the Syracuse Connective Corridor competition; with Marpillero Pollak Architects, she won the artNET Public Art Landscape Design Competition in Toledo, Ohio and was also a winner of the 2001 Young Architects Forum competition sponsored by The Architectural League of New York. Her design work for this venue is included in the book Second Nature (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001).
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March 12, 2009, Thursday
5:10pm Michigan Theatre
Richard Saul Wurman is an architect, a cartographer, the creator of the Access Travel Guide Series, and the author and designer of more than eighty books, including Information Architects (1996), Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1991) and Information Anxiety (1989). He has also served as chairman and creative director of the TED conferences. For Wurman: "The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable. In the end, all I am ever trying to do with every project I do is to do good work.”
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March 13, 2009, Friday
(pizza at 6:30, performance at 8)
Founded by Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, the Silk Road Project has been a catalyst for a new kind of conversation, opening avenues of inter-cultural communication and collaborative thinking. The collective is drawn from internationally renowned musicians interested in exploring the relationships between tradition and innovation in music from the East and West.
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March 13, 2009, Friday
Leage Underground Sign up begins at 7:30pm and the show begins at 8:30pm
Open Mic Nights provides a venue for musicians, singer-songwriters, and spoken-word artists to perform in a diverse show of creative expression. Each semester culminates in the Best of Best Show, where perfromers from previous events who impressed our judges perfrom and earn a $40 prize.
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March 16, 2009, Monday
6-8pm Art Lounge, Michigan Union
$20 per 3-session series or $8 per individual session
Polymer clay is a fun, exciting medium with oodle of creative possibility. We will cover the basics, such as color blending and texturing, and also more advanced techniques like the Skinner blend (which produces beautiful color gradients) and millefiori canes. In addition, you'll learn how to apply these methods to make one of kind beads, as well as tiny figurines of penguins, class movie monsters, pirates, dragons, snowmen, wombats, etc. SPACE IS LIMITED, SO REGISTER EARLY! Sponsored by UUAP and Arts @ Michigan ***TO PAY FOR THE WORKSHOPS, PLEASE VISIT: http://www3.arts.umich.edu/programs/workshops/order.php
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March 16, 2009, Monday
8pm-10pm Michigan League Michigan Room
This event, held during Spring Pride Week, brings the artist/activist group, Salt Lines, to the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus for a performance and gender theory workshop. This powerhouses group, comprised of Andrea Gibson (Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion), Denise Jolly (Seattle Poetry Slam), Sonya Renee (Individual National Poetry Slam Champion), and Tara Hardy (founder of Bent Writing Institute) represent some of the highest ranking and most respected artists coming out of the international Poetry Slam circuit. The University of Michigan is one stop on the Salt Lines March 2009 tour, taking place in honor of Women’s History Month.
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March 17, 2009, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG from 8pm – 11pm.
Arts Break is FREE -supplies provided- arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are: painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves, etc.
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March 19, 2009, Thursday
5:10pm Michigan Theatre
Performance is the language that Abramovic, winner of the Golden Lion at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997, favors for her artistic expression. In performance the body empties itself to serve as a go-between for energy in its passage from matter to spirit and space. Her experiences in Tibet, in Ladakh and among the Australian Aborigines and her studies of various rituals have allowed her to understand how to bring the body to a borderline state.
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March 23, 2009, Monday
6-8pm Art Lounge, Michigan Union
Free hot chocolate and cookies!
$20 per 3-session series or $8 per individual session
Are you a closeted thespian, just waiting to burst out? This class is for you! Throughout the 3-week session we will focus on the process of bringing drama to life using a combination of practice and creative play. Participants will also learn about all aspects of the theater as they write, workshop, and their own ten-minute play. SPACE IS LIMITEDD, REGISTER EARLY! Sponsored by UUAP and Arts @ Michigan. ***TO PAY FOR THE WORKSHOPS, PLEASE VISIT: http://www3.arts.umich.edu/programs/workshops/order.php
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March 24, 2009, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG from 8pm – 11pm.
Arts Break is FREE -supplies provided- arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are: painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves, etc.
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March 24, 2009, Tuesday
8:00 p.m.- midnight University of Michigan Museum of Art
On Tuesday March 24, UMMA will open its doors to all UM students for an evening of celebration. Join us from 8 pm to midnight for live entertainment (including Davy Rothbart, co-founder of FOUND Magazine), free food, a chance to explore the new galleries, and the opportunity to win unique prizes.
The new building was designed with UM students in mind, which is why we want you to be among the first to experience it! UMMA will open to the public on March 28 with a twenty-four hour community celebration.
To receive emails about the Student Re-Opening Event contact Mary DeYoe--mdeyoe@umich.edu
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March 24, 2009, Tuesday
Duderstadt Center Gallery (exhibit runs through April 8, 2009)
In 1996, the Prison Creative Arts Project held one of the very first exhibitions of artwork by Michigan prisoners. The show was small, only 50 artists from 16 prisons exhibiting 77 pieces of art. Twelve years later, March/April 2008 marked the 13th annual exhibition with 234 artists from 41 state prisons exhibiting 389 pieces. We are honored and excited to be in our 14th year of the exhibition, the largest of its kind in the nation, opening March 24, 2009, and running through April 8, 2009. The exhibition is located up on North Campus, in the Duderstadt Center Gallery. The show is a great opportunity for individuals to not only challenge their pre-conceptions and stereotypes of what the “prisoner” is, but more importantly, its an opportunity for the community to be reminded of the necessity of creative expression, and the power of the human spirit.
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March 26, 2009, Thursday
5:10pm Michigan Theatre
Filmmaker, painter, collagist, activist and contrarian George Manupelli is the founder of the Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 1963, while teaching at the UM School of Art & Design and collaborating with the ONCE Group, he established the Ann Arbor Film Festival as a counterpoint to the New York destination art world. Manupelli directed the festival for 20 years defining it with his aesthetic sense of festival as event and film as art. He made numerous films while in Ann Arbor including the “Dr. Chicago” trilogy. Over 400 exhibitions of his art works, films, music, and performance pieces have been held throughout Europe, North, Central and South America.
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March 26, 2009, Thursday
8:30-10:30pm Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons
March 26, 2009, Thursday
8:00 -10:30 p.m. Michigan Union Pendleton Room
This concert/party/rave will be open to the entire University community, impacting hundreds through a one of a kind interactive experience. It will be held in the Pendelton Room of the Michigan Union, and sound equipment and support will be provided by Jim Gibbons and AVS. Partners with SCOR, Arts at Michigan, and Neutral Zone.
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March 30, 2009, Monday
6-8pm Art Lounge, Michigan Union
Free hot chocolate and cookies!
$20 per 3-session series or $8 per individual session
Are you a closeted thespian, just waiting to burst out? This class is for you! Throughout the 3-week session we will focus on the process of bringing drama to life using a combination of practice and creative play. Participants will also learn about all aspects of the theater as they write, workshop, and their own ten-minute play. SPACE IS LIMITEDD, REGISTER EARLY! Sponsored by UUAP and Arts @ Michigan. ***TO PAY FOR THE WORKSHOPS, PLEASE VISIT: http://www3.arts.umich.edu/programs/workshops/order.php
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April
April 2, 2009, Thursday
5:10pm Michigan Theatre
Through the lens of the historic record and art history, Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom employ tactics of spectacle and humor to provide critical re-evaluations of cultural and historical narratives. Displayed as immersive projections or installations, their work simultaneously fuses video art’s tendencies towards the visually spectacular and its legacy as a tool for social change. Carlson and Strom examine the moving body within a range of ”landscapes”: the physical western vista, the economic terrain of late-capitalist America, and the artistic tradition of constructing these literal and ideological images.
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April 2, 2009, Thursday
(pizza at 6:30, performance at 8)
The American conductor David Robertson makes his UMS debut with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, where he has served as music director since 2005. Recognized for his impeccable musicianship and imaginative programming, he inspires and enthralls audiences and musicians alike. A recognized expert in 20th and 21st-century music, he conducts a program of Wagner, John Adams, and Sibelius.
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April 6, 2009, Monday
6-8pm Art Lounge, Michigan Union
Free hot chocolate and cookies!
$20 per 3-session series or $8 per individual session
Are you a closeted thespian, just waiting to burst out? This class is for you! Throughout the 3-week session we will focus on the process of bringing drama to life using a combination of practice and creative play. Participants will also learn about all aspects of the theater as they write, workshop, and their own ten-minute play. SPACE IS LIMITEDD, REGISTER EARLY! Sponsored by UUAP and Arts @ Michigan. ***TO PAY FOR THE WORKSHOPS, PLEASE VISIT: http://www3.arts.umich.edu/programs/workshops/order.php
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April 7, 2009, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG from 8pm – 11pm.
Arts Break is FREE -supplies provided- arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are: painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves, etc.
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April 9, 2009, Thursday
8:30-10:30pm Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons
April 9, 2009, Thursday
5:10pm Michigan Theatre
Dr. G. Clotaire Rapaille is an internationally known expert in creativity and communication. His marketing strategies have grown out of his work in the areas of psychiatry, psychology, and cultural anthropology, combining a pyschiatrist’s depth of analysis with a business person’s attention to practical concerns. He has written more than ten books including, Creative Communication, recognized as the standard reference for the French advertising community. His most recent book, the best selling, The Culture Code, sheds light not just on business but on the way every human being acts and lives.
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April 14, 2009, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG from 8pm – 11pm.
Arts Break is FREE -supplies provided- arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are: painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves, etc.
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April 17, 2009, Friday
Leage Underground Sign up begins at 7:30pm and the show begins at 8:30pm
Open Mic Nights provides a venue for musicians, singer-songwriters, and spoken-word artists to perform in a diverse show of creative expression. Each semester culminates in the Best of Best Show, where perfromers from previous events who impressed our judges perfrom and earn a $40 prize.
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April 21, 2009, Tuesday
6:00-10:00pm Pierpont Commons
Take a break from studying and final exams, relieve stress and celebrate the end of the semester at this free event! Activities include games, novelties, arts and crafts, flavorful food, massages and performances!
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