BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175710 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T000000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Landscape and Memory\" at Gallery Project DESCRIPTION:Landscape and Memory seeks the experience and sensation of landscape\, tracing memory beyond symbol and image\, to find a place in-between land and mind that is grounded in shared human experience\, evolution\, geology\, and memory. \n\nSkyscrapers\, landfill mounds\, and industrialized agriculture often lead society to collectively assume that\, via human engineering and construction\, it is we who shape the landscape to ourselves. In contrast to this line of thought\, Landscape and Memory presents the self as shaped by environment and landscape.\n\nCURATED BY Catherine Meier and Joshua Smith \n\nARTISTS Shane Anderson\, Katherine E. Bash\, Jennilie Brewster\, Rocco DePietro\, Sarah Kanouse\, Catherine Meier\, Zac Montanaro\, Bruce Myren\, Anne Percoco\, Marianetta Porter\, Gloria Pritschet\, Terri Sarris\, Matthew Shlian\, Joshua Ray Smith and Mary Tsiongas UID:1392-914336@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/1392 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175620 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T000000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Permanent Exhibits at the Exhibit Museum of Natural History DESCRIPTION:The Hall of Evolution houses Michigan's largest display of prehistoric life. More than 600 million years of life on Earth are traced through fossils\, models and dioramas. The Michigan Wildlife Gallery has a large collection of native Great Lakes birds\, mammals\, reptiles\, and amphibians\, with taxidermy mounts\, habitat scenes\, and the largest mastodon trackway on display in the world. There are also displays about some of the environmental problems faced in this region today. The Anthropology Displays feature artifacts from human cultures around the world. The Geology Displays on the fourth floor offer a large selection of rocks\, minerals and gems. These displays are updated periodically. For more information go to www.lsa.umich.edu/exhibitmuseum/exhibits/permexhibits or call 734-764-0480. UID:452-910751@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/452 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175733 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Secrets of the Garden DESCRIPTION:These images were taken without a camera. Ponvert places her subjects directly on a digital scanner and then alters them in Photoshop. The images in this exhibit were taken over the past three years from subjects in her garden in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. Her work has been shown at the Kerrytown Concert House\, and her garden was chosen to be on the Ann Arbor Women's Farm and Garden Walk in 2008. UID:3843-915844@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/3843 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Cancer Center - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175651 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Wearable Art DESCRIPTION:U-M School of Art & Design alumna Furtado started as a weaver over 30 years ago\, working on a loom. She is now engaged in a variety of activities as she produces her line of wearable art. Handweaving\, felting\, dyeing and beading are common tools of her trade. Lately\, she has been exploring Nuno felting\, a Japanese technique which combines wool felt with silk fabric. One of her dyeing techniques is a resist process involving clamping and applying dye in multiple steps\, creating a multiple-color\, multiple-shape design. UID:3819-913012@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/3819 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Cancer Center - Main Lobby, Level B2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20090722T143534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ida: Darwinius masillae DESCRIPTION:\"Ida\,\" a new exhibit in the Exhibit Museum's Rotunda\, displays a high-resolution cast of an extremely rare fossil discovered in 1983 near Messel\, Germany\, but only recently made available for study. The fossil has proven to be a “link” between the prosimian and simian (\"anthropoid\") primate lineages. It has \"advanced\" front teeth (incisors and canines) and second toes like those of monkeys\, and is broadly representative of what human primate ancestors may have looked like during the Eocene epoch 47 million years ago. Ida (prounded \"eeda\") is named after after the daughter of Dr Jørn Hurum\, the Norwegian vertebrate paleontologist who secured one section of the fossil from an anonymous owner\, and led the research. Ida was about eight months old\, or the equivalent of a six-year-old human. Publication of a paper on the discovery was accompanied by a book\, The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestors by Colin Tudge\, and a documentary shown on the History Channel (US)\, BBC One (UK)\,and various stations in Germany and Norway. U-M paleontologist Philip Gingerich and U-M anthropologist B. Holly Smith were two members of the \"dream team\" invited to study Ida. The exhibit will be on display through May 2010. UID:2124-918366@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/2124 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:welcome week,visual arts,multicultural LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091022T143310 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T090000 SUMMARY:Community Service:SERVE Sponsor-A-Family 2009 Registration Begins DESCRIPTION:SERVE will be collaborating with Community Action Network (CAN) and Community Leaning Post (CLP) in providing many local families with holiday gifts through our SPONSOR-A-FAMILY project.\n\nCommunity Action Network (CAN) and Community Leaning Post (CLP) are organizations in Washtenaw County that provide various services to low-income families.\n\nRegister by going to the website and your group will receive a wish list of the family or child that you will be sponsoring in November.\n\n**Please be advised that SPONSOR-A-FAMILY requires that organizations/individuals spend a minimum of $50 on each sponsored person. Smaller groups do have the option to sponsor an individual rather than an entire family. Individuals may include children or male and/or females heads of households UID:1609-915444@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/1609 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:social justice LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175644 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Takeshi Takahara \"The Four Corners\" (Printmaking exhibit) DESCRIPTION:Artist's reception takes place from 5:00-7:00 on Friday October 23. Come to the Residential College Art Gallery in East Quad to experience the printmaking works by Takeshi Takahara. UID:851-912612@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/851 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T100000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:(Un)Natural History: The Museum Unveiled DESCRIPTION:September 12 through December 6\, 2009\n\nRichard Barnes's series of photographs Animal Logic examines the role the museum plays in our understanding of ourselves through the acts of collecting\, preservation\, and display. Images from this large body of work include photographs of the collections from the Smithsonian Institution\, the Museum of Comparative Anatomy in Paris\, the Canadian Museum of Natural History\, and the San Francisco Academy of Science. (Un)Natural History focuses primarily on the natural history museum and by extension collecting institutions in general\, providing a kind of behind-the-scenes look at museum practice and display.\n\nThis exhibition will coincide with the UM LSA Theme Semester Meaningful Objects: Museums and the Academy. UMMA's presentation is projected to serve as part of a three-venue project highlighting different aspects of Barnes's work in partnership with the UM Institute for the Humanities–who have selected Richard Barnes as the Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts for 2009–and the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills\, Michigan. UID:648-912294@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/648 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175806 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Apples Peas & Pumpkin Pie: Where on Earth Does Our Food Come From? DESCRIPTION:Where do we get chocolate and bananas? What do potatoes\, carrots\, and onions have in common? How do you grind wheat to make spaghetti? And can you really play with your food? Get the answers to all these questions and more in an interactive fall exhibit and display at in the Conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Exhibit features stations such as seeds\, roots\, and fruits where children can grind their own flour and learn about nuts and edible fruits and vegetables\; apple tasting\; create-a-menu activities\; and a mum\, pumpkin\, and gourd display. Through Nov. 29. For more information call 734-647-7600 UID:2102-918127@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/2102 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20090708T120930 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T100000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Lens of Impressionism DESCRIPTION:October 10\, 2009 through January 3\, 2010\n\nThis exhibition advances a new argument for the origins of what was called “the new painting\,” namely that a unique convergence of forces–social\, artistic\, technological\, and commercial–along the Normandy coast of France dramatically transformed the course of photography and painting (as well as of the region itself). Within this framework\, the invention of the camera and the development of early fine art photography in that particular setting will be seen as the specific catalysts that brought about a new approach to painting.\n\nThe project will showcase paintings\, photographs\, and drawings by some of the most treasured artists in the Western canon–Gustave Courbet\, Edouard Manet\, Edgar Degas\, and Claude Monet among them–as well as pioneering photographers such as Gustave Le Gray and Henri Le Secq. Inspired by the scenic Normandy coast of France\, these works–including representations of beach scenes\, seascapes\, fishing villages\, resorts\, and the region's pastoral beauty–will be brought together with archival materials related to early tourism and regional expressions of French nationalism from popular culture for an innovative examination of the impact of the then-new medium of photography on ideas of image making\, the recording of passing time\, the capacities of painting\, and the rise of Impressionism itself.\n\nOrganized by UMMA\, this exhibition is made possible in part by the Florence Gould Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, Masco Corporation\, and the University of Michigan's Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice President for Research. Additional support has been provided by the family of Raymond F. Cunningham in his memory. Following its showing in Ann Arbor\, the exhibition will travel to the Dallas Museum of Art. UID:2436-919894@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/2436 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091031T030002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Gypsy Pond Music XI DESCRIPTION:A multi-media sonic installation involving electronic music\, light/movement sensors\, and sculpture\, all created by the Digital Music Ensemble under the direction of Stephen Rush. As has been the practice for ten years\, the work is a result of careful study of labyrinths. UID:2080-917116@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/2080 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Outside at the pond CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20090901T155813 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T130000 SUMMARY:Other:Guided Tour: The New UMMA DESCRIPTION:The New UMMA\n\nSaturday\, September 5\, 1 pm Sunday\, September 6\, 1 pm Wednesday\, September 9\, 12 pm Saturday\, September 12\, 1 pm Sunday\, September 13\, 1 pm Saturday\, September 19\, 1 pm Sunday\, September 20\, 1 pm Wednesday\, September 23\, 12 pm Saturday\, September 26\, 1 pm Sunday\, September 27\, 1 pm UID:1037-913700@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/1037 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:visual arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Information Desk CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20090901T160239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T140000 SUMMARY:Other:The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast\, 1850–1874 DESCRIPTION:Free guided tours of the exhibition! UID:1271-914904@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/1271 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Museum of Art - Information Desk CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091031T030002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Band-O-Rama: No Tricks\, Just Treats! DESCRIPTION:While on Halloween\, this is not a Halloween concert. Musical “treats” from the classical\, jazz\, and popular genres\, including Jerry Bilik’s stirring Victors Valiant\, will merge with traditional UM favorites to continue one of our most treasured traditions. Featuring the Symphony Band\, Concert Band and Michigan Marching Band. Treat yourself! League Ticket Office 734-764-2538. UID:990-913634@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/990 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20101111T175639 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20091031T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Joel Mabus DESCRIPTION:\"Very quietly and under way too many people's radar\, Joel Mabus has spent the past 25 years building one of the most impressive bodies of work spanning both traditional and contemporary folk music\,\" says Sing Out! magazine. By turns\, he picks a mountain banjo to accompany an ancient ballad\, sings a witty song about modern life\, plays a sweet Irish melody on guitar\, swings a hot jazz number\, and then reaches deep for a soulful expression of values in a troubled world. He tops it all with a fiddle tune or old Carter family song--all skillfully blended into a seamless flow. In 2008 Joel ranked as the fourth most played artist--behind only Eliza Gilkyson\, Pete Seeger\, and Bob Dylan--in a national poll of folk radio DJs. He's a Michigan institution with an understated wit and insight that's very charactertistic of our part of the world. UID:652-912318@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/652 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:music LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR