{ "6036-1133012": { "datetime_modified":"20110427T100107", "datetime_start":"20110521T084500", "datetime_end":"20110521T120000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2011-05-21", "date_end":"2011-05-21", "time_start":"08:45:00", "time_end":"12:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"23rd Ann Arbor Annual Downtown Blooms Day (rain or shine)", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"23rd Ann Arbor Annual Downtown Blooms Day (rain or shine)", "event_subtitle":"", "event_type":"Social \/ Informal Gathering", "event_type_id":"19", "description":"Register: Please register by 5pm on Friday, May 13 at http:\/\/aabloomsday.eventbrite.com.\r\n\r\nMeeting location and time: We will meet at the International Center (603 E. Madison St.) at 8:45am to walk over to Liberty Plaza as a group (10 minute walk).\r\n\r\nEvent description: Join hundreds of volunteers to help beautify Ann Arbor at the Downtown Blooms Day. Volunteers will plant flowers, mulch planters, and help spruce up the downtown areas along State, Main, South University, and Liberty Streets. Supplies will be provided for planting flowers throughout downtown, although you can bring your gardening gloves and trowel if you have one. Please dress for the weather. Interested individuals, families, youth groups, and other organizations will participate in this event. Help us represent the U-M international students\/scholars in this community effort!\r\n\r\nMore information on Blooms Day\r\n\r\nMap to Blooms Day starting location\r\n\r\nQuestions: Contact Curtis Morisaki at cmorisak@umich.edu.", "occurrence_notes":"Meet at the International Center", "guid":"6036-1133012@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/6036", "building_id":"null", "building_name":"Off Campus Location", "campus_maps_id":"1", "room":"Downtown Ann Arbor", "location_name":"Off Campus Location", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["multicultural"], "website":"http:\/\/internationalcenter.umich.edu\/events\/social-events.html#bloom", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"International Center", "group_id":"1060", "website":"" } ], "image_url":"", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"", "event_large":"", "event_large_2x":"", "event_large_lightbox":"", "group_thumb":"", "group_thumb_square":"", "group_large":"", "group_large_lightbox":"", "event_large_crop":"", "event_list":"", "event_list_2x":"", "event_grid":"", "event_grid_2x":"", "event_feature_large":"", "event_feature_thumb":"" }, "occurrence_count":1, "first_occurrence":1133012 } , "3909-912909": { "datetime_modified":"20101001T101105", "datetime_start":"20110521T090000", "datetime_end":"20110521T120000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2011-05-21", "date_end":"2011-05-21", "time_start":"09:00:00", "time_end":"12:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"Computers and Writing Conference 2011", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"Computers and Writing Conference 2011: Writing in Motion: Traversing Public\/Private Spaces", "event_subtitle":"Writing in Motion: Traversing Public\/Private Spaces", "event_type":"Conference \/ Symposium", "event_type_id":"5", "description":"In 2010, writing is in motion as never before: students text one another on the go and around the clock; colleagues and friends use wikis to brainstorm and to co- author important documents; choreographers and filmmakers use motion capture technology to \u201cwrite down\u201d\u009d movement and gesture; and poets invent new multimedia poetic forms. The places we write, and the features of writing we value, are today more varied \u2013 and often more contested \u2013 than ever before. \n\nOne especially prominent dimension of these changes is a reconfiguration of public and private space. A single ordinary writing activity today may traverse any number of borders. Classrooms connect with authentic audiences via public electronic portfolios and blogs; private companies partner with public universities to digitize library holdings; personal emails and business memos are archived in the NCTE National Gallery of Writing; faculty share course materials with students on other continents.\n\nThe University of Michigan and the Sweetland Writing Center are the site of vibrant and varied scholarship and dialogue around these new writing technologies and practices. 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