Other:Campus-wide survey: U-SHAPE (open from October 2-24, 2012)
2012-10-10 00:00 - 12:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location - THIS IS AN ONLINE SURVEY
U-SHAPE, the first ever large-scale study of its kind, aims to understand the habits, attitudes, and perceptions of undergraduate and graduate students related to eating and body image. U-SHAPE is designed to gather important information about the ways in which individual characteristics as well as the campus environment influence students’ relationships with eating, dieting, exercise, and body image, and how these relationships, in turn, fit into a larger picture of student mental health.

The survey opens at 5:00pm on Tuesday, October 2 and closes at 11:59pm on Wednesday, October 24. Students will be RANDOMLY SAMPLED to participate in this important survey!

Exhibition:Travel Through Maps and Narrative: An Exhibition on Travel and Tourism
2012-10-10 08:00 - 23:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor
Travel, an essential activity of human societies, has evolved into an industry with social, economic and environmental impacts. From pilgrimage and exploration to trade and tourism, advances in transportation have enabled new types of travel and created new places, some existing solely for the vacationer. This exhibition highlights changes in travel including information on early pilgrimages, exploration narratives, the grand tour of Europe, women travellers, World’s Fairs, the birth of the family vacation and specialized tourism using maps and narratives from the Library collections.

Exhibition:Architecture+Adaptation: Designing for Hypercomplexity
2012-10-10 09:00 - 17:00 | School of Social Work Building - 1644
Call 734-764-0352 for exhibit availability.

Exhibition:Canan Tolon Installation: Time After Time
2012-10-10 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - 1010
Canan Tolon’s paintings and installations serve as visual records of the passing of time. Each swipe captures the gesture as well as the memory of the gesture, now already in the past. Each panel appears to duplicate itself beyond any final tally, proliferating in the room.

Upon first glance, Tolon’s constructs evoke a sense of freedom in their repetition. They appear infinite, suggestive of vast open spaces, like the modern landscapes viewed out of a train window, or the documentary film reels from the mid- twentieth century. They draw us in, inviting our dreams and interpretations. In this momentary introspection, we contemplate our own histories.

Then, like the first day of any highly anticipated tomorrow, after the proverbial summer full of expectation”¦expecting things to change, to be different, to be new again, we are struck with a profound disillusionment, stranded in a place full of promise that never delivers. In a turn, the world of photographic familiarity Tolon has created collapses in on itself. – Amanda Krugliak, arts curator

This Institute for the Humanities original installation was made possible by the generosity of the 2012 Kidder Residency in the Arts. The installation is based on Canan Tolon’s observations and experiences during her time in Ann Arbor, and many of the materials used are salvage materials from her visits to Detroit architectural yards.

Class / Instruction:Ethics--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location - First Presbyterian Church, 1432 Washtenaw Ave
This lecture/discussion will focus on major areas of human endeavor in which ethical issues play a role: personal ethics, health care, business, government and war/violence. Please read a book or long article on ethics to prepare for class discussion. Ken Phifer is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister who has taught ethics courses for over 40 years.

Class / Instruction:Milton’s "Paradise Lost"--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location - University Commons, 817 Asa Gray
John Milton stated that his purpose is “to assert eternal providence and justify the ways of God to men,” while William Blake claimed that “Milton ... was a true poet and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.” We will read and discuss about five complete books of "Paradise Lost", and excerpts from others. Recommended edition: "John Milton, Paradise Lost", ed. David Kastan, Merritt Hughes, Hackett, 3rd edition (2005). Frances McSparran is an emerita member of U-M’s Department of English.

Class / Instruction:Understanding the Generations
2012-10-10 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location - Jewish Community Center, 2935 Birch Hollow Dr.
There are four generations in families and in the workplace. They are the Traditionalists, the Baby Boomers, the Generation Xers, and the Millennials. Learn about your own generation and how it compares to other generations. What are the attitudes, values, work styles, and life skills of each generation? Peggy Clough was a supervisor at University Hospital. She has studied and taught on the topic of Generational Diversity for over 15 years.

Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time
2012-10-10 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives material form to diverse concepts of temporality, history and memory. African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as expressions of timeless myths and rituals, interrupted only by the colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such conventional views by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and its philosophical, social, and religious significance. The exhibition includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art, National Museum of African Art, Fowler Museum at UCLA, as well as several Detroit area private collections, and is organized around five themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of Things, Embodied Time, Moving Through Time, Global Time, and "NOW."

This exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

Exhibition:Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire
2012-10-10 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776) depicts the death of James Wolfe, the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War. In conflating a momentous contemporary event with the genre of large-scale history painting, West flouted the conventions of academic painting and the work became one of the most celebrated paintings in Britain. The artist went on to produce six versions of the painting, one of which belongs to the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Through approximately 40 works from Michigan, Canadian, and British collections, this ambitious and thematically focused exhibition will include the Clements canvas as well as other depictions of James Wolfe and his death on the battlefield.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, the University of Michigan Health System, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice President for Research, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of R. & P. Heydon).

Exhibition:Discovering Eighteenth-Century British America through the William L. Clements Library Collection
2012-10-10 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
This significant exhibition provides glimpses of British America in the 1700s and is designed to complement the Museum's concurrent exhibition "Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire," which features the Clements collection's major painting "The Death of General Wolfe." William L. Clements assembled an outstanding array of primary sources on North America dating between 1492 and 1800, with a heavy emphasis on early European exploration and discovery and the eighteenth-century wars for control of the continent. The exhibition features a mix of rare items from Mr. Clements’s original donation and pieces the Library has acquired since 1923 to complement and enhance its strength in eighteenth-century American history.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Exhibition:Jesper Just: "This Nameless Spectacle"
2012-10-10 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Visitors encountering Danish artist Just’s exhibit will find themselves captivated in stages, as the experience of viewing it unfolds over time. In this breathtaking installation, as in much of his work, Just situates the viewer in his signature landscape of beauty, provocation, and a general uneasiness that is as seductive as it is ominous. The storyline is at once deceptively simple and perplexing: a wheelchair-bound protagonist travels through a neighborhood in the outskirts of Paris to her apartment, while a young male character appears to follow her. Once home, she is able to leave her wheelchair but is overcome by a powerful seizure. One of Just’s unique strengths is his ability to engage the viewer in an open-ended, unresolved narrative in a manner that is more intriguing than frustrating. It is impossible to parse but equally impossible to abandon, and this is the essence of Just’s gift for hypnotic storytelling.
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Exhibition:YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
2012-10-10 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
The Seoul-based art collaborative, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI) is known for innovative video works that exist at the nexus of visual art and digital literature. Blurring the boundaries between media, technologies, and cultural histories, YHCHI has gained international acclaim for their "net art" productions-mostly black- and-white videos of quickly flashing capitalized text in a generic font with synchronized music. This exhibition will present a newly commissioned piece by UMMA, which will be added to the artists' website, yhchang.com.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, and the Nam Center for Korean Studies. Additional support provided by the Dr. Robert and Janet Miller Fund.

Class / Instruction:High Quality Connections-Lunchtime Series
2012-10-10 11:30 - 12:30 | Administrative Services Building - Suite 2030
High Quality Connections are ties or interactions between people marked by mutual regard, trust, and respectful engagement. Based on the research of Professor Jane Dutton from the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship, each of these one-hour sessions will focus on a different aspect of applying High Quality Connections in the workplace. Topics covered will include Experiencing the Power of High Quality Connections, Increasing Your Ability to Help Others Succeed and Building Trust in the Workplace.

Conference / Symposium:Preparing Future Faculty:
2012-10-10 11:30 - 17:00 | Michigan League
This half-day conference is designed to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars prepare for the transition to faculty jobs. The plenary and concurrent sessions will offer materials and strategies to learn about what it means to pursue an academic career and how to prepare for the job search process. REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS CLOSED.

Workshop / Seminar:Building Your Financial Future Series: Preparing for Retirement (TIAA-CREF Presentation)
2012-10-10 12:00 - 13:30 | University Hospitals - TBD - UMH Location
Brown bag session on retirement by TIAA-CREF!!

Planning for retirement encompasses giving thought to your specific lifestyle expectations and choices. It also involves setting realistic goals and addressing your attitude towards retirement. This session will help you incorporate financial management and estate planning into a concrete strategy to achieve your retirement dreams.

Free! Please feel free to bring your lunch! This session is open to all U-M personnel.

Please register online at www.cew.umich.edu by October 7, 2012.

Exhibition:Dance on Screen Exhibition
2012-10-10 12:00 | Off Campus Location - Work Gallery - 306 S. State Street, Ann Arbor
Thurnau Prof. of Dance Peter Sparling’s screendance installation, Clonal Renderings will be shown as part of: I know you’re there, but who am I?: Explorations of Identity and Place. This juried exhibition explores the intersection of identity and place. How does place shape identity? How does identity shape the places we choose to inhabit? Gallery hours 12PM-7PM

Other:Noon Public Skate
2012-10-10 12:00 - 12:50 | Yost Ice Arena
Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!

Open to the Public

Cost: $3 ($2 additional cost for skate rental)

Exhibition:Untranslatable!
2012-10-10 12:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Gallery
A series of dance improvisations for camera by Peter Sparling. Gallery hours 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Performance:Brown Bag Recital Series: Christopher Reynolds, organ
2012-10-10 12:15 | School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower - Community Room
PROGRAM: JS Bach - Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 531; Mendelssohn - Prelude and Fugue in G Major; CPE Bach - Six Organ Pieces for a Musical Clock Mechanism; Pinkham - Variations on Wondrous Love; Shearing - There is a Happy Land

Class / Instruction:“Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding”
2012-10-10 13:30 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location - University Commons, 817 Asa Gray
We will read and discuss the title book by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. “Mothers and Others” lays the foundation for a new hypothesis about human evolution. “A book you read, pausing regularly to consider the full import of what you just read.”– From the review by Claudia Casper (Globe and Mail). The discussion will be led by Hazel Rood, who became acquainted with the author during field work in Africa in the 1970’s.

Class / Instruction:Writing Memoirs--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave
Participants will write about memories of times, people and places important to them. The stories will be read aloud to the group, discussed, and suggestions made. The discussions are lively, helpful, and they elicit additional memories. The class will be guided by Zibby Oneal, who has published books and stories based on her memories of earlier times.

Wednesdays, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. September 12 - December 12

Presentation:Global Environmental Careers
2012-10-10 14:30 - 16:00 | Dana Natural Resources Building - 1040
Global environmental professionals will talk about their careers and provide advice to students on preparing for successful careers working internationally and on global environmental issues. The panel is from 2:30-3:30pm and Networking is from 3:30-4:00pm.

Sponsored by the International Career Pathways Committee

Class / Instruction:"Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do?"–OLLI Study Group
2012-10-10 15:00 - 16:30 | Off Campus Location - Brecon Village, 200 Brecon Drive, Saline
We will read and discuss the title book by Dr. Michael Sandel of Harvard University. He writes about justice, equality, democracy and citizenship by posing questions such as: What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Do individual rights and the common good conflict? In addition to discussing the book, we will watch video of Dr. Sandel speaking about his book and have a practical debate exercise on issues raised in the book. Facilitator: Richard Galant.

Workshop / Seminar:Copyright and Your Dissertation
2012-10-10 15:00 - 16:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Faculty Exploratory, 206
The dissertation is often a first major publishing experience for a graduate student. In this workshop you’ll learn how to use copyrighted materials such as images in your dissertation, what it means to reuse prior published articles or to plan on publishing a monograph, and how to protect your rights as an author.

This session is specifically for those working on a dissertation or thesis.

Class / Instruction:Current Events II--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-10 15:00 - 16:30 | Off Campus Location - Turner Senior Resource Center, 2401 Plymouth Road, Suite C, Ann Arbor.
This discussion group is for people interested in what’s happening at the local, national, and global level. All opinions receive a courteous hearing. No materials or special expertise required. Just bring an open mind and a good sense of humor.

Wednesdays, September 12 - December 19, Norm McIver

Class / Instruction:Intermediate Spanish--OLLI Study Group
2012-10-10 15:00 - 16:30 | Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave
This is a class for those who want to review the Spanish that they have studied and want to increase their ability to speak, read and understand the language. We will have oral practice, grammar exercises and reading. Please bring to class the following texts: “Complete Spanish Grammar” by Gilda Nissenberg (first edition, 2004) and “Better Reading Spanish” by Jean Yates (2003). Jeanne Van Ochten taught high school Spanish.

Workshop / Seminar:Open House & Transfer Student Support Group
2012-10-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - TBD
Presenter: Jacqueline Bowman, PhD, Senior Counselor and Program Specialist

CEW is hosting a transfer student support group to assist students with their transition to the U-M. This first session includes an open house format with refreshments and presentations by reps from student affairs.

Enjoy a mixer and connect with other transfer students. Meet others and get a chance to share your experiences. CEW provides a welcoming place with programs designed to support your U of M experience.

This ongoing discussion group will meet to talk about issues that impact your experience at the U-M.

Program topics will include:

* Navigating the U-M,

* Balancing academics and personal life,

* Mentoring Relationships,

* Searching for internships, and

* Pursuing graduate school.

This session is open to all U-M transfer students. Registration is requested but walk-ins are welcome!!

Careers / Jobs:The Career Center's Graduate School Information Fair
2012-10-10 15:00 - 18:00 | Michigan Union - Second Floor
What to Expect
The Graduate School Information Fair is a great way to connect with a large number of schools right here on campus! Typically, 100+ schools and 350 students participate in the event.

Juniors & Seniors attend the Fair to:
”¢ Learn about specific programs from grad. school representatives
”¢ Collect application and financial aid information
”¢ Get tips on personal statements, applications and reference letters

First Year students & Sophomores attend the Fair to:
”¢ Ask questions about undergrad coursework and extra-curricular activities
”¢ Explore grad. school options
”¢ Build networks for the future

Registration
Registration is on-site the day of the event
”¢ There is no registration fee. Bring your student ID
”¢ Students from other universities/colleges are welcome to attend

Conference / Symposium:What's It Like to Be a Postdoctoral Scholar?
2012-10-10 15:50 - 17:00 | Michigan League
Thinking about a postdoc after graduation? This interdisciplinary panel will offer strategies for getting a postdoctoral position, as well as working productively at one. This panel is part of the Preparing Future Faculty Conference: Preparing for an Academic Career, an event for advanced graduate students and postdocs. REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS CLOSED.

Lecture / Discussion:“The U.S. & The Ocean: Policy, Politics, and the Public”
2012-10-10 16:00 - 17:30 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Auditorium, Room 1110
The U.S. was founded as a maritime nation and was a world leader for most of the 19th and 20th centuries. We have lost much of that leadership. We have the largest Exclusive Economic Zone of all nations, and in 2010 got our first ever National Ocean Policy, but we are still stuck in the muck. We have failed to ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; application of Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning is sputtering; ecosystem-based management remains elusive; and the ocean is rarely mentioned as a source of jobs and new economic activity in the current debate. U of M Professor Emeritus, John Kingdon wrote a defining treatment of the governmental policy-making process. We will explore its relevance to ocean policy through two case studies–managing freshwater inflow to the San Francisco Bay estuary, and managing aquatic invasive species introductions by ships transiting the St. Lawrence Seaway. Ocean scientists seek ocean policies based on sound science, but are limited by lack of experience in the policy arena and by the lack of appropriate institutional structures to engage them and their expertise. I will offer some observations on disruptive strategies.

Lecture / Discussion:ASP Lecture. "The Language of One, the Script of the Other."
2012-10-10 16:00 - 17:30 | School of Social Work Building - 1636
Part of LSA Theme Semester, "Translation."

In this talk Murat Cankara will focus on three early Turkish novels in the Armenian script. These novels, written between 1851 and 1868 by Ottoman Armenians, have so far been ignored in Ottoman/Turkish literary historiography. In order to make a critique of historiography and to place these Armeno-Turkish novels into a historical and literary context, he will discuss: the issue of cultural encounter between Ottoman Armenians and Muslim/Turks with special emphasis on script and historiography of the late Ottoman Empire; an introduction to some basic features of Armeno-Turkish novels; and a literary comparison between these three novels and early Turkish novels written by Muslim/Turks with special emphasis on the appropriation of romanticism. Cankara will also give a brief overview on some major problems and theoretical tools for students of Armeno-Turkish.

Manoogian Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow Murat Cankara was born in Smyrna in 1976. He studied physics and mathematics for two years. After majoring in theory and history of theatre, Cankara received his PhD in Turkish literature from Bilkent University in 2011, with a
dissertation titled “Empire and Novel: Placing Armeno-Turkish Novels in Ottoman/Turkish Literary Historiography”. Cankara’s research
focuses on the novels written by Armenians in the Turkish language
using the Armenian script, specifically those from the second half of the nineteenth century. His areas of interest are the literary culture of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century in which Armenians play a prominent role, cultural interactions between Ottoman Armenians and Muslim/Turks, the appropriation of Turkish by Armenians, and
the historiography of Ottoman/Turkish literature.

Co-sponsor: CMENAS.

Lecture / Discussion:Breaking the Jewish Taboo on Germany
2012-10-10 16:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Room 2022

Lecture / Discussion:Annual Copernicus Lecture
2012-10-10 17:00 - 18:30 | Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater
Agnieszka Holland, director and screenwriter.
Agnieszka Holland graduated in 1971 from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). There she studied with MiloÅ¡ Forman and Ivan Passer and participated in the Prague Spring. She launched her film career in Poland through her collaboration with Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi, winning prizes and accolades for her first feature-length film, Provincial Actors, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1980. Holland received Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film for Angry Harvest (1985) and Europa, Europa (1990), which was also nominated for a Golden Globe. She has also directed several episodes of the television series The Wire, Cold Case, The Killing, and Treme. Her screenwriting career includes classics such as Kieslowski’s Blue, Wajda’s Rough Treatment and Korczak, as well as Bogayewicz’s Anna. Holland is currently working on a mini-series for HBO titled Burning Bush, about a hero of the Prague Spring.

Workshop / Seminar:Internship Boot Camp for ALC concentrators
2012-10-10 17:00 - 18:00 | 202 S. Thayer
This workshop is designed for students who are Asian Languages and Cultures concentrators. Through interactive exercises, students will walk away feeling more confident in their internship search.

Reception / Open House:Launch Celebration for The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia
2012-10-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Library Gallery, Room 100
Please join us to celebrate the launch of influenzaarchive.org, the first comprehensive digital resource to explore the history of one of the modern world’s most devastating public health crises. The digital encyclopedia contains more than 50,000 digitized pages–correspondence, minutes of organization and group meetings, reports from agencies and charities, newspaper accounts, military records, diaries, photographs, and more–along with interpretive materials contributed by scholars of history and public health.

Howard Markel, MD and PhD, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Center for the History of Medicine will give a keynote discussing the significance of the epidemic and potential uses for the digital encyclopedia. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Lecture / Discussion:Launch Celebration for The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia
2012-10-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery
Howard Markel, MD and PhD, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Center for the History of Medicine will give a keynote discussing the significance of the epidemic and potential uses for the digital encyclopedia. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Reception / Open House:UM Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Faculty Alliance (UMFA) – Annual Faculty Reception
2012-10-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room, 4th floor
Annual reception and brief meeting (about 6 pm) for UM faculty and deans who are LGBT or interested in issues related to LGBT faculty

Class / Instruction:Class on media for children and young adults open to UMSI alumni
2012-10-10 17:30 - 20:30 | North Quad
Clinical Assistant Professor Kristin Fontichiaro is opening a session of her class, SI 624: Media for Children & Young Adults, to UMSI alumni.

Class / Instruction:Baby Care Basics – Canton – October 10
2012-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Off Campus Location - U-M Canton Health Center; 1051 N. Canton Center Rd; Canton
Baby Care Basics – Canton – October 10
This class, offered by the U-M Health System’s MHealthy Health Education Resource Center, is designed to give you a complete head-to-toe look at how to care for your newborn. Topics include bathing, diapering, safety, infant stimulation and much, much more. We recommend taking this class at the beginning of your third trimester. Class meets 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, October 10 at the U-M Health System’s Canton Health Center, 1051 N. Canton Center Road. Cost is $10. For more information call 734-647-5645 or toll free at 1-800-433-6348. To register visit: http://hr.umich.edu/mhealthy/tools/education/herc/events.html

Film Screening:Film
2012-10-10 19:00 | Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater
Polish with English subtitles (144 min., 2011)
Based on the true story of a sewer worker in Lvov, a Nazi-occupied city in Poland, who hides a group of Jews in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers. What starts out as a cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, an unlikely alliance and an awakening of conscience. This is an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women, and children try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever-increasing danger.

Performance:Chamber Choir and Orpheus Singers
2012-10-10 20:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Chamber Choir - Jerry Blackstone, conductor. PROGRAM: Boggs - Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis; Tallis - Magnificat from the "Dorian Service"; Brahms - Vier Zigeunerlieder; Verdi - Libiamo ne&##39; lieti calici from La Traviata; Orpheus Singers - graduate student conductors PROGRAM: Knaggs - Iucunda Lux; Schumann - Spanisches Liederspiel, Zigeunerleben; MacFarren - Orpheus with his lute; Billings - Modern Music, An Anthem for Thanksgiving

Performance:Neil Halstead
2012-10-10 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
Solo music by the frontman of Slowdive and Mojave 3

One night while in the studio with Neil Halstead a friend questioned him as to what kind of music he played. Neil’s extremely thick beard turned into a smile as he said “Nylon Rock” before laughing and turning back to his beer. In the late 1990s Neil fronted a band called Slowdive, and after a couple of really good records they split. From there Neil formed his current band Mojave 3, who have released four records to date. At the core of those bands was Neil and his songwriting, and nowadays his main medium is a nylon-string guitar and a couple of shakers. Neil writes songs that are very personal to him, and he invites everyone to take their own meanings away from his lyrics (“Go skies and thrones and wings. And poetry and things” from the song “Elevenses”). Neil Halstead is an old soul and his newest solo record is exactly who he is: welcoming, warm, clever and kind. Philadelphia songwriter Jim Hanft opens.
