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DTSTAMP:20121126T164337
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T003000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Juried Art Competition
DESCRIPTION:YOU be the judge!\n\nIn January\, the Center for Campus Involvement will be hosting a Juried Art Competition\, where art enthusiasts and passersby alike can vote on the best showcases of art at Pierpont.\n\nOn Tuesday\, January 15\, there will be a reception at 5 PM for the exhibit at Pierpont. Join us for light refreshments!\n\nAnd don’t forgot to vote all month! We’ll announce the winner online on January 31!
UID:11550-1177136@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11550
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:art,competition,exhibit,exhibition,multicultural,north campus,visual arts
LOCATION:Pierpont Commons
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130109T095034
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cao Yu: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Drama
DESCRIPTION: On January 15\, 2013\, the exhibition entitled \"Cao Yu\, Pioneer of Modern Drama in China\" will be opened in North Campus Research Complex. Cao Yu is the founding father of modern Chinese drama\, often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century. The exhibition is as much a story of modern China as it is about Cao Yu himself because his life and career exemplify the dilemmas and difficulties faced by generations of Chinese intellectuals in the twentieth century.\n\"Thunderstorm\"\, Cao Yu's maiden work\, and \"The Savage Land\"\, a film by Liang Zi based on the play by Cao Yu\, will be screened at the U-M campus during the exhibition period\, and Professor Siyuan Liu (Department of Theatre and Film\, UBC) will give a presentation entitled\, \"From Aristotle to O'Neill: Western Influence on Cao Yu\" at 4pm\, February 8\, 2013.
UID:11925-1179352@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11925
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:cao yu,china,drama
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex - Building 18
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121129T144458
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Brain Fitness PuzzleArt: Interactive Installation
DESCRIPTION:New York artist Alli Berman had a CVA (stroke) years ago. She experimented in her studio and came up with art that is viewable\, touchable\, and movable and incorporates a therapeutic art concept. Berman now creates exciting colorful interactive art installations to help people of all ages and abilities develop stronger\, faster cognitive function as they enjoy her relaxing sensory experience. Neuroscientists and therapists use PuzzleArt in 15 countries and agree: it's secret fun therapy for developing neural plasticity. It's PuzzleArt like no puzzle you've ever done before. 
UID:11604-1177439@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11604
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121129T145757
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Charley Harper by Motawi: Ceramic Art Tile
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features Motawi's new collection of tiles based on the work of beloved wildlife artist Charley Harper (1922-2007). Harper's work is modern\, sophisticated and completely charming. His minimal graphic style lends itself perfectly to Motawi's cuenca tile making technique. Nawal Motawi graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Fine Art. In 1992\, she founded Motawi Tileworks in a garage studio. Today\, Nawal employs more than 30 people and sells tile through hundreds of retailers around the county. In addition to this exhibit of newly released tiles\, the University Hospital has Motawi tile murals in the east and west Patient Elevator Lobbies on floors 1-8.
UID:11607-1177589@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11607
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level B2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121129T142716
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Garden of Eden & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that the Garden of Eden is also the Garden of Infancy? That the tree of life is also the life giving womb? In new work illuminating familiar favorites\, snowflake master Dr. Thomas L. Clark delves into the biological significance of ancient symbolism in exquisite\, hand-cut paper creations. Clark's snowflake of the tree of knowledge explores the biological origins of good and evil\, shedding new light on the curves of the serpent. A former U-M physician\, Clark\, a.k.a. Dr. Snowflake\, has been exhibiting his snowflakes at U-M Hospitals since 1987. The annual free snowflake making workshop will be held on Thursday\, January 3\, 2012 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in the Gifts of Art Gallery-Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. If planning to attend the workshop\, please bring scissors. 
UID:11601-1177289@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11601
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121129T150300
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Hidden Glimpses of Nature: Photography
DESCRIPTION:The photography of Charles St. Charles reveals hidden glimpses of nature that few people have witnessed or are even aware exist. His work covers a vast spectrum\, from the scale of very small while recording light passing through the natural lens of miniscule dew drops\, to the scale of the very large while recording fields of daisies and fields of stars in the same image. The briefest moments of kissing and cavorting fox kits are frozen in time\, while extraordinary long exposures taken during the night expose brilliant fall foliage surrounded by moving mist. Charles' unmanipulated images all point to the same conclusion – it is a phenomenal world that we live in.
UID:11608-1177702@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11608
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121129T145516
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Inside & Out: Fragments & Narratives in Clay
DESCRIPTION:Mari Ogihara uses clay as a medium for its close resemblance to skin. Her ceramic sculptures create tension and unity between raw and ornamented surfaces and illicit feelings of sensuality and serenity. After receiving a BFA in ceramics from U-M in 2003\, Ogihara went on to study in Kyoto\, Japan to experience ceramics in her native country. Upon her return she attended Temple University of Philadelphia to receive her MFA in 2006. She is the recipient of several grants & awards including the NICHE award in 2011\, and has completed ceramic residencies in the US\, France and Brazil. She currently maintains a studio practice at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester\, New York. 
UID:11606-1177539@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11606
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121129T143920
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents K-12 Student Group Show
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit celebrates the emerging artistry of students from Saline public schools. Saline Area Schools are strong in visual education\, and students learn and participate in a wide range of media and processes throughout grade school. Every student develops an understanding of production\, criticism\, history\, and aesthetics within the visual arts. In this exhibition\, work from young people in grades K-12 will be displayed in both 2-D and 3-D galleries. The students explore themes as presented by seven different teachers in a variety of mediums\, from drawing and painting to ceramics and sculpture\, are included in this exhibit. 
UID:11603-1177389@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11603
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby, Floor 1. 
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DTSTAMP:20121129T145025
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Landscape Forms: Painting Retrospective
DESCRIPTION:A U-M graduate from the School of Art & Design in 1949\, Karin L. Bodycombe forged new territory in the arts. Working to pave the way for others\, she studied at Wayne State University and earned a degree in Art Education in 1952\, later inspiring many student artists. Creating in watercolor\, gouache\, pen\, acrylics and oils\, Bodycombe said of her work\, \"I paint landscape compositions reducing them to the basic areas or forms of the subject resembling the environment only through the tiles. Brush strokes express my feelings.\" Bodycombe has won many national awards and has exhibited her work in solo shows in Michigan and beyond.
UID:11605-1177489@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11605
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery - Main Corridor, Floor 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121129T143506
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Birthday Party: Ceramic Sculpture
DESCRIPTION:Marcia Polenberg is an award winning artist whose figurative and architectonic sculptural ceramics\, drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely across the US and locally at WSG Gallery\, Ann Arbor Art Center and the Clay Gallery. Born in New York City\, Polenberg received a BA from CUNY Brooklyn College and an MFA from U-M. She has taught art at U-M\, the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and UM-Flint\, among others. Polenberg's work is in collections in the US\, England\, France\, Canada and Australia. This exhibit rejoices in childrens' birthday parties! Along with celebrating the special birthday child\, there is delight in the festive decorations\, the birthday cake\, the friends\, and even the unexpected. 
UID:11602-1177339@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11602
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, North Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121206T140801
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents: “Garden of Infancy & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings” by Dr. Thomas L. Clark
DESCRIPTION:
UID:11658-1178377@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11658
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:visual arts
LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, Taubman Health Center North Lobby.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121214T141945
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Claiming Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:This is an exhibition of 50 photographs.
UID:11724-1178791@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11724
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:african american,irwg,multicultural,photography,social justice,us history,visual arts
LOCATION:Lane Hall - Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20130109T120349
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"An Exhibit of Exceptional Bindings by James W. Craven\"
DESCRIPTION:The exhibit comprises a selection of Jim's favorite repair and preservation projects over the years\, including examples of his design bindings\, leatherwork\, inlays and custom designed tray-cases. Interspersed among the bindings and boxes are an assortment of bookbinding tools.
UID:11936-1179527@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11936
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:bentley,bindings,exhibit,retirement
LOCATION:Bentley Historical Library
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130117T103522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Progress: Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit celebrates the idea that preliminary work such as sketches\, writings\, models\, prototypes\, videos and photographs hold a personal quality that reveals the inner workings of the creative process. It is presented from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon-7 p.m. Saturday through Feb. 15 in the Jean Paul Slusser Gallery.\n\n
UID:12118-1180317@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12118
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:north campus
LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Jean Paul Slusser Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130117T103522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Progress: Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit celebrates the idea that preliminary work such as sketches\, writings\, models\, prototypes\, videos and photographs hold a personal quality that reveals the inner workings of the creative process. It is presented from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon-7 p.m. Saturday through Feb. 15 in the Jean Paul Slusser Gallery.\n\n
UID:12118-1180318@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12118
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:north campus
LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Jean Paul Slusser Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20121015T132752
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T090000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:
UID:10927-1175755@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10927
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:history,law and history,law school,race
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Room 100 Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20121206T135304
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ross Art Collection
DESCRIPTION:The Ross Art Collection at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business is displayed at locations around the school and online at www.bus.umich.edu/RossArt/collection/.
UID:11657-1178646@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11657
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:visual arts
LOCATION:Ross School of Business
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20121207T130546
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T113000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Adventures in Intergenerational Programming
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matt Kaplan\, Ph.D.\, Professor of Intergenerational Programs and Aging\, Penn State. \n\nDr. Kaplan conducts research\, develops curricular resources\, and provides statewide leadership in the development and evaluation of intergenerational programs. \n\nThis presentation will explore some of the many ways in which intergenerational engagement programs have taken form across the globe and draw attention to implications for enriching the lives of young people and older adults\, promoting family cohesion\, and strengthening community support systems. The session will also note several upcoming conferences\, international study tours\, and other opportunities for learning more about the intergenerational field. \n\nThis is the second of six lectures in the third series of Thursday lectures\, \"Generations: Bridging the Divide.\"
UID:11682-1178569@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11682
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:family,intergenerational,lifelong learning,olli,retirement
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave (Please car pool when possible.)
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DTSTAMP:20130109T094637
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Detroit 21
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design\, the University of Michigan Detroit Center presents the Work: Detroit gallery exhibition\, Black Detroit 21. Curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. This exhibition kicks off with an opening reception on Friday\, January 11\, 2013 from 6 – 9p.m. The opening night performance and discussion features:\n\n7:00 p.m. - 4TheatrSake\; 25 minute performance of selections from Cell/$hips.\n7:30 p.m. - Artists and Curator Discussion: Black Detroit 21\; Moderator: Odie Rynell Cash\, Curator \nOver the course of the last five months the artists and curator from the exhibition have held discussions both in person and via the Internet around the topics presented in \"Black Detroit 21\". This final discussion will focus on the exhibition theme in relation to art and the Detroit community. A brief question and answer period with the audience will follow the discussion.\n8:30 p.m. - Satori Circus - Performance\n\"Oh Happy Day Trilogy\" (part one)\nAccording to the artists\, the goal of this performance is to “make us think...review ourselves...soul searching/identity - its loss and in search of it...and what is gained in doing so...entertainment/education/observation/simulation/and the hybrid that comes out of those. Thereby\, the audience walks away questioning...the artist\, themselves\, the world we've woven around us.”\nWith a Black population of more than 80-percent\, Detroit's African American community plays a significant role in this city's cultural identity and economic future. As Detroit moves through the 21st century\, what role will the African Americans play in Detroit's development in the community? How will this population define itself in the new century while dealing with various issues that impacts growth\, development and cultural enrichment in the city? The exhibition Black Detroit 21 addresses social concerns within Detroit's African American community by exploring the topics of identity\, territory\, protest\, sexuality and transition. The 11 artists in this show are from a multitude of social\, personal and generational backgrounds\, finding a common theme in their work\, which documents and/or is influenced by Detroit's African American community. The installation of the artists work in Black Detroit 21 presents a visual context to create a dialogue around these topics.\n\nBlack Detroit 21 is curated by Odie Rynell Cash\, an internationally active independent curator\, arts program organizer and artist living between Detroit\, Michigan and Antwerp\, Belgium. Cash is recognized for his wide range of artistic practices and concerns\; with the significance of avant-garde ideas and experimental mediums/media that address contemporary social and urban society.\n\nHe studied a Liberal Education curriculum at Columbia College Chicago. He has an extensive and varied background\, having curated and exhibited artworks in more than nine countries\, including projects in Antwerp\, Manila\, Rotterdam\, Paris and Toronto. Cash was the recipient of a 2007 Flemish Minister of Culture Travel Grant for research on performance theory. He has been invited by the Center for Contemporary Art in Lagos\, Nigeria to curate a group exhibition that is anticipated to open in the Fall of 2014.\n\nThe exhibition concludes on March 22\; with event performances on February 7\, February 20\, March 8\, March 12 and March 22. For more information about Black Detroit 21 events and artists\, visit: www.detroitcenter.umich.edu/news/2013/1/artist-and-event-info-black-detroit-21. \n\nFor press inquiries\, contact: DetroitCenter@umich.edu or (313) 593-3584.\n\nThe exhibition may be accessed between 11 a.m.– 4 p.m.\, Tuesday – Saturday. Work Detroit is located at the University of Michigan Detroit Center at Orchestra Place\, 3663 Woodward Avenue\, Suite 150 in Midtown Detroit. Parking is available for exhibition guests in the structure behind Orchestra Place. 
UID:11924-1179285@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11924
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:art,art and design,detroit,school of art and design
LOCATION:Detroit Center - Work Detroit Gallery
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20130110T133329
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T190000
SUMMARY:Other:The Biggest Poster Sale
DESCRIPTION:Are your walls looking a little bare? The start of the semester is a perfect time to add some color! Check out the Biggest Poster Sale and choose from over 2000 different images. \n\nFINE ART\, MUSIC\, MOVIES\, MODELS\, HUMOR\, ANIMALS\, PERSONALITIES\,\nLANDSCAPES\, MOTIVATIONALS\, PHOTOGRAPHY.\n\nMOST IMAGES ONLY $7\, $8\, AND $9.\n\nSEE US AT The Michigan Union Ground Floor ON Monday Jan. 14th thru Friday Jan.18th\, 2013. 10AM-7PM. \n\nTHIS SALE IS SPONSORED BY Center for Campus Involvement.
UID:11968-1179707@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11968
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:art,poster sale,posters,sale
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Ground Floor
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20120620T153538
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:African Art and the Shape of Time
DESCRIPTION: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.\"\n\nThis exhibition is generously supported by the University of Michigan Health System. Additional support provided by the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.
UID:9252-1174786@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9252
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:african art,umma,visual arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121108T140848
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T110000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Francis Alys: Guards
DESCRIPTION:Belgian artist Francis Alys's video Guards (2005) documents sixty-four of the Queen of England's guards on a \"walk\" throughout the City of London. There is perhaps no more symbolically unemotional character than that of a bearskin-hat-wearing guard of the Queen of England. Yet even with no break in the guards' indifferent exterior\, the tale still manages to be a powerful metaphor for the human condition. Many of the elements of Guards are found throughout Alys's work: walking\, rhythm\, the use of the street and bridges are all common tropes in his oeuvre. These strategies\, evoking the poetic and sonic palette of the urban environment\, involve a sometimes loose and other times overt relationship to social resistance and to the symbolic and often political implications of these actions.\n\nGenerous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n
UID:11346-1176686@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11346
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:exhibit,exhibition,visual arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20120925T114850
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Nourish YourSELF
DESCRIPTION:Nourish YourSELF seeks to empower self-identified women of color around issues of identity\, intercultural competency\, and health and wellness that affect them in an open\, spirited atmosphere. The program welcomes all University of Michigan women of color – undergraduate and graduate\, faculty and staff.  Free lunch will be provided.
UID:10504-1174225@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10504
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,multicultural,social justice
LOCATION:Michigan Union - CSG Chambers - 3rd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121210T144917
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Gifts of Art presents Brain Fitness PuzzleArt Workshop
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, New York artist Alli Berman will describe and demonstrate her fun PuzzleArt Therapy activities. Berman had a CVA (stroke) years ago. She experimented in her studio and collaborated with behavioral optometrist Dr. Susan Fisher\, neuroscientists\, occupational therapists\, educators and others to develop the perceptual PuzzleArt Therapy System. As participants use their eyes\, fingers and brains to follow swirling\, colorful paths\, they are giving themselves a great brain fitness workout to develop stronger\, faster cognitive function. Used in clinics\, universities\, therapy offices\, elementary schools\, rehabilitation centers\, private and military hospitals throughout the US and in 15 other countries\, PuzzleArt Therapy can help everyone from children with learning disabilities to soldiers returning from war with traumatic brain injuries. In the Gifts of Art gallery where the workshop will be held\, an interactive exhibition of Berman's work is on display until Feb. 4\, 2013. If planning to bring a group to the workshop\, please call Gifts of Art office at 734-936-ARTS (2787) in advance of your visit. Watch this video  or visit PuzzleArtTherapy.com to learn more about PuzzleArt. 
UID:11693-1178581@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11693
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Main Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20130108T130056
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Intermarriage and the Politics of Jewish Racialization
DESCRIPTION:
UID:11893-1179142@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11893
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:jewish studies,women's studies
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2022
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20120905T172812
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T125000
SUMMARY:Other:Noon Public Skate
DESCRIPTION:Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!\n\nOpen to the Public\n\nCost: $3 ($2 additional cost for skate rental)
UID:10183-1175477@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10183
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:hockey,ice skating,public,skate,yost ice arena
LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121015T132154
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T164500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Geometry of War:  Fortification Plans for 18th Century America
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm
UID:10926-1175631@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10926
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:cartography,geography,history
LOCATION:William Clements Library - Great Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20120725T143419
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Biweekly Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) sponsors a biweekly seminar series focusing on a variety of topics related to bioethics and social science research. Visit the website for more information at www.cbssm.org and the CBSSM facebook page.
UID:9396-1140067@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9396
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:bioethics,decision sciences,research methods,risk communication,social sciences,survey research
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex - Building 16, Room 266C
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130108T134748
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Seminar: January 17th with Scott Kim\, MD\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our CBSSM seminar scheduled for January 17\, 2013\, at 3-4 pm\, NCRC Building 16\, Room 266C.  Scott Kim\, MD\, PhD\, will present a talk entitled\, “Do patients and research subjects think like bioethicists?” \n\nSummary: There are numerous studies purporting to show that research subjects confuse research as cutting edge treatment\, or have unrealistic expectations of benefit from participating. There are also studies showing that patients have unrealistic and erroneous understanding of aims of treatment.   If these studies are valid\, then there is a genuine crisis of informed consent\, both in the clinic and in the research setting.   We will discuss some data that show that measurement of ”˜misunderstanding’ or ”˜unrealistic beliefs’ in patients and research subjects may be much more difficult than researchers assume.\n\nDr. Kim is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Co-Director of CBSSM.\n
UID:11897-1179141@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11897
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:bioethics,informed consent,psychiatry,research,social science research
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex - Conference Room 266C
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130108T134748
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM) Seminar: January 17th with Scott Kim\, MD\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our CBSSM seminar scheduled for January 17\, 2013\, at 3-4 pm\, NCRC Building 16\, Room 266C.  Scott Kim\, MD\, PhD\, will present a talk entitled\, “Do patients and research subjects think like bioethicists?” \n\nSummary: There are numerous studies purporting to show that research subjects confuse research as cutting edge treatment\, or have unrealistic expectations of benefit from participating. There are also studies showing that patients have unrealistic and erroneous understanding of aims of treatment.   If these studies are valid\, then there is a genuine crisis of informed consent\, both in the clinic and in the research setting.   We will discuss some data that show that measurement of ”˜misunderstanding’ or ”˜unrealistic beliefs’ in patients and research subjects may be much more difficult than researchers assume.\n\nDr. Kim is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Co-Director of CBSSM.\n
UID:11897-1179143@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11897
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:bioethics,informed consent,psychiatry,research,social science research
LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex - Conf Rm 266C
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130109T134254
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“A Free Digital Society” 
DESCRIPTION:Richard Stallman\, president and founder of the Free Software Foundation\, is the speaker at 4:15-5:30 p.m.\, Stamps Auditorium. He was considered to be instrumental in launching the free software movement in the 1980s and was the instigator of the development of the GNU operating system\, which is the core for many Linux builds in use today. 
UID:11948-1179631@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11948
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:talk
LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Stamps Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121214T141145
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Claiming Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition and panel discussion\, with Sara Blair (English) and Joshua Miller (English). The title of the panel is \"New Deal Visualities: Figures of Difference in Photographic Claims to Citizenship.\"\n\nCurated by Ricki Sollinger\, a historian of race\, reproduction\, and citizenship in the United States\, this exhibition of New Deal photographs illustrates a number of ways that African Americans took opportunities opened up by the New Deal to claim their status as citizens\, in some respects laying foundations for the Civil Rights Movement. Thus\, the exhibition also explores (implicitly and explicitly) the constituent elements of \"citizenship.\"
UID:11723-1178752@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11723
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:african american,history,mlk day event,multicultural,new deal,photography,social justice
LOCATION:Lane Hall - 2239
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130107T105428
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Crea-Evolutionism:  Challenges from the Cosmos to Everybody's Fundamentalism
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Faith & Scholarship hosts Dr. Loren Wilkinson\, professor of philosophy and interdisciplinary studies at Regent College in Vancouver\, B.C.  Description:  Just as most theists have found it nearly impossible to deny the overwhelming evidence that \"life\, the universe and everything\" is the result of processes which we can partially describe and  understand\, so also many a-theists are finding it increasingly difficult to sidestep the idea that the universe\, life\, and our own consciousness are miraculous gifts for which words like \"Creation\" and \"Creator\" are apt.   Thus fundamentalisms on both sides are being challenged. Nowhere are these challenges more obvious than in our attempts to develop an appropriate response to human impact on the planet.
UID:11854-1179111@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11854
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:environmental,religious
LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources  Building - Rm. 1040
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121218T085958
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Both the beginnings and the end of biodiversity are often associated with shifts in environmental conditions. My lab is interested in the evolutionary processes associated with organismal responses to changing environments. In my seminar\, I will touch on three areas of recent and ongoing work. I will first show that species ranges increase over millions to tens of millions of years\, a dynamic that we hypothesize results from slow adaptation to conditions at the edges of the range. I will then focus on our work exploring the functional basis of adaptation across a strong gradient in climate and\nelevation in Arabidopsis. Lastly\, I will discuss our work on the plasticity of evolvability and constraints on the evolvability of plasticity across environmental gradients\, with emphasis on our work on evolvability across resource supply gradients. Our work on evolutionary expansion of the range in Arabidopsis will be compared to recent work in other species by other labs\, speculating that the selfing mating system\, relatively low migration and plastic genetic architecture we observe in Arabidopsis suggests that similar weedy species may be at an advantage in a world of changing climates.
UID:11739-1178868@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11739
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:ecology,evolutionary biology
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130109T125335
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T180000
SUMMARY:Other:This is My Michigan: Making the University Personal
DESCRIPTION:Students express what “This is My Michigan” means to them through submitted videos\, written work or photos of their art.
UID:11943-1179575@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11943
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:this is my michigan
LOCATION:North Quad - 2435
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121204T133754
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T171000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series 
DESCRIPTION:Unless otherwise noted\, all programs take place on Thursdays at 5:10 pm at the historic Michigan Theater\, located at 603 E. Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor\, and are free of charge and open to the public.\n\nJanuary 17: RENOIR and SURREALIST PARIS in Black & White \nA short film directed by Renoir in the late twenties\, right after he had discovered jazz\, Sur un air de Charleston is a little masterpiece\, albeit unknown\, of the silent movie period. In 2028 Paris\, a mysterious African explorer lands with his aeronef on Terra Incognita. There\, he meets a beautiful young Parisian dancer\, who eventually initiates him to the pleasures of Charleston.\nAn essay in reverse anthropology\, a burlesque and surrealist vaudeville\, Sur un air de Charleston is a singular piece of art. A product of the roaring twenties\, it can be construed as a critique of France’s racial context\, then at the height of its colonial Empire. But it also has to be considered on the much broader scale of transatlantic cultural exchanges. Thus\, we start to envision some of the unsuspected links that irrigate and reconfigure the seamingly neat cartography of Western modernism. \nTwo musicians\, Olivier Thémines and Guillaume Hazebrouck\, invite you with anthropologist Emmanuel Parent to discover this astonishing movie with a ciné-concert/conference. The movie\, accompanied by a live original music\, will be followed by a lecture and discussion on the question of race within the artistic context of 1920s France. \n\nJanuary 24: WILSON SMITH \nWilson W. Smith III is a Design Director at Nike\, Inc.\, Beaverton\, Oregon. Smith is currently involved in Nike's Better World projects\, and is a lead designer as a part of Nike's \"Innovation Kitchen\". After becoming a Senior Designer in 1990\, Smith was involved primarily with the concepts of Nike's cross-training and basketball products.\nSmith established much of the design direction for Tennis footwear throughout the 1990s\, and created many athlete-endorsed products including Andre Agassi's signature line. In 1997\, Wilson Smith became the first dedicated designer for Jordan brand\, and is best known for designing the Jordan 16(XVI) and 17(XVII). In 2003\, Wilson became the Design Director of Nike Court\, encompassing all tennis & racquet driven footwear\, while also designing signature products for Nike endorsees Serena Williams\, and Roger Federer. Black Enterprise Magazine recently named Wilson one of America’s Top Black Designers. \n\nJanuary 31: LISA STRAUSFELD\nLisa Strausfeld’s work lies at the intersection of physical and virtual space: where information structures and physical structures meet\, and where the navigation of information and the navigation of buildings join in a single experience. She and her team specialize in digital information projects including the design of large-scale media installations\, software prototypes and user interfaces\, signage and websites for a broad range of civic\, cultural and corporate clients including One Laptop per Child\, GE\, Litl\, Bloomberg\, Gallup\, The New York Times\, M.I.T.\, Brown University\, the Museum of Arts and Design and the Detroit Institute of Arts.\nStrausfeld holds four patents relating to user interfaces and intelligent search and retrieval\, and in 2006 she was named to the Senior Scientist program at the Gallup Organization. In addition to many awards and honors\, Strausfeld was selected as one of Fast Company's \"Masters of Design\" in 2009 and received the National Design Award in the category of Interaction Design in 2010.\n\nFebruary 7: El ANATSUI\nEl Anatsui was born in Anyanko\, Ghana in 1944. Many of Anatsui’s sculptures are mutable in form\, conceived to be so free and flexible that they can be shaped in any way and altered in appearance for each installation. Working with wood\, clay\, metal\, and–most recently–the discarded metal caps of liquor bottles\, Anatsui breaks with sculpture’s traditional adherence to forms of fixed shape while visually referencing the history of abstraction in African and European art. The colorful and densely patterned fields of the works assembled from discarded liquor-bottle caps also trace a broader story of colonial and postcolonial economic and cultural exchange in Africa\, told in the history of cast-off materials. The sculptures in wood and ceramics introduce ideas about the function of objects (their destruction\, transformation\, and regeneration) in everyday life\, and the role of language in deciphering visual symbols. El Anatsui received a BA from the College of Art\, University of Science and Technology\, Kumasi\, Ghana (1969) and since 1975 has taught at the University of Nigeria\, Nsukka. His works are in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\; Museum of Modern Art\, New York\; Los Angeles County Museum of Art\; Indianapolis Museum of Art\; British Museum\, London\; and Centre Pompidou\, Paris\, among many others. Major exhibitions of his work have appeared at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute\, Williamstown (2011)\; Royal Ontario Museum\, Toronto (2010)\; National Museum of Ethnology\, Osaka (2010)\; Rice University Art Gallery\, Houston (2010)\; Venice Biennale (2007)\; and the Biennale of African Art\, Senegal (2006). El Anatsui lives and works in Nsukka\, Nigeria.\n\nFebruary 21: TANIA BRUGUERA\nTania Bruguera is one of the leading political and performance artists of her generation. Her work researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life\, creating a public forum to debate ideas in a state of contradiction\, focusing on the transformation of the \"viewer\" into one of \"citizenry.\" Bruguera's terms “arte de conducta” (conduct/behavior art) and “arte útil” (useful art) define her practice. In 2010\, Bruguera launched Immigrant Movement International\, a five-year project that helps define the immigrant as a unique\, new global citizen in a postnational world and tests the concept of “useful art\,” by artists actively implementing the merging of art into society’s urgent social\, political\, and scientific issues.\nBruguera’s work has been presented internationally at Documenta 11\, Kassel\, Germany and several biennials including Performa\, Venice\, Gwangju\, and Havana. She has exhibited at the Tate Modern\, London\; Künsthalle Wien\, Vienna\; Centre Pompidou\, Paris\; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art\, New York. \n\nMarch 14: LYNDA BARRY\nLynda Barry has worked as a painter\, cartoonist\, writer\, illustrator\, playwright\, editor\, commentator and teacher and found they are very much alike. She is the inimitable creator behind the seminal comic strip that was syndicated across North America in alternative weeklies for two decades\, Ernie Pook's Comeek\, as well as the books One! Hundred! Demons!\, The! Greatest! of! Marlys!\, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel\, Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! and The Good Times are Killing Me\, which was adapted as an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor's Award. In 2011\, Drawn & Quarterly published Blabber Blabber Blabber\, the first in a 10-volume retrospective series of her comics work. Her bestselling and acclaimed creative writing-how to-graphic novel for Drawn & Quarterly\, What It Is (2008)\, won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Graphic Novel and R.R. Donnelly Award for highest literary achievement by a Wisconsin author.\nWhat It Is (2008) is based on “Writing the Unthinkable”\, a tried-and-true method creative method that is playful\, powerful\, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember. With What It Is and Picture This (2010)\, Barry explores the depths of the inner and outer realms of creation and imagination\, where play can be serious\, monsters have purpose\, and not knowing is an answer unto itself.\n\nMarch 21: KEN BURNS\nDocumentary filmmaker Ken Burns has been producing films for PBS for more than 25 years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981\, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made. A December 2002 poll conducted by Real Screen Magazine listed The Civil War as second only to Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North as the “most influential documentary of all time\,” and named Ken Burns and Robert Flaherty as the “most influential documentary makers” of all time. In March\, 2009\, David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun said\, “”¦ Burns is not only the greatest documentarian of the day\, but also the most influential filmmaker period. That includes feature filmmakers like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. I say that because Burns not only turned millions of persons onto history with his films\, he showed us a new way of looking at our collective past and ourselves.” The late historian Stephen Ambrose said of his films\, “More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source.” Ken’s films have won twelve Emmy Awards and two Oscar nominations\, and in September of 2008\, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards\, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award.\nBurns' documentaries include The Civil War\, Baseball\, Jazz\, Thomas Jefferson\, Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery\, Frank Lloyd Wright\, Mark Twain\, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson\, The War\, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea\, Prohibition and The Dust Bowl.\n\nMarch 28: CARMELITA TROPICANA\nCarmelita Tropicana (a.k.a. Alina Troyano) is a performance artist\, playwright\, and actor. Troyano burst on New York’s downtown performing arts scene in the eighties with her alter ego\, the spitfire Carmelita Tropicana and her counterpart\, the irresistible archetypal Latin macho Pingalito Betancourt\, followed by performances as Hernando Cortez’s horse and la Cucaracha Martina from her childhood fairy tales in Cuba. In Tropicana’s work humor and fantasy become subversive tools to rewrite history.\nTropicana’s performances plays and videos have been presented at venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Art in London\, Hebbel Am Ufer in Berlin\, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea in Barcelona\, the Berlin International Film Festival\, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York\, the Mark Taper Forum’s Kirk Douglas Theater in Los Angeles\, and El Museo del Barrio in New York. Her work has received funding support from the Independent Television Service\, the Jerome Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Suitcase Fund. She has received numerous awards including the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts as well as an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Performance. She is the author of a collection of performance pieces and short essays called I\, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing between Cultures (2000).\n\nApril 4: PAOLA ANTONELLI\nPerspectives\nPaola Antonelli is Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design and Director of Research and Development at the Museum of Modern Art. Her first MOMA exhibition was\, Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design (1995). Her latest exhibition was 2011’s Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects. Antonelli earned the “Design Mind” Smithsonian Institution’s National Design Award and was named one of the 25 most incisive design visionaries by Time Magazine.  She has been a contributing Editor for Domus magazine\, an editor of Abitare\, and the author of the publication Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design. Antonelli’s goal is to insistently promote design’s understanding until its positive influence on the world is fully acknowledged and exploited. She is currently at work on contemporary design exhibitions\, and on Design Bites\, a book about foods as examples of outstanding design.  \nPaola Antonelli's lecture\, originally scheduled for November 1\, 2012\, will take place on April 4\, 2013.\nWith support from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the U-M Museum of Art.\n\nApril 11: MASSIMO BANZI\nMassimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an Interaction Designer\, Educator and Open Source Hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as: Prada\, Artemide\, Persol\, Whirlpool\, V&A Museum and Adidas.\nMassimo started the first FabLab in Italy which led to the creation of Officine Arduino\, a FabLab/Makerspace based in Torino.\nHe spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institue Ivrea as Associate Professor. Massimo has taught workshops and has been a guest speaker at institutions all over the world.\nBefore joining IDII he was CTO for the Seat Ventures incubator. He spent many years working as a software architect\,both in Milan and London\, on projects for clients like Italia Online\, Sapient\, Labour Party\, BT\, MCI WorldCom\, SmithKlineBeecham\, Storagetek\, BSkyB and boo.com.\nMassimo is also the author of Getting Started with Arduino\, published by O’Reilly Press. He is a regular contributor to the italian edition of Wired Magazine and Che Futuro\, an online magazine about innovation.\nHe currently teaches Interaction Design at SUPSI Lugano in the south of Switzerland and is a visiting professor at CIID in Copenhagen.\n
UID:11636-1177805@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11636
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:architecture,art,artists,career,dance,film,penny stamps speaker series,unique,visual arts
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130109T125535
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T180000
SUMMARY:Presentation:34th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Community-Wide Tribute Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Featuring\nPhillip W. Shaltz
UID:11944-1179576@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11944
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:mlk,mlk symposium
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - UM-Flint Sarvis Center
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130114T131336
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T210000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Professor Patrice Petro Talk \"Beyond 1989: Feminist Film Theory\"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Patrice Petro is the Vice Provost for International Education and Professor of English\, Film Studies\, and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  In this talk\, Dr. Petro will explore the spaces and places for feminist film theory after 1989 and up until today\, particularly in view of the many claims that feminist film theory has died or failed\, that feminist film theory is over\, and that the cinema itself is at an end.  Has feminist theory been absorbed into or diffused by broader theories of gender or history or globalization? What is the role of feminist film theory in understanding our media and world today? Are feminist film studies still relevant to our understanding of twenty-first century life? How so and in what way?\n\nThis event is made possible by the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\, Germanic Language and Literature\, Communications Studies\, Institute of Humanities\, Department of History\, Women's Studies Department Rackham School of Graduate Studies\, and the School of Information.
UID:12022-1180076@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12022
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:feminism,lecture,screen arts
LOCATION:North Quad - 2255
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130107T182721
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T210000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Winter Mass Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun filled night of Winter Mass Meeting. Learn more about the Muslim Students' Association upcoming events and meet new friends while enjoying a wonderful FREE dinner. \n\nThursday January 17th at 7:00pm\n4th floor Rackham 
UID:11886-1179134@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11886
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:free,free food,friend,fun,muslim,muslim student association,religion,religious,social,social event,social justice
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - 4th Floor Assembly 
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DTSTAMP:20121016T140420
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Dala
DESCRIPTION:\"Might answer the ... question 'where are all the young Emmylou Harrises?'\"–Roughstock\n\nAmanda Walther and Sheila Carabine of Dala (the duo’s name was formed by combining the two last letters of each artist’s first name) have come a long way in a short time. The two best friends\, who met in their high school music class and wrote their first song together in 2002\, have been dubbed \"the angels of folk music\" by Canada's Exclaim! Dala draws on influences like the Beatles\, Joni Mitchell\, Neil Young and Bob Dylan in songs that are both insightful and irresistibly catchy. Amanda’s ethereal soprano voice blends seamlessly with Sheila’s velvety alto\, creating the lush harmonies that have become their trademark. Dala recently became the only Canadian act invited to perform at the 50th anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival\, and lately they've been a fixture of clubs and festivals all over Canada and the U.S. Their latest album\, \"Best Day\,\" has been nominated for three Canadian Folk Music Awards.
UID:10953-1175810@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10953
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:dala,music,the ark
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI 
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DTSTAMP:20120905T173515
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130117T215000
SUMMARY:Other:Public Skate
DESCRIPTION:Come skate where the University of Michigan Hockey team skates!!\n\nOpen to the public!\n\nCost: $6 (Adults) $4 (UM Faculty and Staff\, Students\, Youth and Seniors)\n($2 additional cost for skate rental)
UID:10184-1175355@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10184
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:ice hockey,public,skating,yost ice arena
LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena
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