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DTSTAMP:20121126T164337
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T003000
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:11550-1177150@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:20130122T121437
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T080000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"To Me There’s No Other Choice: Raoul Wallenberg 1912-2012\"
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit\, sponsored by Hatcher Graduate Library\, tells the story of a young Swede and U-M graduate who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.
UID:12183-1180519@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12183
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:art,exhibit,holocaust,union
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Art Lounge 
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DTSTAMP:20130109T095034
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T080000
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:11925-1179366@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:20130131T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T200000
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:11604-1177453@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:20130131T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T170000
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:11607-1177603@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:20130131T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T200000
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:11601-1177303@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:20130131T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T170000
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:11608-1177716@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:20130131T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T200000
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:11606-1177553@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
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DTSTAMP:20121129T143920
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T200000
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:11603-1177403@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:20130131T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T200000
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:11605-1177503@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:20130131T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T200000
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:11602-1177353@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
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DTSTAMP:20121206T140801
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents: “Garden of Infancy & Tree of Life: Snowflake Paper Cuttings” by Dr. Thomas L. Clark
DESCRIPTION:
UID:11658-1178391@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.
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DTSTAMP:20121126T130659
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T080000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Places for the Spirit
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition featuring African American folk gardens captured by photographer Vaughn Sills. In the spirit of outsider and folk art traditions\, these gardens reveal a unique aesthetic and cultural significance. Gardens from Arkansas\, Louisiana\, Mississippi\, Alabama\, Georgia\, South Carolina and North Carolina are represented along with their creators.
UID:11495-1177021@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11495
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:culture,folk gardens,photography
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20130121T121715
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T080000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:State of Exception Video
DESCRIPTION:Note: Video runs at 2435 North Quad\, 105 S. State (Jan. 24-Feb 8) and at Shapiro Undergraduate Library\, first floor video gallery\, 919 S. University (Jan. 24 -30 & Feb. 18 - 24).\n\nVideo installation about the State of Exception project\, including footage shot by Richard Barnes on location along the U.S. Mexico Border and featuring student interviews. Edited by Sharad Patel.\n
UID:12158-1180400@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12158
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:film,multicultural,visual arts
LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435
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DTSTAMP:20121214T141945
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Claiming Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:This is an exhibition of 50 photographs.
UID:11724-1178805@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
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DTSTAMP:20130109T120349
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T170000
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:11936-1179541@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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20130116T115032
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: \"State of Exception\"
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition traces of the human experience. These include backpacks\, water bottles\, border patrol restraints\, and other objects left behind in the desert by both undocumented migrants on their journey into the U.S. and the law enforcement agents who seek to keep them out. This collaboration between artist-photographer Richard Barnes\, De Leon\, and curator Amanda Krugliak considers the complexities and ambiguities of found objects and what they may or may not reveal in terms of transition\, human experience\, culture\, violence and accountability.
UID:12091-1180249@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12091
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:exception,exhibit
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121015T132752
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T090000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:
UID:10927-1175769@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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DTSTAMP:20121206T135304
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T170000
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:11657-1178660@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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DTSTAMP:20130121T122342
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:State of Exception: Richard Barnes\, Jason De Leon\, Amanda Krugliak
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents traces of the human experience--backpacks\, water bottles\, border patrol restrains\, and other objects left behind in the desert by undocumented migrants on their journey into the U.S. This in combination with video shot by Richard Barnes on location along the U.S./Mexico border comprises State of Exception\, the first major curation of the work of U-M anthropologist Jason De León’s Undocumented Migration project. This collaboration between artist/photographer Richard Barnes\, De León\, and curator Amanda Krugliak considers the complexity and ambiguity of the found objects and what they may or may not reveal in terms of transition\, human experience\, culture\, violence\, and accountability
UID:12159-1180416@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12159
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:film,multicultural,visual arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery, #1010
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20130109T094637
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T160000
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:11924-1179299@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:20121207T142508
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T113000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Echoes from WWII: A Panel Presentation
DESCRIPTION:WWII is fading from our memories. For many it is a great unknown.  Between 50 and 70 million people died. For those who survived their lives were forever changed. Today we have three who lived to tell their stories.  Join us for a journey into the past as they share with us their experiences. These are not just stories but are a living history for younger generations.\n\n\"From Europe to the Philippines with the 86th (Blackhawk) Infantry Division\"\, \nW. Scott Westerman\, Ph.D.\, Private to Sergeant First Class in the Infantry during WWII\, \nFormer Superintendent of Ann Arbor Public Schools and Dean of the College of Education\, EMU.\n\n\"The Aerial Bombing of Germany 1944-45: A View from the Cockpit\"\,\nJohn A. Clark\, Sc.D.\, 1st Lieutenant and B17 Co-pilot in the European Theater\, \nFormer Professor U of M\, Department Chair\, Mechanical Engineering.\n\n\"Into Germany with General Patton's Third Army and Wars End\"\,\nArt Holst\, 2nd Lieutenant at Camp Hood\, 1st Lt. with Patton's 3rd Army in Europe\, \nFormer NFL referee.\n
UID:11684-1178571@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11684
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:history,intergenerational,lifelong learning,olli,retirement,war
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave (Please car pool when possible.)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20130109T125738
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Places for the Spirit 
DESCRIPTION:This photography exhibit featuring images of African American gardens in the southern United States and their creators\, by photographer Vaughn Sills.
UID:11945-1179590@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11945
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:african-american gardens
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20120620T153538
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T170000
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:9252-1174800@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/9252
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:african art,umma,visual arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20121206T143400
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Florencia Pita/FP mod
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, Florencia Pita/FP mod explores the provocations and intersections of digital technology\, material experimentation\, femininity\, and ornament in the work of Argentina-born\, Los Angeles-based architect and designer Florencia Pita. The exhibition and its related publication\, part of the UMMA Books series\, trace the evolution of Pita's design ideology through installation pieces\, urban design\, tableware\, furniture\, and architecture\, as well as small adornments. Pita's boldly colored works draw from literary\, art\, and biological sources\; employ cutting-edge architectural fabrication techniques\; and cross borders of visual art\, architecture\, and design.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, Laura Lynch and Hugh McPherson\, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Additional generous support is provided by Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.\n
UID:11659-1178408@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11659
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:architecture,visual arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20121108T140848
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T110000
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:11346-1176700@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11346
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:exhibit,exhibition,visual arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20130118T095410
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Copernicus Endowment Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Konstanty Gebert\, journalist and activist\n\nKonstanty Gebert is an international reporter and columnist at Gazeta Wyborcza\, Poland's biggest daily. He was a democratic opposition activist in the 1970s\, when he was also an organizer of the Jewish Flying University\, and an underground journalist in the 1980s under martial law. He is the founder of the Polish Jewish intellectual monthly Midrasz\, and a board member of the Taube Centre for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland and of Einstein Forum in Potsdam\, Germany. He has taught in Poland\, Israel\, and the US\, and has written books on topics including the Polish democratic transformation\, French policy toward Poland\, the Yugoslav wars\, the wars of Israel\, Torah commentary\, and post-war Polish Jewry. His essays have appeared in two dozen collective works in Poland and abroad\, and his articles in newspapers around the world. Gebert visited the University of Michigan in 1999 as a participant in the conference\, \"Communism's Negotiated Collapse: The Polish Round Table of 1989\, Ten Years Later.\"
UID:12128-1180324@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12128
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:jewish studies,poland
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1644
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DTSTAMP:20120905T172812
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T125000
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:10183-1175491@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
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DTSTAMP:20121210T145637
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T130000
SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Classical & Jazz Piano
DESCRIPTION:Jim Vincent studied piano from an early age. Despite going on to a career in science and education\, he maintained a strong interest in classical and jazz piano performance. In the classical style\, he performed numerous recitals at the Edinburgh Society of Musicians in Scotland\, UK. In jazz\, Vincent performed with some of Europe's top improvisers and made appearances at major jazz festivals and BBC broadcast concerts. Professor Emeritus of Environmental Health Sciences at U-M\, Vincent is an Associate Member of the American Matthay Association\, named after the great English piano pedagogue of the 1930s who is in Vincent’s musical lineage.
UID:11695-1178583@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11695
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,music
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Main Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121226T163833
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T150000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Disease Detectives--OLLI Study Group (50+)
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wondered why human disease outbreaks happen\, how they are detected and what methods are used to contain them? We will study and discuss some classic outbreak investigations (e.g.\, 1918 Influenza pandemic and 1976 outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease) to obtain a better understanding of how local\, state and federal epidemiologists work together to control these outbreaks. Try your hand at solving a mock outbreak with your classmates. Mary Proctor is a retired professor of medical microbiology.
UID:11795-1179009@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11795
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:diseases,lifelong learning,olli,ret
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Jewish Community Center, 2935 Birch Hollow Dr.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121015T132154
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T164500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Geometry of War:  Fortification Plans for 18th Century America
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm
UID:10926-1175645@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:20130125T104013
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PICS Human Rights Fellow Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, January 31\, 1-3pm\nKalamazoo Room\, Michigan League\n\nHuman Rights Fellow Lecture\n\nNancy Rose Hunt\nProfessor of History/  PICS Human Rights Fellow\n\nGlobal Mental Health & Its Critics\n\nGlobal mental health is an emerging field and movement.  Disagreements have developed among psychiatrists\, anthropologists\, and international relations experts about whether global mental health represents a new imperial agenda or a hopeful sign about a new level of human decency. This lecture will examine these debates\, while pointing to specific examples of this new kind of international intervention and care. \n
UID:12215-1180667@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12215
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:human rights,international,mental health
LOCATION:Michigan League - Kalamazoo Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121224T104341
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Transnational Feminism in the United States
DESCRIPTION:This is a panel discussion of Prof. Leela Fernandes's book. Discussants include: Maria Cotera\, George Steinmetz\, and Elizabeth Wingrove.\n\nU.S. Transnational Feminism is a provocative examination of the ways in which we understand and create knowledge about the world. The book examines the rise of transnational feminism in the United States and challenges us to think of \"the global\" and \"the transnational\" as ways of viewing the world that have emerged from specific political\, economic\, and historical circumstances in the United States. Transnational Feminism asks what it means to locate feminist research and theory within a transnational frame in the specific location and historical location that we live in and how we can unsettle such national views of the world. The book addresses a range of issues including the impact of the U.S 'war on terror\" on knowledge about the world and human rights\, cultural forms of knowledge such as film and fiction\, feminist knowledge practices\, and institutional practices within the U.S. academy.\n\nThis is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works\, New Questions series.\n
UID:11782-1178965@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11782
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:feminism,gender,global,irwg,political science,transnational,women's studies
LOCATION:Lane Hall - 2239
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121212T145637
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Why do organisms vary so remarkably in the ways they produce males and females? The evolution of sex-determining mechanisms (SDM) is marked by repeated transitions between systems that differ in their level of phenotypic plasticity and developmental canalization. Reptiles are an ideal group to study the driving forces and mechanisms underlying these evolutionary transitions as they display a wide diversity of SDM that encompass temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) and genotypic sex determination (GSD) with either male (XY) or female (ZW) heterogamety.\n\nThrough a series of complementary studies\, my lab is shedding light on how genomic structure and genome function affect the development and evolution of phenotypes\, and the role that the environment plays in these processes at different time scales. Indeed\, the level of phenotypic plasticity and genome organization themselves are driven by biotic factors such as sexual selection and sexual conflict\, and abiotic influences such as thermal disturbances at contemporary (e.g. daily/seasonal/annual) and evolutionary (e.g. climate change over generations or millions of years) time scales.\n\nIn particular\, I will highlight some of our projects through which we attempt to understand the evolution of the SDM and the gene regulatory networks underlying them\; to discover the molecular changes that render TSD susceptible to temperature\; to decipher how males and females are produced in nature and what is the evolutionary potential of TSD in the face of climate change\; and to characterize the genomic rearrangements responsible for the evolution of sex chromosomes and diploid number.\n\nThis seminar is sponsored by the Donald W. Tinkle Memorial Fund
UID:11707-1178594@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11707
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:ecology,evolutionary biology
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130110T112534
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T180000
SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:Robin Wilson\, Shirely Verrett Award Winner
DESCRIPTION:The Women of Color in the Academy Project is proud to announce that this year's Shirley Verrett Award will be presented to Robin Wilson\, Associate Professor Dance. This award recognizes a U-M faculty member whose work has supported the success of women in creative fields who come from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds and advances diversity as part of the University's educational mission.\nPlease plan to join us on Thursday\, January 31 (4:30-6:00pm) at Stamps Auditorium. The award presentation will be followed by a light reception.\n
UID:11967-1179703@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11967
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:dance,north campus
LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20130131T000010
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T163000
SUMMARY:Performance:Shirley Verrett Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:The 2nd annual Shirley Verrett Award\, established by the Office of the Senior Vice Provost\, honors those working towards enhancing the success of women in the arts who come from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds.   Registration required - http://tinyurl.com/2012ShirleyVerrett
UID:11258-1176565@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11258
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:music
LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20121206T150416
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T171000
SUMMARY:Performance:Colson Whitehead\, Janey Lack Fiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:Colson Whitehead’s novels and essays tackle the questions of race\, class\, and commercial culture with candor and wit. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of several awards including the Whiting Writers’ Award and the MacArthur “Genius” Award. He is the author of six books. His first novel\, The Intuitionist\, was published in 1998 and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemmingway Award. According to Time it’s the “freshest racial allegory since Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man\" and GQ named it one of the “novels of the millennium.” John Henry Days\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award\, was published in 2001 and his non-fiction homage to New York\, The Colossus of New York\, was published in 2003. His most recent novel Zone One was published in October 2011. The Washington Post described this latest bestseller as “a zombie story with brains” and the New York Times selected it as an Editor’s Pick calling it “cool” and “thoughtful.”\n\nThe author will be available to sign books after the lecture. As always\, books will be available for purchase on site.
UID:11664-1178549@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11664
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:literary
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121204T133754
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T171000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T190000
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:11636-1177807@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
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DTSTAMP:20130124T114711
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T180000
SUMMARY:Other:Word of Mouth Story Slam: (in)justice
DESCRIPTION:WORD OF MOUTH STORY SLAM\n\n(in)justice: stories of social change and personal trials\n\nThursday January 31\, 2013\n\nWork Gallery\, 306 State Street\n\nDoors at 6:00 pm\n\n Word of Mouth is back for our first event of 2013. Never been to our slams before? Audience members tell five-minute stories from their lives related to a theme. The friendly competition includes appetizers and live music. \n\nThis month’s feature band will be The Good Plenty. \n\nIn honor of the recent Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the second inauguration of President Obama\, this month's theme focuses on social (in)justice. If you have stories of self-discovery\, identity\, justice\, punishment\, or bearing witness\, please come share your voice. With the generous support of Hillel\, this month's event is bound to be exciting and meaningful.\n\nWith the great success of our experiment at December's slam HONESTLY\, we have decided to eliminate the judges panel from the slams\, so come without fear and share your story openly.\n\nCan’t wait to see you there!\n\n \n\n 
UID:12203-1180565@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12203
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:appetizers,community,live music,performance,social justice,story slam,word of mouth
LOCATION:Work Gallery 306 South State Street
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DTSTAMP:20130129T085008
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T203000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Environmental Law & Policy Program Career Series: State Senator Rebekah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Environmental Law & Policy Program's Lecture Series. Michigan State Senator Rebekah Warren will be speaking. State Senator Rebekah Warren represents the 18th District\, which is made up of the majority of Washtenaw County. She is currently serving her first term in the Michigan Senate\, and acts as Minority Vice-Chair of both the Health Policy Committee and the Natural Resources\, Environment and Great Lakes Committee. She is also a member of the Finance Committee\, the Regulatory Reform Committee\, and the Reforms\, Restructuring\, and Reinventing Committee. Prior to her work as a Senator\, Rebekah was privileged to serve the citizens of Ann Arbor as State Representative for the 53rd House District for four years.
UID:12258-1180700@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12258
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:elpp,environmental law,environmental law and policy program,environmental policy,law school,michigan state senate
LOCATION:South Hall - 1020
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DTSTAMP:20130131T000009
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Faculty Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Faculty members from all departments of the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance display their talents in a wide variety of works for auditioning students and their families. Come out and hear our incredible faculty! PROGRAM: Boccherini - Sonata in A Major\; Tulou/Gebauer - Airs Variés pour Deux Bassons\; Schnyder - Le Monde Minuscule\; Rowe - Summer Solstice\; Parker - Donna Lee\; Rossini - “Cessa di più resistere\" & “La Calunnia” from Il Barbiere di Siviglia\; Schoenberg/Boublil - Stars from Les Misérables
UID:11227-1176535@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11227
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:music
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20120905T173515
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T215000
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:10184-1175357@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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DTSTAMP:20130131T000010
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Student Recital: Micah Candiotti-Pacheco\, clarinet
DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Piazzolla - Tango Etude no. 3\; Schubert - Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (Shepherd on the Rock)\; Bartók - Contrasts\, Sz. 111\; Mozart - Quintet for Clarinet and Strings\, K. 581
UID:12210-1180664@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12210
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:music
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20121024T103800
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130131T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Vagabond Opera
DESCRIPTION:\"A modern spin on Balkan music\, operatic singing\, Klezmer and cabaret\"–Global Notes\n\nEuropean Cabaret! Vintage Americana! Balkan Belly Dance! Neo-Classical Opera! Old World Yiddish Theater! You'll hear it all in the music of the six-piece\, Portland\, Oregon-based Vagabond Opera. The group delivers passionate offerings of Bohemian cabaret for young and old. Paris hot jazz\, gutbucket swing\, tangos\, Ukrainian folk-punk ballads\, klezmer\, and vigorous originals meet a world of riverboat gambling queens\, Turkish belly dancers\, and the enigmatic Marlene Dietrich. Weaving elements of Kurt Weill\, Duke Ellington\, and Edith Piaf with absurdist flair\, theatrics\, and an old-world mood\, Vagabond Opera presents the new wave of opera–lusty voices singing in 13 languages and presenting a cabaret of rich musical phrasing\, sparkling lyrics\, and indomitable stage presence\, all played with exuberance\, skill\, and the gritty Vagabond edge. This is opera liberated and reinvented for everyone! The band’s lineup features four vocalists\, including trained operatic tenor and soprano vocals\, accordion\, tenor saxophone\, clarinet\, two cellos\, stand-up bass\, and drums
UID:11074-1176304@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11074
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:music,the ark,vagabond opera
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI 
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