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DTSTAMP:20130122T121437
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T080000
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:12183-1180533@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:20130214T080000
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:11925-1179380@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
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DTSTAMP:20130205T141516
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Blown Away: epiphany studios glass
DESCRIPTION:A glassmaker from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit\, April Wagner creates beautiful hand-blown glass at her studio – epiphany studios in Pontiac\, Michigan. Wagner has been working with molten glass since 1993\, and she creates each piece by hand working at a 2000 °F furnace. Whether functional or decorative\, the distinctive look of Wagner's work comes from her unusual combination of traditional Venetian glassmaking techniques and the unique methods she has developed over the years. Wagner's work has been commissioned for many prominent public and private collections including GM\, Pfizer\, Strategic Staffing Solutions\, Vladimir Putin\, Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson.
UID:12391-1181049@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12391
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:20130205T142521
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Celebrations of Confetti: Bead Woven Jewelry
DESCRIPTION:Michigan artist Mary Cody designs colorful jewelry with a subtle message meant to inspire creativity and hope. Speck size 24 kt gold\, palladium and glass beads are freely combined in her original weavings. She\"picks up the pieces\,\" a look that came by accident after costly beads scattered across the floor. Cody sees her work as representing the lessons in our lives – the unforeseen events often prior to beautiful blessings. Her work has been accepted in fine art shows from Ann Arbor\, Michigan to Bellevue\, Washington and has been described as miniature works of stained glass.  
UID:12395-1181225@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12395
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:20121129T145757
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T170000
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:11607-1177617@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
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DTSTAMP:20130205T142156
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Folding in Color: Origami Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Linda Stephen's original origami bas relief landscapes incorporate elements of the Japanese textile arts of origami (paper folding)\, oshi-e (paintings from quilted silk scraps) and chigiri-e (painting with paper). Stephen is originally from Big Rapids\, Michigan\, but she lived and worked in Japan as a teacher and translator for seven years. Seeing origami as a metaphor for hope\, she is inspired by nature – from the bustle of farmers markets\, to cranes circling a snowy corn field\, to children skipping in the rain. Linda Stephen's origami art landscapes are part of public and private collections across the U.S. and Japan\, from the JW Marriott Grand Rapids’ Sister City Collection to the City Hall in Omihachiman\, Japan.  
UID:12394-1181168@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12394
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:20121129T150300
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T170000
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:11608-1177730@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
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DTSTAMP:20130205T140843
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Metalmorphosis 2013: Jewelry & Metalwork Group Show
DESCRIPTION:This past year\, the Michigan Silversmith Guild celebrated its 65th anniversary of serving the regional jewelry and metalsmithing community. Its lectures\, workshops\, exhibitions and other events serve the goal of broadening the knowledge of its members' craft and facilitating communication with other metalsmiths. This exhibition is a contemporary survey of work from a select group of teachers and their students. They are from art centers\, workshops and home classrooms found in Michigan\, Northern Ohio and Indiana.  Work on display presents both faculty and student work and highlights the opportunities found in nearby regions in continuing arts education.
UID:12387-1180935@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12387
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:20130205T141210
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Off the Walls: Digital Pigment Ink Prints
DESCRIPTION:Judith Engel Jacobs\, an Ann Arbor native and U-M School of Art & Design graduate\, has exhibited her drawings\, collages and monotypes for over 45 years locally\, regionally and nationally. Always interested in the worn surfaces and graffiti of city walls\, she transitioned to digital printmaking in 1999. In her recent series\, Wall Portraits\, she creates imaginary walls onscreen using Photoshop layers made from her photos and scans of various materials including her own paper and paste collages. After further manipulation\, the image is printed on a digital fine art printer using archival (pigment-based) inks and paper. 
UID:12390-1180992@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12390
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:20130205T140246
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Precious People: Black & White Photography
DESCRIPTION:Over the past 30 years\, Marco Mancinelli has evolved in his craft\, combining the skills of a photojournalist\, the heart of a humanitarian\, and the eye of a documentary filmmaker and fine artist. Whether photographing celebrities\, social events or creating sensitive portraits\, Mancinelli's eye for the heart of his subjects makes his work matchless in the world of photography. Former photographer for LIFE Magazine and the Detroit Opera House\, Mancinelli was awarded Michigan Photographer of the Year and Detroit Photographer of the Year four times. He currently travels the world for organizations\, corporations\, publications and private clients.
UID:12386-1180878@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12386
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:20130205T141902
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Wedding Book: Oil on Linen
DESCRIPTION:Figurative artist Mary Hatch studied fine arts at Skidmore College in New York State and then earned a BA in Art Education and an MA in painting from Western Michigan University. She now works in her studio in Kalamazoo\, Michigan. Hatch's work is included in over 300 public and private collections in the US and Canada with an exhibition record of more than 30 one-person shows in as many years. Hatch continues to explore the fascinating and ever changing world we inhabit today\, our customs and rituals that hold to the past while progressing uncertainly toward the future. Her ongoing series Wedding Book suggests this in-between state which is always the present.
UID:12392-1181111@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12392
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:health and wellness,visual arts
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1      
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DTSTAMP:20121126T130659
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T080000
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:11495-1177035@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:20121214T141945
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Claiming Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:This is an exhibition of 50 photographs.
UID:11724-1178819@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:20130122T091435
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T123000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Intermediate Topics in SPSS
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is a companion workshop with “Intermediate Topics in SPSS: Data Management and Macros and is designed to provide experienced SPSS users with exposure to more advanced statistical modeling techniques implemented in SPSS\, including linear mixed models. Participants can register for one or both of the workshops.  The workshop will be conducted using SPSS for Windows.
UID:12173-1180493@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12173
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:career
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2001A
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DTSTAMP:20130109T120349
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T170000
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:11936-1179555@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11936
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:bentley,bindings,exhibit,retirement
LOCATION:Bentley Historical Library
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DTSTAMP:20130116T115032
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T170000
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:12091-1180263@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
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DTSTAMP:20121015T132752
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T090000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Proclaiming Emancipation: The Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:
UID:10927-1175783@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
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DTSTAMP:20130221T074403
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T090000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Race: Are we so different?
DESCRIPTION:People are different.  Throughout history\, these differences have been a source of community strength and personal identity.  They have also been the basis for discrimination and oppression.\n\nThe idea of “race” has been used historically to describe these differences and to justify mistreatment of people and even genocide.  Today\, contemporary scientific understanding of human variation is beginning to challenge “racial” differences\, and even challenge the very concept of race.\n\nRace:  Are we so different?\, developed by the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota\, is the first national exhibition to tell the stories of race from the biological\, cultural\, and historical points of view.  Combining these perspectives offers an unprecedented look at race and racism in the United States.  For more information about the exhibit\, visit www.UnderstandingRace.org. The traveling Race exhibit has inspired the University of Michigan’s Understanding Race Project\, an audience engagement initiative including the campus-wide\, winter term Understanding Race Theme Semester\, centered in the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\; participation by all ten public school districts in Washtenaw County\; and extensive involvement by community members\, nonprofits\, government agencies\, and other groups.  
UID:12622-1181691@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12622
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:multicultural
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
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DTSTAMP:20121206T135304
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T170000
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:11657-1178674@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11657
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:visual arts
LOCATION:Ross School of Business
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DTSTAMP:20130121T122342
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T170000
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:12159-1180430@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
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DTSTAMP:20130109T094637
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T160000
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:11924-1179313@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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DTSTAMP:20130109T125738
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T163000
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:11945-1179604@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11945
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:african-american gardens
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20130118T105401
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T113000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Intergenerational Relations: Conflict\, Support\, and Interdependence–OLLI at U-M (50+)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Toni Antonnucci\, Ph.D.\, Professor of Psychology and Associate Vice-President for Research\, University of Michigan. As a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research\, Dr. Antonucci heads a research program on life course development. President\, Gerontological Society of America.\n\nIncreases in life expectancy mean that many middle-aged sons and daughters\, perhaps beginning to think about their own retirement\, find themselves responsible for the care of their aged parents. Geographical separation adds complications for some families\; for others the creation of a multi-generational household presents challenges of a different kind. These challenges and opportunities are characteristics of aging societies and some other countries have already confronted them.  In this lecture we will review what can be learned from their experience and how intergenerational relations can enhance the quality of life.\n
UID:12133-1180328@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12133
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES: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:20130124T115358
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit is a major retrospective of African artist El Anatsui\, who is widely knowns for monumental wall sculptures made from discarded bottle tops.  
UID:12204-1180578@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12204
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:umma
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Alfred Taubman Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20121206T143400
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T170000
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:11659-1178422@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11659
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:architecture,visual arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20121108T140848
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T110000
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:11346-1176714@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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DTSTAMP:20120925T114850
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T130000
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:10504-1174226@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:20121116T145737
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:(FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) Japanese companies do not lose their cultural characteristics when they do business in the United States. General Counsel of Japan-based companies in the United States should understand these cultural aspects when providing legal representation. Similarly\, General Counsel should be able to understand and convey to Japanese management the unique aspects of the American legal system.\n\nAbout the Speaker: Richard O. Briggs received a M.A degree in Japanese Studies from the University of Michigan in 1975 and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in 1977. He has provided legal representation to Japan-based companies doing business in the United States since 1979 and has served as Legal Counsel/General Counsel to Kubota Tractor Corporation (Torrance\, California) since 1990.
UID:11443-1176960@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11443
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:discussion,japanese studies,lecture
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121206T000017
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T120000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:COLOR!  An Exhibit of Costumes to Lighten our Dreariest Month!
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Professor Jessica Hahn the costume pieces and accessories are pulled from UM costume stock\, the Historic Costume Collection and Professor Hahn\&##39\;s personal collection.  How does color affect our lives?
UID:11274-1176581@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11274
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:music,theater
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130214T000011
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T120000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Theatre and Drama BFA Design and Production Portfolio Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Gallery open 12:00 - 6:00 pm.
UID:12405-1181335@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12405
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:music,theater
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130110T151315
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T130000
SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Love Songs by Elvis (Impersonator)
DESCRIPTION:David Joseph has worked for the U-M Health System for the better part of 30 years\, and he has been involved with music for 50. In his career as Elvis\, he has performed at American Legions\, Elks Lodges and Veterans of Foreign Wars gatherings in the greater Detroit region and most recently at U-M Health System's Employee Appreciation Days. For this concert\, David Joseph will perform romantic songs as Elvis.
UID:11975-1179979@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/11975
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:20130214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T150000
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:11795-1179011@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:20130214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T164500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Geometry of War:  Fortification Plans for 18th Century America
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit is open M-F from 1pm to 4:45 pm
UID:10926-1175659@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:20130130T112025
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T170000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Science of Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:1-5 p.m. Johnson Rooms\, Lurie Engineering Center. Sponsored by the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter and the Energy Institute. Information and a map are available at www.lsa.umich.edu/cscs/events.
UID:12287-1180756@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12287
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:north campus
LOCATION:Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130212T141127
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Food\, Health & Sustainability: from gardens to global supply
DESCRIPTION:The global food system is poised for change.  The burdens of the industrial food system on environmental quality\, biodiversity\, rising obesity\, and economic inequality lie in stark contrast to the grassroots efforts around the world to transform the food system into a force for environmental protection and economic revitalization. We will evaluate the causes and effects of these different systems\, drawing upon the food system in Michigan and global examples.   
UID:12490-1181551@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12490
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:environment,food,food sustainability,health
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Clarion Inn and Conf. Center, 2900 Jackson Rd.  AA  
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130116T144755
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:In 2005 the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) created the Alabama Aquatic Biodiversity Center (AABC) to address conservation needs of the rarest riverine species. Initial efforts focused on a $3 million dollar refit of the former USGS Claude Harris National Aquaculture Research Center and construction of new facilities to launch the recovery program.  Regional recovery planning documents were completed simultaneously to coordinate efforts of multiple federal\, state\, and private conservation groups.  Alabama rivers host some 95 federally listed or candidate species\, including the richest mollusk and crayfish species assemblages in the world. However\, many once wide-ranging species are now restricted to single or very few occurrences. The primary goal of the AABC is to establish new populations of critically rare species. This is achieved through captive propagation and reintroduction/repatriation of conservation targets into unoccupied watersheds within their historical ranges. Reintroduction efforts are currently underway with 15 mollusk species\, with numbers exceeding 52\,000 individuals since 2010.  All initial reintroductions are persisting\, but additional stockings are anticipated to successfully establish self-reproducing populations.  Additionally\, because the most basic biological requirements of these species are often unknown\, the AABC supports primary research efforts (e.g.\, systematics\, environmental physiology\, life history\, toxicology) by partnering with universities and other government research laboratories.  Cooperative efforts also extend towards habitat recovery in selected Alabama watersheds. Specifically the Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA) and the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) work cooperatively with the ADCNR to provide habitat and water quality data (GSA) and administrative support (USFWS). The Alabama Clean Water Partnership (ACWP) links water quality\, habitat information to promote on-the-ground watershed protection in critical watersheds. The aquatic fauna has suffered greatly from modern habitat perturbations\, to an extent observed in few other places. However\, with continued diligence and progress toward our goals\, we have hopefully witnessed the last extinction for the foreseeable future and recovery is a real possibility for some species that are now critically endangered.\n\nSponsored by the UMMZ Frederick M. Gaige Fund
UID:12104-1180300@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12104
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:ecology,evolutionary biology
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20130115T151623
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T171000
SUMMARY:Performance:John Glenday
DESCRIPTION:John Glenday’s first collection\, The Apple Ghost\, won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and his second\, Undark\, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His most recent collection\, Grain (Picador\, 2009) was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for both the Ted Hughes Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. He was a judge for the 2011 UK National Poetry Competition. In 1990/91 he was appointed Scottish/Canadian Exchange Fellow\, based at the University of Alberta. \n\nThe author will be available to sign books after the lecture. As always\, books will be available for purchase on site.\n\nUMMA is pleased to be the site for the Department of English Program in Creative Writing Zell Visiting Writers Series\, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from UM alumna Helen Zell (’64). For more information\, please see http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp
UID:12062-1180123@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12062
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:literary
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121204T133754
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T171000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T190000
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:11636-1177809@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:20130214T000012
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Faculty Showcase
DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM:  Rachmaninoff - 6 Romances Op. 38  Carmen Pelton (soprano)\, Nathan Salazar (piano)\; Brahms - Trio Op. 40  Stephen Shipps (violin)\, Adam Unsworth (horn)\, Martin Katz (piano)\; Ewazen - Pastorale David Jackson (trombone)\, Bill Campbell (trumpet)\; Rossini - “Cessa di più resistere” from Il Barbiere di Siviglia  Stanford Olsen (tenor)\, Timothy Cheek (piano)\; Bishop - Picking Up The Pieces  Andrew Bishop (saxophone)\, Ellen Rowe (jazz piano)\; Rowe - Visa Blues  Andrew Bishop\, Ellen Rowe\; Kuster - TBA  Joseph Gramley (percussion)\; Gade - Tango-Fantasia   Amy Porter (flute)\; David Gilliland (piano)
UID:12445-1181377@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/12445
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:music
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20121002T135718
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:My Folky Valentine
DESCRIPTION:
UID:10657-1174390@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/10657
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:annie,music,my folky valentine,rod capps,the ark
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI 
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DTSTAMP:20120905T173515
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20130214T215000
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:10184-1175359@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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