Other:Gifts of Art Call for Entries 2013-2014
2013-03-29 00:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
Gifts of Art is currently accepting proposals for our Aug 2013-Aug 2014 exhibit year! As one of the first and most comprehensive arts in healthcare programs nationwide, Gifts of Art brings the world of art & music to the University of Michigan Health System. Our nine galleries display over 50 exhibits a year. They include 2-D and 3-D spaces that are viewed by approximately 10,000 people a day. This makes our galleries some of the most widely visited indoor, non-museum exhibit spaces in the state. Submission deadline is May 15, 2013. http://www.med.umich.edu/goa/submissions.htm

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Blown Away: epiphany studios glass
2013-03-29 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery –South Lobby, Floor 1.
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.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Celebrations of Confetti: Bead Woven Jewelry
2013-03-29 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery –Main Corridor, Floor 2
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.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Charley Harper by Motawi: Ceramic Art Tile
2013-03-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level B2
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.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Folding in Color: Origami Landscapes
2013-03-29 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery –Main Corridor, Floor 2
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.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Hidden Glimpses of Nature: Photography
2013-03-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1
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.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Metalmorphosis 2013: Jewelry & Metalwork Group Show
2013-03-29 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1
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.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Off the Walls: Digital Pigment Ink Prints
2013-03-29 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery –South Lobby, Floor 1
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.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Precious People: Black & White Photography
2013-03-29 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery – North Lobby, Floor 1.
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.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Wedding Book: Oil on Linen
2013-03-29 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Main Lobby, Floor 1
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.

Exhibition:Interrupted Life
2013-03-29 08:00 - 17:00 | Lane Hall - Lane Hall Gallery, 204 S. State Street (corner of Washington)
Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is an exhibition of five linked installation pieces examining women's experiences of incarceration alongside contemporary issues of human rights and social justice. The exhibit conveys the stark realities of incarceration, especially its impact on mothers and their children.

Interrupted Life features artwork created by inmates as well as actual correspondence between an incarcerated mother and her daughter.

Rickie Solinger is a historian and curator who writes about reproductive and welfare politics, and the relationships of race and class to these issues. She authored the award-winning Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade. Her new book is Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know.

For more than two decades, Solinger has been curating traveling exhibitions about these matters, aiming to "interrupt the curriculum."

This event is hosted by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and Women's Studies, with support from Afroamerican and African Studies, American Culture, Center for the Education of Women, English Language and Literature, Ford School of Public Policy, History, History of Art, Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, School of Social Work, and the Understanding Race Theme Semester.

Exhibition:Exhibit: The Geography of Colorants
2013-03-29 08:30 - 23:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd floor Hatcher South
The Geography of Colorants exhibit, inspired by the thesis "The Geography of Significant Colorants: Antiquity to the Twentieth Century" by Melissa Zagorski, explores the use of color in antique maps as well as the geographical origins of colorants used to make them.

Conference / Symposium:Performing the Other
2013-03-29 08:30 - 22:00 | Palmer Commons - Great Lakes Room and Forum Hall
The symposium brings African, American and Chinese performers and scholars to Ann Arbor, where they will discuss their experiences and interpretations about Africa-China relationships as manifested through various art forms; it seeks to highlight Africa’s and China’s artistic responses to all levels of interactions between African countries and China. The symposium begins at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, March 29, with the opening remarks at 9:30 a.m., with an evening performance workshop at 8:00 p.m. The symposium begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 30, 2013, with an 8:00 p.m. performance. All events will be held at Palmer Commons.

Exhibition:“Kelsey Contemporaries: Kayla Romberger and Alisha Wessler”
2013-03-29 09:00 - 16:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Alisha Wessler’s “Compass” is from the exhibit “Kelsey Contemporaries: Kayla Romberger and Alisha Wessler,” open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday through June 16 at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. The exhibit features the work of Master of Fine Arts students Romberger and Wessler from the School of Art & Design and Museum Studies Program.

Exhibition:Language Comes After Artist: The Work of Lynne Avadenka
2013-03-29 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Gallery, #1010
Lynne Avadenka is the 2013 Jill S. Harris Visiting Artist at the Institute for the Humanities. An established book artist from Detroit who has had her own one-woman press for 25 years, she is a recent recipient of the Kresge Award and an inaugural fellow at the American Academy in Jerusalem. Her work considers text, ancient and new, often incorporating old scripture, and traditional themes into modern and abstract compositions. It also examines books, handmade and digital, the value imbued into them and extrapolated out of them while wrestling with ideas of meaning, aesthetics, image, and language. www.lynneavadenka.com

This exhibit is presented in collaboration with M Library as well as the U-M Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, which will exhibit Lynne Avadenka's books.

Exhibition:Race: Are we so different?
2013-03-29 09:00 | Ruthven Museums Building
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.

The 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.

Race: 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.

Exhibition:Ross Art Collection
2013-03-29 09:00 - 17:00 | Ross School of Business
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/.

Other:18th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
2013-03-29 10:00 - 19:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery
PCAP is proud to present the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. Since its inception in 1996, this nationally recognized show has grown to be the largest exhibition of prisoner art in the country, featuring more than 300 works of art by over 200 artists. Despite limited resources, exhibition artists create work in a rich range of styles, mediums and themes. The exhibition sheds light on the talents found behind prison walls and encourages the public to take a second look, inspiring dialogue and awareness. As a result of this annual event, the amount of art created in Michigan prisons has increased dramatically, and Michigan prison artists have become national leaders, inspiring others to create art behind bars.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Class / Instruction:The Golden Age of Comedy–OLLI Study Group (50+)
2013-03-29 10:00 - 13:00 | Off Campus Location - Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 2900 Jackson Ave
The comedy of silent films is still hailed by film critics and aficionados as the funniest works in the history of motion pictures. Lacking sound, film comedians and clowns created a world of physical humor that sometimes achieved the sublime. This course examines the individual artists of the ”˜golden age of comedy’ and considers the more general question, why is the funny so funny? We will look at some of the early progenitors of silent comedy such as Mack Sennett and the Keystone Cops and pay special attention to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Instructor: Ira Konigsberg

Class / Instruction:Writers Unlimited–OLLI Study Group
2013-03-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
Each week, writers will bring in typed copies of their short stories, plays, poems, novels, essays, or freelance magazine articles. Fellow writers will offer friendly and appreciative criticism on all aspects of writing. Participants are asked to provide copies of their essays to share with the group. For 23 years, Joy Rome was a Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Class continues Fridays, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon September 7 - August 30 at TSRC.

Exhibition:El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa
2013-03-29 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Alfred Taubman Gallery
This exhibit is a major retrospective of African artist El Anatsui, who is widely knowns for monumental wall sculptures made from discarded bottle tops.

Exhibition:Florencia Pita/FP mod
2013-03-29 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
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.

Lead 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.

Exhibition:Francis Alys: Guards
2013-03-29 11:00 | Museum of Art
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.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Presentation:“El Museo del Norte”: Re-imagining the Meanings of the "Museum" on the Streets of Detroit
2013-03-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Museum of Art - Multi-Purpose Room (125)
The speaker will address the partnership between the U-M’s Latina/o Studies Program and Fronteras NorteÃ±as, a public history organization in southwest Detroit, formed to explore the possibility of creating a grass roots museum and cultural center to document this historical presence and roles of Latina/os within Detroit’s multiethnic history.

Lecture / Discussion:Yahoo! Lecture Series: Marti Hearst
2013-03-29 12:00 | North Quad - Ehrlicher Room
In 2008, Marti Hearst was on sabbatical and finishing her book Search User Interfaces when Barack Obama won the Presidential election. By February 2009 she'd finished the book and its associated web site, her PhD students were all graduated, and she still had months left in her sabbatical. So it seemed only logical to move to Washington DC and join the administration!

Thus began a journey that led to a deep case study in the difficulties of bringing good IT practices to a $2.5 billion organization with more than $350 million in annual IT spending. Join her for this tale of how she learned to be in the executive suite -- or at least how to wear an executive's suit -- and built one of the largest user experience groups in the federal government.

Dr. Marti Hearst is a Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science Division. Her primary research interests are user interfaces for search engines, information visualization, natural language processing, digital humanities, and empirical analysis of social media.

She has recently completed the first book on Search User Interfaces. Prof. Hearst received BA, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC from 1994 to 1997.

Class / Instruction:How Language Makes Meaning: 1–OLLI Study Group (50+)
2013-03-29 13:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location - Turner Senior Resource Center, 2401 Plymouth Road, Suite C, Ann Arbor.
The first set of eight presentations will address the basic structures of language: sounds, words, grammatical systems, and language acquisition.will view and discuss excellent videos from The Teaching Company. Sharon Quiroz has a Ph.D. in English, specializing in language.

Lecture / Discussion:Human Rights Initiative Lecture
2013-03-29 13:00 - 15:00 | Michigan League - Henderson Room
As part of the Human Rights Initiative, Kira Kay, Special Correspondent for PBS NewsHour, will screen and discuss three stories from her television series, Fault Lines of Faith, which were filmed in Thailand, India and Northern Ireland. The series provides an on-the-ground perspective of regions suffering from communal upheaval and examines the impact of conflict on the relationships between people of differing faiths.

Exhibition:Recent Acquisitions: Building on the Clements Collections
2013-03-29 13:00 - 16:30 | William Clements Library
The Clements Library never stops adding to its collections of primary source material. Already one of the finest American history research libraries in the world, its curators are always seeking new items to improve traditional strengths of the collection or to support new perspectives on the study of America before 1900. This exhibit features recent acquisitions of the Book, Manuscripts, Map, and Graphics divisions and shows how they fit in to the Clements overall collections.

Lecture / Discussion:Google Lecture Series: Victor Strecher
2013-03-29 15:30 - 17:00 | North Quad - Ehrlicher Room
Long-held assumptions and beliefs about life, death, disease, health, and risk -- subjects on which Dr. Strecher has been writing and speaking for years -- are questioned. This presentation takes a journey through ancient and modern philosophy, literature, psychology, genetics, neuroscience, and Egyptology, where you will be introduced to an unlikely role model: a six-legged superhero with a unique relationship to a ball of excrement. In the presentation, Dr. Strecher will also preview a platform of multimedia strategies designed to help people make meaningful changes in their lives.

Dr. Strecher received his PhD in Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in 1983. Since 1995, he has been a Professor in the UM School of Public Health and until 2009, Director of Cancer Prevention and Control at the UM Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Dr. Strecher founded the UM Center for Health Communications Research, a collaborative research-focused organization of health and behavioral scientists, educators, software engineers, and artists.

Performance:Music Theory Department Colloquium
2013-03-29 15:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Room 2058
John Berners - A discussion of his composition to be premiered at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Exhibition:Pesha's Journey: From Rabbi's Daughter to Radical Feminist
2013-03-29 18:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Room 1022
“Pesha's Journey” tells the story, in pictures and words, of Pesha–a Jewish woman born into an orthodox Palestine family who struggled to live a life unfettered by the oppressive bonds of her cultural moment. The photos, taken between 1911 and 1940, trace her early life to her education in Germany and, eventually, her marriage and move to New York with husband Benno, the photographer who took many of these pictures. These images and Pesha’s story were discovered after Benno’s death by his son, Eric Bermann, who co-curated this exhibit.

Performance:Beyond Scale
2013-03-29 19:00 | Museum of Art
Taking inspiration from the creative process of Florencia Pita, this year’s SMTD@UMMA concert series closes with an evening of new works ranging from live electronics to experimental theater, all generated from an initiating cell or idea. UM Associate Professor of Music Adam Unsworth performs Kevin Ernste’s Nisi for horn and live electronics. Local soprano Jennifer Goltz premieres a new piece by University of Indianapolis Professor (and UM alumnus) John Berners, in which a single line of text is sung, fragmented, breathed, spoken, explored, and shouted. Local ensemble Latitude 49, made up of UM graduate students, perform new compositions influenced in part by minimalism. Multimedia artist Carlos Garcia joins Goltz to premiere a new work for voices and electronics that forms itself in real time.

The SMTD@UMMA performance series is made possible in part by the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund.

Lead 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 + Urban Planning.

Performance:Dance Mix 2013
2013-03-29 19:00 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
Dance Mix is an organization that
unifies a diverse array of student-run performance groups to celebrate the art of dance. Each year, our Core - composed of Element 1, EnCore, FunKtion, Impact and RhythM - invites a constantly changing diverse selection of
premier dance groups from the University of Michigan that represent our
principles of multiculturalism, diversity, an self-expression to join with us in our annual campus-wide production!

Presentation:Watching a Geisha Dance: Choreography as Historical Source
2013-03-29 19:00 - 20:30 | North Quad - Space 2435
(FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) When a particular dance work has been staged successively over a long period of time, how is the choreography actually passed down to new generations of dancers? Of all the various elements of dance–plot, music, costume–choreography is the most indeterminate and the most difficult to document, leaving very few traces in the historical record.

In the last decade, the Museum of Albert Kahn in France made public color photographs and moving pictures collected by French banker and philanthropist, Kahn. These are the artifacts of his ambitious project to create an “Archive of the Planet,” a visual record “of and for the peoples of the world.” In my explorations of this rare visual archive, I identified one of the films as a record of a geisha dance performance in Kyoto in 1912. The film was shot by photographer Stephane Passet, one of Kahn’s emissaries sent out on an Asian tour to photograph and film in color.

The Kyoto-style geisha dance that Passet captured on camera is distinctive in its choreography. What was most surprising to me was that the dance movements in this one hundred-year-old film were virtually identical to those of the same dance performed today. This raises questions about the meaning of tradition and its physical expression in theater. If it is true that the choreography has remained unchanged for a hundred years, can we assume this particular dance has existed in the exact same form since its inception? Do the physical movements of traditional dance reveal its entire history? In this lecture-demonstration, I will focus on the elements of choreography to offer new perspectives on the history of Japanese dance.

Performance:We The Kings and Hellogoodbye Concert, March 29th @ Michigan Theater
2013-03-29 19:30 - 23:00 | Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater
Big Ticket Productions, in partnership with Lux Charity Organization, presents We The Kings and Hellogoodbye in concert at the Michigan Theater on March 29th. The show starts at 7:30PM. Tickets are available starting at $20 and are available via Ticketmaster (http://bit.ly/YjxvMr) or directly by emailing concertcoregroup@umich.edu (the latter option will save you some dollars).

Part of the proceeds from the event will go towards benefitting the Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation. UAC's Big Ticket Productions' mission is to bring big performing artists to campus with low student prices. Some of our past shows have been Lupe Fiasco, Wale & Big Sean, Common and Slum Village, Girl Talk, Ellen DeGeneres, and Ben Folds Five. We hope you come join in our celebration of music, as well as future BTP events!

Performance:Ariadne auf Naxos
2013-03-29 20:00 | Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
University Opera Theatre directed by Kay Walker Castaldo, University Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Kamal Khan In this opera mixing sublime music with slapstick comedy, opera divas are forced to join with Commedia dell’arte actors to present the Greek myth of Ariadne. Sung in German with projected translations. League Ticket Office 734-764-2538

Performance:Dance MFA Thesis Concert: Other
2013-03-29 20:00 | Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theatre
Anna ”˜Tru’ Jonkman, dancer/choreographer

Performance:Masters Recital: Billy D. Scott, piano
2013-03-29 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
PROGRAM: Green - Body and Soul; Scott - Latika&##39;s Dream; Eighteen After Midnight; Land of My Affliction; Five O&##39;clock at the Train Station; You&##39;ll Never Forget This Dance; Just Another Feelin’; Latika&##39;s Mood; Runyan - Great is Thy Faithfulness.

Performance:Masters Recital: Gillian Markwick, double bass
2013-03-29 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Stamps Auditoirum
PROGRAM: Aitken - Suite for Solo Bass; Franck - Sonata in A Major; Shostakovich - Five Pieces for 2 Violins and Piano ; Piazzolla - Le Grand Tango.

Performance:Senior Recital: Henry Stanley, trombone
2013-03-29 20:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Appermont - Colors; Korngold - Two Arias from Die Tote Stadt; Surdu - Non Sequitur no. 2; Castérède - Sonatine pour Trombone et Piano; Turrin - Fandango; Stanley - The Fall of the House of Usher.

Performance:Suzanne Westenhoefer
2013-03-29 20:00 | Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
In the past year, Suzanne Westenhoefer has ended up on the cutting room floor of a movie in post-production, gotten a divorce, and re-entered the insanity of the dating world–all of which have created more laughter-inducing opportunities than she ever thought possible.She’s bad ”¦ and she knows it. She’s also rip-roaring hilarity wrapped up with a silver bow and a gift tag that says, “Just Try Me." All we have to say about that is: ”Where do we sign up?” Suzanne’s new material is based on her ever-changing view of life after, well, everything. She’s a brand-new woman around town with striking insights based on a jilted year that has finally–thankfully–ended. Stick with her, and she’ll take you for a ride on the wild side with plenty of Pinot (for Ark members!) to keep it interesting. All aboard!
