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DTSTAMP:20160518T180010
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T235959
SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Free tango lessons and parties\, weekly with MATC
DESCRIPTION:Lessons\, guided practice\, and parties -- free for beginner-level tango dancers. Throughout Spring-Summer:Mondays - Dance party and individual help at Pittsfield Grange 8pm (except 5/16)Wednesdays - Tango lesson and practice time at Mason Hall 8pmEvery other Saturday - Dance party in UM Union The classic Argentine style of tango is a dance with a hug-like embrace that cultivates a sense of dynamic balance. Ann Arbor has a welcoming and diverse tango community\, with meetups happening several times a week. The UM club hosts lessons and DJ'd practices on Wednesdays in Mason Hall\, and dance parties on Mondays and every other Saturday. Join us when you can\, and we'll supply the partners! Please RSVP and share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1599829860308119/ Questions?  Email matcTango@umich.edu
UID:30581-3740397@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30581
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:UM Union
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20151208T153106
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T170000
SUMMARY:Other:CEW offers Funding for Event Co-sponsorship for 2016
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Education of Women (CEW) is seeking opportunities to partner with units on campus via its Frances and Sydney Lewis (FSL) Visiting Leaders Fund.  This endowment fund brings visiting women leaders to campus who are distinguished scholars and/or practitioners in their fields.  Any U-M department\, unit or organization (student\, staff or faculty) may submit a funding request to CEW via our online Google application form.  Requests for event support will be evaluated based on their consistency with the purpose of the FSL Visiting Leaders Fund and should be submitted at least six (6) weeks before the proposed programming.  Please note that only those events submitted via the CEW online form will be considered.\n\nDEADLINES:\n2016 Winter Semester: December 15\, 2015\n2016 Fall Semester: August 1\, 2016\n\nIn addition\, CEW can provide promotional support for events by listing on our online calendar.  To learn more about how CEW can support your U-M event\, please refer to this CEW webpage: http://www.cew.umich.edu/RFP)\n\nQuestions about event co-sponsorship may be directed to Janice Reuben\, CEW Senior Associate for Programs & Outreach\, at 734.764.6005  (reubenjs@umich.edu).
UID:27093-2308809@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27093
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Career,Community Service,Diversity,Inclusion,Leadership
LOCATION:Center for the Education of Women
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160418T110610
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The Many Faces and Figures of the Four Sons in the Passover Haggadah
DESCRIPTION:The Four Sons of the Passover Haggadah can now be viewed in their many versions at a unique exhibit at the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. The exhibit\, featuring 29 Haggadahs from the Irwin M. Alterman Haggadah Collection\, will be on display through July.  It includes Haggadahs of various shapes and sizes\, ancient and modern\, and in a number of different languages.\n\nThe Alterman collection was acquired by the University of Michigan Library last year with the help of the Frankel Center\, and is housed in the Special Collections Library of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. It includes more than 1\,800 Haggadahs and is believed to be one of the largest Haggadah collections in the world. The unique compilation belonged to the late Irwin Alterman of West Bloomfield\, and was donated by his widow\, Marilyn McCall Alterman. \n\nPhoto courtesy of Luna Archey
UID:30296-3402274@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30296
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2000
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T124225
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Aging in America: Oil Portraits
DESCRIPTION:This show is a series of oil portraits by New Jersey based artist Janet Boltax of individuals who are 90 years of age and over. They are accompanied by excerpts of interviews with each person about their life and how they are coping with the aging process. Boltax is primarily a portrait painter who also does printmaking and mixed media. She teaches portrait painting\, color theory and composition at the Montclair Museum\, Montclair\, New Jersey\, and also works as a copy writer.
UID:29988-3284615@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29988
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T125341
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Among the Lost & Found: Collage on Panel
DESCRIPTION:In his work\, David Criner transforms twentieth century collage material in pursuit of an image that celebrates the present moment. The antiquated \"pop\" sensibility imbued by his sourced matter is countered by gestural\, spontaneous mark making\, creating compositions that manage to reference the past while also feeling timeless. Criner works out of Chicago\, and teaches at Northeastern Illinois University.
UID:29992-3285015@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29992
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T124859
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents K-12 Group Show
DESCRIPTION:Ann Arbor Public Schools has a comprehensive\, nationally recognized K-12 arts education program that encourages experience in a variety of media and subject matter. They also explore artistic historical and cultural connections. Finished pieces from students in all grades will be on display in both 2D and 3D. A variety of media and styles are represented including drawing\, painting\, printmaking\, ceramics\, sculpture\, photography and jewelry.
UID:29990-3284855@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29990
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T125827
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Light Begins at 40: A Detroit Photographer Looks Back
DESCRIPTION:In a world beset with problems and heartache\, for this retrospective\, Philip Dattilo shares photographs of cheer\, amusement and inspiration. A professional photographer since the 1970s\, Dattilo searched through 40 years of his personal photographs as well as those for medical\, architectural and industrial clients (including U-M). The search uncovered a gold mine of happy memories\, suggesting “Life can sometimes be good.”  His work includes the photo booklet Enjoy Detroit\, It’s Your City\, a family photographic portrait for President Gerald Ford\, and work on display in the permanent collection of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.
UID:29994-3285175@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29994
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T124541
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Recent Work: Ceramics
DESCRIPTION:Jeri Hollister draws inspiration from her experience growing up in rural Michigan and her time as a student at the University Michigan studying art history and ceramics. She employs traditional ceramics tools and building techniques to create her horse sculptures allowing the process to be evident in the finished work.
UID:29989-3284775@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29989
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T125604
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Surface & Structure: Jewelry & Metals
DESCRIPTION:Kristine Bolhuis is an independent jewelry maker working out of her studio in Ann Arbor\, Michigan. Her recent work has focused on lightweight metal constructions that move\, flex and collapse. She creates her work at the bench where it is conceived of and constructed from start to finish. She feels her process is one of exploration and discovery\, and it is full of surprises.
UID:29993-3285095@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29993
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160325T125124
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Swimming Upstream: Quilts
DESCRIPTION:Self-taught textile artist\, author and curator Bonnie J. Smith lives and works in San Jose\, California. She attended Indiana University-Purdue University\, Indianapolis Campus (IUPUI)\; and Indiana Central College\; and has taken Master Dyeing Classes at Dartmouth College. Smith received the 2015 NICHE Award for design\, and her textile work was selected for exhibition in the United Nations\, Geneva\, Switzerland (2016). Swimming Upstream tells her personal journey with an injury that placed her temporarily in a wheel chair\, to finally finding the courage to start creating art and living life again.
UID:29991-3284935@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29991
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1.
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20151211T113926
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000)\, for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing\, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States\, a founder of the profession\, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates\, her New York–based studio\, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s\, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances\, glassware\, and pieces in silver\, plastics\, wrought iron and wood.
UID:27190-2334023@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27190
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160310T165634
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T235900
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Intersections/Connections
DESCRIPTION:This International Studies exhibit focuses on materials from across the world\, including many nations and cultures. Rather than displaying each area separately\, the exhibit concentrates on the connections and intersections among disparate regions.
UID:29615-3148163@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29615
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160309T134427
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Here We Go Again: Dealing with Change
DESCRIPTION:Change is the only constant in our lives. In this course you will learn to develop a manageable perspective on how to work with the disruptions\, speed-bumps\, and adaptations that occur as a natural part of everyone’s lives.\n\nYou will learn to:\n\nIdentify the process of change in both work and non-work life situations\nDiscuss the stages that individuals must deal with during change\nExamine various strategies for dealing with change successfully\nApply the best strategies to reframe situations in order to deal with them with the least amount of stress\n\nYou will benefit by:\n\nGaining some degree of control over how you deal with change\nKnowing the vocabulary for internalizing the effects of change\nDeveloping an action plan for dealing with change\, now and in the future\n\nAudience:\n\nAnyone trying to deal with change at work or in their personal life
UID:29561-3138636@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29561
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Career,Leadership,Networking,Workshop
LOCATION:Administrative Services Building - LPD
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160512T143154
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time
DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time?  What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons?  Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too!  The exhibit is open!
UID:27873-2579456@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Museum
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160516T121506
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T173000
SUMMARY:Performance:M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition Semi-Finals
DESCRIPTION:Renowned M-Prize Semi-Finalists compete in the first live adjudicated round. Performances include junior and senior divisions across strings\, winds\, and open instrumental categories.\n\nStrings: Britton Recital Hall\nWinds: McIntosh Theatre\nOpen: Hankinson Rehearsal Hall and Kevreson Rehearsal Hall\n\nPerformances occur 9AM-5:30PM\, the public is invited to come at any time during that window.\n\nFor more information\, please visit: http://mprize.umich.edu
UID:30669-3672712@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30669
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160407T093122
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Modeling Multivariate Data with Principal Component Analysis\, Multidimensional Scaling\, Factor Analysis and Clustering Algorithms
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is designed to teach participants a) the logical basis for a set of techniques and b) how to carry out analyses using statistical software SPSS. Multidimensional Data introduces factor analysis\, multidimensional scaling\, cluster analysis and principal components analysis.  The workshop includes hands-on computer work for each technique.
UID:30285-3399987@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30285
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Research
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2001A
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160506T162225
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:A New Treasure Trove at Special Collections
DESCRIPTION:This display showcases recent acquisitions that strengthen our extraordinary holdings in the areas of radical literature\, transportation history\, film\, rare books\, culinary history\, Islamic manuscripts\, children’s literature\, and Judaica. View an eclectic display of unique artifacts that reflect the broad range of our collections.\n\nArtifacts on display include historical treasures like Emma Goldman’s well-traveled suitcase\, Orson Welles’ cutting script for the film Around the World\, a fifteenth-century manuscript containing an Arabic treatise of materia media attributed to Galen\, a 1850 contract for the remount of the moving machinery of the St. Peterburg and Moscow Railway\, and Mildred Taylor’s illustrated novella for children\, The Gold Cadillac\, narrating a Northern black family’s experience of Southern segregation and prejudice during the 1950s as seen through the eyes of a young girl.\n\nExhibit Hours: Monday-Friday\, 10am-5pm\nClosed Memorial Day\, 4th of July\, and Labor Day
UID:30662-3646130@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30662
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160516T110846
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Defense Dissertation: Selected Problems for High-Dimensional Data - Quantile and Errors-in-variables Regressions
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThis dissertation addresses two problems. First\, we study joint quantile regression at multiple quantile levels with high dimensional covariates. Variable selection performed at individual quantile levels may lack stability across neighboring quantiles\, making it difficult to understand and to interpret the impact of a given covariate on conditional quantile functions. We propose a Dantzig-type penalization method for sparse model selection at each quantile level which at the same time aims to shrink differences of the selected models across neighboring quantiles. We show model selection consistency\, and investigate stability of the selected models across quantiles.\nIn the second part of the thesis\, we consider the class of covariance models that can be expressed as a Kronecker sum. Taking advantage of our theoretical analysis on matrix decomposition\, we demonstrate that our methodology yields computationally efficient and statistically convergent estimates. We show that this decomposition may correspond to a representation of the data as signal plus additive noise. This may in turn be used in a regression framework to accommodate measurement error. We assess performance using simulations and illustrate the methods using a study of hawkmoth flight control (Sponberg et al. 2015). We find that the decomposition successfully isolates signal and noise\, and reveals a strong-er neural encoding relationship than otherwise would be obtained.
UID:30726-3726282@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30726
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation
LOCATION:West Hall - 438
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160602T063004
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T112000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Emerging Adulthood Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This program is for PSYC 457 Class-Emerging Adulthood students
UID:30749-3740450@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30749
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:2548 CC Little 1100 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160421T105421
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Picture This!
DESCRIPTION:An exhibit of photographs taken of and by young patients—many of whom were born with facial differences or cleft palates—in U-M Mott Hospital’s Craniofacial Anomalies Program. Paired with professional photographers\, the children learned new ways to look at and through the camera lens.
UID:30488-3519889@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30488
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Storytelling,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160404T105502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction
DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29456-3120433@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160329T123251
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Focus: Jeanne Gang
DESCRIPTION:Widely acclaimed for her integrative approach to materials\, technology\, and ecological context\, Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. Shortly thereafter Gang proposed an ambitious restoration of the Chicago riverfront through a series of small but transformational projects. The WMS Boathouse\, designed by Gang and located north of downtown\, is one such project\, encompassing a field house with state-of-the art training facilities\, a boat storage building\, and a floating dock at the river’s edge. Completed in 2013\, the 22\,000-square-foot boathouse is the city’s premier rowing center\, serving a range of public rowing clubs\, many of whose amateur athletes come from the city’s underserved communities.\n\nThis installation showcases dynamic exterior and interior sketches of the complex—recently acquired by UMMA—depicting the distinctive rhythmic contours of the roof\, derived from studies of rowers in motion\, and the open\, angular\, and light-filled spaces within.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:30041-3321262@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30041
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160329T124905
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light
DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:30043-3321348@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160308T121704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016)
DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29503-3129517@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160202T134236
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits
DESCRIPTION:The first major U.S. exhibition of the accomplished Chinese artist Xu Weixin (b. 1958)\, Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits will focus on two of his acclaimed\, large-size portrait series: Miner Portraits and Chinese Historical Figures: 1966–1976. The subjects in Miner Portraits are coal miners working in harsh conditions in contemporary China. Chinese Historical Figures: 1966–1976 depicts people who lived—known and unknown\, and some of whom eventually perished—during the turbulent time of the Cultural Revolution. By portraying these individuals with monumentality and poignant realism\, Xu Weixin brings our focus to their lives and ordeals\, inviting an emotional connection. Reflecting the artist’s deep interest in the human condition\, these single-person portraits challenge our expectations and compel us to see beyond official narratives of historical events and social conditions. Xu Weixin is currently a professor of painting and the former executive dean of the School of Arts\, Renmin University\, Beijing.
UID:28691-2810537@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28691
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Chinese Studies,Exhibition,International,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160512T151821
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T180000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Coloring Our Dreams
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit features more than 40 exquisite paintings created by socially disadvantaged children from Iran. It was organized by the Students Association Against Poverty (SAAP) at the University of Michigan in collaboration with the Imam Ali Student Relief Society of Tehran\, Iran. SAAP hopes this exhibition will act as a platform to empower the individuality and creativity of these children despite their disheartening situation.
UID:30704-3695175@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30704
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Gallery
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20160509T082249
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T130000
SUMMARY:Other:U-M Fulbright Information Session Webinar
DESCRIPTION:A U-M Fulbright Program Advisor will describe the application and selection process and provide suggestions for making your application more competitive.\n\nA link to attend will be provided on the Fulbright Resources CTools site closer to the date of the event. To learn how to join the CTools site\, please visit our webpage: http://ii.umich.edu/ii/fulbright-program.html.
UID:30666-3668644@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30666
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:International
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20160518T180011
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T220000
SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Free tango lessons and parties\, weekly with MATC
DESCRIPTION:Lessons\, guided practice\, and parties -- free for beginner-level tango dancers. Throughout Spring-Summer:Mondays - Dance party and individual help at Pittsfield Grange 8pm (except 5/16)Wednesdays - Tango lesson and practice time at Mason Hall 8pmEvery other Saturday - Dance party in UM Union The classic Argentine style of tango is a dance with a hug-like embrace that cultivates a sense of dynamic balance. Ann Arbor has a welcoming and diverse tango community\, with meetups happening several times a week. The UM club hosts lessons and DJ'd practices on Wednesdays in Mason Hall\, and dance parties on Mondays and every other Saturday. Join us when you can\, and we'll supply the partners! Please RSVP and share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1599829860308119/ Questions?  Email matcTango@umich.edu
UID:30584-3589193@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30584
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:1401 Mason Hall
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20160301T120908
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Mouths of Babes
DESCRIPTION:With more than a dozen albums and over a thousand shows between them\, Ty Greenstein and Ingrid Elizabeth of Mouths of Babes are no strangers to the modern folk music scene. For years\, their respective bands Girlyman and Coyote Grace captivated thousands of loyal fans as they crisscrossed the country\, rocked festival main stages\, and toured with the likes of the Indigo Girls and Dar Williams. Now\, as Mouths of Babes\, Ty and Ingrid have distilled the very best of the songwriting\, humor\, and musicianship of their previous groups into a new power duo whose key is contrast. Rarely is a sound or a show as balanced as it is with these two\, and the differences in both their songwriting styles and personal presentation makes for an unusually satisfying yin and yang. The Chicago Tribune writes: “They offer unique counterpoints to one another…the laidback Ty\, nattily dressed in a tie and crisp suit jacket\, has a rich\, lovely alto. Ingrid\, clad in a sultry pink satin mini-dress\, is a sassy chanteuse with a lilting soprano. Trading jokes and sharing elegant harmonies\, the two women display an intuitive professional bond.” They easily switch off lead vocals and play a wide array of instruments\, with Ty on acoustic and electric guitars\, banjo\, and foot percussion\, and Ingrid playing upright bass\, ukulele\, and cajón.
UID:28705-2810563@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28705
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Music,The Ark
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
CONTACT:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20160518T180010
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160519T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160518T220000
SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Free tango lessons and parties\, weekly with MATC
DESCRIPTION:Lessons\, guided practice\, and parties -- free for beginner-level tango dancers. Throughout Spring-Summer:Mondays - Dance party and individual help at Pittsfield Grange 8pm (except 5/16)Wednesdays - Tango lesson and practice time at Mason Hall 8pmEvery other Saturday - Dance party in UM Union The classic Argentine style of tango is a dance with a hug-like embrace that cultivates a sense of dynamic balance. Ann Arbor has a welcoming and diverse tango community\, with meetups happening several times a week. The UM club hosts lessons and DJ'd practices on Wednesdays in Mason Hall\, and dance parties on Mondays and every other Saturday. Join us when you can\, and we'll supply the partners! Please RSVP and share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1599829860308119/ Questions?  Email matcTango@umich.edu
UID:30581-3740398@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30581
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:UM Union
CONTACT:
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