Recreational / Games:Casual Gaming Club - Gaming Event!
2017-09-23 21:00 - 2017-09-24 00:00 (America/Detroit) | Michigan Union
Hey everyone! The Casual Gaming Club is hosting event #3 of the semester!

Finish off the week right and come and hang out with us this Saturday, September 23rd, starting at 9:00 PM 'til 12:00 AM. It will be on the first floor of the Michigan Union, Anderson ABCD (the same room as the very first event!)

We'll be playing all kinds of games, from video games on consoles that will be screened on projectors and PC games for those who bring their laptops. Card games, board games, and other activities at tables will also be a BIG highlight at the event! Bring your console, games, controllers, and laptop PC if you want to play a certain game with others. Feel free to bring friends as well!

If you enjoy grouping up in six-stack parties to stomp noobs on Overwatch, make sure to bring your laptop and reach out to your other Overwatch PC gamers by commenting below or mentioning "@Overwatch Gamers" in the Discord group chat's #overwatch channel! We'll also be grouping up for other large team-based PC games like League of Legends, Dota 2, and Heroes of the Storm, so make sure to reach out to your respective team members beforehand to group up!

Unfortunately, we've decided not to provide food for this event, so please make sure you catch something to bite before coming.

Lastly, an important reminder!! If you haven't yet, please don't forget to connect your games/interests with other club members using the link below so that we can group you up with other similar gamers to play with at the event and later too! http://45.76.18.247/

Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge
2017-09-24 00:00 - 23:59 | Jewish Family Services
Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client. Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked, taking notes for the patients to reference. Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members. Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months. Must fill out application, background check, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here

Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network
2017-09-24 00:00 - 23:59 | Bryant Community Center
Volunteers help distribute food from the truck, "shop" with families, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families. Sign-Up Here

Sporting Event:Great Lakes Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta
2017-09-24 00:00 - 23:59, 2017-09-25 00:00 | Chicago, Illinois
Keelboat regatta raced on Tartan 10s in Chicago.

Sporting Event:Hood Trophy
2017-09-24 00:00 - 23:59, 2017-09-25 00:00 | Tufts University, Medford, MA
ISCA Regatta hosted at Tufts. Pretty competitive

Community Service:Long-Term Tutoring - Community Action Network
2017-09-24 00:00 - 23:59 | Community Action Network
Volunteers will help build academic success and confidence in the students they tutor. Tutors help with homework, reading, and enrichment activities. Tutor shifts also include time to hang out with the students during meals or recreation. These are good times to make meaningful connections with students, helping them become better students and community members. Your time and passion could make a difference in one's educational success. Volunteers must commit to one day per week for a min. of 12 weeks. Must complete application, background check, and online training. 60 points Sign-Up Here

Other:MC5
2017-09-24 00:00 | Mounds State Park
Hosted by Ball State

Other:Purdue Boilerman Triathlon
2017-09-24 00:00 - 23:59, 2017-09-25 00:00 | Rainy Brook Bay
Travel to Purdue university for a triathlon.

Other:Recruiting New Members for Fall 2017!
2017-09-24 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Michigan
The LSA Honor Council is an undergraduate student organization dedicated to developing initiatives that aid in the promotion of respect, integrity, and personal responsibility. We also attend meetings hosted by the Office of Student Academic Affairs for students accused of academic misconduct. In our recruitment efforts, we prioritize the importance of forming a council composed of individuals with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints. This spectrum of varied perspectives enables our council to more effectively address issues of integrity on our campus. This upcoming year, we are recruiting a group of motivated and dedicated LSA students who are interested in working closely with the deans, faculty, and fellow students to promote a campus culture that values integrity. This past year, we have accomplished this goal by hosting faculty department presentations, tabling events, and discussions of current ethical issues. Most recently, we hosted Dr. Victor Strecher from the School of Public Health to present a talk on “Designing a Happy Life.” Given the breadth of our activities, it is crucial that we incorporate students with diverse skill sets to maximize our council’s potential. We hope that you will join us next fall! Link to application: http://lsastudenthc.weebly.com/become-a-member.html

Sporting Event:Tournament at IU-Bloomington
2017-09-24 00:00 - 23:59, 2017-09-25 00:00 | Counsilman Billingsley Aquatic Center
Taking the team to Bloomington to face off against some other B10 teams.

Other:JDRF Walk Day 2017
2017-09-24 07:00 - 12:00 | Ann Arbor
JDRF, an organization that helps fund Type I Diabetes research, is holding its main fundraiser, the JDRF One Walk on Sunday 9/24/17 from 7 AM - 12 PM! Volunteer with us at the Ann Arbor chapter for 4 points!

Responsibilities include helping with registration, parking, refreshments, face painting, and more. Shifts are 3-4 hours long.

If you are interested, PLEASE SIGN UP HERE BY THURS. SEPTEMBER 10TH so we can get a head count!

Exhibition:Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial
2017-09-24 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor
Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen, the exhibit presents maps, plans, architectural drawings, proposals, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.

The Library will be closed December 23 to January 1.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Americana Musical Instruments
2017-09-24 08:00 - 17:00 | University Hospitals - Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments within the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance is one of the largest accumulations of historical and contemporary musical instruments from all over the world that is housed in a North American university. Known internationally as a unique collection, it is not only a precious heritage from the past, but also a rich resource for musical, educational, and cultural needs of the present and future. This exhibition features a selection of Americana musical instruments with origins from around the world.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Flights of Fancy: Oil Painting
2017-09-24 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Since Ellie Harold started painting in 2003, she has primarily been a landscape artist, painting Michigan barns and lake shore scenes in oil. In November 2016, following a trip to Mexico, birds unexpectedly started migrating to her canvases and an entirely new body of work began to take shape. The current exhibit, Flights of Fancy, features birds in colorful, light-filled works. The birds represent the lightness she associates with qualities of joy, hope, healing and inspiration she sees as a source of personal well-being.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition
2017-09-24 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the on-site ballot box. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Photography into Fiber: ArtPrize Winner
2017-09-24 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Steve and Ann Loveless both grew up in northwestern lower Michigan and love the nature and beauty of the outdoors. Steve is a fine art photographer, and Ann is a textile artist. After exhibiting some of Ann’s textile designs inspired by Steve’s photography, they had the idea to create works that morph a photograph into a textile. One aspect of the process is that it can trick the viewer into questioning what they are seeing and invite them to engage more with the work. Northwood Awakening, a 25 by 5 foot piece that was the ArtPrize 2015 Public Vote Grand Prize winner, will be on display.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Cut Ups: Paper Collage
2017-09-24 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Laura Cavanagh is a Michigan native who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan in 2011 with a BFA in Art & Design and a minor in Art History. Cavanagh’s work consists primarily of cut paper and mixed media. Working with these materials allows her to approach her work in much the same way a sculptor does: adding to and cutting away from. Cavanagh finds the artistic process to be deeply meditative. Cavanagh lives and has her studio in a historic home in downtown Rochester, Michigan.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under Covers: Encaustic & Mixed Media
2017-09-24 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Cat Crotchett’s current work combines elements of eastern and western cultural patterns in fragments that together form something different than their individual parts. These images represent an intersection of information as well as ideas of cultural appropriation, assimilation, fragmentation and alteration. Crotchett uses wax because it is relevant to both eastern and early western artistic cultures. A professional artist for over 30 years, Crotchett has exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a professor at Western Michigan University and lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents When Pigs Fly: Oil Painting
2017-09-24 08:00 - 17:00 | University Hospitals - Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1
Professional artist and instructor Gregory Potter believes that anyone can develop artistic skill if they put the work into it. Potter’s teaching helps with that, but he also shows his paintings in art fairs, galleries and even Army barrack walls, anywhere people enjoy art and laughing out loud. A flightless bird, his flamingo isn’t deep or subversive, but it does have a top hat and is riding on the back of a zebra that is standing in a nest powered by a propeller. Nothing unusual for a man who served four tours in the Middle East. Working in his home gallery in Franklin, Indiana, he is amused as viewers sometimes see his animals as “above all the B.S.” or “leaving without knowing where [they’re] going.”

Exhibition:Michigan Past & Present
2017-09-24 08:00 - 21:00 | Pierpont Commons
Profiles of U-M’s first six students, and the two faculty who taught them, and how they compare to the university of 2017. The exhibit features research conducted by Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students and displays designed by students from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

Exhibition:Reverberations of Rebellion: 1967 in Detroit and Ann Arbor
2017-09-24 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - North Lobby (off the Diag)
The 1967 Detroit rebellion was a pivotal event in the history of the Motor City. While Ann Arbor may seem far removed from Detroit, the themes of 1967—housing segregation, media bias, student activism, and police violence—resonated here as well.

This exhibit, on display in the Hatcher Graduate Library North lobby through September 15, 2017, highlights the extensive archival resources of the Bentley Historical Library and the U-M Library’s Labadie Collection. These materials place the rebellion in the context of 1960s activism against racism and inequality in Detroit and Ann Arbor, and illustrate the significance and range of press coverage.

Exhibition:The Grandmother Tree Walk
2017-09-24 08:00 - 20:00 | Nichols Arboretum
Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum celebrates the University of Michigan bicentennial with a tour of 12 historic trees in the Arboretum. The bicentennial story is told from the perspective of the trees, and key moments of U-M's people and history that occurred during the trees' long lives are revealed. Visitors may pick up a map at the Arb visitor center to take this easy, self-guided tour.

Exhibition:Reforming the Word: Martin Luther in Context
2017-09-24 08:30 - 18:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
Highlighting manuscripts and early printed books from the Special Collections Library, the exhibit commemorates the 500th anniversary of a pivotal transformation in world history. In 1517, Martin Luther, a professor of theology and a monk, published his scathing critique of indulgences, a church practice that allowed Christians to buy off time from suffering for one’s sins in the afterlife.

Issued in the provincial town of Wittenberg, Luther's call for academic debate and reform unleashed a series of events that led to the break-up of Latin Christianity. The Reformations that followed forever altered the lives of those in early modern Europe and beyond.

The late medieval German lands teemed with innovation. Novel forms of piety emerged, the demand for practical learning grew, more universities competed for students, and wealth from both trade and mining transformed social relations. The dissemination of texts and ideas on an industrial scale via the printing press reshaped communication, knowledge, and belief. In this context, reform—the renewal of a lost standard of the past in the present—became a battle-cry for religious, economic, and political change.

Audubon Room hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am-6:00pm, Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm, Sunday 1:00-6:00pm

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-09-24 09:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled Cosmogonic Tattoos, his project will use adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides, imaginatively transformed within our campus context, this project celebrates the power of architecture, ornament, and material objects to shape knowledge, historical memory, and cultural identity.

Look for displays in the UMMA from April 22-Dec. 3, the exterior of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Dec. 17, and in the interior special exhibition space of the Kelsey Museum from June 2-Sept. 10.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our free mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

Other:Wisconsin MTB Race
2017-09-24 09:00 - 15:00 | Alpine Valley Resort
MTB Race at Wisconson

Workshop / Seminar:Nonviolent Action as a Force for Rights, Freedom and Justice in the 21st Century
2017-09-24 10:00 - 17:00 | West Quadrangle - 1005 Multipurpose Room
Sunday, September 27, 2017
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
1005 West Quad Multipurpose Room

All-day workshop presented by Hardy Merriman, President, and Deborah Mathis, Director of Communications, of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.

Learn about the following at this interactive and informational workshop:

National and international examples of nonviolent movements struggling for rights, freedom, and justice
Key research about the effectiveness and outcomes of nonviolent movements
Movements strategy, tactics, and communications
Different roles and leadership within nonviolent movements

Free and open to all U-M undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. Lunch and snacks will be provided.

SPACES LIMITED! REGISTER at lsa.umich.edu/mcsp

Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos
2017-09-24 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
In celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017, artist and distinguished U​–M art professor Jim Cogswell has been invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project, the artist will adhere a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums’ permanent collections. The juxtaposed images will address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge, memory, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.
Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at UMMA April 22 through December 3, 2017 and at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology from June 2 through December 17, 2017.
Lead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Exhibition:Gloss: Modeling Beauty
2017-09-24 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography, GLOSS: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty that pervade European and American visual culture from the 1920s to today. The exhibition features images of sleek and poised female models and celebrities destined for the glossy pages of fashion magazines and catalogs by leading photographers such as Edward Steichen, Philippe Halsman, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, and Guy Bourdin. Outside of commercial advertising practice, documentary photographers Elliott Erwitt, Joel Meyerowitz, and Ralph Gibson portray candid images of fashionable women on city streets and mannequins in shop windows, resulting in intriguing juxtapositions of haute couture and everyday life. And
artists James Van Der Zee, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Nikki S. Lee employ the visual strategies of traditional fashion photography, while offering alternative narratives to mainstream notions of female beauty.

Lead support for Gloss: Modeling Beauty is provided by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Exhibition:Moving Image: Portraiture
2017-09-24 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Moving Image: Portraiture presents a contemporary spin on traditional notions of portraiture. In the video Towards An Architect, Hannu Karjalainen portrays a fictional architect who is experiencing the response of people living in the structures he designed. Daniel Rozin’s Mirror No. 10 is driven by software, written by the artist, that generates a real-time reflection of the environment the screen is displayed in—specifically a live sketch of the viewer approaching the frame. Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work by Marina Zurkow that depicts the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England.

Moving Image: Portraiture is the third of three exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, which since 2011 has been focused on media arts. The works in this series address both formal concerns and conceptual topics; many represent traditional categories such as portraiture and landscape that find new resonance when explored through the strategies of dynamic technology.

Lead support for Moving Image: Portraiture is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.

Exhibition:Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
2017-09-24 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Before colonization, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs, and covered in beads and precious metals, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles, animal skin, metal, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

Lead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center.

Exhibition:Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction
2017-09-24 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art
Commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial, Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni in the global art world.

This two-part exhibition presents works collected by a diverse group of alumni that represent the breadth of the University and over seventy years of graduating classes. Part II: Abstraction, on view in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery July 1 through October 29, showcases modern and contemporary art by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti,
Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, and Do Ho Su, among others. It also features a fifth-century Korean roof end tile and an Amish quilt, as well as a work by an Inuit master—thus inviting visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and genres. UMMA extends Part II: Abstraction into the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery from August 19 through November 26, 2017, with the site-specific installation of Random International’s LED-light and motion-sensing dynamic sculpture, Swarm Study / II. Victors for Art offers an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not all together. For visitors, and especially for future Michigan alumni, Victors for Art illuminates the shared passion for art fostered by the Michigan experience.

This exhibition was organized by Joseph Rosa, Guest Curator, in collaboration with Laura De Becker, Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art, Jennifer Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, Lehti Mairike Keelman, Assistant Curator of Western Art, and Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

Exhibition:Looking Back: 20th Century Dress from the Historic Costume Collection
2017-09-24 12:00 - 18:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery
Curated by Professor Jessica Hahn.

An exhibit of costumes from the 20th-century showcasing significant clothing from each decade. From daywear to evening wear, from every strata of society—homemade to couturier fashions.

Lecture / Discussion:Teach Out Series- Hurricanes: What's Next?
2017-09-24 12:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
The 2017 Atlantic Hurricane season has produced incredibly destructive storms, and has raised many questions. What drives a hurricane? How accurate are hurricane models? How do authorities prepare for hurricanes and, when destructive events like Hurricanes Harvey and Irma happen, how do we respond? Is this hurricane season a fluke, or should we start planning for more/similar storms? In this Teach-Out, we will explore the science of hurricanes, hurricane forecasting and monitoring, and with what confidence can we attribute these storms to a warming ocean.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Exhibition:The Journey in a Day: 200 Years of Student Life at the University of Michigan
2017-09-24 12:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location - 500 N. Main St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
U-M students have teamed up to create this sweeping exhibition, surveying 200 years of daily rituals, social life, challenges, victories, and the roles U-M students have played in historic events. "The Journey in a Day" exhibition includes nearly 50 historic objects and dozens of photos. The exhibition includes a recreation of a Martha Cook Residence Hall room, circa 1917, amongst the first on campus to house women. A poster kiosk occupies the middle of one room in the Museum, plastered with fliers and posters from across time. A reproduction of student scrapbooks brings visitors in direct contact with individuals at various times throughout history. From the morning ritual of reading the Michigan Daily, to student reaction and involvement in U.S. wars, from the mandates and tweets of student organizations, to a survey of infamous late night Ann Arbor hot spots, this is a wide ranging exhibition with many interesting, entertaining and illuminating stories to tell.

Designed by U-M students participating in MUSEUMS 498, in the History of Art Department, in collaboration with the U-M Bicentennial Office, and the Washtenaw County Historical Society.

For information on-the-go about this event and all other Bicentennial happenings, download our mobile app: http://guidebook.com/g/umich200.

Social / Informal Gathering:Engaging with Art
2017-09-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Museum of Art
UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a theme and includes a variety of styles and media to illuminate his or her ideas. Themes may be repeated but each docent's approach and choice of objects is unique.

Exhibition:Forever Unfinished: Making and Remaking a Public University
2017-09-24 13:00 - 2017-09-25 02:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 as a public institution, a concept for which there were few models. What makes a university public? What should it look like? Whom should it serve? Who should have access to its resources, and where should those resources come from?

This exhibit explores how students, faculty, staff, politicians, and citizens have attempted to answer these questions. These stories invite us to imagine U-M's future as a public university based on what we know about its past.

Exhibit team: Jonathan Farr, Nora Krinitsky, Michelle McClellan, Gregory Parker, Emily Price, Kate Silbert

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester exhibit is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

Presentation:The Sky Tonight: Live Star Talk
2017-09-24 13:30 - 14:30, 2017-09-24 15:30 - 16:30 | Ruthven Museums Building
Bright stars, constellations, and planets are discussed in this live star talk, which includes a trip into space to look at far away objects.

Other:Dinosaur Tour
2017-09-24 14:00 - 14:30 | Ruthven Museums Building
Attention dinosaur fans! Join us for a free, 30-minute, docent-led tour of the dinosaur exhibits. Sign up on the day of the tours. Limit: 15 people.

Other:Sunday Drop-In Tour | Highlights of the Kelsey Museum
2017-09-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Have you always wanted to learn more about Roman frescoes? Or maybe our cat mummy fascinates you? On this docent-led tour, you will be introduced to some highlights of the museum's Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern collections.

Social / Informal Gathering:Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction
2017-09-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Museum of Art
Alumni Collectors celebrates the deep impact of Michigan alumni on the global art world. This exhibition features works collected by a diverse group of alumni and the artworks themselves span 3,500 years of art making. Victors for Art offers visitors an unprecedented opportunity to view art that may have never been publicly displayed otherwise—and most certainly, not together. Presented in two parts—Figuration (February 18-June 11, 2017) and Abstraction (July 1-October 29, 2017), this second part, Abstraction, invites visitors to explore the pleasures of abstraction across a wide range of media, eras, and
genres. UMMA docents will explore the work of artists such as Pablo Picasso,
Alberto Giacometti, Louise Nevelson, Christo, Lorna Simpson, José Parlá, Kenojuak Ashevak, and Do Ho Su, as well as other treasures such as a fifth-century Korean roof end tile, and an Amish quilt.

Lead support for Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan Office of the President, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office.

Presentation:8 Scoops of Milky Way
2017-09-24 14:30 - 15:30 | Ruthven Museums Building
From the burning surface of the Sun, the lava-hot surface of Venus, the huge stormy belts of Jupiter, or an unimaginably beautiful eclipse on Saturn, “8 Scoops of Milky Way” is full of never-before-seen fulldome images. Each is meant to make you feel the uniqueness and beauty of our solar system.

Exhibition:Exhibition Presentation and Opening: The Future Needs..Something Blue
2017-09-24 15:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Could anyone have foreseen the technical, social, and conceptual issues that have confronted the University of Michigan since its founding 200 years ago, or the challenges it has faced in the last 100, 50, or even five years? In the marshaling of knowledge and expertise, the greatest achievement of the University lies not in its continuity, but in its ability to address the unforeseen. Drawing on the student work from the Taubman College Architecture Program, “The Future Needs…Something Blue” addresses an idea of the future that lies not in the answers to questions we now know, but in possibilities we are only now beginning to imagine. Sited at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning’s Liberty Research Annex, the display is simultaneously shop window, gallery, and salon. Organized around a series of emergent themes it is an interactional space in which to view (in perspective, parallax, parallel, and contrast) the multiple points of view that constitute the future.
“The Future Needs…Something Blue” is curated by Associate Professor of Practice Julia McMorrough and Associate Professor John McMorrough of studioAPT (Architecture Practice Theory).
On Tuesday, September 19 at 6:00pm there will be an opening reception at the Liberty Research Annex (305 W. Liberty St., Ann Arbor). Exhibition on view September 20 - October 29.

Presentation:Hands-On Demo: Fantastic Fluids
2017-09-24 15:00 - 15:30 | Ruthven Museums Building
Explore the fascinating world of fluid dynamics! Together we will discuss what is a “fluid,” and through experimentation, we will learn how fluids move and interact. Learn how wind creates waves, and test the surface tension of different liquids. How do different fluids mix? Can you ever unmix them? Learn about how and why U-M researchers are studying fluid dynamics. This demo is filled to the brim with hands-on experiments. Funded by the National Science Foundation.

Hands-on demonstrations are 20-30 minute interactive programs on the 2nd floor of the Museum.​ ​They include both brief presentations highlighting University research and engaging hands-on activities, and are suitable for adults and children ages 5 and up.

Rally / Mass Meeting:Health Promotion Mass Meeting 2
2017-09-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Pendleton Room - Michigan Union
Come to learn about how Health Promotion practices preventative health, participates in community service, and raises awareness for health issues.

Well-being:FREE 4-Session Mindfulness Class
2017-09-24 15:45 - 17:00 | Michigan Union - Central Student Government Chambers, 3rd Floor
REGISTRATION OPEN FOR ALL STUDENTS!
Sundays from 3:45 - 5:00pm (9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/22)
@ Central Student Government Chambers (Michigan Union, 3rd Floor)

During this 4-session class you will be introduced to the practice of mindfulness and learn several skills, including meditation, for managing stress and enriching your life. Mindfulness is about developing the ability to be fully attentive to all the moments of your life, reducing the amount of time you spend worrying about the future or fretting about the past. An important aspect of mindfulness is developing a non-judgmental, accepting, even curious, attitude about your moment-to-moment experience. The more you develop this attitude, the less you will feel overwhelmed by changes and challenges in your life.

Koru is designed to introduce you to the practice of mindfulness and get you well on your way to developing this important skill. Like learning any new skill, it takes practice to get comfortable with mindfulness. We invite you to devote yourself to the study and practice of mindfulness over the next four weeks, and we challenge you to stay curious about what evolves for you as you persistently and patiently practice living mindfully. We also have a free mobile app to track meditation practices for this course!

Register today before the seats are filled!

For any questions, please contact Hitomi Katsumi at hkat@umich.edu.

Recreational / Games:IASA Field Day
2017-09-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Palmer Field
Join IASA on Palmer Field for a day of fun, sports and food! Get excited for games like cricket, water balloon, cornhole and more while you meet new people and bond with the members of IASA. Everyone is invited and their will be free pizza!

Performance:Scholarship Showcase
2017-09-24 16:00 | Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
As beneficiaries of the generous support of SMTD scholarship donors, students representing the best of SMTD perform a wide range of repertoire in music, theatre, and dance in an “intimate Collage Concert.”

Film Screening:The Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor
2017-09-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Amphitheatre
The Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Iranian Graduate Students Association at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is pleased to present our second annual Iranian Film Festival. With the passing of one of Iran’s most iconic and internationally celebrated filmmakers, Abbas Kiarostami, we have decided to dedicate this year’s festival to a retrospective of his work.

The films will be screened at 4pm in the Rackham Amphitheatre.

9/17: Where is the Friend’s House?
9/24: Life and Nothing More
10/1: Close-Up
10/8: Taste of Cherry
10/15: Ten
10/29: Like Someone in Love

Admission is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit https://persian.nes.lsa.umich.edu/iff/ or email us at iranian-film-festival@umich.edu.

Social / Informal Gathering:Food for the Soul Sundays
2017-09-24 17:00 - 19:00 | Trotter Multicultural Center
A monthly event which provides students, faculty, and staff of all identities the opportunity to break bread, engage in dialogue and build relationships over traditionally prepared culturally unique food expressions.

Meeting:M-agination Films - Crew Call
2017-09-24 19:00 - 23:59 | Michigan Union
Come learn about what projects M-agination Films will be producing this semester and sign up to work on whatever project(s) that you are interested in. Roles include: directors, boom (sound) operators, directors of photography, camera operators, art directors, makeup, composers, editors, and more. Not sure what you want to do? Sign up as a PA (Production Assistant)!About the organization: M-agination Films is a student-run film production group at the University of Michigan. In production, students are responsible for writing, directing, camera work, editing, and everything in between. We select and projects from student submissions each semester and screen them at the Michigan Theater in April.

Exercise / Fitness:ZoukMi Sundays
2017-09-24 19:00 - 22:00 | Michigan League
7:00pm Lesson taught by Melissa Moy and Chris Moy
8:00pm Practica
9:00pm Zouk Social

Location: Michigan League in the Koessler room (third floor)
Cost: Free

We have special guest Zouk teachers, Melissa and Chris Moy! You can take a break from Sydney and Nicole and learn from two other great teachers. They won't be teaching a Foundations class, so you can also take a break from the series to learn something new and fun! We are really fortunate to have them come and teach. Don't miss out!

Everyone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels.

Performance:Trevor Hall
2017-09-24 19:30 | Off Campus Location
Spiritual songwriting with overtones of reggae and Sanskrit chant
