Film Screening:Ay Mariposa Film Screening & Live Q&A
2020-06-19 00:00 - 23:59, 2020-06-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
Galaxy 2020, our annual sustainability learning exchange -- this year in a virtual format -- will take place on Friday, June 19th from 7:00-8:30 PM EDT with a brief keynote & awards, followed by a live Q&A with Ay Mariposa filmmakers, main characters, and local immigrant rights organizations.

Ay Mariposa is a compelling, visually lush documentary film depicting two women and a rare community of butterflies on the front lines in a battle against the US-Mexico border wall. https://www.aymariposafilm.com/

Join our community of makers and users of open access learning tools on learngala.com, innovating with digital media, multilingual modules, and interactive engaged learning through 2 simple steps:

1) Rent Ay Mariposa to screen on your own time here: https://www.michtheater.org/screenings/ay-mariposa/ and

2) Register for the June 19 Zoom conversation here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-yqrjotGtVucAFS6m8nB3wPBgt6TNdf.

Ticket proceeds will support local organizations: the Washtenaw Interfaith Council for Immigrant Rights, the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and the Michigan Theater Foundation.

We meet each year around this date, as it sits at an important confluence: Juneteenth (June 19), World Refugee Day (June 20), and the Summer Solstice (June 21). Recent protests and planned political rallies have embedded even more meaning this year. Our work together creates an open, inspiring, and nourishing community of learning that helps us chart our respective next steps in the struggle for a just, sustainable future. Please share this invitation widely with your partners, allies & friends in those struggles.

Careers / Jobs:Submit a Research Project Proposal
2020-06-19 07:00 - 23:00
UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers, graduate students who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. UROP accepts research projects from all 19 schools and colleges.

https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/research-mentors.html

Exhibition:Acrylic & Mixed Media Mandalas
2020-06-19 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals
Over the course of Charles L. Gilchrist’s 50+ year career, he has worked in photography, graphic design, print making, drawing, mixed media, painting, filmmaking, fabric design and teaching. He is collected by patrons around the globe and is best known for his acrylic painted Mandalas, totem animals, and Sacred Geometry workshops on YouTube. At the age of 80, Gilchrist is still going strong with numerous projects, the most noted of which is his collaboration with Gabriel J. Cavazos, founder of ARCOTU (Architecture of the Universe) Bio Design Engineers, an architectural/engineering firm that bases all their design projects on Sacred Geometry principles.

Exhibition:Americana Sampler
2020-06-19 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center
Established in 1923 through the generosity of U-M Regent William L. Clements, the Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. It collects, preserves, and makes available primary sources about the Americas, with particular strengths in 18th and 19th century Americana. Drawing upon all four divisions of materials – books, manuscripts, maps and graphics – this display presents a small sampling of reproductions of the internationally significant holdings at the Clements and illustrates some topical strengths of the collections. Selections include handsome original artwork, compelling manuscripts, and printed resources with geographical connections spanning from the Caribbean to the Great Lakes.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center Entrance Alcove, Level 2.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Opens January 27, 2020
Open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Exhibition:Birds Fly In: Oil Painting
2020-06-19 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals
Birds first flew onto Ellie Harold's canvases in 2016, appearing to her as intuitive messengers of hope and healing for troubled times. She paints intuitively to music, spontaneously, with no plan in mind and with as little thought as possible. She sees the first marks of black calligraphy as the hint of a language revealing bird wisdom hidden beneath successive layers of color. She paints the white layer last, unifying all of the elements in the painting. Harold uses not only a brush, but also fingers, squeegee and oil sticks to capture the fleeting nature of birds. An ordained Unity minister, Harold aims for this series to inspire the discovery of inner solutions to difficult issues that have so far eluded resolution by ordinary means.

Exhibition:Flora Series: Woven Wire Sculpture
2020-06-19 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals
Anne Mondro is an artist and a professor in the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. In this body of work, she reflects on how time spent in nature has inspired new personal discoveries and intellectual curiosity, while serving as a positive distraction from recent experiences with grief and sadness. Drawing from these insights, Mondro crocheted and stitched fine wire to create intricate woven sculptures reminiscent of seeds, pods and other organic forms. Focusing on the wonderfully complex construction of these forms, Mondro mimics nature’s ability to be structurally strong while delicate in appearance to invite deeper exploration.

Exhibition:Gouache Paintings
2020-06-19 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center
Jaye Schlesinger is a full time painter living and working in Ann Arbor. Her work includes realist oil paintings of common everyday objects and abstracted subjects portrayed in gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper. This recent body of work evolved from years of photographing rooftops, playgrounds, houses and aerial views, and digitally manipulating them to create colorful and quirky compositions. The scenes are not intended to be specific locales, but rather to celebrate the color, shape, rhythm and structure found in our daily environment. Gouache is a medium which requires slow and careful application and reflects the artist’s view of painting as a meditative pursuit.

Exhibition:Migrations: Fiber Notes from the Journey
2020-06-19 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center
Migration has profoundly affected the life and perspective of the Michigan-based fiber artist, Martina Celerin. Celerin’s family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1968 as political refugees escaping Soviet rule. Both a molecular geneticist and artist, her artistic medium is a sophisticated blend of highly dimensional weaving, crochet, needle felting, and other fiber-based techniques that incorporates everyday reclaimed and recycled materials to help tell a story. The pieces on exhibit are drawn from a larger body of work that translates the extraordinary challenges of modern-day human migration and notes the parallel phenomena in animals.

Exhibition:Nature’s Dance
2020-06-19 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center
The Birmingham Society of Women Painters are from the surrounding metro Detroit area. With over 50 members, they exhibit a diverse approach to painting including watercolor, oil, acrylic and mixed mediums. Their subject matter and technique is also quite vast. Abstraction, realism and even photorealism is all produced by this dynamic organization. As a group they are committed to the highest standard of creative expression, to furthering the interests and development of individual members through collective activities, and to maintaining a tradition of promoting art education.

Exhibition:Sculptural Dinnerware
2020-06-19 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center
Presented by the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Sculptural Dinnerware features a selection of artwork from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition features sculptural artwork that will make the viewer stop and look, including an abstract knife, fork and spoon set created from clay; European wire scribble sculpture; beautiful pouring vessels created by noted designer Russel Wright; and “Frog Fruit Loops” by California Funk artist David Gilhooly. Visitors can see porcelain plates with Mozart’s “Magic Flute;” green frogs in faux cereal; an Art Deco car-shaped teapot from the 1930s; and Mid-Century Modern luncheon snack sets.

Other:U-M Community Commemorates Juneteenth
2020-06-19 08:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Excerpted from a letter from Dean Curzan:
"[Friday, 6/19] is Juneteenth, and I want to echo Rob Sellers’ invitation to our entire community to commemorate the holiday in some fashion. The celebration of Juneteenth has a long history in the Black community. In addition to commemorating the end of slavery in America, it honors the strength, perseverance, and legacy of the generations of enslaved African American ancestors who played a central role in building this country and survived the cruelties of slavery. Juneteenth Celebration Day is now officially recognized in Michigan, as well as 46 other states and D.C., and yesterday Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist II underscored that the day “is an important reminder of the work that must continue to be done to deliver equity and opportunity to every community.”

"I would like to invite you to join us, as part of our college-wide anti-racism efforts, in an extended exploration of Bryan Stevenson’s transformational work challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system and catalyzing conversations about the legacy of slavery in the United States. We will soon be sharing details about events this summer and fall. If you want to get started now, I encourage you to watch Bryan Stevenson’s TED Talk (“We Need to Talk About an Injustice”|
https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice?language=en) or the movie, Just Mercy (available for free on many digital platforms right now|https://www.justmercyfilm.com/), which is based on Stevenson’s representation of Walter McMillian, who was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit."

Careers / Jobs:UROP - Sophomore Applications Open
2020-06-19 08:00 - 23:00
UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

Careers / Jobs:UROP Incoming First-Year Application Open
2020-06-19 08:00 - 23:00 | Off Campus Location
This Academic Year program, in which students participate for both Fall and Winter Terms, is designed for University of Michigan first and second year undergraduate students enrolled on the Ann Arbor campus who are seeking a first time research experience. Student research assistants work alongside a faculty member, research scientist or professional practitioner on an ongoing or new research project.

Projects and Mentors come from all 19 schools and colleges as well as with community partners conducting research.

Apply at myumi.ch/uropyearone

Careers / Jobs:UROP Research Scholars Application Open
2020-06-19 08:00 - 23:00 | Off Campus Location
The UROP Research Scholars Program is designed for students who want to expand on their first year UROP experience and participate in UROP for a second year at an advanced level. In this program, students build upon the knowledge gained in a first undergraduate research experience to further explore the connections between research, a liberal arts education, and communicating skills to advance their future professional goals. Students are expected to explore various written and oral possibilities for communicating their research process, identifying the limits set by the discipline and the opportunities that lie beyond.

Research Scholars program information and application available at myumi.ch/uroprs

Exhibition:What We Hold, What Holds Us: Homes & Vessels
2020-06-19 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center
Although Candace Compton Pappas is recognized primarily as a painter, this series of constructed homes and vessels represents an important facet of her life as an artist. Over the years, she has collected, saved, garbage-rescued, and gathered objects that capture her attention. A firm believer that there is no such thing as garbage, and a great observer of nature’s cycle of creating and breaking down, she has constructed numerous cement vessels to hold all these objects that proliferate the studio. These finds, the vessels that hold them, and the totems that pay tribute to them, all keep her company, inspire her, and keep her calm in her temple-like studio in the woods outside of Chelsea, Michigan.

Other:19 Historical Black Figures: “Celebrating Black Joy on JuneTeenth”
2020-06-19 09:00 - 18:00
In honor of Juneteenth, The Office of Multi-Ethnic Students Affairs, Trotter Multicultural Center and The Department Of Afro-American and African Studies have joined together in an effort to recognize and pay tribute to 19 historical Black figures and symbolically commemorate the date of Juneteenth. Every hour beginning at 9:00am we will be celebrating #Blackjoy on our social media pages throughout the day by posting images and short bios of the selected individuals from a curated list gathered by MESA, Trotter and the DAAS Staff. Nineteen different folks who were civil rights leaders, freedom rights fighters, abolitionists and activists etc., will be acknowledged and celebrated publicly as we pay homage to those who supported and contributed to freedom, equal rights, and justice etc., for all black people from all different decades throughout history. We encourage university administration, faculty, and staff to repost, share or join in on this day as we celebrate and pay tribute to a small sample of our African American freedom fighters. Please feel free to reach out with any questions about participating if interested.

Well-being:Group X: Total Body Strength
2020-06-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Off Campus Location - Your Room!
Class Type - Floor
Experience strength training like never before! Take this class if you want to strengthen every muscle in one workout. We’ll offer you instruction on how to use free weights effectively and safely. Whether you are an experienced lifter or have never lifted before, this class is right for you! EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Some kind of resistance equipment (e.g. dumbbells, barbell, resistance bands, backpack filled with books, milk jugs filled with water, canned goods, or any other weighted items that can be held)

Exercise / Fitness:Online Meditation Session with Paola Savvidou
2020-06-19 10:00 - 10:30 | Off Campus Location
The SMTD Wellness Initiative is offering this online meditation session to anyone needing a few moments of peace!

Livestream / Virtual:The Clements Bookworm
2020-06-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Off Campus Location
Panelists and featured guests discuss history topics in this weekly webinar. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session as we vary between formats: Reader Panel, Author Conversation, Collectors Corner, and Fellow Spotlight.

Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.

*When*: Fridays Weekly at 10:00am EDT

*Where*: Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR. In your confirmation email, find the link to join the meeting.

Exhibition:Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the 60s and 70s: Kaleidoscope
2020-06-19 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II
The notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present, was met with increased skepticism in the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. Kaleidoscope, UMMA’s third and final edition of this exhibition series, examines the constantly changing practices of local Detroit artists, women artists, and artists of color as they actively embraced abstraction’s possibilities. Their strategies dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in a shifting American political landscape.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, and the Robert and Janet Miller Fund

Exhibition:Collection Ensemble
2020-06-19 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse
EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

Livestream / Virtual:German Conversation Hour
2020-06-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
The German Department will host its weekly "German Conversation Hour" on Fridays during the spring and summer 2020 terms. Learn more and find the Zoom link here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ThOIlBkbyGPwN29-f37AMcg5XLeoK_UynFeBAFoWiIU/edit?usp=sharing

Well-being:Group X: Yoga Flow
2020-06-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location - Your Room!
Class Type - Mind/Body
This class focuses on clarity and well-being by helping you connect with your inner strength. You’ll build muscle and flexibility by using your breath to anchor each movement as you flow from one pose to the next. Modifications are offered to accommodate all skill levels. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet)

Careers / Jobs:Job Search Lab: Job searching among COVID19 Uncertainty
2020-06-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual, Zoom, Online
*RSVP for this program. Click "Join Event" here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/506876

We know that searching for your job right now can be stressful in these difficult times of uncertainty. And the UCC is here for you.

Come check out the Job Search Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour. So, come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to dream of, search for, and find your next great opportunity!

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake, the University Career Alumni Network and to learn about other tools you canuse to build a great job/internship search strategy.

Here is the Zoom Link to attend the lab:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/98326908886

Careers / Jobs:Life at TCS and Our Healthcare Services Group
2020-06-19 11:00 - 12:00
Join us for our upcoming virtual session on Life at TCS and our Healthcare Group. Our speaker for this session will be Brian Purvis who will present on our IoT program, and more on life working at TCS!

Exhibition:Post No Bills: Burhan Doğançay's Archive of Urban Protest
2020-06-19 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery
The upcoming exhibition Post No Bills: Burhan Doğançay’s Archive of Urban Protest highlights this important Turkish modernist’s exploration of three decades of the American social zeitgeist in works based on the abstract collages of torn posters, chipped paint, and graffiti he found on city walls.

Doğançay documented and harnessed the political content of walls in more than 100 cities around the world, an effort that was progressively recognized throughout his life. His works are in museum collections around the world and have been the focus of major exhibitions at the Pompidou Center, Paris (1982), the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (1992), and the Istanbul Modern (2012). Though many of his artworks are located in American university museums, few exhibitions have explored the shifting trajectories of 20th-century American political discourse expressed in them.

Livestream / Virtual:UROP Drop In Office Hours
2020-06-19 11:00 - 13:00
Connect with the UROP team via Zoom during our drop in office hours, to learn more about the limitless impact UROP has on our current students, research mentors, and over 50,000 alumni across the world!

Wednesdays 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Thursdays 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Fridays 11:00 am -1:00 pm
(Eastern Daylight Time)

No Appointment necessary
https://zoom.us/j/9619320934

Exhibition:Watershed
2020-06-19 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I
Watershed brings work from thirteen contemporary regional and international artists to UMMA for an exhibition that asks visitors to recognize complex, tangled histories about the Great Lakes, its watershed, and the surrounding region.

Through the use of experimental photography, painting, sculpture, and textile work, these artists explore issues of water security, pollution, and the deep cultural histories of the Great Lakes region. Taken together, their work highlights the complicated personal, political, and economic relationships between people, the water we depend on, the lands we call home, and the forces challenging the sanctity of it all.

These artists encourage us to consider the bodies of water as a resource linked to our survival, with complex histories of cultural exchange. Their stories are different, and their perspectives and interpretations are varied. But these artists demonstrate how art can contribute to and shape current dialogues on the region’s critical water crises.

Watershed includes many new, exclusive works commissioned by UMMA for the exhibition including:
A series of large-scale cyanotype prints from Washington-based artist Meghann Riepenhoff processed in the watershed of Lake Ontario on the Genesee River, near the former site of Eastman Kodak Co. production facility; Calligraphic paintings from Syrian-born and Dubai-based artist Khaled Al-Saai that explore how language can be used to visually connect us to meanings found in the watery worlds above and below the surfaces of the Great Lakes; A new mural by Toronto-based artist Bonnie Devine from the Serpent River First Nation will examine accounts of western expansion across the state of Michigan; and, Detroit-based musician, artist, and activist Sacramento Knoxx, along with The Aadizookaan, will fill the gallery with recorded song compositions made with water samples from each Great Lake and other sacred materials.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the ​Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund. Additional generous support is provided by P.J. and Julie Solit and the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and Department of English Language and Literature.

Livestream / Virtual:Juneteenth Celebration
2020-06-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Off Campus Location
EECS invites you to our first Juneteenth celebration this Friday from 1:00pm – 2:00pm EDT!

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. It celebrates African American freedom and achievement. Its goal is to promote and cultivate knowledge and appreciation of African American history and culture while encouraging continuous self-development and respect for all cultures.

Our Juneteenth celebration will include:
Performance of the Black National Anthem
Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
Students will share their stories and experiences
Presentation of a student proposal on how to improve the culture for Black students in EECS to the department Chairs

All are welcome to attend!

Careers / Jobs:Virtual Intern Experience Series: Building the World's Greatest Brands
2020-06-19 13:00 - 13:30 | Off Campus Location
The Virtual Intern Experience offers FREE digital workshops, project-based learning, and board room conversations that will connect the next generation of talent with the current leading business minds, brands, and job opportunities.

BUILDING THE WORLD’S GREATEST BRANDS
With a resume full of the most recognizable brands, including Nike, Apple, Burberry, Ford Motor Company + AirBnB, hear how Musa has built his own brand to become Forbes 7th ‘Most Influential CMO’ (Chief Marketing Officer) in the world!

Speaker: Musa Tariq, Global Head of Marketing
Organization: AirBnB Experiences

Register here: https://www.virtualinternexperience.com/lineup

Lecture / Discussion:Still, We Rise: Navigating Race & Religion in the Academy
2020-06-19 14:30 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
This panel convenes six Black scholars across higher education, history, psychology, and public health to address the ways in which they experience and navigate the intersections of their racial/ethnic, religious and other identities within academia. Topics will address both scholarly and non-scholarly issues such as: mental health and well-being, navigating racism and other forms of stigma and oppression in academia; impostor syndrome, "cultural taxation," and "hidden labor." During the session, attendees are invited to submit questions to the panelists.

Moderator: Meredith O. Hope, PhD (NCID Postdoctoral Fellow)
Panelists: Donte Bernard, PhD (Medical University of South Carolina); Danielle Busby, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine Texas Children's Hospital); Lauren Hammond-Ford, PhD (Augustana College); James Holly, Jr., PhD (Wayne State University); Yusuf Ransome, DrPH (Yale School of Public Health); Chauncey Smith, PhD (University of Virginia)

Livestreamed on the NCID Facebook page: myumi.ch/Bol2l

Well-being:Group X: Zumba
2020-06-19 16:30 - 17:30 | Off Campus Location - Your Room!
Class Type - Dance
Ditch the traditional workout and join the party! This Latin-inspired, dance-and-fitness class offers an exciting, exhilarating and effective workout. You’ll develop your stamina and your body tone with easy to follow dance moves, set to the fast and slow rhythms of cumbia, merengue, salsa, reggaeton, hip-hop, pop, mambo, rumba, flamenco, calypso and salsaton. No dance experience required. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: None.

Other:Virtual Transfer2Transfer Talks
2020-06-19 17:00 - 18:00 | Off Campus Location
Incoming transfer students are invited to a virtual drop-in session with Transfer Orientation leaders. Ask your questions about campus life, get insider tips and advice, and meet some of your future classmates! Open to incoming transfer students in all academic schools/colleges. Learn more at onsp.umich.edu/orientation/videos-and-webinars.

Well-being:Group X: Hatha Yoga
2020-06-19 17:30 - 18:30 | Off Campus Location - Your Room!
Class Type - Mind/Body
This class will combine yoga poses (asanas) with breathing exercises (pranayama) to help align and calm your body, mind, and spirit in preparation for meditation. Hatha can be translated to mean balance or literally “sun” (ha) and “moon” (tha). Traditional asanas are held in accurate alignment. It develops strength, flexibility, endurance, and steadiness, bringing greater balance on all levels (body, mind and spirit). Modifications are offered to accommodate all skill levels. EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Open space with soft flooring (e.g. yoga mat, towel, carpet)

Performance:CANCELED: Shakespeare in the Arb 20th Anniversary: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2020-06-19 18:30 - 21:00
Please note: The Shakespeare in the Arb 2020 season is canceled. Look for Shakespeare in the Arb online content from previous performances to appear on the Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum website in June: mbgna.umich.edu. We will be bringing the special 20th-year anniversary performances back in 2021.

Livestream / Virtual:Jen Sygit - Ark Family Room Series
2020-06-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Off Campus Location
Rising Lansing singer-songwriter Jen Sygit (rhymes with "dig it") has gained airplay with a pleasantly bluesy sound that carries forward influences from Gillian Welch, Patty Griffin, Bonnie Raitt, and Lucinda Williams. She comes to Michigan with a new album, "It's About Time," produced by longtime friend and collaborator Dominic John Davis (bassist to Jack White, Buddy Miller, North Mississippi Allstars, Joshua Davis). This new collection of original songs is an eclectic journey drawing influences from a cross section of middle America spanning from the Gulf Shore sands to the Great Lakes basin. It's sounding like a career maker for this Michigan musician, so if you haven't heard Jen for a while, come and check it out!

Livestream / Virtual:Penny Stamps Speaker Series + DPTV Present Osborne Macharia with Blinky Bill
2020-06-19 20:00 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location
On Friday, June 19 at 8:00 pm ET, tune in at dptv.org or join us on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page to view a presentation by Photographer and Afrofuturist Osborne Macharia with beat maker Blinky Bill.

As a multi-award-winning photographer and digital artist based in Nairobi, Kenya, Osborne Macharia's visual- and narrative-driven style, known as 'Afrofuturism,' has been recognized internationally not only as entertaining and Afrocentric but also as a platform for discussing critical social issues and conveying important messages on topics such as inclusion, representation, gender abuse, female genital mutilation, albinism, conservation, and care for the elderly. As a commercial photographer Macharia has been privileged to work with some top local and international brands, including Marvel (Black Panther), Disney, the Oprah Winfrey Network (Queen Sugar), Absolut, MTV, Volkswagen, Forbes, Guinness, and Mercedes-Benz. In 2018, Macharia was also the first Kenyan ever to be selected as a jury member for the prestigious Cannes Lions creative awards and the ADC/One Show Awards.

Nairobi-based "Blinky" Bill Sellanga is a singer-songwriter, beat maker, producer, TED Fellow, and one-fourth of the Kenyan art and music collective Just a Band. He is an alumnus of the Red Bull Music Academy and the OneBeat international music collaboration. In 2017, Sellanga released his debut solo album, titled Everyone’s Just Winging It And Other Fly Tales, on the heels of his experimental 2016 EP, We Cut Keys While You Wait.

Osborne and Bill premiered Remember The Rude Boy - Detroit, a collaboration created as part of their week-long Detroit residency and supported by the Witt Visiting Artists program at the Stamps School of Art & Design. A fictional narrative about a tailor and his "up-cycled" thrift shop fashion collections, Remember The Rude Boy is a celebration of Black Fatherhood and mentorship within the community. The initial project took place in Nairobi, Kenya, with subsequent editions in Accra, Ghana, and Johannesburg, South Africa. In Detroit, the artists connected with four African-American veterans to create a new edition of the project.

Presented in partnership with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and Design Core Detroit Detroit Month of Design.

https://www.facebook.com/PennyStampsSeries/

https://www.dptv.org/programs/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/
