Other:University of Michigan Women’s Ice Hockey @ Niagara University
2025-02-08 18:00 - 2025-02-09 15:00 (America/Detroit) | Dwyer Ice Arena
Away

Exhibition:A Prison, a Prisoner, and a Prison Guard
2025-02-09 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - North Lobby
Join us for a multimedia exploration of the impact of prisons on countries and communities across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through the lens of “prison art.” The exhibit delves into the dynamic interplay between incarceration and creative expression to make sense of carceral systems.

By presenting prison art from various countries in the MENA region, including Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, this exhibit unfolds as a “journey” into the prison system and demonstrates the ways in which art can be a tool of expression and reconciliation for survivors, detainees’ families, and society at large. It promotes drawing parallels between the prison experience in the region and worldwide, highlights the intentionality of carceral systems, and expands the conversation to include prison-impacted communities. Viewers are invited to navigate the cross-generational, human experiences of imprisonment often obscured behind prison walls and within individuals.

Curated by Sumaya Tabbah and Susan Aboeid of The Ḥafathah Collective, this traveling exhibit was organized by U-M Students Organize for Syria (SOS) in partnership with U-M Library and with support from the U-M Arts Initiative.

Plan to attend the related discussion, "Art, Justice, and Carcerality: The Role of Creative Expression in the Pursuit of Justice," on February 6.

Exhibition:Being Mixed Race in a Mono-racially Organized World
2025-02-09 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
The exhibit "Being Mixed Race in a Mono-racially Organized World: Interracial Identity in the U.S. and Around the World — What Research and Mixed Race People Tell Us" is an exploration into the library's collections about the diversity of mixed race heritage. Through research, narratives, demographic data, and a variety of visual and published materials, explore multifaceted aspects of mixed race heritage with insights from many perspectives.

The 2020 U.S. Census illuminated a 276 percent increase in individuals who identify as "two or more races" since 2010. In recognition of the growing numbers of mixed race-identifying people at the University of Michigan, throughout the country, and across the globe, we're excited to unveil this new exhibit — a unique exploration of changing demographics and intersectional identities.

Exhibition:Red Summer: Racial Violence in the American Landscape, 1917-1923
2025-02-09 09:00 - 16:30 | East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
The Red Summer portfolio represents the stories of various locations in the American landscape where racial violence (often characterized as “Race Wars” at the time) erupted between 1917 and 1923. These years of conflict reveal several aspects of racial anxiety that inform our contemporary experience, including, though not limited to; racism, fear of violent black revolt, lynching, poverty, mass incarceration, and competition for employment. The term “Red Summer” was first used by James Weldon Johnson to describe the violent attacks against black communities during 1919.

Though the events of the early twentieth century seem to be remote and fading apparitions of an American past; my work is concerned with the power and influence of our shared historical narrative upon the present. The upheaval of Red Summer occurred approximately fifty years after the American Civil War, fifty years before the height of the Civil Rights Era, and three centuries after the first enslaved Africans arrived in English colonies that would become the United States.

The project combines photographs of the contemporary landscape made at or near the site of racial conflict with fragmented selections of contemporaneous newspaper reporting (1917-1923). In many cases, the newsprint images include the surrounding stories or advertisements. The combination of the landscape photograph and the reproduction of newspaper fragments (which invade the contemporary with a narrative from the past), is a rupture and a conversation on the timeline between past and present.

Exhibition:The Bibliophile and the Library: Private-Press Books from the Collection of Bill Heidrich
2025-02-09 09:00 - 20:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st floor
View beautifully illustrated books that stand as remarkable testaments to the work of twentieth-century small private presses, which, in contrast to the trend of mass commercialization, produced limited editions that celebrated the uniqueness of manual craftsmanship. Features such as exquisite typeface design, letterpress printing, handmade paper, traditional illustration techniques like woodcut and engraving, and the inclusion of original art by renowned artists highlight the presses' dedication to artistry and detail.

The display opens with an edition of "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," published in 1896 by William Morris at his Kelmscott Press, a pivotal press that greatly influenced the development of the private press movement as a means of preserving and revitalizing the fine printing and art traditions of the past. Additionally, the exhibit includes some examples of artist’s proofs, offering a glimpse into the intricate creative process behind these exceptional works.

These books are on loan from the collection of Bill Heidrich, a long-time supporter of the University of Michigan Library.

Other:Leaves Under the Lens
2025-02-09 10:00 - 16:30 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
The leaf surface is a dynamic landscape where tiny, specialized structures help plants interact with the world around them. Let’s bring this world into view! Join us for an exhibit that highlights the complex and often beautiful anatomy of leaves from the Matthaei collection. Plants throughout the conservatory will be paired with microscope photographs and micro-CT scans that illustrate the otherwise invisible structures that protect leaves from chewing insects, absorb (or repel!) water, and even recruit “bodyguards”. You won’t look at leaves the same way again!

This project is a collaboration between MBGNA and the Weber and Vasconcelos labs in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, led by PhD student Rosemary Glos.

Workshop / Seminar:LSA Honors Thesis Write-a-thon
2025-02-09 10:00 - 16:00 | Perlman Honors Commons, Mason Hall
Are you in the middle of writing your thesis? Do you need to cure some nasty writer's block? Are you interested in dedicating quality time to writing in a quiet space? Join our Thesis Write-a-thon on Sunday, February 9 from 10:00a - 4:00p in the Perlman Honors Commons. The LSA Honors Program will provide you with some quiet time and space, complete with breakfast and lunch so you can knock out those theses!Space is limited, so register today!

Exhibition:A Gathering
2025-02-09 11:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse
Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.

A Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time.

As a free, public museum, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations, race, gender, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.

This collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals, as a museum, and as a society, connected to one another across space and experience.

So gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings, to discuss their takes, to learn, to disagree. Gather to relax, make a friend, drink a coffee, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.

Curated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
2025-02-09 11:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art
Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history.

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives.

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.”

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.

Exhibition:Discovery Demo: How to Become a Fossil
2025-02-09 11:30 - 12:00, 2025-02-09 13:30 - 14:00, 2025-02-09 14:30 - 15:00 | Museum of Natural History - Science Forum
Explore how fossils form and what parts of animals can become fossilized. How old are the earliest fossils? How old does something have to be before it is considered a fossil? You’ll touch some real fossils, learn the different types of fossil evidence, and discover what is necessary to become a fossil. Finally, we’ll discuss what kinds of things fossils can tell us, and how fossil casts are made in the museum.

Special demos on February 15 and 16.

Social / Informal Gathering:Connector Sunday Study Table
2025-02-09 12:00 - 22:00 | West Quadrangle - The Connector
Come to the Connector Sunday evening for an opportunity to study in the community!

Film Screening:Sea Monsters
2025-02-09 12:00 - 12:30 | Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
The film follows a curious and adventurous Dolichorhynchops – familiarly known as a ‘dolly’ – as she travels through the most dangerous oceans in history. Along the way, she encounters long-necked plesiosaurs, giant turtles, enormous fish, fierce sharks, and the most dangerous sea monster of all– the mosasaur.

Sporting Event:Women's Gymnastics vs Nebraska
2025-02-09 12:45 | Crisler Arena
Women's Gymnastics vs Nebraska

Other:Free Wonder Walks
2025-02-09 13:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Join us for free, guided nature walks
Matthaei Botanical Gardens is hosting free guided nature walks on select Wednesdays and Sundays. These walks are FREE, no registration is required. Wonder Walks are designed for all ages to inspire curiosity and learning from each other through activities that model curiosity and honor nature. If we have a sizeable mixed-age group, we may separate into two sets to offer the same content at different levels of engagement.

Wednesday walks begin at 5:30 pm. Sunday walks begin at 1:00 pm. We recommend gathering inside the lobby of Matthaei Botanical Gardens about 10 minutes before the start.

Lecture / Discussion:Exhibition Tour: La Raza Art and Media Collective with Artist Nicole Marroquin
2025-02-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Join curator David Choberka and commissioned artist Nicole Marroquin for a look at “La Raza Art and Media Collective, 1975 - Today.” This exhibition revisits the 50th anniversary of the RAM Collective—formed by a pioneering group of Latina/o students to voice the cultural and political expression of Chicano, Hispanic, and Latin American communities—by presenting the four original issues of its multimedia journal produced between 1976 and 1977. The journals are exhibited for the first time. They are framed by original art commissions from three generations of Latinx alumni artists —George Vargas, Nicole Marroquin, and Michelle Hinojosa.

Performance:Nate — A One Man Show
2025-02-09 14:00 - 15:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre
Natalie Palamides premiered her show Nate to wide acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won a Total Theatre Award for Innovation and Experimentation in 2018 before Amy Poehler produced it as a Netflix special. As the show begins, we meet Nate, “a hypermasculine, adrenaline fueled, protein powder enthusiast … a man’s man.” (NPR) Performed by Natalie Palamides in drag, Nate careens between making the audience laugh and making them uncomfortable, earnestly asking for permission while manipulating audience members to comply. The constant mixed signals come to a head with conflicting interpretations of consent — though perhaps not in the ways you would expect. This clever and provocative deconstruction of toxic masculinity sticks with you long after the performance ends.

CONTENT WARNING
This production contains overt sexuality

Performance:University of Michigan Dance Company 2025
2025-02-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
The 2025 edition of the Department of Dance’s always lively Power Center showcase will feature choreography by professional guest artists and university faculty. FLOCK (flockworksdance.com), a co-choreography German/American dance company known for their non-gendered partnering and unique approach to physicality and storytelling, will join faculty members Tzveta Kassabova (Theatre & Drama), Biza Sompa (Dance), and Robin Wilson (Dance), in Wilson's final Power Center performance before her retirement.

Recommended Ages: 3+

Other:Karate Practice
2025-02-09 14:30 - 16:30 | Intramural Sports Building, Medium Multi-purpose Room
"True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility, and that in critical times, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice."
--Gichin Funakoshi- Founder of Shotokan KarateNew members are always welcome. No previous experience is necessary. Just come to any practice. You may watch a practice or actually participate when you come. If you want to participate, wear loose fitting clothes, trim your nails, and no jewelry. See more information on our website: https://michigan.ska.org/ Winter 2025 Practice Schedule Wednesday 6:30pm - 8:15pm @ Gretchen's House, 1580 Dhu Varren Rd Sunday 2:30pm - 4:30pm @ B225 Medium Multi-purpose Room, Intramural Sports Building (please complete the liability waiver prior to your first Sunday practice) Exceptions -- no Sunday practice at IMSB on Jan 26th, Mar 2nd, and Mar 9th

Film Screening:I Love You Forever
2025-02-09 15:00 - 18:00 | Off Campus Location
A subversive romantic comedy gone wrong that follows a young woman into and out of an emotionally abusive relationship. Registration is under Links for Marquee Arts.

Exercise / Fitness:Judo Practice
2025-02-09 15:00 - 17:00 | The Michigan League - 3rd Floor, You will find us :)
Judo Class for beginner and advanced levels!

Workshop / Seminar:Soul Food Sundays
2025-02-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Trotter Multicultural Center

Meeting:First Meeting of the Semester
2025-02-09 16:00 - 16:30 | Mason Hall
Join us to learn what were all about and how you can impact the water and sanitation crisis!

Other:The Big Game
2025-02-09 16:00 - 20:00
Calling all football fans! Stop by a dining hall for the big game Celebration, complete with all your favorite tailgate foods!

This event is included with your residential meal plan. Those with block plans can use a meal swipe to enter. All other guests will pay the door rate to dine in the dining halls.

Performance:The Dorian Wind Quintet
2025-02-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Recognized by critics, audiences, and colleagues alike for its polished and passionate performances, the Dorian Wind Quintet is known worldwide as one of chamber music’s pre-eminent and longest continuously active ensembles. The Quintet has traveled around the world – concertizing in 48 of the 50 United States and Canada, touring Europe eighteen times, and playing throughout the Middle East, India, Africa and Asia. The Dorian made history in 1981 as the first wind quintet to appear at Carnegie Hall.

Anthony Trionfo, flute* (*Guest flutist)
Roni Gal-Ed, oboe
Benjamin Fingland, clarinet
Adrian Morejon, bassoon
Karl Kramer-Johansen, horn

This performance is part of a Guest Artist Mentor Residency hosted by the Department of Chamber Music.

Social / Informal Gathering:Valentine's Decorating Party
2025-02-09 16:00 - 18:00 | North Quad - Edward Said Multicultural Lounge
Join us to make Valentines for your loved ones! Relax and unwind with some crafts and snacks.

Performance:[Cancelled] Elijah Emmons, trombone
2025-02-09 17:00 - 18:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
This performance has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Meeting:WoW Bike Advocacy Meeting
2025-02-09 17:00 - 18:00 | Sophia B Jones Room - 1st Floor Union
Ever wanted to get more involved with biking on campus, but felt overwhelmed on where to start? Want to make a change about bikeability in Ann Arbor, but don't feel like you have a community?Join Wolverines on Wheels (WoW)!Our biweekly meetings are the perfect space to meet other passionate cyclists members, begin your campus biking journey, and make a change! All U-M A2 campus members are welcome to join us for these meetings where we discuss future projects, organize group rides, resource distribution events, infrastructure problems, and speak with campus partners. There is no membership requirement. All meetings are hosted in the Union 1st floor Sophia B Jones room on select Sundays 5-6pm. Winter 2025 Meetings Agenda If you have any questions, please email wolverinesonwheels-admin@umich.edu Add our meetings and events to your calendar!

Performance:Ayumu - Taiko Journey: Musical Excursions of a Taiko Vocationalist by Stuart Paton from Burlington Taiko
2025-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | East Quadrangle - Keene Theater
Join us for a dynamic Japanese taiko drumming performance by Stuart Paton a Sponsored Vocationist with TaikoVentures. As lead teacher and performer with Burlington Taiko, Stuart delivers a powerful showcase of rhythm, energy, and cultural tradition. Don’t miss this electrifying experience!

Sunday, February 9
Doors Open at 7:00pm
Performance Begins at 7:30pm
Keene Theater, located in East Quad

*Special thanks to Dr. Hiroaki Kawamura from the University of Findlay for making this event possible.*

Social / Informal Gathering:Make a Valentine Event
2025-02-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Couzens Hall - CAMEO Multicultural Lounge
Join us in the CAMEO lounge to prepare for Valentines Day! Whether you want to make a card or just take some candy feel free to swing by!

Performance:Matthew Zhang, cello
2025-02-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Undergraduate student Matthew Zhang performs a final senior recital.

Performance:Ayumu - Taiko Journey
2025-02-09 19:30 - 21:00 | East Quadrangle - Keene Theater
Join us for a night of traditional taiko drumming in the Keene Theater. Experience the rhythms and beats of the taiko in the Keene Theater. Free and open to the public.

Doors 7:00pm
Start 7:30pm

Performance:Skyler MacKinnon, trombone
2025-02-09 19:30 - 21:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
Graduate student Skyler MacKinnon performs a chamber music recital.

Performance:Takeshi Nagayasu, piano
2025-02-09 20:00 - 21:30 | Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
Graduate student Takeshi Nagayasu performs a recital.
