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DTSTAMP:20250408T135629
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color
DESCRIPTION:We have many significant books from the history of our understanding of rainbows and color theory\, from the writings of scholar Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham to Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks. Rainbows appear across the spectrum of our collections\, and this exhibit includes a handwritten illuminated manuscript\, practical color manuals of the industrial age\, contemporary artists’ and children’s books\, and more from our vast holdings. \n\nRainbows have captivated people for all of recorded history. It’s hard not to think of them as physical objects\, but they are really just distorted images of the sun\, positioned around the viewer’s head. They require someone to perceive them to exist\, and thus have much in common with colors and color theory in general. And\, like colors\, they are about relationships: of one color next to another\, and of colors and the people who see them. The rainbow has had many different cultural interpretations over the years\, and most recently has become synonymous with gay pride\, appearing all over each June.\n\nHatcher Gallery Exhibit Room Hours:\nSunday\, 2-8pm\nMonday-Thursday\, 9am-8pm\nFriday\, 9am-4pm\nSaturday\, 11am-5pm
UID:134798-21875168@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134798
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor)
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DTSTAMP:20250529T110505
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Beyond Survival
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Beyond Survival\, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th. \n\nThe pieces span nearly 30 years\, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.\n\n\"Through drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures made with simple materials\, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family\, joy and beauty\, connections to nature\, flights of the imagination\, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions.\"
UID:135894-21877389@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135894
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:art,Exhibition,Incarceration
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20250304T131847
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T163000
SUMMARY:Other:Moth Eden
DESCRIPTION:Explore \"Moth Eden\,\" an evocative art exhibit by Anne Erlewine\, running from April 19 to July 6\, 2025. ‘Moth Eden’ is a series of works exploring the relationship between the sacred reverence of the female form depicted as landscape and the conditioned tension of objectification contrasted by omission through eclipsing desire with the natural essence of bloom and nectar as it pertains to moth sustenance.\n\nAnne Erlewine\, an artist from Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, cultivated her artistic talents from an early age\, inspired by her fine artist grandmother. Her creative journey was further developed at the University of Michigan\, where she studied art and writing.
UID:133414-21873026@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133414
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,In Person,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20250604T083231
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T163000
SUMMARY:Other:Native Plant Sale
DESCRIPTION:Support Michigan’s ecosystems by planting native plants! Join us for our annual Native Plant Sale\, featuring a wide variety of Michigan-native seedlings grown and tended by our expert horticulture team. This year’s selection includes favorites like butterfly weed\, cardinal flower\, swamp milkweed\, prairie dropseed\, wild bergamot\, foxglove beardtongue\, wood mint\, turtlehead\, and so many more!
UID:135988-21877621@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135988
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:biodiversity,Nature,Sustainability
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20240130T121550
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.\n \nA Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. \n \nAs 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.\n \nThis 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.\n \nSo 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.\n \nCurated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn\, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy\n\nLead 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.\n 
UID:107870-21818138@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/107870
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Museum,Staff,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse
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DTSTAMP:20240130T121551
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
DESCRIPTION: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.\n \nIn 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.\n \nPieces 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.  \n \nIn 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. \n \nBy 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. \n \n“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.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead 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.\n 
UID:84303-21621617@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,European,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art
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DTSTAMP:20251030T111431
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T124500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:We Are Stars
DESCRIPTION:What are we made of? Where did it all come from? Explore the secrets of our cosmic chemistry and our explosive origins. Connect life on Earth to the evolution of the Universe by following the formation of hydrogen atoms to the synthesis of carbon\, and the molecules for life.
UID:124092-21876724@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124092
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Planetarium,Science
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
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DTSTAMP:20250515T150020
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T133000
SUMMARY:Other:Read and Look | I’m Trying to Love Garbage
DESCRIPTION:Do you ever wonder what happens to all the stuff we throw away? Bethany Barton’s *I’m Trying to Love Garbage* takes a (dumpster) dive into the history and future of garbage—exploring how animals\, humans\, fungi\, and various creepy-crawlies play important roles in collecting and disposing of waste. Filled with fascinating facts\, enjoyable illustrations\, and plenty of humor\, *I’m Trying to Love Garbage* prompts us to reflect on the trash we create and the places it ends up.\n\nOur Read and Look program focuses on archaeology and history for our littlest audience (recommended for ages 4–8). All children must be accompanied by an adult.\n\nThis event is free and open to all visitors. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event\, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:135651-21877036@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135651
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Books,Children,Environment,Family,Free,History,Museum,Storytelling
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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DTSTAMP:20250507T154122
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T144500
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Dynamic Earth
DESCRIPTION:The show explores the inner workings of Earth’s climate system. With visualizations based on satellite monitoring data and advanced supercomputer simulations\, this cutting-edge production follows a trail of energy that flows from the Sun into the interlocking systems that shape our climate: the atmosphere\, oceans\, and the biosphere.\n\nAudiences will ride along on swirling ocean and wind currents\, dive into the heart of a monster hurricane\, come face-to-face with sharks and gigantic whales\, and fly into roiling volcanoes.
UID:135104-21876314@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135104
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Space
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
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DTSTAMP:20250509T112809
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T140000
SUMMARY:Performance:iBallet Spring Gala
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, June 8 th \, 2025 at 2:00 pm\niBallet proudly presents our annual Spring Gala\, Ballet in Bloom. Join us as we celebrate unity across countries\, generations\, and styles of dance. Welcoming guest artists from the Bolshoi Theatre and Philadelphia Ballet\, this performance features classical excerpts from the world's most famous ballets\, as well as cutting edge contemporary works performed by Michigan's premier academy for Ballet.\nAll ages are welcome.\nTickets start at $30.00
UID:135042-21876040@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135042
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mutotix
LOCATION:Power Center
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DTSTAMP:20250528T100538
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:The Merry Wives of Windsor
DESCRIPTION:Foiled seduction\, plans gone awry\, and plots to deliver comeuppance. The pompous Falstaff attempts to woo the wives of two wealthy merchants in order to increase his own personal fortune. Mistresses Page and Ford quickly discover his plot and conspire to make a mockery of\, and fool Falstaff. \n\nNow in its 23rd season\, Shakespeare in the Arb is outdoor theater at its finest. The play runs for approximately 3 hours and scenes occur in various locations within Nichols Arboretum. The natural landscape is an intentional component of each scene. \n\nAll tickets are general admission lawn style seating. Please bring a chair or a blanket. Audience members should be prepared for weather conditions\, periods of sitting\, standing\, and up to 3 miles of walking to various locations in the Arboretum. Expect inclines and slopes\, staircases\, grass\, gravel\, and mulch as part of the terrain.  All tickets are held at Will Call\, Nichols Arboretum Visitor Center\, 1610 Washington Heights. Ticket pick up is 5:00pm-6:00pm with showtime promptly at 6:30pm. For more information\, visit https://mbgna.umich.edu/shakespeare-arb\n\nNo refunds or exchanges except in the event of a cancellation. A cancellation policy can be found at http://mbgna.umich.edu/shakespeare-arb
UID:134908-21876701@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134908
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mutotix
LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum
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DTSTAMP:20250514T154751
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T190000
SUMMARY:Performance:VOICES: featuring London Beck and Zoey Grekin
DESCRIPTION:London Beck is a multi-talented recording artist hailing from Southeast Michigan. As a singer\, songwriter\, producer\, composer\, sound engineer\, and multi-instrumentalist\, Beck stands out as a leader among a new generation of creatives who don’t just perform—they craft every detail of their storytelling soundscapes. With each release\, Beck showcases an evolving mastery of music\, offering insights into their unique creative vision and the industry's future.\n\nZoey Grekin is a dynamic young artist\, multi-instrumentalist\, singer\, and songwriter whose soulful sound draws inspiration from a wide range of artists including Beyoncé\, Stevie Wonder\, Sara Bareilles\, Alicia Keys\, Ingrid Michaelson\, Adele\, and Bruno Mars. Known for her commanding vocals and powerful drumming\, Zoey brings a unique energy to every performance—often driving the rhythm section while delivering emotive\, expressive vocals.\n\nRaised in a musical family\, Zoey grew up immersed in music at the Grekin School of Music\, where she learned to play a variety of instruments and developed her musical voice. She is currently a student at Ann Arbor’s Pioneer High School\, where she has performed as a singer\, and a featured drummer playing along with the Pioneer Choir and Orchestra and performed in the Pioneer Theatre Guild’s 2025 production of Future Stars.\n\nZoey has performed extensively around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti\, both as a solo artist and with her band\, and continues to explore new musical directions with every performance. She is thrilled to bring her sound to The Ark stage.
UID:133747-21873506@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133747
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix
LOCATION:ARK Reserved
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