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Virginia Martin Howard Stearns Lecture: Mariko Anno
“MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN NOH DRAMA: Role, Transmission, and Performance Practice in Traditional and Contemporary Noh”
Mariko Anno is associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Toyota Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Center for...
Bill Staines
Presented by The Ark
Guest Recital: Calidore Quartet
Inaugural grand prize winners of the 2016 M-Prize International Chamber Arts Competition, the Calidore Quartet will perform a recital...
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series
"Structural racism & residential segregation" Joe T. Darden
A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate...
Latina/o Studies Graduate Student Outreach
The Latina/o Studies Program will be having an outreach event for graduate students interested in the Latina/o Studies Graduate Certificate....
Control and the Carceral State
Roundtable
This roundtable is part of the Carceral State Project, a year of dialogue about criminal justice, policing, imprisonment, inequality, and...
RESCHEDULED FOR FEB 10 -- The Painted Face: Artistry, Design and Voice in Chinese Opera
Beijing opera performer, Li Yang, who specializes in the jing role, will bring to the stage a unique presentation of the visual power of...
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | My Neighbor Totoro
1988 | Fantasy/Adventure/Anime | 100 min | G
This acclaimed animated tale by director Hayao Miyazaki follows schoolgirl Satsuke and her younger sister, Mei, as they settle into an old...
Mandolin Orange
The 7 p.m. show is sold out but tickets are still available for the 9:30 show...
Gifts of Art presents My Funny Valentine
CutTime Simfonica
CutTime Simfonica (classical string quintet+drums) presents a lively, humorous and flirtatious Valentine's Day program, including...
Sweetland ❤️'s Transfers
A transfer student panel on writing at U-M
Please join us in the Peer Writing Center (G219 Angell) for a transfer student panel on writing at UM. Whether you're a confident...
Critical Conversations: Media Studies at the Intersection of Theory and Practice
Aaron Dennis & Umayyah Cable
Established in Fall 2017, the Department of Film, Television, and Media’s speaker series creates a space for film and media scholars and...
The Secret Music of Glaciers
Matthew Burtner, University of Virginia
Matthew Burtner's research explores the spectral identity of glaciers through ecoacoustic methods, discovering their changing dynamic...
2019 Media & Studio Arts Symposium
Time-Based Arts & Technology
A diverse community of presenters representing students, alumni, staff, faculty, and industry professionals will be sharing their expertise,...
Carrie Mae Weems: A History of Violence, Heave
For over thirty years Carrie Mae Weems, through the use of image, text, film, and video, has created a complex body of work that centers on...
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series: Carrie Mae Weems: A History of Violence, Heave
For over thirty years Carrie Mae Weems, through the use of image, text, film, and video, has created a complex body of work that centers...
Major Jackson Reading & Booksigning
Hosted by the Helen Zell Writers Program
Major Jackson is the author of four books of poetry, including Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn...
Zell Visiting Writers Series: Major Jackson, Poetry Reading
Major Jackson is the author of four books of poetry, including Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving...
Staged Readings of Two Short Plays by British Playwright, Caryl Churchill
"Drunk Enough to Say I Love You" and "Here We Go"
With Martin Walsh, Graham Atkin and Bill Campbell, Chris Martin, Josh Kay, Emily Slomovits, Avery Fessenden and Mina Kambasch....
Guest Master Class: Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor
Anthony Dean Griffey is a two-time Grammy Award winner, Musical America award recipient, and has been heard around the world at the Paris...
"Ice Bar" Short Story Collection Reading Group
Featuring Professor Petra Kuppers
Hosted by the Animal Studies & Environmental Humanities RIW....
Sonny Landreth & Marcia Ball
Presented by The Ark
They call her Long Tall Marcia Ball, and she's one of a kind! Marcia Ball grew up in Vinton, Louisiana, in the heart of an area...
Early Modern Colloquium Graduate Conference
How to be Global in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
This is an annual interdisciplinary graduate conference featuring graduate student panels, faculty respondents, and keynote lectures....
Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon
Dealing with Africa and African Things at the Ethnografiska Museet, Stockholm
presentation by James Munene (PhD, Anthropology)...
Unravel Injustice: Taking Action
Part 2: Social Science in the Public Interest, Action for the Public Good
A two-part discussion on our roles as citizens and scholars in movements to create a more just and humanistic society....
Article Workshop
Dana Murphy “Praisesong for Margaret Walker’s Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival”
Part of the Poetry & Poetics Workshop roundtable series. Please email Zoey Dorman (zdorman@umich.edu) to receive a copy of the paper....
Messianic Minimalism: Anecdotes of the Coming World (Benjamin, Bloch, Blumenberg)
Paul Fleming, Cornell University
Hans Blumenberg's 1988 book The Saint Matthew Passion, while ostensibly concerned with the possible, secular reception of Bach’s...
Science as Art Award Ceremony
University of Michigan undergraduate students find out which artwork submissions, reviewed by a juried panel, win awards based on both...
Department of Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Matthew Burtner
"Ecoacoustic Music Technology in 'Glacier Music”
The presentation will focus on the spatial and temporal methods used to create and perform the computer music, particularly focusing on...
Short Student Tours
Student Docents explore love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, and other ideas in these short...
Short Student Tours
Student Docents explore love and death, politics and humor, history, mythology, materiality, fashion, food, and other ideas in these short...
Minor in Writing Info Session
The Sweetland Minor in Writing is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in developing their disciplinary and professional...
Whine, Werk, & Roll: The Art of the Lapa Reception
The lap, worn around the waist, is the uniform of the African dancer. At its simplest it is a rectangular piece of cloth, at its most...
Ann ArBerlinale Film Festival
Spielarten der Liebe (Forms of Love)
A local film festival inspired by the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). All screenings free and open to the public....
Hair'itage - The Journey of Sistahs with Their Hair
Hair'itage The Play: The journey of Sistahs with Their Hair is a captivating play that tells the story of sistahs and their journey...
Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis is back at the Ark to celebrate the release of a brand new album. His first ever live solo album was recorded over two nights...
Saturday Morning Physics | Are Concussions the Downfall of Football?
Steven Broglio Ph.D., Director (Michigan Concussion Center)
With the potential for long term effects, the media has placed significant attention on concussions in football. But is all of it accurate?
Dinosaur Camp!
at the Ann Arbor District Library
Join us in learning more about dinosaurs and complete cool prehistoric activities at Dinosaur Camp! For grades K-5.
Korean Cinema NOW | Little Forest / 리틀 포레스트
Directed by Soon-rye Yim
2018 | 104 Minutes | Soon-rye Yim...
Saturday Sampler Tour | Artifact Exploration: All About Amphoras
Amphoras are some of the most interesting artifacts in the Kelsey Museum, and they provoke a lot of questions! What is up with those pointy...
UMMA Pop Up: Improv & Irreverence in the Gallery
Using humor, contemporary pop culture references, and possibly games, U-M student improv groups lead unconventional tours of the UMMA...
UMMA Pop Up: Neal Anderson | Jon Hammonds Duo
Neal Anderson is a trumpeter, improviser, and composer based in Detroit, MI. He is a member of the Ann Arbor-based group, Rhyta Musik, and...
Chamber Arts Collective
“Art Through the Ages”
Chamber Arts Collective presents Arts Through the Ages, a concert featuring pieces side-by-side with visuals from the Baroque era to today....
Senior Recital: Nicole Danielle Joslin, oboe
PROGRAM: Bach - Oboe Concerto in E-flat Major, H. 468; Ponchielli - Capriccio for Oboe and Piano, op. 80; Doráti - Cinq Pieces Pour Le...
Masters Recital: Maguette Ndiaye, flute
PROGRAM: Saint-Saëns - Tarantella, op. 6; Debussy - Prélude à l’ après-midi d’un faune; Villa-Lobos - Assobio a Játo [The Jet...
"Love and Information" by Caryl Churchill
A series of short scenes about relationships in the digital age
This series of short scenes explore the dynamic between human communication and technology....
Ben Daniels Band
Ben Daniels is the son of actor Jeff Daniels, but that's very much the beginning of a story, not the end. When Ben Daniels decided he...