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DTSTAMP:20171116T104242
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Moving Image: Portraiture
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nMoving 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.\n\nLead 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.
UID:41372-9194739@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41372
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Storytelling,Theater,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170724T195814
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nLead 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.
UID:41651-9417725@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41651
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Africa,Art,Concert,Exhibition,Storytelling
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170626T235144
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Victors for Art: Michigan's Alumni Collectors—Part II: Abstraction
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\nThis 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\,\nLouise 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nLead 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.
UID:41371-9194646@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41371
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170928T063026
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T130000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Amazon Undergraduate Diversity Focus Group Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Please join Amazon in a Diversity Focus Group lunch where we will discuss the importance of diversity as well as network with you while we're on campus!
UID:44096-9886069@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44096
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Wolverine Room Michigan Union 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170906T102555
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T131000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Environmental Law & Policy Program: EPA General Counsels
DESCRIPTION:The Environmental Law and Policy Program will begin its 2017-18 Lecture Series with a first-ever event: a panel discussion featuring the EPA General Counsels from the Clinton\, Bush\, and Obama Administrations. Please join us as we welcome Jonathan Cannon (Clinton)\, Roger Martella (Bush)\, and Avi Garbow (Obama) to talk about their tenures as the top attorney at EPA and to address the major environmental challenges of the last 25 years and the fate of environmental protection efforts in the Trump administration. Moderated by Professor David M. Uhlmann.
UID:43678-9829823@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43678
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Ecology,Environment,Free,Graduate,International,Law,Lecture,Politics,Pre-Law,Public Policy,Science,Social Impact,Sustainability
LOCATION:South Hall - Room 1225
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170808T084017
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T130000
SUMMARY:Performance:10 Blocks on the Camino Real
DESCRIPTION:\"A big-hearted Williams one-act about love and heroism\, staged with West African flair in a performance full of vibrant song and dance\, perfectly suited to the outdoor marketplace.\"\n\nThe University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) hosts the National Theatre of Ghana in residence from September 12-17\, featuring a series of open air performances of 10 Blocks on the Camino Real\, written by Tennessee Williams. In this one-act play\, song\, dialogue and dance are used to tell the story of how the American hero Kilroy enters the pantheon of heroes by losing his innocence. The plaza of Ten Blocks on the Camino Real is a crossroads of world theater\, drawing on Williams’ experiences in Mexico\, and inspired by German theater\, Chinese opera and commedia del’arte. Ghana is the source and setting for this new production\, directed by David Kaplan\, curator of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. While the spoken English text is performed as written by Williams\, Spanish songs and Spanish words have been translated to Ghanaian songs and Ghanaian languages. Don Quixote has become Okomfo Okokye\, the founder of the Ashanti line of kings\, who finds his sidekick\, Osei-tutu. Other Spanish details are exchanged for Ghanaian specifics: pesos for pesewas\, fiesta for jubilee. The presiding musician plays two blue djembe drums\, rather than a blue guitar.\n\nEstablished in 1983 at the University of Ghana at Legon\, the professional theater company once known as “Abibigromma” became the resident troupe of the National Theatre of Ghana in 1991. The focus of the company is to develop a rich blend of music\, dance\, mime\, movement\, and dialogue with a strong social\, spiritual and folkloric base. In addition to performances and class visits throughout the week\, they will give a workshop for the public at the Residential College on Wednesday\, September 13 at 4pm in the East Quad Keene Theater\, and will also work with students at Ann Arbor’s Community High School\, and Mosaic Youth Theater in Detroit.\nCWPS aims to recreate the atmosphere of the Ghanaian outdoor productions here in Michigan\, staging performances in four outdoor venues through the week. These include:\n\n\nAnn Arbor Farmer’s Market \n315 Detroit Street\, Ann Arbor MI\nWednesday\, September 13 at 12pm\n\nThe Diag\nUniversity of Michigan\nFriday\, September 15 at 12pm\n\nYpsilanti Farmers Market Depot Town\n100 Rice Street\, Ypsilanti MI\nSaturday\, September 16 at 11am\n\nCMAP Detroit\n2221 Carpenter\, Detroit MI\nSunday\, September 17 at 2pm\n\n All performances are free and open to the public.
UID:42049-9529955@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42049
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Culture,Dance,Detroit,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Free,International,Multicultural,Music,Storytelling,Theater
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170906T150042
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:50 Years after the Detroit Rebellion: Lessons from Grace Lee Boggs
DESCRIPTION:Space is limited\, so we'll cap RSVP's at about 15!\n\nPlease join us next Wednesday\, September 13th for lunch and discussion at the Ginsberg Center\, as we welcome Scott Kurashige. Dr. Kurashige is professor of American & Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington\, and author of the recently released The Fifty Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit.\n\nJoin us as we discuss 50 Years after the Detroit Rebellion: Lessons from Grace Lee Boggs\n\nWhat is the significance of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion in the age of Black Lives Matter\, Trump\, and Dan Gilbert's “Detroit 2.0”?\n\nScott Kurashige will present his new book The Fifty-Year Rebellion and share insights garnered from 17 years of collaboration with Detroit’s legendary philosopher/activist\, Grace Lee Boggs. We will discuss how and why James and Grace Lee Boggs stressed the need to distinguish between a “riot” and a “rebellion” and between “rebellion” and “revolution.” This will set the stage for two critical points: 1) understanding how the “counter-revolution” in response to the civil rights and Black Power movements gave rise to white flight\, right-wing populism\, mass incarceration\, and neoliberal austerity\; 2) recognizing the ways radical activists in Detroit are not only at the forefront of the “resistance” but also creating models for a more just and sustainable political and economic system.\n\nBio: Scott Kurashige is professor of American & Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington Bothell\, co-author with Grace Lee Boggs of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century\, and President of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Foundation. From 2000 to 2014\, Kurashige was a professor of American Culture\, History\, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies\, and Afromerican & African Studies at the University of Michigan. He also worked with Semester in Detroit\, the Ginsberg Center\, and Arts of Citizenship and received the U-M Regents' Award for Distinguished Public Service.\n\nNote: Free copies of The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit will be provided to participants.
UID:43702-9832686@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43702
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning - Living Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170403T125717
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T130000
SUMMARY:Other:9/22--Fall 2017 Application Deadline
DESCRIPTION:The application deadline for Winter 2018 and early-admission Fall 2018. Please apply through M-Compass.
UID:40173-8509048@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/40173
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Deadlines,Interdisciplinary,Internship,Leadership,Majors,Networking,Public Policy,Research,Scholarships,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Student Org,Study Abroad,Transfer Students,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170928T063028
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T130000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Fashion Career Track:  Resume tips from Macy's Recruiter\, Nicole Rosario
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in roles in Fashion/Merchandising? Attend this Fashion Career Track workshop to get tips from Macy's Recruiter\, Nicole Rosario\, before submitting any applications! \n\nNicole Rosario is part of the College Relations team at Macy’s Inc. in New York City. She currently focuses on recruiting for the buying and merchandise planning rolesresponsible for curating product assortment and driving sales both onlineand in-store. After a summer internship in Human Resources with Macy’s in 2015\, she has been with the company for over a year.\nNicole attended Cornell University and graduated with a degree on Labor Relations\, focusing on Human Resources and Employment Law.\n\nThis event will be 30 minutesof going over resume tips followed by 30 minutes for attendees to ask Nicole questions. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to gain advice from an industry expert! \n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to:  https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/83844
UID:43799-9843856@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43799
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Program Room (3003) University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170911T083621
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HET Brown Bag | Respect the ELDER: New Thermal Target for Dark Matter Direct Detections and Going Beyond with Astrophysical Signatures
DESCRIPTION:A less explored procedure for a thermal relic to reach its current abundance is that it first elastically (thermally) decouples from the relativistic species before it freezes out from the number-changing processes. Here we present a novel dark matter (DM) candidate\, an Elastically Decoupling Relic (ELDER)\, which is a thermal relic whose present-day abundance is determined by the cross-section of its elastic scattering on Standard Model particles\, based on the aforementioned procedure.\n\nAssuming that this scattering is mediated by a kinetically mixed dark photon\, the ELDER scenario makes robust predictions for electron-recoil direct-detection experiments\, as well as for dark photon searches. These predictions are independent of the details of interactions within the dark sector. The ELDER predictions provide a target region that will be almost entirely accessible to the next generation of searches for sub-GeV dark matter and dark photons. \n\nIf time permits\, I will talk briefly about optical\, gravitational\, and radio signatures of DM-induced neutron star (NS) Implosions. The Astrophysical signatures (NS-NS mergers included!) are ways to go orders beyond the DM direct-detection limits.\n\nThis talk is based on Phys. Rev. Lett. 116\, 221302 (arXiv:1512.04545)\,  JHEP\, 08:078\, 2017 (arXiv:1706.05381)\, and arXiv:1706.00001
UID:43407-9759938@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43407
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170920T180019
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T235959
SUMMARY:Auditions:IMPROV COMEDY AUDITIONS!
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday September 20th at 9PM in the Angels Hall Auditoriums Come audition for Images of Identities Improv Comedy Group! Everyone is invited to come show your skills on your feet\, get crazy\, and have fun!If this date has a conflict\, feel free to email: madjones@umich.edu to reschedule your audition. 
UID:44463-9994821@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44463
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Angell Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170915T105741
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T130000
SUMMARY:Presentation:International Studies Information Session and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Students considering a major or minor in International Studies are strongly encouraged to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. The Program academic advisors will discuss: \n    \n   • Prerequisites \n   • Major and minor requirements \n   • Sub-plans \n   • How to declare \n   • Additional majors and minors offered at the International Institute \n   • Study abroad\, grants\, and internships \n   • Relevance of an International Studies major or minor \n    \n   Upcoming Fall 2017 Sessions: \n    \n   9/13/17 Wednesday\, 12-1 PM\, Room 355 Weiser Hall\, Advisor: Sofia Carlsson \n   10/19/17 Wednesday\, 4:15-5:15 PM\, Room 455 Weiser Hall\, Advisor: Folaké Graves \n   12/12/17 Tuesday\, 4:15-5:15 PM\, 455 Weiser Hall\, Advisor: Kelsey Szpara \n    \nWesier Hall is located at 500 Church St\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109. \n    \nA half-hour presentation will be followed by questions and discussion. Students can declare the International Studies major or minor at the information session. For more information\, e-mail is-advising@umich.edu. \n    \nParents and prospective students are welcome. For more information\, please e-mail us at is-michigan@umich.edu. \n    \nProspective students who would like to receive correspondence about International Studies related orientations\, events\, and special announcements should sign up for the email list: http://umich.us5.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=c5d81aed9f753c51ceb597dc0&id=e70f5ce914
UID:41431-9223320@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41431
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:International,International Studies,Majors,Minors,Undergraduate,Welcome to Michigan
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 355
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170731T181516
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding
DESCRIPTION:On view from September 8-October 14\, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.\, Ann Arbor)\, The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding is a group exhibition including image and video work by Terry Adkins\, John Akomfrah\, Shelagh Keeley\, and Zineb Sedira. There will be an exhibition reception on Friday\, September 8 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.\n\nCo-curated by Gaëtane Verna\, Director of The Power Plant\, and Mark Sealy\, The Unfinished Conversation is grounded in the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall (1932-2014)\, who devoted his life to studying the interweaving threads of culture\, power\, politics\, and history. \n\nTaking Hall’s essay Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse as a point of departure\, viewers will be invited to think about how meaning is constructed\; how it is systematically distorted by audience reception\; and how it can be detached and drained of its original intent to produce specific or slanted narratives. Hall’s interdisciplinary approach drew on literary theory\, linguistics\, and cultural anthropology in order to analyse and articulate the relationship between history\, culture\, popular media\, cold war politics\, gender\, and ethnicity.\n\nBy presenting the work of artists who bring into play time\, memory\, and archives so as to construct new readings of the past\, the exhibition will lay emphasis on the idea that the “visual” is an assimilatory process continuously at work in the construction of cultural\, political\, personal\, and national identities.\n\nCo-curators Gaëtane Verna and Mark Sealy state that it is their curatorial intention to build a multiple moving/still/audio archive\, an image map\, a visual vehicle that will ferry the audience across the choppy waters of memory\, images\, and politics to an undeterminable\, obscure\, and un-chartable destination\, where people often meet with a fatal end. The exhibition aims to take viewers on a journey in time\, to bring them to encounter images\, which act as both objects of art and ideas in flux\, circulating in and out of the archive through the corridors of cultural re-construction.\n\nThis image map will be drawn by the work of Terry Adkins\, John Akomfrah\, Shelagh Keeley and Zineb Sedira\, four artists whose practice is devoted primarily to commenting on recent socio-political events and situations and relating them to the not so distant past in order to help us understand the world we live in.\n\nBy stimulating our personal and collective memory\, these works will show us how history agitates and causes anxiety in our personal lives and in the political realm as they will reveal the fact that national identity is not an essence or a state of being\, but a “becoming\,” a process whereby subjectivities are formed in the interstices between such binary oppositions as us/them\, black/white\, or native/foreigner\, and that it is in those in-between spaces that marginalized people are the agents and subjects of many possible futures\, imagined or real.\n\nThe thread that connects all these art works is the artist’s involvement with the significant social issues confronting humanity today and their profound desire to push formal boundaries in order to tackle them.\n\nThe Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding is organized and circulated by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery\, Toronto in partnership with Autograph ABP\, London. The exhibition is co-curated by Gaëtane Verna\, Director\, The Power Plant and Mark Sealy\, Director\, Autograph ABP.\n\nPhoto by Toni Hafkenscheid.
UID:41797-9474949@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41797
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Film
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170907T121539
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Vital Signs for a New America
DESCRIPTION:On view from September 8-October 14\, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.\, Ann Arbor)\, Vital Signs for a New America is a group exhibition including work by Dylan Miner\, Sheryl Oring\, and the performance collective The Hinterlands. There will be an exhibition reception on Friday\, September 8 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\, Vital Signs for a New America uses a range of meaningful and compelling of community-engaged approaches to invite the public to join Miner\, Oring\, and The Hinterlands in speaking out and sharing stories\; listening and re-learning\; and remembering the past to imagine new possibilities for the future.\n\nActive public engagement is at the heart of Vital Signs for a New America. Each work on view in this group exhibition offers opportunities to interact directly with the artists and their art. As part of the exhibition programming\, the gallery will become a common space for storytelling and tea drinking with Dylan Miner\; a bustling executive assistant’s office with Sheryl Oring\; and a tactile\, expansive personal archive with the performance collective The Hinterlands. Vital Signs invites the public to speak out\, listen\, and imagine new models for inclusive futures.\n\nDylan Miner: Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore\nSaturdays\, September 9-October 14\, 1-3 pm\n\nDylan Miner\, Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Michigan State University\, is an artist\, activist\, and scholar. Miner identifies as a Wiisaakodewinini (Métis)\, the Ojibwe designation for a Native male of mixed ancestry. While conducting an oral history project with retired Anishinaabe autoworkers\, elders shared the idea that “we don’t visit as much as we used to” due to the limitations of urbanizations\, wage labor\, and settler colonialism to name a few. In response\, Miner was inspired to explore the methodology of visiting with an art gallery or museum context. Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore is a creative action where the public is invited to share tea and conversation with the artist\, creating new friendships and maintaining social relationships within a specific time and place.\n\nSheryl Oring: I Wish to Say \nFriday\, September 8\, 5-6.30 pm and 7-8 pm (two engagements)\nFridays\, September 15-October 13\, 5-7 pm\n\nNationally renowned artist Sheryl Oring’s belief in the value of free expression guaranteed by the American constitution propelled her to initiate I Wish to Say (2004-ongoing)\, a public platform that invites people to voice their concerns about the state-of-affairs in the country to the President of America. For this project\, Oring sets up a portable public office — complete with a manual typewriter — and invites viewers to dictate postcards to the President of the United States\, prompting with a simple phrase: “Do you have a message for the president?” Over the last decade\, Oring has toured this project across the country and more than 3\,000 postcards have been mailed to the White House. Taking place for the first time in Michigan\, Oring will be working with students and volunteers at the Stamps Gallery and in the city of Ann Arbor to spark dialogues not just among artists and academics but also among the diverse public of Ann Arbor on their notes to the President.\n\nThe Hinterlands: The Radicalization Process Papers \nTuesday\, October 3\, 6-7.30pm: History is a Living Weapon (performance)\n\nThe Hinterlands delve into the past to remember and re-learn the cultural memories and collective histories of Detroit and Ann Arbor. A collection of boxes is discovered in the basement of a house on the border of Detroit and Hamtramck. In them\, a rich personal archive of publication clippings\, which appear to chronicle radical U.S. histories of the 60s and 70s. Using the archive as a performative platform\, the artists invite audiences to engage with the materials contained in the boxes that blur the boundaries between fact and fiction\, real and imagined. The ephemera and memorabilia in the The Radicalization Process Papers takes audiences on a journey that navigates layers of historical accounts\, art\, politics\, and cultural artifacts and asks audiences to examine the assumptions of freedom and democracy in popular American culture. Created and compiled by The Hinterlands in collaboration with historian and poet Casey Rocheteau and designer Ben Gaydos.
UID:41894-9489307@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41894
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Social
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170613T082037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170913T130000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:All About the ADA and Accommodations!
DESCRIPTION:If you are providing a service\, it is important to know the best ways to communicate with and about individuals who may have disabilities. This session will help you to understand how to best serve individuals with disabilities\, and will also give you some etiquette pointers that you can use in your everyday life.  In addition\, you will find useful information in this session if you are someone who needs an accommodation.\n\nYou will learn to:\n- Recognize the impact of language as it pertains to the topic of disability\n- Apply specific tips for communicating with individuals with disabilities\, including \n  individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and individuals who are blind or have \n  low vision\n- Determine when your own unintentional biases and assumptions concerning \n  individuals with disabilities are interfering with your ability to provide quality service\n- Use appropriate questions in order to determine whether an individual with a \n  disability requires assistance or an accommodation\n- Identify ways to better help individuals with disabilities\, including those who are \n  accompanied by service animals\n- Learn about providing and receiving accommodations\n- And more!\nYou will benefit by:\n- Recognizing how to appropriately and effectively engage with co-workers\, \n  members of the public\, and others who may have a disability\n- Understanding how to best serve individuals with disabilities\n- Learning some etiquette pointers to use in your everyday life\n- Learn how to engage in the interactive process and request an accommodation\n\nPresenter: Christina Kline\, Disability Coordinator
UID:41290-9085039@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41290
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Workshop
LOCATION:LSA Building - Conference Room 2001
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