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DTSTAMP:20160404T105502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction
DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29456-3120437@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMMA,Museum,Exhibition,Art,Architecture
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160329T123251
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:In Focus: Jeanne Gang
DESCRIPTION:Widely acclaimed for her integrative approach to materials\, technology\, and ecological context\, Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. Shortly thereafter Gang proposed an ambitious restoration of the Chicago riverfront through a series of small but transformational projects. The WMS Boathouse\, designed by Gang and located north of downtown\, is one such project\, encompassing a field house with state-of-the art training facilities\, a boat storage building\, and a floating dock at the river’s edge. Completed in 2013\, the 22\,000-square-foot boathouse is the city’s premier rowing center\, serving a range of public rowing clubs\, many of whose amateur athletes come from the city’s underserved communities.\n\nThis installation showcases dynamic exterior and interior sketches of the complex—recently acquired by UMMA—depicting the distinctive rhythmic contours of the roof\, derived from studies of rowers in motion\, and the open\, angular\, and light-filled spaces within.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:30041-3321266@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30041
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Architecture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160329T124905
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light
DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:30043-3321352@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,UMMA,Museum,Exhibition
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160308T121704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016)
DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29503-3129521@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160512T143154
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time
DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time?  What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons?  Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too!  The exhibit is open!
UID:27873-2579370@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum,Free,Family
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
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DTSTAMP:20160202T133500
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits
DESCRIPTION:The first major U.S. exhibition of the accomplished Chinese artist Xu Weixin (b. 1958)\, Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits will focus on two of his acclaimed\, large-size portrait series: Miner Portraits and Chinese Historical Figures: 1966–1976. The subjects in Miner Portraits are coal miners working in harsh conditions in contemporary China. Chinese Historical Figures: 1966–1976 depicts people who lived—known and unknown\, and some of whom eventually perished—during the turbulent time of the Cultural Revolution. By portraying these individuals with monumentality and poignant realism\, Xu Weixin brings our focus to their lives and ordeals\, inviting an emotional connection. Reflecting the artist’s deep interest in the human condition\, these single-person portraits challenge our expectations and compel us to see beyond official narratives of historical events and social conditions. Xu Weixin is currently a professor of painting and the former executive dean of the School of Arts\, Renmin University\, Beijing.
UID:28690-2810447@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28690
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Art,UMMA,Museum,Chinese Studies
LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160411T163628
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Scientist Spotlight
DESCRIPTION:Visit with University of Michigan scientists and participate in activities related to their research!  U-M scientists will be stationed throughout the Museum with unique interactive activities focusing on their own current work. These scientists are part of the Museum’s Portal to the Public program which is designed to bring researchers and public audiences together in face-to-face interactions.  This program is best suited for inquisitive\, interested\, and fun-loving audiences\, who want to learn and try something new. Is that you? Join us.\n\nFree and open to the public.  Suitable for upper elementary through adult visitors.
UID:30344-3437119@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30344
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum,Exhibition,Free,Graduate
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160329T135418
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:'Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Mexico's Poet of Light' Guided Tour
DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences including\, among others\, Modernism andSurrealism. Although not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood. One of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The photographs in the exhibition\, from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist using motifs drawn from Mexican religious and indigenous works as well as plant forms\, in a Modernist approach to image making. UMMA docents will discuss these motifs and the artist’s use of light as a metaphor and revealer of life\, animating even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.
UID:30051-3321514@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30051
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160223T144221
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T170000
SUMMARY:Meeting:Mini-Catts
DESCRIPTION:Peter Lin of Diamond Orchids gives a presentation on the miniature cattleyas past and present. Orchds for sale as well.
UID:29161-3004203@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29161
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20160324T113515
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T140000
SUMMARY:Performance:Tarzan
DESCRIPTION:On sale to the public April 11 at 9 a.m. For accessible seating\, please call (734) 763-8587.\n\nWashed up on the shores of West Africa\, an infant boy is taken in and raised by gorillas who name him Tarzan. Apart from striving for acceptance from his ape father\, Tarzan's life is mostly monkey business until a human expedition treks into his tribe's territory and he encounters creatures like himself for the first time. Tarzan struggles to navigate a jungle\, thick with emotion as he discovers his animal upbringing clashing with his human instincts.
UID:29952-3273219@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29952
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Theater,Family
LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160329T140220
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T163000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Lost in the Woods: Radio Stories about Birth\, Death\, and Nature
DESCRIPTION:Settle in for an afternoon of creative audio stories and memorable radio documentary as part of Radio Campfire\, a series of listening events curated by radio producers and audio artists in Detroit and Ann Arbor.  Think magical\, relaxed and intimate like the campfire (minus the burnt marshmallows.)\nThis month's theme is Lost in the Woods: stories with big questions about entering and leaving the world. You’ll hear an episode of a brand new podcast called Pregnant Pause by Detroit based radio producer Zak Rosen and a sound-rich documentary tale by Stamps School of Art & Design professor Stephanie Rowden\, among others.
UID:30052-3321515@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30052
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Writing,Museum,Storytelling,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160522T120011
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Agrarian crisis in India : problems and solutions
DESCRIPTION:AID has an annual conference in one of its 40+ US chapters where many keynote speakers are invited from India. This year's conference is in DC Metro chapter from May 28-30. Many of the speakers are available for few weeks before and/or after the conference to visit other chapters. AID Ann Arbor has invited Kiran Kumar Vissa on May 22nd to speak on agrarian crisis in India. Kiran Kumar Vissa works on agricultural and farmers' issues in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states in India. He is a part of Rythu Swarajya Vedika\, which is a umbrella organization for various agricultural non-profits in India. Link to bio\, News article.
UID:30725-3716131@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30725
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:1040 Dana Building
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DTSTAMP:20160419T135727
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160522T190000
SUMMARY:Performance:American Impressionists in Monet Country
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, May 21 at 8 pm\, and Sunday May 22 at 7 pm\, Rachel Urist’s American Impressionists in Monet Country will be presented at the Michigan League. The event is a theatrical exploration of the artists in Giverny at the turn of the 20th century.\n\nGiverny is a tranquil village\, nestled between Paris and Rouen. It was home to Claude Monet\, his wife\, Alice\, and their six children. The shimmering air and pastoral landscapes drew painters from near and far. Giveny attracted so many American painters\, that it became known as “the American colony.” Painters who sojourned there included John Singer Sargent\, Theodore Robinson\, Theodore Butler\, Lilla Cabot Perry\, and Michigan native\, Frederick Frieseke.\n\nThis event is the brainchild of writer Rachel Urist and theatre-maker Nancy Heusel. The event is hosted by the Friends of the Michigan League. The presentation features the paintings of Frederick Frieseke\, a Michigan-born member of the Giverny community. Urist directs. She and Heusel join the cast.\n\nThis reader’s theatre presentation includes live music (Laurel Federbush on harp) and projected images of eighty paintings by many artists. It features a cast of nine actors playing thirty five characters. Performances will take place in the Koessler Room (third floor\, Michigan League). A light reception will follow.
UID:30460-3505085@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30460
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Theater
LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20151208T153106
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160523T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160523T170000
SUMMARY:Other:CEW offers Funding for Event Co-sponsorship for 2016
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Education of Women (CEW) is seeking opportunities to partner with units on campus via its Frances and Sydney Lewis (FSL) Visiting Leaders Fund.  This endowment fund brings visiting women leaders to campus who are distinguished scholars and/or practitioners in their fields.  Any U-M department\, unit or organization (student\, staff or faculty) may submit a funding request to CEW via our online Google application form.  Requests for event support will be evaluated based on their consistency with the purpose of the FSL Visiting Leaders Fund and should be submitted at least six (6) weeks before the proposed programming.  Please note that only those events submitted via the CEW online form will be considered.\n\nDEADLINES:\n2016 Winter Semester: December 15\, 2015\n2016 Fall Semester: August 1\, 2016\n\nIn addition\, CEW can provide promotional support for events by listing on our online calendar.  To learn more about how CEW can support your U-M event\, please refer to this CEW webpage: http://www.cew.umich.edu/RFP)\n\nQuestions about event co-sponsorship may be directed to Janice Reuben\, CEW Senior Associate for Programs & Outreach\, at 734.764.6005  (reubenjs@umich.edu).
UID:27093-2308814@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27093
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Leadership,Inclusion,Diversity,Community Service,Career,Activism
LOCATION:Center for the Education of Women
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160418T110610
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160523T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160523T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: The Many Faces and Figures of the Four Sons in the Passover Haggadah
DESCRIPTION:The Four Sons of the Passover Haggadah can now be viewed in their many versions at a unique exhibit at the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. The exhibit\, featuring 29 Haggadahs from the Irwin M. Alterman Haggadah Collection\, will be on display through July.  It includes Haggadahs of various shapes and sizes\, ancient and modern\, and in a number of different languages.\n\nThe Alterman collection was acquired by the University of Michigan Library last year with the help of the Frankel Center\, and is housed in the Special Collections Library of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. It includes more than 1\,800 Haggadahs and is believed to be one of the largest Haggadah collections in the world. The unique compilation belonged to the late Irwin Alterman of West Bloomfield\, and was donated by his widow\, Marilyn McCall Alterman. \n\nPhoto courtesy of Luna Archey
UID:30296-3402279@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30296
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Jewish Studies
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2000
CONTACT:
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