BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T133838 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T203000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Ice Cream Socials at The Connector DESCRIPTION:Do you like free ice cream? Swing by for a scoop and hang out with the Connector Community Assistants (CCA) to learn more about campus resources\, upcoming events and ways to get involved at The Connector and the broader campus community. CCAs are your guides to ask questions and help you feel connected with the student community! Come say hi!\n\nThe Connector is located in West Quad. UID:150140-21908186@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150140 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Building,Community Engagement,Community Gathering,Free,Housing,Welcome Week,Welcome Week Event,Welcome26 LOCATION:The Connector - Located in West Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260918T113841 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T210000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Interfaith Film and Dialogue Night DESCRIPTION:Join us for an interfaith film screening and dialogue night on Wednesday\, September 23! We will be watching a few episodes featuring stories of exclusion\, resilience\, and belonging among the country's diverse religious communities\, and engaging in a dialogue about our own experiences and learnings from the films. This is a great opportunity to learn about others' unique experiences within their own faith communities. Come hungry as dinner will be provided! 😋 UID:152399-21913680@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152399 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Community Service,Dialogue,Dinner,Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Faith,Food,Free,Graduate Students,In Person,Inclusion,Religious,Social Impact,Social Justice,Student Org LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - B684 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T180453 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T210000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Interfaith Film and Dialogue Night DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for an interfaith film screening and dialogue night on Wednesday\, September 23! We will be watching a few episodes featuring stories of exclusion\, resilience\, and belonging among the country's diverse religious communities\, and engaging in a dialogue about our own experiences and learnings from the films. This is a great opportunity to learn about others' unique experiences within their own faith communities. Come hungry as dinner will be provided! 😋\n \nThis event starts at 7pm at the School of Social Work Room B684\n \nPlease RSVP here!\n UID:152408-21913690@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152408 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:School of Social Work CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260917T181703 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm USO performance.\n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction/ UID:151488-21911650@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260803T105107 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Values in Focus: Andrea Joyce DESCRIPTION:A lecture on values\, ethics and leadership in sports and beyond featuring Andrea Joyce: NBC Sports\, Figure Skating and Gymnastics Reporter.\n. UID:149717-21906994@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149717 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mutotix LOCATION:GA - Rackham CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260701T112618 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Devon Gilfillian Time Will Tell Tour DESCRIPTION:Forged through the extreme highs and lows that come with living\, Time Will Tell is the album that Devon Gilfillian has been preparing to make his entire life. His third studio album was recorded in Nashville's legendary RCA Studio A\, live to tape on varispeed\, with mostly single vocal takes.\n\nGilfillian wrote and produced with a mighty team including longtime drummer and friend Jonathan Smalt and Neal H Pogue (Tyler the Creator\, OutKast) as executive producer. Gilfillian carries soul track to track through a sonic journey of rock\, funk\, and country elements\, magnetically vulnerable about his own failure and frailty.\n\nNo end is ever easy\, and what else is there in life than to go through? To get to where we're going\, we've got to suffer a little. Time Will Tell is the sound of Gilfillian doing just that while realizing what a blessing it is to be here at all. UID:149050-21905361@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149050 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260813T100430 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Salt Company - September 23 DESCRIPTION:Ann Arbor Salt Company is the college ministry of Treeline Church in Ann Arbor. We exist to help students follow Jesus\, find community with each other\, and love the campus of Michigan. \nAny and all are welcome to join us for this week's large group gathering hosted at the Power Center! UID:150206-21908394@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150206 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mutotix LOCATION:GA - Power Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T121753 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T214000 SUMMARY:Performance:University Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction\n\nThe University Symphony Orchestra launches its new season of magical and magnificent music\, led by USO Music Director and GRAMMY nominee\, Kenneth Kiesler. The evening’s “Music of the Dance” is set in motion with Beethoven’s exuberant and propulsive 7th Symphony\, which Wagner called “the apotheosis of the dance.” Featuring pianist Jinzhao Xu\, DMA student and winner of the 2026 SMTD Concerto Competition\, the concert continues with Saint-SaĂ«ns’ stunning and scintillating 5th Piano Concerto\, “Egyptian.” The USO’s opening concert reaches its finale with *La Valse*\, evocative and spectacular music by Ravel\, who described it as “a dancing\, whirling\, almost hallucinatory ecstasy\, and increasingly passionate and exhausting whirlwind of dancers\, who are overcome and exhilarated by nothing but ‘the waltz.’”\n\nKenneth Kiesler\, conductor\nJinzhao Xu\, piano (Saint-SaĂ«ns)\n\nPROGRAM\n\nSymphony No. 7 in A major\, op. 92\, Ludwig van Beethoven\nPiano Concerto No. 5 in F major\, op. 103 \"Egyptian\"\, Camille Saint-SaĂ«ns\n*La Valse*\, Maurice Ravel\n\nConcert Duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes \n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction UID:148632-21904548@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148632 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T182122 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T230000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Wolverine Village Building 3 (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:150521-21913679@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:6th Floor Left Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260901T060407 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T235959 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:ISBA September Step Challenge! DESCRIPTION:To kick off the school year\, we’re launching the ISBA September Step Challenge. Starting SEPTEMBER 1! \nTake full advantage of the beautiful Ann Arbor summer while it lasts (trust me\, it is very short) and get your steps in! Stay active\, explore AA on foot\, and start the semester feeling good.\nHow to join:\n1. Download the Step Up app\n2. Join the ISBA September Challenge using the link here: https://join.thestepupapp.com/mq7jPU\n3. Start walking!\n\nWinners will be announced every Tuesday and will receive a FREE ISBA T-shirt! See you on the leaderboard!\n\n UID:151277-21911296@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151277 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ann Arbor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2026 Second Year Studio Exhibition DESCRIPTION:\n\nAugust 24 - October 18\, 2026\nExhibition Reception: October 1\, 1-2:30 p.m.\n\nIn their second year\, Stamps students complete a major milestone: Second Year Studio (SYS). It’s a course where\, per the syllabus\, students \"develop the capacity to work independently by identifying\, exploring\, and pursuing a single independent project that involves multiple iterations.\" \n\nStamps Lecturer & Student Exhibitions Coordinator Sally Clegg notes\, \"Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice—how do I manage my time? How much constraint vs. freedom do I thrive on? What subject matter do I care about most deeply? How do my ideas about my future goals intersect with the work I want to make now?\" At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review\, and a faculty panel offers individualized feedback. \n\nInstalled throughout the Art & Architecture Building\, the Second Year Studio Exhibition showcases the art and design work created in this pivotal course by our rising third-year and transfer students\, and invites first-year students and other newcomers to explore both the building and the creative possibilities ahead. The show features 50 students who have volunteered to participate\, yet it honors every Stamps major who reaches the SYS milestone. The pieces on view span a wide array of media and capture a specific moment in each maker’s path: experiments in previously unfamiliar methods\, emergent passions\, creative risks taken\, iterations and reiterations\, and the seeds of so much future work.\n\nAs Course Coordinator\, Stamps Assistant Professor Pedram Baldari both teaches and works directly with all the faculty overseeing each section to collaboratively support the entire class. He offers this reflection on the diverse collection of work on view in this year’s exhibition.\n\nThese works engage a wide range of questions and concerns. Students investigate memory\, identity\, materiality\, ecology\, technology\, labor\, social relationships\, and the built environment through equally diverse formal approaches. While these subjects recur across the exhibition\, what stands out most is not a dominant thematic direction\, but a shared commitment to sustained inquiry.\n\nSYS is intentionally structured around a different learning model than project-based courses. Rather than responding to predetermined assignments\, students identify their own questions and spend an entire semester developing them through research\, experimentation\, critique\, and multiple iterations. The emphasis is not on arriving quickly at a resolved outcome\, but on cultivating the capacity to work independently\, remain responsive to new discoveries\, and allow the project itself to evolve through sustained engagement.\n\nAs a result\, the exhibition presents more than a collection of finished works. It documents different ways of investigating\, testing\, and refining ideas. Some students advance through material experimentation\, others through drawing\, installation\, performance\, digital media\, social engagement\, or speculative approaches. Each project reflects a distinct methodology that has developed through repeated cycles of making\, reflection\, critique\, and revision. In a sense\, the dialectical process generated by the nature of this course is the most significant thread connecting this year’s exhibition. It marks a point at which students begin moving beyond solving assignments toward constructing independent practices\, developing the habits of inquiry\, critical reflection\, and experimentation that will continue to shape their work well beyond SYS.\n\n\n\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n