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:20260813T094712 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Movie Nights at Origins DESCRIPTION:Wanna watch a movie and eat free popcorn? Join our Multicultural Lounge Community Assistants and watch a new movie or a classic while meeting new or familiar faces! Settle-in for a cozy night with us Thursday as we enter into comfy Fall weather.\n\nOrigins is located in Wolverine Village (Harper Hall). UID:150192-21908369@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150192 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Building,Community Engagement,Community Gathering,Free,Housing,Welcome Week,Welcome Week Event,Welcome26 LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Located in Origins Multicultural Engagement Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260813T101439 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Movie Nights at The Connector DESCRIPTION:Wanna watch a movie and eat free popcorn? Join the Connector Community Assistants and watch a new movie or a classic while meeting new or familiar faces! Settle-in for a cozy night with us every Thursday as we enter into comfy Fall weather. \n\nThe Connector is located in West Quad. UID:150143-21908227@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Building,Community Engagement,Community Gathering,Free,Housing,Welcome Week,Welcome Week Event,Welcome26 LOCATION:The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260918T154527 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Return to Sender DESCRIPTION:For one night only: Mark Kirschenmann' \"Return to Sender\" album release concert with the Alex Wand Trio and E3Q.\n\nOct1 7pm East Quad Keene Theater\n\nRC Emeritus Lecturer Mark Kirschenmann performs selections from his new album \"Return to Sender\" for electric trumpet and no input mixer. Released on the Minneapolis-based Neuma Records in September 26\, the label says of the record:\n\nUsually a mixer is judged by how clean it sounds\; the less noise\, the more signal\, the\nbetter. With sneaky patching\, however – with outputs connected back into inputs – it be-\ncomes a different creature entirely: a generator of analog chaos\, volatile and unpredictable.\nAdd a trumpet to the circuit and you are now entering the unstable\, fragile\, and gritty world\nof Mark Kirschenmann.\n\nReturn to Sender takes the idea of feedback to a whole new level. The album captures\nimprovised exchanges between trumpet and No-Input Mixer\, bringing together experimental\njazz\, electronic noise\, and live studio experimentation in a series of one-take unrepeatable\nperformances.\n\nFirst associated with Japanese circuit bender\, Toshimaru Nakamura\, the No-Input Mixer functions as a responsive partner with a mercurial mind of its own. Improvisor Kirschenmann shapes its pulses\, tones\, and feedback into layered textures\, then adds processed trumpet lines that interact with the shifting electronics. The result is a tense\, layered record that moves between rhythm\, noise\, and other-worldly mel-\nody\; redefining both mixing desk and trumpet in the process.\n\n“The performer is in a constant state of improvisation and discovery\,” Kirschenmann said.\n“The mixer reacts in volatile ways\; the trumpet is the human element trying to find its place\nwithin that storm.”\n\nAnn Arbor-based composer/performer Mark Kirschenmann performs the music of Miles\nDavis and has appeared with creative luminaries such as Wadada Leo Smith\, Myra Melford\,\nWilliam Hooker\, and Oliver Lake Return to Sender was mixed and mastered by\nelectronic musician Erdem Helvacioglu.\n\nMark Kirschenmann: https://www.sonikmannmusic.com\nReview: https://www.paris-move.com/reviews/mark-kirschenmann-return-to-sender/ UID:151755-21912132@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:#Michiganartsfestival,All Majors Welcome,Alumni,american culture,Ann Arbor,arts,Arts And Ideas In The Humanities,Concert,Culture,Faculty,Free,In Person,Michiganartsfestival,music,Staff,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T163723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Virtual Transfer Student Panel DESCRIPTION:Join a panel of LSA Transfer Student Ambassadors to learn more about the transfer student experience. The Ambassadors will be chatting about the academic transition to U-M\, how to get involved on campus\, housing\, all the amazing programs and support for transfer students\, and any other questions that you have. Join us even if you don't have specific questions.\n\nPlease register with link at the right. After you register you will receive the Zoom login. UID:141224-21912141@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141224 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:transfer,Transfer Student Center,Transfer Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260903T121702 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Philharmonia Orchestra DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm UPO performance.\n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction/ UID:151490-21911652@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151490 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260706T184731 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Brain Plasticity Ukulele Collective and Blueshouse DESCRIPTION:On sale Friday\, July 10 at 10am\n\nAnn Arbor’s Brain Plasticity Ukulele Collective is a proudly intergenerational group\, sharing instruments\, knowledge\, kindness\, and talent across eras. Instruments you might hear in the music of the collective include not only ukuleles but also guitar\, flute\, percussion\, harmonica\, accordion\, mandolin\, mandola\, bass\, piano\, and melodica. The group is inspired by the idea that music cuts across diverse cognitive capabilities and resources\, including numeracy\, language\, and space perception.\n\nMike Brooks\, veteran blues guitar player/singer/songwriter from the UK has been playing guitar since the age of 10\, and professionally since the age of 16. His musical career and accolades are many and varied\, but include hitting the UK charts in 1979 (#28 on “the New Wave of British Heavy Metal” despite being a blues band)\, getting a cease and desist order from Walt Disney Corp for using a band name too close to that of a cartoon mouse\, opening for bands such as the Yardbirds\, the Animals\, Wishbone Ash and Nine Below Zero\, and playing in some of the most famous venues anywhere such as London’s Marquee\, and\, well\, The Ark! In addition to leading BLUESHOUSE and fronting the Brain Plasticity Ukulele Collective\, he also works with Ann Arbor’s youth at the Neutral Zone\, a continuation of a youth music project begun in the UK called Electric896\, which taught disengaged youth how to rock the blues.\n\nPlease note early start time! UID:149221-21905994@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149221 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved + Gold Circle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T121742 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Time Passes: 8 Short Plays by Samuel Beckett DESCRIPTION:Born in colonized Ireland just after the turn of the twentieth century\, Samuel Beckett wrote about how power works\, and how it works on people -- especially the dispossessed and the destitute. His own experience hiding from the Gestapo in the French countryside surfaces in most famous play\, *Waiting for Godot* (1953). \n\n*Time Passes* presents eight short plays written after *Godot*\, from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Showcasing Beckett's verbal play and visual precision\, as well as his political imagination\, they meet our own moment -- fierce\, funny\, uncompromising\, and compassionate as ever. \n\nFeatured plays: \n*Act Without Words II*\n*Play* \n*Come and Go*\n*Footfalls*\n*Rockaby*\n*Catastrophe*\n*What Where*\n*Quad*\n\nWritten by Samuel Beckett\n\nDirected by Malcolm Tulip UID:148635-21904551@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148635 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:North Campus,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260922T222118 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T195000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T210000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Mosher Jordan (2026-2027) (Housing) DESCRIPTION: UID:150371-21913516@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150371 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Meet by the Dining Hall Stairs at 7:50pm CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260922T180018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T223000 SUMMARY:Other:University of Michigan Women's Ice Hockey vs. Adrian DESCRIPTION:Home game v Adrian UID:149101-21905744@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149101 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T181700 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:University Philharmonia Orchestra DESCRIPTION:The UPO performs a program of works by Dvořák\, Mozart\, Liebermann\, and Brahms. Lowell Liebermann's Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra\, op. 50 will feature soloist Tieran Holmes (BM ’26\, flute\, music education)\, a winner of the 2026 SMTD Concerto Competition.\n\nJayce Ogren\, conductor\nTieran Holmes\, piccolo (Liebermann)\n\nPROGRAM\n\n+Slavonic Dance in G minor\, op. 46\, #8 - Antonín Dvořák+\n\n+Symphony No. 38 in D major\, K. 504\, \"Prague\" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart+\n\n+Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra\, op. 50 - Lowell Liebermann+\n\n+Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor\, op. 25 - Johannes Brahms\, orch. Arnold Schoenberg+\n\n\n–––\n*Parking / Traffic alert for attendees:*\nhttps://smtd.umich.edu/2026-construction UID:148636-21904552@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148636 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260826T075841 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T235900 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:LSA@Play: Pop-Up Free Lunch DESCRIPTION:The best surprises happen between classes! Keep an eye out during the week of Sept 28 for a pop-up lunch in Regents Plaza. Subscribe to our text updates to be the first to know when and where to find free sliders and fries! \n\nSubscribe (https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/news-events/events/lsa-play.html#Subscribe)\n\nGrab a bite and take a break with fellow LSA students. Vegan and gluten-free options available.\n__________\nFor LSA undergrads only. Join us for LSA@Play\, a series of events designed to bring students together\, build community\, and make time for fun\, new experiences\, and well-being. From creative activities and social events to opportunities to recharge and try something new\, LSA@Play offers plenty of ways to get involved. And yes\, there’s free food and LSA swag\, too!\n\nVisit the LSA@Play webpage (lsa.umich.edu/play) for more details\, subscribe to receive text/email updates\, and check for additional events being added soon! Events are first-come\, first-served\, while supplies last. One swag item per student. You must be present with an MCard to receive swag.\n\nAccessibility: LSA values inclusion and access for all. Reasonable accommodations are available. Please email lsaatplay@umich.edu with accommodation requests or questions. Advance notice is appreciated to allow time to arrange accommodations. UID:150925-21910444@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150925 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Free,Undergraduate Students,Welcome to Michigan,Well-being LOCATION:Regents Plaza CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260921T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T220000 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