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:20260805T104146 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T193000 SUMMARY:Other:LGBT History Month Kickoff: Student Film Festival DESCRIPTION:Showcasing the remarkable talents and stories of our U-M student film directors\, this year Spectrum Center is kicking off LGBT History Month with a film festival highlighting LGBTQIA2S+ experiences and storytelling through cinematography. Guests can look forward to breathtaking performances and an insightful Q&A with film directors. Enjoy free popcorn and trivia related to the historical timeline of queer and trans experiences in filmmaking. Registration is required.\n\nThis event is open to all members of the U-M community.\n\nCalling all student filmmakers! Submit your short film to our LGBT History Month kickoff in celebration of queer and trans experiences. \n\nStudents of all genders and sexualities are welcome to submit. Submissions close August 23rd.\n\nMORE SPECTRUM CENTER EVENTS\nhttps://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/events UID:149539-21906592@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149539 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Film,Graduate Students,Inclusion,LGBT,LGBTQ Graduate Student,LGBTQ History Month,Queer Trans Indigenous People of Color-QTIPOC,spectrum center,Theater,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260828T154226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T190000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Make Space DESCRIPTION:Life moves fast. Make Space is an invitation to slow down\, reconnect\, and spend time outside. Each week brings a different experience centered on creativity\, nature\, restoration\, and community. Try nature journaling\, art\, mindful movement\, or another hands-on outdoor activity while making room to pause and recharge. No previous experience required. UID:151137-21910954@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151137 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Adventure Leadership,Community,Mindfulness,Nature,Nature Rx,Outdoors,Well-being LOCATION:Intramural Sports Building - Adventure Leadership Outpost CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260821T153424 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Vijay Gupta DESCRIPTION:\n\nVijay Gupta is a violinist\, curator\, and music director who explores the human condition through music. His performing career has taken him from Carnegie Hall — where he debuted at age eight — to county jails\, Skid Row shelters\, and state psychiatric hospitals\, finding in each the same essential questions about what music is for\, and who it is for. At eleven\, he made his international solo debut with the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. At nineteen\, he became the youngest violinist ever to join the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, where he performed for eleven seasons. The Los Angeles Times has called his playing \"brilliant\, bold and gripping\,\" and Publishers Weekly praised his memoir Restrung as a \"a virtuoso performance” that illustrates how music \"reaches the broken places within us and the broken places between us.\"\n\nA recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and honoree on the Time 100 Next list\, Gupta is the founder and artistic director of Street Symphony\, a nonprofit that brings live music into shelters\, clinics\, county jails\, state hospitals\, and reentry programs across Los Angeles. Over fifteen years\, Street Symphony has delivered more than 3\,000 performances and workshops. The New Yorker called it \"a formidable new model for how musical institutions should engage with the world around them.\" \n\nIn addition to his work with Street Symphony\, Gupta performs as a soloist and as a founding member of the Darshan Piano Trio. He holds degrees in biology and violin performance and completed graduate study at the Yale School of Music. He has addressed audiences at the Aspen Institute\, Mayo Clinic\, Harvard Business School\, the American Medical Association\, and the U.S. Psychiatric Congress\, among others. Restrung\, his memoir\, was published by Grand Central / Da Capo in 2026. \n\nPresented in partnership with the U-M Arts Initiative\, the Michigan Arts Festival\, and the Ann Arbor Symphony.\n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.\n UID:150478-21909501@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150478 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Classical Music,Michigan Arts Festival,Music,Violin LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260825T142135 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Korea Week | Learn About Hangul\, the Korean Alphabet DESCRIPTION:Learn about Hangul (the Korean alphabet) with staff members from the Korean Language Program at the University of Michigan. Then try your hand at writing in Hangul through various activities.\n\nThis event is part of Korea Week\, and is held in partnership with the Ann Arbor District Library and the Korean Cultural Center of Washington D.C. For more information\, visit https://myumi.ch/9JJ4g.\n\n*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.* UID:150771-21910153@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150771 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,Free,In Person,Korea,korean cinema,Korean Studies,Language,Languages LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 1st Floor Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260901T022125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T203000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ELI Fall 2026 Workshop Series: English for Academic Purposes DESCRIPTION:Each Fall and Winter term\, ELI presents free interactive workshops focusing on specific English writing and speaking skills U-M students need to succeed in their academic and professional careers. ELI workshops are open to all U-M students. UID:151252-21911234@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:BSB 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260901T000124 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T210000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Bujinkan Budo Training Session DESCRIPTION:\"Ninpo is the essence of goshinjutsu (self-protection).\"\n \nDuring the Fall 2026 semester\, Bujinkan Budo Club training will be held on Thursdays from 19:00 - 21:00 (7-9pm) at the Intramural Sports Building (IMSB) in Room MPR B. If you are interested in trying out a class\, please send a message through Maize Pages or an email to michiganbujinkan@gmail.com. Beginners welcome\; we train with people across all levels of experience!\n \n- Learn self defense and physical coordination through Bujinkan taijiutsu (unarmed combat)\;\n- Training at the Michigan Bujinkan Dojo is supportive and non-competitive\, emphasizing relaxed but spirited and disciplined practice\;\n- Receive mentoring through the senpai/kohai (senior/junior) relationships fostered in the dojo.\n \nWhat to bring: comfortable workout clothes\, socks\, and a water bottle!\n-----\nFor more information\, email us at michiganbujinkan@gmail.com or checkout our website (www.michiganbujinkan.com)\, which also includes a training schedule! UID:149826-21907233@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149826 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Intramural Sports Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT 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: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:20260730T121626 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:20260901T000030 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:20260831T121659 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:20260807T181508 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.\" Each student takes their own path\, encountering questions that can shape the direction of their creative practice. At the end of the semester\, students formally report on their experience in a presentation called the Sophomore Review and receive direct feedback from a panel of Stamps faculty members. \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. \n\nThe works in this year’s exhibition 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\n–Sally Clegg\, Lecturer & Student Exhibitions Coordinator & Pedram Baldari\, Assistant Professor\n\nExhibiting Artists and Designers\n