Exhibition:Discovery Demo: How to Become a Fossil
2024-10-20 13:30 - 14:00 (America/Detroit) | Museum of Natural History
Explore how fossils form and what parts of animals can become fossilized. How old are the earliest fossils? How old does something have to be before it is considered a fossil? You’ll touch some real fossils, learn the different types of fossil evidence, and discover what is necessary to become a fossil. Finally, we’ll discuss what kinds of things fossils can tell us, and how fossil casts are made in the museum.

Special demos on February 15 and 16.

Performance:Bat Boy the Musical
2024-10-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
The Encore welcomes back U-M’s prestigious School of Music, Theatre & Dance for their production of Bat Boy. Weaving a captivating tale of acceptance and belonging as it follows the journey of a half-boy, half-bat creature discovered in a cave. With infectious music and dark humor, this offbeat production challenges conventions and leaves audiences spellbound by its quirky charm.

Other:Nature Play Pop-Ups
2024-10-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Based in Gaffield Children’s Garden at Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Nature Play Pop-ups are opportunities for children across ages and developmental stages to engage deeply, based on their own interests, curiosity, and developmental stages. For example, while some older children may be using our collections of natural loose parts to intently create a specific habitat, other children will be engaging in developmentally appropriate play of taking all the petals off the flowers in our loose parts collections. While some children will tenaciously experiment to create the largest bubbles, other children will be nearby splashing in the slippery solution. All ways of playing are good & welcome Nature Play! Come play outside with us!

Tours:Sunday Drop-In Tour | A Glimpse of the Kelsey Museum in French
2024-10-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Prepare your passport! This Sunday Drop-In Tour will take you back in time to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Greece, Egypt, and Rome through artifact highlights at the Kelsey Museum. This docent-led event will be presented in French.

This event is free and open to all visitors. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Exhibition:Tales of the Maya Skies
2024-10-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Museum of Natural History
Tales of the Maya Skies immerses viewers in the wonders of Maya science, cosmology and myth. This beautifully illustrated story takes us back in time to the jungles of Mexico to discover how Maya scholars developed a sophisticated understanding of astronomy, architecture, and mathematics that enabled them to predict solstices, solar eclipses, weather patterns and planetary movements.

Performance:Ulysses | Elevator Repair Service
2024-10-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Power Center for the Performing Arts
James Joyce’s Ulysses has fascinated, perplexed, scandalized, and even defeated readers for over a century.

Chronicling the experiences of three Dubliners over the course of a single ordinary day in June 1904, the novel captures the chaotic and fragmented nature of human consciousness. Modeled after Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses is the latest project by the New York City-based theater company Elevator Repair Service, perhaps best known for Gatz, its award-winning verbatim staging of the entire text of The Great Gatsby.

Building on a rich history of staging modernist texts, Elevator Repair Service takes on this mammoth work of 21st-century literature (in an abridged version!) for their UMS debut. Seven performers sit down for a sober reading but soon find themselves guzzling pints, getting in brawls, and committing debaucheries as they careen on a fast-forward tour through Joyce’s funhouse of styles. With madcap antics and a densely layered sound design, Elevator Repair Service presents an eclectic sampling from Joyce’s life-affirming masterpiece.
