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DTSTAMP:20251030T181533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T190000
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SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Women's Basketball vs Ferris State (ex)
DESCRIPTION:Women's Basketball vs Ferris State (ex)
UID:140403-21887047@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140403
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Athletics - Women's Basketball,Athletics
LOCATION:Crisler Arena
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250923T121709
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:THE LONG FALL
DESCRIPTION:*You are falling\, but you never land.*\n\nTHE LONG FALL imagines a world suspended in contradiction – a space of constant motion where characters shift form\, time loops without resolution\, and realities collide. Inspired by the existential absurdity of being alive\, the failures of assigned roles\, and the blurred boundaries between play and performance\, the work explores the combustible territory between childhood imagination\, adult consequence\, and theatrical illusion.\n\nWhat does it mean when children play at war\, or love\, or death – enacting dramas they barely understand? And what happens when those same dramas become real\, lived\, or staged? Is the stage any less real than the battlefield\, the bedroom\, or the family dinner table? THE LONG FALL lives in this surreal overlap\, where innocence and impact are tangled\, where performance is both survival and surrender.\n\nSet against an original electronic score by Marshall Chadbourne\, the myth of the American mission – of family\, of purpose\, of safety – fractures. No promise can truly be kept. No victory comes without shadow. And still\, we try. We fail. We try again. Our lives tumble forward in the chaotic current of time\, and even as we fall through space\, we brazenly and optimistically reach for one another. These exquisite moments of connection\, caught between descent and delay\, are the flashes of meaning against all odds.\n\nMy process begins with the body. Behavior that rises into high physicality becomes a portal into the surreal\, emotional\, and mythic. The pressure between bodies becomes a kind of truth-teller. The audience is present – not just as observers\, but as witnesses\, co-dreamers\, and sometimes accomplices.\n\nCreation is collaborative\, volatile\, and alive. I bring movement\, text\, images\, themes\, and tasks\; the ensemble brings their interpretations – wild\, grounded\, broken\, ecstatic. We construct a world from fragments and contradictions. A world that drifts between war-torn realities and absurd dream-states. Where the nuclear family is both icon and ruin. Where love is earnest and unspeakable. Where we fail beautifully\, collapsing forward\, haunted and held.\n\nTHE LONG FALL does not seek to tell a linear story\, but to inhabit a state – a falling\, looping\, breaking\, trying. It is a meditation on fragile persistence\, on the way human beings continue inside impossible conditions. How even when the promise has been broken\, the mission has failed\, the family has splintered\, we keep playing. Over and over\, bending time into childlike loops: Are we there yet?\n\nCAST & COLLABORATORS\nConcept and Direction: Shannon Gillen\nChoreography: Jason Cianciulli and Shannon Gillen\, in collaboration with the performers\nChoreographic Assistant: Katherine Kiessling\nPerformance: Jason Cianciulli\, Tzveta Kassabova\, Katherine Kiessling\, and Samy Navarez\nGuest Performance: Ruby Clay\, Audrey De Guia\, Emerson Forbes\, Leah Kropp\, Rachel McNaughton\, Ava Menzel\, Melisa Orduna\, Olga Rabetskaya\, Jessica Serres\, Caitlyn Wade\, Angelica White\nSound Score: Marshall Chadbourne with voice over by Sasha Lipinski\nLighting Design: Jess Fialko\nSet Design: Jungah Han\nOriginal Text: Shannon Gillen with excerpts from Beckett's 'Happy Days'\nBackstage Operations Manager: Tiff Crutchfield
UID:139758-21886011@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139758
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Theater,North Campus,Music,Free,Faculty,Dance
LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre
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DTSTAMP:20251015T181648
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Justin Benavidez\, tuba
DESCRIPTION:Guest artist and alum Justin Benavidez (MM ’07\, DMA ’10\, tuba) performs a recital with collaborative pianist Liz Ames.\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST\n\nHailed as “a true virtuoso” by *Fanfare* Magazine and described as a “tour-de-force” by *American Record Guide*\, JUSTIN BENAVIDEZ joined the faculty of the Eastman School of Music as Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium in 2023. He is Principal Tuba of the Syracuse Orchestra and spends his summers on faculty at the Round Top Music Festival in Round Top\, Texas and as Principal Tuba of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz\, California.\n\nBenavidez has performed across North America\, Europe\, and Japan. He has appeared as a concerto soloist with various ensembles\, including the Albany Symphony Orchestra\, the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own”\, the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra\, and the Eastman Wind Ensemble. His debut solo album *Emblems* won Silver Medals in the Classical Album and Solo Instrumentalist categories of the 2018 Global Music Awards. The *International Tuba Euphonium Association Journal* described it as “an impressive and highly entertaining record” on which Benavidez “shreds with enthusiasm\, exuberance\, and precision.” His second album *Storyteller* won Silver Medals in the Classical Album and Solo Instrumentalist categories of the 2022 Global Music Awards and was named a finalist for the 2023 ITEA Roger Bobo Award for Excellence in Recording. *Fanfare* described the album as “splendidly eloquent […] a masterclass in expressiveness.”\n\nAs an orchestral tubist\, Benavidez has performed with the symphony orchestras of Charleston\, Charlotte\, Jacksonville\, Philadelphia\, Rochester\, Santa Fe\, Sarasota\, Tallahassee\, and Utah. He is the only tubist to have been awarded the Orchestral Fellowship and the New Horizons Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival where he was a student for six summers\, held the principal tuba chair in the festival orchestra\, and was the winner of the Aspen Music Festival concerto competition.\n\nBenavidez was the distinguished recipient of the Horace H. Rackham Merit Fellowship for doctoral studies at the University of Michigan and was presented with the University of Michigan Paul Boylan Award for outstanding accomplishments and significant contributions in the field of music. As a scholar\, Benavidez was awarded the McKnight Faculty Fellowship to complete his research on the most significant solo repertoire for tuba\, culminating in a critical volume that will be published by Oxford University Press. He serves as Editor-in-Chief for the *ITEA Journal* and was the editor for *Flow Studies* through Mountain Peak Music\, a daily routine regimen for tuba.\n\nAs one of today’s leading educators\, Benavidez is frequently invited to present master classes and perform as a guest recitalist at preeminent universities\, workshops\, and conferences. Notable invitations have included Indiana University\, the University of Michigan\, Yale University\, Rice University\, the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo\, the Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland\, the Lyon Conservatory of Music\, the Paris Conservatory of Music\, and multiple International Tuba Euphonium Conferences. He was awarded the Florida State University Teaching Award in 2021 for exceptional teaching and mentorship. Benavidez’s students have distinguished themselves through numerous accomplishments and awards\, including first place prizes at international competitions\, performing positions in premier military bands and orchestras\, and teaching positions at secondary and collegiate institutions.\n\nBenavidez is a Melton Meinl Weston and Denis Wick performing artist. He performs on his Meinl Weston 2182W F tuba and Nirschl York CC tuba.\n
UID:140758-21887580@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140758
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:North Campus,Music,Free,Alumni
LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20251021T121648
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Lute Legends Collective with the SMTD Baroque Chamber Orchestra and Joseph Gascho
DESCRIPTION:7:15pm Pre-Concert Lecture Demonstration (In-Person Only)\n8:00pm Performance (In-Person and Livestreaming)\n\nThis transfixing musical journey is anchored by a triangle of distinct traditions: the evocative depiction of nature in ancient China\, the multilayered ornamentation of the European Renaissance\, and the improvisatory brilliance of Arabic maqam. Yet the performance explores the uncharted geographical and stylistic spaces between the points of that triangle. Through diverse repertoire such as haunting Uyghur folk tunes from Xinjiang\, polyphonic songs from the Iberian Peninsula\, and classical forms from the Ottoman court\, we experience moments when these three musical traditions reached out to engage with one another. Guided by three plucked-string specialists joined in collaboration by mutual curiosity and friendship\, listeners will hear musical dialogues that can only take place in real or imagined \"borderlands\" where cultural boundaries blur and creativity know no bounds.\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ENSEMBLE\n\nLucas Harris\, lute\; Ronnie Malley\, oud\; Wen Zhao\, pipa\n        \nEach member of THE LUTE LEGENDS COLLECTIVE is a committed carrier of an ancient musical tradition\, whether it be the virtuosic modal improvisation of the Middle East\, the intricate polyphony of the European Renaissance and Baroque\, or the picturesque musical depiction of nature from China. Though instruments such as the oud\, lute\, & pipa each have evolved a distinct set of techniques and sounds\, the recognition that our beloved instruments are “long-lost cousins” invites us into a new kind of musical conversation based on mutual curiosity and friendship. The Lute Legends Collective is our way of reuniting our instruments in a cross-traditional musical experiment for the twenty-first century.\n\nLucas Harris & Wen Zhao\, directors\nhttp://www.lutelegends.com
UID:137864-21880926@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137864
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:North Campus,Music,Free,Concert,Culture
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
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DTSTAMP:20250924T144219
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251030T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:The Myriad Project
DESCRIPTION:An electroacoustic soundscape\n\nThe Myriad Project is a Michigan-based\, emerging electroacoustic chamber music group made of oboe\, bassoon\, and electric violin with loop station. The ensemble creates a unique sound that mixes together the colorful\, more traditionally classical timbres of oboe and bassoon\, with the more modern sound of the electric violin\, and the immersive textures created by the loop station.  Myriad Project performances are characterized by imaginative sound worlds\, innovative techniques and fun concert experiences for audiences.
UID:139786-21886052@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139786
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mutotix,Ark
LOCATION:ARK Reserved
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DTSTAMP:20250928T120033
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251031T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20251031T235959
SUMMARY:Other:Crafting Meeting
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to join us every Sunday from 2-4 pm for our crafting meeting! All skills are welcome with plenty of teachers and projects to start each week. If you have more questions\, please DM us on Instagram or email our Vice President Annie: anniewes@umich.edu\nTime: 2-4pm\nLocation: League - Room 4 on the 1st Floor (all meetings here unless noted)\nRoom Change--Sept 7\, Sept 28\, Nov 9\, Nov 16\nNonprofit Website: vipsfund.org\nInstagram: @vipsfund
UID:136251-21878243@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136251
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:ROOM CHANGE - LSA Building for Climate Week
CONTACT:
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