Exercise / Fitness:Group-X Free Week
2025-01-08 07:00 - 20:00 (America/Detroit) | Palmer Field Temporary Facility
Group-X is a place to fine support, community, and the chance to move your body. And it's not just Zumba! It's cycling, liftin, yoga, and tons of other activities - over 65 classes per week.

Try Group-X for free from January 8-January 14th. After that you can purchase a semester pass for just $60.00. The pass will give you full access to the Group-X community and all the classes, both in-person and online.

Please register for classes online. Registration for in-person classes opens 7 days before the start of class. If you are unable to make class, please cancel your registration so someone else has the opportunity to join.

Exhibition:Being Mixed Race in a Mono-racially Organized World
2025-01-08 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
The exhibit "Being Mixed Race in a Mono-racially Organized World: Interracial Identity in the U.S. and Around the World — What Research and Mixed Race People Tell Us" is an exploration into the library's collections about the diversity of mixed race heritage. Through research, narratives, demographic data, and a variety of visual and published materials, explore multifaceted aspects of mixed race heritage with insights from many perspectives.

The 2020 U.S. Census illuminated a 276 percent increase in individuals who identify as "two or more races" since 2010. In recognition of the growing numbers of mixed race-identifying people at the University of Michigan, throughout the country, and across the globe, we're excited to unveil this new exhibit — a unique exploration of changing demographics and intersectional identities.

Exhibition:II Photo Contest Exhibit
2025-01-08 08:00 - 17:00 | Weiser Hall - Room 547
The International Institute (II) will be exhibiting all photos submitted to the 2024-25 II Photo Contest. The contest was open to all students affiliated with the II and/or its centers and programs, either through funding or study.

Submission categories include:
Go Blue! - Showing U-M pride abroad
The World Is Your Classroom - Showing a facet of the student’s research, work, or study abroad
U-M Vision 2034 - Demonstrating impact in life changing education; human health & well-being; democracy, civic & global engagement; climate action, sustainability & environmental justice

On display through January 31, 2025.
Location: Room 547 Weiser Hall, 5th Floor Gallery Space

Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
2025-01-08 08:00 - 17:00 | Weiser Hall - Room 1010
The act of embroidering and weaving designs onto cloth is deeply rooted in Ukrainian traditions. Embellished clothing (sorochky), ritual cloths (rushnyky), and household textiles accompany a person from birth until death, punctuating important life events in between. A variety of embroidery patterns are used throughout Ukraine; some stitches are universally known, while others are region-specific. Ukrainian embroidered clothing is now officially celebrated with an annual Vyshyvanka Day observed throughout the world in May.

To see photos and read more about exhibited items, visit https://myumi.ch/AZedA

The embroideries and textiles exhibited are from the private collections of Arnie Klein, Solomia Soroka, Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova, and from the Ukrainian American Archives & Museum located in Hamtramck, Michigan.

The exhibit opens on September 5, 2024, in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

*The exhibition is cosponsored by the Ukrainian American Archives & Museum*.

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.

Exhibition:Red Summer: Racial Violence in the American Landscape, 1917-1923
2025-01-08 09:00 - 16:30 | East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
The Red Summer portfolio represents the stories of various locations in the American landscape where racial violence (often characterized as “Race Wars” at the time) erupted between 1917 and 1923. These years of conflict reveal several aspects of racial anxiety that inform our contemporary experience, including, though not limited to; racism, fear of violent black revolt, lynching, poverty, mass incarceration, and competition for employment. The term “Red Summer” was first used by James Weldon Johnson to describe the violent attacks against black communities during 1919.

Though the events of the early twentieth century seem to be remote and fading apparitions of an American past; my work is concerned with the power and influence of our shared historical narrative upon the present. The upheaval of Red Summer occurred approximately fifty years after the American Civil War, fifty years before the height of the Civil Rights Era, and three centuries after the first enslaved Africans arrived in English colonies that would become the United States.

The project combines photographs of the contemporary landscape made at or near the site of racial conflict with fragmented selections of contemporaneous newspaper reporting (1917-1923). In many cases, the newsprint images include the surrounding stories or advertisements. The combination of the landscape photograph and the reproduction of newspaper fragments (which invade the contemporary with a narrative from the past), is a rupture and a conversation on the timeline between past and present.

Social / Informal Gathering:Welcome Wednesdays with the Alumni Association
2025-01-08 09:00 - 12:00 | Alumni Center
The Alumni Association of the University of Michigan hosts Welcome Wednesdays for U-M students most Wednesday mornings throughout the fall and winter semesters. Start your day with free coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and a breakfast snack thanks to Alumni Association members.

Students can stop by the Alumni Center from 9 a.m. to noon for during the dates listed and make sure to bring your Mcard!

Other:Down the River with Elzada Clover
2025-01-08 10:00 - 20:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Celebrate the groundbreaking achievements of Elzada Clover. Dr. Elzada Clover contained multitudes; she was a brazen botanist, the first female University of Michigan botany professor, the first female Matthaei Botanical Gardens curator, the first scientist to document the flora of the remote Grand Canyon, and along with her graduate assistant Lois Jotter, they were first non-native woman to raft the entire length of the Colorado. This exhibit at Matthaei Botanical Gardens explores her remarkable journey and enduring contributions.

Other:Poster Sale
2025-01-08 10:00 - 18:00 | Michigan Union - Willis Ward Lounge, 1st floor
Get ready to transform your space with the Annual Poster Sale! From January 6th to 10th, 2025, visit the Michigan Union between 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM to shop an incredible selection of posters. Whether you’re into iconic movies, chart-topping musicians, binge-worthy TV shows, or stunning art, there’s something for everyone.

Whether you’re looking to personalize your dorm or find the perfect gift, this is the event you don’t want to miss. With unbeatable prices and endless options, there’s something for every taste and style.

Admission: Free to attend. Posters available for purchase.
