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DTSTAMP:20251216T115749
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T183000
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SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Opening Reception for *Flyways*
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the opening reception of Sheida Soleimani's debut Michigan exhibition *Flyways *immediately following her Penny Stamps Lecture at the Michigan Theater. See the exhibition\, meet the artist\, and enjoy some light refreshments. All are welcome!\n\nAbout the exhibition: \nIranian-American artist Sheida Soleimani’s exhibition Flyways (a reference to the migratory patterns of birds) represents the latest iteration of Soleimani's ongoing Ghostwriter series\, in which she continues to explore her parents’ experiences of political exile and migration as a lens to examine broader systems of geopolitics. Soleimani creates detailed compositions in the studio that combine photographs\, props\, live animals\, and even her own parents\, resulting in surreal\, magical realist scenes.\n\nThe artist's most recent works include imagery evocative of her family’s history alongside photographs of injured birds from her care work as a wildlife rehabilitator. As an extension of her art practice\, Soleimani founded the non-profit Congress of the Birds\, a wild bird rehabilitation center in Rhode Island. The sheer range of Soleimani's practice—her choice of imagery\, subject matter\, and method—informs a visual language that is surprising\, inventive\, imaginative\, and contemporary. Soleimani’s exhibition in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery will feature a newly curated selection of photographs from the Ghostwriter series\, along with a new site-specific wall drawing created as part of the project.\n\nAbout the artist:\nSheida Soleimani is an artist\, educator\, and licensed wildlife rehabilitator whose work examines power\, environmental crisis\, queerness\, migration\, and care. The daughter of political refugees who escaped Iran in the early 1980s\, Soleimani draws on archival materials\, props\, and sculptural elements to create visually lush\, politically incisive tableaux. She works across various mediums\, investigating themes such as oil politics and human rights abuses\, confronting the systems of violence linking the SWANA region and the United States\, unraveling their implications in American culture. Though her images are dreamlike\, they are grounded in lived experience: her parents frequently appear as subjects\, in compositions made from elements of their (sometimes harrowing) tales. Increasingly\, wildlife enters the frame – injured and orphaned birds\, with their own quiet stories of migration and survival. Before the lens\, these animals encapsulate Soleimani's multifaceted practice: care as art\, storytelling as resistance.\n\nHer work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in institutions such as the International Center for Photography\, New York (2025)\, the Contemporary Arts Center\, Cincinnati (2025)\, the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston (2023)\, Southern Utah Museum of Art\, Cedar City (2019)\, Atlanta Contemporary\, Atlanta (2018)\, and MoMA PS1\, New York (2017)\, to name a few. Soleimani’s work is held in permanent collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, the Victoria & Albert Museum\, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts\, MIT List Visual Arts Center\, and Cranbrook Art Museum. In 2018\, she founded Congress of the Birds\, (originally) a home-based clinic in Providence\, Rhode Island\, where she provides care for wild birds.
UID:142801-21891654@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142801
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Birding,Art,Humanities,Multicultural,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20251215T152929
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T210000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | *The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (星くず兄弟の伝説)*
DESCRIPTION:A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers\, a girl-friendly\, silver-jumpsuited\, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan\, who herself dreams of a music career\, the duo rockets to stardom.\n   \n   Attendance is free and open to the public\, and no prior registration is required. Seating is first-come\, first-served\, and doors open at 6:30 PM.\n   \n   Presented in Japanese with English subtitles. Read more about the film\, including ratings\, at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419821/\n   \n   Learn more about the CJS Winter 2026 Film Series at: https://myumi.ch/AZ8Ep\n   This film series is in partnership with Marquee Arts.\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cjsevents@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
UID:142757-21891341@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142757
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Japanese Studies,Film Series,Asian Languages And Cultures
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260312T181654
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Naomi Fan\, violin
DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Naomi Fan performs a final master's degree recital.
UID:145850-21897953@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145850
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:North Campus,Free,Music
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260213T181643
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T203000
SUMMARY:Performance:This Dance is About Leslie Cheung - Dance MFA Thesis Performance by Tim Tsang
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Dance presents a performance created by Tim Tsang\, candidate for the Master of Fine Arts in Dance.\n\nBlending contemporary dance\, live performance\, and concert spectacle\, this event will unfold as a concert-meets-dance experience\, featuring ensemble choreography\, live vocals\, spoken reflection\, and cinematic lighting by collaborator David Goodman-Edberg. \n\nThe performance invites audiences into a shared emotional landscape – one shaped by ambition\, grief\, resilience\, and connection. Drawing on Hong Kong cultural icon Leslie Cheung’s concerts\, films\, and public persona\, the performance traces a journey from glamour to intimacy through Cheung’s legacy. It examines pressure\, visibility\, and the search for care. At its core\, *This Dance Is About Leslie Cheung* is not only about legacy\, but about how legacy\, identity\, and inspiration is carried forward. \n\nRather than offering a biography of Leslie Cheung\, the concert stages an encounter with his legacy. Cheung appears as an influence\, a fantasy\, and a point of departure – someone whose artistry opened doors while also revealing the emotional cost of visibility. The performance traces how admiration can slip into imitation\, how confidence can fracture under pressure\, and how failure might become a pathway toward care.\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\n\nCreated by choreographer and Dance MFA candidate Timothy Tsang\, *This Dance Is About Leslie Cheung* reflects Tsang’s ongoing inquiry into how performance carries memory\, pressure\, and care. Tsang is a queer Chinese American dance artist whose work bridges movement\, cultural memory\, and embodied research. Shaped by a transnational upbringing between Shanghai and Chicago\, his choreography often moves between different cultural contexts – asking how bodies navigate identity\, visibility\, and belonging.
UID:145447-21897362@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145447
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:North Campus,Free,Dance,Culture
LOCATION:Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre
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DTSTAMP:20260209T093504
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T194000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T213000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Student Art Meetup: SMTD Creative Arts Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:Looking to explore art with other students? Join us on Thursday\, March 19th as we check out the the Creative Arts Orchestra! This performance will feature a unique fusion of performance fields such as dance\, theatre\, and music technology through improvisation. \n\nWe will meet outside of Great Greek in Pierpont Commons at 7:40 PM\, and walk together to the Moore Building for the show (about a 5-minute walk). Hope to see you there!
UID:145234-21896898@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145234
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social,orchestra,Music,Art,Art Meetups,arts,Artsrx
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DTSTAMP:20260218T181717
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T220000
SUMMARY:Performance:Creative Arts Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:This is a unique\, largely improvisation-based group that invites interaction with other performance fields such as dance\, theatre\, and music technology.\n\nMarcus Elliot\, director
UID:135451-21876843@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135451
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Interdisciplinary,Music,North Campus
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
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DTSTAMP:20251029T095232
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T200000
SUMMARY:Performance:Larry McCray
DESCRIPTION:Legendary rustbelt blues shouter and guitar slinger\n\nLarry McCray is a powerhouse bluesman with a soul-soaked voice\, blistering guitar chops\, and a story embodying the spirit of his music. With his new album Heartbreak City\, McCray turns the page on a new chapter—raw\, joyful\, and deeply personal. Produced by blues-rock champions and Grammy Nominated duo Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith\, Heartbreak City finds the legendary singer and guitarist firing on all cylinders\, reconnecting with his roots while stepping boldly forward.\n\nFrom the first notes of the title track\, McCray reminds listeners why he’s long been hailed as one of the most expressive blues artists of his generation. Heartbreak City showcases Larry’s gritty vocals and searing guitar work\, evoking the decades he spent grinding it out in clubs\, pouring heartache and redemption into every solo. Elsewhere\, standout single “Bye Bye Blues” draws on McCray’s teenage years in Michigan\, when soul music still ruled the airwaves. Co-written with longtime collaborator Charlie Walmsley\, it nods to giants like Johnnie Taylor and Bobby Bland while delivering a sound all his own—grooving\, head-nodding\, and utterly timeless.\n\nThe release follows 2022’s Blues Without You\, which marked McCray’s long-awaited return after a seven-year hiatus. The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Blues chart and was named the #1 Blues Album of 2022 by Blues Rock Review\, solidifying his status as a torchbearer of modern blues. In 2024\, McCray was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame\, a testament to his deep roots in the state and his enduring impact on American music. Now\, Heartbreak City builds on that momentum. It’s a record that reflects Larry McCray at his most self-assured -grounded in tradition\, but more fearless than ever.\n\nBorn in 1960 in Smackover\, Arkansas\, McCray grew up steeped in gospel\, soul\, and the electric blues of the three Kings—B.B.\, Albert\, and Freddie. He moved to Saginaw\, Michigan at 12\, where he honed his guitar style by blending classic blues with the psychedelic edge of Hendrix and the southern fire of the Allman Brothers. After years of gigging while working a factory job\, he was signed in the late ’80s as the first artist on Virgin Records’ blues imprint Point Blank. His debut Ambition (1990) was followed by acclaimed albums like Delta Hurricane\, Meet Me at the Lake\, and Born to Play the Blues\, solidifying his role in defining modern blues-rock through the ’90s and early 2000s.\n\nOver the years\, McCray has played alongside a who’s who of music legends —B.B. King\, Buddy Guy\, Albert King\, the Allman Brothers\, Joe Walsh\, Jonny Lang\, Levon Helm\, and of course\, Joe Bonamassa. He was named Orville H. Gibson Male Blues Guitarist of the Year in 2000 and won the Top Guitarist prize in the International Blues Matters writer’s poll in 2014.\n\nBut accolades aside\, it’s the soul in McCray’s music that keeps fans coming back. “I feel totally reborn\,” he says. “This new album lets me show the full scope of what I do —it’s blues\, it’s soul\, it’s real stories. This is who I am.”
UID:140574-21887362@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140574
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix
LOCATION:ARK Reserved
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DTSTAMP:20260319T181650
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:New Art / New Music: Collaborative Concert
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a tour of the 30th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons and a concert featuring music created by University of Michigan School of Music\, Theatre\, and Dance student composers. These pieces will be performed by the contemporary music collective FLYDLPHN and the chamber ensemble Myriad Project and will be inspired by artwork featured at the exhibition.\n\nPublic tour of the 30th Annual Exhibition\n6:30 pm Duderstadt Gallery\n\nConcert\n8pm Stamps Auditorium\n\nPresented with support from Michigan Arts and Culture Council\, Bank of Ann Arbor\, Eckhart Tolle Foundation\, Arts Initiative\, The Carceral State Project\, Center for World Performance Studies\, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Department of Sociology\, Institute for the Humanities\, Residential College\, School of Social Work.
UID:145664-21897658@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145664
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus
LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
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