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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Zero Waste Week Challenge: A²ZERO Clothing Swap + Darning Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join our monthly A²ZERO clothing swaps on the third Thursday of each month! Swaps are an opportunity to refresh your wardrobe\, without buying new. Swaps are also a chance to gift your gently used clothes to members of your community\, without contributing to the 92 million tons of textile waste generated globally each year. These are completely free events. ​ \n\nHow it works: Each person can bring up to 10 items of clothing in good condition (no rips\, holes\, stains or unwashed items please!). Accessories such as bags\, jewelry\, and belts are also welcome. You can take clothing without bringing anything\, or bring clothing without taking anything. ​\n\nSkill Building Workshop: This month you can also bring socks\, mittens\, sweaters and other items in need of repair and learn how to darn!
UID:145358-21897167@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145358
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Zero Waste,Circular Economy
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - City Council Chambers
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DTSTAMP:20251215T165909
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop for students that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations.\n\nhttps://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/19663
UID:142752-21891339@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142752
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Undergraduate Students,Social Impact,Free,Community-based Learning,Community Organzing
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
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DTSTAMP:20260121T181637
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T163000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Yun Emily Wang\, \"Listening for Otherwise Aliveness\"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Musicology hosts a talk by guest scholar Yun Emily Wang (Duke University)\; free and open to the public.\n\nWang describes her lecture:\n\n\"This talk is an ethnography of listening in what I will call the Chinese Canadian Care Home for the Aged\, a residential proto-medical institution in one of Toronto’s “ethnoburbs.” Established by and serving Chinese immigrants\, the Care Home relies on liberal celebrations of “culturally appropriate care” to promise successful aging\, and maintains funding by performing a Chineseness legible to the “cunning” of Canadian Multiculturalism (Povinelli 2002). Music shoulders the burden of “culture” across hundreds of residents\, staff\, and volunteers from across the diaspora: Karaoke Wednesdays and Opera Fridays punctuate the daily repetition of Cantopop broadcast\, between live performances of recognizably traditional Chinese genres. In the Care Home\, culturally appropriate *music* comes to signal life\, against the hums and beeps of breathing machines foretelling death. \n\nDrawing on fieldwork from 2014-2015\, I juxtapose a diversity of ways in which members of the Care Home community have aurally engaged with (or refused) what amounts to a biopolitical regime of sound-as-life. I trace how an alternative conception of life – one that far exceeds heart beats and is grounded\, always\, in vitality and enjoyment – emerged in the social cultivation and circulation of these praxis of otherwise listening. In so doing\, I hope to offer not answers but an open question about how the ear mediates possibilities for otherwise aliveness.\"
UID:144278-21895111@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144278
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:North Campus,Talk,Scholarship,Research,Lecture,Interdisciplinary,Free,Culture
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260114T122441
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T203000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:February Movie Night - The Hate U Give
DESCRIPTION:The Hate U Give is a coming-of-age teen drama based on Angie Thomas’ novel of the same name. The film follows 16-year-old Starr Carter\, who lives in the predominantly black neighborhood of Garden Heights while attending a predominantly white private school called Williamson Prep. After being stopped by a white police officer for failing to signal a lane change\, Starr’s friend Khalil is unjustly shot and killed.\n\nEnraged by this loss and blatant display of racism\, Starr involves herself in protests and demonstrations\, speaking out publicly about police violence. As her life in Garden Heights infiltrates her life at Williamson Prep\, Starr is faced with the ignorance of her classmates while also navigating gang conflicts and the consequences of social advocacy. Representing the reality of police brutality and systemic and geographic racism\, The Hate U Give is an enlightening story that demonstrates the immeasurable impact of social injustice on communities of color.\n\nContent Warning: police brutality\, violence\n\nThis movie night is brought to you by the Ginsberg Student Advisory Board\, whose support of the Ginsberg Center’s work helps to create a culture of community and civic engagement.\n\nPlease note: The movies selected for screening do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Ginsberg Center or its affiliates\, and their inclusion does not constitute an endorsement of any particular viewpoint.
UID:143894-21894226@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143894
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Black History Month,Ginsberg Center
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning - Community Commons
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DTSTAMP:20260206T111400
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T170000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Poetry Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Come together around to share a poem you’ve written and gain feedback from other writers. Poet and U-M Anthropology graduate student Caroline New will lead small groups in which each person will read their poem and have a conversation with other writers about their work. This will be a safe space to share\, ask questions\, and uplift fellow writers in our poetry community. New writers are welcome!\n\n*Limited seating available\, registration required. No prior experience required\, all materials will be provided.*
UID:145085-21896649@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145085
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Workshop,Arts For All,Art
LOCATION:Michigan Union - The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) - Room 3000
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DTSTAMP:20251216T110024
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T193000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Empowerment Self Defense
DESCRIPTION:Participants will enroll in one 2-hour session\, which will include lecture\, discussion\, demonstration\, and practice of physical skills.  Instructor: Candace Dorsey\, Empowerment Self Defense Program Manager\, University of Michigan - Division of Public Safety & Security. The empowerment self-defense class will explore the culture of violence\, and teach concrete but practical effective skills for personal safety and physical self defense in a wide variety of contexts. Participants will be able to: understand how situational awareness can deter or prevent an attack\, use verbal skills for assertive communication\, evade and set boundaries (verbal & physical)\, use practical options to make ourselves more comfortable when uncomfortable situations occur\, recognize and interrupt unwanted behavior when in social situations\, interpersonal/intimate relationships as well as interactions with strangers.
UID:138072-21891599@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138072
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,personal safety,self-defense
LOCATION:School of Kinesiology Building - 4600
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DTSTAMP:20260204T084851
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T173000
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SUMMARY:Auditions:Penny Stamps Distinguished Speakers Series: vanessa german
DESCRIPTION:vanessa german is a leading *citizen* artist working in sculpture\, performance\, and communal ritual to cultivate spiritual models for transforming human experience. Establishing her own self-taught approach and distinctive artistic language\, german’s influential practice employs mineral crystals\, beads\, glass\, found objects\, and other sourced material to create expressive figurative sculptures that resound through the physical and metaphysical worlds. Her unique sculptural vocabulary transmits healing energy\, affirming the power of love as an infinite human technology by exploring the evolution of creative power and practice as citizen artist through activism\, revolutionary love\, and expanded consciousness.\n\ngerman’s sculptures are as much defined by their tangible elements as their transcendental properties\, a combination which the artist describes as the ingredients of her work. Since the early 2010s\, she has assembled ritualistic structures known as power figures using glass\, beads\, gemstones\, nails\, wood\, and other objects. Whether mineral crystals originating in the earth millennia ago\, or cobalt blue bottles resembling those used in bottle tree traditions for generations\, every object chosen by german channels frequencies that span its entire existence. Channeling precolonial and African diasporic traditions\, her figures allude to the Kongo nkisi nkondi\, each charged by the protective and restorative spirits that complement their physical materials. Guided by her own creativity\, imagination and curiosity\, german follows her intuition about the capacity for objects to tell stories\, creating sculptures that resonate deeply with those who encounter them.\nFree and open to the public. No registration required.
UID:145025-21896560@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145025
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Michigan Theater
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DTSTAMP:20260120T181516
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260219T173000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - vanessa german
DESCRIPTION:\n\nvanessa german is a leading citizen artist working in sculpture\, performance\, and communal ritual to cultivate spiritual models for transforming human experience. Establishing her own self-taught approach and distinctive artistic language\, german’s influential practice employs mineral crystals\, beads\, glass\, found objects\, and other sourced material to create expressive figurative sculptures that resound through the physical and metaphysical worlds. Her unique sculptural vocabulary transmits healing energy\, affirming the power of love as an infinite human technology by exploring the evolution of creative power and practice as citizen artist through activism\, revolutionary love\, and expanded consciousness. \n\ngerman’s sculptures are as much defined by their tangible elements as their transcendental properties\, a combination which the artist describes as the ingredients of her work. Since the early 2010s\, she has assembled ritualistic structures known as power figures using glass\, beads\, gemstones\, nails\, wood\, and other objects. Whether mineral crystals originating in the earth millennia ago\, or cobalt blue bottles resembling those used in bottle tree traditions for generations\, every object chosen by german channels frequencies that span its entire existence. Channeling precolonial and African diasporic traditions\, her figures allude to the Kongo nkisi nkondi\, each charged by the protective and restorative spirits that complement their physical materials. Guided by her own creativity\, imagination and curiosity\, german follows her intuition about the capacity for objects to tell stories\, creating sculptures that resonate deeply with those who encounter them.\n\ngerman has received numerous accolades over the course of her career\, including the Joyce Foundation Fellowship\, Heinz Award for the Arts\, Don Tyson Prize from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art\, United States Artist Grant\, Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. She has staged solo and two-person exhibitions at the NSU Art Museum\, Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago\, The Contemporary Dayton\, Montclair Art Museum\, Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum\, The Frick Pittsburgh\, The Union for Contemporary Art\, Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia\, Flint Institute of Arts\, Figge Art Museum\, Mattress Factory\, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art\, among other museums. She has participated in group exhibitions at major venues including The National Mall\, ICA Philadelphia\, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art\, Buffalo AKG\, and elsewhere.\n\nPresented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. \n\nThis project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.\n
UID:142731-21891309@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142731
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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