Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. E-Hour Speaker Series: David Barrett (January 24, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71739 71739-17877254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

David Barrett is the founder and CEO of Expensify, a fintech pioneer and industry giant with millions of users worldwide. A software engineer by trade, David takes a unique approach to hiring that focuses on life beyond code.

David started coding at age 6, spent middle school through college writing 3D graphics engines, and (several startups later) launched Expensify onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2008. Unsatisfied with the Silicon Valley “pump and dump” playbook, David and the Expensify team instead built a profitable company that now
processes billions of dollars a month.

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Presentation Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:56:59 -0500 2020-01-24T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-24T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation David Barrett - Founder & CEO, Expensify
Second Dissertation Recital: Christine Harada Li, violin (January 24, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71911 71911-17898892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Muffat - Violin Sonata in D Major; Saint-Saëns - Violin Sonata no. 1 in D Minor; Messiaen - Theme and Variations; Ravel - Violin Sonata no. 2.

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Performance Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:15:40 -0500 2020-01-24T20:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Department of Voice Recital (January 29, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64701 64701-16428907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Voice students present a recital of their latest repertoire.

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Performance Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:15:30 -0500 2020-01-29T16:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
The 20th annual Engineering Games (January 31, 2020 5:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71885 71885-17896722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 5:30am
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Society of Women Engineers

Join us for the 20th annual Engineering Games on Friday, January 31st! It will be a fun filled evening of friendly competition between CoE organizations. Dinner will be at 5:30pm in the BBB atrium and the show will be 7:30pm in STAMPS Auditorium. Tickets are $8 pre-sale and $12 at the door; they can be purchased online at https://www.swe.engin.umich.edu/engineering-games. All proceeds go to Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK).

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Performance Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:30:48 -0500 2020-01-31T05:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T21:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Society of Women Engineers Performance Engineering Games
E-Hour Speaker Series: Sam Schillace (January 31, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72243 72243-17963883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Sam Schillace, now a VP of engineering at Google, was previously the SVP of engineering at Box, where he was responsible for the engineering and QA teams. He is one of the founders of Writely, which he sold to Google in 2006 to become one of the first pieces of Google Docs. For the next four years, Sam was an engineering director, initially overseeing Google Docs and building out the team, but eventually working on Sites, Reader, Blogger, Picasa, Google Groups, Gmail, Page Creator, and other internal projects.

Before Google, Sam was a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for 20 years, working on projects as diverse as video games, early Web page creation software, word processors, and application engines (server-side JavaScript before it was cool!). Sam has experience with product design, technical design, hands-on coding, and engineering management, and likes to do all of them at once, typically.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:46:47 -0500 2020-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Sam Schillace
Binkow Grant Recipient Chamber Recital (Rescheduled for March 20) (February 1, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70007 70007-17493389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This performance has been rescheduled to March 20.

Binkow Grants are awarded to chamber music groups with an established history and a commitment to work outside of the School.

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Performance Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:15:28 -0500 2020-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Guest Master Class: Thomas Hampson, baritone (February 3, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70008 70008-17493390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Perhaps the pre-eminent exponent of American art song, internationally-acclaimed baritone and recitalist Thomas Hampson will present a master class.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:15:33 -0500 2020-02-03T19:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Workshop / Seminar Walgreen Drama Center
E-Hour Speaker Series: Samir Kaul (February 7, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72245 72245-17963884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Samir is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, where he focuses on health, sustainability, food, and advanced technology investments. Samir led the firm’s investments in Editas Medicine, EtaGen, Guardant Health, Impossible Foods, Nutanix, Oscar, Pymetrics, and View, among others.

Previously, Samir was at Flagship Ventures where he founded and invested in early-stage biotechnology companies, and Craig Venter’s Institute for Genomic Research where he led the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative. He is active in philanthropy and has been a longstanding member of the leadership committee of the Tipping Point Community and a board member of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:00:50 -0500 2020-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Samir Kaul
U-M Jazz Festival Historic Lecture Series (February 8, 2020 1:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70655 70655-17613296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 1:10pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Moderated by Michael Jewett.

Including Scotty Barnhart, Rob Smith, and SMTD Prof. Ed Sarath.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:15:35 -0500 2020-02-08T13:10:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Walgreen Drama Center
U-M Jazz Festival: Jazz Lab Ensemble (February 8, 2020 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70656 70656-17613297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 4:10pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Dennis Wilson, director

Paul Keller and Rob Smith, guest soloists

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Performance Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:15:35 -0500 2020-02-08T16:10:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Second Dissertation Recital: Brendan Ige, Contrabass Tuba (February 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72556 72556-18018139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Ustvolskaya - Grand Duet; Plog - Postcards V; Penderecki - Capriccio; Grant - Three Furies for Solo Tuba.

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Performance Wed, 05 Feb 2020 12:15:38 -0500 2020-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Guest Recital: Mark DeGoti, trumpet (February 13, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70433 70433-17596538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Dr. Mark DeGoti is associate professor of trumpet at Auburn University. At Auburn, he teaches applied trumpet students and leads the AU Trumpet Ensemble. Prior to joining the faculty at Auburn, Dr. DeGoti taught at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL for five years, and also served on faculty at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan in 2008.

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Performance Wed, 05 Feb 2020 18:15:34 -0500 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
E-Hour Speaker Series: Max Shtein (February 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72789 72789-18077124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Max Shtein earned his B.S. from University of California Berkeley in 1998 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004. He has made enabling contributions to the science and technology of organic optoelectronics, including the modeling and demonstration of novel devices and highly scalable methods of device processing, some of which are being commercialized.

He joined the Materials Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan in 2004, where he has focused on the physics and technology of organic optoelectronic materials and devices.

He is the recipient of the MRS graduate student Gold Medal Award, the Newport Award for Excellence and Leadership in Photonics and Optoelectronics, the Holt Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the MSE Department Achievement Award, and the Vulcan Prize for Excellence in Education.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:42:10 -0500 2020-02-14T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Max Shtein
The Actors' Gang presents The New Colossus (February 15, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72835 72835-18081561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The stories of twelve actors’ ancestors, told in twelve languages and twelve different eras, all woven into a single narrative about escaping an oppressive homeland.

Directed by Tim Robbins, with live music, poetry, and kinetic movement, The New Colossus is an homage to the strength, resilience, and dignity of the immigrants and refugees who risked it all to find a better life.

Limited Seating Available
 
*Following both performances of The New Colossus on Feb. 15, the show’s director and co-writer, Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins, will host a talk back with audience members. Attendees will be encouraged to draw intimate connections with the show’s themes – immigration, diversity and the journeys our ancestors took in pursuit of freedom.

*Subject to change

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Performance Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:26:00 -0500 2020-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance The New Colossus
The Actors' Gang presents The New Colossus (February 15, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72835 72835-18081562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The stories of twelve actors’ ancestors, told in twelve languages and twelve different eras, all woven into a single narrative about escaping an oppressive homeland.

Directed by Tim Robbins, with live music, poetry, and kinetic movement, The New Colossus is an homage to the strength, resilience, and dignity of the immigrants and refugees who risked it all to find a better life.

Limited Seating Available
 
*Following both performances of The New Colossus on Feb. 15, the show’s director and co-writer, Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins, will host a talk back with audience members. Attendees will be encouraged to draw intimate connections with the show’s themes – immigration, diversity and the journeys our ancestors took in pursuit of freedom.

*Subject to change

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Performance Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:26:00 -0500 2020-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance The New Colossus
Cello Studio Recital (February 17, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73015 73015-18125279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Prof. Richard Aaron perform.

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Performance Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:15:38 -0500 2020-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Guest Lecture: Helen Phelan, University of Limerick, Ireland (February 19, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71786 71786-17881580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 11:30am
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The symbiotic relationship between cerebral and corporeal intelligence systems - between the brain and the body - is central to how we understand and perform. The growing recognition of this connection has had a profound influence on the development of curriculum, teacher training and research.  The integration of artistic practices into the research process is a key aspect of this development. This presentation looks at two approaches to the use of artistic contemporary research: arts-based and arts practice methods. 
 
Arts-based research draws on a variety of practices including poetry, drawing song-writing, improvisation, composition and performance across all phases of research including data collection, analysis, interpretation and representation (Leavy, 2015). In Arts Practice research, artistic practice is a key method of exploration and forms a substantial part of the submitted evidence around the research inquiry (Nelson, 2013).
 
This presentation discusses strategies for the inclusion of arts-based or arts practice approaches in contemporary research, looking at questions of expertise, ethics, representation, dissemination and appropriateness to the research question. It concludes with a case study of arts-based research that uses singing as a tool of social and cultural integration in an Irish primary school.

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Helen Phelan is professor of arts practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland. She is an Irish Research Council recipient for her work on singing and new migrant communities in Ireland. Her most recent book, Singing the Rite to Belong: Music, Ritual and the New Irish, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. As a singer and ritual scholar, she specializes in chant associated with religious rituals and is co-founder of the female vocal group Cantoral, who released their much-acclaimed CD recording of Irish medieval chant in 2014. She serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Frontiers in Psychology, The International Journal of Community Music and Experiments and Intensities: A Journal for Performance-as-Research. She is founder of the Singing and Social Inclusion research group and a member of the University of Limerick Sanctuary board. Her primary research interests are in singing, ritual and migration as well as arts-based and arts practice research methods. Her most recent project, funded by the Health Research Board, explores the use of arts-based methods in migrant health research.

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Performance Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:31:04 -0500 2020-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Helen Phelan
Sonnets, Soliloquies, and Soul (February 20, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63556 63556-15784106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Directed by Michael McElroy
Music direction by Michael McElroy

Shakespeare meets Motown, Gospel, Blues, and Soul In Sonnets, Soliloquies, & Soul, conceived and directed by Tony Award nominee Michael McElroy (director of the Tony Award-winning “Broadway’s Inspirational Voices”). By “colliding” the cornerstone of classic text with African-American musical genres, McElroy (with collaboration from a group of incredibly diverse Musical Theatre students) creates a new musical work that delves into the heart of the human experience--how we’ve grown, and spaces where we can still explore change.

“We are in a space and a time right now where we are so fractured,” says McElroy. “What theatre has to do right now more than ever is to fill that void. People can come together to grapple with what they believe without feeling judged or confronted. Theater and music help us to explore the ways in which we are different but more importantly how at our core very much the same. How is Shakespeare's investigation of humanity in the 1600’s the same as what we grapple with today?”

To answer that question, McElroy commissioned musical responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets and soliloquies from peers including Daniel Watts (Ike Turner from Broadway’s Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), Julianne Wick Davis (Jonathan Larson Award Winner), Crystal Monee Hall (Rent), Celisse Henderson (Godspell) Marcus Paul James (Ain’t Too Proud) and Allen Louis. Some musical responses include lines directly from Shakespeare’s text; some, like a Blues piece that’s the antithesis of the sonnet to which it responds, turn the traditional language on its head. Original text interweaves with Shakespearean sonnets, soliloquies, and new musical works, creating a song-cycle that highlights the throughlines of love, loss, hate, time, age, and jealousy that tie us together.

*This show was originally announced with the working title Being Alive.

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Performance Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:23:44 -0500 2020-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Sonnet, Soliloquies, and Soul
Orpheus Singers (February 20, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70382 70382-17594426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Eugene Rogers, director
Graduate student conductors
Scott VanOrnum, pianist

Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 PM

PROGRAM:
Brahms- Liebeslieder, selections from Op. 52 and Op. 65
Vaughan Williams- In Windsor Forest
Persichetti- Flower Songs

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Performance Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:33:55 -0500 2020-02-20T20:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Orpheus Singers
E-Hour Speaker Series: Amanda Lewan (February 21, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72977 72977-18120892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Amanda Lewan is a writer and entrepreneur. After moving home to Detroit in the middle of the great recession, she endeavored to create work that moves our changing region forward.

Amanda spent time working at a variety of startups in marketing and operations, before launching Bamboo. One of the first co-working spaces in Detroit, Bamboo specializes in building collaborative work spaces and community. She bootstrapped Bamboo from a $5,000 loan to 500+ members expanding to multiple locations, and serving as a catalyst for Detroit’s ecosystem. Her leadership at Bamboo has been honored locally and nationally.

Amanda’s writing is also inspired by our region and country’s economic changes and healing past. After winning a national essay competition by The Nation in college, she went on to study fiction writing in graduate school. Her work has been published and honored by The Rumpus, Glimmer Train, Rust Belt Magazine, Belt Publishing, The Journal of Americana, Lumina Magazine, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of Net.

Amanda holds a BA in Professional Writing from Michigan State and an MA in English from Wayne State. She sits on the board for Fierce Empowerment, Venture Catalysts, and Co-leads the Detroit Writers Collective writers group.

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Presentation Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:07:14 -0500 2020-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Amanda Lewan
Second Dissertation Recital: Leo Singer, cello (February 21, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72985 72985-18123062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Schoenberg - Waldesnacht; Schoenberg - 2 Lieder, op. 14; Webern - Cello Sonata; Berg - Sieben Frühe Lieder; Toch - Divertimento, op. 37, no. 1; Brahms - Vier ernste Gesänge, op. 121; Zemlinsky - Cello Sonata.

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Performance Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:15:40 -0500 2020-02-21T20:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Sonnets, Soliloquies, and Soul (February 21, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63556 63556-15784107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Directed by Michael McElroy
Music direction by Michael McElroy

Shakespeare meets Motown, Gospel, Blues, and Soul In Sonnets, Soliloquies, & Soul, conceived and directed by Tony Award nominee Michael McElroy (director of the Tony Award-winning “Broadway’s Inspirational Voices”). By “colliding” the cornerstone of classic text with African-American musical genres, McElroy (with collaboration from a group of incredibly diverse Musical Theatre students) creates a new musical work that delves into the heart of the human experience--how we’ve grown, and spaces where we can still explore change.

“We are in a space and a time right now where we are so fractured,” says McElroy. “What theatre has to do right now more than ever is to fill that void. People can come together to grapple with what they believe without feeling judged or confronted. Theater and music help us to explore the ways in which we are different but more importantly how at our core very much the same. How is Shakespeare's investigation of humanity in the 1600’s the same as what we grapple with today?”

To answer that question, McElroy commissioned musical responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets and soliloquies from peers including Daniel Watts (Ike Turner from Broadway’s Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), Julianne Wick Davis (Jonathan Larson Award Winner), Crystal Monee Hall (Rent), Celisse Henderson (Godspell) Marcus Paul James (Ain’t Too Proud) and Allen Louis. Some musical responses include lines directly from Shakespeare’s text; some, like a Blues piece that’s the antithesis of the sonnet to which it responds, turn the traditional language on its head. Original text interweaves with Shakespearean sonnets, soliloquies, and new musical works, creating a song-cycle that highlights the throughlines of love, loss, hate, time, age, and jealousy that tie us together.

*This show was originally announced with the working title Being Alive.

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Performance Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:23:44 -0500 2020-02-21T20:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Sonnet, Soliloquies, and Soul
Second Dissertation Recital: Bernard Tan, piano (February 22, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72559 72559-18018142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Duparc - Chanson triste; Duparc - Élégie; Duparc La vie antériceure; Caplet - Le vieux coffret; Canteloube - selections from Chants de France Franck - Sonata in A Major for Piano and Violin.

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Performance Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:35:04 -0500 2020-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Bernard Tan
Sonnets, Soliloquies, and Soul (February 22, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63556 63556-15784108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Directed by Michael McElroy
Music direction by Michael McElroy

Shakespeare meets Motown, Gospel, Blues, and Soul In Sonnets, Soliloquies, & Soul, conceived and directed by Tony Award nominee Michael McElroy (director of the Tony Award-winning “Broadway’s Inspirational Voices”). By “colliding” the cornerstone of classic text with African-American musical genres, McElroy (with collaboration from a group of incredibly diverse Musical Theatre students) creates a new musical work that delves into the heart of the human experience--how we’ve grown, and spaces where we can still explore change.

“We are in a space and a time right now where we are so fractured,” says McElroy. “What theatre has to do right now more than ever is to fill that void. People can come together to grapple with what they believe without feeling judged or confronted. Theater and music help us to explore the ways in which we are different but more importantly how at our core very much the same. How is Shakespeare's investigation of humanity in the 1600’s the same as what we grapple with today?”

To answer that question, McElroy commissioned musical responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets and soliloquies from peers including Daniel Watts (Ike Turner from Broadway’s Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), Julianne Wick Davis (Jonathan Larson Award Winner), Crystal Monee Hall (Rent), Celisse Henderson (Godspell) Marcus Paul James (Ain’t Too Proud) and Allen Louis. Some musical responses include lines directly from Shakespeare’s text; some, like a Blues piece that’s the antithesis of the sonnet to which it responds, turn the traditional language on its head. Original text interweaves with Shakespearean sonnets, soliloquies, and new musical works, creating a song-cycle that highlights the throughlines of love, loss, hate, time, age, and jealousy that tie us together.

*This show was originally announced with the working title Being Alive.

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Performance Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:23:44 -0500 2020-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Sonnet, Soliloquies, and Soul
Sonnets, Soliloquies, and Soul (February 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63556 63556-15784109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Directed by Michael McElroy
Music direction by Michael McElroy

Shakespeare meets Motown, Gospel, Blues, and Soul In Sonnets, Soliloquies, & Soul, conceived and directed by Tony Award nominee Michael McElroy (director of the Tony Award-winning “Broadway’s Inspirational Voices”). By “colliding” the cornerstone of classic text with African-American musical genres, McElroy (with collaboration from a group of incredibly diverse Musical Theatre students) creates a new musical work that delves into the heart of the human experience--how we’ve grown, and spaces where we can still explore change.

“We are in a space and a time right now where we are so fractured,” says McElroy. “What theatre has to do right now more than ever is to fill that void. People can come together to grapple with what they believe without feeling judged or confronted. Theater and music help us to explore the ways in which we are different but more importantly how at our core very much the same. How is Shakespeare's investigation of humanity in the 1600’s the same as what we grapple with today?”

To answer that question, McElroy commissioned musical responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets and soliloquies from peers including Daniel Watts (Ike Turner from Broadway’s Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), Julianne Wick Davis (Jonathan Larson Award Winner), Crystal Monee Hall (Rent), Celisse Henderson (Godspell) Marcus Paul James (Ain’t Too Proud) and Allen Louis. Some musical responses include lines directly from Shakespeare’s text; some, like a Blues piece that’s the antithesis of the sonnet to which it responds, turn the traditional language on its head. Original text interweaves with Shakespearean sonnets, soliloquies, and new musical works, creating a song-cycle that highlights the throughlines of love, loss, hate, time, age, and jealousy that tie us together.

*This show was originally announced with the working title Being Alive.

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Performance Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:23:44 -0500 2020-02-23T14:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Sonnet, Soliloquies, and Soul
Saxophone Studio Recital (February 26, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70439 70439-17596544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Prof. Timothy McAllister perform in solo, quartet, and large ensemble settings. This concert will feature the Saxophone Ensemble prior to its appearance at the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference in Tempe, Arizona. Music of Roshanne Etezady, Jeremy Howell, William Bolcom, Vincent D'Indy, Edison Denisov, and more!

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Performance Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:39:05 -0500 2020-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Saxophone Studio
New Opera Workshop: Tales from the Briar Patch (February 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70440 70440-17596545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Music by Nkeiru Okoye
Libretto by Carman Moore

Public workshop reading of "Bre’r Rabbit and the Tar Baby,” the first of three stories in Nkeiru Okoye and Carman Moore’s Tales from the Briar Patch, a new opera in development that is both family-friendly and fun. In this updated reboot of the traditional Bre’r Rabbit stories, Sister Sparrow, Sister Robin, and Madame Partridge retell the antics of Bre’r Rabbit and his nemesis Bre’r Fox. This public reading is the culmination of a workshop with SMTD singers and the composer, and will include a conversation with the composer as well as audience response.

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Performance Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:15:40 -0500 2020-02-27T19:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
First Dissertation Recital: Daniel McGrew, tenor *CANCELED* (February 28, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73175 73175-18151409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

*This recital has been canceled and will be rescheduled to a later date*

PROGRAM: Schubert - Viola, D. 786; Debussy - selections from Cinq poèms de Baudelaire; Britten - Canticle I: ‘My beloved is mine,’ op. 40; Tomson - Mostly About Love.

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Performance Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:15:43 -0500 2020-02-28T17:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
PreCandidate Recital: Arianna Dotto, violin (March 8, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73408 73408-18217151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 8, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Stravinsky - Divertimento for violin and piano; Schnittke - Fuga for solo violin; Hindemith - Sonata op. 11 no. 6 for solo violin; Schnittke - String trio for violin, viola, and violoncello.

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Performance Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:15:39 -0500 2020-03-08T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Second Dissertation Recital: Lenora Green-Turner, soprano (March 9, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73079 73079-18140493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Bologne - Mama mia; Bologne - Sul margine d’un riol; Hare - Six Creole Songs; King - Three Dunbar Poems; Baker - Borderline; Egnos/Gray - Thula baba; Mnomiya - “Ngiphileleni?” from Kiyankomo; Sibisi - Wasikhethela Ifa Lethu; Tyamzashe - Isitandwa Satn’; Simon - Prayer; Giordani - Caro Mio Ben.

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Performance Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:15:47 -0500 2020-03-09T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
CWPS Faculty Lecture | Christi-Anne Castro (March 10, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72929 72929-18096956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Folkloric dance and music festivals draw in diverse audiences, entertaining participants and instilling a sense of pride in Canadian multiculturalism as a national trait. Folklorama lays claim to being the longest running and largest multicultural festival of its kind in the world, and it is one that relies heavily on community groups more than well known performers. What can an examination of the festival tell us about Canadian national self-narratives? And is it possible to negotiate the complexities of difference and identity politics by engaging in music and dance?

The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Presentation Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:08:17 -0500 2020-03-10T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Folklorama
First Dissertation Recital: Darius A. Gillard, tenor (March 10, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73644 73644-18278593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Debussy - Mandoline; Debussy - Green; Liszt - Pace non trovo; Mahler - Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht; Mahler - Ging heut Morgen über’s Feld; Mahler - Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer; Wagner - Der Engel; Wagner - Im Treibhaus; Burleigh - Worth While; Burleigh - The Jungle Flower; Burleigh - Kashmiri Song; Burleigh - Among the Fuchsias; Burleigh - Till I Wake.

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Performance Fri, 06 Mar 2020 12:15:44 -0500 2020-03-10T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Department of Voice Recital (March 11, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64701 64701-16428908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Voice students present a recital of their latest repertoire.

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Performance Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:15:30 -0500 2020-03-11T16:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* An Operatic Cellobration (March 12, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72429 72429-18002776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Join us for the 6th annual collaboration of the studios of Richard Aaron, Nathaniel Pierce, and Martin Katz.

This concert features celebrated excerpts from the operatic repertoire, presented in new and unusual formats that add cello to the voice and piano mix.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:29 -0400 2020-03-12T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
E-Hour Speaker Series: Jonathan Golden (March 13, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72247 72247-17963886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Jonathan Golden is a Partner at NEA, where he focuses on consumer, marketplace and bottoms-up SaaS investments.

Before joining NEA, Jonathan was Director of Product at Airbnb, where he helped the company scale 100x over six years. As the company’s first product manager, he was instrumental in building out significant parts of the product in the early days, including creating host insurance, launching the platform internationally, and founding and leading the monetization, payments and Airbnb for Work teams.

Jonathan is an angel investor in Bowery Farming, Coinbase, Everlane, Funding Circle, Hipcamp, Tile and Wonderschool.

Prior to Airbnb, Jonathan worked in product at both Dropbox and HubSpot, and was a venture investor at Greylock Partners. Jonathan co-founded StartX, a non-profit dedicated to accelerating top entrepreneurs, while attending the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received an MBA. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:21:33 -0500 2020-03-13T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Jonathan Golden
Specialist Recital: Nicholas Roehler, piano (March 13, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73808 73808-18322358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Berlioz - Les nuits d’été; Argento - From the Diary of Virginia Woolf; Mussorgsky - Songs and Dances of Death.

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Performance Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:15:47 -0400 2020-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Masters Recital: Douglas Rowan, piano (March 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73769 73769-18315741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Schubert - Sonata in A Major, D. 959; Scriabin - Sonata no. 9, op. 68 (”Black Mass”); Rachmaninoff - Sonata no. 1 in D Minor, op. 28.

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Performance Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:15:40 -0400 2020-03-14T12:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* Michigan Youth Chamber Singers (March 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72902 72902-18090324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Come hear the Michigan Youth Chamber Singers, under the direction of the associate director of choirs Mark Stover, for their final performance of the 2019-20 season.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:15:46 -0400 2020-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Second Dissertation Recital: Sunmi Chang, violin (March 19, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73768 73768-18315740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Bach - Violin Sonata no. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005; Ravel - Violin Sonata no. 2 in G Major; Frances-Hoad - Suite no. 1; Strauss - Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, op. 18.

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Performance Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:15:40 -0400 2020-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
E-Hour Speaker Series: Uma Subramanian (March 20, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72248 72248-17963887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Uma Subramanian is the CEO of Aero Technologies, a stealth company focused on next generation air travel. Prior to joining Aero, Uma was a pioneer in the Urban Air Mobility space, as the founding CEO of Voom.Flights, an Airbus company, which built an urban air mobility network. Under Uma’s leadership, Voom.Flights launched in Brazil and Mexico.

Uma holds an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Uma is passionate about aviation, and believes that as a society we are well on our way to unlocking the urban sky. She is thrilled to be part of that journey.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:37:17 -0500 2020-03-20T13:30:00-04:00 2020-03-20T13:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Uma Subramanian
*CANCELED* Binkow Grant Recipient Chamber Recital (March 20, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71856 71856-17896686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

This performance is rescheduled from February 1.

Binkow Chamber Music Grants, established by Maurice and Linda Binkow, are awarded to student chamber music ensembles who actively take on extra-curricular projects, invest in growing together over time, and often explore career possibilities as an ensemble. The 2020 Binkow Grant recipients represent a range of instrument and ensemble types, and this concert will showcase each group’s dedication to their collective craft.

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:36 -0400 2020-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Precandidate Recital: Jie Ren, piano (March 21, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73834 73834-18333023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Chopin - Mazurkas, op. 33; Brahms - Klavierstücke, op. 118; Schumann - Kreisleriana, op. 16.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:15:50 -0400 2020-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Masters Recital: Jooae Cheon, piano (March 21, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73831 73831-18333020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Beethoven - Piano Sonata in A Major, op. 2, no. 2; Brahms - Piano Sonata in F-sharp Minor, op. 2, no. 2; Prokofiev - Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, op. 83, no. 7

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:15:50 -0400 2020-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Masters Recital: Chadwick Thomas, clarinet (March 22, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73774 73774-18315746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Weinberg - Sonata, op. 28; Carter - Gra; Koechlin - Quatre Petites Pièces, op. 32; Brahms - Clarinet Sonata no. 2 in E-flat Major, op. 120, no. 2.

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Performance Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:15:41 -0400 2020-03-22T12:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* Guest Chamber Music Recital: TBA (March 24, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73848 73848-18341653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:37 -0400 2020-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* Voice Studio Recital: Students of Prof. Stephen West (March 25, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72508 72508-18011585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Voice students of Stephen West will present a recital of their latest repertoire, from classics to musical theater. One half of the studio will sing on March 25th, the other half on April 8th.

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:42 -0400 2020-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
CANCELLED: Crisis and Solidarity: Celebrating 25 years of the Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners (March 26, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72232 72232-17963870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Walgreen Drama Center

Crisis and Solidarity

Artist and co-founder of the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, Janie Paul discusses the significance of art making for incarcerated people, and why it is important to pay attention to their work. She explains the philosophy of the Exhibitions of Art by Michigan Prisoners as radical kindness and explains how and why this long-standing project has been so effective.

Reception to follow.

Photo credit:
Rafael DeJesus, Orange Nation
Acrylic on canvas, 2016

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Presentation Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:57:02 -0400 2020-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Presentation Rafael DeJesus, Orange Nation, Acrylic on canvas, 2016
Silent (March 26, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73815 73815-18322366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Blank Space Workshop

“Silent” explores the life of silent movie star Fatty Arbuckle and his not one, not two, but three murder trials. Based on a true story about Hollywood’s first scandal, this dark comedy explores “celebrity treatment” as well as the circumstantial evidence that made Arbuckle a suspect in the first place.

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Performance Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:11:49 -0400 2020-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Blank Space Workshop Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Silent (March 26, 2020 11:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73815 73815-18322367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 11:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Blank Space Workshop

“Silent” explores the life of silent movie star Fatty Arbuckle and his not one, not two, but three murder trials. Based on a true story about Hollywood’s first scandal, this dark comedy explores “celebrity treatment” as well as the circumstantial evidence that made Arbuckle a suspect in the first place.

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Performance Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:11:49 -0400 2020-03-26T23:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T23:59:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Blank Space Workshop Performance Walgreen Drama Center
E-Hour Speaker Series: Kathleen Sienko (March 27, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72249 72249-17963889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Kathleen Sienko is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Miller Faculty Scholar, and Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She earned her Ph.D. in 2007 in Medical Engineering and Bioastronautics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, and holds an S.M. in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT and a B.S. in Materials Engineering from the University of Kentucky.

She is the co-director of the Center for Socially Engaged Design and directs both the Sensory Augmentation and Rehabilitation Laboratory (SARL) and the Laboratory for Innovation in Global Health Technology (LIGHT). LIGHT focuses on the co-creative design of frugal innovations to address healthcare challenges in resource-limited settings.

Professor Sienko has led efforts at the University of Michigan to incorporate the constraints of global health technologies within engineering design at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has led design ethnography field sites in India, Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia and Nicaragua as the Director of the Global Health Design Initiative. She is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, a Teaching Innovation Prize from the UM Provost, and a UM Undergraduate Teaching Award.

In addition to Professor Sienko’s expertise topics, she consults on Design Process and Professional Development.

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Presentation Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:53:29 -0500 2020-03-27T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Sienko
*CANCELED* Digital Music Ensemble (March 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72495 72495-18011566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

The Digital Music Ensemble, under the direction of Stephen Rush, presents original music, composed by the class, for the 1927 Fritz Lang silent film Metropolis.

The full movie will be shown with live music by DME.

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:38 -0400 2020-03-29T19:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* 9th Annual Shirley Verrett Award Ceremony: Prof. Daniel Washington (April 2, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72885 72885-18090306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

This year’s award will be presented to Professor Daniel Washington (voice). Dr. Washington is being recognized for his significant support and advocacy on behalf of diverse students and faculty artists at U-M and innovative diversity and inclusion impact on U-M and beyond through his performances and service.

The Shirley Verrett Award was created in 2011 by the Office of the Senior Vice Provost in honor of the late Shirley Verrett, a teacher who “would have walked the world over for her students.” The award is administered by the U-M Women of Color in the Academy Project at the Center for the Education of Women and recognizes a faculty member whose teaching, performance, scholarship or service supports the success of female students or faculty in the arts who come from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds. Verrett was a James Earl Jones Distinguished University Professor of Voice at the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance, as well as an internationally acclaimed opera singer who was one of the pioneering leaders in the generation of black opera singers. She performed more than 40 roles all over the world during the course of her four-decade career.

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:38 -0400 2020-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Ceremony / Service Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* A Beautiful Country (April 2, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63558 63558-15784114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this production has been canceled. Ticketholders will receive more communication soon.**

Department of Theatre & Drama

a play by Chay Yew
Directed by Matthew Ozawa

Using dance, drag, drama, and documentary elements, A Beautiful Country chronicles 150 years of Asian-American immigration history. Miss Visa Denied, a drag queen and performer, is the narrator who guides the audience through the turbulent history of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese people coming to America. Heartfelt testimonials and the dramatization of some highly vibrant and egregious pieces of propaganda showcase the provocative events that have shaped this history. Addressing issues of race, gender, and appropriation, this play examines the fundamental questions surrounding the immigrant experience, including what it means to be an American.

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Performance Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:15:12 -0400 2020-04-02T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* A Beautiful Country (April 3, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63558 63558-15784115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this production has been canceled. Ticketholders will receive more communication soon.**

Department of Theatre & Drama

a play by Chay Yew
Directed by Matthew Ozawa

Using dance, drag, drama, and documentary elements, A Beautiful Country chronicles 150 years of Asian-American immigration history. Miss Visa Denied, a drag queen and performer, is the narrator who guides the audience through the turbulent history of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese people coming to America. Heartfelt testimonials and the dramatization of some highly vibrant and egregious pieces of propaganda showcase the provocative events that have shaped this history. Addressing issues of race, gender, and appropriation, this play examines the fundamental questions surrounding the immigrant experience, including what it means to be an American.

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Performance Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:15:12 -0400 2020-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* A Beautiful Country (April 4, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63558 63558-15784116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this production has been canceled. Ticketholders will receive more communication soon.**

Department of Theatre & Drama

a play by Chay Yew
Directed by Matthew Ozawa

Using dance, drag, drama, and documentary elements, A Beautiful Country chronicles 150 years of Asian-American immigration history. Miss Visa Denied, a drag queen and performer, is the narrator who guides the audience through the turbulent history of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese people coming to America. Heartfelt testimonials and the dramatization of some highly vibrant and egregious pieces of propaganda showcase the provocative events that have shaped this history. Addressing issues of race, gender, and appropriation, this play examines the fundamental questions surrounding the immigrant experience, including what it means to be an American.

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Performance Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:15:12 -0400 2020-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* A Beautiful Country (April 5, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63558 63558-15784117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this production has been canceled. Ticketholders will receive more communication soon.**

Department of Theatre & Drama

a play by Chay Yew
Directed by Matthew Ozawa

Using dance, drag, drama, and documentary elements, A Beautiful Country chronicles 150 years of Asian-American immigration history. Miss Visa Denied, a drag queen and performer, is the narrator who guides the audience through the turbulent history of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese people coming to America. Heartfelt testimonials and the dramatization of some highly vibrant and egregious pieces of propaganda showcase the provocative events that have shaped this history. Addressing issues of race, gender, and appropriation, this play examines the fundamental questions surrounding the immigrant experience, including what it means to be an American.

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Performance Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:15:12 -0400 2020-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* Voice Studio Recital: Students of Prof. Stephen West (April 8, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72508 72508-18011586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Voice students of Stephen West will present a recital of their latest repertoire, from classics to musical theater. One half of the studio will sing on March 25th, the other half on April 8th.

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:42 -0400 2020-04-08T16:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* A Beautiful Country (April 9, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63558 63558-15784118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this production has been canceled. Ticketholders will receive more communication soon.**

Department of Theatre & Drama

a play by Chay Yew
Directed by Matthew Ozawa

Using dance, drag, drama, and documentary elements, A Beautiful Country chronicles 150 years of Asian-American immigration history. Miss Visa Denied, a drag queen and performer, is the narrator who guides the audience through the turbulent history of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese people coming to America. Heartfelt testimonials and the dramatization of some highly vibrant and egregious pieces of propaganda showcase the provocative events that have shaped this history. Addressing issues of race, gender, and appropriation, this play examines the fundamental questions surrounding the immigrant experience, including what it means to be an American.

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Performance Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:15:12 -0400 2020-04-09T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* A Beautiful Country (April 10, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63558 63558-15784119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this production has been canceled. Ticketholders will receive more communication soon.**

Department of Theatre & Drama

a play by Chay Yew
Directed by Matthew Ozawa

Using dance, drag, drama, and documentary elements, A Beautiful Country chronicles 150 years of Asian-American immigration history. Miss Visa Denied, a drag queen and performer, is the narrator who guides the audience through the turbulent history of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese people coming to America. Heartfelt testimonials and the dramatization of some highly vibrant and egregious pieces of propaganda showcase the provocative events that have shaped this history. Addressing issues of race, gender, and appropriation, this play examines the fundamental questions surrounding the immigrant experience, including what it means to be an American.

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Performance Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:15:12 -0400 2020-04-10T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* A Beautiful Country (April 11, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63558 63558-15784120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 11, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this production has been canceled. Ticketholders will receive more communication soon.**

Department of Theatre & Drama

a play by Chay Yew
Directed by Matthew Ozawa

Using dance, drag, drama, and documentary elements, A Beautiful Country chronicles 150 years of Asian-American immigration history. Miss Visa Denied, a drag queen and performer, is the narrator who guides the audience through the turbulent history of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese people coming to America. Heartfelt testimonials and the dramatization of some highly vibrant and egregious pieces of propaganda showcase the provocative events that have shaped this history. Addressing issues of race, gender, and appropriation, this play examines the fundamental questions surrounding the immigrant experience, including what it means to be an American.

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Performance Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:15:12 -0400 2020-04-11T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* A Beautiful Country (April 12, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63558 63558-15784121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 12, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this production has been canceled. Ticketholders will receive more communication soon.**

Department of Theatre & Drama

a play by Chay Yew
Directed by Matthew Ozawa

Using dance, drag, drama, and documentary elements, A Beautiful Country chronicles 150 years of Asian-American immigration history. Miss Visa Denied, a drag queen and performer, is the narrator who guides the audience through the turbulent history of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese people coming to America. Heartfelt testimonials and the dramatization of some highly vibrant and egregious pieces of propaganda showcase the provocative events that have shaped this history. Addressing issues of race, gender, and appropriation, this play examines the fundamental questions surrounding the immigrant experience, including what it means to be an American.

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Performance Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:15:12 -0400 2020-04-12T14:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* Violin Studio Recital (April 13, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72432 72432-18002779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 13, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Encores are traditionally the “dessert” of a concert, called upon after a meaty program of sonatas and savorier repertoire. Sometimes they are whimsical little things, charming and sweet, other times full of fire, flash, and virtuosity. Violinists from the studio of Danielle Belen join with pianists from SMTD to perform works in this genre from around the world.

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:39 -0400 2020-04-13T19:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* Euphonium/Tuba Alumni Recital: Celebrating Prof. Fritz Kaenzig (April 19, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72491 72491-18011562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Solos and euphonium/tuba ensembles presented by prominent former students.

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:35 -0400 2020-04-19T14:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* Department of Theatre Senior Showcase (April 20, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72516 72516-18011598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 20, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Senior BFA Performance majors present a public dress rehearsal before they hold showcases in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:42 -0400 2020-04-20T19:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
*CANCELED* Freshman Cabaret (April 24, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72982 72982-18123059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

An evening of song featuring the entire musical theatre class of 2023.

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Performance Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:39 -0400 2020-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center
Voices Valiant (June 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72903 72903-18090325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Norma Freeman, conductor

U-M’s premiere adult choir takes the stage for an engaging performance of traditional and modern choral works.

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Performance Wed, 19 Feb 2020 18:15:54 -0500 2020-06-13T11:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Walgreen Drama Center