Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. UMix Pajama Party (January 12, 2018 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48019 48019-11170148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 10:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

It's cold outside, and it's easy to understand if you just want to stay inside in your pajamas and lounge, but we have a better option for you! UMix Pajama Party is happening Friday, Jan. 12, from 10pm-2am in the Union, and we're having a Pajama Contest for the best pj's out there! We'll also have a showing of The Breakfast Club, DIY sock snowmen, a bounce house pillow-fight, a midnight breakfast buffet & more!

UMix is a free event for Michigan students, MCard is required for entry. Michigan students are allowed to bring two outside guests so long as they are signed in upon entering the building.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 05 Jan 2018 11:54:52 -0500 2018-01-12T22:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T02:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Center for Campus Involvement Social / Informal Gathering PJ Party UMix
The North American Conference on Video Game Music (January 13, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47088 47088-10790900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The NACVGM brings together scholars in the fields of musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, media studies, sound studies, composition, and more to discuss all aspects of music in video games. Topics at past conferences have included case studies of influential games and composers, technology and its impact on game music, teaching game music, analyzing game music, and music's relationship to game narratives.

Keynote speakers include Marty O'Donnell (Halo, Destiny) and William Gibbons, author of Unlimited Replays: The Art of Classical Music in Video Games.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 21 Dec 2017 12:15:17 -0500 2018-01-13T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Conference / Symposium The North American Conference on Video Game Music
Family Art Studio: The Line Comes Alive (January 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47983 47983-11162385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free. Registration is required: email umma-program-registration@umich.edu. Please include date and title of program in the subject line of your email. Indicate if you would like to register for the 11:00 a.m. session or the 2:00 p.m. session and how many adults and children are in your group.

Create your own project inspired by the drawings of Henri Matisse and Ellsworth Kelly. UMMA docents will lead a tour of the exhibition followed by a hands-on workshop led by local artist Nora Venturelli. Designed for families with children ages six and up to experience art together. Parents must accompany children.

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.

This exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Jan 2018 22:47:10 -0500 2018-01-13T11:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Family Art Studio
English Country Dance (January 13, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48352 48352-11222728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This introduction to English country dance will prepare you to hold your own on the dance floor at Georgian-era balls and assemblies. A dance master and musicians provided by the Ann Arbor Community for Traditional Music and Dance will lead participants through the basics of a traditional country dance. No experience necessary.

Beginners should arrive at 1pm sharp for a demonstration. Wear comfortable clothes and smooth-soled shoes...or you can arrive in period dress!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:07:46 -0500 2018-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Social / Informal Gathering
Korean Cinema NOW | A Taxi Driver 택시운전사 (January 13, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47826 47826-11015166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Kim Sa-bok (Song Kang-ho) is an impatient taxi driver and the clueless father of a 11-year-old girl, Eun-sung (Yoo Eun-mi).
Four months behind in paying his rent, he unwillingly accepts to take the German journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter (Thomas Kretschmann) all the way from Seoul to Gwangju, besieged by the military so that he could capture the student rebellion and the brutal repression ordered by Chun Doo-hwan.

Director Jang Hoon (The Front Line, 2011) masterfully narrates the personal journey of the taxi driver from a selfish man to a politically awakened citizen.

Please see review on The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/movies/a-taxi-driver-review.html?_r=0

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Film Screening Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:46:22 -0500 2018-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Taxi Driver
Collage Concert (January 13, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42733 42733-9653741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Collage Concert is a non-stop evening of virtuosic performances, featuring students from all parts of the SMTD.

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Performance Wed, 13 Dec 2017 12:15:11 -0500 2018-01-13T20:00:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Collage Concert
Jill Jack Birthday Bash (January 13, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44377 44377-9911797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Help make a special birthday for this Ark favorite!

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Performance Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:13:23 -0400 2018-01-13T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance
EXCEL Talk: Marty O’Donnell, video game composer (January 14, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47089 47089-10790902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 14, 2018 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Video game composer Marty O’Donnell (Halo, Oni, Destiny, Riven, the sequel to Myst) will discuss the ins and outs of a career in the game audio industry in a small group setting with interested students. This talk is part of the North American Conference on Video Game Music being held at SMTD January 13–14.

For more information and to register for the conference visit myumi.ch/L4Oe7

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Performance Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:15:44 -0500 2018-01-14T13:30:00-05:00 2018-01-14T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance EXCEL Talk: Marty O’Donnell, video game composer
Guided Tour - Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection (January 14, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47984 47984-11162387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 14, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This exhibition of drawings by Henri Matisse showcases the mastery of draftsmanship by two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. Accompanying the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Join UMMA docents as they explore this artistic dialogue, seeing one artist through the eyes of another.

Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.

This exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 02 Jan 2018 22:50:57 -0500 2018-01-14T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-14T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Henri Matisse
Faculty Recital: Caroline Helton, Matthew Bengtson, and Aaron Berofsky (January 14, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46957 46957-10705772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 14, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Matthew Bengtson, fortepiano
Aaron Berofsky, violin
Caroline Helton, soprano
 
The creative explosion of the German Lied in the late 18th and early 19th centuries was ignited by the popularity of the fortepiano, along with Goethe and the great composers who set his poetry to music. Please join us for an evening of poetry and music, in which a number of settings of Goethe’s poetry will be performed, placing familiar Lieder by Schubert, Beethoven, and Mozart alongside their lesser-known contemporaries, Carl Friedrich Zelter and Johann Friedrich Reichardt. In the tradition of the Hauskonzert in the time of Schubert, the program will feature instrumental as well as vocal music, with SMTD Professor Berofsky performing Mozart’s Piano and Violin Sonata in B-flat, K.454.

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Performance Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:15:46 -0500 2018-01-14T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
The 32nd Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Memorial Keynote Lecture (January 15, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48043 48043-11170221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 10:00am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Ross School of Business

Award-winning actor, best-selling author and philanthropist Hill Harper will deliver the keynote address for the 2018 MLK Symposium Lecture. There will be a special guest performance by Aisha Fukushima, singer, public speaker, educator and founder of RAPtivism, a hip-hop centric project that focuses on global efforts for freedom and justice. The event is sponsored by The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan with support from the William K. McInally Memorial Lecture Fund, and the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives, a unit under the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. For more information about the 2018 MLK Symposium, visit http://oami.umich.edu/um-mlk-symposium/.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:15:44 -0500 2018-01-15T10:00:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium Ross School of Business Conference / Symposium Hill Harper to Speak at the University of Michigan
Faculty Recital: Tiffany Ng, carillon (January 15, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46931 46931-10703001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Tiffany Ng will perform music from the Civil Rights Movement and black jazz composers, and give the Ann Arbor premiere of Kalvert Nelson’s Carillon Dances. Nelson is a black composer, trumpeter, and music educator who has been commissioned by distinguished ensembles such as the Kronos Quartet, Oklahoma Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and many dance companies. His influences span jazz, folk, hip-hop, theatre, and film, and his works often promote social justice and black culture. The public is welcome inside the belfry during the concert and afterwards for a Q&A with the performers and student music arrangers.

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Performance Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:15:49 -0500 2018-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Burton Memorial Tower
1968 + 50: Unfinished Legacies of Dr. King’s Last Year (January 15, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47471 47471-10929750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech “Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence.” Exactly one year later, he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had been supporting striking sanitation workers. The last year of King's life marked a distinctive period in his career as he allied himself with a broad array of initiatives linking civil rights with antiwar, labor, and antipoverty campaigns. This panel will consider the legacy of that year, stretching from the social justice movements of the late 1960s to causes today such as Black Lives Matter, immigrant rights, and attempts to reverse the growing gap of socioeconomic inequality.

Featuring:
Ruth Feldstein, Rutgers University-Newark
Monica Muñoz Martinez, Brown University
Brenda Tindal, Detroit Historical Society

Ruth Feldstein is professor of history and American studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of several books and articles, most recently the award-winning book, How It Feels To Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement; she is also associate producer of How It Feels to Be Free, a forthcoming documentary based on this book. Feldstein's scholarship explores relationships between race and gender relations, and between performance and politics; she works to tell the stories of women whose voices have not been heard, and who are seldom taken seriously as thinkers and activists.

Monica Muñoz Martinez, Carnegie Fellow 2017-2019, received her PhD in American studies from Yale University. At Brown University she offers courses in Latinx studies, immigration, histories of violence, histories of policing, and public memory in US History. Her research has been funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, the Brown University Office of Vice President of Research, and the Texas State Historical Association. Her first manuscript, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in the Texas Borderlands, is under contract with Harvard University Press. She is a faculty fellow at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Martinez is the primary investigator for Mapping Violence, a digital project that documents histories of racial violence in Texas.

Public historian, archivist, curator, and educator Brenda Tindal joined the Detroit Historical Society as director of education in December 2017. She is the former staff historian and senior vice president of research and collections at Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, NC. In 2005, she was part of the curatorial team that developed Courage: The Carolina Story that Changed America, an exhibit on the region’s role in the landmark school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which won the National Award for Museum Service—the nation’s highest honor awarded to museums and libraries. Tindal recently co-curated the museum’s K(NO)W Justice K(NO)W Peace—a rapid-response exhibit that explores the historical roots of the distrust between police and community, tells the human stories beyond the headlines, and engages viewers in creating constructive solutions. Before joining the Levine Museum of the New South in 2015 as staff historian, Tindal was a visiting lecturer in the Department of History and Honors College at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, where she taught a broad range of courses in comparative U.S. and South African history, southern history, African American history, and visual and material culture. A sought after social commentator, convener, and speaker, Tindal has been featured on C-SPAN, the Knight Foundation’s Media Learning Seminar, Happenings Magazine, NPR, Pride Magazine, NBC-Today, The Charlotte Observer, and many other local and national news and media outlets.


Free and open to the public.

This event made possible by the Kalt Fund for African American and African History, along with the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:25:11 -0500 2018-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T15:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Composite Image
Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 (January 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 48737-11297759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Curated by ZHANG Fang, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades.

Please join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge.

About WANG Qingsong

An artist, educator, and curator, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums, art centers, and galleries, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.

Formally trained as a painter, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism, urbanization and social change. In 2014, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.

In winter 2018, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.

*Image: The Glory of Hope, 240x180cm, 2007, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong

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Exhibition Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:40:11 -0500 2018-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Exhibition Glory of Hope
Carillon Composition Workshop (January 15, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47329 47329-10868991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

What do you want played from U-M’s bell towers? Arrange a song and win one of five $200 prizes in the carillon composition contest "Music for an Inclusive Soundscape!"

Entrants must attend a carillon workshop to learn to arrange music that amplifies the voices of underrepresented social groups on campus. All currently enrolled U-M students are eligible to compete.

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Performance Thu, 07 Dec 2017 18:15:28 -0500 2018-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Carillon Composition Workshop