Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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
MESA SPRING OPEN OFFICE HOURS (March 26, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73982 73982-18454144@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:00pm
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Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Need to connect? MESA is available for our community members. Please join us during MESA open office hours virtually via Zoom every Friday from 12 pm - 1 pm.

Join Zoom Meeting at:

https://umich.zoom.us/j/544097674

Meeting ID: 544 097 674

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:31:56 -0400 2020-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Spring Virtual Hours
Postponed - Why I Fight (March 26, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71813 71813-17888049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

This event has been postponed. Details TBA.

Why I Fight, a theatrical adaptation of the 2019 Michigan Quarterly Review novelette by James Munro Leaf, dramatizes the perils of being defined by a mental illness and being caught in the psychiatric system. It probes the presumption of labels and the complex dynamics of power, dehumanization, and abuse in clinical settings. Creative director Gillian Eaton and actor Malcolm Tulip, faculty of the U-M School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, engage several of their students in this production at the Residential College’s Keene Theater (dates TBA).

Based on collaboration with the staff at the U-M Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program and other University colleagues, a series of panels on mental illness and the arts follow each theatrical performance. Panelists will expand on themes in Why I Fight and invite conversation with audience members. Individuals and family members who live with mental illness; U-M faculty conducting psycho-social, public health, and biomedical research; mental health practitioners and community advocates, including the arts community, will explore the roles of creativity and nature for healing. The panels will be moderated by Dr. Melvin McInnis, Director of the Prechter Program, and other U-M mental health experts. A catered reception and information tables for resources in the arts and mental wellness organizations accompany each performance. (Please see the full list of panelists for more information).

A series of associated events and workshops, free and open to the public, are scheduled for the weekend.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:46:22 -0400 2020-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Presentation Why I Fight