Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Saturday Sampler Tour | What is Archaeology? (May 27, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107666 107666-21816343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 27, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

What is archaeology? Have you ever wondered how archaeologists reconstruct the past just by looking at the artifacts they find? Join us for this family-friendly tour to learn about the archaeology of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome!

This event is free and open to all visitors. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event, please visit our accessibility page (https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/visit/accessibility.html) or contact the education office (734-647-4167). We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Tours Tue, 18 Apr 2023 12:23:22 -0400 2023-05-27T14:00:00-04:00 2023-05-27T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Tours Archaeological Excavation
Social Change Incubator (May 31, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107543 107543-21816189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Center for the Education of Women
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here by the end of the day on May 10th: https://myumi.ch/j7xPG

WEDNESDAYS ON 5/31, 6/7, 6/14, AND 6/21 FROM 3:00-5:00PM

Are you a student, staff, faculty, or community member interested in learning how your personal stories and passions can lead you into doing the work of social change? Join Dr. Liz DeBetta for a 4-part weekly workshop where you will learn:

- How to define your role(s) in the social change ecosystem
- What narrative power is and how it drives change
- What type of social change work you can do based on your skills, passions, and identity
- How to use your story as a catalyst for change

We will meet in person for two hours each Wednesday starting on 5/31 to develop a social change identity and learn how to become advocates, activists, and change-makers through storytelling.

Participants will be given short readings and other brief assignments to be completed in between sessions. The final session will invite each participant to share their story and how they plan to use it to drive change.

Registration closes May 10th.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 May 2023 14:52:42 -0400 2023-05-31T15:00:00-04:00 2023-05-31T17:00:00-04:00 Center for the Education of Women CEW+ Workshop / Seminar Be the Change graffiti
Beginner Tango Lessons (May 31, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108387 108387-21819463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Michigan Argentine Tango Club

Join the Michigan Argentine Tango club for a 4 week series introducing you to Argentine Tango. Only $20 for 4 weeks! Please register on our website: https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/matc/

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Class / Instruction Sun, 28 May 2023 13:17:59 -0400 2023-05-31T20:00:00-04:00 2023-05-31T22:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Michigan Argentine Tango Club Class / Instruction tango
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2023 (June 1, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100429 100429-21799895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Organized by Stamps Gallery at the University of Michigan, Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2023 is an exhibition and awards program designed to support the development of contemporary artists living and working in Michigan. In its second iteration, the program recognizes the creativity, rigor, and innovation of Michigan-based artists and collaboratives — and honors their role in inspiring the next generations of artists in our state. This initiative showcases the excellence and artistic merit of contemporary art practices in Michigan.
In the of fall of 2022, Stamps Gallery announced an open call for artwork, inviting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from Michigan working in all types of media to apply. We received 309 applications, a record number for the program.
A shortlist of three artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Neil A. Barclay, President & CEO of Charles Wright Museum of African American Art, Shannon Rae Stratton, Executive Director of Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency, and Nayda Collazo-Llorens, award-winning artist and winner of the inaugural Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award (2020-2021).

Meet the shortlisted finalist artists for Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2023:
Bakpak Durden is a “self-taught” multi-hyphenate antidisciplinary artist and alchemist. Pulling from various figurative art techniques, including hyperrealism, baroque, and veristic surrealism, Durden employs a wide range of mediums—oil and acrylic paint, graphite, film photography, and the written word—to construct their hyper-surrealistic and conceptual works of art. Parisa Ghaderi is a visual artist, curator, educator, and filmmaker. She earned her BA in Visual Communications from Art & Architecture University (Tehran, Iran) and her MFA at Stamps School in 2014. She works across different media. She has made four short films and two animations and recently directed a performance about the border situation in the U.S. for Iranian immigrants. Levon Kafafian is a Detroit-based Armenian-American weaver working the narrative threads of costume, artifact, ritual, and installation into stories about possible worlds and potential futures. They infuse their stories and cloth with future ancestral practice, hybridity, and magic.
Durden, Ghaderi, and Kafafian will present their work at Stamps Gallery from June 1-July 29, 2023. They will receive financial, logistical and curatorial support from the professional staff at Stamps Gallery.
The jury will select a winner, who will be announced at the award ceremony on June 29, 2023. The winning artist will be awarded a $5,000 cash prize.
If you have further questions, please contact stamps-gallery@umich.edu.

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Exhibition Wed, 14 Jun 2023 18:15:04 -0400 2023-06-01T11:00:00-04:00 2023-06-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition a series of three images by Parisa Ghaderi, Levon Kafafian, and Bakpak Durden
Virtual Information Session (June 1, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107699 107699-21816380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for a virtual, hour-long info session on undergraduate programs at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, including a presentation and Q&A with current students and the admissions team.Info session times are Eastern US.
Visit our Admissions Events page to learn more about additional upcoming events.

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Other Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:15:11 -0400 2023-06-01T15:00:00-04:00 2023-06-01T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Other Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Envision: The Michigan Artist Initiative 2023 Opening Reception (June 1, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107969 107969-21818669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for the opening reception of Envi­sion: The Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive 2023 at Stamps Gallery. The exhibition features new work by the three Envision 2023 finalists, artists Bakpak Durden, Parisa Ghaderi, and Levon Kafafian. All the artists will be in attendance. Light refreshments will be served.
This is the second iteration of Envi­sion: The Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive, an exhibition and awards pro­gram designed to sup­port the devel­op­ment of con­tem­po­rary artists liv­ing and work­ing in Michi­gan. The Envision 2023 finalist artists were selected by a prominent national panel of jurors: Neil A. Barclay, President & CEO of Charles Wright Museum of African American Art; Shannon Rae Stratton, Executive Director of Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency; and Nayda Collazo-Llorens, artist and winner of the inaugural Envision: Michigan Artist Initiative Award.
We will also be celebrating the publication of a new book on the inaugural Envision 2021 exhibition. This soft cover, 55-page, full-color book features the work of finalist artists Nayda Col­lazo-Llorens, Michael Dixon, Car­ole Har­ris, Kylie Lockwood, and Dar­ryl DeAngelo Ter­rell along with essays on each artist's work and practice by Michigan-based writers Nandi Comer, monét cooper, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Katie Grace McGowan, and Chace Morris. The Envision publication was designed by Detroit-based design firm You vs. Jesus, edited by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Srimoyee Mitra, and made possible by the generous support of the Michigan Arts and Culture Council.
Envi­sion: The Michi­gan Artist Ini­tia­tive 2023 is on view at Stamps Gallery from June 1, 2023 — July 29, 2023.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 04 May 2023 18:15:07 -0400 2023-06-01T18:00:00-04:00 2023-06-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Reception / Open House Envision logo: stylized white letters spell out ENVISION on a black background
Shakespeare in the Arb (June 1, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107779 107779-21816474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 1, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

Shakespeare in the Arb returns for its 21st season with the beloved comedy, Much Ado About Nothing. In this play, Beatrice and Benedick quarrel non-stop but their friends suspect there’s more to their fiery words than it seems. Meanwhile, the marriage of the young lovers Hero and Claudio is interrupted by the schemes of the villainous Don John, and it may be up to the bumbling constable, Dogberry, and his crew to set things right.

Shakespeare in the Arb performs every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from June 1 through June 25. It is a 2.5 hour outdoor, moving performance that takes place within Nichols Arboretum. Audience members should be prepared for light weather conditions, periods of sitting, standing, and walking. All tickets are lawn seating and bringing a chair or blanket to sit on is recommended.

Please visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/overview/4134 for more detail

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Performance Fri, 19 May 2023 14:56:28 -0400 2023-06-01T18:30:00-04:00 2023-06-01T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Shakespeare in the Arb
Read and Look | Temple Cat (June 3, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108150 108150-21818997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 3, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join us for our “Read and Look” program in the museum galleries on select Saturdays. We will take over a corner of the museum to read the book *Temple Cat* by Andrew Clements, then find related Egyptian artifacts and art on display. This storytime is great for our younger visitors, ages 4–8. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Description of the book: “This endearing tale is sure to find favor wherever cat stories are in demand. Worshiped as a god with servants to coddle him, a temple cat in ancient Egypt yearns for the freedom to live as a normal feline . . .”

This event is free and open to all visitors. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event, please visit our accessibility page (https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/visit/accessibility.html) or contact the education office (734-647-4167). We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Other Wed, 17 May 2023 12:52:21 -0400 2023-06-03T14:00:00-04:00 2023-06-03T15:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other Temple Cat by Andrew Clements
International Romance Film Fest (June 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108278 108278-21819205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 11:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Drop by the Hatcher Gallery (just off the Diag) to watch one — or all four — romance movies from around the world. All films are either in English or subtitled in English.

11:00am — Karmen Gei (Wolof & French)
2001, 1 hr 26 mins
Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire.

12:45pm — Lost in Paris (French & English)
2016, 1 hr 23 mins
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

2:45pm — The Worst Person in the World (Norwegian)
2021, 2 hrs 8 mins
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

5:15pm — And Then We Danced (Georgian)
2019, 1 hr 53 mins
A passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak.

These movies are brought to you by the U-M Library's department of International Studies.

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Film Screening Mon, 22 May 2023 15:00:08 -0400 2023-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 2023-06-06T19:15:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Film Screening DVD covers from four films.
Prospective Student Individual Meeting (June 6, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107725 107725-21816413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Prospective undergraduate students: Schedule a 15-minute virtual meeting with a current Stamps Student. This is a great chance to learn more about the Stamps experience, have specific questions addressed, and get infor­mal feed­back on your creative work.
All times are Eastern US.
Visit our Admissions Events page to learn more about additional upcoming events.

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Meeting Fri, 21 Apr 2023 12:15:16 -0400 2023-06-06T15:00:00-04:00 2023-06-06T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Meeting Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Culture Change Foundations: Improving Workplace Climate (June 7, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105524 105524-21812012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 7, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Learning

Details are available on the Organizational Learning Website.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:35:51 -0500 2023-06-07T10:00:00-04:00 2023-06-07T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Learning Workshop / Seminar
Guided Tour of the U-M Clements Library. (June 8, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108027 108027-21818857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2023 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include viewing of Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Register here: myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

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Tours Wed, 10 May 2023 11:09:15 -0400 2023-06-08T11:00:00-04:00 2023-06-08T12:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours William Clements Library
Wolverine Writers II: Stories of Fire, Ice . . . and Rebirth (June 8, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108320 108320-21819279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 8, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join us for our second annual episode of Wolverine Writers, to hear about some examples from the past year, including “Tragedy on the Ice,” the story of a disastrous expedition involving U-M astronomer Edmund Israel; “The Arsonist Was a Scholar,” the story — and the story of the story — of an act of arson on campus; and “The Tappan Oak,” about one of U-M’s most beloved natural features, and its life, death, and rebirth.



Our panel will include Kim Clarke, director of the Michigan Heritage Project; Deborah Holdship, editor of Michigan Today; and Lara Zielin, editor of the Bentley’s own Collections magazine.



For those attending in person, the event will be followed by tours of the Observatory, with observing if weather permits.

Please note: One of the talks will mention one person’s experience with suicide; please use care and know that support is available. If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide or mental health issues, please note and use the resources below.

– For U-M students: Counseling & Psychological Services (www.caps.umich.edu; 734-764-8312, including CAPS After Hours 24/7)

– For U-M Faculty and Staff: Faculty & Staff Counseling & Consultation Office (734-936-8660; email: fascco@umich.edu)

– Psychiatric Emergency Services: 734-936-5900 – 24/7/365

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:05:19 -0400 2023-06-08T19:00:00-04:00 2023-06-08T20:30:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Image of a yellow typewriter with a navy block M on the backdrop of a faded yellow map of the University of Michigan campus.
In-Person Tour & Info Session (June 9, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106899 106899-21814979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Visit Stamps and join us for a tour of our facilities, info session, and Q&A panel on undergraduate programs at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design.
Events take place monthly on Fridays and last two hours. Listed start times are in Eastern US time.
Visit our Admissions Events page to learn more about additional upcoming events.

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Other Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:15:12 -0400 2023-06-09T11:00:00-04:00 2023-06-09T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Other Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Walking Tour: Romantic Life at U of M (June 9, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108504 108504-21819869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 9, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Burnham House
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

The Romantic Life at U of M Walking Tour takes you through some of the beautiful and notable portions of the Nichols Arboretum starting at the Peony Garden, as well as a few of the dorms surrounding the Detroit Observatory, where the tour ends. While you learn about the history surrounding these spots, you will also get to hear some stories of the romantic lives of some of our faculty, students, and alumni, as well as some other historical facts about events and lives here at the University of Michigan campus, with an accompanying slideshow filled with photos, scrapbook pages, and letters.

The tour is about 1.5 hours long with a total of a 1.3 mile walk. It should be noted that a portion of the walking tour has a steep hill, though there are stairs at the steepest section. Please also prepare for the weather, as it can be very hot or rainy during tours.

The starting point will be outside the Peony Garden entrance, at the Burnham House located at 1610 Washington Hts Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

Parking is available along the street on Washington Hts, or up off of Observatory St near Forest Hill Cemetery.

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Tours Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:07:22 -0400 2023-06-09T12:00:00-04:00 2023-06-09T13:30:00-04:00 Burnham House Bentley Historical Library Tours Close-up image of peonies of varying shades of pink and white.