Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Dance for Democracy! (November 2, 2020 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78932 78932-20156698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 9:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Dance for Democracy will provide the Michigan Community an opportunity to gather on the eve of the 2020 General Election as the culmination of efforts associated with the Big Ten Voting Challenge as part of the Democracy & Debate Theme Semester. Designed for those who have already voted early and for those headed to the polls on November 3rd, Dance for Democracy will bring together students, and other members of the U-M community, for an evening of music and socially-distanced dancing with bands, DJs, PSAs and special guest appearances as we celebrate democratic engagement across the partisan divide. We’re all Wolverines on the (virtual) dance floor. Register. Vote. Dance.

Featured musicians: 
Detroit-based percussionist and DJ Nova Zaii with Kultur Grenade Ann Arbor-based funk/rock band Kektus Ann Arbor-based funk band, Sabbatical Bob Detroit legend Inner City

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, MUSIC Matters, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

Please contact Michael Gould at gould@umich.edu for all inquiries or questions, including:


Student groups interested in contributing to PSAs and appearances
Units and organizations interested in co-sponsoring
Press/public relations

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Performance Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:15:42 -0500 2020-11-02T21:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (November 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-03T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-04T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Oboe Studio Recital (November 5, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78244 78244-19998910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Oboe students of Professor Nancy Ambrose King perform in recital

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Performance Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:15:06 -0400 2020-11-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Collection Ensemble (November 6, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-06T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 7, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 7, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-07T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Masterclass: Stefan Jackiw, violin (November 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79130 79130-20211824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PASSWORD: strings

Students in Professor Danielle Belen’s violin studio will participate in a masterclass with American violinist Stefan Jackiw.

Stefan Jackiw is one of America’s foremost violinists, captivating audiences with playing that combines poetry and purity with an impeccable technique. Hailed for playing of "uncommon musical substance" that is “striking for its intelligence and sensitivity” (Boston Globe), Jackiw has appeared as soloist with the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco symphony orchestras, among others.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-11-07T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Senior Recital: Justin Stobart, trombone (November 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79249 79249-20241263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Harnly - Chorale Fantasie; Yoshioka - Extase; Sulek - Sonata (Vox Gabrieli); Lynn - Doolallynastics; Still - Romance; McKee - Vuelta del Fuego.

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Performance Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-11-07T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Senior Recital: Jonathan Thomas, horn (November 7, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79250 79250-20241264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 7, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Anderson - Fog on Lake Superior; Strauss - Horn Concerto no. 2; Brouwer - Sonata for Horn and Piano; Porter - Small Town Folklore; Janácek - Mládí.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-11-07T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Collection Ensemble (November 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
SMTD Paul Boylan Alumni Award Recital: Nermis Mieses, oboe (November 8, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78245 78245-19998911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 8, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Nermis Mieses  is the Associate Professor of Oboe at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, Principal Oboe of the Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit, and Chair of the Gillet-Fox International Competition for Oboe. Her distinctions include being the first American to place as finalist in the prestigious Barbirolli International Oboe Competition held in 2014; first place at the 2011 First International Oboe Competition in Santa Catarina, Brazil; finalist at the 2018 Matthew Ruggiero International Woodwind Competition; and second place at the 2012 Society for Musical Arts Young Artist Competition in Ann Arbor, MI. She has appeared in solo performances with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Michigan Philharmonic Orchestra, and toured Denmark as soloist and chamber music performer with the Thy Chamber Music Festival (2011, 2013). She has presented multiple masterclasses and recitals in Florida, Arizona, Iowa, Texas, Michigan, Nebraska, Washington DC, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Georgia, Wisconsin, Spain, Puerto Rico, and Dominican Republic; some as part of the IDRS annual conferences. Formerly principal of the Michigan Philharmonic, she has also performed with the Ann Arbor, Sphinx, ProMusica Chamber, Rochester, Lexington, and Puerto Rico Symphony as well as the National Repertory Orchestra, Sewanee Music Festival, Idyllwild Arts and FOSJA. She holds D.M.A. and M.M. degrees from the University of Michigan under Dr. Nancy Ambrose King.    

The Paul Boylan Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments and significant contributions in the field of music, theatre or dance by alumni within the past 10 years of graduation. The Alumni Society Board of Governors established the Paul Boylan Award in 1999 to honor Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Music Theory, Paul C. Boylan.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual SMTD Paul Boylan Alumni Award Recital: Nermis Mieses, oboe
Oboe Masterclass: Nermis Mieses (November 9, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78535 78535-20060193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Nermis Mieses  is the Associate Professor of Oboe at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, Principal Oboe of the Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit, and Chair of the Gillet-Fox International Competition for Oboe.

Nermis Miesis is the 2020 SMTD Paul Boylan Award Winner.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:15:04 -0400 2020-11-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Oboe Masterclass: Nermis Mieses
Collection Ensemble (November 10, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Chamber Music Recital (November 10, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78608 78608-20075954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Chamber Music Department at SMTD presents its fourth of six programs for fall 2020, showcasing ensembles who are studying in person (though socially distant!) for the semester. This program will include works by Beethoven, Flick, and Nielsen for string quartet, fiddle duo, woodwind quintet, sax quartet, and tuba quartet.

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Performance Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:15:04 -0400 2020-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Jazz Ensemble Chamber Groups (November 10, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79240 79240-20235388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Ellen Rowe and Dennis Wilson, directors

a re-broadcast of the October 1, 2020 Jazz Ensembles concert.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Collection Ensemble (November 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Chamber Music Recital (November 11, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78242 78242-19998908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Chamber Music Department at SMTD presents its fifth of six programs for fall 2020, showcasing ensembles who are studying in person (though socially distant!) for the semester. This program will include works by Bartok, Beethoven, Faure, and Schumann for string quartet, piano trio, and piano quartet, woodwind quintet, and saxophone sextet.

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Performance Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:15:03 -0400 2020-11-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Collection Ensemble (November 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Fascism and Anti-fascism since 1945: Virtual Launching of *Radical History Review 138 * (November 12, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76899 76899-19774598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: http://myumi.ch/v2Z2Q

The *Radical History Review* Issue 138, “Fascism and Anti-fascism Since 1945” is currently open access (until January 2021) and available to read on the Duke University Press website. (https://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/issue/2020/138)

Presenters: Co-editors Jessica Namakkal (Duke), Mark Bray (Rutgers), Eric Roubinek (UNC Asheville) and Giulia Riccò (University of Michigan)

Respondents: Federico Finchelstein (The New School); Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University)

Contributors to this special issue of *Radical History Review* study histories of fascism and antifascism after 1945 to show how fascist ideology continues to circulate and be opposed transnationally despite its supposed death at the end of World War II.

The essays cover the use of fascism in the 1970s construction of the Latinx Left, the connection between antifascism and anti-imperialism in 1960s Italian Communist internationalism, post-dictatorship Argentina and the transhistorical alliance between Las Madres and travestí activism, cultures of antifascism in contemporary Japan, and the British radical right's attempted alliance with Qathafi's Libya. The issue also includes a discussion about teaching fascism through fiction in the age of Trump, a reflection on the practices of archiving and displaying antifascist objects to various publics, and reviews of recent works on antifascism, punk music, and the Rock Against Racism movement. Please RSVP for the Zoom link and password (RSVP link can be found below). This event is sponsored by the Democracy and Debate Theme Semester.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:25:45 -0500 2020-11-12T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual Fascism and Anti-fascism since 1945
Chamber Music Recital (November 12, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78243 78243-19998909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Chamber Music Department at SMTD presents its final of six programs for fall 2020, showcasing ensembles who are studying in person (though socially distant!) for the semester. This program will include works by Bartok, Beethoven, Ewald, Haydn, Franck, Montgomery, and Price for string quartet, piano trio, piano quintet, string trio, and brass quintet.

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Performance Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:15:06 -0400 2020-11-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Collection Ensemble (November 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-13T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
PSA Charity Dance Class for the Child Foundation (November 13, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79264 79264-20256950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Persian Student Association

On November 13, the undergraduate Persian Student Association will be having a fundraiser Persian dance class for our charity of the year, Bonyad Koodak (The Child Foundation), in order to support them in their mission to provide virtual education to children living in rural regions throughout Iran.

Our choreography chair, Nikki Farahanchi, will be teaching a fun, virtual, gender-inclusive, dance class showcasing choreography from different ethnicities in Iran! Please share this flyer and sign up form with as many people as possible, so we can fundraise as much as we can for this wonderful organization!

When: November 13, from 8-9 pm
Where: Zoom!
Donations: minimum $5, please venmo @Michigan_PSA
Sign up here! https://cutt.ly/psafundraiser
Learn more about Bonyad Kodak at their website: https://www.childfoundation.org/

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Class / Instruction Sun, 08 Nov 2020 13:35:52 -0500 2020-11-13T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Persian Student Association Class / Instruction Charity Dance Class Flyer
Collection Ensemble (November 14, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 14, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-14T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Horn Studio Recital (November 14, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79408 79408-20298396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 14, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Adam Unsworth and Bryan Kennedy perform solo and ensemble repertoire for horn.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:15:05 -0500 2020-11-14T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Collection Ensemble (November 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Vincent Dubois, organ (Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris) (November 16, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79193 79193-20227526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Vincent Dubois is the Titular Organist of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris and the General Director of the Strasbourg Conservatory

Masterclass Repertoire:
Duruflé, Prélude from Suite, Op. 5, performed by Zoe Lei
Franck, Prélude, fugue et variation, performed by Skyelar Raiti
Guilmant, Choral et fugue from Sonata V, performed by Kaelan Hansson

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-11-16T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Vincent Dubois, organ (Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris)
Collection Ensemble (November 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement (November 17, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78476 78476-20050333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: http://myumi.ch/mnblz

Salakastar will be performing selections from ALL BLUE: PART ONE (MAJORELLE!) , her debut experimental R+B album and performance series. It consists of poetic healing rituals in the form of vibrant sounds, visuals, and mantras. AB: P1(M!) is a response to the urgent needs of people of color for recording and sharing untold narratives of self, land, and belonging.

Salakastar channels her ancestral spirit Majorelle to expand the African-American tradition of rhythm+blues and its lineage in relation to the generational depression experienced by descendants of the survivors of the Middle Passage and the souls that still exist in the deep blue of the Atlantic Ocean. She extends the healing quality of the color blue as it relates to the 5th chakra at the throat associated with Truth, voice, communication, and purification.

Salakastar is a Detroit born and based actor, singer-songwriter, poet, and teaching artist working in theatre, television, film, and music. She earned her BFA and completed her classical acting training at the State University of New York at Purchase College. She is an artist-in-residence at Poetic Societies, a member of the touring company of I, Too, Sing America at the Michigan Opera Theatre and a founding member of iii Sisters, a Detroit-based feminist writing ensemble. She is a 2018 Gilda Award Winner and a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow in Live Arts awarded by the Kresge foundation.

In the new virtual series, PERFORMING THE MOVEMENT, PERFORMING THE MOMENT, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. Each guest will give a 30 minute presentation, and then engage in 30 minutes of Q&A. Sessions will take place over Zoom and require advance registration. You can read about the panelists, register for these events, find recommended reading and resources and/or request recordings of past events at https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance.

If you require 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 Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:34:44 -0400 2020-11-17T18:30:00-05:00 2020-11-17T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Salakastar
Contemporary Directions Ensemble - Open Dress Rehearsal (November 17, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79445 79445-20327781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adrian Slytowsky, conductor

Music of Anna Clyne, Thomas Albert, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, and Tania León.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/GkgxP

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Stearns Collection Lecture: Making and Modeling Electronic and Virtual Instruments, John Granzow (November 17, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79345 79345-20280627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series

JOHN GRANZOW  Assistant Professor of Music (Performing Arts Technology)
Virtual Reality (VR) and digital fabrication technologies today are ushering in a new wave of opportunities in instrument design to bring otherwise implausible instruments to life or support virtual counterparts to irreplaceable and fragile instruments housed in museums and  collections. In the latter case, we aim to resynthesize both the sound of a rare instrument as well as the audio visual experience of playing it in a virtual space. The Stearns Instrument Collection at the University of Michigan has served as an invaluable resource for this research. In this seminar I will discuss electrophones of interest in the collection that give rise to persisting issues of interaction design as well as research conducted with Dr. Anıl Çamcı (Performing Arts Technology, SMTD) where instruments in the collection are scanned and modeled for virtual interaction.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/dOPbx

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Collection Ensemble (November 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-18T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Contemporary Directions Ensemble - CANCELLED (November 18, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79396 79396-20296430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adrian Slytowsky, conductor

Music of Anna Clyne, Thomas Albert, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, and Tania León.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:15:03 -0500 2020-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Collection Ensemble (November 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
IMPRINT SERIES Vol. 1 — Let The Record Show (November 19, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79455 79455-20329744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Composition

Newly-recorded works by four SMTD composers:

AKARI KOMURA (MM Composition)
Elapsed (2020) — for Solo Cello and Electronics
Jacob Mackay, cello

ALFREDO CABRERA (MM Composition)
Paper Homes & Dreams Away (2019) — for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano
Dina Kostic, violin — Susan Bergeron, violoncello — Lisa Leonard, piano

RYAN LINDVEIT (DMA Composition)
Snapped (2020) — for Solo Tenor Saxophone
Drew Hosler, tenor saxophone

STEPHEN MITTON (DMA Composition)
Albatross (2018, rev. 2020)
Valerie Larson, mezzo-soprano — Justine Sedky, flute — Marco Chen, clarinet — Michael Kropf, violin — Joshua DeVries, cello — Karalyn Schubring, piano

Watch online at http://myumi.ch/jxVXd
Join the composers for a simultaneous watch party on zoom at http://myumi.ch/QAogj

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-11-19T19:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T20:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Jazz Showcase (November 19, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79409 79409-20298397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students in the Department of Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation created videos for this virtual concert.

watch at http://myumi.ch/gjbOY

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:15:05 -0500 2020-11-19T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Collection Ensemble (November 20, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-20T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 25, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-25T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-25T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-27T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-28T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-11-29T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Visual Aids Day With(out) Art 2020: TRANSMISSIONS, Live Screening (November 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79625 79625-20432423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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December 1 marks World AIDS Day, as well as Day With(out) Art 2020, a yearly event presented by Visual AIDS marking the global impact of HIV/AIDS. Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. This year, Visual AIDS is presenting a series of short films titled TRANSMISSIONS, which will premiere on November 30 at 6pm EST as part of a special online screening event hosted by Visual AIDS. A live Q&A with the commissioned artists will follow the screening. Beginning December 1, the video program will be available to view online at visualaids.org/transmissions.

RSVP here to receive updates about the live event   ​ Then, consider submitting your own art to the SEC blog! You can relate your work to the topic of HIV/AIDS awareness in any way you see fit, but some prompts that you can use:
How does HIV/AIDS awareness and other public health issues affect various groups differently? How does the HIV/AIDS crisis continue internationally today or relate to other current public health issues? How has viewing the films in the TRANSMISSIONS series changed my personal view of HIV/AIDS? How do people reconcile with the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS diagnoses?
Your work can be in any artistic medium — painting, poetry, dance, collage, music, film, creative writing, sculpture, photography and more are all welcome. HOW TO SUBMIT:
Put your work together in an accessible digital file format — .pdf, .jpg, .png, .mov, .mp4, a website or Google Drive link. Send your submissions to ummastudentcouncil@umich.edu with your name and the title of the piece. (Optional) Include a short description of your piece as it relates to HIV/AIDS awareness or the films of TRANSMISSIONS series.
You can submit at any time beforehand, but please have all submissions in by Thursday, December 10th, at 5 pm EST. Any questions? Ask ummastudentcouncil@umich.edu!

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

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Other Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:15:25 -0500 2020-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-30T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
CALL FOR ART IN RESPONSE: DAY WITH(OUT) ART FILM SCREENING (December 1, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79626 79626-20432424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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December 1 marks World AIDS Day, as well as Day With(out) Art 2020, a yearly event presented by Visual AIDS marking the global impact of HIV/AIDS. Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. This year, Visual AIDS is presenting a series of short films titled TRANSMISSIONS, which, beginning on December 1, is available to view online at visualaids.org/transmissions.

After you watch the films, consider submitting your own art to the SEC blog! You can relate your work to the topic of HIV/AIDS awareness in any way you see fit, but some prompts that you can use:
How does HIV/AIDS awareness and other public health issues affect various groups differently? How does the HIV/AIDS crisis continue internationally today or relate to other current public health issues? How has viewing the films in the TRANSMISSIONS series changed my personal view of HIV/AIDS? How do people reconcile with the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS diagnoses?
Your work can be in any artistic medium — painting, poetry, dance, collage, music, film, creative writing, sculpture, photography and more are all welcome. HOW TO SUBMIT:
Put your work together in an accessible digital file format — .pdf, .jpg, .png, .mov, .mp4, a website or Google Drive link. Send your submissions to ummastudentcouncil@umich.edu with your name and the title of the piece. (Optional) Include a short description of your piece as it relates to HIV/AIDS awareness or the films of TRANSMISSIONS series.
Please have all submissions in by Thursday, December 10th, at 5 pm EST. Any questions? Ask ummastudentcouncil@umich.edu!

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

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Other Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:15:33 -0500 2020-12-01T00:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (December 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-01T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-02T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 3, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-03T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
CultureSource presents "Beyond Images: Representational Justice in the Arts" (December 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79563 79563-20382965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

egister here to participate. .

A conversation with Simone Eccleston, Director of Hip Hop and Contemporary Music at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

What does it take to work toward representational justice? And how do artists and arts workers carry forward this work? Inspired by the Vision & Justice volume of Aperture magazine, join us for an hour-long conversation with Simone Eccleston as we hear her insights and perspective on her role bringing hip hop and contemporary music to one of the largest arts institutions in the nation, and how investment in representation requires infrastructure and imagination for justice.

With responses from Yuval Sharon, Michigan Opera Theatre, Christina Olsen, UMMA (University of Michigan Museum of Art).

Moderated by: Omari Rush, CultureSource

This program is presented by CultureSource of Southeast Michigan with support from MASCO. For information about the online residency "Representational Justice and Hip Hop Culture with Simon Eccleston," please visit www.culturesource.org.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Dec 2020 18:15:24 -0500 2020-12-03T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Collection Ensemble (December 4, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-04T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
MT Ghostlight (December 4, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79532 79532-20353347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch Session THREE at http://myumi.ch/kxPgR

Department of Musical Theatre

3 unique performances on three nights.

In theatre tradition, a ghostlight—usually a single bulb—remains on an empty stage when a theatre goes dark, to appease the spirits. Faced with the near impossibility of putting on a fully-staged production during a pandemic, the Department of Musical Theatre has chosen to provide a new kind of ghostlight: an online-only revue of the best that the department has to offer.

This faculty-led, student-driven production will feature songs, skits, and dances directed, choreographed, performed, and in some cases written by students from across the Department Musical Theatre. From classics of musical theatre to pop, folk, and jazz, this revue has it all.

more information at http://myumi.ch/XeoQB

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:15:03 -0500 2020-12-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Collection Ensemble (December 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
The Michigan Pops Orchestra Presents: Quarantunes with Pops (December 5, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79720 79720-20462296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 5, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Activities Center

Led by Music Director Tal Benatar and Executive Director Jessica Wu, the Michigan Pops Orchestra presents “Quarantunes With Pops.” Finding inspiration in family, community, and nostalgia so important during these difficult times, “Quarantunes With Pops” is a show guaranteed to enchant and delight concert-viewers of all ages with its diverse repertoire, which includes music from La La Land, Pixar, Les Misérables, Studio Ghibli, and more.

We hope “Quarantunes With Pops” will lift your spirits, utilizing a unique combination of music, multimedia, antics, and special effects.
Tickets are FREE! Please visit our website, www.michiganpops.org, for the premiere, Saturday, December 5th, at 7 p.m. The concert video will be available to watch until December 19th!

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Performance Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:58:47 -0500 2020-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 2020-12-05T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Activities Center Performance Pops Quarantunes
Collection Ensemble (December 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 9, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-09T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Opera One-Acts (December 9, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79530 79530-20353345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PERFORMANCE LINK WILL BE POSTED BY DECEMBER 8, 2020

University Opera Theatre

ALL WOUNDS BLEED
Christopher Cerrone, Composer
Tony Asaro, Librettist
The first opera, ALL WOUNDS BLEED, is a re-telling of the myth of Echo & Narcissus in three scenes and an epilogue, composed by Pulitzer Prize finalist Christopher Cerrone with libretto by Tony Asaro. It features three vocalists–a soprano, a mezzo, and a tenor–as nymph Echo, goddess Hera, and self-adoring Narcissus respectively.

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DAUGHTERS OF THE BLOODY DUKE
Jake Runestad, Composer
David Johnston, librettist
DAUGHTERS OF THE BLOODY DUKE, is a dark comedic one-act opera written by Jake Runestad, in which Margot, the young daughter of the Bloody Duke of Ravenswood, must choose between love and the demands of her revenge-crazed family.

more information at http://myumi.ch/WwKqZ

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-12-09T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Collection Ensemble (December 10, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-10T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-11T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
MT Ghostlight (December 11, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79532 79532-20353348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch Session THREE at http://myumi.ch/kxPgR

Department of Musical Theatre

3 unique performances on three nights.

In theatre tradition, a ghostlight—usually a single bulb—remains on an empty stage when a theatre goes dark, to appease the spirits. Faced with the near impossibility of putting on a fully-staged production during a pandemic, the Department of Musical Theatre has chosen to provide a new kind of ghostlight: an online-only revue of the best that the department has to offer.

This faculty-led, student-driven production will feature songs, skits, and dances directed, choreographed, performed, and in some cases written by students from across the Department Musical Theatre. From classics of musical theatre to pop, folk, and jazz, this revue has it all.

more information at http://myumi.ch/XeoQB

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:15:03 -0500 2020-12-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Collection Ensemble (December 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-12T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
RC Chamber Musicians in Virtual Concert (December 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79812 79812-20501754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for musical performances by undergraduate students under the guidance of Katri Ervamaa (RC), Naki Sung-Kripfgans (RC) and Matt Albert (SMTD), featuring selections by Beethoven, Barber, Beach, Coleridge-Taylor, Dvorak, Mozart, Piazzolla, Reinecke, R.Schumann, Shostakovich and Tang.

Sign in with U-M credentials at https://umich.zoom.us/j/93557928922
Performances will be made available by request to Katri Ervamaa (kervamaa@umich.edu) via private link after the concert

Featuring performances by:
Anneke Benison
Carolyn Chen
Ryan Estmont
David Kim
Hannah Kim
Haejeong Lee
Isabel Lee
Katie Lee
Sonia Lee
Isabelle Lian
Mobin Mazloomian
Lakshmi Meyyappan
Therron Montgomery
Stephen Moss
Yashasvini Nannapuraju
Ever O'Donnell
Cassandra Prokopowicz
Daryna Pyrozhenko
Nikki Ratanapanichkich
Abigail Schneider
Jackson Schodowski
Nathaniel Sheehan
Sarah Suhal
Braden Thompson
Amy Wang
Xinyi Wang
Cielle Waters-Umfleet
Fangzhou Yu
Yulin Yun
Hannah Zhang
Yijia Zhang
Nicole Zukowski

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Performance Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:00:22 -0500 2020-12-13T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Performance Event poster
Collection Ensemble (December 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-15T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-15T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-16T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Proving Up (December 16, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79531 79531-20353346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch at http://myumi.ch/AxD4m

Missy Mazzoli, Composer
Royce Vavrek, librettist

University Opera Theatre & University Symphony Orchestra

Based on the short story by Karen Russell, Proving Up is an intimate and haunting look at the perils of the American Dream. Set in Nebraska in the 1870s at the height of the push west, a family of homesteaders struggles to meet the daunting requirements of the Homestead Act as they try “proving up” on their land claim. This atmospheric new chamber opera from composer Missy Mazzoli features a sparse cast and orchestra, and was selected as one of The New York Times’ Best Classical Music of 2018 selections.

more information at http://myumi.ch/DEojr

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:15:03 -0500 2020-12-16T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Stearns Collection Lecture: String and Wind Instruments of China, Xiao Dong Wei (December 16, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79346 79346-20280628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series

Xiao Dong Wei is a multi-instrumentalist and lecturer at the University of Michigan Residential College.



Watch at http://myumi.ch/BoRVq

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-12-16T20:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Collection Ensemble (December 17, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 17, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-17T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-17T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-18T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
MT Ghostlight (December 18, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79532 79532-20353349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch Session THREE at http://myumi.ch/kxPgR

Department of Musical Theatre

3 unique performances on three nights.

In theatre tradition, a ghostlight—usually a single bulb—remains on an empty stage when a theatre goes dark, to appease the spirits. Faced with the near impossibility of putting on a fully-staged production during a pandemic, the Department of Musical Theatre has chosen to provide a new kind of ghostlight: an online-only revue of the best that the department has to offer.

This faculty-led, student-driven production will feature songs, skits, and dances directed, choreographed, performed, and in some cases written by students from across the Department Musical Theatre. From classics of musical theatre to pop, folk, and jazz, this revue has it all.

more information at http://myumi.ch/XeoQB

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:15:03 -0500 2020-12-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Collection Ensemble (December 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-19T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-19T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-22T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-23T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-23T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-24T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-26T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-26T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-29T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-29T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 30, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-30T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
Collection Ensemble (December 31, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61790 61790-17071522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 31, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

EXTRAORDINARY ARTISTS, STARTLING WORKS OF ART, PUT IN DIALOG FOR YOU TO DISCOVER 

Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American, European, African, and Asian art from across media, sampling the Museum's remarkable, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, and others, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed, but instead as an active, creative, sometimes startling source of material and ideas, open for debate and interpretation.

Read the exhibition press release here.

JOIN US FOR THE GRAND OPENING AT UMMA AFTER HOURS Tuesday, April 2 7–10 p.m.

Gallery talks, live music, and more! This is a free event, and all are welcome.

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:06 -0500 2020-12-31T11:00:00-05:00 2020-12-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/cube_2019_03_07_v01_wht_bg.jpg
MLK Day Circle of Unity (January 18, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80484 80484-20728302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

The Michigan Community Scholars Program will celebrate MLK and his legacy with the community at our 15th Annual Circle of Unity. Join hundreds of University and community participants via Zoom for this virtual event celebrating the life of Dr. King and his legacy of racial justice, nonviolence, and unity. All are welcome: students, staff, faculty, families, and children, as the audience is encouraged to participate as we honor Martin Luther King Jr. through song, dance, and spoken word. We will be joined by local musician favorites, Joe Reilly and Julie Beutel, in addition to performances by student musicians and spoken word artists. The event will also be streamed live to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/umichmcsp/

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:10:47 -0500 2021-01-18T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Livestream / Virtual Flier for event, with a photograph of a multiracial group of students clustered around a large image of Martin Luther King.
Free Screening of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (January 18, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80725 80725-20777540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Activities Center

On January 18th at 5:30 EST, M-Flicks will be hosting an event with Lionsgate to premiere an episode of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. Both Kelli Fannon and Sarah Manha, music consultants on numerous Lionsgate and Starz shows, from The Sound Club will be zooming in to participate in a panel after the event. The zoom link will be released shortly, so make sure to save the date.
"After an unusual event, whip-smart computer coder Zoey Clarke magically begins to hear people's innermost wants and desires through popular songs. Suddenly, strangers, friends, co-workers and family are unknowingly singing their feelings -- just to her. At first, Zoey questions her own sanity, but after some guidance from Mo, her musically attuned neighbor, and making a breakthrough with her ailing father, Zoey soon realizes this unwanted curse may just be an amazing and wonderful gift --as she now connects with the world like never before."

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Film Screening Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:12:18 -0500 2021-01-18T17:30:00-05:00 2021-01-18T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Activities Center Film Screening Zoey Screening
National Ringing for COVID-19 Victims (January 19, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80923 80923-20824849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) planning the events and activities surrounding the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has invited bells and bell towers across the nation to ring out together on January 19, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. Eastern.

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Performance Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:15:03 -0500 2021-01-19T17:30:00-05:00 2021-01-19T17:45:00-05:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Burton Memorial Tower
Stearns Collection Lecture - River City Drumbeat - Film Screening and Q&A (January 19, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80506 80506-20732240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

A free screening (zoom webinar) of the critically acclaimed documentary film,
RIVER CITY DRUMBEAT, followed by Q&A with director Marlon Johnson.


Wednesday, January 19, 2021 via Zoom Webinar (EDT, US and Canada):
     7:00pm - Introduction with Stearns Collection director Joseph Gascho and Marlon Johnson
     7:10pm - Screening begins
     8:45pm - Live Q&A with film director Marlon Johnson

RIVER CITY DRUMBEAT is a powerful story of music, love, and legacies set in the American South. Edward "Nardie" White devoted his life to leading the African-American drum corps he co-founded with Zambia Nkrumah in Louisville, Kentucky three decades ago. Together they inspired youth from their West Louisville neighborhood to thrive by connecting them with the art and cultural traditions of their African ancestors. Now Albert Shumake, whose destiny was shaped by the drumline, must take up the mantle for the next generation. Meanwhile, student drummers Imani, Jailen, and Emily navigate adolescence and life changes. RIVER CITY DRUMBEAT follows this creative community of mentors, parents, and youth making their way in a world where systemic forces raise obstacles to fulfilling their dreams.
Register at https://myumi.ch/4pj47

This is the inaugural event for the Stearns Collection Winter 2021 Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series.  The film screening will be held through Zoom Webinar Video Conferencing. All Zoom webinar registrants will receive a video streaming link for independent viewing of the film from January 18 through January 30, 2021.  We recommended viewing the filming during the webinar, but one may view the film before or after the webinar and still join in the Q&A at 8:45pm on Jan. 19. The streaming link is for the personal use of the webinar attendees and may not be shared with others. This film is protected by copyright law.
Inquiries may be directed to stearnsoutreach@umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:15:03 -0500 2021-01-19T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
"The Sound of Us" Watch Party with Prof. Eugene Rogers (January 22, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81018 81018-20834761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

On January 22, as part of NAMM Believe in Music Week, Yamaha Entertainment Group will offer a sneak preview of “The Sound of Us,” a documentary directed by nine-time Emmy award-winning producer Chris Gero.

"The Sound of Us" illustrates, during this critical time in history, that music gives sound to hope and courage, allows us to grieve and be honest, and is the great, universal language that unites us all.

Prof. Eugene Rogers, current MM student and alumnus Julian Goods, U-M alumnus Teddy Gotfredson, and the U-M Men's Glee Club are featured in the documentary which highlighted the Glee Club's performance of "Seven Last Words of the Unarmed" by Joel Thompson.

Watch the trailer here: https://myumi.ch/ZQOYd

Interested in other NAMM Believe in Music Week events? You can attend additional conference events for free online at: https://attend.believeinmusic.tv

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:15:03 -0500 2021-01-22T18:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Global Connections: You Have To Give Something To Get Something! (January 28, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81217 81217-20873991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Session Blurb: Collaborators for nearly 20 years--Professor Michael Gould discusses the art of collaboration with Nadja Raszewski (Choreographer-Berlin, Germany) and Anders Åstrand (Musician/Composer-Stockholm, Sweden). How they built their working relationships and the resulting projects that have led them to creating art around the world.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:15:03 -0500 2021-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Performing the Moment | Performing the Movement (January 28, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80072 80072-20554879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: http://myumi.ch/0WyWG

Damon Locks will perform and speak about his work with Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project (PNAP) and the Black Monument Ensemble. The Prison and Neighborhood Art Project provides arts and humanities courses to men at the Stateville Maximum Security Prison, where Damon Locks works as an artist educator. In the Black Monument Ensemble, Damon Locks uses music and sound to connect the past and future of the civil rights movement.

Damon Locks is a Chicago-based visual artist, educator, vocalist/musician. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in fine arts. Since 2014 he has been working with Prisons and Neighborhood Arts Project at Stateville Correctional Center teaching art. He is a recipient of the Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Achievement Award in the Arts and the 2016 MAKER Grant. He operated as an Artist Mentor in the Chicago Artist Coalition program FIELD/WORK. In 2017 he became a Soros Justice Media Fellow. In 2019, he became a 3Arts Awardee. Currently, he works as an artist in residence as a part of the Museum of Contemporary Arts' SPACE Program, introducing civically engaged art into the curriculum at the high school, Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy.

In this new virtual series, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. Sessions will take place over Zoom and require advance registration. You can read about the panelists, register for these events, find recommended reading and resources and/or request recordings of past events at https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance.

If you require 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 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:18:25 -0500 2021-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 2021-01-28T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Damon Locks
SMTD Concerto Competition - Undergraduate Finals (January 29, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81250 81250-20879870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Piano Concerto no. 2 in C Minor, op. 18 (1901) Sergei Rachmaninoff
Moderato (1873–1943)
Adagio sostenuto
Allegro scherzando
Jacob Wang, piano
Yi-Hsuan Lee, piano

Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op. 24 (1947) Samuel Barber
(1910–1981)
Catherine Moss, voice
Joshua Marzan, piano

Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33 (1876) Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Theme (1840–1893)
Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3
Variation 4
Variation 5
Variation 6
Variation 7
Olivia Yelim Cho, cello
Bogdan Dulu, piano

Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939) Benjamin Britten
Fanfare (1913–1976)
Villes
Phrase
Antique
Royauté
Marine
Interlude
Being Beauteous
Parade
Départ
William Fishwick, voice
John Etsell, piano

Piano Concerto no. 1 in F-sharp Minor, op. 1 (1891, rev. 1917) Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vivace (1873–1943)
Andante
Allegro vivace
Sua Lee, piano
Jingjing Wan, piano

Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Orchestra (1949, revised 1953) Ingolf Dahl
Recitative (1912–1970)
Passacaglia
Rondo alla marcia
Brian Kachur, saxophone
Liz Ames, piano

Flute Concerto, CNW 42 (1926) Carl Nielsen
Allegro moderato (1865–1931)
Allegretto un poco—Adagio ma non troppo—Allegretto—Poco adagio—Tempo di marcia
Danielle Kim, flute
Liz Ames, piano

Cello Concerto in A Minor, op. 129 (1850) Robert Schumann Nicht zu schnell (1810–1856)
Langsam
Sehr Lebhaft
Dana Rath, cello
Narae Joo, piano

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:04 -0500 2021-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Masters Recital: Hohner Porter, percussion (January 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81375 81375-20889799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Lang - Anvil Chorus; Hurel - Loops IV; Wharton - Deus Ex Metronome; O’Halloran - how sweet the thought of you as infinite; Lamb - Post-Lightened; Funkhouser - To Bathe in Light; Recreational Bewaa of the Dagarti - Yaa Yaa Kole.

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Performance Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:04 -0500 2021-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
SMTD Concerto Competition - Graduate Finals (January 30, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81249 81249-20879869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 30, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Piano Concerto no. 3 in D Minor, op. 30 (1909) Sergei Rachmaninoff
Allegro ma non tanto (1873–1943)
Intermezzo: Adagio
Finale: Alla breve Ji-Hyang Gwak, piano
Mi-Eun Kim, piano

Violin Concerto no. 3, op. 61 (1879–1880) Camille Saint-Saëns
Allegro non troppo (1835–1921)
Andantino quasi allegretto
Molto moderato e maestoso
Hee Yeon Kim, violin
Polina Khatsko,piano

Legacy (2015) Oscar Navarro (b. 1981)
Jillian Kouzel oboe
Liz Ames, piano

Songs and Dances of Death (1875) Modest Mussorgsky
Lullaby (1839–1881)
Serenade
Trepak
The Field Marshal (1877)
Alan Williams, voice
Taylor Flowers, piano

Piano Concerto no. 4 in G Major, op. 58 (1805–1806) Ludwig van Beethoven Allegro moderato (1770–1827)
Andante con moto
Rondo: Vivace
Yi-Hsuan Lee, piano
Hsin-Yi Huang, piano

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1938–1939) William Walton Andante tranquillo (1902–1983)
Presto capriccioso alla napolitana
Vivace
Danqi Zeng, violin
Benjamin Gittens, piano

Alto Saxophone Concerto in E-flat Major, op. 109 (1934) Alexander Glazounov (1865–1936)
Valentin Kovalev, saxophone
Liz Ames, piano

An Sylvia, D. 891 Franz Schubert
Du bist die Ruh, D. 776 (1797–1828)
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118
Erlkönig, D. 328
Christine Amon, voice
Natalie Sherer, piano

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:04 -0500 2021-01-30T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
"A Conversation with Thought Leader and Changemaker LaTosha Brown!" (February 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81376 81376-20889800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Black History Month Opening Event!

Ms. Brown is an award-winning thought leader, social strategist, philanthropic consultant, jazz singer, and catalyst for change. As co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund, Ms. Brown is dedicated to increasing the political power of Black people. She has more than twenty years of experience working in the non-profit and philanthropy sectors on issues related to political empowerment, social justice, economic development, leadership development, wealth creation, and civil rights. A regular contributor to The New York Times and a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Ms. Brown is a recipient of the 2010 White House Champions of Change Award, 2006 Spirit of Democracy Award, and the Louis Burnham Award for Human Rights. She will share thoughts about, “The Death of Democracy: Voter Suppression in the 21st Century,” and she will discuss how storytelling and strategic messaging can build political power. The role of women, young voters, and people of color in American politics will be a key area of discussion.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:04 -0500 2021-02-01T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-01T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Musicology Lecture: National Anthems: Signifiers of Dominance and Oppression (February 5, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81218 81218-20873992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

On Jan 6, 2021, insurrectionists sang the Star Spangled Banner and waved the confederate flag while violently invading The Capitol. Contrast this with moments in 2016, when African American NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick  knelt quietly and peacefully during the Star-Spangled Banner. These gestures, both related to the National anthem, varied widely in action, perception, and meaning. These differences, rooted in the racial and racist history of the United States, draw attention to the very notion of a national anthem. Long before Kaepernick, Black folks in the United States have been questioning this song that was written by a slave-holding anti-abolitionist. These same questions should apply in African countries as well. How have national anthems been used to reinforce or dilute national pride in African countries.  Often these songs are sonic reflections of the colonized past, a great irony given the troubled relationships between these countries and their colonial “masters.” This presentation explores the complex relationship between official national anthems and black folks, and considers alternative songs that Africans and African Americans have embraced as a way of authoring their own sense of national identity and challenging enduring systems of oppression.
 
Speaker Bio:
Stephanie Shonekan is Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Science and Professor of Music at the University of Missouri. In 2003, she earned a PhD in Ethnomusicology and Folklore with a minor in African American Studies from Indiana University. From 2003-2011, she taught at Columbia College Chicago, and from 2011-2018, she was a faculty member at the University of Missouri in the Black Studies Department and the School of Music. From 2015-2018, she was chair of the Department of Black Studies at the University of Missouri.  From 2018-2020, she was professor and chair of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Shonekan's dual heritage combining West Africa with the West Indies allows her to straddle the black world comfortably.  She has published articles on afrobeat, Fela Kuti, as well as American and Nigerian hip-hop, and American country music.  Her publications explore the nexus where identity, history, culture and music meet. Her books include  The Life of Camilla Williams, African American Classical Singer and Opera Diva (2011), Soul, Country, and the USA: Race and Identity in American Music Culture (2015), Black Lives Matter & Music (2018), and Black Resistance in the Americas (2018).

Register at https://myumi.ch/pd5PQ

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:15:04 -0500 2021-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Concert Band - Livestream (February 8, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81767 81767-20953359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Courtney Snyder, conductor
Kim Fleming and Joan Wiesczcyk, graduate conductors
Ruby Pérez, narrator

Hahn - La Bal de Beatrice d’Este
Broughton - Little Acorns
Henning - Out in the Sun
Revueltas - Tres Sonetos
David - Zephyrus

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:15:04 -0500 2021-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Imprint Series: Let the Record Show Vol II (February 11, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81945 81945-20994859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

University of Michigan Composition Department (2020-2021)

Newly-recorded works by SMTD composers:

MATTHEW OSTERHOLZER (BM Composition)
Should The Stars Align (2020) — for Solo Piano
Matthew Osterholzer, piano

ZAN HUANG (BM Composition)
The April Song Cycle (selections from) (2020) — for Bass and Piano
Jack Morin, bass — Karalyn Schubring, piano

INDIGO KNECHT (MM Composition)
an ode to the developing tubist (2020) — for Tuba and Live Electronics
Indigo Knecht, tuba

DAVIS REINHART (BM Composition)
What It Means to Be A Kid (2020)
Craig Swink, clarinet — Clayon Farmer, piano

GABRIEL FYNSK (BM Composition)
Maiden Stone (2020)
Justine Sedky, flute — Juliet Schlefer, soprano — Emmei Ji, clarinet — Michelle Ho, bass clarinet — Megan Rohrer, violin 1 — Malhar Kute, violin 2 — Ryan McDonald, viola — Hanna Rumora, cello

Video editing and production by Alfredo Cabrera — audio editing by Kevin Bourassa — interstitial music by Grey Grant

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:15:06 -0500 2021-02-11T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
The Materiality of *Kunshan qiang:* The Emergence of a “Refined” *(Ya)* Singing Style of *Chuanqi* in Late Ming China (February 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81080 81080-20846539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

*Chuanqi* is a dramatic genre comprising dialogue and arias that was prevalent in late Ming and early Qing China. Sheng's work investigates the interface between page and performance to explore the relations among literary texts, musical sound, and staging practices embedded in the genre, thereby decentering the hegemony of text in the study of *chuanqi.*

For this talk, Sheng will focus on *Kunshan qiang,* a specific singing style, and analyze how it became the refined, orthodox voice of *chuanqi* in early modern China. The discussion will center on a series of material practices paramount to the reform of Kunshan qiang, including the introduction of melodic instruments, the construction of a new stylized language for singing through typographical inventions, and the promotion of bodily techniques of rhythm. Such analyses of material practices cast light on a late Ming ecology of music in which the human body was deployed together with instruments and writing/printing technology as an essential tool for the practice, reproduction, and circulation of music.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96135507409

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:46:36 -0500 2021-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual
James Ehnes - violin master class (February 12, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81785 81785-20959273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

James Ehnes has established himself as one of the most sought-after violinists on the international stage. Gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity, serene lyricism and an unfaltering musicality, Ehnes is a favourite guest of many of the world’s most respected conductors including Ashkenazy, Alsop, Sir Andrew Davis, Denève, Elder, Ivan Fischer, Gardner, Paavo Järvi, Mena, Noseda, Robertson and Runnicles. Ehnes’s long list of orchestras includes, amongst others, the Boston, Chicago, London, NHK and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, the Los Angeles, New York, Munich and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Philharmonia and DSO Berlin orchestras.

Recent orchestral highlights include the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with Noseda, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig with Shelley, San Francisco Symphony with Janowski, Frankfurt Radio Symphony with Orozco-Estrada, London Symphony with Harding, and Munich Philharmonic with van Zweden, as well as his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Lincoln Center in spring 2019. In 2019/20, Ehnes is Artist in Residence with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, which includes performances of the Elgar Concerto with Luisi, a play/direct programme leg by Ehnes, and a chamber music programme. In 2017, Ehnes premiered the Aaron-Jay Kernis Violin Concerto with the Toronto, Seattle and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, and gave further performances of the piece with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Alongside his concerto work, James Ehnes maintains a busy recital schedule. He performs regularly at the Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Center Chicago, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Ravinia, Montreux, Chaise-Dieu, the White Nights Festival in St Petersburg, Verbier Festival, Festival de Pâques in Aix, and in 2018 he undertook a recital tour to the Far East, including performances in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. As part of the Beethoven celebrations, Ehnes has been invited to perform the complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas at the Wigmore Hall throughout 2019/20. Elsewhere Ehnes performs the Beethoven Sonatas at Dresden Music Festival, Prague Spring Festival, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, at Aspen Music Festival (as part of a multi-year residency) and at Bravo Vail Festival during his residency week also including the Violin Concerto and Triple Concerto with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Runnicles. In 2016, Ehnes undertook a cross-Canada recital tour, performing in each of the country’s provinces and territories, to celebrate his 40th birthday.

As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with leading artists such as Andsnes, Capucon, Lortie, Lugansky, Yo-Yo Ma, Tamestit, Vogler and Yuja Wang. In 2010, he formally established the Ehnes Quartet, with whom he has performed in Europe at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris and Théâtre du Jeu de Paume in Aix, amongst others. Ehnes is the Artistic Director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society.
Ehnes has an extensive discography and has won many awards for his recordings, including a Grammy Award (2019) for his live recording of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Violin Concerto with the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot, and a Gramophone Award for his live recording of the Elgar Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis. His recording of the Korngold, Barber and Walton violin concertos won a Grammy Award for ‘Best Instrumental Soloist Performance’ and a JUNO award for ‘Best Classical Album of the Year’. His recording of the Paganini Caprices earned him universal praise, with Diapason writing of the disc, “Ehnes confirms the predictions of Erick Friedman, eminent student of Heifetz: ‘there is only one like him born every hundred years’.” Recent releases include sonatas by Beethoven, Debussy, Elgar and Respighi, and concertos by Walton, Britten, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Strauss, as well as the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Manze, which was released in October 2017 (Onyx Classics).

Ehnes began violin studies at the age of five, became a protégé of the noted Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin aged nine, and made his orchestra debut with L’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal aged 13. He continued his studies with Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School of Music and The Juilliard School, winning the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music upon his graduation in 1997. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2010 was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. Ehnes was awarded the 2017 Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Instrumentalist category.

James Ehnes plays the “Marsick” Stradivarius of 1715.

presented in partnership with UMS

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:15:05 -0500 2021-02-12T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-12T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Symphony Band - Livestream (February 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81783 81783-20959271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Haithcock, conductor

PROGRAM
Rossini - Overture to the Barber of Seville
Orff - “Three Dances and Final Scene” from Der Mond
Read Thomas - Selen-Moon Chariot Rituals
Daugherty - Timbuktuba
Cuong - Bull’s-Eye
Haufrecht - Symphony for Brass and Timpani

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:15:04 -0500 2021-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
UMMA Jukebox (February 15, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81337 81337-20887794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 12:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Welcome to UMMA Jukebox! A community collaborative playlist in conjunction with our two newest works on display!

Do you listen to music while you study? When you go about your chores? Does certain music help you focus more while others help you relax? Dig into these two new works, Sophie/Elsie and Behind the Walls, with some accompanying music contributed by UMMA staff and the greater UM community. You can listen to the Spotify playlists to help you reflect on these art works and perhaps view them in a different perspective. For example, how do you feel about Sophie/Elsie when listening to classical music, say Stravinsky, versus "Like a Girl" by Lizzo? 

If looking at these works makes you think of a song, contribute to our growing playlist by following this link.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:15:49 -0500 2021-02-15T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T23:55:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Museum of Art
Organ Improvisation Master Class: Bruce Neswick (February 15, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81786 81786-20959274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bruce Neswick
Canon for Music, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-02-15T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Stearns Collection Lecture: “Devils, Secret Societies, and Musical Instruments in Liberia” - Lester Monts (February 16, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79347 79347-20280629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series

Lester Monts is Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Michigan

The ethnomusicological literature on music in West Africa contains several landmark studies on the performance practice, history, and function of musical instruments. The 21-string kora (Senegambia), the conical-shaped drum djembe (Senegal ), the talking drums atumpan (Ghana), and the hour-glass shaped dundun (Nigeria) and others garner particular appeal and interest among organologists.  The Stearns Collection contains specimens of each of these instruments.  

This lecture focuses on the musical instruments commonly used by ethnic groups in northern Liberia and Southern Sierra Leone, namely, the Mende, Gola, Dei, and Vai.  The data used in this presentation draws on more than 40 years of research among the Vai people of Liberia, highlighting the role of musical instruments in numerous cultural contexts, including their vital importance in masquerade performance, recreational dance, and the enactment of rituals and ceremonies of two pan-ethnic secret societies: Poro (Ɓɛli) for men and Sande (Bundu) for women.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/yK51W

During each webinar, attendees may submit written questions which may be discussed in the Q&A period following the presentation. For more information, please contact stearnsoutreach@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:03 -0500 2021-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-16T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
CCPS Lecture. Free Improvisation and Jazz Avant-Garde in Poland: From Tomasz Stańko to Mikołaj Trzaska (February 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80117 80117-20564736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Maciej Lewenstein will present a historical review of free improvisation and jazz avant-garde, starting from the 1960s, as well as the early attempts to play free jazz by Tomasz Stańko or Leszek Żᶕdło. He will comment on the fusion-dominated 1970s and 1980s, then focus on the yass movement of the 1990s. The important role of the late Andrzej “Major” Przybielski will be stressed. He will sketch the present free improvisation scene in Poland, and describe a few of the leading figures of this scene: Mikołaj Trzaska, Rafał Mazur, Jerzy Mazzoll, Wacław Zimpel, Piotr Mełech, Paulina Owczarek, and more. The lecture will be illustrated with numerous musical examples. Maciej Lewenstein will also spend some time discussing the general condition of the Polish avant-garde: jazz clubs, concerts and festivals, as well as record labels.

Maciej Lewenstein graduated at Warsaw University in 1978 and joined the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He finished his PhD in Essen in 1983 and habilitated in 1986 in Warsaw. He was postdoc at Universitaet Essen, at Harvard University, at Commisariat a l'Énergie Atomique in Saclay, and at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder. He was on faculty in Saclay (1995-98) and Leibniz University Hannover (1998-2005). In 2005, he moved to Catalonia as ICREA Professor to lead the quantum optics theory program at the Institut de Ciències Fotòniques in Castelldefels. His interests include quantum optics, quantum physics, quantum information, many body theory, and more. His other passion is jazz, and he is the author of *Polish Jazz Recordings and Beyond*.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at Register at http://myumi.ch/nboXz.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:56:23 -0500 2021-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Maciej Lewenstein
The Adjacent Possible (February 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81593 81593-20929545@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

ebruary 18, 8 p.m. EST.

The Adjacent Possible mixes music performance, storytelling, and technology that converts the audience into an orchestra. The project culminates in the recording of an orchestral piece - the first and last ever to be performed. No musical experience required. We don’t use your video or audio so there is no need to get dressed up for us :-)

You will want to have:
A laptop or desktop (the experience is not yet available on mobile) Headphones: the best you have. You will not need a microphone A solid internet connection… with Zoom installed
...and a quiet place to get lost together.

This event is hosted by the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would assist your full participation in this event, please please email Briannon Cierpilowski: briannon@umich.edu, to share your accommodation requirements.

UMMA performances of The Adjacent Possible are in conjunction with the current exclusive series being presented by CSUF Grand Central Art Center.

More information available at .

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Performance Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:16:28 -0500 2021-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Global Connections: The life of an International Pianist: from Seoul to Berlin to Bloomington, Indiana, and back again (February 18, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81520 81520-20905712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Professor Hie-Yon Choi (Seoul National University) discusses her life and education as a musician with close ties to Asia, Europe, and the United States, in terms of education, opportunity, activity, and being part of shaping the world stage. Moderated by Christopher Harding, Professor and Chair of Piano, University of Michigan.

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Performance Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-02-18T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Musicology Distinguished Lecture: Revolution, Trauma, and a Transition to Nowhere: Thoughts on Russian Music and Culture post-1991 - Prof. Marina Frolova-Walker (February 19, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82028 82028-21008731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

In the studies of post-Soviet space the term “transition to democracy”, so prevalent in the 1990s, has met an early demise. The optimistic narrative of transition first became impatient with the slowness and hesitancy of the process, then suffered from the uncertainty of the moving or even vanishing target, and was finally abandoned by scholars as it became clear that the post-Soviet nation-states were taking shape in some yet unprecedented forms that required unbiased analysis. 
 
The place of optimistic teleologies has been taken by hindsight-driven narratives portraying the collapse of the Soviet Union as a traumatogenic event and the culture of the succeeding period as trapped in the state of the ‘post-’. In this paper I will take post-socialist theories of cultural trauma as my starting point and test them against a number of case studies, both musical and more broadly cultural. I will then consider the double-edged nature of the “post-traumatic” narrative which can be utilised by both the supporters and opponents of the current political order in Russia, and the difficulties this creates for Western observers. 


Marina Frolova-Walker FBA is Professor of Music History at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and currently Professor of Music at Gresham College, London. She is the author of Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin (Yale, 2007), Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics (Yale, 2016), and co-author (with Jonathan Walker) of Music and Soviet Power, 1917–32 (Boydell, 2012).  In 2015 she was awarded the Edward J. Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association for ‘outstanding contribution to musicology’.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
CCPS Concert. Avant Jazz from Poland: Free Improvisations by Mikołaj Trzaska and Macio Moretti (February 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80778 80778-20791330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Copernicus Center for Polish Studies presents a concert streamed from Warsaw featuring two of the finest innovative progressive musicians in Poland, which has become one of the most important centers of jazz in Europe. This concert was organized to illustrate the lecture by Maciej Lewenstein on “Free Improvisation and Jazz Avant-Garde in Poland: From Tomasz Stańko to Mikołaj Trzaska,” that will be broadcast on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 12 PM. Trzaska first performed in Ann Arbor in 2010 in a duet with the magnificent trombonist Steve Swell at the Kerrytown Concert House, and returned in 2013 as the leader of Shofar, a trio that reinvents traditional Jewish music though free improvisation.

Mikołaj Trzaska—saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and film score composer—grew out of yass, a socio-artistic movement that brazenly challenged the rigidity of the institutionalized mainstream Polish jazz environment during the 1980s and 1990s. Free from any specific doctrine and open to all forms of artistic expression, the musicians successfully impacted the jazz scene in the country. Trzaska was the co-founder of the most important yass group—the celebrated Miłość ensemble that lasted, off and on, from 1988 to 2002, and the of the equally creative Łoskot, founded in 1993. Although the impetus of yass faded away many years ago, Trzaska's status remained and he went on to become one of the main leaders of the Polish scene, working as well with the top tier of international improvisors. After the yass period, he recorded a few concentrated quieter albums with the renowned Oleś brothers bass/drum duo. Trzaska has accompanied poets such as Marcin Świetlicki and Jurii Andrukhovych, and created musical-literary projects with the renowned Polish writer/journalist/critic Andrzej Stasiuk. Today, he works with many groups, including his own international trio Volumen, Ken Vandermark’s Resonance Ensemble, Magic with Joe McPhee, and the unique trio Shofar with Raphael Rogiński and Macio Moretti, which explores unique new improvisational perspectives on traditional Jewish music. He has also established himself as a major award-winning film music composer, working with the director Wojciech Smarzowski. But his main focus of self-realization is grounded in radical free jazz: he travels the world cooperating with some of the world’s major improvisors such as Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, and Ken Vandermark.

Macio Moretti is a drummer and bassist (and occasionally a poor singer and even poorer guitar player) who works in many genres, from avant metal to jazz. He has founded or co-founded so many musical groups and organizations that it is practically impossible to count them, but bands such as Mitch & Mitch and LXMP, as well as the recording label Lado ABC, might be the most important of them. With these aforementioned bands he has had the pleasure of recording and releasing records with major artists such as Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Felix Kubin, Clayton Thomas, Kassin, and Zbigniew Wodecki. Besides all this, he is also an award-winning graphic designer, the father of two, a bread maniac, and has absolutely no interest in motorization.

This concert is presented in partnership with the Michigan Theater, and registration is available at https://www.michtheater.org/avant-jazz-poland/

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Performance Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:10:21 -0500 2021-02-20T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Performance Avant Jazz from Poland
CCPS Concert. Avant Jazz from Poland: Free Improvisations by Mikołaj Trzaska and Macio Moretti (February 21, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80778 80778-20791331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Copernicus Center for Polish Studies presents a concert streamed from Warsaw featuring two of the finest innovative progressive musicians in Poland, which has become one of the most important centers of jazz in Europe. This concert was organized to illustrate the lecture by Maciej Lewenstein on “Free Improvisation and Jazz Avant-Garde in Poland: From Tomasz Stańko to Mikołaj Trzaska,” that will be broadcast on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 12 PM. Trzaska first performed in Ann Arbor in 2010 in a duet with the magnificent trombonist Steve Swell at the Kerrytown Concert House, and returned in 2013 as the leader of Shofar, a trio that reinvents traditional Jewish music though free improvisation.

Mikołaj Trzaska—saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and film score composer—grew out of yass, a socio-artistic movement that brazenly challenged the rigidity of the institutionalized mainstream Polish jazz environment during the 1980s and 1990s. Free from any specific doctrine and open to all forms of artistic expression, the musicians successfully impacted the jazz scene in the country. Trzaska was the co-founder of the most important yass group—the celebrated Miłość ensemble that lasted, off and on, from 1988 to 2002, and the of the equally creative Łoskot, founded in 1993. Although the impetus of yass faded away many years ago, Trzaska's status remained and he went on to become one of the main leaders of the Polish scene, working as well with the top tier of international improvisors. After the yass period, he recorded a few concentrated quieter albums with the renowned Oleś brothers bass/drum duo. Trzaska has accompanied poets such as Marcin Świetlicki and Jurii Andrukhovych, and created musical-literary projects with the renowned Polish writer/journalist/critic Andrzej Stasiuk. Today, he works with many groups, including his own international trio Volumen, Ken Vandermark’s Resonance Ensemble, Magic with Joe McPhee, and the unique trio Shofar with Raphael Rogiński and Macio Moretti, which explores unique new improvisational perspectives on traditional Jewish music. He has also established himself as a major award-winning film music composer, working with the director Wojciech Smarzowski. But his main focus of self-realization is grounded in radical free jazz: he travels the world cooperating with some of the world’s major improvisors such as Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, and Ken Vandermark.

Macio Moretti is a drummer and bassist (and occasionally a poor singer and even poorer guitar player) who works in many genres, from avant metal to jazz. He has founded or co-founded so many musical groups and organizations that it is practically impossible to count them, but bands such as Mitch & Mitch and LXMP, as well as the recording label Lado ABC, might be the most important of them. With these aforementioned bands he has had the pleasure of recording and releasing records with major artists such as Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Felix Kubin, Clayton Thomas, Kassin, and Zbigniew Wodecki. Besides all this, he is also an award-winning graphic designer, the father of two, a bread maniac, and has absolutely no interest in motorization.

This concert is presented in partnership with the Michigan Theater, and registration is available at https://www.michtheater.org/avant-jazz-poland/

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Performance Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:10:21 -0500 2021-02-21T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Performance Avant Jazz from Poland
The Adjacent Possible (February 21, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81594 81594-20929546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

ebruary 18, 8 p.m. EST.

The Adjacent Possible mixes music performance, storytelling, and technology that converts the audience into an orchestra. The project culminates in the recording of an orchestral piece - the first and last ever to be performed. No musical experience required. We don’t use your video or audio so there is no need to get dressed up for us :-)

You will want to have:
A laptop or desktop (the experience is not yet available on mobile) Headphones: the best you have. You will not need a microphone A solid internet connection… with Zoom installed
...and a quiet place to get lost together.

This event is hosted by the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would assist your full participation in this event, please please email Briannon Cierpilowski: briannon@umich.edu, to share your accommodation requirements.

UMMA performances of The Adjacent Possible are in conjunction with the current exclusive series being presented by CSUF Grand Central Art Center.

More information available at .

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Performance Sun, 21 Feb 2021 18:16:25 -0500 2021-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Say Her Name...Too! (February 22, 2021 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82381 82381-21088317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 5:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Say Her Name…Too

This will be a discussion moderated by Dr. Antonio C. Cuyler and Professor Lawrence M. Jackson about the spaces that lie between Dance and Social Activism. This event will feature a screen dance viewing of Dance artist Lawrence M. Jackson’s work, “Say Her Name…Too." A short screen dance, this work will combine cinematic elements with choreography and explores the lives of 5 Black women who died at the hands of law enforcement. The goal of this work is to bring awareness to the often-invisible names and stories of Black women and girls who have been victimized by racist police violence. Black women have been killed by the police at alarming rates, though we rarely hear their names. Knowing their names is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for lifting up their stories which in turn provides a much clearer view of the wide-ranging circumstances that make Black women’s bodies disproportionately subject to police violence. To lift up their stories, and illuminate police violence against Black women, we need to know who they are, how they lived, and why they suffered at the hands of police…this film aims to do just that…

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:46:01 -0500 2021-02-22T17:15:00-05:00 2021-02-22T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Say Her Name…Too
Science as Art Faculty Panel Discussion & Awards Ceremony (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82385 82385-21090310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: ArtsEngine

Join a panel of faculty in this discussion of the intersection of science and art. Immediately following the panel, award winners will be announced for the 2021 Science as Art competition. You can view submissions and vote for peoples' choice award through 2:15pm on Friday, February 26, 2021.

Eleni Gourgou, Assistant Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
Brad Smith, Associate Dean for Academic Programs; Professor, School of Art & Design; Research Professor, Department of Radiology
Matthew Thompson, Assistant Professor of Music; Associate Faculty, UM Center for Japanese Studies
Moderated by Deb Mexicotte, Managing Director, ArtsEngine

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:46:00 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location ArtsEngine Livestream / Virtual Science as Art
Contemporary Directions Ensemble (February 26, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81976 81976-21000811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adrian Slywotzky, conductor

Clarice Assad: Pole to Pole
Alejandro Viñao: "d'après Khan Variations" from Cuaderno del Ritmo
Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 147

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Symphony Band Watch Party (February 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82320 82320-21068593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Tune in for a collection of impactful past performances by the U-M Symphony Band that celebrates the excellence of Black musicians and pays tribute to influential music, leaders, and Black history.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:15:05 -0500 2021-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Michigan's Got Talent! (March 3, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82157 82157-21044622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MUSIC Matters

MUSIC Matters presents Michigan's Got Talent: A Talent Show Celebrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Arts! Tune in to watch U-M students from across campus show off their unique talents. Following the event, YOU will have a chance to vote for your favorite acts to receive various superlative rewards and cash/prizes!

MUSIC Matters also wishes to address the lack of diversity and equitable representation in the performing arts and entertainment industries through our event. We will do this not only through the performances themselves, but also from appearances by our event host and various cameos from well-respected members of the entertainment industry and U-M community.

We are excited to announce that the event will feature appearances from the music group Two Friends, Vice President of Student Life Martino Harmon, two-time Olympic athlete Tiffany Porter, and more!

Tune in to Michigan's Got Talent on YouTube March 3rd at 8pm EST. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to parniam@umich.edu.

tinyurl.com/michigansgottalent

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Performance Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:09:20 -0500 2021-03-03T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location MUSIC Matters Performance Flyer for Michigan's Got Talent on March 3rd at 8pm
Global Connections: Finding Your Own Voice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance University of Limerick, Ireland (March 4, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82071 82071-21016990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Session Guest: Sandra Joyce, director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick
Faculty Lead: Marie McCarthy

In this session, a number of speakers will talk about their connections with the unique entity that is the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Dr. Marie McCarthy will discuss her relationship with the Academy over many years; Academy Director Dr Sandra Joyce will outline how the Academy was founded and developed; and graduates Dr RAS Mikey Courtney and Katie Geringer will talk about their experiences of being students at the Academy. Dr Joyce will discuss the diverse programs offered, highlighting the fact that they are grounded in local strengths but globally relevant. The vibrant environment will be showcased, focusing on the ethos of the Academy which equally honors all arts practices, as well as performance and academic study. Above all, the Academy focuses on helping all students to find their own voice, whatever the genre of music and dance they are interested in exploring.

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Performance Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-03-04T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
CSAS Book Talk | The Globally Familiar Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi (March 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80586 80586-20759739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

In The Globally Familiar Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan traces how the rapid development of information and communication technologies in India has created opportunities for young people to creatively explore their gendered, classed, and racialized subjectivities in and through transnational media worlds. His ethnography focuses on a group of diverse young, working-class men in Delhi as they take up the African diasporic aesthetics and creative practices of hip hop. Dattatreyan shows how these aspiring b-boys, MCs, and graffiti writers fashion themselves and their city through their online and offline experimentations with hip hop, thereby accessing new social, economic, and political opportunities while acting as consumers, producers, and influencers in global circuits of capitalism. In so doing, Dattatreyan outlines how the hopeful, creative, and vitally embodied practices of hip hop offer an alternative narrative of urban place-making in "digital" India.

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwscuyvqjIsE9aUrJqJmL3Sy-hBlM9endk1

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:22:59 -0500 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS Book Talk | The Globally: Familiar Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi
Nuclear Engineering and Classical Music (March 6, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82752 82752-21171614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Join Conductor Chelsea Gallo and Composer Corey Dundee in a chamber orchestra performance that explores the intersection of classical music and nuclear engineering. Professor Todd Allen, Chair of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, has included this performance in his class with the help of UMS. Students will discuss the performance and how the arts can inform their own discipline.

Livestream info below.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:43:52 -0500 2021-03-06T13:30:00-05:00 2021-03-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Livestream / Virtual Sound Waves
Student Recital: Olivia Taylor, violin (March 6, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82831 82831-21181572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM:

The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Violin Sonata in G Minor - Claude Debussy
Violin Partita no. 2 in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:15:08 -0500 2021-03-06T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
University Symphony Orchestra (March 7, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82792 82792-21179560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Kenneth Kiesler and Adrian Slywotzky, conductors

Dukas: Fanfare pour précéder La Péri
Strauss: Serenade Op. 7
Mozart: Adagio from Serenade in E-flat, K. 375
Glazunov: Saxophone Concerto
   Valentin Kovalev, 2021 Graduate Concerto Competition Winner
Milhaud: La création du monde
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 "Paris"

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Organ Improvisation Master Class: Bruce Neswick (March 8, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81786 81786-20959275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bruce Neswick
Canon for Music, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-03-08T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Global Connections: Community Ensembles and Music Learning in Europe (March 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81378 81378-20889802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Amateur community ensembles are a pillar of European culture. Profs. John Pasquale and Richard Frey talk to Christoph Breithack (conductor of the Musikverein Freiburg, St. Georgen in Freiburg, Germany), Dr. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant (Executive Director of the World Youth and Adult Wind Orchestras in Schladming, Austria), and Dr. Ulrich Nachbauer (President of the Berner Kammerchor in Bern, Switzerland) about the role, significance, and identity of community music making in Europe.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:05 -0500 2021-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Detroit, Motown, and the Civil Rights Movement (March 11, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82790 82790-21179559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for a lecture and discussion with distinguished acoustic bassist, Marion Hayden on Thursday, March 11th at 6 pm EST!

The city of Detroit's rich musical history has forever shaped popular music in the United States. The migration of jazz musicians to Detroit in the 1920s and 1930s caused the area to develop its own thriving music scene. By the 1960s, the area became known for the first black owned record label, Motown. Today, the name "Motown" is synonymous with funk and soul music.

Detroit was home to some of the most important events of the 1960s and 1970s Civil Rights Movement. Consequently, jazz musicians in Detroit have witnessed music's role in shaping race relations within the city and across the United States.

Join us for this lecture and discussion, where Marion Hayden will tell of her experiences as a bassist in Detroit. With her deep knowledge of the city's musical history, learn how Motown and jazz were musical vanguards in altering to the social landscape of Detroit, Michigan, and the United States.


>> About Marion

Born in Detroit, MI, a crucible of jazz, Marion Hayden is one of the nation’s finest proponents of the acoustic bass. Mentored by master trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, Hayden began performing jazz at the age of 15. She has performed with such diverse luminaries as Bobby McFerrin, Nancy Wilson, Geri Allen, Regina Carter, Steve Turre, Lester Bowie, David Allen Grier, James Carter, Dorothy Donegan, Joe Williams, Lionel Hampton, Frank Morgan, Jon Hendricks, Hank Jones, Bobby Hutcherson, Larry Willis, Vanessa Rubin, Sheila Jordan, Mulgrew Miller, Annie Ross and many others. She is a co-founder of the touring jazz ensemble Straight Ahead- the first all woman jazz ensemble signed to Atlantic Records. She is a member of the Detroit International Jazz Festival All-Star Ambassadors touring ensemble.

Widely recognized as a standard bearer of culture and artistic history, Hayden received a 2019 Art X Grant and a Creators of Culture Grant for original musical works. She was Artistic Director for a 2018 Knight Arts Foundation Grant encouraging young women in jazz. In 2016 Hayden was honored for her work as a performer and educator with the prestigious Kresge Artist Fellowship- a 1 year fellowship and grant award given an elite group of creative artists. She was the recipient of a 2016 Jazz Hero Award.- a national award given by the Jazz Journalists Association- recognizing people who have made a significant contribution through their artistry and community engagement.

As an arts advocate, Hayden has served as Grant Panelist for the Detroit Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, Art-Ops and the Highland Park Cultural Commission. She also serves as panelist or consultant for South Arts, Detroit Sound Conservancy, Charles Wright Museum of African American History, the Kresge Foundation, Jazz Education Network and Society of the Culturally Concerned.

A passionate advocate for youth music education, Hayden teaches for Michigan State Univ. Community Music School Detroit and is an educator in residence for the Detroit Jazz Festival. As well, she conducts the Next Gen Ensemble- a performing group of some of the areas best young musicians. Hayden holds faculty positions in the Jazz Studies Departments at University of Michigan and Oakland University. Hayden is the Bass instructor for the Geri Allen Jazz Camp, Newark, NJ. , and in 2021 will join the faculty at Centrum Jazz, Port Townsend, WA.

“It has been a privilege and a gift to learn and experience music in Detroit. The informal music education here is both thorough and rigorous and includes arranging, composing and production. The mentoring I received from the men and women in this music community was critical to my development as a creative artist. It instilled in me a sense of deep reverence and respect for music traditions, but also a fearlessness and openness about bringing those traditions forward in an original and authentic way. I express this creative openness through the projects and collaborations I engage in.”

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:08:09 -0500 2021-03-11T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Lecture / Discussion Flier with Hayden photo
Symphony Band - Livestream (March 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81784 81784-20959272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Haithcock, conductor

PROGRAM
Gabrielli - Aria de Bagatallia
Michalsky - Fanfare after Seventeenth Century Dances
Varese - Integrales
Bidenbender - Schism
Dooley - Point Blank
Weill - Three Penny Opera Suite

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:15:04 -0500 2021-03-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Symphony Band - Livestream (March 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82523 82523-21116074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Haithcock, conductor

Andre Gabrielli, Aria del Bagatallia
Donal Michalsky, Fanfare after Seventeenth Century Dances 
David Biedenbender, Schism
Paul Dooley, Point Blank
Edgar Varese, Integrales
Kurt Weill, ThreePenny Opera Suite

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:15:05 -0500 2021-03-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Senior Recital: Natalie Myers, horn (March 13, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82918 82918-21221268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Glière - Horn Concerto in B-flat Major, op. 91; Gomez - La Calavera; Ries - Introduction and Rondo, op. 113, no. 2; Gillie - Horn Quartet no. 1.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-03-13T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Faculty Recital: Matthew Bengtson, piano (March 13, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81766 81766-20953358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Iberia, Book 1 and 2 Isaac Albeniz
12 Estudios ritmicos y sonoros (world premiere) Roberto Sierra

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Performance Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-03-13T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Concert Band (March 14, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82456 82456-21102175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 14, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

University of Michigan Concert Band Chamber Winds
Courtney Snyder, conductor
Richard Frey and John Pasquale, guest conductors

Join the Concert Band for a evening of music for chamber winds from Renaissance through modern day. A Gabrieli canzon performed by consorts of brass, double reeds, and saxophones. Ravel's Mother Goose Suite transcribed for chamber winds by UM faculty Richard Frey. Gounod’s icon symphony for flute and harmonie ensemble. Krenek’s three parody marches from the early 1900s and a brand new piece for winds and fixed media inspired by the debacle of a presidential debate this past fall and composed for the UM Concert band by UM student composer Stephen Mitton.

Program: Gabrieli - Canzon Noni Toni a 12; Gounod - Petite Symphonie; Ravel - Mother Goose Suite; Mitton - Talking Points; Krenek - Drei Lustige Marche.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Second Dissertation Recital: Chao Gao, collaborative piano (March 16, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83038 83038-21259008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Dietrich, Schumann & Brahms - F.A.E. Sonata; Brahms - Zwei Gesänge, op. 91; Mahler - Fünf Lieder.

watch online at https://myumi.ch/lx2N7

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Stearns Collection Lecture: Instruments of Africa II: Uganda and East Africa, Charles Lwanga (March 16, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79348 79348-20280630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series

Charles Lwanga is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/r8Bbe

During each webinar, attendees may submit written questions which may be discussed in the Q&A period following the presentation. For more information, please contact stearnsoutreach@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:04 -0500 2021-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 18, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-18T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
RC Intros: Interested in learning more about the Residential College? (March 18, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81793 81793-20959284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

RC Intros: Interested in learning more about the Residential College?

Curious what an RC class is like? Hear directly from RC faculty and ask questions about the RC academic experience!

Thursday, March 18, 5-6pm
Register at myumi.ch/zxXEx

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Reception / Open House Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:44:15 -0500 2021-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Reception / Open House RC Intros flier
Campus Chords: Devotional Harmonies and the Dissonance of Difference in the University of Michigan’s Songbook (March 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82900 82900-21211383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Learn the origin stories of Michigan's traditional songs, as well as the social functions of songs and singing on campus. Discover how racism and sexism are heard in American popular music and how it echoes in the University's own historical songbook today. In this Making Michigan presentation Mark Clague, Associate Dean of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, will discuss these and other aspects of the U-M songbook, illustrating points with music recorded for his class on this same topic and for this occasion itself. The session is sponsored by the Bentley Historical Library and will be moderated by Gary Krenz.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:14:05 -0500 2021-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Event poster with picture of Mark Clague
Creative Arts Orchestra (March 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82776 82776-21175584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Mark Kirschenmann, director

watch online at https://myumi.ch/yKjwn

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Trombone Studio Recital (March 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82774 82774-21175582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor David Jackson

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
CSEAS Lecture Series. Tradition Never Dies: “Lắng nghe,” Active Listening, and Activism in Contemporary Vietnam (March 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80035 80035-20548979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This event is free and open to the public; please register at https://bit.ly/3lzI791
Friday, March 19, 2021, 12 PM EST

Tradition always seems to be dying, or so say “the experts.” Scholars at academic conferences, diplomats at UNESCO, and government policy makers have belabored tradition’s downfall for decades as evidence of the necessity of intervention. Frequently, however, these interventions hide ulterior motives—for scholars, codifying traditions advance their careers; for diplomats, supporting the documentation of art bolsters tradition for consumption; for policy makers, selectively supporting certain practices over others serves nation-building strategies. These experts also tend to ignore the voices of practitioners themselves. Had these experts listened, they would have understood that tradition remains firmly tied to everyday life and even activism.

In this presentation, I examine how “tradition” lives a vibrant life in contemporary Vietnam and suggest that we retire the trite adage that tradition is dying. Tradition is tested, certainly, and frequently is reframed and revised; indeed, one genre of southern Vietnamese opera, cải lương, includes renovation (cải) in the genre name. Television shows, films, and popular music present many examples of how tradition does not simply inspire but is actively practiced and carried forward. In the television show Tài tử miệt vườn (Countryside Amateur), singers of southern Vietnamese traditional music from all walks of life receive praise from a panel of established singers and teach traditional music to viewers within a flashy gameshow format. In the film Song Lang (2018), director Leon Le tells a love story of two men in the 1980s and uses sounds of cải lương to give voice to LGBT voices on screen. In the music video for “BET ON ME” by the rapper Suboi, sounds of the đàn tranh zither mix with a Beyoncé-like delivery of lyrics to advocate for particular kinds of listening in an increasingly modernized Vietnam. All of these examples advance activism through tradition for forms of living to which we need to listen more closely.

Dr. Alexander M. Cannon is Lecturer in Music at the University of Birmingham (UK), where he teaches classes in ethnomusicology, critical musicology, and the traditional musics of Asia. He further serves as Co-editor of Ethnomusicology Forum, the journal of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE), and sits on the BFE Committee. He formerly served as Book Reviews Editor for the Yearbook of Traditional Music and as Secretary of the Board for the Society for Asian Music. An alumnus of the University of Michigan, he holds an MA and PhD in ethnomusicology from the School of Music, Theatre and Dance, where he wrote a dissertation on the southern Vietnamese traditional music genre đờn ca tài tử (music of talented amateurs). He recently completed a book manuscript titled “A Music Without a Name”: Creativity from Seed to Ruin in Southern Vietnam, and also has an article forthcoming in the journal Ethnomusicology. He has previously published in Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Forum, Asian Music, and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:41:03 -0500 2021-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Masters Recital: Tiani Grace Butts, violin (March 20, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83037 83037-21259007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Bologne - Sonata no. 3 in G Minor; Fauré - Violin Sonata no. 1 in A Major, op. 13; Montgomery - Rhapsody no. 1 for solo violin; Hubay - Carmen Fantasie Brilliante.

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-03-20T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Horn Studio Recital (March 20, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83040 83040-21259010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor Adam Unsworth

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-03-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Peter Nichols, timpani & percussion (March 20, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83039 83039-21259009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Etezady - Boomslang; Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens; Deyoe - Fantasia IIIb; Oliverio - Dantreume Leu Pliska (”Pre-recollections of War”).

watch online at https://myumi.ch/GkgxP

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Global Connections: Summer Program in India- 2020 - the Cyber Version (March 25, 2021 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82072 82072-21016991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Session Guest: Dr. Rekha Shanmukha, Director, Vivekananda Institute of Indian Studies, Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement

Faculty Lead: Steve Rush

Rekha Shanmukha is the director of the Vivekananda Institute of Indian Studies, based in Mysore, India. VIIS has hosted the “Summer Program in India: Music/Dance/Yoga” with students from SMTD, since 2008. She is a dentist by profession, and is the main coordinator for many programs from all over the world, that intersect in Mysore, India to learn about everything from development to NGO management and Indian singing.

watch online at https://myumi.ch/4pQ5X

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-03-25T08:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 25, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Trombone Ensemble (March 25, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82772 82772-21175580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

David Jackson, conductor

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
CWPS 20th // Alumni *in Conversation* (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82314 82314-21066624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/lxAoG

In March 2001, the University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies celebrated its grand opening, inviting the community to participate in an evening of lectures, performances and food at the International Institute. This month, the Center begins the celebration of the 20th anniversary with a virtual panel discussion featuring three alumni of our graduate programs, who represent the diverse disciplinary fields, research interests and life work of our community. Each panelist will speak briefly about their current work, including fresh insights into the field of Performance Studies and ethnography, and then there will be a Q&A.

Mike Rahfaldt (PhD, Ethnomusicology ‘07) is the Executive Director of Children’s Radio Foundation, where he oversees the international operations from Cape Town, South Africa. Before joining the Children’s Radio Foundation in 2006, Michal taught media and anthropology at the University of Cape Town. As a journalist, he has contributed to Public Radio International, BBC World Service, NPR, and the New York Times.

Lani Teves (PhD, American Culture ‘12) is an Associate Professor in Women’s Studies at University of Hawaiʻi. She has written about Hawaiian hip-hop, film, and sexuality in the Pacific. She specializes in theorizing alternate forms of Kanaka Maoli gender performance and recognition politics. Her approach is informed by Indigenous feminist methodologies and ʻŌiwi epistemologies. Teves is the author of *Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance *(UNC Press 2018).

Masimba Hwati (MFA, Art, ‘19) is a multidisciplinary artist working in the intersections of sculpture video performance and sound. Hwati explores the transformation and evolution of knowledge systems that are indigenous to his own background whilst experimenting with the symbolism and perceptions attached to cultural objects, expressed as an art movement known as "The Energy of Objects". His work has been shown in Germany, France, Canada, London, the US, Australia, and Southern Africa. In 2015, he represented Zimbabwe at the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale in Italy.

If you require 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:47:57 -0500 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion CWPS Alumni Flyer
​Ayoinmotion = Music to move you! (March 26, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82756 82756-21173592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

register here.

Wind down your week with the funky afrobeats of Ayoinmotion and chat about his music, his time at U-M, and his activism on important issues like #BLM and #EndSARS.

Pulsating  Afrobeats, hip-hop, spoken-word, a hard-driving band, and dancers make Ayoinmotion in concert a captivating experience. Essence magazine said the Nigeria-born performer and U-M alumni creates “unforgettable music that leaves a lasting impression on any audience.” He has made his name opening for such superstars as Davido, Teni The Entertainer and Talib Kweli, electrifying audiences at the Apollo Theater, collaborating with Apple, headlining Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concerts and was recently spotlighted by the GRAMMYs. A powerful artist passionately committed to social justice & activism, Ayoinmotion reflects his inspiring life story into a unique, adventurous, and vibrant sound. 

Live Q&A with Ayoinmotion at 4:30 p.m. followed by his performance.

This event will be livestreamed on YouTube. If you would like to receive a reminder, please register here.

This program is organized and presented by the African Graduate Student Association and UMMA with support from the African Studies Center.

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

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Performance Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:15:40 -0400 2021-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Chamber Music Master Class: Mark Steinberg (March 27, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83036 83036-21259006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

watch online at https://myumi.ch/yKBwR

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:04 -0400 2021-03-27T11:30:00-04:00 2021-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
TEDxUofM 2021 Conference: Ignite (March 27, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82449 82449-21100195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: TEDxUofM

SIGN UP FOR ZOOM LINK HERE: https://www.universe.com/tedxuofm2021

Ignite plays on the idea of rising from the ashes: the chance to destroy existing norms and create new ones. To us, Ignite represents our hope for a brighter future. We have the power to ignite whatever we so choose within ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities—it all starts with one idea worth spreading.

This year's conference will feature 6 amazing TEDx Talks, engaging performers, and interactive learning activities. We will be revealing our exciting lineup of speakers on tedxuofm.com and our social media links throughout February and March!

TEDxUofM: Ignite will be hosted via Zoom. Sign up for a FREE ticket through Universe! https://www.universe.com/tedxuofm2021

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:59:03 -0500 2021-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location TEDxUofM Livestream / Virtual Conference Logo
Violin Studio Recital (March 27, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83041 83041-21259011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor Danielle Belen

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Saxophone Studio Recital (March 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82773 82773-21175581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor Timothy McAllister

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Oboe Studio Recital (April 1, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82775 82775-21175583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor Nancy Ambrose King

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
CWPS 20th // Faculty *in Conversation* (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82694 82694-21161627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/4p3pN

In March 2001, the University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) celebrated its grand opening, inviting the community to participate in an evening of lectures, performances and food at the International Institute. As part of the ongoing virtual celebration of this milestone, CWPS invites four esteemed U-M faculty members to reflect on the Center’s founding, its contributions to increasing the diversity of arts and research at University of Michigan, and to imagine the possibilities for the next twenty years.

Kwasi Ampene, Associate Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, is a scholar and practitioner of ethnomusicology. He specializes in the rich musical traditions of the Akan people of West Africa. His research interests include the performing arts as individually and collectively created and experienced, the performance of historical and social memory, politics, ideologies, values, and religious philosophy in Akan court music. Professor Ampene’s latest book, *Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool*, was published on June 30th, 2020 by Routledge. Dr. Ampene was Director of the Center for World Performance Studies from 2011-2016.

Lester Monts is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Music (ethnomusicology). From 1993 until 2014, he served as senior vice provost for academic affairs and senior counselor to the president for the arts, diversity, and undergraduate affairs. He is currently director of the Michigan Musical Heritage Project that seeks to capture on film the state’s folk, ethnic, and immigrant music traditions. Monts received a bachelor’s degree in music education from Arkansas Polytechnic College, a master’s degree in trumpet performance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a doctorate in ethnomusicology from the University of Minnesota.

Mbala Nkanga is an Associate Professor of Theatre and head of the minor in Global Theatre & Ethnic Studies. A native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he taught directing, scenography and dramaturgical analysis at the Institut National des Arts in Kinshasa (DRC) beginning in 1979. He has directed plays in various professional companies there, such as Bernard Dadié’s Béatrice du Congo, Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests, and Réné Kalisky’s Aïda Vaincue. Dr. Nkanga received his PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and has led the Center for World Performance Studies graduate seminar since 1999.

Robin Wilson is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan, on the faculty since 1995, and is best known as a founding member of New York’s Urban Bush Women. In 1995, she was awarded a New York Performance Award for the collective work of the Urban Bush Women from 1984-1994. Her studio teaching is informed by years of study in various mid-twentieth century modern dance and Afro-Caribbean folkloric dance techniques. She performed in New York for more than a decade with such choreographers as Dianne McIntyre, Kevin Wynn, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Professor Wilson served on the Center for World Performance Studies faculty advisory committee for over a decade.

If you require 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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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:46:38 -0500 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion CWPS 20
Going for Baroque (April 6, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79953 79953-20517560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The pun is old and often used but it makes for a good title: “GOING FOR BAROQUE”. The great triumvirate of composers during this musical period all born in the year 1685, is Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti and we hear their music often. However, this time was particularly rich in composers.

Instructor Louis Nagel will spend some time looking at other giants of the Baroque as well as the works of these three titans. Such composers as Frescobaldi, Dowland, Couperin, and Telemann deserve attention as they wrote some remarkably beautiful and forward looking music. He plans to illustrate at the piano as well as show on line (or if we are back to real live performances by late spring, on a “boom box”) samples of these composers. They are worthy of our attention and in many cases wrote astonishingly beautiful music.

The study group will meet Tuesdays from April 6 through April 27. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 11 Dec 2020 18:00:14 -0500 2021-04-06T13:30:00-04:00 2021-04-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement (April 6, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82975 82975-21233240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/E30vd

In this virtual series, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. For this session, Dr. Ramón H. Rivera-Servera will discuss his recent research in Puerto Rico, including an innovative outreach initiative to assist Puerto Rican artists in the aftermath of hurricanes Maria and Irma. Participants can learn about this research ahead of the session by visiting the Mellon Foundation blog: https://mellon.org/shared-experiences-blog/after-storm/

Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is chair of the Department of Performance Studies and the Department of Theatre in the School of Communication at Northwestern University, and was recently appointed as the next dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on 20th and 21st Century performance in North America and the Caribbean with special emphasis on the ways categories of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are negotiated across national borders through migratory circuits of circulation and exchange. His work documents a wide array of performance practices ranging from theatre and concert dance to social dance, popular music, fashion, and speech.

He is author of *Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics* (University of Michigan Press, 2012), a study of the role performance played in the development of Latina/o queer publics in the United States from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s.

He is currently completing a book manuscript, *Reggaetón’s Queer Turn: Sexuality, Abstraction, and Contemporary Art in the Circum-Caribbean*, which pursues feminist and queer uptakes of the popular music and dance cultures of reggaetón in circum-Caribbean contemporary art to theorize the role of black aesthetics in the sexual cultural politics of the Spanish speaking Caribbean and its diaspora. He is also conducting fieldwork and archival research towards two other projects: *Exhibiting Performance: Race, Museum Cultures, and the Live Event*, which looks at the ways race has been collected and exhibited in North America and the Caribbean since the mid-1990s and *Choreographing the Latina/o Post-Modern: Puerto Rican Moves in the New York Dance Avant-Garde*, a cultural history of Puerto Rican participation in the New York City experimental dance scene since the 1980s.

If you require 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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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:09:33 -0500 2021-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Rivera-Servera Headshot
A Week in London: Diving into the CoLab Festival at Trinity Laban Conservatoire (April 8, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82210 82210-21054510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Session Guest: Hannah Dickinson, Head Of Student Recruitment And International Relations, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Faculty Lead: Jonathan Kuuskoski (he/his)

For two weeks every February, Trinity Laban’s usual creative atmosphere gets supercharged. There are no lectures, no classes, no assignments. That’s because it’s time for CoLab, their eccentric two‑week festival of creativity and innovation. For the 2021 CoLab, 10 SMTD students spent a week at Trinity Laban working alongside students to devise and perform interdisciplinary works through the city of London. Join SMTD faculty supervisor Jonathan Kuuskoski and a member of the Trinity Laban team to learn more about the CoLab experience, understand how SMTD students are selected for this opportunity, and share our hopes for what SMTD participation might look like in the February 2022.

watch online at https://myumi.ch/4pQ5X

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-04-08T10:30:00-04:00 2021-04-08T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Symphony Band (April 8, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83042 83042-21259012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Haithcock, conductor

A Renaissance Set
Antoine Bonelli, “Toccatta” from Il primo libro de Ricercari et Canzoni
Samuel Scheidt, “Galliard battaglia” from Ludi Musici

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimento in E-flat, K.166

David Gillingham, Serenade for Winds and Percussion 

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Notturno

Rob Smith, Catalytic Concerto

Evan Chambers, Crazed for the Flame, chamber winds version, premiere performance

watch online at https://myumi.ch/yK1g3

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Ken Fischer and Wynton Marsalis: Everybody In, Nobody Out (April 9, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83246 83246-21322431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Exploring community connection through the performing arts, UMS President Emeritus Ken Fischer and jazz musician Wynton Marsalis come together in a conversation moderated by Lisa Richards Toney, president and CEO of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals.

Marsalis wrote the introduction to Fischer's book, Everybody in, Nobody Out (Michigan Publishing, 2020), which offers a reflection on the power of the performing arts to engage and enrich communities — not by handing down cultural enrichment from on high, but by meeting communities where they live and helping them preserve cultural heritage, incubate talent, and find ways to make community voices heard. In this talk, Fischer and Marsalis will also discuss the important relationship between presenter and artist in moving the artist's work forward.

Ken Fischer is President Emeritus of the University Musical Society (UMS) of the University of Michigan (U-M), a position he held from June 1, 1987 to June 30, 2017. UMS, an independent multidisciplinary performing arts presenter with a long and deep affiliation with U-M, is in the center of the Ann Arbor campus and offers 60-90 concerts each season, performed in up to nine University and community venues. On September 10, 2015, Fischer accepted the 2014 National Medal of Arts on behalf of UMS from President Obama at the White House. UMS is the first university presenter to receive the National Medal of Arts, which is the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government. Under Fischer’s leadership UMS greatly expanded and diversified its programming and its audiences; deepened its engagement with the University and southeast Michigan communities; created exemplary partnerships with leading corporations, arts organizations, educational institutions, and community organizations; and received significant endowment grants awarded by the leading foundations in the arts. In December 2019, Fischer received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan.

Wynton Marsalis is a world-renowned trumpeter, bandleader and composer, and a leading advocate of American culture. He presently serves as Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and Director of Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12, entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and soon thereafter joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He recorded more than 103 jazz and classical recordings, which have won nine GRAMMY® awards. In 1983, he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz GRAMMYs® in the same year, repeating the distinction the following year. Today, Wynton is the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards® in five consecutive years (1983-1987). In 1997, Wynton became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer in Music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields. Marsalis has received honorary doctorates from over 25 of America’s top academic institutions including Columbia, Harvard, Howard, Princeton and Yale. In 2001, he was appointed Messenger of Peace by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In 2005 Wynton received The National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States government.

Lisa Richards Toney is the President & CEO of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals. Richards Toney brings more than 20 years of experience leading a range of small and large arts and humanities organizations, managing change and building stability. Most recently she served as the Executive Director of the Abramson Scholarship Foundation, and prior to that, as the Interim Executive Director and Deputy Director of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She was also the first Executive Director of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy and Director of Literature to Life for The American Place Theatre. She currently serves on the boards of Performing Arts Alliance and Mosaic Theatre Company of DC, co-chair of the Jack and Jill DC Chapter Jumoke Black History Festival, and on the Advisory Board of the American University Graduate Program in Arts Administration. She holds an M.A. in educational theater from NYU with coursework in arts administration and a B.A. as a presidential scholar from Spelman College.

This event is co-presented by PBS Books and Detroit Public Television, with support from UMS and the Association of Performing Arts Professionals.

How to WatchAll events will be webcast on Fridays at 8pm (ET) at http://pennystampsevents.org and https://dptv.org/pennystamps. Join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

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Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

 

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Ken-and-Wynton_1920x980.jpg
Stearns Collection Lecture: Sound the Alarm! The Trumpet as Symbol and Messenger, Kris Kwapis (April 13, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79407 79407-20298395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series.

Kris Kwapis is trumpeter and lecturer at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University.

Watch online at http://myumi.ch/2DN9v

During each webinar, attendees may submit written questions which may be discussed in the Q&A period following the presentation. For more information, please contact stearnsoutreach@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:04 -0400 2021-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Global Connections: An Investigation into How to Bring the Traditional Rituals of Tujia and Miao Chinese Ethnic Minorities to Contemporary Society through Theatre and Performance (April 15, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82073 82073-21016992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Session Guest: Jay Peng Zhang, vocalist, choreographer, Professor- Art College, Shanghai University of Sport, Hong Kong
Faculty Lead: Amy Chavasse

Folk singer and modern dancer, Jay Peng Zhang, is from the Tujia and Miao ethnic minority groups of Western Hunan Province. Jay’s research maintains a focus on rituals and their inspirational role in his contemporary practice. Culturally rooted songs and traditions from his native place Yongshun (Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Western Hunan) form the core of his work. Jay will share his research through a performative talk including movement and songs from Miao and Tujia minorities as well as wearing the traditional attire he inherited from his grandmother. As one of the few remaining practitioners of traditional Tujia songs and aware of the recent policies of tourism and entertainment, Jay raises questions about authenticity and the rapidly changing conditions of Miao and Tujia minorities in China today. Peng Zhang will share his research in song, performed live via ZOOM, and provide context for his examination of these cultural artifacts in his lecture. Videos and images from his home land in Western Hunan will amplify the exchange.

watch online at https://myumi.ch/4pQ5X

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-04-15T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Lyric Swap (April 15, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83334 83334-21344235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts Engage!, a group of staff and faculty at U-M dedicated to student engagement in the arts, is organizing the event Lyric Swap for the series Something Silly. This events will combine the arts and humor for an evening of creativity and laughter!

Lyric Swap
Thursday, April 15, 8pm EST

This event will be hosted by Arts at Michigan's Arts Ambassadors and will feature student performers singing popular songs with new lyrics taken from the live audience!

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:59:42 -0400 2021-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Livestream / Virtual Something Silly - Lyric Swap
RC Chamber Musicians in Virtual Concert (April 18, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83664 83664-21452163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 18, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Save the date for RC chamber musicians streaming from the Keene Theater on April 18th at 3pm! Broadcast will include both pre-recorded and live performances of music by Hisaishi, Piazzolla, Schubert, Coleridge-Taylor, Dohnanyi and others, including the Kodaly Intermezzo as played here by Carolyn, Sarah and Sonia!

Performers:

Anneke Benison
Carolyn Chen
Yingxiao Chen
Katri Ervamaa
Ryan Estmond
Lailah Fritz
Hannah Kim
Haejeong Lee
Isabel Lee
Sonia Lee
Isabelle Lian
Lakshmi Meyyappan
Mobin Mazloomian
Catherine Moore
Stephen Moss
Yashasvini Nannapuraju
Ever O'Donnell
Cassandra Prokopowicz
Nikki Ratanapanichkich
Abigail Schneider
Jackson Schodowski
Ethan Stancroff
Sarah Sukal
Kelley Sweitzer,
William Townsend
Amy Wang
Cielle Waters-Umfleet
Sevrin Williams
Ed Wu
Fangzhou Yu
Yulin Yu
Nicole Zukowski

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:47:00 -0400 2021-04-18T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Livestream / Virtual Event Flyer
Collage 44: A Virtual Experience (April 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83785 83785-21514755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

WATCH ONLINE at https://myumi.ch/qgEKe

It’s the biggest event of the SMTD year—the annual Collage Concert! And this year Collage is taking on a new, virtual form.

For the past 43 years, SMTD students from across all disciplines have joined together to perform for sold-out crowds in the historic Hill Auditorium in this monumental showcase of the best that the School of Music, Theatre & Dance has to offer.

Join us on Sunday, April 18 at 8 p.m. on the SMTD YouTube channel as we present “Collage 44: A Virtual Concert Experience,” featuring performances by the Symphony Band, The University Symphony Orchestra, the cast of the opera Proving Up, the Musical Theatre Class of 2024, and so much more.

No ticket needed—this year’s performance is completely free.

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Livestream / Virtual Sat, 17 Apr 2021 10:04:32 -0400 2021-04-18T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-18T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Collage logo
The Human Voice in Virtual Concert (April 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83620 83620-21438457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Enjoy fabulous performances by students from Dr. Jennifer Goltz-Taylor's Residential College Human Voice class from the comfort of your couch!

Listen to lovingly crafted, thoughtfully delivered songs from Western classical repertoire, the Duke Ellington songbook, and contemporary popular music.

Don't miss this one-time streaming concert. Register to attend at https://myumi.ch/zx93x

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Performance Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:14:35 -0400 2021-04-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-25T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Performance Flier
SMTD Commencement (April 30, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83877 83877-21583170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 30, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

HAIL to the Class of 2021! Premiere of the SMTD Virtual Commencement.

The video of the ceremony will be available at myumi.ch/SMTDCelebrates after the end of the premiere for on-demand viewing.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-04-30T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
9th Annual Shirley Verrett Award Ceremony (May 12, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82944 82944-21227213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Please note the change in date. RSVP online here: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/9th-annual-shirley-verrett-award-ceremony-2

The University of Michigan Women of Color in the Academy Project will present its 9th Annual Shirley Verrett Award to Professor of Music (Voice), Daniel Washington, on May 12, 2021.

Professor Washington is being recognized for his exemplary leadership and advocacy on behalf of diverse students and faculty artists at U-M. In addition, we are celebrating his innovation and impact on advancing diversity and inclusion at U-M and beyond through his performances and service.

Marcía Porter, Professor of Voice, Florida State University, and the cousin & former student of Shirley Verrett, will be a special guest performer!

The event is free and open to the public, however, registration is requested. Feel free to forward this invitation to those who may be interested in learning more about Shirley Verrett and Daniel Washington’s impact on academia and the Arts!

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:12:20 -0400 2021-05-12T17:00:00-04:00 2021-05-12T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Ceremony / Service Shirley Verrett Flyer
Shirley Verrett Award Ceremony (May 12, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83983 83983-21619297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The University of Michigan Women of Color in the Academy Project will present its 9th Annual Shirley Verrett Award to Professor of Music (Voice), Daniel Washington.

Professor Washington is being recognized for his exemplary leadership and advocacy on behalf of diverse students and faculty artists at U-M. In addition, we are celebrating his innovation and impact on advancing diversity and inclusion at U-M and beyond through his performances and service.

Marcía Porter, Professor of Voice, Florida State University, and the cousin & former student of Shirley Verrett, will be a special guest performer!

The event is free and open to the public, however, registration is requested. Register online at https://myumi.ch/4pAoR

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 06 May 2021 12:15:04 -0400 2021-05-12T17:00:00-04:00 2021-05-12T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Don Pasquale (May 14, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83908 83908-21611027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Link to be posted May 14

University Opera Theatre
University Symphony Orchestra

One of the three most popular Italian comic operas, DON PASQUALE tells the tale of an old, wealthy bachelor, his nephew, a fake wife, and the scheme to get him to support his nephew’s marriage to young widow Norina. Stage director Abbigail Cote and music director Kirk Severtson have set their production in the 1940s and filmed it live in the Power Center over two successive nights. In grand opera tradition, each performance features a different cast, and both casts’ performances will be available to view simultaneously.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 29 Apr 2021 12:15:03 -0400 2021-05-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
A Band for all Ages (May 19, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79828 79828-20507635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The Little Bands Music School is an innovative music program in which students learn music from a constructivist perspective. The program serves all ages including children as young as four and adults.

The foundation of the program is the multi-instrumental band program. Students join a 5-piece band. The instrumentation of the band is piano, guitar, bass, drums and voice. Students follow a detailed curriculum of songs and compose their own songs. Every student learns every song on every instrument. This method is designed to facilitate an environment in which students understand music from different perspectives, learn to collaborate, and experience what goes into a piece of music and how to compose their own music.

Teachers in Little Bands School work with private students and students in public and private schools in Southeast Michigan. We particularly love helping people who have always wanted to play an instrument and never had the chance.

Presenter Joshua Grekin is a musician and educator with experience teaching all ages and genres. Trained as a jazz trumpet player, he is also proficient on piano, guitar, bass, drums, and other orchestral instruments. Joshua has a BA in music from the Berklee College of Music, a Masters from the Manhattan School of Music and is currently finishing his PhD at Oakland University.

He is the creator and director of the Little Bands School, a tech-enabled music education program which offers a unique and innovative K-12 instrumental curriculum. A songwriter as well, Joshua writes music for musicals, film, commercials, bands, and the Little Bands School curriculum.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the presentation will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 10 Dec 2020 07:15:03 -0500 2021-05-19T15:30:00-04:00 2021-05-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Afternoons With OLLI
Godspell (May 21, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83914 83914-21612988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 21, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Broadway actor Telly Leung directs for the first time as he leads the Musical Theatre students in this fresh interpretation of this iconic show. Leung, who starred in Godspell during the 2011 revival, helped guide the cast in making the flexible script as relevant today as it was when Godspell first premiered in 1971. Featuring such showtune standards as “Turn Back, O Man,” “Day by Day,” and “Learn Your Lessons Well”, Godspell is a tribute to vaudeville, breathing parable, and protest piece all at the same time. Prepare ye for the Godspell you know and love from 50 years ago, but told through the perspective of these incredible young theater-makers.

Free reservations required, visit https://myumi.ch/ovE5m

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:15:04 -0400 2021-05-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Godspell (May 22, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83914 83914-21612989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 22, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Broadway actor Telly Leung directs for the first time as he leads the Musical Theatre students in this fresh interpretation of this iconic show. Leung, who starred in Godspell during the 2011 revival, helped guide the cast in making the flexible script as relevant today as it was when Godspell first premiered in 1971. Featuring such showtune standards as “Turn Back, O Man,” “Day by Day,” and “Learn Your Lessons Well”, Godspell is a tribute to vaudeville, breathing parable, and protest piece all at the same time. Prepare ye for the Godspell you know and love from 50 years ago, but told through the perspective of these incredible young theater-makers.

Free reservations required, visit https://myumi.ch/ovE5m

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:15:04 -0400 2021-05-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Godspell (May 23, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83914 83914-21612990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 23, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Broadway actor Telly Leung directs for the first time as he leads the Musical Theatre students in this fresh interpretation of this iconic show. Leung, who starred in Godspell during the 2011 revival, helped guide the cast in making the flexible script as relevant today as it was when Godspell first premiered in 1971. Featuring such showtune standards as “Turn Back, O Man,” “Day by Day,” and “Learn Your Lessons Well”, Godspell is a tribute to vaudeville, breathing parable, and protest piece all at the same time. Prepare ye for the Godspell you know and love from 50 years ago, but told through the perspective of these incredible young theater-makers.

Free reservations required, visit https://myumi.ch/ovE5m

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:15:04 -0400 2021-05-23T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Godspell (May 24, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83914 83914-21612991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 24, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Broadway actor Telly Leung directs for the first time as he leads the Musical Theatre students in this fresh interpretation of this iconic show. Leung, who starred in Godspell during the 2011 revival, helped guide the cast in making the flexible script as relevant today as it was when Godspell first premiered in 1971. Featuring such showtune standards as “Turn Back, O Man,” “Day by Day,” and “Learn Your Lessons Well”, Godspell is a tribute to vaudeville, breathing parable, and protest piece all at the same time. Prepare ye for the Godspell you know and love from 50 years ago, but told through the perspective of these incredible young theater-makers.

Free reservations required, visit https://myumi.ch/ovE5m

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:15:04 -0400 2021-05-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Godspell (May 25, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83914 83914-21612992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Musical Theatre

Broadway actor Telly Leung directs for the first time as he leads the Musical Theatre students in this fresh interpretation of this iconic show. Leung, who starred in Godspell during the 2011 revival, helped guide the cast in making the flexible script as relevant today as it was when Godspell first premiered in 1971. Featuring such showtune standards as “Turn Back, O Man,” “Day by Day,” and “Learn Your Lessons Well”, Godspell is a tribute to vaudeville, breathing parable, and protest piece all at the same time. Prepare ye for the Godspell you know and love from 50 years ago, but told through the perspective of these incredible young theater-makers.

Free reservations required, visit https://myumi.ch/ovE5m

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:15:04 -0400 2021-05-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual