Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. [CANCELLED]. CSEAS Performance. Nonthuk's Duty (April 9, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72445 72445-18007178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The Moradokmai Theatre Community of Thailand

A dramatization of the story of Nonthok, one of the most beloved episodes from the Thai epic, the Ramakien. Nonthok serves as foot-washer to the celestial angels, who tease him about his duties. He gets a magic finger from the higher God to protect himself, but ends up misusing it. The moral of the story: if everyone does their duty, the world will be safe and sound.

The Moradokmai Theatre Community is affiliated with a home school by the same name; the group is touring the U.S. to raise awareness of the needs of the elderly and disabled in its community.

Organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies; cosponsored by the Center for World Performance Studies and the Department of Asian Languages and Culture.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:29:27 -0400 2020-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Performance patajara_poster
Pass the Mic (November 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78533 78533-20060194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

University of Michigan undergraduates at the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses share original poetry, prose, and spoken word with other students.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:28:06 -0400 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Pass the Mic flyer featuring a hand holding mic emerging from laptop screen.
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
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
Gran Torino, Refugees, and Anti-Asian Racism: A Conversation with Actor Bee Vang (March 31, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83150 83150-21282829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Bee Vang, at 16, held the leading Hmong American role as Thao Vang Lor in Clint Eastwood’s 2008 film Gran Torino. He subsequently performed in independent films and on stage at Brown University where he received a 2016 liberal arts degree in international politics, media, and cultural studies. He also trained in China in techniques of Chinese opera and Japanese performance. Throughout this time, Vang engaged in social justice and media activism, and published works related to the visibility and inclusion of Southeast Asian Americans and, more broadly, Asian Americans in Hollywood and mainstream popular culture. His work covered such topics as representation, race, gender, sexuality, production, geopolitics, refugees, criminal justice, mass incarceration. Vang presented at multiple conferences related to these topics, and publicly lectured or gave workshops in over thirty venues, domestically and overseas including the University of Toronto, Beijing University, Minzu University, and Zhongshan University.

Meanwhile, Vang worked at MSNBC with The Rachel Maddow Show in broadcast journalism, at The Economist in print journalism, and at First Look Media in documentary filmmaking with Laura Poitras. After several years working as a print journalist, nonfiction writer, and policy researcher, he recently moved to LA to devote himself to acting, filmmaking, and other creative pursuits.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:29 -0400 2021-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Gran Torino
#FunnyAsHAIL Wellness Evening with Magician Eric Jones (April 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83408 83408-21371764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Get ready for this #FunnyAsHAIL wellness break with The Magic of Eric Jones. Take a study and work break and prepare to be amazed as he shares his life-changing pandemic story and takes us on an exciting journey navigating this year's racial political challenges as a showman in today’s climate. This wellness break is free and open to all UM students, staff and faculty. Register: https://myumi.ch/2DbVG

From his start performing simple coin tricks on the streets of Philly, to America’s Got Talent (Semi-Finalist), Penn and Teller (he beat them), and Masters of Illusion, Eric did it all with a few coins and these brilliantly crafted routines. Eric teaches methods, nuances and theory for creating magic that resonates deeply with the people watching it. He gives you coin magic that, for the first time ever, translates as well on stage as it does in person. Whether it’s an audience of 1 person or 1 million, he teaches the skills required to take your coin magic to a level you never thought.

#FunnyAsHAIL is sponsored by the student organizations Here Earning a Destiny (H.E.A.D.S) and Support for Incoming Black Students (S.I.B.S.) along with U-M Library and in partnership with the My Brothers Empowerment Series.

*This event will not be recorded.

For the best experience please be sure to;
1. Have the latest version of Zoom installed on their device.
2. Feel free to turn your cameras on so you can interact with Eric and participate in the show/ conversation.
3. Be sure to watch in speaker view.
4. Eric will teach a magic trick with a regular deck of cards. If you want to follow along, be sure to have a deck near you. It doesn't have to be a full/complete deck.
5. Try to watch from a laptop or desktop. It is preferred over mobile devices for a magic show so you don't miss a THING!

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:13:00 -0400 2021-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T19:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual The Magic Of Eric Jones