Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Three Short Films about Environmental Justice (September 29, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99027 99027-21797475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

Join the Michigan Community Scholars Program for an evening of short films about environmental justice. Hosted by the Ann Arbor District Library and facilitated by PitE and MCSP faculty member Dr. Rolf Bouma and students from the Sustainable Living Experience, this event brings together community members and UM students for a shared cinematic experience and conversation.

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Film Screening Mon, 19 Sep 2022 16:01:14 -0400 2022-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Film Screening Three images, one from each film. The first features a runner in a desert landscape, the second features a power plant, the third features a Black woman marching with a bullhorn.
Inside The Peculiar Patriot: A Preview Event (February 2, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102790 102790-21805155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for a film screening of Liza Jessie Peterson's *Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison*, along with LIVE performances by the PCAP *Linkage Community*, and an engaging Q&A to follow!

Thursday, February 2nd
7:00 - 8:30 pm
at the Keene Theater in the U-M Residential College
701 E University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Free and Open to the Public

A collaboration of Detroit Public Theatre & the Prison Creative Arts Project

More about the film:
MTV Documentary Films Presents *Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison* (formerly known as A Peculiar Silence) tells the story of playwright Liza Jessie Peterson, whose acclaimed play *The Peculiar Patriot* was shut down mid-performance at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola Prison.

Directed and edited by Cinque Northern, produced by Catherine Gund, featuring Liza Jessie Peterson and Norris Henderson (Peterson and Henderson are also Executive Producers), the film examines how one woman's play challenged the country's largest plantation prison and impacted the incarcerated men long after the record of her visit was erased by the institution's administration.

More about the play:
LaQuanda ‘Betsy’ Ross knows a lot about the New York State Penitentiary system. Her regular visits to loved ones in various upstate institutions have made her quite the expert and a self-proclaimed “Peculiar Patriot." In-between neighborhood updates and gossip, Betsy educates herself and the audience on the systemic inequity within America’s prison complex system and its effect on those behind bars, as well as their family and friends.

Written and performed by the incomparable Liza Jessie Peterson, The Peculiar Patriot was inspired by her comprehensive and extensive work in prisons, including on Riker’s Island. Peterson’s tour de force solo piece is an important, funny, and profound investigative look into America’s criminal justice system.

February 8 - March 5
At the Detroit Public Theatre
3960 Third Avenue
Detroit, Mi 48202

Tickets:
February 11 @ 8PM - FREE performance for System-Impacted Individuals
Student Rate - $20 per ticket
System-Impacted Individuals - Pick Your Price

To purchase, visit www.detroitpublictheatre.org or call 313.974.7918

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Performance Fri, 06 Jan 2023 12:01:57 -0500 2023-02-02T19:00:00-05:00 2023-02-02T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Performance Scene of Liza Jessie Peterson from The Peculiar Patriot
DAAS Zora Neale Hurston Lecture with Kidada Williams PhD(History, WSU) (March 23, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106202 106202-21813919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Kidada E. Williams is a writer and historian who researches African American survivors of racist violence. She is the author of I Saw Death Coming and They Left Great Marks on Me; co-editor of #CharlestonSyllabus; host and co-producer of “Seizing Freedom,” a podcast docudrama that covered the epic story of African Americans' fight for freedom during the Civil War and beyond. And, she is an associate professor of History at Wayne State University in Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:01:23 -0400 2023-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Kidada Williams PhD
Heather Ann Thompson Lecture (May 11, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108005 108005-21818788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 11, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Over the last five decades the City of Detroit has felt the crisis of mass incarceration first-hand and most acutely. Historian Heather Ann Thompson will discuss the origins of this crisis nationally and locally, its lived impact on city residents as well as on the city itself. From this history, she argues, we can better understand not only why this is the civil and human rights crisis of the 21st century, but what it will take to undo it.

Register Here: https://myumi.ch/n7gk3

This evening event is free for members and free with museum admission for non-members.

5-6 p.m. Prior to the program, view the *Humanize the Numbers* exhibition on display now in the Community Gallery

6-8 p.m. Lecture in the Booth Auditorium

Dr. Heather Ann Thompson is a native Detroiter and historian on faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in the departments of Afro-American and African Studies, History, and the Residential College.

Thompson has published numerous books and has written extensively on the history of policing, mass incarceration and the current criminal justice system for The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, The Atlantic, Salon, Dissent, NBC, New Labor Forum, The Daily Beast, and The Huffington Post, as well as for the top publications in her field.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 May 2023 09:37:10 -0400 2023-05-11T17:00:00-04:00 2023-05-11T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Chris Lewis, 2020 (Humanize the Numbers)