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Arts at Michigan news
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M-Planner Design contest is now online! Go cast your vote for next year's M-Planner cover design now!
Finally been waiting for an arts course open to all students? The first-ever University Arts course "Creative Process" is now on the course guide under UARTS 250, Class no. 29325. Learn more >
The Computer and Video Game Archive is now open in the AAE Library (Second Floor, Duderstadt Center). Rekindle your love of atari.
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This Week's Contest
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Tell us about it!
The Arts Lounge is the place to discuss the arts on campus. Create an account on the Arts Lounge and post a review for an Arts events by the end of this semester (Jan. 1, 2009). Send us your username and review to arts@umich.edu to enter the randomly-drawn contest. The prize? A backpack full of prizes worth $50!
Free Tickets to Rubberbandance Group!
Answer the question below to get a chance to win a free pair of tickets to the Sunday, January 11, 2009, concert of the Rubberbandance Group:
In what city was the Rubberbandance Group founded?
Send your response to arts@umich.edu by Monday (Jan. 5) at noon, to enter a random drawing.
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"As I See It" This Week
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Comedian Jimmy Pardo
Friday, December 12
8 and 10:30pm
Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase, 314 E. Liberty
$12 in advance, $14 at the door
Jimmy's rapid-fire comedy and quick wit makes an evening with him fun for everyone. TV credits include "National Lampoon's FunnyMoney," AMC's "Movies at our House, "VH1's "The Surreal Life", NBC's "Late Friday" and VH1's "Love Lounge". Sitcom appearances include guest spots on "That70's Show" and "Becker". He has performed stand-up on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "The Late Late Show", and his own half-hour special, "Comedy Central Presents Jimmy Pardo".
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One Region, Many Cultures
December 9 - 18
Duderstadt Gallery
Mixed media showcase of celebrations, landmarks, food and traditions of the Andean people. Students in Tatiana Calixto's Spanish class Spanish 232 Special Topics Course "Un Museo de la Region Andina," present work they created as they explored cultural topics pertaining to the people of Peru, Columbia, Ecuador, and Bolivia. This exhibit is made possible by a Public Goods Council Grant.
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In The Arts Lounge...
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Audition/Call of the Week
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Creative workshop instructors needed!
Want to earn extra money while strengthening your creative skills and talent? Arts at Michigan and University Unions Arts & Programs are looking for student artists who are interested in instructing creative workshops! We are looking to hire students with skills in creative writing, theater arts, visual arts, and other arts and crafts areas to instruct informal campus workshops over a three-week period in Winter 2009. Past workshop topics have included drawing, knitting, watercolor journaling, jewelry making, mosaics, and more. Please contact Joanna Frye (jrfrye@umich.edu) by Friday, December 19, 2008, if you are interested in instructing creative workshops next semester!
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Exhibit of the Week
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Too Much Time: Women in Prison
Through Dec 15
Slusser Gallery, UM School of Art & Design, 2000 Bonisteel
Jane Evelyn Atwood is one of the world's leading photojournalists. Fascinated by people and concepts of exclusion, she has managed to penetrate worlds that most of us do not know, producing work that reflects her deep involvement with her subjects over time. "Too Much Time" is her investigation of female incarceration in forty prisons and nine countries.
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