Introducing... Passport to the Arts − A new program designed especially for first-year students, but open to all students! Here how it works:
(1) Find your very own “passport” on pages 214-215 of your M-Planner. Don’t have an M-Planner? Download a printable passport here (PDF).
(2) Check out the Passport Events calendar below for a list of featured arts and cultural events on campus and around Ann Arbor. When you attend one of these designated events you will receive a stamp for your passport! The Passport Events calendar will always feature an up-to-date schedule of featured events, so be sure to check it out often.
(3) Collect these passport stamps to be eligible for great prizes and incentives throughout the year including free tickets, music downloads, and much more!
August
August 28, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Union, 8 - 11pm
Arts at Michigan and the UM Museum of Art celebrate Welcome Week by introducing more than 3,000 incoming students to the wide array of possibilities for arts participation on campus at an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes.
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August 31, 2008, Sunday
Shapiro Undergraduate Library, 4pm-6pm
Come and Explore The Great Indoors at the Shapiro Library! The library can be confusing, but with the right tour guide, you’ll find yourself on the path to wild and wonderful things! Library staff will be giving tours and will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have about the library.
We’ll also have games, activities, and a book design workshop. We’ll even have free pizza!
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September
September 1, 2008, Tuesday
Lane Hall Gallery, 204. South State Street, 8am-5pm
Artists Statement: I asked to go to Haiti for an assignment in 2005 - but that first trip was not enough. I needed to photograph Haiti in depth, for myself.
For some time, violence had grown there, with hostages being taken, including journalists who were savagely tortured and killed. In this climate of insecurity and strife, I wanted to concentrate on the daily lives of the people living on the island. Because, as is always the case, the majority of the population doesn't participate in these tragic events.
Almost immediately, I knew that I needed to talk about the plight of Haiti in a new and different way. First of all, color imposed itself -- because of the stark land in constant play with the unique Caribbean light and the bright hues favored by the culture. Since I usually work in black and white, but because color seemed a natural obligation there, I found myself favoring a certain aesthetic in the images I produced, along with the reportorial content.
I made three more trips to Haiti, and photographed ordinary Haitians in their daily lives. I deliberately avoided Port au Prince, the only area covered by the press. I began to put together a set of pictures about what I found, eschewing the cliches of violence and voodoo so often associated with Haiti. I wanted to do a story that would have the journalistic merit of revealing the ordinary in an exciting way, through color and form and light. These pictures were taken in Haiti between 2005 and 2007, in Gonaives, Jeremy, Port-de-Paix, Anse Rouge, Fatima la Coupe, La Pointe, Anse a Foleur, Sainte Anne, Chansolme, Saint-Louis du Nord, Sources Chaudes, et Bassin Bleu. Exhibit runs through December 15, 2008
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September 9, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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September 11, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Illustrator, sculptor, painter and photographer Stasys Eidrigevićius, (Stasys) is perhaps best known for his graphics and poster art. Characterized by pierced bodies, grotesque demons, and masked faces, his style was shaped by his experiences living in an eastern European communist world. Stasys has had over 60 solo exhibitions in 20 countries and been honored with numerous awards for his work.
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September 11, 2008, Thursday
Power Center, Pizza at 6:30pm, Performance at 8pm
Following its triumphant production of The Elephant Vanishes in 2004, the theater company Complicite (pronounced kum-PLIH-si-tay) returns to Ann Arbor for the exclusive US presentation of its award-winning hit, A Disappearing Number. In the chilly English surroundings of Cambridge on the cusp of the First World War, the English mathematician GH Hardy unexpectedly receives a letter filled with mathematical theorems from a young Indian visionary, Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose idiosyncratic and creative approach to mathematics ultimately led to some of the most complex and beautiful mathematical patterns of all time.
Complicite’s innovative, multimedia approach frames past, present, and future simultaneously, with the Hardy/Ramanujan collaboration serving not only as a central aspect of the narrative, but more so as a window into a larger world of ideas: about the awesomeness of infinity and its relationship to human mortality, about the beauty of science and our quest for meaning and knowledge, about who we are and how we connect to one another − and ultimately about what is permanent and what disappears forever.
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September 12, 2008, Friday
Power Center, 3pm
Simon McBurney, artistic director of Complicite has said “the space of theatre is in the minds of the audience” (Financial Times). In the case of A Disappearing Number, the space of the theatre is also made by the superb technology and breathtaking visual images of the production. In this special behind-the-scenes look with the production team of A Disappearing Number, audiences will have a chance to see how the show is created and what it takes backstage to make this work so spectacular.
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September 15, 2008, Monday
Trotter Multicultural Center (1443 Washtenaw Ave.), 8pm
Through a tapestry of spoken-word poetry, theater, video projection, dance, shadow art, and a sound collage of personal testimonies, Hurricane Season connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to the “unnatural disasters” disenfranchised communities are experiencing nationwide on a daily basis. Popular education through cultural activism, the performance brims with stories missing or mangled in mainstream media. With a set built of bamboo, calabash, and water that surrounds the audience in a circle of shadow and light, Hurricane Season transforms spaces into sanctuaries of healing, witness, and imagination. The show is both brutal and uplifting, taking the audience on a voyage of unthinkable tragedy and undeniable promise from the eye of a systemic storm. Want more information on how you can get involved in programs like this? Email mesastaff@umich.edu today! Sponsored by: Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA), Spectrum Center, Ginsberg Center, Arts at Michigan and Arts of Citizenship
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September 16, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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September 18, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Michael Moore is an Academy-Award winning filmmaker, author, actor and political commentator. He is the director and producer of three of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Bowling for Columbine. He has also written and starred in the TV shows “TV Nation” and “The Awful Truth,” which continue his trademark style of presenting serious documentaries in humorous ways.
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September 18, 2008, Thursday
Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons, 8:30-10:30pm
Jammin’ session with students of the Department of Jazz and Improvisation studies.
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September 19, 2008, Friday
Harlan Graduate Library, The Gallery Room 100, library hours
This exhibit features selections from the Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Library, providing a snapshot of a complex and pivotal year in history that was characterized by protest and revolutionary change. The Vietnam War and the draft, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, activist groups for social change such as Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, the White Panthers and the Yippies, international events such as the Soviet invasion of Prague and the May uprising in Paris are represented. The exhibit will run through December 19, 2008. An afternoon panel discussion featuring activists from the era and a live performance in the evening by Country Joe McDonald will take place in The Gallery on November 13.
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September 23, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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September 25, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. He works with governments, corporations, educational systems and cultural organizations throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies. The UK Government invited Robinson to establish and lead a national commission on creativity, education and the economy; he was a central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland; and he is currently mentoring the development, the Oklahoma Creativity Project, a statewide strategy for innovation, as well as advising and working with school districts and with cultural and corporate organizations across the United States.
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September 30, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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September 30, 2008, Tuesday
1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 S. University, 4pm
Ai Xiaoming is a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong Province, China, and head of the Sex/Gender Education Forum established in 2003. She is a feminist academic, a human rights activist, and director of several documentary films on issues of health, human rights, the legal system, and the election system in China, among other topics.
Films she has directed include Care and Love (2007), the story of a villager who contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion during childbirth and her attempts to seek legal redress against the hospital; The Epic of Central Plains (2006) on villagers in Henan Province who contracted AIDS while seeking to alleviate their poverty by selling their blood, and Tai Shi Village (2006) on the events surrounding a village’s attempts to remove their appointed local officials. Professor Ai’s film Care and Love will be shown in the Center for Chinese Studies Chinese Documentary Film Series on Saturday, October 4, at 7:00pm in Auditorium A of Angell Hall. The film series is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the U-M Center for Chinese Studies at 1.734.764.6308.
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October
Due October 2, 2008, Thursday
On the Diag - Rain or Shine!
It's time to participate in the LS&A theme semester, Energy Futures. Both "Smarts and Crafts" and "Art in an Hour" ask you to think about art, the environment and sustainability in concise competitions. Prizes and displays in the Michigan Union are offered to both categories. More information can be found at the LS&A these semester site.
Who: teams of 2-5 people, anyone can participate!
Your mission: to create a work of art on the theme of energy or sustainability using only non-perishable, recyclable materials (e.g. paper, cardboard, plastic, glass, metal) that will be provided to you. You must construct your artwork on the Diag in an hour or less on Thursday, October 2 between 11am and 3pm. (In the event of inclement weather, the location will be in front of the Haven Hall Posting Wall.) Since a Liberal Arts education is all about making connections and putting things together, each team will be given a kit of connective/adhesive materials to utilize in their project. Entries will be judged both on aesthetics and how well they address the theme. The top three teams will receive prizes and the entries will be displayed in The Michigan Union.
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October 2, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Cary Fowler is the Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which recently drew global media attention when the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened its doors to 100 million seeds for permanent safekeeping in the Artic. The Trust will fund the Global Seed Vault and the work of developing countries and international seed banks to send their seeds for safekeeping. In his presentation, Dr. Fowler will address the history of the Trust and its efforts to secure crop diversity in the midst of global climate change.
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October 2, 2008, Thursday
Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons, 8:30-10:30pm
Jammin’ session with students of the Department of Jazz and Improvisation studies.
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October 4, 2008, Saturday
Auditorium A, Angell Hall 435 S. State Street, 7pm
A film by Ai Xiaoming; China, 2007; 108 minutes (in Mandarin with English subtitles). Care and Love draws its inspiration from 'Investigation of AIDS in Xingtai', an article by Wang Keqin, a senior journalist of China Economic Times. The documentary tells the story of Liu Xianhong, a villager who contracted HIV though a blood transfusion during childbirth, and how she publicized her story, filed a lawsuit with her 8-year old son against the hospital, and eventually received compensation. The bitter experiences of several families, and the collective effort by people living with HIV to defend their rights, resulted in the 'Care Group' and the growing awareness of the possibility for grassroots efforts in the countryside to lead to real social change.
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October 7, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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October 7, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan League Ballroom, 7pm
The film "A Jihad for Love" explores lives at the intersection of Islam and homosexuality. Join us for this National Coming Out Month event. A viewing of the film will be followed by a short Q&A session with the filmmaker, Parvez Sharma.
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October 9, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
In 2001, a group of designers from AIGA launched an initiative to "re-enfranchise" voters through design. Dubbed "Design for Democracy," the group is working to redesign and improve the voting experience for US elections. Projects include redesigned ballots and information for voters; guidelines for navigating a polling place; behind the scenes poll worker administration material; and national models for the Election Assistance Commission. Design for Democracy is currently working on new initiatives to demonstrate the importance of design in science, education, business and sustainability.
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October 11, 2008, Saturday
Michigan League Underground, Sign-up at 7:30pm, show begins at 8:30pm
Open Mic Nights provides a venue for musicians, singer-songwriters, and spoken-word artists to perform in a diverse show of creative expression. Each semester culminates in the Best of Best Show, where perfromers from previous events who impressed our judges perfrom and earn a $40 prize.
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October 14, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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October 15, 2008, Wednesday
Power Center, pizza at 6:30pm, performance at 8pm
Heddy Maalem works with the body as a poet works with words − as material. Fourteen utterly distinctive dancers from Mali, Benin, Nigeria, and Senegal come together for Maalem’s explosive interpretation of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). Stravinsky’s story of a pagan spring ritual is transported to Africa, inspired by Maalem’s time in Lagos, Nigeria, the cacophony of a city of 12 million people echoed by Stravinsky’s music. Highly dynamic dance sequences and overwhelming group scenes are interlaced with atmospheric film projections and intense scenes of silence that provide provocative contrast to the music.
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October 20, 2008, Monday
Michigan Union Art Lounge
This exhibit features over 70 posters created by University of Michigan students as part of the annual Bridging Art and Awareness Challenge, a call for art that encourages the campus community to create public awareness of social injustices through art and creative engagement. This year’s theme, "Redefining the American Dream" encourages us to think about the popularized notions of the so-called American Dream and move beyond this narrow definition by exploring the diversity of dreams that reside on this land. What is your vision of the American Dream? This exhibit will run until November 7, 2008.
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October 23, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
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. In 1976, Atwood bought her first camera and began taking pictures of a group of street prostitutes in Paris. In her presentation, Atwood will speak about how she started and how she works, beginning with pictures from the prostitute series and including work from a story of the first person with AIDS in France to allow himself to be photographed for publication; a ten-year study of blind children; photos from Too Much Time (2000), her investigation of female incarceration in forty prisons and nine countries; and, finally, pictures from a four-year project on landmine survivors in Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Kosovo, and Afghanistan.
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October 23, 2008, Thursday
Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons, 8:30-10:30pm
Jammin’ session with students of the Department of Jazz and Improvisation studies.
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October 23, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Union Art Lounge, 7-9pm
You are cordially invited to attend the opening reception for our upcoming exhibit, "2008: Redefining the American Dream." This exhibit will feature over 60 posters created by University of Michigan students as part of the Bridging Art and Awareness Challenge, a call for art that encourages the campus community to create public awareness of social injustices through art and creative engagement. Join us for an evening of activities and refreshments as we engage and reflect on the themes conveyed in these powerful posters. Poetry Slam to follow in the U-Club!
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October 24, 2008, Friday
Slusser Gallery, Art + Architecture Bldg, 2000 Bonisteel, 6-9pm
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. In 1976, Atwood bought her first camera and began taking pictures of a group of street prostitutes in Paris. In her presentation, Atwood will speak about how she started and how she works, beginning with pictures from the prostitute series and including work from a story of the first person with AIDS in France to allow himself to be photographed for publication; a ten-year study of blind children; photos from Too Much Time (2000), her investigation of female incarceration in forty prisons and nine countries; and, finally, pictures from a four-year project on landmine survivors in Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. Exhibit runs October 10 - November 7, 2008.
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October 28, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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October 30, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Antanas Mockus is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician. As mayor of Bogotá for two terms, Mockus became known for his surprising and often humorous initiatives. He has taken a shower in a commercial about conserving water, walked the streets dressed in spandex and a cape as Supercitizen, hired 20 mimes to make fun of traffic violators, and established one "Night for Women" to honor women's roles in society. Under Mockus's leadership, Bogotá saw improvements that included a 40% decrease in water usage, creation of 7000 community security groups and a 70% drop in the homicide rate. Traffic fatalities decreased by over 50%, drinking water was provided to all homes.
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November
November 4, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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November 6, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba's films explore Vietnamese history and national identity. Born in Tokyo and trained in the U.S., Nguyen-Hatsushiba returned to live in his father's homeland of Vietnam in 1990. His video work, Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards, replaces visions of conflict with far more subversive and magical images of Vietnam, offering scenes of Vietnamese fishermen pulling cyclos (rickshaws) underwater toward an area where the artist stretched about thirty mosquito nets across the sea bed. For Nguyen-Hatsushiba "The meaning of 'memorial' in these works refers not only to recalling and acknowledging the past, but it is also something that brings us to the present and urges us to question for the future." During his presentation he will discuss his creative paths returning to Vietnam and his ongoing series of memorial projects.
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November 6, 2008, Thursday
Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons, 8:30-10:30pm
Jammin’ session with students of the Department of Jazz and Improvisation studies.
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November 7, 2008, Friday
Michigan Theater, 8:30-10:30pm
Joe Lovano's lush, inimitable saxophone sound will be on display within the contexts of both his virtuosic, two-drummer quintet and in duets with the exciting pianist/composer/improviser Jason Moran. The first half of the evening features solo piano ruminations from Blue Note recording artist Jason Moran in addition to musical conversations between two of today's modern jazz masters. Ordering ends on Wed, Nov 5, at 5pm.
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November 9, 2008, Sunday
Downtown Library 4th floor meeting room, 3 - 4:30pm
Richard LeSueur, retired music specialist at the Ann Arbor District Library, will discuss Tchaikovsky's great opera which the UM School of Music, Theatre & Dance presents Nov. 13 - 16. The historical background of the opera as well as the plot will be the focus of the presentation. Musical examples will be played to highlight the great moments of this opera.
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November 11, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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November 13, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Since about 1990, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been working hard on new forms of life. Plastic yellow conduit is used as the basic material of this new nature. He makes skeletons that are able to walk on the wind. Eventually he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.
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November 13, 2008 at 8pm, Thursday until December 19, 2008
Gallery (Room 100), Hatcher Graduate Library, library hours
In this 40th anniversary year of 1968, the University of Michigan Library presents 'The Whole World Was Watching: Protest and Revolution in 1968, Selections from the Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Library.' This exhibit provides a snapshot of a complex and pivotal year in American history highlighting protests against the Vietnam War and the draft, the highly fractured Presidential election and the violence that erupted outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago against anti-war demonstrators, and the activities of student and other protest groups such as the Ann Arbor-founded Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, the White Panthers, and the Yippies. The exhibit notes the women's movement and international matters such as Prague Spring and the May Paris uprisings. The Library will host a discussion panel in association with this exhibit moderated by University Librarian Paul Courant. A performance by 60's legend Country Joe McDonald will follow at 8pm.
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November 14, 2008, Saturday
Michigan League Underground, Sign-up at 7:30pm, show begins at 8:30pm
Open Mic Nights provides a venue for musicians, singer-songwriters, and spoken-word artists to perform in a diverse show of creative expression. Each semester culminates in the Best of Best Show, where perfromers from previous events who impressed our judges perfrom and earn a $40 prize.
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November 13 at 7:30pm, 14-15 at 8pm, 16 at 2pm, 2008, Thursday-Sunday
Power Center
In the Russian countryside, a shy, young woman is struck with love at first sight for a handsome, melancholic aristocrat from the city whose only enjoyment comes from toying with other people’s emotions. When Tatyana ardently declares her love, Onegin cruelly dismisses it. Later at a ball, a bored Onegin flirts with her sister - to fatal consequences. Years later, when Onegin encounters a now radiant and sophisticated Tatyana, he realizes his missed opportunity. He tries to win her back and while she admits that she still loves him, she now has the power to weigh his own declaration of love. Will he win her back, or will she dismiss his attestation of love? Sung in Russian with projected English translations.
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November 18, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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November 20, 2008, Thursday
Michigan Theater, 5pm
Daniel Joseph Martinez lives and works in the Crenshaw District of South Los Angeles. Using forms of strategic engagement and illusion, his work focuses on themes of contamination, history, nomadic power, cultural resistance, dissentience and systems of symbolic exchange. One ongoing project is the building of a doomsday machine, a transporter and a time machine to change the past in order to affect the future. Martinez has participated in the Whitney, Cairo, and Moscow Biennials; exhibited at the Orange County Museum of Art and El Museo Del Barrio. Upcoming exhibitions and projects include Dublin, Ireland; Santiago, Chili; Tijuana, Mexico and the 2008 California Biennial. In the spring of 2009 Hatja Cantz in Germany will publish a new artist monograph. Martinez is a Professor of Theory, Practice, and Mediation of Contemporary Art at the University of California Irvine, where he teaches in the Graduate Studies Program and New Genres Department.
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November 6, 2008, Thursday
Leonardo's in Pierpont Commons, 8:30-10:30pm
Jammin’ session with students of the Department of Jazz and Improvisation studies.
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November 22, 2008, Thursday
Angell Hall Auditorium A, 7pm
A film by Wu Wenguang and Su Ming (Mandarin with English Subtitles) Verite doumentarist Wu Wenguang records an unconventional dance performance project entitled "Dance with Farm Workers." Initiated and organized by choreographer Wen Hui, along with artists Song Dong and Yun Xiuzhen and staged in a former textile factory, ten actors and dancers are brought together with thirty farm workers who came from poor regions of sichuan province to work on construction sites in Beijing. Drawn to this dance project by the promise of 30 yuan a day for their efforts, the laborers later discover that even they have an opportunity to stand center stage and make a statement.
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November 25, 2008, Tuesday
Michigan Union MUG, 8 - 11pm
Arts Break is FREE − supplies provided − arts and crafts every Tuesday night at the MUG (Michigan Union Ground floor). Some crafts we will do or have done are painting pumpkins; decorating small canvas tote bags for your cell phone, keys, money, M-card, and more; flip flops quarter banks, wire photo holders, polar fleece scarves; and more!
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November 22, 2008, Thursday
1636 School of Social Work Building, Noon-1pm
As a classical genre of Chinese theatre, kunqu features sophisticated and coordinated performances of elaborate singing, stylized chanting/speaking, and intricate acting/dancing. To reveal the artistic creativity involved, and the expressions it generates, Mr. Wen Yuhang, an internationally known artist of the genre will discuss and perform a number of representative arias and monologues, demonstrating kunqu manipulations of words, singing, chanting/speaking, and acting/dancing.
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