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- Passport Event: Carol Ann Duff...
Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
Monday, January 11 at 5:15pm - PASSPORT EVENT: ArtsBreak!
Michigan Union MUG area (lower level)
Tuesday, January 12 at 8:00pm - Passport: Cory Arcangel & the ...
UMMA
Saturday, January 16 at 8:00pm - PASSPORT EVENT: ArtsBreak!
Michigan Union MUG area (lower level)
Monday, January 18 at 8:00pm - PASSPORT EVENT: Bob Goldstein ...
Institute for the Humanities
Tuesday, January 19 at 12:00pm - Passport: Design & Production ...
Duderstadt Gallery
Friday, January 22 at 4:30pm - Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance...
Power Center
Friday, January 22 at 8:00pm - PASSPORT EVENT: ArtsBreak!
Michigan Union MUG area (lower level)
Monday, January 25 at 8:00pm - PASSPORT EVENT: Paul Tapsell L...
Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
Tuesday, January 26 at 7:00pm - PASSPORT EVENT: Cole Swenson P...
Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
Thursday, January 28 at 5:15pm
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- Review:Thinking Straight: The Why’s and Why Not’s. 8:59pm Jan 6
- Well, If You ‘Can’t Think Straight’…. 1:46pm Jan 6
- PREVIEW: Rosseels String Quartet 11:15am Dec 13
Or even if you can, the movie “I Can’t Think Straight” is being presented by YONI KI BAAT multicultural women’s organization. The movie is an award-winning lesbian romantic comedy (rated PG-13) that is a title quite common in LGBTQ culture. I’ve n...
What happens when you fill a theater in the UMMA with friends and members of the LGBTQA family? Advertise that it’s free and that there’s free food? Of course we have a blast! Any event like this is sure to leave everyone with smiles on their faces. “I...
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February 4 at 7:30 PM
February 5 & 6 at 8 PM
February 7 at 2 PM
Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) by Paul Taylor highlights the University Dance Company’s 2010 concert. This 30th anniversary staging of Taylor’s irreverent and brilliant work is in celebration of the foremost American modern choreographer’s 80th birthda...y. A delicious double-narrative, the dance tells a Runyonesque detective story juxtaposed against the daily rituals and intrigues of a touring dance company. Sacre is set to Stravinsky’s eminent piano score of the same name, in the 1947 version for four hands to be played live. According to the San Francisco Examiner, “Paul Taylor is without question the greatest living American choreographer. Taylor’s emphasis on emotion within actual movement, the rhythmic vitality of his accents, his all-American youthfulness and optimisim, all have set standards for American dance.” Premiered in 1980, Sacre layers highly stylized movement with a melancholy wit to create what The New York Times declared “some of the most exciting movement in modern choreography… propulsive and original.” Faculty member Amy Chavasse creates Hunger for the Craving for the Longing for the Aching. Using four very different versions of Woody Guthrie’s 1940 seminal folk song, “This Land is Your Land”, Chavasse has collaborated with her cast to create a Busby Berkeley-like pastiche in homage to things that we claim are right and true and ours. Premières by faculty Sandra Torijano and Jessica Fogel will round out the evening.
Time:7:30PM Thursday, February 4th
Location:Power Center
Arts at Michigan Parts IV–VI of the documentary film series inspired by Kieslowski’s Decalogue (81 min., 2008). In Polish with English subtitles. Free and open to the public. Sponsors: Copernicus Endowment, CREES, UMMA.
Time:6:00PM Sunday, January 31st
Location:Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
Arts at Michigan The World Percussion Ensemble goes back to the island of Cuba via northern Brazil as their performance fuses music from the Lucumi, Arara and Samba Reggae traditions with Latin jazz and contemporary influenced percussion sounds.
Time:8:00PM Saturday, January 30th
Location:McIntosh Theatre, E.V. Morre Building
Arts at Michigan Cole Swensen is the author of twelve books of poetry; the most recent is Ours (U. of California, 2008), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Other volumes have won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, Sun & Moon’s New American Writing Award, and the National Poe...try Series. She is also the co–editor of the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid and a translator of French poetry, prose, and art criticism. Her translation of Jean Fremon’s Island of the Dead won the 2004 PEN Award in Literary Translation, and she has received grants from the Association Beaumarchais and the French Centre du Livre. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, Swensen teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Time:5:15PM Thursday, January 28th
Location:Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
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How do we measure an exhibition’s success? Who is ultimately best qualified to judge? When Ko Tawa exhibition project was in its initial design stages, I guided the team I had pulled together to adopt a Maori worldview before committing any lines, words or drawings to paper. Could we design an exhibition to match the e...xpectations of our source communities and in the process bring our urban relations along for the ride? What were their expectations? Would community elders view us as tribally-accountable Maori or young know–it–all museum curators from the city? How could we design a space to display our ancestral treasures — taonga — that appropriately reflected the philosophy of our people — the philosophy of whakapapa: the acceptance that all things, all thoughts, all beings are genealogically connected throughout the universe? Could an exhibition capture the past, present and future, from birth to death over 3000 plus years of ancestral voyaging across the largest ocean on the planet? Could we design something that would engage the hearts of young and old, accurately reflecting our identity through the pain of colonisation, our rights to belong, to harvest resources, to engage with the living and farewell the dead? Could an exhibition harness the power of our marae (ceremonial plaza in the village): the place to which we are drawn in life and are laid out in death; where the core business is relationships; where the living ritually engage with the dead who in turn provide guidance to the living? Through audio/visual, narrative and song I hope to share my Ko Tawa journey, drawing out some of the underpinning principles by which indigenous source communities might successfully become co–producers of ancestrally–bounded knowledge within museum contexts. Paul Tapsell is the Chair in Maori Studies and Dean of Te Tumu, the School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Tapsell was the Curator of the Rotorua Museum of Art and History from 1990 to 1994 and has also served as the Maori Director of the Auckland Museum and as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Auckland. Tapsell’s research interests include Maori identity in 21st century New Zealand, cultural heritage and museums, Maori values within governance policy frameworks, indigenous entrepreneurial leadership, genealogical mapping of tribal landscapes and Te Arawa historical and genealogical knowledge. The curator of many exhibits and author of numerous articles, Tapsell has published two books: Pukaki: a comet returns (2000) and Ko Tawa: Maori Ancestors of New Zealand (2006).
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, January 26th
Location:Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
Arts at Michigan Start off the new semester right, with a FREE poetry reading by Carol Ann Duffy! More information in the Arts Events This Week tab.
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Bob Goldstein, From the Center for Russian and East European Studies, speaks about Censorship of Nineteenth Cenrtury French Politcial Caricature in European Comparative Practice.
More Information:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/humin/events
Time:12:00PM Tuesday, January 19th
Location:Institute for the Humanities
Arts at Michigan Every Tuesday evening UUAP presents a free drop–in arts and crafts project in the Michigan Union MUG area (lower level). We bring all the supplies and you supply your imagination. Craft projects in the past have featured polar fleece scarves to painted pots and memo holders. We’re always looking for new ideas so come, bring a friend and new ideas too!
Time:8:00PM Monday, January 18th
Location:Michigan Union MUG area (lower level)
Arts at Michigan The exhibit showcases work of our BFA students including projects done for design classes and realized designs from various University Production shows. The exhibit runs January 25-30, 2010.
Time:4:30PM Friday, January 22nd
Location:Duderstadt Gallery
Arts at Michigan A collaborative, improvisational performance with the UM Digital Music Ensemble and Brooklyn-based artist and musician Cory Arcangel, marking the opening of his solo exhibition. Arcangel and the audience interact with a number of sound-producing objects created and displayed by DME, in a completely unscripted performance of discovery. Cost: Free - no tickets required
Time:8:00PM Saturday, January 16th
Location:UMMA
Arts at Michigan Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, England, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes..., and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005, she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Rapture. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Great Britain in 2009. A public reception in the UMMA Forum will immediately follow the reading.
Time:5:15PM Monday, January 11th
Location:Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
PREVIEW: Rosseels String Quartet Date: Sunday, Dec 13th, 2009 Location: Michigan League – Room D (3rd floor) Time: 8:30pm Tickets: free! P...
Saturday, Dec 12th ‘09 I buy my concert tickets ahead of time and earlier today morning, I thought that I would be losing precious time at a concert when I should be really working on the zillion other things on the to-do list. ...
