PAST EVENTS

The following is a list of past Arts on Earth Events listed in chronological order.

March 2008
November 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007

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MARCH 2008

March 27
Arts on Earth's "Spring Thing"
When: 3:30 p.m.
Where: Penny Stamps Auditorium, Bonisteel Ave. North Campus
Cost: Free
What:Celebrating the ongoing emergence of North Campus, with performances and exhibits featuring the opening of the Penny Stamps Auditorium, work-in-progress from Arts on Earth’s “Arts & Minds" and the winners of the North Campus WorkPlay competition.
More information on WorkPlay »

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“ARTS & MINDS” November 1-2, 2007
Exploring the Interactions of Art and Mind

Please join us in the Duderstadt Video Center this November 1– 2 for a playful, experimental “learning studio” in which leading international artists, scientists, scholars, activists, and students will explore the interactions of art and mind. There is no audience for Arts & Minds: everyone participates.

Participants will use movement and neuroscience, music and evolutionary biology, visual art, psychological research, and other disciplines and media to explore four aspects of Arts & Minds:

Thursday, November 1

Morning (9-12) : Arts & Evolution
Why does virtually every human culture produce art? How do the arts aid our survival?

Afternoon (1:30-4:30) : Arts & the Brain
How does artistic engagement affect the human brain?

Friday, November 2

Morning (9-12) : Arts & Health
Can engagement with the arts promote physical, emotional, and mental health in individuals? In societies?

Afternoon (1:30-4:30) : Arts & Conscience
What are the powers and limits of the arts to shape us morally?

With Arts & Minds we hope to forge new methods of arts-driven inquiry; to push the boundaries of knowledge about the interrelatedness of arts and the human mind; and to pollinate sustained interdisciplinary creative work, research, curricula, and programs at the University of Michigan.

Participation is free, but space is limited. Preference will be given to artists, scholars, scientists, and students whose creative work and research will both feed and be fed by this exploration.

Funds to support projects arising from Arts & Minds will be available on a competitive basis. For more information, see the RFP. (PDF)

For more detailed information, see Structure, Moderator, Event Faculty, and Registration.

I. Structure

The physical structure for “Arts & Minds” is concentric rings.

The hub for each session will be a handful of event faculty members – artists and scholars with particular expertise in the topic area who have collaborated to create a structure through which to guide our exploration.

The small first ring around this hub will be comprised of highly informed and engaged artists, scholars, and students who will participate actively in the creation of the exploration. Participants in the first ring will stay for at least one full day; space will be given preferentially to those who can stay for both days.

The larger outer ring will be comprised of participants who might be able to attend only one or two non-consecutive sessions.

II. Moderator

Moderating the full two days: Natalie Angier, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times science writer and author of, among other books, Woman: An Intimate Geography and The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

III. Event Faculty

A. Arts & Evolution (Why does virtually every human culture produce art? In what ways do the arts aid our survival?)

Lead: Brad Smith, University of Michigan

Robert Adams, University of Michigan, College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Ellen Dissanayake, University of Washington

Grant Hildebrand, University of Washington (Origins of Architectural Pleasure, )

Eiko and Koma – New York City

Ed Sarath, University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre & Dance

 

B. Arts & the Brain (How does artistic engagement affect the human brain?)

Lead: Sophia Psarra, University of Michigan

Judith Becker, University of Michigan (Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing)

Steven Brown, Simon Fraser University

Petr Janata, University of California, Davis (“Neuroscientist Looks at Music’s Heady Experience ”, “BREAKTIME Petr Janata: Putting his mind for music to use for science”)

Thylias Moss, University of Michigan

Mariano Sardon, Professor, Electronic Arts, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Satoru Takahashi, University of Michigan

 

C. Arts & Health (Can engagement with the arts promote physical, emotional, and mental health in individuals? In societies? )

Lead: Petra Kuppers, University of Michigan, Department of English

Neil Marcus, independent artist, author of Storm Reading and other works

Anne Mondro, University of Michigan, School of Art & Design

Aimee Meredith Cox, University of Michigan, Center for the Education of Women.

Devora Neumark, Goddard College

 

D. Arts & Conscience (What are the powers and limits of the arts to move us morally?)

Lead: Amy Chavasse, University of Michigan, Department of Dance

Luciana Acuna, Argentina, co-founder of Grupo Krapp

Paul Bloom, Yale University, Department of Psychology

Evan Chambers, University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Jackie Salloum, independent artist, New York City

Eileen John, Warwick University, Department of Philosophy

Coleman Jordan, University of Michigan, College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Paula Gerstenblatt, independent artist, Bay Area, California

Peter Railton, University of Michigan, Department of Philosophy

Kendall Walton, University of Michigan, Department of Philosophy

Robin Wilson, University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre & Dance

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APRIL 2007

April 1
FestiFools!
When: 4–6:00 p.m.
Where: Main Street, downtown Ann Arbor
Cost: Free
What: A collaboration between University of Michigan students and community members, the Street Theater Art (START) Project’s “FestiFools” is a fantastic show of enormous street puppets, inventive musical instruments, expressive choreography, and resourceful costumes that are only limited by your imagination. Come enjoy the arts with people from across the community, and participate in what we hope will be an annual giant, public, street theater art project!
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April 2–30
The Seduction of Scale
When: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Where: Life Sciences Library
3rd Floor (Plaza level), Life Sciences Institute, 210 Washtenaw
Cost: Free
What: A group exhibition of artists engaging nature in a micro/macro world featuring Jan-Henrik Andersen, Beverly Fishman, David Mann, Patricia Olynyk, Brad Smith
For more information email Robin Stephenson at rbs@umich.edu.

April 4
Frank Barkow
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Where: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Room 2104
Cost: Free
What: Frank Barkow has been a partner, with Regine Leibinger, of Barkow Leibinger Architects in Berlin since they founded the firm in 1993. Barkow received a Bachelor of Architecture from Montana State University and a Masters from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has taught and lectured at the GSD, Cornell University, and the Architectural Association in London, among other institutions.
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April 5
The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: “Dance Meets Genetics”
Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series
When: 5:10 p.m.
Where: Michigan Theater, 603 Liberty St.
Cost: Free
What: Liz Lerman, founder and artistic director of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, recently completed a four-year collaboration between scientists and choreographers culminating in Ferocious Beauty: Genome, a multimedia dance/theater work that explores the human implications of discoveries in genetic science. Created with geneticists from organizations including The Institute for Genomic Research, Wesleyan University, Stanford University, Princeton University, and Howard University, Ferocious Beauty has toured from Connecticut to California, deepening dialogue between science and the arts. Lerman will be joined by two dancers who will perform excerpts from Ferocious Beauty: Genome. Co-sponsors: Life Sciences Institute and Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics. This presentation is a part of the School of Art & Design’s Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series.
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April 6–7
The Charlotte Salomon Project : An Arts & War event, sponsored by Arts on Earth
When: TBD
Where:The Walgreen Drama Center, Studios One and Two
Cost: Free
What: The experimental, New York-based theatrical company, Polybe + Seats, present their new play, The Charlotte Salomon Project. The play has been created through an ongoing discovery process that examines the life of an extraordinary, little-known young woman—Charlotte Salomon—who perished in Auschwitz. The text, visuals, and actions of the play are drawn from the collection of over 1,300 paintings she created during World War II and collected in a volume she called Life? Or Theater?”
The play is divided into three sections: The Prelude, which references a section of paintings dealing with Salomon’s childhood and family history, is a performance installation in a gallery space that will incorporate painting-inspired exhibits, live action, projection, miniatures, and replicas of the paintings. Audiences will make their way through Salomon’s childhood memories before entering into the performance space for the Main Section, in which we meet the voice teacher Amadeus Daberlohn, who becomes a focus of the young artist’s obsession. The Epilogue takes place after Salomon’s escape from Berlin and before her imprisonment, and uses movement and design suggestive of the abstract style of Salomon’s final paintings.

April 8–13
Earth Art: Installations for Environmental Awareness
When: All day
Where: Central Campus Lawn
Cost: Free and open to the public
What: The Earth Art installations are meant to provide a medium for community dialogue—an invitation to talk to total strangers about the possible meanings of symbolic space and to confront issues about how we live in the world—of the human relationship to its environment. The projects use art as a language to cut across disciplines, providing a catalyst to environmental awareness and hopefully change. This year landscape architecture students will be collaborating with students in Art & Design, Architecture, and Natural Resources to open up dialogue and interaction through the intersection of art and space.

For more information please contact Beth Diamond, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, School of Natural Resources & Environment at bdiamond@umich.edu.

March 27–April 11
Exhibition of Prison Arts Project, Buzz Alexander and Janie Paul
When:
Opening Reception Tuesday, March 27 from 5:30–8:00 p.m.
Closing Reception Wednesday, April 11 from 5:30–8:00 p.m.
Exhibition Hours Tuesday–Saturday, 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Sunday–Monday, 12:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m
What: The mission of the Prison Creative Arts Project is to collaborate with incarcerated adults, incarcerated youth, urban youth, and the formerly incarcerated to strengthen our community through creative expression. This is the 12th annual exhibition of visual art produced by Michigan prisoners through PCAP, featuring hundreds of works by scores of artists. Related events are presented all week long.

Related events:
For time and place of related events, visit the PCAP web page
Where: Duderstadt Center Gallery, North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard.
Cost: All events are free.

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MARCH 2007

For streaming audio and video related to Arts on Earth events, please visit the multimedia page of this website.

Details on other events scheduled for March, and events for April, will be posted mid-January 2007.

March 5
TCAUP Lecture Series: Ira Katznelson
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Where: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Cost: Free
What: Lecture.
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March 7
AIAS Competiton Lecture Series: Keith VanDerSys, Karen M
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: 6:00 p.m.
Where: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Cost: Free
What: Lecture.
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March 8
William Pope.L: “Influence”
Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series
When: 5:10 p.m.
Where: Michigan Theater, 603 Liberty St.
Cost: Free
What: William Pope.L is a public artist who challenges audiences to address America’s relationship to difference, questioning the constructed nature of social hierarchies based on race. Pope.L has exhibited and performed across the world including his touring retrospective entitled eRacism and companion book, William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America. His most recent project, “The Black Factory,” is at once a digital project, a traveling caravan, a social service, and a community-based public art intervention. Pope.L states that his presentation “will address how things influence one another.” Co-sponsors: Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, Program in American Culture, History of Art, and the Future of Minority Studies at Michigan. This presentation is a part of the School of Art & Design’s Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series.
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March 14
AIAS Lecture: Anca Trandafirescu and Glenn Wilcox
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: 6:00 p.m.
Where: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Cost: Free
What: Lecture.
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March 15
David Small: “Big Thinking at the Small Design Firm”
Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series
When: 5:10 p.m.
When: Michigan Theater, 603 Liberty St.
Cost: Free
What: By taking advantage of the computer’s ability to display dynamic, flexible, and adaptive typography and imagery, the Small Design Firm, headed by David Small, invents new ways for people to read, interact with, and assimilate information. In combining innovative visualization with architectural space and well-designed physical interfaces, the firm creates potentially limitless spaces. In his presentation, Small discusses the firm’s history of innovation and focuses on the interplay between computer technology, dynamic typography, and information design. Co-sponsor: AIGA Detroit, the professional association for design. This presentation is a part of the School of Art & Design’s Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series.
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March 16
Gilberto Gil
When: 8:00 p.m.
Where: Hill Auditorium, 825 North University Ave.
Cost: $10–$44
What: A leader of the Tropicalia movement in Brazilian music in the late 1960s, Gilberto Gil was imprisoned before being exiled by the military regime that then gripped Brazil. Now, with four decades of performing and over five million recordings sold, Gil is Brazil’s Minister of Culture and a pioneer of the world music movement.
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Also visit these sites for more information about Gilberto Gil:

• CNN International: Gilberto Gil, minister of cool
• Wired Magazine: We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin
• The Guardian: Minister of counterculture

March 19–April 8
An Arts on Earth Learning Event: Arts and War
» Also see events listed on 3/19, 3/20, 3/21, 3/29, 3/30, and 3/31.
And see the 3/29 listing for Playing for Time ticket information

From March 19 through April 8, Arts on Earth will sponsor a wide range of events exploring how the arts are affected by, and affect, war and state-sponsored oppression.

Among the topics to be addressed are (1) The functioning of the arts during the build-up to wars: arts in the service of and those in opposition to the drive toward war, (2) The role of arts during war, both within the cultures that are the site of the war, and in cultures that are participating in or observing the action from afar, and (3) the arts of aftermath—of reflection, reaction, and memorialization by both the defeated and the victorious.

Events will include musical performances, exhibitions of visual and installation art, presentations of scholarship, the production of Arthur Miller’s play Playing for Time, about an orchestra of female musicians at Auschwitz, and more.

March 19
Carolyn Forche, reading from Against Forgetting
An Arts & War event
When: 5:00 p.m.
Where: Rackham Amphitheater
Cost: Free
What: Carolyn Forche is the award-winning author of Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness, The Country Between Us, and other vivid, politically engaged writings. Her reading will be followed by a public reception, sponsored by the Department of English and the Office of the Provost.
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or call 734-615-3710
Also visit Carolyn Forche’s web page

March 19
Ray Manning
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Where: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Room 2104
Cost: Free
What: Lecture.
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March 20–25
Ann Arbor Film Festival
When: See schedule at the aafilmfest.org website.
Where: Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St.
Cost: See schedule at the aafilmfest.org website.
What: The Ann Arbor Film Festival showcases independent and experimental film and video. Established in 1963, this internationally renowned festival is the oldest of its kind in North America. Each year the festival attracts entries from moving image artists worldwide and screens more than 100 films before audiences during six days in March.
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March 20
Arts & War: Mobilization and Protest
When: 5:10–6:40 p.m.
Where: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, 911 North University
Cost: Free
What:

The experience begins in the lobby, which becomes an exhibit venue for arts about war.

• Michael Rodemer’s kinetic sculpture, "Verdun, and the like," addresses the Battle of Verdun, one of the bloodiest and most futile of the First World War. In 11 months, the German and French armies inflicted almost one million casualties on one another; half of these were fatalities. Rodemer’s sculpture vivifies the staggering size and senselessness of that war’s toll.
• Carol Jacobsen’s video project, “Military Cemetery: Homage to Greenham,” approaches the magnitude of military deaths in wartime through the medium of film, building quiet power through a series of pans of some 50 military cemeteries throughout the U.S. and Europe.
• Student artists of renowned faculty members Thylias Moss and Heidi Kumao present work in film, text, and performance throughout the lobby, using the unexpected to simulate in participants the uncertain state of life in wartime.

Host: Linda Gregerson

One of the most admired American poets of her generation, Linda Gregerson also is a distinguished scholar of Renaissance literature. Professor Gregerson has been invited to read her poetry in dozens of venues throughout the United States and in Europe, both because of the richness of her poetry and her reading talent, polished in professional theater and through stage and radio performances. With her energy, wit, and warmth, Professor Gregerson will be a supportive guide through this experience.

Internationally acclaimed U-M faculty Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano, and William Bolcom on piano perform contrasting songs:

• “Over There,” the 1917 George M. Cohan song rallying U.S. national pride in the fighting prowess of the “Yanks” as they entered WWI, determined to turn the tide, and
• “I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier,” the 1915 song by Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi, fiercely resisting the military drumbeat demanding even more cannon fodder.

Time for Three—Zachary De Pue, Nicolas Kendall, and Ranaan Meyer. With a parent’s fear for her son’s life ringing in our ears, Joan Morris teams with the sizzling young string ensemble, Time for Three (www.timeforthree.com), to sing the great American classic of mourning and longed-for redemption, “Amazing Grace.”

Mark Clague, U-M faculty in Musicology, American Culture, and Afro-American and African studies, propels the audience into the Vietnam era with Jimi Hendrix’s famous Woodstock rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Clague, an expert on the uses of national anthems both to support and to protest wars, illuminates both the resistance and the patriotism in Hendrix’s work.

Madhavi Mai, a Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher based in Ann Arbor, choreographed the piece she’ll perform tonight, South Asian Womenspeak, as a response to the war in Iraq. Based on three poems by South Asian women – one written in the first century, one in the eighth, and one in the last decade, the dance reflects an impassioned resistance to war that is recognizable across cultures and centuries.

It may both surprise and chill to learn that soldiers ready themselves for combat with music. Jonathan Pieslak, Assistant Professor of Music at the City College of New York, presents “Sound Targets: Music and the Iraq War,” a collection of interviews with American soldiers serving in Iraq and clips of the music they use to prepare themselves for battle.

Heidi Kumao, Assistant Professor in the School of Art & Design reminds us of the cost to the soldiers themselves with the video work “Roll Call,” a brief, silent meditation on the American casualties in Iraq.

If there is hope that the conflict between Israel and Palestine will ever be resolved, it is to be found in the voices of principled, passionate artists like Mahmoud Darwish and Tirtza Even.

• This set of two pieces begins with a reading of the poem “… As He Draws Away,” by Mahmoud Darwish, who has been acclaimed as “the premier poetic voice of the Palestinian people.” Khaled Mattawa, Libyan-born poet and head of U-M’s MFA program in poetry, selected this poem because it “recognizes the reality of occupation but also 'the enemy's' humanity, and the possibility of connection.” “…As He Draws Away” is read by Karem Sakallah, U-M Professor of Engineering and Computer Science.
• Tirtza Even’s video work-in-progress, Once a Wall, or Ripple Remains documents a series of encounters between Israeli and Palestinian individuals which took place in the Summer and Fall of 1998 in the Occupied Territory of Palestine. Like the Palestinian Darwish, the Israeli Even rejects the polarization of the peoples of the Middle East, and finds the capacity for human connection intact. Musical improvisation in the interstices of Even’s work is provided by jazz artists Ed Sarath and Kate Olson.

Bolcom and Morris return, performing “Remember My Forgotten Man,” a 1933 song by Al Dubin and Harry Warren.

Time for Three closes with “Of Time And Three Rivers," performed by cellist Ranaan Meyer, and "Hymn," performed by the full ensemble.

Conversation with the artists follows, hosted by Linda Gregerson.

March 21
Arts & War: Testimony
When: 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Where: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, 911 North University
Cost: Free
What:On Wednesday, March 21, for “Arts & War: Testimony,” participants move through the lobby exhibits into the theater to experience works of art created as testimony to effects of war that, without art, can barely be grasped.

As on the first night, performances this evening are by artists of remarkable stature and accomplishment.

The program, “Testimony,” is built around three movements of Paul Schoenfield’s riveting 1995 work for violin, clarinet, cello, piano, and narrator, “Sparks of Glory.”

“Sparks of Glory” is based on the accounts by Polish-Israeli journalist Moshe Prager of life in the Nazi-created Warsaw Ghetto in WWII. Prager wrote in the introduction to his collection that the stories are all true and accurately recorded: “And if they appear to border on the miraculous, it is because they mirror an age of miracles. And if they make the soul tremble, it is because they are echoes of a terrible and lofty time.”

Sparks of Glory, Movement 1: B’demayich Chai
Written by Paul Schoenfield, performed by Yehonatan Berick, violin; Deborah Chodacki, clarinet; Anthony Elliott, cello; Paul Schoenfield, piano; Gavriel Savit, narrator.

“Exploding Angels”
When MacArthur-award-winning poet, musician, and video artist Thylias Moss and her son, Ansted, were watching the news in 2003, Ansted was stricken by the sight of an Iraqi boy his own age (12, then) whose arms had been blown off by an American bomb as he sat in his own home. Ansted's response was to write a song, which he entitled "Exploding Angels." The song was a winning entry in the MIchigan Young Composer's Competition in 2003. In this video piece created by his mother to bring the song to life in another medium, Thylias Moss sings the song created to mourn the losses suffered by the Iraqi boy, Ali Abbas.

“My Parents Bedroom”
Uwem Akpan is a Nigerian-born Jesuit priest who traveled to the University of Michigan in 2005 to complete the MFA Program in Creative Writing. “My Parents Bedroom,” published in The New Yorker in June 2006, is narrated by a nine-year-old child whose parents are killed before her eyes in the conflict between Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda. Akpan has returned to Africa; an excerpt of “My Parents’ Bedroom” is read tonight by OyamO, an actor, the author of some 30 plays, and faculty in U-M’s Department of Theatre.

Sparks of Glory, Movement 2: My Name is Chaim, written by Paul Schoenfield. Performed by Yehonatan Berick, violin; Deborah Chodacki, clarinet; Anthony Elliott, cello; Paul Schoenfield, piano; and Gavriel Savit, narrator.

Rahim AlHaj is a virtuoso oud musician and composer who was born in Baghdad, Iraq. Due to his activism against the Saddam Hussein regime, AlHaj was forced to leave Iraq after the first Gulf War. AlHaj says, “My music is not to entertain, but to communicate compassion, love, and peace.” The original work he plays tonight, “Dance of the Palms,” commemorates the beautiful palm trees, sacred in Iraq, that were destroyed in the Iran-Iraq war.

For The Healing Of The Nations, by Geri Allen
Like many other artists, jazz pianist and composer Geri Allen responded to 9/11 first with stunned silence, with doubt that she could create art that adequately captured the horror of that day, and then with creative energy. Allen wrote her jazz composition, "For the Healing of the Nations" as a tribute to the victims and survivors of 9/11, and their families. It is performed here in part, by jazz greats Geri Allen, piano; Ed Sarath, trumpet; Donald Walden, tenor sax; Dennis Wilson, trombone; Jessica Sacks and Robert Hurst, bass; Danny Fisher, alto sax; Quentin Joseph, drums; and vocalists Minnita Daniel-Cox, Carolyn Tribune, Charis Vaughn, Kira Lesser, and Derik Nelson.

Not Mistaken, choreographed, written, and performed by Amy Chavasse
The American invasion of Iraq as a response to 9/11 has been roundly criticized from many quarters. In this excerpt from her longer solo work, choreographer and dancer Amy Chavasse adds her voice to the critique, focusing on the convoluted attempts by several public officials, especially Donald Rumsfeld, to evade responsibility for their catastrophe in Iraq. Music Is by David Byrne, Arthur H, Amy Denio, and Petty Booka.

Sparks of Glory, Movement 4: Lomir Zich Iberbeiten
Written by Paul Schoenfield, performed by Yehonatan Berick, violin; Deborah Chodacki, clarinet; Anthony Elliott, cello; Ra-Jung Yang, piano; and Gavriel Savit, narrator.

This evening’s performances will be followed by a conversation with the artists, hosted by Glenda Dickerson. Professor Dickerson is a director, writer, folklorist, educator, and actor in many venues, including the Biltmore Theatre (Broadway), Circle in the Square (New York City), Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco), and Ford's Theatre and the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.) She currently serves as Director of Academic Programs for the Center for World Performance Studies at U-M and head of the Black Theatre Minor. Dickerson’s incomparable scholarship, artistry, and passionate engagement with issues of war and peace prepare her well to guide this evening’s dialogue.

March 21
AIAS Lecture: Sophia Psarra
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: 6:00 p.m.
Where: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd. Room 1227
Cost: Free
What: Lecture
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March 22
Ken Jacobs: “Space/Time and Worries”
Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series
When: 5:10 p.m.
Where: Michigan Theater, 603 Liberty St.
Cost: Free
What: For more than 40 years, director, cinematographer, actor and master of the avant garde Ken Jacobs has engaged in an aesthetic, social, and physiological critique of projected images. For Jacobs cinema has become “a concentration on the computer screen, where what a friend called ‘the age of cheap miracles’ is taking image and sound to places no one could dream of when we were coming up in the nineteen sixties. We’re entering the undreamable, unless the misery we’ve caused in Iraq spreads here. Walking to Chinatown for a break, I see the streets are full of metal posts to interfere with suicide bombers. Wall Street has moved to New Jersey. I’m shaping a bright new cinema to hand over to posterity but wondering will it arrive?” 
Co-sponsors: Screen Arts & Cultures, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. This presentation is a part of the School of Art & Design’s Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series.
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March 23–24
The Poet in the World / The World in the Poet
When: Reading (March 23), 7:00 p.m.
Where: Michigan Room, The Michigan League, 911 N. University (2d Floor)
When: Panel (March 24), 12:00 noon
Where: Room 3222 Angell Hall, 435 S. State (3d Floor)
Cost: Free
Description: “The World of New American Poets, New American Poets of the World” consists of a reading by and a panel discussion with six celebrated emerging poets who live in the United States: three of whom were born and grew up in other countries (Dunya Mikhail [Iraq]; Khaled Mattawa, [Libya]; Suzanne Buffam [Canada]), three of whom are U.S.-born (Srikanth Reddy; Robyn Schiff; and Nick Twemlow), all of whom engage questions of language, transcultural experience, and audience in innovative ways. Sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, the International Institute, and the Creative Writing Department.
For more information please contact Joshua Edwards at jbe@umich.edu or (734) 972-5066

March 26–April 20
Architecture Fellows Exhibit
When: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Where: Art & Architecture Gallery, Room 2106
What: Exhibit featuring 2006–07 Michigan Architecture Fellows: Kathy Velikov, Oberdick Fellow; Eric Olsen, Muschenheim Fellow; Despina Stratigakos, Sanders Fellow
For more information, email Laura Brown at laurajbr@umich.edu.

March 29–April 8
Arthur Miller’s Playing for Time, part of Arts on Earth’s exploration of Arts & War
When: 8:00 p.m. (7:30 p.m. on April 4, 2007) Where: Arthur Miller Theatre–Walgreen Drama Center
1226 Murfin St., North Campus
Cost: $22.00 General Admission; $9.00 students with ID
What: Playing for Time was written by Arthur Miller, originally for television. This is an all-student stage production of the harrowing true story of the members of the legendary women’s orchestra in Auschwitz. Based on the autobiography of Fania Fenelon, a popular half-Jewish Parisian singer who was sent to Auschwitz and recruited for the orchestra, Playing for Time is a story of hope and dignity in the face of terror.
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For tickets, please call the Michigan League Ticket Office at 734-764-2538.

March 29–31
Global Miller Symposium
An exploration by American and British scholars, critics, and theater professionals of Arthur Miller’s place in the global theatrical canon.

» Thursday, March 29
Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture and reception. Enoch Brater presents “Drama Matters: Suitcases, Sand, and Dry Goods”
When: 3:10 p.m.
Where: U-M Alumni Center, Founders Room
Cost: Free and open to the public
AoE Themes addressed: Intrinsic value, Sociocultural reach, Conscience

» Friday, March 30
Global Miller Symposium
When: 9:00 a.m.–5:15 p.m.
Where: Rackham Amphitheater
Cost: Free and open to the public

9:00–9:15 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Gregory Poggi, Chair, Department of Theatre & Drama
Enoch Brater, Director of the Global Miller Symposium
Robert Miller, on behalf of the Arthur Miller family

9:15–10:45 a.m.
Miller around the World
Gregory Poggi, Chair, Department of Theatre & Drama, Moderator
John Dillon, Sarah Lawrence College and former Artistic Director, Milwaukee Repertory Company
David Esbjornson, Artistic Director, Seattle Repertory Company
Robert Chapel, Producing Artistic Director, Heritage Repertory Company and director of Playing for Time

11:10 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
The Global Range of Miller’s Drama
Benedict Nightingale, drama critic for The Times of London
Christopher Bigsby, director of the Arthur Miller Centre, University of East Anglia
Enoch Brater, author of Arthur Miller’s Global Theater

1:50–2:00 p.m.
Remarks
Christopher Kendall, Dean, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance

2:00–3:45 p.m.
Acting—and Designing—Miller
Joan Copeland, actress
Leigh Woods, University of Michigan
Elizabeth Hope Clancy, designer, Seattle Repertory Company
Jessica Hahn, designer, Playing for Time
Vince Mountain, Scene Designer, Playing for Time

4:00–5:30 p.m.
Miller on the International Political and Cultural Scene
Ross Miller, University of Connecticut
Alan Wald, University of Michigan
Peter Bauland, University of Michigan

»Saturday, March 31
Global Miller Symposium
When: 9:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Where: Rackham Amphitheater
Cost: Free and open to the public
9:00–10:30 a.m.
The Place of Playing for Time in the Miller Repertory
Steve Marino, Editor, The Arthur Miller Journal
Laurence Goldstein, University of Michigan
Barbara Hodgdon, University of Michigan
Jessica Brater, Artistic Director, Polybe+Seats, and Director, The Charlotte Salomon Project

11:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Arthur Miller’s Place in World Theater
Enoch Brater, Moderator
W.B. Worthen, University of Michigan
Kate Mendeloff, Residential College, University of Michigan
OyamO, playwright, University of Michigan

March 29
Franz John: “Kunstkompatible Projekte”
Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series
When: 5:10 p.m.
Where: Michigan Theater, 603 Liberty St.
Cost: Free
What: Franz John works with human and mechanical interfaces, using new and old media to identify the barely noticeable and visualize it, making the unobservable visible through large-scale installations. In Military Eyes, John transformed disused military bunkers into huge walk-in Camera Obscuras. Salt Axis stretches for 55 miles to mimic the subterranean salt deposits from an evaporated ancient ocean. Turing Tables, shown in 2006 at San Francisco’s Exploratorium on the centennial of the 1906 Great Earthquake, examines online and live “the archaic feeling and consciousness that the earth is an organism, that it moves and that it can be understood as an organism in constant flux.” Co-sponsors: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. This presentation is a part of the School of Art & Design’s Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series.
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March 30
Nanking! Nanking!
Panel Discussion highlighting Bright Sheng’s threnody for pipa and orchestra
An Arts & War Event
When: 4:00 p.m.
Where: Schorling Auditorium, School of Education, 610 East University
Cost: Free
What: Bright Sheng’s symphony Nanking! Nanking! was written in memory of Chinese victims of the 1937 massacre during the Sino-Japanese War. The composer tells the story “through the ‘eyes’ of one person (the pipa) who is not only a victim, but a witness and survivor….It is also a story of humanity’s spirit.” Guest speakers are Bright Sheng, conductor Cai Jindong, writer Sheila Melvin, and historian Mark Selden, who will provide contextual background and an overview of performing arts in China today. Following the panel discussion will be a video showing of Nanking! Nanking! performed by the U-M Symphony Orchestra, and a viewing of the film, Rape of Nanking.
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or contact the Center for Chinese Studies, chinese.studies@umich.edu, 734-764-6308.

March 30
Latino Culture Show
When: 7:00 p.m.
Where: Power Center
Cost: $7 at Michigan Union Ticket Office
What: The Latino Culture Show consists of music, dance, skits, spoken word, and other forms of expression of the Latino culture. It serves as a way for people to become more familiar with the culture as well as helping them to understand contemporary issues surrounding the community.
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FEBRUARY 2007

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February 1
Shrinking Cities: “Making Art Public”
Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series
When: 5:10 p.m.
Where: Michigan Theater, 603 Liberty St.
Cost: Free
What: On the day before the international exhibition Shrinking Cities opens at both MOCAD and Cranbrook, a panel of creative practitioners discuss art in Detroit and the Shrinking Cities project, moderated by Detroit artist and MOCAD curator Mitch Cope. Shrinking Cities was initiated in 2002, when teams in Detroit, Manchester/Liverpool (Britain), Ivanovo (Russia), and Halle/Leipzig (Germany) were commissioned to investigate why and how these urban areas were shrinking in population and business, toward developing better approaches to contemporary urban issues. Co-sponsors: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the Ginsberg Center. This presentation is a part of the School of Art & Design’s Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series.
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February 1–4
“Rituals and Reveries,” An exploration of rites of passage by the University Dance Company.
When:
  Thursday, 2/1, 7:30 p.m.
  Friday, 2/2, 8:00 p.m.
  Saturday, 2/3, 8:00 p.m.
  Sunday, 2/4, 2:00 p.m.
Where: Power Center
Cost: $16, $22, $9 with student ID
What: This exploration through dance of rites of passage is highlighted by a re-staging of Martha Graham’s masterwork for thirteen women, Primitive Mysteries, created in 1931. In counterpoint to Graham’s work is Peter Sparling’s revival of Witness, for thirteen men. Graham’s work is a Miracle Play evoking the rituals of Spanish and Native Americans in the American Southwest. Sparling’s Witness was created in 1990 in response to the devastation of AIDS. Guest faculty member Leyya Tawil presents Raincoat Rebellion, set at the moment of exaltation when the old is shed and the new is embraced. Robin Wilson, Sandra Torijano, and Amy Chavasse create works to round out the program.
AoE themes addressed: Intrinsic value
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February 5
Alpha Chi Rho Lecture: Lars Spubroek
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Where: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Room 2104
Cost: Free
What: Lars Spuybroek is the principal of NOX, an architecture office in Rotterdam. He has lectured all over the world and has taught at several universities in Holland and is a regular visiting professor at Columbia University in New York. Since 2002 he holds a tenured professorship at the university of Kassel where he runs the CAD/digital design techniques department.
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February 7
T-Square Society: Despina Stratigakos
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Where: noon–1:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
What: Despina Stratigakos is this year’s Sanders Fellow in Architecture at TCAUP. She will lead a discussion/workshop entitled “The Power of Images, or Rethinking Architect Barbie.” Stratigakos holds a joint appointment at the Graduate School of Design and the Program on Women’s Studies at Harvard University. She is visiting TCAUP as the 2006–07 Sanders Research Fellow, teaching courses on gender, utopia, and architectural theory.
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February 7
AIAS Competiton Lecture Series: Fernando Lara
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Where: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Room 1227
Cost: Free
What: Lecture
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February 8
2X4 design firm: “People & Pixels”
Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series
When: 5:10 p.m.
Where: Michigan Theater, 603 Liberty St.
Cost: Free
What: 2x4 is a multidisciplinary design firm founded in 1995 by Penny Stamps visitors Michael Rock and Susan Sellers. The studio’s focus is on the dynamic visual display of unexpected content for art, design, architecture, and cultural clients. 2x4 works in print, film/video, web, and environment design. Projects include graphic design, wallpaper, and film for the Prada New York Epicenter; environmental design for new Vitra showrooms; sets and costumes for Trisha Brown Dance Company; the editorial concept for a special issue of Wired magazine with AMO; and a new line of textiles for Knoll. Co-sponsor: AIGA Detroit, the professional association for design. This presentation is a part of the School of Art & Design’s Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series.
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February 8–11
“In the Garden,” a concert of international dance at Matthaei
When: 4:30 p.m. every day
Cost: $8, $5 for MGBNA members, children, students and seniors. Seating is limited; reservations required. Call 647-7600.
What: Choreographed by U-M dance professor Jessica Fogel in honor of the centennial of the gardens,  the dance performance brings together dance artists from several global dance traditions, including Japan, India, Congo, and the United States. The performers include professional dancers Heidi Durning from Japan, Afro-Congolese dancer Biza Sompa, and classical Indian dancer Sreyashi Dey; current UM dance  majors Rodney Brown, Jeremiah Crank, Sheila Klein and Alison Woerner; and UM dance alumnae  Christina Sears-Etter and Amanda Stanger-Read.

In a collage of linked scenes, the dancers reflect and investigate the diversity of the plants on display, drawing inspiration from myth and folklore, political and economic plant histories, and the aesthetic forms and functions of the plants.

The dance takes place along the ledges, walls, waterfall and pathways of the conservatory. The audience moves with the dancers from one scene to the next within the conservatory. Eventually the dancers converge in a ceremony that acknowledges our deep connection to the world of plants and  the pressing need to cooperate in the preservation of our resources.

The audience for each performance is limited to approximately 50 people.
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February 9
Charles Moore Professor: Phillip Enquist
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: noon–1:30 p.m.
Where: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Room 2104
Cost: Free
What: Lecture
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February 15
“Visualizing Black Culture 1850 to the Present”: Lecture by Deborah Willis
When: 4:00 p.m.
Where: Anderson Room, Michigan Union
Cost: Free
What: Award-winning photographer, historian, and writer Deborah Willis will present an illustrated lecture in conjunction with “Embracing Eatonville,” (see listing Jan. 20) which includes images by Dr. Willis and three other contemporary photographers. Willis is curator for exhibitions at the Smithsonian Center for African American History and Culture and Professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Willis has pursued a dual professional career as an art photographer and as a leading historian of African American photography and curator of African Americanculture. She has published many books on the history of African American photography and photographers, and was a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow, as well as a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, and a 1996 recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation award.
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February 15
“Place: Engaging the Senses”; Peter Richards
Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series
When: 5:10 p.m.
Where: Michigan Theater, 603 Liberty St.
Cost: Free
What: Peter Richards believes that the concept of place—where we are from, where we live and where we have been—defines us as human beings. Richards, Senior Artist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, discusses current museum projects focused on understanding place; how understanding of place can translate into broader perspectives; and how his own work reflects his interest in place and its influence on human behavior. One of Richards’ most notable works is the Wave Organ, which employs wave action and tide changes to create musical sounds in a series of pipes that extend down into the San Francisco Bay. Co-sponsor: Program in the Environment. This presentation is a part of the School of Art & Design’s Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series.
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February 16
Kenneth Helphand, author, Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime
When: 4:00 p.m.
Where:Where: Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty
Cost: Free
What: A conversation with Kenneth Helphand, author of Defiant Gardens. In a starred review, Booklist said that “Helphand’s extensively researched history of gardens in wartime illuminates the grotesque juxtaposition of willful devastation and the astonishing tenacity required to create life in the face of death.” Co-sponsored by the School of Natural Resources and Environment.
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February 16
Wallenberg Studio Lecture: Joshua Clover
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Where: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd., Room 2104
Cost: Free
What: Lecture
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February 18
Reimagining the Museum: Vishakha Desai
When: 3:00 p.m.
Where: Rackham Amphitheater, 915 E. Washington
Cost: Free
What: One of a series of public dialogues exploring the role of UMMA and other museums in public life. Vishakha Desai is President and CEO of the Asia Society, dedicated to strengthening cultural and business connections between peoples of Asia and the U.S.
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February 21
AIAS Competition Lecture: Douglas Kelbaugh, FAIA
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: 6:00 p.m.
Where: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Cost: Free
What: Lecture.
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JANUARY 2007

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January 4–6
Global Place: Politics, Practice, and the Polis
When: 5 p.m. January 4
6:00 p.m. January 6
Where: Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington St.; BSRB “Pringle” Auditorium, 109 Zena Pitcher Place
Cost: Free
What: A conference in celebration of the centenary of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning that will bring together two dozen renowned architects, urban planners, researchers, and scholars from around the world. They will address questions and opportunities that architecture and planning face in an increasingly urbanized, media-driven and commoditized world.
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January 7
Reimagining the Museum: Okwui Enwezor
When: 3:00 p.m.
Where: Rackham Amphitheater, 915 E. Washington St.
Cost: Free
What: One of a series of public dialogues exploring the role of UMMA and other museums in public life. Okwui Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at the San Francisco Art Institute, and a writer with a deep interest in portraying post-colonial Africa to the world.
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January 9
Interview with MacArthur “Genius” Grant Winner Bright Sheng and Tony-Award-Winning David Henry Hwang
When: 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Where: Institute for the Humanities 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022
Cost: Free
What: Humanities Institute Director Daniel Herwitz in lively conversation with Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang about the development, staging, and import of “Silver River” and other of their works, including “Madame Mao” and “M. Butterfly.”
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January 12–13
Bright Sheng, David Henry Hwang, and “Silver River”
When: 8:00 p.m.
Where: Power Center
Cost: $18–$40
What: A music-theatre work in one act that unites Western opera, drama, and dance with Chinese opera and solo playing of the Chinese lute into a re-telling of a 4,000-year-old Chinese folktale about the creation of day and night. This tale is familiar in many Asian countries as a symbolic story of perfect love struggling to survive in an imperfect world.
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Also visit these sites for more information on Bright Sheng:

• Living Composers Project
• U-M Faculty Biography
• Schirmer Publishing biography page

January 16
A Conversation with Sekou Sundiata: “Speaking from the 51st (dream) state in the First Person Plural”
When: 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Where: Institute for the Humanities, 202 South Thayer St., Room 2022
Host Department: Institute for the Humanities
What: Poet and performer Sekou Sundiata will talk about this multimedia music-theater performance that has evolved out of meetings and residencies across the United States. Sundiata appeared at U-M in 2003 as both a solo theater artist and a front man for his band. The artist and his musical ensemble take us on a galvanizing soul search for our identity through his poetic and personal State of the American Soul Address. The adventure reconciles humor, hatred, poignancy and joy in its quest to find a vision of what it means to be both a citizen and an individual in a complex society. Among the issues considered are the meaning of the pursuit of happiness; what a public imagination steeped in violence says about who we are; and the prospects for love, compassion and human solidarity.

January 19
Arts of Citizenship Conference: Creating Campus-Community Partnerships in the Arts, With Sekou Sundiata
When: 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Friday, January 12 and Friday, January 19
Where: Michigan League, 2d Floor
Cost: Free.
What: Arts of Citizenship is a network of faculty, students and staff in the arts, humanities and design at the University of Michigan committed to collaborative work with community partners.

“Creating Campus-Community Partnerships in the Arts”, Arts of Citizenship’s first annual conference, will build connections among faculty, students, staff and community organizations. Our goal is to support the development of sustainable university-community partnerships and provide opportunities for participants to reflect on the promise and pitfalls of collaborative work.

The conference will include a series of workshops led by Sekou Sundiata, Linda Frye Burnham and other nationally known artists and activists as well as UM faculty and leaders from community partner organizations.

Workshops will offer participants the opportunity to meet potential partners, learn about recent developments in the field of the community arts, and reflect together how to create campus- community partnerships that can promote community development, foster cross-cultural conversations and understanding, and strengthen movement building for social change. Support provided by the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) and the Citizenship Theme Year Committee. Cosponsored by Arts of Citizenship, American Culture, Art and Design, CRLT, Ginsberg Center, Residential College, School of Social Work and Taubman College of Architecture and Planning.
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January 20
Sekou Sundiata: The 51st (dream) state
When: 8:00 p.m. Where: Power Center, 121 Fletcher
Cost: $14–$34
What: Theater, music, video, and public dialogue about the estrangement between American civic ideals and American civic practice.
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Also visit these sites for more information on Sekou Sundiata:

• Pure Music
• MultiArts Projects & Productions
• poets.org
• NPR Interviews

January 20
Collage Concert
When: 8:00 p.m.
Where: Hill Auditorium, 825 North University Ave.
Cost: Reserved Seating $25/ $15/ $9 with student ID
What: A fast-moving juxtaposition of musical styles, forms, and media presented without the interruption of applause, the Collage Concert showcases the remarkable talents of the students at U-M’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
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January 20–March 18
“Embracing Eatonville”
When: Tue, Sat, Sun 11–6; Wed, Thu, Fri 11–10
Guided tours available Thursdays, March 1 and March 15, at 7:00 p.m.; and Sundays, March 4 and March 18, at 2:00 p.m.
Where: UMMA Off/Site, 1301 S. University (corner of S. Forest)
Cost: Free
What: Founded in 1886, Eatonville, Florida, is the oldest black incorporated town in the United States and was home to the celebrated Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston. The exhibition looks at the spirit and character of Eatonville through the work of contemporary photographers Dawoud Bey, Lonnie Graham, Carrie Mae Weems, and Deborah Willis, each of whom has created a new body of work for this exhibition, exploring the importance of place to individual and collective identity.
AoE Theme(s) Intrinsic value and the arts; sociocultural reach of the arts; conscience and the arts
Artistic disciplines: Contemporary photography
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January 25
Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series
Janie Paul: “Creating Place, Creating Resistance”
When: 5:00 p.m.
Where: Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty
Cost: Free
What: An assistant professor at the School of Art & Design, Janie Paul is a painter who maintains a relationship between her studio practice and her work with inner city school children and incarcerated men, women and teenagers. Paul and her students work to co-create spaces of imagination and growth. This lecture is part of the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitor Series from the School of Art & Design.
Also visit these sites for more information about Janie Paul:

• Prison Creative Arts Project
• Art & Design Faculty: Janie Paul

January 28
Reimagining the Museum: Kathy Halbreich
When: 3:00 p.m.
Where: Rackham Amphitheater, 915 E. Washington
Cost: Free
What: One of a series of public dialogues exploring the role of UMMA and other museums in public life. Kathy Halbreich is Director of the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis, and an advocate of expanding the civic role of artists and audiences within cultural institutions.
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January 29
“Battling Images: The Visual Culture of World War I”
When: 4:00 p.m.
Where: Room 180, Tappan Hall
Cost: Free
What: A lecture with an abundance of rarely seen WWI-era images encouraging military enlistment. Presented by David Lubin, the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. A Yale Ph.D. in American Studies, Lubin offers courses in the history of art, film, and popular culture. As an undergraduate, Lubin studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema while reviewing music for Rolling Stone magazine. His books include Act of Portrayal, Picturing a Nation, and Titanic, an in-depth critical analysis of the recent blockbuster. He has been invited to lecture at colleges, universities, and art museums throughout the U.S. and Western Europe. His latest book, Shooting Kennedy, examines the photographic portrayal of Jack and Jackie Kennedy from their public courtship in 1953 to the events of Dallas ten years later. In 2004 Lubin was awarded the Smithsonian Institution’s prestigious Charles Eldredge Prize for “outstanding scholarship in American art.” During the 2006–07 academic year David Lubin is in residence at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, where he is working on a book that examines the relationship between modern warfare and American visual culture.
AoE themes addressed: Sociocultural reach
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January 31
Mitnick Roddier Hicks
A Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning lecture
When: 6:00 p.m. Where: 2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Cost: Free
What: AIAS Competition Lecture Series
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