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Living Arts WINTER Semester 2012 Events
March 2012
Friday, March 30, 5:30-7 p.m. In C Jam Session. Join us for a rehearsal of Terry Riley's minimalist piece "In C." Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. Whether you play strings, brass, winds, percussion, guitar, sing or whatever, come make a joyful noise with us! We’ll provide the sheet music! For more info, see here.
Saturday, March 31. Living Arts participates in Detroit Partnership!
April 2012
Sunday April 1, 6 p.m., Living Arts Program Board Meeting and Elections. Last meeting of the year!
Sunday April 1, 7-8:30 p.m., Tiny Paper Models Workshop with RA Charlotte Campbell. Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. More info to follow.
Tuesday, April 3, 6:30-9 p.m., The University of Michigan Exquisite Corpse Anijam Project …Dare to enter the unknown. Led by Academy Award-Nominated filmmaker, Gary Schwartz. Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. Single Frame Films.
Thursday, April 5, time TBA. Painting with Nailpolish workshop with Angel Shen. Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall.
Wednesday, April 11, 8-10 p.m., Open Mic at the Blue Apple. Sign up to perform here.
April 10 and 12. Living Arts e-Portfolio Presentations. In Class.
April 14, 3-5 p.m., Bursley Fashion Show! Bursley Dining Hall.
April 16-20 Living Arts Takes Flight Exhibition, Duderstadt Gallery
Tuesday, April 17, 4-6 p.m., Duderstadt Gallery. Living Arts End-of-Year Symposium.
Past Events
March 2012
Sunday, March 25, 3-5 p.m., little bang theory Demonstration, Workshop and Performance! little bang theory is Terri Sarris, Frank Pahl and Doug Shimmin. You can get a sense of the diversity of their work here, here, here, and here. Aided by clips from filmmaker Terri Sarris, Frank Pahl will discuss the evolution of his interest in both automatic and toy instruments. Students will have the opportunity to improvise music for a few clips of a silent film, and then little bang theory will perform their original accompaniment to Wladislaw Starewicz's 1934 short animated film, The Mascot. Director Terry Gilliam (of Monty Python and Brazil) fame, lists The Mascot as one of the best animated films of all time!
Sunday, March 25, 12:30-2:30 p.m., New Peer Mentors Mini-Retreat. Living Arts Studio.
Wednesday, March 21, 8-10 p.m., Open Mic at the Blue Apple featuring Amazin' Blue. Sign up to perform here.
Tuesday, March 20, 6-7 p.m. Program Board Meeting. Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall.
Sunday, March 18, 5-8 p.m. Living Arts Presents Jazz Night! More information to follow. In Bursley Cafeteria. Organized by Living Arts RA Ken Sieloff.
Thursday, March 15, 7:30-9 p.m., Moving in the Moment: A Workshop in Dance Improvisation with Sean Hoskins, MFA. Living Arts Studio. For more about Sean see his website.
March 12-16. North Campus Photo Competition winners displayed in the Duderstadt Connector Hallway. View our Living Arts North Campus Photography Competition winners here.
Sunday, March 11, 12-2 p.m., North Campus Photo Competition Award Ceremony and Reception. Room 1180 Duderstadt Center.
Tuesday, March 6, 6-7 p.m., Program Board Meeting. Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall.
Monday, March 5. Deadline to submit your photographs to North Campus Photo Competition. Submit your photos here!
February 2012
Thursday, February 23, 7-9 p.m., Needle-Felting Workshop. Living Arts Studio Bursley Hall. With our very own Angel Shen!
Tuesday, February 21. 6-7 p.m., Living Arts Program Board Meeting. Living Arts Studio.
Saturday, February 18, 3-5 p.m., Saturday, Origami and Paper-Cutting Workshop. Warm up with hot chocolate and cookies, and learn about the science and art of paper-folding! Watch the short film Between the Folds: The Art of Science, the Science of Art, then discuss and create own origami with local origami artist Beth Johnson. Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. Check out Beth's website and this article about her.
Wednesday, February 15, 7-8 p.m., Cupcake Decorating at the Blue Apple! Bursley Hall. Have a cupcake and make a card for your Valentine before you head up to the Open Mic!
Wednesday, February 15, 8-10 p.m., Open Mic at the Blue Apple. Sign up to perform here.
Thursday, February 9, 7-9 p.m., Create Your Own Pop-Up Art. Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. Explore the craft of three-dimensional paper movement!
Thursday, February 2, 7-9 p.m,. Wounded Furniture, Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. Living Arts is partnerering with Arts-in-Residence (AIR) and UMMA to celebrate its exhibition, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life exhibition. Wounded Furniture looks like this. Wounded Furniture premiered July 19th, 1965 at Cafe au Go Go in New York and we are now bringing it to you in 2012!
Tuesday, February 7, 7-8:30 p.m. Chain Maille Workshop. Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. Led by our own chain-mail expert, Nadine Dyskant-Miller!
January 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Bridge Building Competition, Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. Come for the pizza and prizes! Stay for the Program Board meeting. Congratulations to our winners, Chris Seow and Omari Tabor!
Thursday, January 26, 5:10-6:30 p.m., Why We Broke Up: Maira Kalman and Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket). Michgian Theater (603 E. Liberty). Living Arts is proud to co-sponsor this Penny Stamps lecture.
Thursday, January 26, 8-9:30 p.m., Prof. Walt Everett, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, "Composition and Recording of Strawberry Fields Forever." Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. Come hear Prof. Everett talk about the evolution of Strawberry Fields Forever.
Wednesday, January 25, 8-10 p.m., Open Mic Night presented by Living Arts & the Blue Apple. Want to perform? Sign up here.
Saturday, January 21, 10:30 am, Saturday Morning Physics: Einstein as a Cultural Figure. Rackham Auditorium (915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor)
Einstein on the Beach composer Philip Glass joins a panel of special guests to ponder the cultural significance of Einstein. Glass is joined by Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist from the California Institute of Technology who has been featured in Wired magazine, The New York Times, and on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, and University of Chicago cosmology scholar Michael Turner who co-authored The Early Universe. U-M faculty member Fred Adams moderates the discussion. Cosponsored with UMS and the Department of Physics.
Sunday, January 15, 5 p.m., Penny Stamps Distinguished Speakers Series: Philip Glass and Robert Wilson. The Power of 2.
Widely credited as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, the rarely performed avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach revolutionized theater, dance and performance. Its legendary, pioneering creators, director Robert Wilson and composer Philip Glass, discuss the initial imagining of this groundbreaking collaboration, the creative process and its trajectory. Co-sponsored by the University Musical Society (UMS) and the U-M Museum of Art (UMMA) and Living Arts.
Saturday, Jan 7, 1-3:30 p.m., Rube Goldberg Competition. Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. Get your brain in gear for the winter term with a Rube Goldberg machine! Can you team work together to deliver a ping-pong ball into a basket 9 feet away? Congratulations to our winners, Felipe Rogerio, Jill Bender and Wade Phillips!
December 2011
Saturday, Dec 17, 2-3 p.m., Carolling Study Break at Northwood Family Housing.
Wednesday, Dec 14, 8-9 p.m., Living Arts White Elephant end-of-year celebration! In the Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall.
Wednesday, Dec 14, TBA. Study Break! Learn How to Decorate Cookies with Flood Icing. With grad student intern and chocolatier extraordinaire Paige Morton. In the Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall.
Wednesday, Dec 7, 8-10 p.m., Open Mic Night presented by Living Arts & the Blue Apple. Want to perform? Sign up here.
Monday, Dec 5, 8-10 p.m. Wham! Bam! Islam!, Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. This film, sponsored by AIR (Art-in-Residence) in conjunction with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker series, is a documentary about Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa's work. (Al-Mutawa will be speaking at the Michigan Theater on Thursday, Dec 8).
Saturday, Dec 3: Art Outta Town: Woodward Ave Art: DIA & MOCAD & Work:Detroit. Sign up here: http://www3.arts.umich.edu/programs/outta/
Saturday, Dec 3, 12 noon- 4 p.m. (drop in): Gingerbread Skyscraper Competition. Led by RAs Ken Sieloff and Charlotte Campbell. Bursley Dining East Cafeteria.
Thursday, Dec 1, 7-8:30 p.m.: Ducks and Dolls Design Competition Workshop. Led by RA Charlotte Campbell. Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. More workshops to be held on Dec 3 @5 p.m., Dec 8 @ 7p.m. and Dec 10 time TBA. Ducks and Dolls are due Jan 4th.
Thursday, Dec 1, 6-9 p.m.: Bursley-wide Mural Painting. Led by Bursley Arts Ambassadors. Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall.
November 2011
Wednesday, Nov 30, 6-7 p.m.: Living Arts Program Board Meeting. Pick up your quilt square for the Living Arts Quilt! Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall.
Wednesday, Nov 30, 7-8:30 p.m.: Photoshop Workshop with Mike Vitale, MFA. In Design Lab One in the Duderstadt Center.
Tuesday, Nov 15: 8-10 p.m.: Open Mic Night presented by Living Arts & the Blue Apple. Want to perform? Sign up here.
Tuesday, Nov 15-Sunday, Nov 20: Living Arts Work-in-Progress in the Duderstadt Gallery.
Friday, Nov 4 at 6 p.m. through Sunday, Nov 6 at 12 noon, 42 Hours of Re-Creativity. See here for more info!
October 2011
Sunday, Oct 30. In the Basement of Bursley ... a Haunted Experience. Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. 6 p.m.-midnight. Enter if you dare!
Tuesday, Oct 25: 6-9 p.m., Chiaroscuro Pumpkin Carving with A&D Studio Coordinator Mike Vitale, MFA. Learn how to carve pumpkins in the Chiaroscuro style.
Saturday, Oct 22: 1-5 p.m., Junkstrament Build & Jam with SMTD faculty Mark Kirschenmann, Living Arts Studio Bursley Hall. Sign up!
Wednesday, Oct 19: 8-10 p.m.: Open Mic Night presented by Living Arts & the Blue Apple. Want to perform? Sign up here.
Wednesday, Oct 19: 6-8 p.m., Costume Making Workshop, Living Arts Studio
Friday, Oct 7: 7-8 p.m., Bow Making Workshop, Living Arts Studio
Wednesday, Oct 5: 7-8:30: Tie-Dye, Part II, Living Arts Studio
September 2011
Sunday, Sept 25: 1-6 p.m., New Millenium Kite Festival, Ann Arbor Arboretum
Wednesday, Sept 21, 8-10 p.m., Open Mic Night presented by Living Arts & the Blue Apple. Want to perform? Sign up here.
Sunday, Sept 18, 1:30-2:30 p.m.: Living Arts Summer Reads Discussion Groups. Dan Pink's A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. Locations: Bursley Hall and Art & Architecture Library, Duderstadt Center.
Sunday, Sept 18", 3-4 p.m., North Campus Faculty Panel: Creativity across Disciplines, Stamps Auditorium in Walgreen Drama Center. Open to the public. See the poster pdf.
Sunday, Sept 11, 12:30-3 pm and 3-5:30 p.m.: Kite-Building Workshops with A&D faculty Anne Mondro & Matt Shlian, Living Arts Studio, Bursley Hall. Sign up here.
Tuesday, Sept 6, 8-10 p.m., Open Mic Night presented by Living Arts & the Blue Apple. Want to perform? Sign up here.
Sunday, Sept 4, 1-4 p.m.: Graffiti Sculpture & Jam with Architecture graduate student Virginia Black and SMTD alumna Melissa Coppola, outside Bursley Hall. Sign up.
Thursday, Sept 1, 1-4 p.m.: Living Arts UM Challenge Program
Winter Semester 2011
April 21: Cookie Bake-Off
April 16: Performance and Exhibit at Canterbury House
April 15: Living Arts & Bursley Hall Council End-of-Year Formal
April 14: Kite-Making and Flying
April 9: Living Arts Presents The Mattress Tag Cutters Comedy Improv
April 3: Living Arts Builds a Catapult (Torsion Trebuchet)
April 2: Jewelry Making Part II- Casting Silver
March 31: Living Arts Presents Open Mic at the Blue Apple
March 19: Living Arts Peer Mentor Retreat
March 12: 50s Swing-Dance Party
Feb 20: Rube Goldberg Competition
Feb 19: Living Arts Presents Open Mic at the Blue Apple
Feb 18: UMS Merce Cunningham Legacy Tour Field Trip
Feb 13: RA Austyn Foster's Foreign Film Series, Princess Mononoke
Feb 13: Intro to Songwriting with Dick Siegel
Feb 12: Ice Carving Demonstration
Feb 10: Living Arts at the Blue Apple Open Mic
Feb 8: Working in Film Alumni Panel
Feb 6: Living Arts Builds an Igloo
Jan 25: Living Arts Silent Rave Flashmob
Jan 24: RA Austyn Foster and DPE (Diversity Peer Educator) Felix Lopez present Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing
Jan 23: Living Arts Painting Party
Jan 22: Jewelry Making
Jan 16: UMMA Field Trip
Fall Semester 2010
Dec 18: Play Day
Dec 12: Engineering Challenge: Build a Paper Table
Dec 10: Living Arts Rave with student DJs
Dec 9: Origami Workshop
Nov 21: Living Arts Showcase
Nov 21: Algorithmic Art & Computation Science with Mark J. Stock
Nov 16: New Media Strategies to Promote Social Justice: Flashmobs, Mashups, and Autotune with Artist-in-Residence Sultan Sharrief
Nov 13-14: Graffiti Sculpture with Architecture students Virginia Black and Justin Mast
Nov 11: “In C” Jam Session
Nov 7: Drawn by Music with Peer Mentor Wes Veach
Oct 31: Darkroom Installation
Oct 28: Chiaroscuro Pumpkin Carving with Art & Design studio coordinator Mike Vitale, MFA
Oct 10: MPowered 1000 Pitches Dorm Storm
Oct 7: Play Doh Study Break with Resident Advisor Austyn Foster
Oct 2: Found-Art-a-Palooza Thrift Store Activity with Resident Advisor Austyn Foster
Sept 30: Moving in the Moment: A Workshop in Dance Improvisation with Sean Hoskins, MFA candidate
Sept 27: Take a Stand Campaign Mass Meeting
Sept 26: Creativity and Nature Walk: Nichols Arboretum with Prof. Bob Grese, Director of the Nichols Arboretum and Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Sept 17: Living Arts Rave with student DJs
Sept 16: Viewing & Discussion of Bilal’s Stand with Artist-in-Residence Sultan Sharrief
Sept 12: Movie Night, Pulp Fiction
Sept 5: Living Arts Programming Board Mass Meeting
Sept 2: UM Ropes Challenge
