Arts Info Newsletter
From the Arts at Michigan
Week of September 15, 2011
Enter the As I See It Photo Competition!
Theme: "Welcome To Michigan"
Deadline Sept 22 at midnight
Arts at Michigan holds four themed photo competitions throughout the academic year. To celebrate the start of a new year at Michigan, the theme for this round of competition will be "WELCOME TO MICHIGAN", and all photos should relate to that theme, either literally or symbolically. What's uniquely Michigan to you?
Submit a photo you've taken that interprets that theme and you can win a NOOK COLOR, plus other great arts-related prizes!
Finalists will be displayed and juried by the public in the Unions and via online voting. All University of Michigan students are eligible.
Avenue Q
by the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre
Sep 15-18; 8pm Th-Sat, 2pm Sun
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Join A2CT for the Ann Arbor premiere of Avenue Q, the off-beat musical comedy that took Broadway by storm! In this bawdy satire, lovable puppets play out the transition from a childhood pumped full of self-esteem to the real world, where their options are limited and being special isn't enough to guarantee success.
Don't have the cash for a student ticket? Did you know that an Arts At Michigan Passport voucher can get you
FREE and DISCOUNTED student tickets to great events like this one? Stop by the Office of New Student Programs (1st Floor LSA Building, open weekdays, 8am-5pm) and pick up a Passport voucher while they last!
Music in the Arb
Featuring Mon Monarch
Nichols Arboretum (The Arb)
Sunday, Sept 18; 6pm
FREE
All are invited to Music in the Arb, a series of free summer concerts at the amphitheater in Nichols Arboretum. Featuring eclectic music from locally and nationally known bands and performers. Tonight's performance by Mon Monarch, playing a blend of roots music, country, bluegrass, and Southern gospel. Visit the band's website at http://www.monmonarch.com for information about them, or call the Arb at 734-647-7600 for directions. Concert is free and begins at 6 pm.
Site of The Week: Harmonicas!
Check out our Harmonicas FunPage-- We handed out harmonicas at Northfest and Festifall, and our site was made to help inspire you to learn to play!
Each week we feature a new interesting arts website or video in our newsletter and on our website. Do you know of a cool artsy website you've been telling people about, or an amazing video you can't stop watching? Maybe even a video you made? Email us and we might feature it!
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Altered Ground
Work: Ann Arbor,306 State StreetTuesday through Saturday: Noon – 7 pm
FREE
Altered Ground examines the landscape, and how the forces of entropy, encroachment, and extraordinary or inconceivable events can alter environments. It also investigates how landscapes memorialize history, whether tragic or joyous, while simultaneously acting as a platform to envision the future. Curated by Lea Bult.
Exhibition runs September 9 through October 7, 2011 at Work: Ann Arbor
Exhibition runs September 9 through October 7, 2011
Arts Events
Arts at Michigan News
Want to share your Photographic Genius?
Arts at Michigan is seeking student photographs for the September 2011 As I See It Photo Competition! To celebrate the start of a new year at Michigan, the theme for this round of competition will be "WELCOME TO MICHIGAN", and all photos should relate to that theme, either literally or symbolically. What's uniquely Michigan to you?
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What People are Saying
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One sister gives up so much just so that her family won't change, and in the end it just leads to her regretting and realizing her mistakes.
[art]seen writer Danny Fob reviewed Little Women, the opera put on by The School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Join the conversation
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Do you want to write for us? And get paid to share your thoughts? Learn how!
Haiku of the Week
Dining Hall madness,
student eating everyplace
Freshman fifteen scare.
— Heather Beaudoin, LSA '15
Want to share your own poetic genius? Submit a haiku to arts@umich.edu. It’s easy — 5 syllables, then 7, then 5!
Check out our past Haikus on the archive page
Calls and Auditions
UMS is hiring students for internships and work-study positions for the 11/12 season and school year. UMS presents performances of music, theater, and dance in venues on the U-M campus and around Ann Arbor. Learn more here »
Want to get paid to blog for Arts at Michigan? Come be a part of our two collaborative writing communities: arts, ink. and [art]seen! Apply by September 26th. More info »
Arts Ambassadors- We're looking for enthusiastic, outgoing, and friendly students who are living in a Residence Hall or living community and have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve within their living communities as a resource for arts opportunities on campus. More info »
Volunteers are needed for The Kite Festival on Sept 25th at the Arb, to help out setting up, facilitating the craft table, registering participants for the kite competition, and mobilizing people on site. Food and t-shirts provided. We have a great volunteer thank you with lots of food scheduled the week of the 26th. For more info, email kite.info@umich.edu
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