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At a Feb. 18 working session focused on strategic planning, staff and board members of the Ann Arbor District Library discussed the need to reconsider rebuilding AADL’s downtown facility, among other topics. [Full Story]
The Washtenaw County Parks & Recreation department is seeking public input on its five-year master plan. After public meetings on Feb. 3 and March 9, the county’s Parks & Recreation Commission is expected to approve the plan as early as April. [Full Story]
On Oct. 4, high school and university students gathered to discuss the societal walls they sense in their own communities and how those barriers can be represented through art, as part of the University Musical Society’s Freedom Without Walls project. The project is meant to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as well as the UMS presentation of the Berlin Philharmonic. [Full Story]
The University of Michigan recently held auditions to find singers to perform the national anthem at upcoming sporting events. [Full Story]
The Ann Arbor School of Yoga recently held a fundraiser for the 48th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival. The event involved a yoga class and a screening of films from last year’s festival. [Full Story]
The Ann Arbor Public Art Commission spent their Aug. 11 meeting discussing the next steps they will take in response to German artist Herbert Dreiseitl’s presentation of his designs for the new municipal center – no recommendations were made. The group also discussed whether to put out a nationwide call for artists to submit proposals for artwork at other sites in the municipal center’s complex. [Full Story]
After some issues with the Pittsfield Township, the organizers of the art show Forth From Its Hinges launched their showcase of new local talent. [Full Story]
Herbert Dreiseitl, the German artist that the Ann Arbor Public Art Commission has recruited to create a public art installation at the city’s municipal center, presented his design ideas to AAPAC, the city council and the public on July 20. [Full Story]
Packs of green-clad young men walking through intersection, not all in a straight line. Some are wearing hats.
The Detroit Free Press reports on a local woman whose letter to Barack Obama elicited a handwritten note from the president, who writes several such notes each week. The article quotes Michael Traugott, a UM communication studies professor, who said one of the motivations for Obama’s letter-writing is political: “Without casting any aspersions on his campaign, it would be interesting to track where the letters are going by state and congressional district. Are they going to districts with wavering or persuadable members of Congress on health care?” [Source]
Ann Arbor’s Huron Hills Golf Course has opened for the season, and Leslie Park Golf Course could open as early as March 22, according to the city’s website. [Source]
In a recent report on an AAPS board meeting, we paraphrased remarks of participants, and we employed the informal nomenclature of the speakers for “Ann Arbor Open School @ Mack.” Those variants were departures from the accepted standard shortening to “Ann Arbor Open.” We acknowledge the name of the school here, and have cleaned up references to it in the original piece.
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