Our event listings include government meetings that are open to the public, as well as community events and other happenings in the area. You can add your own events to the listing below or visit the comprehensive events calendar on arborweb.com, published by The Ann Arbor Observer.
CANCELLED Ann Arbor public art commission meeting
CANCELLED in lieu of a Feb. 26 retreat from 1-5:30 p.m. at the NEW Center, 1100 N. Main. The monthly meetings of the Ann Arbor public art commission are open to the public and include opportunities for public commentary. [Full Story at Upcoming]
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Full details at http://www.ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=681 The February 2010 snowstorm was about the only thing that could keep Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra away from Ann Arbor! Wynton Marsalis stands in a l [Full Story at Upcoming]
Ann Arbor planning commission meeting
The planning commission meetings are open to the public and include opportunities for public commentary. [Full Story at Upcoming]
Hagen Quartet
Full details at http://www.ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=682 “Their performance was filled with subtlety and wonder…the playing was breathtaking in its precision, dynamism, and agility…a thrilling encounter.” (The Independent) Re [Full Story at Upcoming]
Lecture – Shane Harris - The New Cold War: Hackers, Drones, and Cyber Spies
Shane Harris discusses the threats and challenges that will define America’s national security in the 21st century in his talk - The New Cold War: Hackers, Drones, and Cyber Spies. An author and journalist, Shane Harris has spent the last decade [Full Story at Upcoming]
Ann Arbor public art commission retreat
The aim of this retreat is to shape the city's annual art plan and develop a master plan that would provide a broader conceptual framework to guide AAPAC’s decisions. [Full Story at Upcoming]
Grief and Loss in Addiction and Recovery
"Grief and Loss in Addiction and Recovery" will be presented on Tuesday February 28, 2012, from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm; by Janice Firn, LMSW, Clinical Social Worker, University of Michigan Hospital; and Matthew Statman, LLMSW, CADC, Dawn Farm therapist a [Full Story at Upcoming]
"Play Again" Film Screening and Discussion
"Play Again" Film Screening and Discussion - sponsored by Progressive Education Consortium, hosted by Clonlara School Join us for the PEC sponsored film screening and discussion about the film Play Again from Bullfrog Communities. 6:00 arrival and [Full Story at Upcoming]
Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority meeting
The monthly meetings of the Ann Arbor DDA board are open to the public. At the beginning of each meeting, four slots are available for public commentary and can be reserved in advance by calling the DDA at 734-994-6697. At the conclusion of the meeti [Full Story at Upcoming]
Washtenaw County board of commissioners meeting
The ways & means committee meets first, followed immediately by the regular board meeting. Though the agenda states that the regular board meeting begins at 6:45 p.m., it usually starts much later – times vary depending on what’s on the agenda. P [Full Story at Upcoming]
Galileo's Daughters
Music, narration, and a stunning video create an entertaining window into one of the most exciting periods in the history of western civilization. Galileo’s Daughters, an ensemble based in New York City, is inspired by the lives and works of Galile [Full Story at Upcoming]
Ann Arbor Public Schools board of education meeting
Members of the public can address the AAPS board during their regular meeting by arranging an appointment to speak by calling, writing, or emailing the Board of Education Office by 5:00 p.m. the day preceding the meeting. Speakers arranging their ti [Full Story at Upcoming]
Marcel Danesi: The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Mental and Cultural Life
Puzzles have existed since the dawn of history. From riddles and anagrams to today’s Rubik’s Cubes, sudoku, and TV game shows, it seems that humans have engaged in this sort of activity since they became conscious beings. Why? This talk will look [Full Story at Upcoming]
Documentary Film - “Black and Blue: The Story of Gerald Ford, Willis Ward, Gerald Ford, and the 1934 Michigan-Georgia Tech Game”
When Georgia Tech came to Michigan in 1934, the Wolverines were forced to bench their best player, Willis Ward, because he was an African-American. The incident infuriated Ward's best friend on the team, Gerald Ford. This is the story of two schools, [Full Story at Upcoming]
Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Full details at http://www.ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=683 Riccardo Muti, the Chicago Symphony’s new music director, makes his first UMS appearance since 2006 conducting an all-Brahms program. Violinist Pinchas Zukerman, recognized a [Full Story at Upcoming]
Lamaze Family Center Grand Opening Celebration
Lamaze Family Center Ann Arbor will host a Grand Opening Celebration on March 10, 2012. LFCAA welcomes members of the community into its spacious and sunny new location to sample some of its newest program offerings, meet the educators and staff, an [Full Story at Upcoming]
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester
Full details at http://www.ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=684 “Max Raabe and his 12-piece Palast Orchester are recreating the music of the Weimar era with verve and class.” (Time Out New York) A nostalgic homage to the legendary noctu [Full Story at Upcoming]
The DAAS Zora Neale Hurston Lecture of the Humanities Featuring Farah Griffin
Griffin is the author of Who Set You Flowin’: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford, 1995), If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press, 2001) and Clawing At the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltran [Full Story at Upcoming]
Digital Books and Flying Cars: Libraries as Collateral Damage
Peter Brantley discusses the wild and chaotic publishing environment of today, and why actions of publishers are rational, even as they threaten to destroy traditional models of library book lending. A few conjectures about library responses will be [Full Story at Upcoming]
Mirror, Mirror in the Office
Cost: $25 Reinvent yourself to a new YOU! This month is all about dressing for success and being the fabulous woman that you wanna be. Dress for success without breaking the bank. Join us at the Burnt Toast Inn for a Spring Fashion Show. Yummy [Full Story at Upcoming]
PEC Lecture Series - "Interactive Metronome Improves Focus and Academic Performance"
PEC Lecture Series, "Interactive Metronome Improves Focus" - sponsored by Progressive Education Consortium, hosted by Clonlara School Join us for an Interactive Metronome presentation and free hands-on participation. Paul Sikorski, from Michigan Pe [Full Story at Upcoming]
Michigan Wikipedians Trivia Night
The Michigan Wikipedians will be hosting their second annual Trivia Night on March 14, 2012 from 7-9 pm in the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery on the UM campus. Registration (http://bit.ly/rFBItW) is free and requested, but not required. The Michiga [Full Story at Upcoming]
Introduction to Council Circles with Jeanne Mackey
Experience the ancient pan-cultural practice of sharing insight and experience in a council circle. Council circles have re-emerged as a place to listen deeply and speak from the heart. Facilitator Jeanne Mackey first learned council practices throug [Full Story at Upcoming]
University of Michigan board of regents meeting
The meetings of the University of Michigan Board of Regents include the opportunity for public comment. Information about the university's public comment policy is online: http://www.regents.umich.edu/meetings/addressing.html#Guidelines [Full Story at Upcoming]
SHARP insights: How Title IX Changed the Game
Marie Hardin will present: “The impact of journalistic norms on the framing of Title IX and women’s sports.” [Full Story at Upcoming]
Ann Arbor Transportation Authority board meeting
The monthly meetings of the AATA are open to the public and include two opportunities for public commentary. [Full Story at Upcoming]
The Andersen Project, Ex Machina
Full details at http://www.ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=686 Filled to the brim with his trademark humor and visual and technological brilliance, this off-the-wall masterpiece by Canadian theater visionary Robert Lepage stars Yves Jacque [Full Story at Upcoming]
The Andersen Project, Ex Machina
Full details at http://www.ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=686 Filled to the brim with his trademark humor and visual and technological brilliance, this off-the-wall masterpiece by Canadian theater visionary Robert Lepage stars Yves Jacque [Full Story at Upcoming]
In the Doctor's Office: Recovery Friend or Foe?
"In the Doctor's Office: Recovery Friend or Foe?" will be presented by Mark A. Weiner, MD; Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine; and Jason Schwartz, LMSW; Dawn Farm Clinical Director. It's been said that the doctor's office is a dangerous place f [Full Story at Upcoming]
San Francisco Symphony: American Mavericks
Full details at http://ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageID=691 As part of its centennial season, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony will present its second American Mavericks Festival, which will tour in its entirety to only [Full Story at Upcoming]
San Francisco Symphony Mavericks Chamber Concert
Full details at http://ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageID=694 This final concert of the four-concert American Mavericks residency features 17 musicians from the San Francisco Symphony performing chamber music. American mavericks explored ever [Full Story at Upcoming]
Education Under Fire
Baha`i Club of the University of Michigan and Amnesty International invites you for screening of the Education Under Fire (EUF), a Documentary and Discussion that will take place on March 27, 2012, at 7:00pm in Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery. The d [Full Story at Upcoming]
Relapse Prevention
"Relapse Prevention" will be presented by Robin Edison, M.Ed., LPC, NCC, CAAC; Coordinator, Dawn Farm Downtown program. The relapse process begins before alcohol/other drug use resumes. This program will discuss the dynamics of relapse, the warning s [Full Story at Upcoming]
Marvin Kalb - Book lecture: Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library welcomes renowned reporter, journalist and author Marvin Kalb, to discuss his new book, Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama. Marvin Kalb, moderator of the highly acclaimed [Full Story at Upcoming]
Global Feminisms Revisited
The Global Feminisms Project is a collaborative international project, resulting in an on-line archive, that examined the history of feminist activism, women's movements and academic women's studies in China, India, Poland, and the United States. The [Full Story at Upcoming]
Siachen Glacier: The Battle of Roses: Harish Kapadia at the Mountaineering Culture Studies Group Meeting
Harish Kapadia has trekked and climbed in the region of the Eastern Karakoram on nine different trips. He has visited the Siachen Glacier, the scene of military conflict between India and Pakistan since 1984, three times. His was one of the few civil [Full Story at Upcoming]
Zakir Hussain and Master Musicians of India
Full details at http://ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=688 Zakir Hussain is today appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large as an international phenomenon. His playing is marked by uncanny intuition and ma [Full Story at Upcoming]
Cheikh Lô
Full details at http://ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=689 Cheikh Lô is one of the great mavericks of African music. A superb singer and songwriter, as well as a distinctive guitaristand drummer, he has personalized and distilled a variet [Full Story at Upcoming]
Charles Lloyd New Quartet
Full details at http://ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=690 Forty years ago, saxophonist Charles Lloyd was a pop star; his 1966 album, Forest Flower, sold a million copies. Four years ago, at 69, when most individuals are thinking of ways t [Full Story at Upcoming]
The Intersection of Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse
"The Intersection of Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse" will be presented by Barbara Niess May, MPH, MSW; Executive Director, SafeHouse Center; and David J.H. Garvin, LMSW; Director, Alternatives to Domestic Aggression, Catholic Social Services o [Full Story at Upcoming]
Singing in Circle: An Evening of Rounds with Jeanne Mackey
Singing two-part, three-part, or four-part rounds is great fun for adults and kids. We’ll sing rounds, both familiar and obscure, silly and profound, for all experience levels. Song leader Jeanne Mackey has been singing in circle for most of her l [Full Story at Upcoming]
Pavel Haas Quartet
Full details at http://ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=695 “The world’s most exciting string quartet? Well, they suit the tagline better than most. Their tone is large, quasi-orchestral. They take risks. Above all, they play with passi [Full Story at Upcoming]
Ballet Preljocaj: Snow White
Full details at http://ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=696 It’s been more than a decade since Ballet Preljocaj (pronounced prezh-oh-kahzh) made its UMS debut, but this production of Snow White, created in 2008, will be well worth the wai [Full Story at Upcoming]
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Joshua Bell, violin
Full details at http://ums.org/s_current_season/artist.asp?pageid=697 Sir Neville Marriner says that the small ensemble he founded in 1958 “had no intention of giving any concerts or continuing forever.” Happily, whatever the initial intention, t [Full Story at Upcoming]
Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction
"Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction" will be presented by Rabbi Yisrael Pinson; Director, Jewish Recovery International and Editor-In-Chief, JewishRecovery.org. Does spirituality contribute to one's recovery? Does recovery contribute t [Full Story at Upcoming]
Dawn Farm Third Annual Ride for Recovery
The Ride for Recovery is a family fun and fitness event and a fundraiser for Dawn Farm. There will be bike rides, runs and walks with opportunities to participate at any fitness level. Registration includes a Ride for Recovery T-shirt and a "Fun Day [Full Story at Upcoming]
Clonlara School Open House
Is the Writing on the Chalkboard? Does Your Student Need an Academic Change? CALL US NOW FOR A TOUR! 734-769-4511 WWW.CLONLARACAMPUS.ORG -INDIVIDUALIZED PLANS- -PROJECT BASED- -STUDENT DRIVEN PACE- -BLENDED SCHEDULING- -DIVERSE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT- [Full Story at Upcoming]
Annual Michigan Growth Capital Symposium
Ann Arbor, Mich. – May 15, 2011 – The Michigan Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) today unveiled preliminary plans for the 2012 Symposium, the Midwest’s premier equity event. MGCS is the leading networking event for leaders in the venture capital [Full Story at Upcoming]