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  • Oct 21 Friday

    The Wait Wait Stand-Up Comedy Tour - 2022

    Michigan Theatre
    $42.50-$99.50
    07:00 PM - 09:00 PM on Fri, 21 Oct 2022

    Wait Wait Stand-Up Tour
    Michigan Theatre
    Friday, October 21, 2022

    General public sales start Friday, July 29 at 10 am

    Doors open at 6:00 PM for the event. This show is recommended for mature audiences.

    It’s the Wait Wait Stand-Up Tour — a night of stand-up-comedy featuring some of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me’s funniest panelists.

    Wait Wait’s panelists are a talented bunch — some of the most hilarious and insightful people in the country. You’ve heard them answering questions on Wait Wait — subject to FCC limitations. Here’s a chance to enjoy a full evening of their brilliant stand-up comedy.

    Your host is veteran stand-up and Wait Wait regular, Alonzo Bodden. Joining him in Ann Arbor are Maz Jobrani, Helen Hong, and Negin Farsad!

    There never seems to be enough time on the weekly radio show to really get to know our incredibly talented and funny panelists. So, we’re taking them on tour. See you soon!

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  • Sep 14 Wednesday

    Rotary Club of Ann Arbor 19th Annual Golf & Tennis Outing - 9/14/22

    Fox Hills Golf and Banquet Center
    $25-$10,000
    08:00 AM - 05:00 PM on Wed, 14 Sep 2022

    The Rotary Club of Ann Arbor’s 19th Annual Golf and Tennis Outing (GTO) will be on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at Fox Hills Golf & Banquet Center, just 20 minutes east of Ann Arbor. In true Rotary tradition, this will be an event not to be missed.

    The day begins with Registration and Buffet Breakfast at 8 am, followed by a 9 am shotgun start on the award-winning Golden Fox course. Lunch will be served at the turn. The always fun and always exciting Silent Auction will be anything but silent, with cocktails and heavy hors d'ouevres between 2 and 4. The winners of the golf tournament will be announced during this time.

    At 4, it’s into the wonderful dining room of Fox Hills Banquet Center for a fabulous dinner and speaker. This year’s special guest is Jim Brandstatter, two-time “Sportscaster of the Year in Michigan” and member of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. He will share stories from his top-selling sports book “Tales of Michigan Stadium.”

    The GTO is our club’s signature fundraiser that allows RCAA to fund our “Helping Kids Succeed” scholarship programs, distribute grants to 10+ local nonprofit programs, and finance projects in parts of the world where children are most at risk.

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  • Sep 15 Thursday

    Wallace House Presents “China’s Paradox: Authoritarianism and Weakness” with Scott Tong

    Wallace House
    05:00 PM - 06:00 PM on Thu, 15 Sep 2022

    In 2013, longtime China correspondent Scott Tong came to the Knight-Wallace Fellowship to research China’s on-again, off-again ties with the global community, and how it connected with his own family. The resulting book, “A Village with My Name: A Family’s History of China’s Opening to the World,” examines nationalism and globalization through the stories of five generations of Tongs. China’s openness to the western world delivered great benefits to them yet came at a devasting human price during Mao’s communist rule. In the end, this openness made it possible for Tong to become an American journalist covering China.

    Today, Beijing’s increasingly antagonistic relations with Washington and many advanced economies present a great risk to its own economy and high-tech development.

    Now a co-host of NPR’s Here & Now Tong returns to Wallace House to discuss Beijing’s increasing authoritarianism and international aggression, and what it signals for its own future and that of globalization.

    The annual Graham Hovey Lecture recognizes a Knight-Wallace journalist whose career exemplifies the benefits of a fellowship at the University of Michigan and whose ensuing work is at the forefront of national conversation. The event is named for the late Graham Hovey, director of the fellowship program from 1980 to 1986 and a distinguished journalist for The New York Times.

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  • Aug 17 Wednesday

    Why Not Wednesday?

    Arbor Hills shopping center
    Free
    12:00 AM - 12:00 AM, every month on Wednesday through Jul 16, 2025.

    Arbor Hills’ monthly Why Not Wednesday? events offer area shoppers a chance to explore the center’s stores, take part in live demonstrations, special offers and refreshments throughout the night.

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  • Aug 17 Wednesday

    Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism

    Free
    10:00 AM - 11:59 PM, every day through N/A.

    Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s "Flay (James Madison)," this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850. In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

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  • Aug 17 Wednesday

    Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution

    Free
    10:00 AM - 11:59 PM, every day through N/A.

    This exhibition proactively engages with debates about restitution and the ethics of museums’ owning African heirlooms collected during the era of colonization. The investigation and research into 11 works of African art will be conducted publicly — visitors will have access to documents, photographs, and correspondence that will help UMMA develop a better understanding of each object’s history, grappling in real time with questions surrounding legal and ethical ownership of these artworks. Though complex, this project presents exciting opportunities for museum transparency and creating new pathways for relationship-building with partners in Africa and its diaspora.

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  • Aug 17 Wednesday

    We Write to You About Africa

    Free
    10:00 AM - 11:59 PM, every day through N/A.

    Following years of research into the Museum’s and University of Michigan’s relationships with Africa and African art collections, "We Write To You About Africa" is a complete reinstallation and doubling of the Museum’s space dedicated to African art. Featuring a wide range of artworks—from historic Yoruba and Kongo figures to contemporary works by African and African American artists, such as Sam Nhlengenthwa, Masimba Hwati, Jon Onye Lockard and Shani Peters—the exhibition directly addresses the complex and difficult histories inherent to African art collections in the Global North, including their entanglements with colonization and global efforts to repatriate African artworks to the continent.

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  • Aug 17 Wednesday

    You Are Here

    Free
    10:00 AM - 11:59 PM, every day through May 07, 2023.

    On March 16, 2020, we closed our doors, just six days after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. We didn’t know for how long. At that point there were twelve confirmed COVID-19 cases in Washtenaw County. We weren’t wearing masks because we didn’t fully understand how the virus is transmitted. We reopened to the public 488 days later, on June 17, 2021. While it is exciting to be together again and to see the world slowly reopen, we are also deeply impacted by what we’ve been through. This exhibition holds both of those feelings.

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  • Aug 17 Wednesday

    Around the World in Blue and White: Selections from the William C. Weese Collection of Chinese Ceramics

    Free
    10:00 AM - 11:59 PM, every day through N/A.

    Trace the fascinating and sometimes troubling stories behind the world's most desired ceramics. The technology and taste for blue and white porcelain originated in China in the fourteenth century, and quickly set off a worldwide craze that lasted five hundred years. Installed across four different galleries at UMMA, this exhibition explores that history and tracks the influence of blue and white ceramics across the globe.

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  • Aug 17 Wednesday

    Pan-African Pulp: A Commission by Meleko Mokgosi

    Free
    10:00 AM - 11:59 PM, every day through N/A.

    In "Pan-African Pulp," Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi explores the history of Pan-Africanism, the global movement to unite ethnic groups of sub-Saharan African descent. His Vertical Gallery installation, which inaugurates a new biennial commission program at UMMA, features large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and ’70s, a mural examining the complexity of blackness, posters from Pan-African movements from around the world, including those founded in Detroit and Africa in the 1960s, and stories from Setswana literature. "Pan-African Pulp" vividly connects to Detroit’s deep history of activism, where organizations such as Black Nation of Islam, The Republic of New Afrika, Shrine of the Black Madonna (Black Christian Nationalism), Pan-African Congress, and United Negro Improvement Association were founded. The renewed urgency for diversity and civil rights in Detroit, and the country as a whole, heightens the relevance of Mokgosi’s project and reveals the deep connections between these historical movements and those developing today.

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  • Aug 17 Wednesday

    Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit Detroit

    Harmonie Club
    $29.99-54.99
    10:00 AM - 11:59 PM, every day through Sep 05, 2022.

    Lighthouse ArtSpace Detroit presents the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit, the world’s most popular immersive art experience happening on May 12 to September 5, 2022, 10am- 9pm. Immersive Van Gogh is a visually spectacular digital art exhibition that has received widespread critical acclaim throughout North America. Immersive Van Gogh invites audiences to “step inside” the iconic works of post-Impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh, evoking his highly emotional and chaotic inner consciousness through art, light, music, movement, and imagination. The Italian creative team have custom designed their vision to fit the unique architecture of each Immersive Van Gogh venue.

    Ticket prices start at $39.99 off peak and 54.99 peak ($29.99 for children 16 and under). Visit immersivevangogh.com to learn more.

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  • Aug 17 Wednesday

    WHERE TO STAY COOL IN DETROIT BEFORE THE FIREWORKS AND ALL SUMMER LONG - THE IMMERSIVE VAN GOGH DETROIT EXHIBIT AT LIGHTHOUSE ARTSPACE DETROIT

    Lighthouse ArtSpace Detroit (inside the historic Harmonie Building)
    $24.99-$39.99
    10:00 AM - 09:00 PM, every day through Sep 05, 2022.

    Who: A great place to beat the heat! Lighthouse ArtSpace Detroit presents Immersive Van Gogh Detroit now through Sept. 5, 2022

    What: The perfect place to take the kids and stay cool before the Detroit Fireworks, before a ball game and all summer long - the Immersive Van Gogh projection series that has been sweeping the nation, with more than 5 million tickets sold!

    Immersive Van Gogh invites audiences to “step inside” the iconic works of post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh, evoking his highly emotional and chaotic inner consciousness through art, light, music, movement and imagination. The gallery space offers patrons more than 500,000 cubic feet of animated projections with mood setting electronic music with pure, ethereal and simple-seeming piano.

    Where: Lighthouse ArtSpace Detroit (inside the historic Harmonie Building) 311 E Grand River Ave, Detroit, MI 48226

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  • Aug 17 Wednesday

    Kids Survival Camp

    Howard Christensen Nature Center
    $10/day
    10:00 AM - 02:00 PM, every day through Aug 19, 2022.

    August 15-19, 2022 10am-2pm Ages 5-13, Come learn the skills needed to survive in the wilderness - fire and shelter building, plant foraging and emergency preparedness. No weapons. Bring your lunch and dress for the weather. $10/day

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