Bakehouse co-owner Amy Emberling discusses the history of the business and the new cookbook, Zingerman’s Bakehouse: The Cookbook, she co-authored with fellow Bakehouse owner Frank Carollo. Catered lunch includes Zingerman’s bagels, cream cheese, smoked fish, egg salad, rye bread, & Bakehouse desserts. Noon-1:30 p.m.; $10.
As part of Desiree Cooper’s two-day residency at the Residential College, she is be giving a reading, free and open to the public, in Benzinger Library. She will be reading from her new book of stories, Know the Mother.
All adults and teens in grade 6 & up invited to listen to local storyteller Jim Glenn relate odd and unusual tidbits of U.S. history from the late 1700s through the mid-20th century.
7-8:30 p.m., AADL 4th-floor meeting room, 343 S. Fifth Ave. Free. 327-8301.
Professor Chavasse presents research from her travels to the Malta Festival in Poznan, Poland, and to Berlin, Germany where she created a new dance work for Tanz Tangente. In Poznan, the panoply of dance, music and theater events focused on the festival theme– The Balkans Platform, (Platforma Blakany), with the title of “We The People”, analogous to our “not my president” protests. Chavasse will discuss the highly politicized works she witnessed as an audience member, posing questions about gender politics and social inequality and autocracy. She will also discuss the genesis of a new dance created with Tanz Tangente in Berlin, called “Little Monsters,” in which the movement exploration is centered around pulsing, agitation, manipulation and absence.
The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.
If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.
Meijer supermarket company cochairman Hank Meijer discusses his new biography of the Republican senator from Grand Rapids who was instrumental in creating the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the U.N. Book sale, signing, and reception.
7 p.m., Ford Library, 1000 Beal. Free. 205-0555.
Nov. 17 & 18. RC students perform Theresa Rebeck’s 2011 Broadway drama about 4 young writers, their professor, and the tensions and romances that develop as they attend a 10-week intensive writing seminar.
8 p.m., Keene Theatre, East Quad, 701 East University. Free; donations welcome. 763-0176.
The Driftwood Shrine author, John Gendo Wolff, will discuss poetry by Americans like Emily Dickinson, and William Carlos Williams, highlighting the influence of Zen in their work. 45 minute duration, followed by Q&A.
https://www.driftwoodshrine.com
John Gendo Wolff, Sensei, is a Zen priest and teacher in the White Plains Asanga. He is the Dharma heir of Susan Myoyu Andersen, Roshi, and the Spiritual Director of the Great Wave Zen Sangha in Northern Michigan. He is a college professor of writing and literature with numerous publications of poetry and essays, and also a graduate of Huron High School in Ann Arbor.
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room., 114 South Main Street. Free. (734) 276-5979. Chris@wuigglemylegs.comhttps://www.driftwoodshrine.com
Nov. 17 & 18. RC students perform Theresa Rebeck’s 2011 Broadway drama about 4 young writers, their professor, and the tensions and romances that develop as they attend a 10-week intensive writing seminar.
8 p.m., Keene Theatre, East Quad, 701 East University. Free; donations welcome. 763-0176.
Postponed from September. This civil rights icon and Georgia congressman is joined by writer Andrew Aydin and illustrator Nate Powell to discuss March, the graphic novel trilogy Lewis wrote with their help. It chronicles Lewis’s role in the civil rights movement, and the final book recently won the National Book Award.
7 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Free. 668-8463.
Literati is thrilled to partner with Current Magazine for an evening of Poetry and Fiction!
Come celebrate the submissions and winners of Current Magazine’s Poetry and Fiction contest.
Meet Current’s editor and contributors, and hear readings from the winners. Special guests Molly Raynor and Anthony Zick will be reading their work as well. If time permits there will be an open mic at the end.
