Nov. 20-22. RC students perform Sarah Treem’s 2014 drama, set in 1972, about a woman who manages a bed-and-breakfast on an island off the coast of Washington State while running an underground shelter for victims of domestic violence.
7 p.m.( 2 p.m., Sunday), Keene Theatre, East Quad, 701 East University. Free; donations welcome.
Silent (6:30 p.m.) and live (8 p.m.) auction of works by current and former prison inmates and local artists. Wine & dessert available. Proceeds benefit the 21st Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners at the U-M in March.
6:30-9:30 p.m., U-M Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel, North Campus.
Join us for the RC Creative Writing Program Senior Reading celebrating December Graduates Elena Potek and Nadia Todoroff. Light refreshments, great writing!
RC students present a varied program of choral music from Mozart and Mendelssohn to Shakespearean madrigals, folk songs, and gospel.
Professor Heather Thompson, of the RC Social Theory and Practice Program, delivers the second in the RC Faculty Talks series: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy: The Perils of Writing the Painful Past“
U-M drama lecturer Kate Mendeloff directs RC students in scenes from Uncle Vanya (7 p.m.), Chekhov’s richly varied ensemble piece about the search for happiness–from love, achievement, or nature–at various stages of life, and Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes ( (8 p.m.), Tony Kushner’s celebrated 2-play series exploring the apocalyptic fears at the heart of contemporary culture. Also, “Race in America” (9 p.m.), a collage of scenes and monologues by major contemporary playwrights about racial profiling, interracial and interreligious relationships, illegal immigration, and identity.
Nicholas Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington, won a Hopwood Award for short fiction while an undergraduate at U-M, and his story “At the Laundromat” won the 2006 Short Story Contest in the The Seattle Review, a national literary journal. A husband and father, he runs a home-inspection business in Milwaukee. The Drifter is his first novel.
Ana Fernandez teaches art courses at the University of Michigan’s Residential College in drawing and printmaking. Her artwork includes elements of drawing, printmaking, fibers and collage. It reflects a tactile sensibility and an affinity for layering, patterning and ornamentation. Thematically, it focuses on the interaction between fashion, representations of the female body and notions of femininity.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s rural adventures to the gritty fiction of Joyce Carol Oates, the landscape of the “Third Coast” has inspired generations of the nation’s greatest storytellers.
Join Michigan Notable Author Anna Clark to unveil Michigan’s extraordinary written culture as she discusses Michigan authors and her new book, Michigan Literary Luminaries: From Elmore Leonard to Robert Hayden. The event includes a book signing and books will be for sale.
This fascinating book is a shines a spotlight on this rich heritage of the Great Lakes State with a mixture of history, literary criticism, and original reporting. Discover how Saginaw greenhouses shaped the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Theodore Roethke. Compare the common traits of Detroit crime writers like Elmore Leonard and Donald Goines. Learn how Dudley Randall revolutionized American literature by doing for poets what Motown Records did for musicians.
RC Creative Writing alumna Anna Clark is a freelance journalist in Detroit. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The American Prospect, Grantland, Vanity Fair, the Columbia Journalism Review, Next City, and other publications. She is the director of applications for Write A House and founder of Literary Detroit. Anna also edited A Detroit Anthology, a 2015 Michigan Notable Book.
Jan. 29 & 30. RC students direct and perform this popular semiannual 90-minute program of short scenes on a variety of topics and in a variety of styles, many written by RC students.
