Literati is proud to be the bookseller for the 2016 Jill Harris Memorial Lecture, presented by the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities.
Laila Lalami is the author of the novels Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award; Secret Son, which was on the Orange Prize longlist, and The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was on the Man Booker Prize longlist. The Moor’s Account was also a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, the Guardian, the New York Times, and in many anthologies. She is the recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside.
Apr. 8-10. U-M drama lecturer Kate Mendelof directs RC students in Federico Garcia Lorca’s landmark 1932 drama, a lyrical, expressionist tragedy inspired by a sensational 20s murder case in rural Spain. A young bride flees an arranged marriage on her wedding day, with fatal consequences. Pitting passion against social conventions, the poetic drama conjures up an archetypal Spain, steeped in Andalusian music, dance, and cultural lore.
7:30 p.m., Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Free; donations to Matthaei encouraged. 647-4354.
Apr. 8-10. U-M drama lecturer Kate Mendelof directs RC students in Federico Garcia Lorca’s landmark 1932 drama, a lyrical, expressionist tragedy inspired by a sensational 20s murder case in rural Spain. A young bride flees an arranged marriage on her wedding day, with fatal consequences. Pitting passion against social conventions, the poetic drama conjures up an archetypal Spain, steeped in Andalusian music, dance, and cultural lore.
7:30 p.m., Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Free; donations to Matthaei encouraged. 647-4354.
Apr. 8-10. U-M drama lecturer Kate Mendelof directs RC students in Federico Garcia Lorca’s landmark 1932 drama, a lyrical, expressionist tragedy inspired by a sensational 20s murder case in rural Spain. A young bride flees an arranged marriage on her wedding day, with fatal consequences. Pitting passion against social conventions, the poetic drama conjures up an archetypal Spain, steeped in Andalusian music, dance, and cultural lore.
7:30 p.m., Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Free; donations to Matthaei encouraged. 647-4354.
RC Singers present “Heart of My Own Heart” – a concert featuring works of Telemann, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and more.
Dt.Theater will present “Unschuld” (Innocence).
“The Glass Sandwich” – string quartets by Philip Glass, Dvorak, Schubert and Beethoven; Trios by Piazzolla, Faure, Saint-Saens and Kummer performed by RC Chamber Musicians
RC theater students present a program of short plays TBA.
RC Chamber Musicians perform music by Ewazen, Rossini, Borodin, Brahms, Weber, Schubert and Gliere.