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RC Fireside Chat: Writing Life and Publishing 6:00 pm
RC Fireside Chat: Writing Life and Publishing @ East Quad Greene Lounge
Feb 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Hosted by the RC Student Union, the event features RC creative writing head Laura Thomas, local author Michael Ferro, and LSA creative writing major Necko Fanning.
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Writing Workshop: Telling Your Story: The Power of Words 6:30 pm
Writing Workshop: Telling Your Story: The Power of Words @ Ypsilanti District Library (Whittaker)
Feb 6 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
What is your story? Why is it important? What can we learn about ourselves and others when we put pen to paper to tell our stories? In this two-part writing workshop, staff from EMU’s Office …

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Poetry Salon: One Pause Poetry 8:00 pm
Poetry Salon: One Pause Poetry @ Argus Farm Stop
Feb 6 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Every Wed. Members read and discuss poems around themes TBA. Followed by collaborative writing games and exercises. Attendees invited to read their poems. Snacks & socializing. 8-10 p.m., Argus Farm Stop greenhouse, 325 W. Liberty. $5 …

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Madeleine Albright: Fascism: A Warning 7:30 pm
Madeleine Albright: Fascism: A Warning @ Michigan Theater
Feb 8 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Michigan Theater and Nicola’s Books will host a conversation with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on the threat of fascism and how we can avoid repeating the tragic errors of the past, in connection …

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Reading: Café Shapiro 7:00 pm
Reading: Café Shapiro @ Shapiro Undergraduate Library Lobby
Feb 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Feb. 11, 12, 18, 19, & 21. U-M students, nominated by their instructors, read their poems and short stories. Today includes RC writing student Jenna Vallina. Light refreshments. 7-8:30 p.m., U-M Shapiro Undergrad Library Lobby, …

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Reading: Café Shapiro 7:00 pm
Reading: Café Shapiro @ Shapiro Undergraduate Library Lobby
Feb 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Feb. 11, 12, 18, 19, & 21. U-M students, nominated by their instructors, read their poems and short stories. Today includes RC writing student Kelly Christensen. Light refreshments. 7-8:30 p.m., U-M Shapiro Undergrad Library Lobby, …

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Telling Your Story: The Power of Words 6:30 pm
Telling Your Story: The Power of Words @ Ypsilanti District Library - Whitaker Branch
Feb 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
What is your story? Why is it important? What can we learn about ourselves and others when we put pen to paper to tell our stories? In this two-part writing workshop, staff from EMU’s Office …

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Stephen Ward: James Boggs at 100: A Legacy and Lineage of Radical Social Change in Detroit 7:00 pm
Stephen Ward: James Boggs at 100: A Legacy and Lineage of Radical Social Change in Detroit @ Literati
Feb 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
James and Grace Lee Boggs left a remarkable legacy through their shared activism, writing, and mentoring. To mark what would be James Boggs’s 100th birthday Spring 2019, the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center in …

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Poetry Salon: One Pause Poetry 8:00 pm
Poetry Salon: One Pause Poetry @ Argus Farm Stop
Feb 13 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Every Wed. Members read and discuss poems around themes TBA. Followed by collaborative writing games and exercises. Attendees invited to read their poems. Snacks & socializing. 8-10 p.m., Argus Farm Stop greenhouse, 325 W. Liberty. $5 …

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Caryl Churchill Festival: Drunk Enough To Say I Love You? And Here We Go 7:30 pm
Caryl Churchill Festival: Drunk Enough To Say I Love You? And Here We Go @ Keene Theater, East Quad
Feb 14 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Feb. 14, 16, 22, & 23 (different programs). U-M students and faculty perform staged readings of works by this acclaimed English playwright in honor of her 80th birthday. Today: The 2006 play Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, an …

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Caryl Churchill Festival: Love and Information 7:30 pm
Caryl Churchill Festival: Love and Information @ Keene Theater, East Quad
Feb 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Feb. 14, 16, 22, & 23 (different programs). U-M students and faculty perform staged readings of works by this acclaimed English playwright in honor of her 80th birthday. Today: U-M drama students in 2 different Residential College drama …

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Margit Strassburger: Bonjour Berlin 5:00 pm
Margit Strassburger: Bonjour Berlin @ Keene Theater, East Quad
Feb 17 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
German actor Margit Stra�burger sings cabaret songs set to poetry by German Jewish poet Mascha Kaleko that longs for pre 1933-Berlin. In German with piano accompaniment by Toledo-based pianist Michelle Papenfuss. Q&A follows. 5-7 p.m., …

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Carolyn Dunn: Anishaabe Theatre Exchange Residency 4:30 pm
Carolyn Dunn: Anishaabe Theatre Exchange Residency @ 2435 North Quad
Feb 18 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Scholar, poet and playwright Dr. Carolyn Dunn will lecture on the aesthetics of Native and Indigenous Theater. Dunn was born in Southern California and is of Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, Seminole, Cajun, French Creole, and Tunica-Biloxi …

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RC Lecture: Mark Jonathan Harris: Displaced Children in an Uncertain World 6:30 pm
RC Lecture: Mark Jonathan Harris: Displaced Children in an Uncertain World @ Rm 1423, East Quad
Feb 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
This lecture is on Foster Care and Orphans of War with Mark Jonathan Harris, producer, known for Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000), The Long Way Home (1997) and Breaking Point: …

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Kate Tucker: The Joy of Reading Drama 7:00 pm
Kate Tucker: The Joy of Reading Drama @ Literati
Feb 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Using contemporary plays, together we’ll explore how to read drama and why it’s important. Plays are a powerful tool to ignite conversations about issues that are often challenging to discuss and they give voice to …

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Reading: Café Shapiro 7:00 pm
Reading: Café Shapiro @ Shapiro Undergraduate Library Lobby
Feb 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Feb. 11, 12, 18, 19, & 21. U-M students, nominated by their instructors, read their poems and short stories. Light refreshments. 7-8:30 p.m., U-M Shapiro Undergrad Library Lobby, 919 South University. Free. 764-7493.
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Reading: Café Shapiro 7:00 pm
Reading: Café Shapiro @ Shapiro Undergraduate Library Lobby
Feb 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Feb. 11, 12, 18, 19, & 21. U-M students, nominated by their instructors, read their poems and short stories. Light refreshments. 7-8:30 p.m., U-M Shapiro Undergrad Library Lobby, 919 South University. Free. 764-7493.
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Poetry Salon: One Pause Poetry 8:00 pm
Poetry Salon: One Pause Poetry @ Argus Farm Stop
Feb 20 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Every Wed. Members read and discuss poems around themes TBA. Followed by collaborative writing games and exercises. Attendees invited to read their poems. Snacks & socializing. 8-10 p.m., Argus Farm Stop greenhouse, 325 W. Liberty. $5 …

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Author’s Forum: Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (a conversation with Benedicte Boisseron and Aliyah Khan) 5:30 pm
Author’s Forum: Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (a conversation with Benedicte Boisseron and Aliyah Khan) @ Hatcher Library, Room 100
Feb 21 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Bénédicte Boisseron (Afro-American and African studies) and Aliyah Khan(English, Afro-American and African studies) discuss Boisseron’s new book Afro-Dog, which investigates the relationship between race and the animal in the history and culture of the Americas and the black …

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Reading: Café Shapiro 7:00 pm
Reading: Café Shapiro @ Shapiro Undergraduate Library Lobby
Feb 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Feb. 11, 12, 18, 19, & 21. U-M students, nominated by their instructors, read their poems and short stories. Today includes RC writing student Jazzaray James. Light refreshments. 7-8:30 p.m., U-M Shapiro Undergrad Library Lobby, …

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In Conversation: Artist David Opdyke with writer Lawrence Weschler 1:00 pm
In Conversation: Artist David Opdyke with writer Lawrence Weschler @ Institute for the Humanities, Common Room 1022
Feb 22 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
I2019 Efroymson Emerging Artist David Opdyke and writer Lawrence Weschler discuss Opdyke’s current exhibition, Paved with Good Intentions, and the relationship between culture, politics, the environment and art in a contemporary landscape fraught with disorder and turmoil. Read Weschler’s New York …

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Caroiyn Dunn: Three Sisters 7:00 pm
Caroiyn Dunn: Three Sisters @ East Quad Keene Theater
Feb 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Anishinaabe Theatre Exchange artists will be in residence at the University of Michigan campus from February 16-23, 2019, culminating in two performances of the new play by Carolyn Dunn, Three Sisters. The Anishinaabe Theatre Exchange …

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Caryl Churchill Festival: Top Girls, The Skriker 7:00 pm
Caryl Churchill Festival: Top Girls, The Skriker @ Walgreen Drama Center Newman Studio
Feb 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Feb. 14, 16, 22, & 23 (different programs). U-M students and faculty perform staged readings of works by this acclaimed English playwright in honor of her 80th birthday. Tonight: Top Girls (7 p.m.), the groundbreaking 1982 indictment of Thatcherism …

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Caryl Churchill Festival: Escaped Alone, Cloud Nine, Seven Jewish Children 3:00 pm
Caryl Churchill Festival: Escaped Alone, Cloud Nine, Seven Jewish Children @ Walgreen Drama Center Newman Studio
Feb 23 @ 3:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Feb. 14, 16, 22, & 23 (different programs). U-M students and faculty perform staged readings of works by this acclaimed English playwright in honor of her 80th birthday. Today: the 2017 play Escaped Alone (3 p.m.),a brisk 55-minute surrealist set …

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RC Drama Concentration: Lysistrata 7:30 pm
RC Drama Concentration: Lysistrata @ Keene Theater, East Quad
Feb 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Kate Mendeloff directs U-M drama students in Aristophanes’ bawdy masterpiece of classical Greek comedy about war-weary Athenian wives who decide to withhold their favors from their husbands until the warring ceases. Both sides suffer from …

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Dr. Leonardo Trasande: Sicker, Fatter, Poorer, and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha: What the Eyes Don’t See 4:30 pm
Dr. Leonardo Trasande: Sicker, Fatter, Poorer, and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha: What the Eyes Don’t See @ School of Public Health
Feb 25 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Literati is proud to partner with the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health to have copies of Dr. Leonardo Trasande’s Sicker, Fatter, Poorer and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha’s What the Eyes Don’t See available for purchase at this event. Come …

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Lecture: Gillian Eaton: Displaced Children in an Uncertain World 6:30 pm
Lecture: Gillian Eaton: Displaced Children in an Uncertain World @ Room 1423 East Quad
Feb 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
This lecture is on Victim/Persecutor with Gillian Eaton, award-winning actress, director, and Prof. U-M School of Theatre, Music and Dance. Room 1423, East Quadrangle, 701 East University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Free. rc.communications@umich.edu https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/news-events/all-events.detail.html/59958-14803944.html
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An Evening with Irene Butter 7:00 pm
An Evening with Irene Butter @ Ypsilanti District Library - Whitaker Branch
Feb 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
YDL is honored to welcome Holocaust survivor, professor, and author Irene Butter. Her memoir, Shores Beyond Shores, details her journey during the Holocaust and explores how the heart keeps its humanity during inhumane times. Dr. …

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Poetry Salon: One Pause Poetry 8:00 pm
Poetry Salon: One Pause Poetry @ Argus Farm Stop
Feb 27 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Every Wed. Members read and discuss poems around themes TBA. Followed by collaborative writing games and exercises. Attendees invited to read their poems. Snacks & socializing. 8-10 p.m., Argus Farm Stop greenhouse, 325 W. Liberty. $5 …

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