“Black Girl-Linguistic Play” performed by the Camille A. Brown Dancers
January 28, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Camille Brown Dancers
February 13th
8:00pm
Power Center
A natural storyteller, Camille A. Brown has stepped forward with her exuberant choreography and restless curiosity to become a leading voice in contemporary American dance. Her latest work, Black Girl–Linguistic Play, explores female identity and elevates playground games into empowerment. The work reveals the complexity of carving out a self-defined identity as a Black female in an urban American culture that is both racially and politically charged. Original compositions by collaborators Tracy Wormworth and Scott Patterson are performed live and encompass the rhythmic play of African-American rooted steppin’, Double Dutch, and Juba. The performance culminates with a moderated dialogue, allowing audience members to engage with the artists onstage. ums - See more at: http://ums.org/performance/camille-a-brown-dancers/#sthash.lcHIXDzs.dpuf
Breakfast Download Discussion. You’re invited to join UMS artists and other audience members for a breakfast discussion. We bring the bagels, cream cheese, and coffee! You bring your thoughts, rants, raves, and opinions! Free and open to the public; no registration required. Sunday, February 14, 11 am at U-M Alumni Center.
Where does inspiration come from? What makes an artist tick? Join us for a post-performance Q&A and get a glimpse into the lives and minds of the artists who bring creativity to the stage. Hosted by Jim Leija, UMS Director of Education and Community Engagement. Must have a ticket to that evening’s performance to attend. Opening night only.
Also see
Camille A. Brown & Dancers website
Fair Housing Breakfast with Theodore M. Shaw
January 24, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dr. Ted Shaw
Former Director
NAACP Legal & Education Fund, Inc.
Greetings. We are excited to announce that we are bringing in renowned civil rights champion Theodore M. Shaw as the guest speaker for our 2016 Fair Housing Breakfast on 3/16/16 in Ann Arbor. More information is available at www.fhcmichigan.org. Thanks to a generous sponsor, we also have a few scholarship tickets available. Kristen J. Cuhran
Shapeshifters: Featured Book, Center for the Education of Women’s Book Talk
October 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Featured CEW Book Talk
Author & Wolverine Alumna Aimee Meredith Cox
“Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship” - A Book Talk with Aimee Meredith Cox
Date: November 5, 2015 – 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Munger Graduate Residences, 8th Floor, Rm 8110, 540 Thompson St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2414
“Join us for a book talk and signing with U-M graduate, Aimee Meredith Cox, Ph.D. In her book, Shapeshifters,
Dr. Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves.
Based on eight years of fieldwork at the Fresh Start shelter, Cox shows how the shelter’s residents—who range in age from fifteen to twenty-two—employ strategic methods she characterizes as choreography to disrupt the social hierarchies and prescriptive narratives that work to marginalize them. Among these are dance and poetry, which residents learn in shelter workshops. These outlets for performance and self-expression, Cox shows, are key to the residents exercising their agency, while their creation of alternative family structures demands a rethinking of notions of care, protection, and love. Cox also uses these young women’s experiences to tell larger stories: of Detroit’s history, the Great Migration, deindustrialization, the politics of respectability, and the construction of Black girls and women as social problems. With Shapeshifters, Cox gives a voice to young Black women who find creative and non-normative solutions to the problems that come with being young, Black, and female in America.
Aimee Meredith Cox, Ph.D. is a cultural anthropologist and tenured professor of African and African AmericanStudies at Fordham University. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan where she also held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for the Education of Women. Her book Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke University Press, 2015) is available on Amazon. Dr. Cox is on the editorial board of The Feminist Wire and on the founding editorial board of Public: A Journal of Imagining America. She is also an executive board member of the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) and former co-editor of Transforming Anthropology, the peer-reviewed journal of the ABA. In addition, she trained on scholarship with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and toured extensively as a professional dancer with the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble/Ailey II. Aimee was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and 2013-2014 Visiting Professor in New York University’s Anthropology Department.” -Center For The Education Of Women
This event is co-sponsored by U-M Women’s Studies, the Munger Graduate Residences, Women of Color in the Academy Project, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Afroamerican & African Studies (DAAS), the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women’s Studies Department, and the Center for the Education of Women.
Additional funding is provided by CEW’s Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders fund.
This program is free, and open to the public. Register here to attend!
Ann Arbor NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner
October 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Ann Arbor Branch NAACP
Freedom Fund Dinner
Sunday, November 1, 2015
4:00 p.m.
Ann Arbor Sheraton Hotel
Theme: “Pursuing Liberty in the Face of Injustice”
Speaker: Rodd L. Monts, Field Director, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan
Tickets - $50.00
Tickets may be reserved by calling the NAACP answering service:
(734) 761-9084
Please support a Freedom Fund Scholar for $35.00
*All contributions received by October 27, 2015,
will be noted in the program.
The Ann Arbor (MI) Chapter of The Links, Inc. Supports Local Early Childhood Literacy Program
October 25, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Kimmie Horne performs with her band at the Ann Arbor Links fundraiser
The Ann Arbor Chapter of The Links, Incorporated raised over $20,000 through its fundraiser: An Elegant Summer Evening, held at the Polo Fields of Ann Arbor, on August 23rd.
The proceeds will mainly benefit the Washtenaw County Imagination Library. The library provides free books, monthly, to children up to five years old, living in the 48197 and 48198 zip codes. Over 1000 children are currently being served by this program.
The Ann Arbor Chapter of The Links, Incorporated has been serving Washtenaw County for 36 years, providing programming in the area of Services To Youth, The Arts, National Trends, International Trends, and Health and Human Services. For more information go to www.annarborchapterlinks.com
Press Release regarding the Ann Arbor Links’ successful summer fundraiser.
Restorative Justice: Reform our criminal justice system to one where victims have a voice, and offenders learn from their mistakes
October 22, 2015 by Leave a Comment
“Setting Up a County-Based Restorative Justice System”
October 29, 2015
7:00-8:30 PM
Angell Hall, Auditorium B
505 S. State Street, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Free and open to the public.
Enter through the east side, Diag entrance.
Featuring: Fred Van Liew, Director for the Center for Restorative Justice Practices in Des Moines, Iowa and author of the new book,
The Justice Diary: An Inquiry into Justice in America.
Questions? Call: 734-996-2796
Sponsored by: Healing Communities, The U of M School of Social Work, the
Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice, Friends of Restorative Justice of
Washtenaw County, Juvenile Justice Clinic at the University of Michigan Law
School, Students Organized Against Prisons, The Episcopal Church of the
Incarnation, St. Mary’s Church in Chelsea, Church of the Good Shepherd
UCC, St. Francis of Assisi Church, Challenging Racism and Social Justice
Council of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor
Ypsilanti Area Unity Picnic & Rally presented by Fathers of Hope
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Entertainment featuring John E. Lawrence and the John E. Lawrence Band
Jon Onye Lockard Symposium and Exhibit
September 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Mural by Jon Onye Lockard, African American Heritage Room, Manoogian Hall, Wayne State University, Detroit
Jon Onye Lockard:The Life and Journey of a Visual Griot
Please join us as we honor the legacy of one of our founding faculty. Exhibit: Lockard, Master Muralist will feature photographic reproductions of his murals at the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, Washtenaw Community College, the Detroit Public Library, the Charles Wright Museum and Central State University (Ohio). These have not been seen together in one place before.
Monday, October 12, 2015
Monday, October 12, 2015
The symposium will place Jon Onye Lockard within the context of those who shared similar perspectives on the role of artists, their obligation to envision and fight for a humane social order and their desire to uplift and empower others through their work.
9:00 a.m. Libation: Bing Davis, Founder & President
Willis Bing Davis Art Studio & EbonNia Gallery, Shango: Center for the Study of African American Art & Culture
9:15 a.m.: Welcome: Frieda Ekotto, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Chair
“The Life and Work of Jon Onye Lockard”
9:30-11:00 a.m. :
“Art and Spiritual Migrations to the African Homeland and Exploring the concept ‘Black is Beautiful!’
Michael Harris, Associate Professor of Art History and African American Studies, Emory University; Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson, Museum Studies Program, Southern University at New Orleans; Shirley Woodson, Artist, National Conference of Artists Michigan; John E. Lawrence, retired Director of the Washtenaw Community College Music Performance program
11:00-11:10 a.m.: Break
11:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.:
“Social Realism though Activism in the Arts”
Bing Davis, Founder & President, Willis Bing Davis Art Studio & EbonNia Gallery, Shango: Center for the Study of African American Art & Culture; Ed Jackson, ArchD, Executive architect for the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial; Nikki Flowers, Administative Law Judge (ALJ) at the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR), Atlanta
12:45-2:00 p.m.: LUNCH
2:00-2:15 p.m.: Spoken word: Debby Mitchell, Senior Project Manager, Leaders and Learners Pathway Team, U-M
2:15- 4:00 p.m. : Teaching Art, Teaching Life: Let Them Hear You
Former students Derrick Humphries, JD; James Lee, DDS
Includes a speak-out from other students
4:00-4:20 p.m.: Closing Remarks: Lee Gill, Associate Vice President for Inclusion and Equity/Chief Diversity Officer, University of Akron
4:20-4:30 p.m.:Ancestral prayer: Kwasi Ampene, Director, Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS), Associate Professor, DAAS and School of Music, Theater and Dance (SMTD)
4 :30 -5:30 p.m.: Reception
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When and Where
Map Alumni Center – Founders Room
200 Fletcher Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
9:00am – 5:30pm
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