January 1, 2013 to January 31, 2013
Location: https://www.lsa.umich.edu/sweetland

In keeping with this year’s MLK Symposium theme of “(R)Evolution of the Dream,” during the month of January the Sweetland Center for Writing will host a virtual “write-in” on its website where we invite you to narrate your sense of how Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream has been (r)evolutionary for you.

Tell us about a moment where you experienced citizenship or civic engagement. What do these ideas mean to you today?

Or, post an original image that exemplifies King’s dream for you, and use your caption to explain the connection.

Visit https://www.lsa.umich.edu/sweetland during the month of January to “write in” for the dream!

NOTE: This event runs from January 1 to January 31.

January 9, 2013 to January 31, 2013
Location: Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 .

January 9-31, 2013, Monday-Friday 12pm-6pm, Sunday 12pm-5pm

Within the fabric of American identity is woven a story that has long been invisible—the lives and experiences of people who share African American and Native American ancestry.

African and Native peoples came together in the Americas. Over centuries, African Americans and Native Americans created shared histories, communities, families, and ways of life. Prejudice, laws, and twists of history have often divided them from others, yet African-Native American people were united in the struggle against slavery and dispossession, and then for self-determination and freedom.

For African-Native Americans, their double heritage is truly indivisible.

A website to support teaching with the exhibit is available at:
https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/indivisible-faculty-resources/home

IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas is presented as part of LSA’s Winter 2013 Understanding Race Theme Semester and is co-sponsored by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, U-M Museum of Natural History, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Native American Studies Program Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach, and Department of English.

The exhibition IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas is a collaboration between the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service (SITES).

January 14, 2013 1:00 pm to February 1, 2013 1:00 pm
Location: DASS Gallery, Room G648, 1st floor of Haven Hall
Speaker: Beverly Buchanan Art Exhibition

The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DASS) presents an exhibition of the work of Beverly Buchanan, an artist who explores Southern vernacular architecture. Building dreamlike miniature models based on such important structures as the shotgun and plantation house, Buchanan explores the history of Black memory and experience in the U.S.
DASS Gallery will be open on Monday and Friday from 1pm – 5pm.

January 31, 2013 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location: Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center

This award honors the late Shirley Verrett, the James Earl Jones Distinguished University Professor of Voice at the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance, a teacher who “would have walked the world over for her students.” An internationally acclaimed opera singer who performed over 40 roles all over the world during the course of her illustrious four decade career, Ms. Verrett was one of the pioneering leaders in the generation of black singers after Marian Anderson’s historical Metropolitan Opera debut in 1955.

The Shirley Verrett Award recognizes a faculty member whose work, including teaching, performance, scholarship, or service, supports the success of female students or faculty in the arts who come from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds.