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In addition to events related to the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures (RLL), RLL at the University of Michigan likes to keep up with happenings in the Ann Arbor and Metro Detroit area. Below is a listing of upcoming events.
Events for June 2009
Events for July 2009Events for August 2009
2, Tuesday
Spanish Reader's Group at Nicola's Books
All invited to join a discussion, in Spanish, of El Enigma de Paris, Argentine novelist Pablo de Santis's detective story set at the Universal Exposition of 1889. For more information call (734) 662-0600.
FREE, 7:30pm,
Nicola's, Westgate shopping center
6, Saturday
Milonga Picante: Michigan Argentine Tango Club
June 6 & 20. Tango dancing to recorded music. Note: People not affiliated with the U-M must arrive before 9 p.m. For more information call (734) 973-2338.
FREE, 9pm-1:30am,
Michigan Union U-Club (June 6) & Pendleton Room (June 20).
"Serious About Salsa" Latin Dance Party : danceRevolution Dance Studio
June 6 & 20. High-energy dance party with salsa, merengue, bachata, and cha-cha dancing to recorded music spun by a DJ. No partner necessary. 9pm-1am, danceRevolution, Dakota Bldg., 1785 W. Stadium. $5. 945-8428
13, Saturday
Los Guitarristas: Kerrytown Concert House
This Chicago-based guitar quartet, led by Chilean guitarist Alfonso Chacon, plays original arrangements of classical Latin American folkloric and popular music. Reservations recommended call (734) 769-2999.
8pm,
KCH, 415 N. Fourth Ave. $10-$25 (students, $5)
19, Friday
Spring term classes end
Many critics and fans regard this Chicano quintet from East L.A. as the best band in the world. Their music is an original rock 'n' roll idiom fashioned out of the loose ends of everything from Mexican folk music to Cajun, country, swing, bop, rockabilly, blues, and R&B, and their songs offer alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) brooding and defiant meditations on the promises and betrayals of ordinary American life. Like the Band, Los Lobos makes a music that is both purposefully steeped in a traditional culture and exhilaratingly open to everything that's in the air. The result is music that manages to sound immediately classic yet also perpetually ahead of its time. Opening act is Pistolera (see 18 Thursday "Top of the Park" listing).
8pm, Power Center. $30-$45 in advance at the Michigan League Ticket Office & annarborsummerfestival.org, and (if available) at the door. To charge by phone, call 764-2538. 994-5999.
22 & 23, Monday & Tuesday
Spring term final exams
29, Monday
Summer term classes begin
3, Friday
Independence Day (observed). No classes. The RLL Main Office will be closed
7, Tuesday
Spanish Reader's Group at Nicola's Books
All invited to join a discussion, in Spanish, of La Muerte y la Doncella, Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman's play about an ex-political prisoner who thinks her houseguest is the man who tortured her. For more information, please call (734) 662-0600.
FREE, 7:30pm,
Nicola's, Westgate shopping center
10-12, Fri-Sun
Movie: Seraphine (France/Belgium, 2008)
Directed by Martin Provost, this film is the winner of seven Cèsar Awards, including Best Picture. "The still little-known yet utterly remarkable painter known as Séraphine de Senlis (1864 – 1942) was a solitary, simple housekeeper who, in the early years of the twentieth century, produced a series of brilliantly colored canvases which today reside in some of the world’s most famous galleries. This extraordinarily moving, thinly fictionalized new film first introduces us to Séraphine..." For more information, please visit the Detroit Institute of ArtsTheatre website.
7pm (Fri & Sat) & 2pm (Sun), $6.50-$7.50, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI
12, Sunday
"Francisco Goya: 'Los Caprichos'" at the UMMA
UMMA Western art curator Carole McNamara discusses the current exhibit of Goya's influential set of satiric etchings of 1790s Spanish society. For more information, please call (734) 764-0395.
FREE, 3pm, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 525 S. State
17-19, Fri-Sun
Movie: Seraphine (France/Belgium, 2008)
Directed by Martin Provost, this film is the winner of seven Cèsar Awards, including Best Picture. "The still little-known yet utterly remarkable painter known as Séraphine de Senlis (1864 – 1942) was a solitary, simple housekeeper who, in the early years of the twentieth century, produced a series of brilliantly colored canvases which today reside in some of the world’s most famous galleries. This extraordinarily moving, thinly fictionalized new film first introduces us to Séraphine..." For more information, please visit the Detroit Institute of ArtsTheatre website.
9:30pm (Fri & Sat) & 4pm (Sun), $6.50-$7.50, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI
18, Saturday
Serious About Salsa: Latin Dance Party at danceRevolution Dance Studio
High-energy dance party with salsa, merengue, bachata, and cha-cha dancing to recorded music spun by a DJ. No partner necessary. For more information, please call (734) 45-8428.
9pm-1am, $5,
danceRevolution, Dakota Bldg., 1785 W. Stadium
26, Sunday
Palabras Luminosos: Latino Luminous Language, Laughter, and Lore at Ann Arbor District Library
The Kalamazoo troupe Magical Rain Theaterworks 8|presents a program of Latino stories about traps, tricksters, animals, and marvelous oddities of everyday life for kids in grades K-5 (accompanied by an adult). For more information, please call (734) 327-4555.
2-3pm,FREE,
AADL multipurpose room (lower level), 343 S. Fifth Ave.
14, Friday
Summer classes end.
17-18, Monday-Tuesday
Summer final exams.
Looking for conversation hours in French, Italian, or Spanish? Every Monday throughout the term Every Tuesday throughout the term
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