Performances & Events
North University and Thayer Street directly adjacent to Hill Auditorium will be closed for construction during the 2026 fall semester. We recommend event attendees arrive early, anticipate limited parking, and consider public transit options.
Construction will limit access to the Thayer Street Parking Structure. The Power Center Fletcher Street Parking Structure or the Palmer Structure are the nearest alternatives.
Increased traffic and limited parking may impact attendees of events at Hill Auditorium, Rackham Auditorium, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, and the Power Center.
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Economics graduate student Austin Zhu performs a 30 minute recital on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower, followed by visitor Q&A.
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Graduate student Adam Lenhart performs a 30 minute recital on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.
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Octubafest is a three day celebration of music for the tuba and euphonium. The recitals for these three evenings will feature solo and chamber music performances by members of the University of Michigan Tuba Euphonium studio.
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Kentaro Toyama performs a 30 minute recital on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower, followed by visitor Q&A.
Free - no tickets required
Eva Albalghiti performs a 30 minute recital on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.
Whose City? Street Art and the Performance of Belonging in Tbilisi, Georgia
Michigan League
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Join us in the Michigan League’s Vandenberg Room (2nd floor) for a presentation by Greta Uehling, a 2025-26 Faculty Fellow with the Center for World Performance Studies. Street art is often understood as a form of cultural resistance in politically constrained societies like Georgia. Professor Greta Uehling will draw on ethnographic fieldwork in Tbilisi, including interviews with artists, activists, and viewers supported to explore the forces that complicate its communicative potential. Uehling extends a Barthian approach that foregrounds the reception of street art and the contested meanings that emerge around it. In this talk, she will explore the state’s appropriation of street-art aesthetics through government-sponsored projects, as well as private citizens’ power to veto murals on their buildings. She will then turn to gender as a contested terrain where Georgia’s European aspirations meet enduring social norms.
Free - Registration Recommended
Enjoy live, collaborative performances featuring the talented faculty, students and staff from Music and Dance at the University of Michigan in the intimate and naturally dramatic Granoff Studio. Programs will be announced from the stage. Free parking is available. Seating is limited.
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Octubafest is a three day celebration of music for the tuba and euphonium. The recitals for these three evenings will feature solo and chamber music performances by members of the University of Michigan Tuba Euphonium studio.
Free - no tickets required
The award-winning PRISM Quartet performs a program that travels from the factory floor to a pine forest and from Hollywood to China, with music composed by Roshanne Etezady, Kristin Kuster, Bill Ryan, Bright Sheng, Chris Potter, and Don Byron. SMTD Professor Andrew Bishop will join the group as a guest artist. PRISM Quartet is Timothy McAllister, soprano saxophone; Zach Shemon, alto saxophone; Matthew Levy, tenor saxophone; and Taimur Sullivan, baritone saxophone. This program is co-presented by SMTD and New Sounds Music, with support from the Michigan Arts and Culture Council.
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“Joyful Melodies” – Though separated by nearly 200 years, Nathaniel Dett and J.S. Bach in their own distinct ways used familiar melodies to show joy and praise in their cantatas. Presenting two seminal works, Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4) and Chariot Jubilee, this concert will feature student instrumentalists and soloists. Matthew Abernathy, conductor.
