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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Tiffany Ng & Bjorn Brolin-Olson perform a 30 minute recital on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.
Leyya Mona Tawil and collaborators in “Happy Days Finale”
Multipurpose Room, Trotter Multicultural Center, 428 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Free - no tickets required
The Center for World Performance Studies hosts an informal showing of Happy Days Finale, a new performance work by Leyya Mona Tawil in collaboration with Zari Lionudakis (dance), John MacDoughall Parker (music), and Scott Tallenger (costume). What does happiness mean in a time of revolution? With each day anew, what is our capacity for communion, grief, resistance, chance? In a world of relentless injustice and collapse, we question what is ending and what is beginning. DANCE ELIXIR’s Happy Days Finale is an invitation to test these questions, in body and time. This work-in-progress showing will be followed by Q&A with the guest artists.
Living Ainu Art: Community, Nature, and Intergenerational Knowledge through Song and Dance
Virtual/Zoom or In Person at Weiser Hall (10th Floor, room 1010), 500 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Free - no tickets required
Guest presenter Kanako Uzawa is an Ainu multidisciplinary artist, scholar, and curator. This lecture-performance introduces Ainu culture through the living traditions of art, song, and dance. Participants will learn how Ainu art-making is rooted in community, intergenerational knowledge, and relationships with the natural world, offering a perspective that differs from conventional notions of individual artistic practice. The session concludes with an interactive performance, inviting the audience to experience Ainu culture through shared movement, music, and dialogue.
Division Street Pipes
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 306 N. Division St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Free - no tickets required
Join us as doctoral student Chanmi Kim performs a 30-minute organ recital. Division Street Pipes concerts features talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department on Thursdays at 12:15pm on the Richards-Fowkes organ at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening.
Free - no tickets required
Lon Mitchell 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.
Pre-Concert Lecture: University Philharmonia Orchestra
Lower Level LobbyHill Auditorium
Free - no tickets required
This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm UPO performance.
Time Passes: 8 Short Plays by Samuel Beckett
Arthur Miller TheatreWalgreen Drama Center
General Admission by Floor $35 | Students $16 (fees included)
Time Passes presents eight short plays written after Godot, from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Showcasing Beckett’s verbal play and visual precision, as well as his political imagination, they meet our own moment — fierce, funny, uncompromising, and compassionate as ever.
Free - no tickets required
The UPO performs a program of works by Dvořák, Mozart, Liebermann, and Brahms. Lowell Liebermann’s Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra, op. 50 will feature soloist Tieran Holmes (BM ’26, flute, music education), a winner of the 2026 SMTD Concerto Competition. Jayce Ogren, conductor.
Free - no tickets required
Economics graduate student Austin Zhu 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.
Time Passes: 8 Short Plays by Samuel Beckett
Arthur Miller TheatreWalgreen Drama Center
General Admission by Floor $35 | Students $16 (fees included)
Time Passes presents eight short plays written after Godot, from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Showcasing Beckett’s verbal play and visual precision, as well as his political imagination, they meet our own moment — fierce, funny, uncompromising, and compassionate as ever.