Culture

With her latest performance work, Meredith Monk says she sought to create “space for imagination and a fluid, perceptual field that could expand awareness of what we are in danger of losing.” What resulted is On...

It all started at an unheralded event called the Black Banjo Gathering, held in 2005 at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. That four-day conclave of young African American musicians explored the African and...

Hill Auditorium’s stage gets a hefty annual workout with the aptly named Collage Concert by the U-M School of Music, Theatre, & Dance. For thirty-nine years this student showcase has been riveting audiences with a...

Jill Jack will be hosting her sixth annual birthday party at the Ark on Saturday, January 14. A mainstay of the Michigan folk-rock scene, the singer-songwriter released her first recording in 1997, has added ten more since then,...

The first small poem of Mary Szybist’s first book ended with this remarkable statement: “there are some sadnesses / in which I do not long for God.” I find it remarkable because few contemporary poets admit to...

Two women in white lean toward an unseen prize. Together they tread cautiously, captivated. Tenderly they reach for it, claim it, bathe in it. After a beat, they get a sharp slap in the face—each by her own hand. Meanwhile,...