Using the Myofascial technique, licensed massage therapist Brian M. Truskowski will teach you about the anatomy of the head, neck and shoulders area as it relates to massage, with focus on the muscles. Learn about the role they play in your body and how they create dysfunction when not working properly.

Brian will instruct attendees on how to self-massage by demonstrating the techniques on himself and then on any participants interested in giving it a try. He is licensed to practice massage in the state of Michigan and currently practices at Tranquil Being Healing Arts Center.

Just like humans and many other animals, dogs like to play with their food! In this program, we'll talk about letting our dogs play with their food—not in the toddler-like finger painting sense, more along the lines of encouraging our dogs to "work" for their supper.

Did you know that giving your dog an appropriate toy to eat or play with also helps prevent boredom, encourages patience, and teaches your dog how to manage frustration and impulse control? It's true!

Join Hannah Ashmore of Longsnouts Dog Training in Ypsilanti to learn tips and tricks for keeping our dogs' lives enriched through food-based play. She'll talk about her favorite store-bought gadgets, how to create several different types of toys straight from your recycling bin, and why this is important.

As usual, it'll be an engaging conversation, full of real-life examples and lots of visuals, probably talking a lot about Livvie the Minx, Hannah's 5-ish-year-old Black & Tan Coonhound!

The romance of rose is legend in the perfume arts.

Whether worn on its own as a “soliflore” or in combination with other ingredients, rose has the power to bring our senses to the threshold of beauty like no other flower. Rose is beloved across cultures and a well-known ingredient in aphrodisiac recipes that go back several centuries.

In perfumery rose is the innocent and the seducer, something one can smell in some of the finest rose perfumes to date. We will search the rose at this Smell and Tell, and explore the flower’s sensual expressions in food and fragrance.

Michelle Krell Kydd is a trained “nose” in flavors and fragrance. She is also the editor of Glass Petal Smoke, an award-winning blog that explores the world of scent and taste

This presentation will explore the history, styles, and main themes of glove puppet theatre in Taiwan as well as its relationship to other Chinese theatrical and artistic forms. This event is in coordination with the glove puppet theatre performance by the I Wan Jan Puppet Theater on Tuesday, May 24 at 7pm at the Downtown Library.

Glove puppet (also called hand puppet) theatre is a traditional theatrical art form that combines aspects of folk arts such as woodcarving and embroidery with traditional music and Chinese dramatic forms based on famous historical novels.

This form of puppet theatre has been practiced in Taiwan since it was introduced by immigrants from the southeastern coastal provinces of Fujian and Guangzhou in about the 18th century. Overtime in Taiwan, it developed some distinctive Taiwanese characteristics with the use of the local dialects and artistic styles, as well as theatrical and technical innovations to engage an ever-changing audience.

Ann Arbor residents and Eastern Michigan University Professors, Guey-Meei Yang and Tom Suchan, will lead this presentation. Guey-Meei Yang is a Professor of Visual Art Education with a specialization in multicultural art education and technology integration. Tom Suchan researches medieval Chinese religious art. In addition to their individual fields they have collaborated on a number of joint publications and research projects.

Brain injures due to sports are a current hot topic in the news. An estimated 1.6-3.8 million sports- and recreation-related concussions occur in the United States each year. But what is happening with current research in this area, and what are the findings?

Join us as Dr. James (J.T.) Eckner discusses sport-related concussion research underway at the U-M, and what the findings say about this troublesome subject. What are the short- and long-term effects of concussion and sport-associated head trauma on an athlete and his or her health? What are ways to reduce an athlete’s concussion risk?

Dr. Eckner is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of PM&R at the University of Michigan and is the Director of Clinical Research at Michigan NeuroSport, where they specialize in the treatment and prevention of neurological sports injuries. He works with the sports medicine programs at the University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, and the USA Hockey National Team Development Program.

Dr. Eckner also treats local and regional athletes with concussion seeking care through the Michigan NeuroSport clinic. His primary area of research interest is mild traumatic brain injury in athletes, specifically sport related concussion.

This event is cosponsored by the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) and the U-M Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Department.

The success of podcasts like Serial and documentaries like Making of a Murderer has drawn attention to the issue of wrongful convictions, and to flaws in the criminal justice system that allow these problems to persist.

In 2007, Bill Proctor, a journalist and reporter with WXYZ-TV Channel 7 in Detroit, founded the Proving Innocence Organization to investigate wrongful conviction claims and educate the public about the need for reforms. Bill will talk about the cases that inspired him to take action, and bring along guest speakers who have experienced wrongful conviction and exoneration to share their perspectives.

Proctor was an award-winning journalist, reporter, producer, and anchorperson whose career of nearly forty years spanned electronic media, radio, television, and documentaries. He concluded his career as senior staff reporter for WXYZ-TV in Southfield, MI. In May 2013, Bill retired and started Bill Proctor and Associates, a communications consulting firm.

In the mid-1990s, he produced a series of specials on the slaying of community-college student, Scott Macklem. Through his investigations, Bill became convinced that Frederick Freeman (Temujin Kensu), the man convicted of killing Macklem, was not guilty. His passion for redressing this injustice led Bill to found Proving Innocence.

Applying to college? This event is for you:

AADL's 10th annual College Night with the co-authors of Solving the College Admissions Puzzle: A Guide for Students and Families About College Selection, Essay Writing, and High-Stakes Testing. Learn how to reduce your stress and increase your chances for success from the three experts of collegeadmissionsadvisors.com.

Community High's college prep counselor John Boshoven, M.A., M.S.W. will help you understand how to find the college that fits; Essay Coaching founder Debbie Merion, M.S.W, M.F.A. explains how to write a winning college application essay, and Managing Your Mind principal Geri Markel Ph.D. will provide tips about how to score your highest on tests such as the ACT and SAT, all to be followed by Q and A. Books will be for sale.

What word in the English language other than “cake” evokes such a celebratory response? One at once thinks about family gatherings, significant events, parties, and other happy memories. In terms of dinnerware, cake stands form a unique genre for the presentation of cakes.

This presentation by the director and curator of the Dinnerware Museum in Ann Arbor, Margaret Carney, will celebrate all things cake – sharing details about its sweet and delicious history, as well as examining a several of the famous cake-related quotes and idioms such as “let them eat cake,” “have your cake and eat it, too”; and delight the viewer with images of historic/vintage cake stands as well as cake stands and cake sculpture by contemporary artists.

This event is co-sponsored by the The Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor (CHAA), an organization of scholars, cooks, food writers, nutritionists, collectors, students, and others interested in the study of culinary history and gastronomy

In May, the University of Michigan Library will be hosting the Personal Digital Archiving 2016 conference, which will gather experts in the preservation of personal digital material from across the country and globe. While we had all of these experts in town, we thought it would be a great opportunity to have some of them participate in a session that is free and open to the public. Here are some details of the program:

Frances Harrell, Northeast Document Conservation Center
Digital Life Preservers

Frances will open the panel with a presentation on basic preservation approaches to digital content. Her discussion will cover the major risks to personal digital collections and the strategies for preventing permanent loss. The presentation will include methods for identifying, organizing, and storing digital photos, videos, documents, and other personal digital content.

Frances Harrell is a Preservation Specialist at the Northeast Document Conservation Center. She provides preservation assistance to small and medium-sized cultural heritage institutions through assessments, consulting, education, and outreach. She serves as Co-Chair of the Digital Preservation Interest Group for ALA ALCTS Preservation and Reformatting Section and is a member of the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Roundtable for New England Archivists. She also represents NEDCC on the COSTEP MA (Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness in Massachusetts) Executive Committee. She received an MLIS from Simmons College GSLIS and a BA in English Literature from the University of Florida, and has worked in both development and collections management.

Brianna Marshall, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Modern Memorykeeping: From Digital to Tangible
Brianna will explore modern memorykeeping techniques for documenting individuals' and families' lives, connecting the hard work of managing digital photographs with the creation of albums that can be shared and enjoyed. She will frame this talk in the context of how she has created different types of physical albums from her digital collections, an increasingly overwhelming task as the amount of digital photographs we take grows.

Brianna Marshall is a librarian and technologist interested in developing library services to support research and scholarship. She currently works as the Digital Curation Coordinator for the University of Wisconsin‐Madison, where she leads the interdisciplinary group Research Data Services and manages UW's institutional repository. Brianna is also a scrapbooker, 2015 Project Life creative team member, and de facto archivist and digital stuff wrangler for her family.

Christiane Evaskis-Garrett, ProQuest

Sharing the Family Story: Omeka and Access Omeka and Access
In December 2014, Christiane's father presented her with a box of black and white family photographs ranging from the 1930s to the 1960s. Christiane will discuss how she made a website using the Omeka software. Her discussion will include an overview of scanning equipment, privacy issues with regards to living family members in the photos, filling in gaps in biographical knowledge, and feedback/pushback from family members.

Christiane Evaskis-Garrett considers herself an archival nomad; over the past six years, she's worked as a project archivist for the State of Michigan, an archival consultant for the First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, Tennessee and is currently an Electronic Content Analyst at ProQuest. She also volunteers on a monthly basis at the Ella Sharp Museum in Jackson, Michigan as a cataloger/archivist. Christiane has served on the Michigan Archival Association Board since 2014 and also serves as co-editor for Open Entry, MAA’s biannual publication. She received her Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and Sociology in 2008 from the University of Tennessee - Martin and graduated in 2010 from the University of Michigan with a Masters of Science in Information, where she specialized in Archives & Records Management and Preservation of Information.

The panel will close with a 30 minute Q&A session moderated by Lance Stuchell, University of Michigan

Fermentation is a beautiful thing, and when faced with bumper fruit and veggie crops preserving and sharing the harvest is the key!

We will look at many easy to grow crops for our region and the variety of ways they can be preserved through fermentation. Samples and recipes will be provided.

Bridget O’Brien is a Certified Permaculture Designer, Forest Garden Designer, Permaculture Educator, and the Marketing Coordinator for The People’s Food Co-op of Ann Arbor. An avid and sometimes professional gardener and fermentation artist for over 10 years, she is also the Program Director for RootedLoveFund.org.