Calling all writers! Get into the groove of writing in a quiet space with lots of outlets to plug in a laptop!

Whether you're working on a novel as part of National Novel Writing Month or something else, all are welcome.

Since 2008 the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office has been researching Michigan’s modern architecture and design heritage as part of the award-winning Michigan Modern® project. It is an incredible story of international importance, yet one that has been woefully under-documented.

Amy Arnold, preservation planner for the Michigan State Historic Preservation, and Brian Conway, Michigan’s State Historic Preservation Officer, visit AADL to discuss Michigan’s contribution to modernism and their book Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America, recipient of the 2017 Michigan Notable Books Award

This fascinating anthology of essays shines well-deserved light on Michigan's role in the development of Modernism, not only in America, but worldwide. Essays and interviews by an impressive array of contributors including Donald Albrecht, Gunnar Birkerts, Alan Hess, Jayne Merkel, Mira Nakashima, Todd Oldham, and Ruth Adler Schnee tell the story of how Michigan shaped Modern America by creating the ideas and products that became synonymous with the American Dream.

This book is based is on presentations by nationally-recognized scholars at two symposiums held in conjunction with the 2013-2014 exhibition "Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America." The Michigan Modern® project received the Government Institution Award from the Michigan Historic Preservation Network in 2014. It received the DOCOMOMO-US Award of Excellence in Advocacy in 2016

This event is cosponsored by A2Modern and will include a book signing. Copies of the books will be available for sale.

This is a group for adults that combines knitting and crocheting with grief support. Bring whatever project is currently on your needles or in your heart. We will provide a safe and compassionate space for you to talk about your loss, as you craft through your grief with others.

For more information or to register, please call Sara Swanson at 734.794.5401 or email sswanson@arborhospice.org. This program is sponsored by Arbor Hospice Grief Support Services.

This is a group for adults that combines knitting and crocheting with grief support. Bring whatever project is currently on your needles or in your heart. We will provide a safe and compassionate space for you to talk about your loss, as you craft through your grief with others.

For more information or to register, please call Sara Swanson at 734.794.5401 or email sswanson@arborhospice.org. This program is sponsored by Arbor Hospice Grief Support Services.

This is a group for adults combining knitting and crocheting with grief support. Bring whatever project is currently on your needles or in your heart. We will provide a safe and compassionate space for you to talk about your loss, as you craft through your grief with others.

For more information or to register, please call Sara Swanson at 734.794.5401 or email sswanson@arborhospice.org.

This program is cosponsored by Arbor Hospice Grief Support Services.

The U-M Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce a program with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Oshinsky, Ph.D., as he discusses his new book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital, a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. This event includes a book signing and book will be on sale, courtesy of Nicola’s Books.

Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease sufferers. In its two and a half centuries of service, there was hardly an epidemic or social catastrophe—or groundbreaking scientific advance—that did not touch Bellevue.

Oshinsky chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution.

With its diverse, ailing, and unprotesting patient population, the hospital was a natural laboratory for the nation's first clinical research. It treated tens of thousands of Civil War soldiers, launched the first civilian ambulance corps and the first nursing school for women, pioneered medical photography and psychiatric treatment, and spurred New York City to establish the country's first official Board of Health.

The latter decades of the twentieth century brought rampant crime, drug addiction, and homelessness to the nation's struggling cities—problems that called a public hospital's very survival into question. It took the AIDS crisis to cement Bellevue's enduring place as New York's ultimate safety net, the iconic hospital of last resort. Lively, page-turning, and fascinating, Bellevue is essential American history.

David Oshinsky, Ph.D is a professor in the NYU Department of History and director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine. In 2005, he won the Pulitzer Prize in History for Polio: An American Story. His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Representatives from the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School and the United Way Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program discuss tax preparation in an event designed to assist individuals with low income.

Information will also be available on their free one-on-one financial counseling and representation for low-income individuals who have tax controversies, such as IRS collections actions, IRS notices (liens and levies), US Tax Court Petitions, tax audits, tax preparer fraud issues, and tax credit issues.

Lincoln Center Local: Free Screenings, a program created by Lincoln Center Education and hosted by libraries and community centers, brings the best of Lincoln Center—world-renowned performances coupled with unparalleled educational resources—off its Manhattan-based campus and into communities anywhere.

Today's screening is a festive all-Mozart program featuring the exquisite Piano Trio in B-flat major, K. 502; the charming Horn Quintet in E-flat major, K. 407, and the exuberant Viola Quintet in C major.

This season-closing program, previously recorded at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in May 2013, is performed by pianist Soyeon Kate Lee, violinists Benjamin Beilman and Ani Kavafian, violists Lily Francis and Paul Neubauer, cellist Timothy Eddy, and horn player Radovan Vlatkovic.

This Lincoln Center program provides high-definition screenings from the growing digital catalog of the world’s leading performing arts center. These music, dance, theater, and opera performances come from recent live events at Lincoln Center, including the New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center Theater, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and School of American Ballet, as well as past performances at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, American Song, and past broadcasts from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Live From Lincoln Center. For more information, please visit LincolnCenter.org/Local

In honor of Women’s History month, this event features discussion by local experts of the Michigan work of prominent female architects in Michigan, both historical and contemporary practitioners.

The conversation will also include Marie Tharpe, an Ypsilanti woman who mapped the ocean floor. She was a cartographer, not an architect; but she contributed significantly to the world’s scientific spatial understanding of itself and is an important part of local history.

This program will be moderated by Jessica A.S. Letaw, who enjoys working on, thinking over, and telling stories about architecture. Jessica's past day jobs included design/build and construction firms. She lives in Ann Arbor with her rescue hound, Henry, and keeps herself out of trouble by volunteering for the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and other local events. She enjoys reading, gardening, and well-made White Russians.

In honor of Black History Month, local experts discuss the contributions of Black architects, architectural designers, and landscape architects to the built environment of Michigan. They will touch on Michigan's first Black-owned architectural firm, Detroit's historic Black Bottom neighborhood, and Detroit's connection to the rise of hip-hop architecture.

For the first time, Building Matters will be coordinated by multiple presenters. In addition to Jessica A.S. Letaw, we will hear from Karen AD Burton, Saundra Little, and Emily Kutil.

Ms. Burton and Ms. Little's project, the Noir Design Parti, is a 2016 Knight Arts Challenge winner. They are documenting the professional journeys and creative works of Detroit’s black architects through a series of videos, photographs, maps and tours. Ms. Kutil's project, "Black Bottom Street View" aims to connect Detroit residents with the Burton Historic Collection’s photographs of the former Black Bottom neighborhood, and is also a 2016 Knight Arts Challenge winner (2016 was a huge year for Detroit architecture!).

Saundra Little is a registered architect and founder and principal of Centric Design Studio, an architecture firm based in midtown Detroit. Her firm specializes in office, retail, healthcare and multifamily design. She holds a bachelors and masters degree from Lawrence Technological University, is a past president of the National Organization of Minority Architects - Detroit Chapter [NOMA-D], a board member of the Detroit Creative Corridor Center, and past board member of the AIA Detroit.

Karen Burton is a marketing consultant to architects, engineers and artists who combines her architectural design and entrepreneurial experience to help business grow to their full potential. She is also founder and president of SpaceLab Detroit, a new coworking space opening in soon in downtown Detroit. Karen has a bachelor of science degree in architecture from the Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, studied business administration at Wayne State University, and is a board member of the Detroit Chapters of the National Association of Minority Architects and National Association of Women in Construction.

Emily Kutil is a designer, adjunct professor of architecture at the University of Detroit Mercy, and a member of the We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective.

This program will be moderated by Jessica A.S. Letaw, who enjoys working on, thinking over, and telling stories about architecture. Jessica's past day jobs included design/build and construction firms. She lives in Ann Arbor with her rescue hound, Henry, and keeps herself out of trouble by volunteering for the Ann Arbor Summer Festival and other local events. She enjoys reading, gardening, and well-made White Russians.

Don't miss this opportunity to explore the history and continuing legacy of local Black architects in Michigan and beyond.