Empowerment through Hengchun Folk Song Musicals: Women's Narratives on the Global Stage

Join us to learn about traditional folk music from the Hengchun Peninsula of southern Taiwan. Starry Wang, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan School of Music Dance and Theater, will gives this talk in advance of "Sound of Music from Taiwan's Hengchun Peninsula" on April 27th.

The lecture is followed by a DIY workshop: sanding and assembling a decorative miniature model of Yueqin, the instrument featured in the musical on April 27.

This event is in partnership with the Michigan Taiwanese American Organization.

You’ve Got a Book in You: How to Go From Idea to Author

Join writer and publishing expert Brandi Larsen to understand the ins and outs of book publishing, from how books go from ideas to manuscripts to bestsellers and how your work can fit into the publishing process. Talk will focus on adult books from the biggest publishing companies and some aspects of self-publishing. If your friends and family have said, "That's a book!", this entertaining and inspiring talk is for you.

Movie Night at the Library: Disney Pixar's Onward

Two teenage elf brothers, Ian and Barley Lightfoot (Tom Holland and Chris Pratt), get an unexpected opportunity to spend one more day with their late dad and embark on an extraordinary quest aboard Barley’s epic van, Guinevere. Like any good quest, their journey is filled with magic spells, cryptic maps, impossible obstacles, and unimaginable discoveries. But when the boys’ fearless mom Laurel (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) realizes that her sons are missing, she teams up with a part-lion, part-bat, part-scorpion, former warrior—aka The Manticore (Octavia Spencer)—and heads off to find them.