Volunteer Orientation
Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 6-7pm
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 6-7pm
Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 6-7pm
Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 6-7pm
Find out all about our programs, robot store, and more! We'll explain all of our student programs, including tutoring, in-schools, workshops, field trips, and publishing, and answer any questions that you may have. Hope to see you there!
You can fill out a volunteer application here.
Email amy@826michigan.org to reserve your spot.
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Adult Workshop: Jim Ottaviani presents:
How to Write with Pictures: Scripting Graphic Novels
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 6-9pm
Postponed until Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 6-9pm
Comic strips have been around for over a hundred years, comic books for decades, and graphic novels are now the darlings of the literary and library worlds. (OK, maybe not darlings, always, but they're no longer sniffed at and then ignored.) In this workshop we will talk about how the medium has progressed, how to tap into its particular strengths, and how to get from idea to script to an effective collaboration with artists and editors.
$60 per person per session; $50 per person per session if you register for two or more workshops. Click here to register!
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Last Day of Tutoring in 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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Mittenfest IV
Elbow Room in Ypsilanti
Thursday, December 31, 2009 - Sunday, January 3, 2010
Doors at 4pm, music starts at 5pm
Join us for what has become the Michigan music community’s favorite weekend of the year: Mittenfest! When we threw our first Mittenfest, four years ago, we had no idea it would grow to be such an event!
This year promises to be bigger and better than ever before: Almost forty bands are slated to play!
Consider your New Year’s Eve plans taken care of as you ring in the new year in semi-formal attire with Matt Jones & the Reconstruction, Chris Bathgate, Electric Fire Babies, Elle and the Fonts, The Ferdy Mayne, Annie Palmer, Stargrazer, White Pines, This is Deer Country, and more, all for only $9, which includes a champagne toast!
This event is 18 and up. Tickets are: $9 on New Year’s Eve, $7 every other night. A wristband for all four days can be bought at the Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair and the Elbow Room (starting December 7) for $25.
For up-to-the-minute information, please check here.
Bands include:
Stargrazer, Great Lakes Myth Society, Ethan Milner, Alex Greiner, The Ferdy Mayne, Timothy Monger, Spitting Nickels, Anna Ash, Annie Palmer, Ghost Heart, This is Deer Country, The Juliets, Nathan K, Landfill Mountain Boys, Electric Fire Babies, Prussia, Frontier Ruckus, Secret Twins, Elle and the Fonts, Ghostlady, Jim Roll, Small Houses, Fields of Industry, Drunken Barn Dance, Misty Lyn, Chris Bathgate, Lightning Love, Black Jake & the Carnies, Matt Jones, White Pines, Champions of Breakfast, Photographers, Fred Thomas, Friendly Foes, and more!
ALL PROCEEDS, AS EVER, BENEFIT THE FREE STUDENT PROGRAMMING AT 826MICHIGAN!
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Release of Winter Workshop Schedule
Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 12 noon.
Registration for these workshops will open at 7pm on Thursday, January 7.
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Registration opens for Winter Workshop Schedule
Thursday, January 7, 2010, 7pm.
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Tutoring Resumes
Monday, January 11, 2010
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No Tutoring (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
Monday, January 18, 2010
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Volunteer Orientation
Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 6-7pm
Find out all about our programs, robot store, and more! We'll explain all of our student programs, including tutoring, in-schools, workshops, field trips, and publishing, and answer any questions that you may have. Hope to see you there!
You can fill out a volunteer application here.
Email amy@826michigan.org to reserve your spot.
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Great Lakes, Great Times Reading Series
At 826michigan, with Brian Evenson, Joanna Howard & Blake Butler
Saturday, January 23, 2010, 7pm
We are pleased to announce our involvement in the Great Lakes, Great Times Reading Series! This monthly reading series showcases the best established and up-and-coming writers working today.
Admission is free, and the public is welcome, although it should be noted that, unless otherwise stated, these are NOT family friendly events.
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826michigan OMNIBUS, Volume 2 Release Party
Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 7pm, at 826michigan
Please join us for student readings, cookies, juice, and the release of our newest book of student writing.
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The second-annual Love Hangover!
Elbow Room, 6 S. Washington in Ypsilanti
Monday, February 15, 2010, 7pm.
Join us for the second annual Love Hangover! The Love Hangover, put on locally by 826michigan and HuRAI (Huron River Arts Initiative), happens all across the country the day after Valentine’s Day. It showcases local musicians pairing in odd and unusual ways to perform love songs—originals and covers—from the divine to the bitter.
Last year, this was a staff favorite. Covers included “Stay” by Lisa Loeb, “Lovefool” by the Cardigans, and “Single Ladies” to the tune of “Blister in the Sun.”
This year includes: Tyler Brubaker, Nicole Burgess, Chrissy & Brian Deiger, Patrick Elkins, Jennifer Guerra, Jerry Hancock, Jared Hawkley, Dana Kletter, Jim Roll, AND a troupe of tap dancers, as well as members from Ghostlady, Secret Twins, and Fields of Industry.
18 and up, cover charge TBD.
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Great Lakes, Great Times Reading Series:
Blake Nelson, Kevin Sampsell, & Chelsea Martin
Saturday, February 27, 2010, 7pm, at 826michigan
The monthly Great Lakes, Great Times Reading Series showcases the best established and up-and-coming writers working today.
Admission is free, and the public is welcome, although it should be noted that, unless otherwise stated, these are NOT family friendly events.
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Mustache-A-Thon Opening Hair-A-Monies
Monday, March 8, 2010, 8:26pm
Arbor Brewing Company
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Mustache-A-Thon meeting
Monday, March 15, 2010, 8:26pm
Monday, March 22, 2010, 8:26pm
Monday, March 29, 2010, 8:26pm
Monday, April 5, 2010, 8:26pm
Arbor Brewing Company
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Great Lakes, Great Times Reading Series:
Dan Chaon, Laura van den Berg, & Robert Lopez
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 7pm, at 826michigan
The monthly Great Lakes, Great Times Reading Series showcases the best established and up-and-coming writers working today.
Admission is free, and the public is welcome, although it should be noted that, unless otherwise stated, these are NOT family friendly events.
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FestiFools Robot Takeover!
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 2:30 pm, at the Ann Arbor District Library's downtown branch
Join us for our second-annual, parade-sanctioned Robot Takeover of FestiFools. This year, we're making the event even bigger and better. We've teamed up with our friends at the downtown branch of the Ann Arbor District Library to amass a veritable ARMY of bots.
How it works: Bring your bot-to-be to the library. Between 2:30 and 3:30pm, we'll have a slew of mad scientists in lab coats helping with robot assemblage. Then, at 3:30, we'll head up to Main Street, where all of our many bots (last year we could only accommodate about thirty, this year we're thinking more in terms of HUNDREDS, thanks to the library!) will infiltrate the parade, and march up and down Main with all the puppets.
Everyone is welcome at this free event! You don't have to bring anything, but any robotic supplies you happen to have would be greatly appreciated. Hope to see you at the library on Sunday, April 11, at 2:30pm.
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Mustache-A-Thon Stache Bash
Monday, April 12, 2010, 8:26pm
Arbor Brewing Company
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Great Lakes, Great Times Reading Series:
Deb Olin Unferth, Jeff Parker, & Kendra Grant Malone
Saturday, April 24, 2010, 7pm, at 826michigan
The monthly Great Lakes, Great Times Reading Series showcases the best established and up-and-coming writers working today.
Admission is free, and the public is welcome, although it should be noted that, unless otherwise stated, these are NOT family friendly events.
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Storymakers Dinner
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 6:30 pm, at Zingerman's Roadhouse
What could be better than a perfectly written story? At 826michigan we help young people tell and write their stories everyday, and the volunteers and donors who contribute to our work make thousands of stories possible every year. With the help of the fine people at Zingerman’s we’re throwing a big dinner party—with fabulous food and wine-- to celebrate great stories and the people that make them happen. We’ve also invited a few of our very favorite story aficionados to join us: Dave Eggers will tell tales! First year Huron High School teacher Quinn Strassel will tell us about his students and their essay-writing with our classroom volunteers! Quinn’s students will read their writing! And if that alone is not enough to have you clicking and ordering tickets right now, can we remind you that this dinner is happening at Zingerman’s? Chef Alex has crafted an extraordinary and creative menu inspired by Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun: mostly Syrian, with a touch of New Orleans Creole.
Buy tickets here!
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Great Lakes, Great Times Reading Series:
Ander Monson, Kathryn Regina & Matt Bell
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 7pm, at 826michigan
The monthly Great Lakes, Great Times Reading Series showcases the best established and up-and-coming writers working today.
Admission is free, and the public is welcome, although it should be noted that, unless otherwise stated, these are NOT family friendly events.
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