Sep 10 Tuesday
Wallace House Presents the Hovey Lecture with Mazin Sidahmed, co-founder of DocumentedSept. 10, 2024
Beyond the partisan rallying cries around immigration influencing the presidential race, the issue plays out in individual communities where needs, resources and responses often transcend party lines and knee-jerk responses. How journalists cover immigration – and who their coverage ultimately serves – can shape how Americans understand and debate this issue for generations.
Join Mazin Sidahmed, 2021 Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow and co-founder of the non-profit newsroom Documented, for a discussion on how shifting our journalism focus from national coverage to local news outlets and from “reporting about” to “reporting for and with” immigrant communities can help us discern immigration fact from fiction and improve outcomes for everyone.
Wallace House Gardens620 Oxford Road5 PM start with a reception following the lecture
Sep 17 Tuesday
The Moth StorySLAM is an open-mic storytelling competition in which anyone can share a true, personal, 5-minute story on the night's theme. Sign up for a chance to tell a story or sit back and enjoy the show! Tonight’s theme is…
LOST: Prepare a five-minute story about life sans GPS. Tales of the clueless, the befuddled or the map-less! Off course or led astray, stories from those deep in thought, up a creek or otherwise unable to see the light. Was lost. Now Found. Share the amazing grace.
Oct 10 Thursday
Detroit Story Fest brings journalists and locals together for a night of art, entertainment and storytelling by and for the people of Detroit. Think of it as a podcast, but live and on stage. Hear from Michigan Public's Laura Webber Davis, along with other Michigan journalists as they go behind the scenes of their reporting, inviting readers into a world they’ve only observed from the outside. Artists and local raconteurs will also share surprising and hysterical stories live from the stage.
Full details on the Wallenberg website: https://myumi.ch/kZdE2
Nnimmo Bassey, executive director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation and a global environmental activist, will receive the 2024 Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan on Tuesday, September 10th in Ann Arbor. The Wallenberg Medal and Lecture ceremony is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. Please direct any inquiries about the event and requests for event accommodations to wallenberglecture@umich.edu or 734-936-3973.
Nnimmo Bassey is an architect and director of the Nigeria-based ecological think-tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and member of the steering committee of Oilwatch International, a network resisting the expansion of fossil fuel extraction in the Global South. He chaired Friends of the Earth International (2008-2012), was a co-recipient of the 2010 Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” and received the Rafto Human Rights Prize in 2012. Bassey has received honorary doctorate degrees from University of York (UK) in 2019 and from York University (Canada) in 2023. Bassey’s books include To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and The Climate Crisis in Africa and Oil Politics: Echoes of Ecological War. His poetry collections include: We Thought It Was Oil But It Was Blood (1998), I Will Not Dance to Your Beat (2010), and I See the Invisible (2024).
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The Wallenberg Medal and Lecture honors the legacy of Raoul Wallenberg who graduated from U-M’s College of Architecture in 1935 and saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews near the end of World War II. In 1944, at the request of Jewish organizations and the American War Refugee Board, the Swedish Foreign Ministry sent Wallenberg on a rescue mission to Budapest. Over the course of six months, Wallenberg issued thousands of protective passports and placed many thousands of Jews in safe houses throughout the besieged city. He confronted Hungarian and German forces to secure the release of Jews, whom he claimed were under Swedish protection, and saved more than 80,000 lives.
Administered by the University’s Donia Human Rights Center, U-M awards the Wallenberg Medal to those who, through their actions and personal commitment, perpetuate Wallenberg’s extraordinary accomplishments and human values, and demonstrate the capacity of the human spirit to stand up for the helpless, to defend the integrity of the powerless, and to speak out on behalf of the voiceless.
Sep 18 Wednesday
Force Blue is the only nonprofit organization in the world that retrains and redeploys former Special Operations veterans to work alongside scientists on marine conservation missions. It is changing the discussion of what it means to be an environmentalist.Harkening back to the days of Jacques Cousteau and the French frogmen he trained, Force Blue has assembled a modern-day cadre of elite military veterans with the aptitude and ability to achieve great things on the conversation front. As well as the visibility to actually let the world know about it!Whether it is partnering with brands like the National Football League, Publix Supermarkets, and Pepsi, or governmental agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its National Marine Sanctuary system, Force Blue is building a model or caring, cooperation, and positive change with the power to restore lives and the planet!
Force Blue is doing a "Tour of Duty" in northeast Michigan in partnership with Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in September. They will help with collecting freshwater acidification samples, surveying marine debris on local shorelines, and monitoring shipwreck sites and mooring buoys. We are excited for them to add this free, community lecture to their tour. Please join us on Wednesday, September 18th to learn more!
Doors open at 5:30pm.This is a free community event open to all.Details subject to change.NOTE: special movie showing on Friday, September 20th with "FROG FATHERS: Lessons From The Normandy Surf" at 6pm, also a free community event!