A group of approximately
50 students, faculty and
community
members
gathered
Monday
night
in the ballroom of the
Michigan
League
for
an
open
mic
night,
showcasing
the
stories
and
experiences
of
Asian/Pacific
Islander
Americans.
Multi-Ethnic
Student
Affairs hosted the open
mic night as a part of the
Asian/Pacific
Islander
American
Heritage

Month. The event, titled
“hAPIness:
Open
Mic
Night,” was co-hosted by
Asian/Pacific
Islander
Desi
of
America
Staff
Association.
LSA
sophomore
Anooshka Gupta, a member
of the programming board
for the A/PIA Heritage
Month, said one of the
key reasons for hosting
the event was to offer a
single, inclusive platform
to display diverse forms
of art.
“One
of
our
ideas
behind
open
mic
night
was that, in the A/PIA
community,
there’s
so

much
performance
art
and visual art and dance,”
Gupta said. “...We were
like, ‘Okay, we don’t want
to have separate events for

each,
so how do we create a
space
where
everyone
can share their art?’ And
that’s the key to open
mic night.”
During
the
event,
students
performed
various forms of fine art,
ranging
from
spoken-
word poetry to musical
performance,
as
a
means of expression and
cultural representation.
University alum Javier
Solorzano
Parada,
a
program
manager
for
MESA,
discussed
the
importance of events like
this to help understand
and
communicate
the
identities of those in the
A/PIA community.
“A/PIA
Heritage
Month has really been
working
towards
the
understanding that it’s
not just about thinking
about
one
specific

identity,”
Parada
said.
“It’s really about creating
awareness of all of our
different
identities
and
how
we
are
all
each

unique.”
LSA
senior
Maki
O’Bryan,
one
of
the
emcees
for
the
event,
echoed
the
importance
of
finding
individuality
and
personal
meaning
within communities and
identities.
“I’ve
been
involved
with the A/PI community
on campus for the last
four
years,
I’m
pretty
involved with the Japan
Student Association and
I just recently kind of got
involved in the broader A/
PI community,” O’Bryan
said.
“I’m
hoping
this
event will be a culmination
of Heritage Month, but
also my time at Michigan
and my involvement with
the community.”

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WEDNESDAY:
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MONDAY:
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On Sunday, the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History opened its doors to the public in its new location at the Biological
Sciences Building. Museums have been a prominent feature at the University for close to 200 years.

1837:
The University’s first nat-
ural history collection is
created. Beginning as a
Cabinet of
Natural History, the cab-
inet was kept in the
homes of

1881:
The first University museum
building is established,
housing four different
museums: Museums of
Paleontology, Zoology and
Anthropological
Archaeology and the
University Herbarium.

1956:
The Exhibits Museum is
officially established
inside the Ruthven
Museums Building.

2011:
The Exhibits Museum
changes its name to the
University of Michigan Museum
of Natural History. The Provost
also announces plans to build a
new Biological Sciences
Building that will also serve as
the new home of UMMNH.

2017:
The museum operates normally as
scientists begin to take
down exhibits.

Dec. 30, 2017:
UMMNH officially closes its
location at the Ruthven
Museums Building.

April 14, 2019:
UMMNH, newly located in the
BSB, officially opens to the public.

1928:
The Ruthven Museums Building,
the future home of UMMNH,
is completed.

A/PIA Heritage
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working towards the
understanding that it’s
not just about one specific
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