ANN ARBOR ?Encompass: Many and One,” a show presenting music, dance, theater, and other artistic exhibitions performed, planned, and organized by a diverse pool of University of Michigan students, will be presented Saturday (Jan. 16) at 8 p.m. in the Michigan Theater. The show is billed as the kick-off event of the University’s winter theme semester, “Diversity: Theories and Practices.” It is also one of the earliest events in the U-M’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium with the theme this year: “On the Verge of a New Millenium STAND!”

According to show organizers, while there are many individual cultural shows at the University, there has never been a campus-wide pan-ethnic cultural show until now. It will be entertaining, they say, but it is also intended to symbolize that students are committed to resolving their differences and working together. They feel that the most rewarding aspect of the “Encompass” will be achieved through the time the students spend together planning and producing the show.

Groups scheduled to perform include: Amalgamation 8 (jazz ensemble); Congolese Dance; Echoes from the East (traditional Arabic dance); FASA (Filipino cultural dance); 58 Greene; Indigo; Impact; Kol HaKavod; Malaysian Student Association; Persian Student Association; Salsa Dance; Sinaboro (U-M’s Korean Traditional Performing Arts Group); and Tamil Indian dance.

Tickets for the show are available at the Michigan Union Ticket Office.

For further information on the show, contact Shelby Wong at (734) 747-6222.

For information about the Diversity theme semester look on the Web at http://www.rackham.umich.edu/Diversity/tshomepage.htm. For information about the MLK Symposium, the Web site is http://www.mlksymposium.umich.edu/.

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