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Race benefits diabetes complications research

Join the Race for Reason 5K run/walk Sunday Sept. 10 on the Ingalls Mall to raise money for U-M research on diabetes complications and meet U.S. Track & Field Hall of Famer Bill Rodgers.

Registration and check-in begin at 7:30 a.m. and the race at 9 a.m. Registration is $15 or $10 for children under 12 and includes a T-shirt. Rodgers is scheduled to be on hand before and after the race, and so will U-M researchers whose studies will benefit from donations.

To register, visit www.pfund.umich.edu.

Festival organizers ask, Are You Brave?

Not-for-profit organizations Brave New Works and the Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts team up with the Residential College (RC) Music Program to conduct the annual one-day Are You Brave? Festival from noon-10 p.m. Sept. 9 at the RC Auditorium.

Featured performers include the Brave New Works Ensemble with guest instructors from around the country, and lecturer Andrew Mead of the U-M School of Music. Organizers say these participants will help meet a goal of presenting a more citizen-oriented event. A New Voices master class at noon will feature students from the RC and School for the Performing Arts playing new music from the 20th and 21st centuries, and the Brave New Works Ensemble will examine contemporary music and musicianship.

At 8 p.m. the ensemble will give a concert featuring pieces by six different composers including Karlheinz Stockhausen.

The event is part of the College of LS&A’s Citizenship Theme Year. For more information go to www.rc.lsa.umich.edu.