Art educator Linda Young leads a conversational gallery talk about work displayed in the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s exhibition agriCULTURE: Barnyards and Farmscapeson Sunday, Oct. 7, at 2 p.m. in the GAAC gallery. This gallery event is free and open to the public.
After School Art returns to the Glen Arbor Arts Center in October with projects and lessons that take elementary and middle school children to other cultures and countries. Two sessions—one for kids in grades K-4, and a second for students in grades 5-8—take place at the Glen Arbor Arts Center, located at 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
On Saturday, Sept. 29, educators working with youth in grades 3-12 are invited to enjoy the day immersed in a range of educational activities appropriate for these grades that explore the Great Lakes and Great Lakes issues! This workshop will be held from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore headquarters in Empire.
Come join a special program on Monday, Oct. 1, from 7-9 p.m. at the Eyaawing Museum & Cultural Center celebrating Indigenous People’s Day. Professor Mathew Fletcher, author of The Eagle Returns: The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa Indians, will give a presentation on his book. Fletcher is a Professor at Michigan State University’s College of Law and the Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center.
Growers interested in getting the literal dirt on seed saving, beekeeping and soil health are gathering Sept. 30 for the Crosshatch Field School at 9 Bean Rows Farm on M-204 between Lake Leelanau and Suttons Bay.
On Sept. 29, Leelanau County will host the “biggest and longest free festival of the north.” About 35 performance groups and 100 artists will dot the shut-down streets of Northport. That’s right, lower Leelanau skeptics: the village at the top of the county has been hosting the ever-growing end of summer bash for six years now.
The Glen Arbor Arts Center presents “What Will Be In The Fields Tomorrow?”, a readers’ theater-style production, Saturday, Sept. 29, from 7-9 p.m. at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
Saugatuck painter Anne Corlett’s goal for her residency is to create awareness-raising paintings of West Michigan’s shoreline and landscape. During her residency, she’ll blog about her work and her activism. Corlett is one of seven artists selected for a 2018 GAAC residency.
“I’ve always made a living with a knife,” says Terry Conger of TC Butchering. He has sharpened his skills over a long, self-directed apprenticeship that included prep cooking and managing a well-known Traverse City restaurant; working at area retail groceries; and processing thousands of game and farm animals.
Discover Historic Leelanau through a PowerPoint tour of officially recognized sites, presented by historians Christine Byron and Thomas Wilson on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m. at the Glen Arbor Township Hall. This free community event is sponsored by the Leelanau County Historic Preservation Society.