The Glen Arbor Arts Center hosts a yarn bomb Maker Day on Sunday, August 18, from 1-3 pm at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. This is one of several Makers Days leading up to a September 15 yarn bombing/installation at the GAAC.
Glen Arbor has a new music venue this summer. The M22 patio, where guests gather at the outdoor bar to sip wine at Katy and Matt Wiesen’s M22 Store, has hosted live music on Tuesdays and Thursdays since mid-June, featuring artists Blake Elliott and Dennis Palmer. We caught up with Blake before her final appearance on the patio this season—Tuesday, Aug. 20—to learn what the experience has been like.
See colorful Adirondack chairs, painted by local artists, sprinkled throughout the Glen Lake area. Each chair is sponsored by a local business or person and is on display all summer around Glen Arbor. In its second year, the “ARTirondack Chair Project” is coordinated by the Glen Lake Chamber of Commerce, a 501c organization.
Painter Jeff Condon will show his latest works at Lake Street Studios Center Gallery from August 16-29 with an opening reception on Friday, August 16, from 6-8 pm. The gallery is open daily from 11 am-5 pm. For information call 231-334-3179 or visit LakeStreetStudiosGlenArbor.com.
If Maria Ulrich is the wizard at the sound board (or more likely these days, at the tablet and monitors), then lucky listeners and presenters alike can relax under her professional support. Ulrich will run Glen Arbor’s Manitou Music series starting next year.
Traverse Area Recreation and Transportation (TART) Trails, Inc. is a proud partner of the eighth annual Dune Dash, a 4-mile run/walk along the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail (SBHT) on Saturday, August 17, at 9 am at the Sleeping Bear Dune Climb. The course highlights the trail within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Registration is open at www.DuneDash.com and ranges from $25-$35 per person based on age. Prices will increase on August 15.
An annual tradition returns to the Glen Arbor Arts Center. The GAAC’s “Members Create” exhibition opens Friday, August 16, with a reception from 6-8 pm in the gallery. This exhibit showcases the talents of more than 50 GAAC members working in 2D and 3D media.
“I was impressed with how personable the Governor was,” said Cherry Republic president Bob Sutherland after Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer spent Thursday afternoon, August 8, on Lake Street—first at Cherry Republic, then at the Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC), then on Lake Street Studio Stage where she spoke to the public about Great Lakes issues.
Author Tom Carr tells stories of murder, robbery and mayhem through the ages in the Great Lakes state. Delivered in a lively manner with irreverence and historical context, the stories include crimes of passion, greed, insanity and just plain awfulness. On Wednesday, August 14, at 6 pm, Carr will be in the Munnecke Room at Leland Township Library
To all soccer aficionados, on Thursday, August 15, at 1 pm at Myles Kimmerly Park near Maple City there will be a NCAA division 1 exhibition soccer match. University of Virginia (UVA) v. Illinois.