Glen Lake Library demonstrates genealogy database

The Glen Lake Community Library in Empire will host a demonstration of a new genealogy database on Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. Ancestry Library Edition provides access to millions of digitized records, including census rolls, immigration logs and military service records. The database can be used on any of the library’s public computers. The demonstration will be led by Kris Rzepcynski (Rep-zin-ski), an archivist with the State of Michigan. Seating for this program is limited, so please contact the library in advance to register by calling (231) 326-5361, or via email to info@glenlakelibrary.net.

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Nature photographer to speak in Glen Arbor

Nature photographer Aubrieta Hope from DeKalb, Ill., will be the final artist in the Glen Arbor Art Association’s 2012 group of artists-in-residence. She particularly wanted a winter residency in order to photograph the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in all its winter glory and weather patterns. Hope intends to photograph the landscape in panoramic, wide-angle and macro images.

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Sleeping Bear Dunes waives entrance fee for MLK Day

In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Superintendent Dusty Shultz is pleased to announce that the entrance fee to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will be waived on Monday, Jan. 21.

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Altruism in Empire

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Northern Michiganders with the urge to help someone in need in their community can take that altruistic step, and enjoy live music and a cold beer in the process. Tom Fordyce and his mates from Cabin Fever will perform on Sunday, Jan. 27, from 4-6 p.m., at the Empire Village Inn, as part of the Empire Area Community Emergency Fund’s (EACEF) monthly benefit concert.

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Bay Theatre presents “A Royal Affair”

The Bay Film Series presents the Danish film A Royal Affair from January 13-15. This little known piece of European history tells the true story of an ordinary man who wins the queen’s heart and starts a revolution. Centering on the intriguing love triangle between the ever more insane Danish King Christian VII, the royal physician who is a man of enlightenment and idealism Struensee and the young but strong Queen Caroline Mathilda. A Royal Affair is the gripping tale of brave idealists who risk everything in their pursuit of freedom for their people.

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Glen Arbor Art Association’s Talk About Art begins fifth season

Traverse City resident Kimberly K. Bazemore never thought her career path would lead to art making; but it did. This self-taught jeweler and owner of Cog’s Creek Gallery + Studios will talk about her professional travels (which began as a sales clerk at an Atlanta gallery) at “Talk About Art” on Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Glen Arbor Art Association.

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Glen Arbor Township Board discusses Narrows Marina expansion plans

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Glen Arbor Township secretary Bonnie Quick has called a Board of Appeals hearing for Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 7 p.m. to discuss to reconvene a previous hearing two months ago related to marina expansion efforts on Big Glen Lake. As reported previously in the Glen Arbor Sun, On the Narrows Marina seeks to substantially expand its boat moorings and footprint on the lake’s western shore near M-22.

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Snowshoe Season at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

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Start your New Year’s holiday off with this simple checklist of resolutions you’re sure to enjoy, and maybe even keep, while snowshoeing at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Spend more time with family and friends. Check. Get some exercise. Check. Learn something new. Check. Connect with nature. Check. Explore your very own national park. Check.

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Palestinian film, Joshua Davis, play at Frankfort theatre

On Thursday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m., Frankfort’s Garden Theatre will show The People and the Olive, a documentary created by Aaron Dennis and Glen Arbor Sun editor Jacob Wheeler, as well as music by Joshua Davis from his forthcoming album “A Miracle of Birds”. The film follows this year’s Run Across Palestine — a five-day ultra-marathon across the West Bank of Palestine to illuminate the struggles of fair-trade olive farmers. Davis’ album is inspired by the run, and his experiences as a Jewish-American in Palestine. Learn more about the film here.

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Bay Theatre shows Japanese film “I Wish”

The Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay’s Bay Film Series presents I Wish by Japanese director Hirokazu KORE-EDA, playing Dec. 9-11. Two young brothers have been separated by their parents’ divorce and wish to reunite their family. When a new bullet train is launched which will link their two towns, they believe a miracle will happen as the high-speed trains first pass each other, so they hatch a plan to meet and make their wishes come true. This is a sweet and hopeful journey; a life adventure taken through the eyes and hearts of children.

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