Glen Arbor Art Association holds second annual Paint Out

From staff reports It was so much fun; we’re going to do it again! The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) will host its second annual Plein Air Paint Out and Wet Paint Sale/Reception on Saturday, August 7. Last year 39 artists participated. They start the day by having their canvases or papers date stamped early in […]

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Art Association offers filmmaking class for teens

From staff reports Do you secretly dream of making movies? Now is your chance. Andrea Maio will be teaching a one week documentary boot camp course for teens at the Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) August 9-12, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. It will be a whirlwind week exploring the many modes of non-fiction storytelling in […]

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Summer bike tours offered at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

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LoFrom staff reports Superintendent Dusty Shultz announces the continuation in 2010 of summer bike tours at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. As part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), Interpretive Park Ranger Ryan Locke will lead bicycle tours that focus on how invasive species are affecting our native plants and animals here on the […]

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Library holds annual Vintage Book Sale

From staff reports The Friends of the Glen Lake Community Library have a 30-year tradition of supporting Library programs and collections through funds raised at their Annual Vintage Book Sale. This three-day event is held in mid-August at the Glen Arbor Township Hall. The schedule for this year’s sale is as follows: Wednesday, August 11, […]

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Denice Franke, Mudsliders crash Manitou Music Festival

From staff reports The Manitou Music Festival is pleased to announce an upcoming concert by Texas singer/songwriter Denice Franke on Sunday August 8 at the Lake Street Studio Stage in Glen Arbor. Joining Franke for the evening is her own Michigan band, the Mudsliders, who will give an added spark to the evening’s performance. Franke counts both Lyle Lovett […]

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Message in a bottle

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From staff reports Kathleen Dodge Buhler and her husband were walking the wonderful shoreline of Lake Michigan around 9 p.m. on July 17, as she had done for the last 58 years, enjoying the pink sunset afterglow to the west as small waves lapped in. An aqua-colored wine bottle on the top of a wave lapping gently […]

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Dunegrass focuses local, with a little Big Easy

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Now that Dunegrass organizer Ryan Lake has the 2009 rebirth of the festival under his belt, he can focus on bringing harmony to the popular annual northern Michigan music event, which celebrates its 18th year this August. To Lake, that means trimming the number of bands, so that festival-revelers can […]

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Arts Collage celebrates five years in Glen Arbor

From staff reports The Arts Collage returns to the Lake Street Studio stage in Glen Arbor on Sunday, Aug. 1 at 8 p.m., featuring a special line-up of regional, national and international scale creative arts performers, including local poet, writer and activist Holly Wren Spaulding, contemporary dancer Gretchen Eichberger, the Little Bang Theory’s Toy Instrument […]

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Traverse City Film Festival 2010

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Gasland “Gasland” by director Josh Fox, aired at the 2010 Traverse City Film Festival, on Saturday, July 31. Following the movie, Fox and two Michiganders spoke about natural gas and mineral drilling companies, and the threats their “fracking” practices pose to the environment and citizen health. Que viva la revolucion de beisbol! Many of the […]

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Dickinson photos capture Lakeshore’s beauty

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By Chloe Gribbin Sun contributor The photos mounted on the walls of the Dickinson photo gallery on M-109 are an obvious attraction to those wandering the streets of Glen Arbor. The prints range from black and white to hand tinted, and offer beautiful scenes around the Glen Arbor and Empire area — both vintage and […]

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