The 20th annual walk across the mighty Leland Bridge in honor of Labor Day will take place on Monday, Sept. 3, at noon. Leland residents, family and friends will begin gathering at 11:30 a.m. in the parking lot behind the Blue Bird in preparation for the historic walk.
Adirondack chairs painted by local artists and sponsored by local businesses have been on display around Glen Arbor this summer. This “ARTirondack Chair Event” is a new fundraiser for the Glen Lake Chamber of Commerce, a 501c organization, to help continue to represent and promote the region.
Exciting news for mountain bikers in Northern Michigan: work to expand Palmer Wood’s Forest Reserve’s trail system with single-track mountain bike trails is slated to begin next month. Flowtrack Mountain Bike Trails, LLC, a professional trail-building company from the Upper Peninsula, has been hired to lead the design and construction of the new trails.
The upcoming LivelyLands Music Festival will provide a musical adventure like nothing else in northern Michigan, featuring genre-diverse artists from Austin to Leelanau County and points in between. The festival is set for Aug. 24-26.
The July 2018 Wine on the Water Festival that was postponed due to lightning and thunderstorms has been rescheduled. The organizers are excited to host the festival on Saturday, Aug. 18, in its same location at Marina Park in Suttons Bay.
The next wildly popular Small Plates—an intimate progressive dinner along the Leelanau wine trail—is Thursday, Aug. 16, starting at 6 p.m. Enjoy a glass of wine paired with a gourmet tapas dish in the tasting rooms of up to three wineries during this unique dinner event that happens just twice per year.
Linda Beeman looks “at nature through the eyes of mokuhanga”—an ancient form of Japanese woodblock printing. And what the artists sees will be on display Aug. 17-30 at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. An artist’s reception to open the exhibition is Friday, Aug. 17, from 6-8 p.m.
Michigan League of Conservation Voters (MLCV) executive director Lisa Wozniak and Cherry Republic president Bob Sutherland will discuss the current state of Michigan’s waterways, including the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline, in a non-partisan fundraiser at the Cherry Public House in Glen Arbor on Thursday, Aug. 16, from 5-6:30 p.m.
An annual tradition returns to the Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC). The GAAC’s 2018 member show, a showcase of GAAC members’ talents, opens Aug. 17 with an artists’ reception from 6-8 p.m. at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor.
The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is contring with the Richmond, Virginia-based film company Orange Frame to produce a new Sleeping Bear film, which the Lakeshore hopes to unveil in 2020.