Center Gallery hosts an artists’ reception to open its first exhibition of the 2018 season on Friday, May 25, from 6-8 p.m. at the gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. A celebration of the region’s rural life—as seen by painters Barbara Cochran and Margie Guyot—launches Center Gallery’s 2018 season.
The League of Women Voters Leelanau County will gather at The Homestead Resort on Wednesday, May 23, to hold their annual meeting and to hear from guest speaker Peter Payette, executive director of Interlochen Public Radio, who will take about preserving quality journalism and maintaining a free press.
On Tuesday, May 29, at 7 p.m. at the Leelanau County Government Center Lower Level Community Room the League of Women Voters Leelanau County will hold part one of a community conversation on immigration entitled “Immigration 101: How It Works and How It Doesn’t.”
History writers, researchers, genealogists, publishers and authors are cordially invited to join the Leelanau Historical Society for the upcoming program Writers Roundtable: From Pen to Print on Tuesday, May 22 at 4 p.m. at 203 E. Cedar St. in Leland.
The Leelanau Conservancy is launching an all-out war on invasive garlic mustard and needs your help. Garlic Mustard is a European native with no natural enemies in Michigan.
Young entrepreneurs Katy and Matt Wiesen are re-opening their Coastal retail clothing store this spring in a swanky new building on the east side of Glen Arbor.
Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will host a training meeting on Saturday, May 19, at 1 p.m. for Adopt-A-Beach, BARK Ranger, Adopt-A-River, and Adopt-A-Trail volunteers.
After a year’s hiatus for construction, the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s Artist-in-Residence program resumes in May. This program of working residencies was established in the 1990s, and now attracts applicants from throughout the United States.
The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s “Little Artists” get up close and personal with insects in May, to learn where they live and how they live. The May “Little Artists” series begins Friday, May 18, 9:30 a.m.
Free to enter, this year’s Empire Asparagus Festival recipe competition on Saturday, May 19, is open to anyone who loves asparagus. Participants create asparagus dishes for the public to sample while competing for cash prizes.