JoAnne Cook of the Grand Traverse Band will speak on the “History of the Odawa Anishinabek people from the Grand Traverse Region” on Tuesday, July 25, at 4:30 p.m. at the Leelanau Historical Society’s Norbert Gits Family Gallery (inside the museum), located at 203 E. Cedar Street in Leland.
Paintings of Leelanau County’s land and water—as processed through the imagination of Grand Rapids artist Margo Burian—are on display July 21-27 at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St. in Glen Arbor. A public reception opens this 10th anniversary show on July 21 at 6 p.m.
The 46th annual Glen Lake Woman’s Club Art Fair will be at the Glen Arbor Town Hall on Wednesday, July 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This event hosts 100 artists carefully chosen to represent most areas of the art world. Lunch is available including the famous ”walking tacos”. The fair is free to attend.
The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) welcomes the Moxie Strings back to the Manitou Music Festival Studio Stage on Sunday, July 23, at 8 p.m. Studio Stage is located behind Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys bring bluegrass to the Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) Manitou Music Festival on Wednesday, July 19, at 8 p.m. The concert takes place at Studio Stage behind Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St. in Glen Arbor.
The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) welcomes the blues duo Mulebone back to its Manitou Music Festival Studio Stage on Sunday, July 16, 8 p.m. Studio Stage is located behind Lake Street Studios, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is requesting public comment on increasing both entrance fees and camping fees beginning January 1, 2018.
Empire holds its 40th Anchor Day Festival on Saturday, July 15, with a parade, a street dance, a fun run, a quilt show, a movie and a chicken dinner.
North Manitou Light Keepers (NMLK), a Michigan nonprofit organization, announces that its acquisition of the North Manitou Shoal Light (also known in its local area as “The Crib”) is complete and its restoration of the lighthouse starts now. NMLK plans to fully restore the lighthouse and make it available to the public for tours and appreciation by July 4, 2021. The organization also invites fellow enthusiasts to become members of the NMLK team and help restore the lighthouse by contributing to the “Campaign for the Crib!”
Sleeping Bear Surf & Kayak’s seventh annual SBX (Sleeping Bear X-treme) Junior Waterman Camp will take place July 24-28. Waterman camp is a unique freshwater surf camp designed and taught by water enthusiasts to create water enthusiasts.