Filming Sleeping Bear Dunes in four seasons

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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.

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Musicians from New York Met play Leelanau Youth Music recital

The public is invited to a casual evening of music on Friday, Aug. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at 308 Adams St. in Suttons Bay (the Martinson home). Two musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra of New York City, Patricia Rogers (bassoon) and Michael Ouzounian (viola) will play selected pieces. They will be joined by the Prevailing Winds of Leelanau and the Leelanau Flute Ensemble.

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Manitou Music Festival closes with Summer Singers’ performance

The Summer Singers, an all-volunteer group of 50 voices, punctuate the 2018 Manitou Music Festival (MMF). This traditional MMF closing concert is Tuesday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m. The concert takes place at Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, 4902 W. MacFarlane Road, in Burdickville. The concert is free.

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Path to Pen writing workshops offered in Port Oneida Historic District

Calling writers of all skill levels to workshops in Port Oneida’s historic district. Join agroecologist and science educator Elise DeBuysser, and national park artist, Nancy McKay, on a writing tour of Port Oneida farms, gardens, and landscapes, on Aug. 17.

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9 Bean Rows transitions to Wren in Suttons Bay

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On Aug. 1 chef Adam McMarlin, most recently the owner and creator of Wren the Butcher in the Marketplace Center on East State Street in downtown Traverse City, took over the reins of 9 Bean Rows restaurant from Nic and Jen Welty, owners of the 9 Bean Rows Farm CSA and Bakery on M204. 

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Register for seventh annual Dune Dash

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Traverse Area Recreation and Transportation (TART) Trails, Inc. is a proud partner of the seventh annual Dune Dash, a 4-mile run/walk along the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail on Saturday, Aug. 18, at 9 a.m. at the Sleeping Bear Dune Climb. Registration is open at DuneDash.com. Registration ranges from $20-$30 per person based on age and prices go up $5 after Aug. 16.

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Dogs on Parade in Northport

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Fresh off the heels of Omena’s mayoral race (this year handily won by nine-year-old, long-haired calico cat named Sweet Tart McKee), Northport will host the 22nd annual Dog Parade on Aug. 11. This march through the village of Northport begins by the Old Mill Pond on 3rd Street and eventually winds its way down to the marina. 

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Leelanau Women Artists hold annual summer show

The Leelanau Women Artists will host a member’s show of paintings, jewelry, fused glass, and furniture, Aug. 10-11, at the Glen Arbor Arts Center. An opening reception with the artists will be Friday, Aug. 10 from 5-7 p.m. The show continues on Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Sleeping Bear Dunes offers Port Oneida Fair Fun

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Once again, the Port Oneida Rural Historic District awakens from its peaceful slumber and comes alive both Friday and Saturday, August 10-11. Beginning at 10 a.m. each day and running until 4 p.m., visitors are invited to step back in time to actively experience life as it was in this once active community of robust farms of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The fair promotes the preservation of rural traditional skills, crafts, landscapes, and communities of the Upper Great Lakes Region through education and artistic expression.

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Friends of Sleeping Bear host accessibility open house

Friends of Sleeping Bear, the nonprofit citizens’ group that maintains the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail, will host a public open house on Wednesday, Aug. 8, from 1-4 p.m at Glen Haven to showcase new accessibility features available in the National Lakeshore—including a beach wheelchair, an all-terrain wheelchair, and a wheelchair-accessible boardwalk on the Glen Haven beach.

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