The setting overlooking Lake Michigan at The Homestead’s Bay Mountain is spectacular and the chair lift ride up is invigorating, but the star of the show is Ronald Radford, American master of the Flamenco guitar who will perform on Thursday, July 24 at 7 p.m.
Join the Glen Arbor Women’s Club as it hosts the eighth annual Running Bear 5K Run/Walk and ½ Mile Kids’ Run on Tuesday, July 22nd. This is a favorite event for local residents and visitors. The 5K is open to everyone. You can run or walk, so young runners and seniors can both take part. The addition of the ½ Mile Kids’ Run makes this a family affair. The little ones get to run with the Bear and take home a ribbon, a coupon for an ice cream cone from Riverfront Pizza and a coupon for a game of miniature golf at Dale’s of Glen Arbor.
The Manitou Music Festival is pleased to welcome back Mulebone on Sunday, July 20 at the Lake Street Studio Stage in Glen Arbor. Mulebone is a partnership comprised of multi-instrumentalist, John Ragusa and roots music specialist, Hugh Pool. The launching pad for their musical expression is traditional blues. Hugh and John play slide guitar boogies, up-tempo rags, and country blues of all shapes and colors. Sometimes they play close to the source, as if tracing the image, and at other moments they take a new look, as if understanding their home from a distant land.
Glen Arbor’s Old School Gallery is again bursting to life with art. Over the next few weeks, numerous different artists will showcase their craft within the much loved and lauded Glen Arbor space.
The Glen Arbor Art Association will host an exhibition of acrylics by Veronica Schaden from July 18-19 at the Art Association, 6031 S. Lake Street in Glen Arbor.
Take one gloomy 16th century Dane. Fold in a mess of current events. Let bake for 120 minutes under bright stage lights. Then, out of the oven pull a new Danish hot dish: Hamlet. This local production full of 21st century tweaks is coming to a summer stage near you. Riverside Shakespeare debuts its updated version of this family tragedy July 16 at Studio Stage in Glen Arbor.
Paintings of Leelanau County’s land and water—as processed through the imagination of Grand Rapids artist Margo Burian—are on display next at the Lake Street Studios Center Gallery in Glen Arbor. A public reception opens the show on July 18 at 6 p.m.
The Glen Lake Women’s Club holds its 43rd annual Art Fair on Wednesday, July 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Glen Arbor Town Hall. This event hosts close to 100 artisans carefully chosen to represent most areas of the art world. They come from as far away as Florida and bring their best work to share with us. The artist selection meets in January and February to find the venders who will reflect the high standards of the club. The criteria include originality, creativity, category and sales appeal.
There are women in Glen Arbor who are addicts. Their drug of choice? Mah jongg, an ancient tile game not unlike gin rummy. “It’s addictive,” said Linda Gretzema, and happily one might add, “because every hand is new. It’s crazy. It has become a huge thing.”
The Glen Arbor Garden Club has some news for you: Better living through chemistry is not a strategy that works for bees. In addition to the threat posed by habitat loss, pesticides used in both home gardening and commercially-produced plants do a real number on our pollinating pals. Kills them, for one thing.