Leelanau Community Cultural Center, in collaboration with the Little Garden Club, will hold a virtual/online presentation of the Art of the Garden Exhibit and Sale. This exhibit will feature artwork of the flora and fauna of the garden from artists in a variety of mediums at OldArtBuilding.com. The show will open with an Earlybird preview and sale on June 25 at 3 pm. Tickets for the Earlybird sale are $25 and available at MyNorthTickets.com.
The Leelanau Community Cultural Center is thrilled to announce the VIRTUAL Leland Air Exhibition. “Leland Air: a plein air event” is celebrating its eighth year, albeit with a new twist due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Paintings in the show will be created en plein air on Friday, May 22. Since this is a virtual paint-out, artists may still be at their stay-at-home locations anywhere in the country.
The Leelanau Community Cultural Center sponsors its 19th annual Fiber Festival on Friday, Oct. 11, from 5:30-7:30 pm and Saturday, Oct. 12 and Sunday, Oct. 13 from 10 am-4 pm at the Old Art Building in Leland. Artists with original fiber art will exhibit and sell their work in mediums of wearable art, textiles, weaving, art quilts, fiber sculpture, knits and yarns.
The Leelanau Community Cultural Center will host the second annual Leland Musical Arts Celebration on September 14 at 7:30 pm. The initial idea for Leland Musical Arts Celebration was raised by local resident and oboist, Mezraq Ramli. He envisioned an evening of classical music highlighting musicians from across the country and even the world.
Leland is a getaway in every sense of the word. It’s idyllic and old school, clean and comfortable, and there’s just enough to do without overwhelming you. On this shore, Lake Michigan can be calm and quiet, or raging and dark. The weather decides which experience you’ll have. Big lake storms can be the best excuse to huddle up and reset in a cozy spot, hypnotized by the rain and wind.
For the past 18 summers, Riverside Shakespeare has entertained patrons in Traverse City, Leelanau and Antrim counties with performances of William Shakespeare’s plays. For this 19th season, Riverside Shakespeare will present a modern-day take on “The Merchant of Venice” set in Venice Beach, Calif.
The 21st annual Artists’ Market will be held at the Old Art Building in Leland on Saturday, July 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will feature more than 80 art booths on the lawn, on Cedar Street and inside the building.
Visit the Old Art Building in Leland on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. for the Leelanau Conservancy’s screening of Green Fire, the first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold and his environmental legacy. Green Fire shares highlights from his extraordinary career, explaining how he shaped conservation and the modern environmental movement. It also illustrates how Leopold’s vision of community continues to inform and inspire people across the country and around the world, highlighting modern projects that put Leopold’s land ethic in action.
The Chiapas Water Project (CWP) Committee of On The Ground welcomes your presence at a reunion for supporters on Saturday, March 1 at the Old Art Building in Leland from 6-10 p.m. The evening will feature food and drink from local chefs along with a live and silent auction of treasures from regional artists and businesses, as well as artisan goods of Chiapas. Dancing and live music by Tim Sparling and friends will start at 8:30 p.m. There will also be a discussion of successes and challenges of water projects by current staff and board who returned from Chiapas in January.
Some people might say that artist Lynn Uhlmann can’t see the forest for the trees — and the painter, whose affiliation with Leelanau County’s beautiful wooded places spans nearly three decades, would happily agree with that notion. Each of her landscapes, inspired by a deep familiarity with places such as Good Harbor, Shalda Creek, the Crystal River, and Port Oneida, depicts “the trees, light, and colors of small, intimate settings,” within a forest wilderness now enveloping the former farm fields, coastline settlements, and lumber operations of an earlier era.