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Traverse City’s Alluvion hosts The Afterlife of a Massacre: A Live Podcast Event About Rediscovering Family and History

The Alluvion on the second floor of Traverse City’s Commongrounds Building will host “The Afterlife of a Massacre: A Live Podcast Event About Rediscovering Family and History” on Friday, May 8, from 6:30-8:30 pm. The conversation will feature Traverse City resident Isiah Smith and Orice Jenkins, long-lost cousins reconnecting through a shared journey of genealogy, history, and identity. Their individual family stories converge around one common thread: uncovering the past to move forward. Glen Arbor Sun editor Jacob Wheeler will moderate the live conversation. This one-time live podcast explores the complex intersection of race, genealogy, and family history. Smith and Jenkins connect through a shared past, including a powerful artifact, Smith’s great-grandfather’s Bill of Sale, and the story of an ancestor freed from slavery in Georgia.

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Voices and Visions: Women artists declare “We will not whisper” at Alluvion exhibit

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For women in particular, art has long been a vehicle for confronting gendered, social, or political marginalization. Across generations, women have used storytelling, language, the body, performance, and self-representation to make experiences previously overlooked visible. That art resonates in present-day America—a time marked by rising authoritarianism, assaults on reproductive rights, threats to LGBTQ+ communities, pervasive gun violence, environmental instability, the humanitarian crisis surrounding migration, and now, an escalating global conflict in the Middle East. This tradition of female conscience persists today, urgent and uncompromising, manifest in the work of a cohort of women artists here in northern Michigan, presented in the exhibition “We Will Not Whisper” which is on display at the Alluvion in Traverse City until April 11.

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Carrying her own backpack: daughter of global activist, Stella Young joins On the Ground

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The message from Timothy Young to his six-year-old daughter Stella was clear: you’ll carry your own backpack, throughout the trip. About that he was adamant. The trip was to Chiapas, Mexico, in 2007 to meet rural coffee-growing communities which Higher Grounds Trading Co. supported through the Chiapas Water Project. That journey has now come full circle. A year after she graduated from Kalamazoo College, the 2018 Glen Lake School graduate recently became director of development for On the Ground, the international nonprofit co-founded in 2010 by her father and Higher Grounds owner Chris Treter. The organization has supported coffee farmers in Chiapas, Ethiopia and the Congo, and olive farmers in the Palestinian West Bank. On the Ground will host a party and fundraiser on Thursday, Oct. 12, at The Alluvion at Commongrounds in Traverse City.

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Tusen Takk features writers Jeremiah Chamberlin and Natalie Bakopoulos at The Alluvion

Join Tusen Takk artist-in-residence Jeremiah Chamberlin and writer Natalie Bakopoulos for an evening of literary conversation hosted in collaboration with the National Writers Series tonight, Aug. 3 from 7-8 pm at The Alluvion at Commongrounds in Traverse City. Click here to register for the event. Based near Leland, the Tusen Takk Foundation nourishes artists by giving them a place to work, engagement opportunities to enrich the culture of northwest Michigan, and a platform to share their work internationally.

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