Glen Lake Chamber of Commerce

Stargazing and Constellation Lesson
2019-08-15 08:00 - 17:00, 2019-08-21 22:00, 2019-08-22 22:00, 2019-08-28 22:00, 2019-08-29 22:00 (America/Detroit) | The Leelanau School, 1 Old Homestead Road, Glen Arbor, Michigan, 49636
Stargazing and Constellation Lessons at the The Leelanau School Observatory in Glen Arbor. Open to the Public.
Takes place Wednesday and Thursday nights, June 26 – Aug. 29 (Closed July 4), from 10:00 p.m. until midnight — if skies are clear.
The Leelanau School, One Old Homestead Rd., Glen Arbor
(231)334-5800 leelanau.org

Horse and Wagon Tours
2019-08-15 15:00 - 17:30, 2019-08-20 16:30 - 17:30, 2019-08-22 15:00 - 17:30, 2019-08-27 16:30 - 17:30 | Port Oneida Heritage Center, 3164 W. Harbor Hwy., Maple City, Michigan, 49630
Clip Clop Back in Time

Experience the Port Oneida Historic District the way they did in the late 1800 to early 1900s – by horse and wagon! We’ll travel in the footsteps of the early pioneers down the back roads of Port Oneida where you’ll learn about the history of this significant agricultural community with rolling hills and 18 farmsteads.
Bring your family and friends for an activity that is relaxing, educational and memorable. Or, make it a romantic end to your perfect day before dinner.
Schedule
Tues. 4:30 & Thurs. 3:00 and 4:30
Starting Thursday, July 2 through Sept. 3
If you would like to pay for an entire wagon on a date please contact us. Weekends are not typically available.
Tours are approximately 1.25 hr

Donation: $20 per adult; $12 per child 4-12 Children 3 and under on laps are free
Reservations required – please call 231-334-6103.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLY! Register before 11 am the day of the ride to ensure we have enough people. Wagon holds 12 people. We need a minimum of 8 reservations to conduct the tour. Private rental rides can be arranged – call for details. Late registration may be available.
Park and meet at the Port Oneida Farms Heritage Center at the Charles Olsen farm 15 minutes before the tour begins.
Rates and Schedule subject to change. Reservations are held with credit card. Pay in cash or check on arrival. No refund for no-shows. Credit card will be charged for no-shows.

Mornings in the Garden 9:30 - 11 am
2019-08-19 09:30 - 11:00 | Port Oneida Heritage Center, 3164 W. Harbor Hwy., Maple City, Michigan, 49630
Join our Master Gardeners at the Olsen Farm during their morning tending, to learn about heirloom plants, companion planting, and more in our vegetable and perennial gardens.

The Port Oneida Community Inside & Out 7 pm
2019-08-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Port Oneida Heritage Center, 3164 W. Harbor Hwy., Maple City, Michigan, 49630
An evening tour when the sun is settling over this 19th century farm community and you’re looking for something different to end your day!
Learn the history of this 1800s agricultural community by exploring 4-5 of the 18 farmsteads with our tour guide. Poke inside some of the houses, barns, granaries and smokehouse. Car caravan to each farm. Meet at Port Oneida Farms Heritage Center/ Olsen farm, 3164 W. Harbor Hwy. (M-22) near Port Oneida Road, 4 miles N. of Glen Arbor. 1.5 -2 hrs. Donations Appreciated.
July 10 – August 21

Horse and Wagon Tour
2019-08-29 15:00 - 17:30 | Port Oneida Heritage Center, 3164 W. Harbor Hwy., Maple City, Michigan, 49630

Artist in Resident talk: Patricia Schaefer
2019-08-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636
Painter Patricia Schaefer will discuss a new series of paintings that explore the human body and bodies of water she plans to create as part of her 2019 artist’s residency with the Glen Arbor Arts Center. The presentation is August 30, noon at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.
Each of the GAAC’s artists-in-residence gives a conversational overview of their residency. These presentations offer a chance to hear about the resident’s project, and the process they experienced during their two-week stay. Schaefer’s GAAC residency was a chance to explore the overlay of the human body in the landscape – as well as ask questions about how human bodies and bodies of water intersect, and explore the political, environmental land existential questions that study prompts. San Francisco, California, is Schaefer’s home base.
The GAAC artist-in-residence presentation are free and open to the public. For more information go to
GlenArborArt.org

Autumn Olive Workshop
2019-09-19 17:00 - 19:00 | Veronica Valley County Park, 4243 S Lake Leelanau Dr, Lake Leelanau, MI, 49653
Autumn Olive Workshop to be held Thursday, September 19th, 2019 from 5 to 7 pm at the Veronica Valley County Park in Lake Leelanau.
Contact Leelanau Conservation District for more info: (231)256.9783

Fiber: Visual Art Survey Program
2019-10-06 14:00 | Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636
The Glen Arbor Arts Center takes a short look back, and a long look forward, at contemporary fiber and textile arts on Sunday, October 6, 2 pm. This visual survey is part of the GAAC’s exhibition Fiber Without Borders, and is presented without charge. Sarah Bearup-Neal, GAAC gallery manager and studio fiber artist, will facilitate the program.
In the late 1960s the Museum of Modern Art broke new ground with Wall Hangings, the first major museum exhibition focused on the work of 28 artist working in fiber and textile materials. In the subsequent decades, the fiber arts have taken a great leap forward to become one of the most expressive, versatile media in the contemporary art world. No longer viewed in purely functional and domestic terms, the fiber arts have continued to push definitions, materials and techniques in the last 60 years.
The medium easily crosses old boundaries – moving from the home front to comment and reflect on social changes, politics, feminist issues, as well as the dividing line between art and craft. Fiber Without Borders continues through November 7. The GAAC is located at 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. For more information, go to GlenArborArt.org

Grand Traverse Lighthouse: Old Fashioned Christmas
2019-12-01 10:00 - 2019-12-07 16:00 | Grand Traverse Lighthouse, 15500 Lighthouse Point Rd, Northport, MI, 49670
Celebrate Grand Traverse Lighthouse heritage at Christmastime!
Each room in the lighthouse will be Christmas themed, portraying the traditional time period (from 1858-1880) and showcasing the keeper heritages. There will be story telling of our only female lighthouse keeper. There will be an actor in period costume retelling the Christmas story of the keeper families. Some of the heritages showcased will be from Germany, Denmark, England, and Ireland. In addition, learn about the history of the Christmas Tree ship Rouse Simmons, that sank in Lake Michigan in 1912.
Grand Traverse Lighthouse, Leelanau State Park
Dec. 1st – 7th, 2019 from 10 am – 4 pm
$5 per person admittance to lighthouse. A Recreation Passport is required for State Park entry.
231-386-7195
info@grandtraverselighthouse.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/495615344612703/

COLOR exhibit: Gallery Reception
2020-01-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636
The Glen Arbor Arts Center injects COLOR into the new year with an exhibition celebrating chroma, hue, tone, tint and value by 29 artists. COLOR opens Friday, January 10, 2020 with a reception from 6 – 8 pm in the gallery.

Color – both the thing and the idea – is more than a seasonal picker-upper. COLOR exhibitors explore how color is used to express emotion, tension, energy and action; how color can tell a story. And, what happens when the artist chooses to invent a palette for the subject – rather than be dictated to by the scene? COLOR exhibitors explore all these ideas and more.

COLOR continues through March 26. The GAAC is located at 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. For more information go to GlenArborArt.org

Color In The Garden: Native Plants conversation
2020-01-19 14:00 - 15:00 | MI
The Glen Arbor Arts Center welcomes Brian Zimmerman, a third-generation landscaper from Traverse City, to discuss ways to bring more color to home gardens with native plants and pollinator-friendly blooms. Color In The Garden takes place Sunday, January 19, 2 pm in the GAAC gallery.
Native plant are those that occur naturally in a region in which they evolved. They are central to the health and welfare of birds and pollinating insects as well as the human habitat. Brian Zimmerman has built his practice around a passion for plants native to Michigan. He is the owner of the native-plant focused Four Season Nursery in Traverse City. During this conversational presentation, Brian will talk about how he uses native and pollinator-friendly plants in his designs, and how home gardeners can begin to explore this rich source of native color.
Color In The Garden is a free presentation offered in conjunction with the GAAC exhibition COLOR, January 10 through March 26. The GAAC is located at 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. For more information go to GlenArborArt.org, and click on EVENTS

BYO brown bag lecture: History of Color in Painting
2020-02-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636
A Short History of Color in Painting
Wednesday, February 12 | Noon

Art educator Linda Young traces how artists have used color — from the luscious pigments used by 16th century Renaissance artists to the color-drenched canvasses of the 1960s Color Field painters – on Wednesday, February 12 at the Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. “A Short History of Color in Painting” is a BYO brown bag lecture, and begins at noon. Coffee and cookies will be provided.

Young’s talk takes a look at the use of light and color by the Impressionists and Post Impressionists, the importance of black to the Realists, radical use of color by the Fauves, and the energy-charged canvasses of the Futurists and Abstract Expressionists. It is offered as part of the GAAC exhibition COLOR. Young, a Leelanau County resident, was the Director of Museum Education at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for 20 years.

Tickets for this event are $10 GAAC member, $15 nonmembers. They may be reserved on-line at GlenArborArt.org/LECTURES; or call 231/334-6112. COLOR is on display January 10 – March 26.

GALLERY TALK: A ‘COLOR’ TOUR
2020-02-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636
GALLERY TALK: A ‘COLOR’ TOUR

Art educator Linda Young leads a conversational tour of COLOR, an exhibition of 2D and 3D color art work on February 29, 2 pm at the Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. There is no charge.

Using selected works from the COLOR exhibition as examples, Young will talk about the many ways visual artists use color as a tool in their work. COLOR exhibitors demonstrate how color is used to express emotion, tension, energy and action; and how color can tell a story. Young, a Leelanau County resident, was the Director of Museum Education at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts for 20 years.

The GAAC’s COLOR exhibition continues through March 26. For more information go to GlenArborArt.org

MARKETING SEMINAR
2020-03-10 17:30 - 19:30 | The Leland Lodge, 565 Pearl Street, Leland, MI, 49654
You’re invited to a Marketing Seminar with International Strategy Consultant, PETER LAMB to talk on Increasing your Business Revenue. Space is limited, RSVP required. Deadline is noon, Thursday, March 5. Please send request to john@leelanaunews.com
THIS IS A FREE EVENT presented by Leelanau Enterprise.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Location: Leland Lodge
565 Pearl St., Leland
Peter Lamb specializes in increasing revenue through marketing strategies. Lamb’s consulting practice focuses on the best practices to grow your business. Free appetizers and cash bar.

Workshop: Personal Power Tools
2020-10-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636
Personal Power Tools
Karen Anderson returns to the GAAC to explore how the arts give us tools for expressing our power in “Personal Power Tools” October 14, 10 am – noon. In this workshop, students will engage in discussion and visit the “Power Tools” exhibition to discover how it enlarges one’s vision of personal power. Workshop cost is $25 GAAC members and $35 nonmembers.
For more information about these workshops go to GlenArborArt.org, and click on CLASSES. The Glen Arbor Arts Center is located at 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.

Hemp Horizons
2021-03-25 19:00 - 20:00 | Glen Lake Community Library, 10115 Front Street, Empire, MI, 49630, United States
Hemp is a remarkably versatile agricultural crop, utilized for centuries. After decades of restrictive policies in the US, it’s poised for an equally remarkable comeback. Learn about this beneficial but misunderstood plant in an online presentation by local hemp growers Evergreen Organics. Their wide-ranging presentation will address the cultural and natural history of hemp, and it’s bright future, along with the importance of regenerative agriculture and preserving pollinator habitat. Email info@glenlakelibrary.net for the Zoom meeting link.

Virtual conversation with Ronan Hessian, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul
2021-05-13 14:00 - 15:00 | MI, United States
Thursday May 13 at 2:00 p.m.
Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvd-6urTkqGtXYXaCDu5rqZ29yMYFW5tye
In partnership with the libraries of Leelanau County and Cottage Book Shop, we are pleased to welcome Ronan Hessian to our virtual space where we will talk with him about his book Leonard and Hungry Paul (just released in paperback). Pull up a chair and grab a cup of tea and we will hear from Ronan all the way from Ireland. This book is a devastatingly clever and uplifting and is just the medicine for troubled times. In this charming and truly unique debut, popular Irish musician Ronan Hession tells the story of two single, thirty-something men who still live with their parents and who are . . . nice. They take care of their parents and play board games together. They like to read. They take satisfaction from their work. They are resolutely kind. And they realize that none of this is considered . . . normal.
Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends struggling to protect their understanding of what’s meaningful in life. It is about the uncelebrated people of this world — the gentle, the meek, the humble. And as they struggle to persevere, the book asks a surprisingly enthralling question: Is it really them against the world, or are they on to something?
British Book Awards 2020 Debut Book of the Year Finalist
Irish Book Awards 2019 Newcomer of the Year Finalist
Ronan Hession is an Irish writer and musician based in Dublin. As Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, he has released three albums of songs, and his most recent album, Dictionary Crimes, was nominated for the Choice Music Prize for album of the year. Leonard and Hungry Paul is his first novel, and was shortlisted for an Irish Book of the Year award.
Books can be ordered or picked up at Cottage Book Shop

Meet St. Mary ~ June 15, 2021 6 PM - 7 PM
2021-06-15 18:00 - 19:00 | MI, United States
Stop by and check out St. Mary School in Lovely Lake Leelanau. An overview will be given by Principal Megan Glynn, classroom tours will be available, current parents and alumni will be on hand to facilitate Q&A sessions. Preschool – 12th grade students are now being accepted for Fall Enrollment.
For more information, check out our website at www.StMarysLL.org or call us at 231-256-9670

The Why and How of Seed Saving
2021-07-31 11:00 - 12:00 | Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636
Humans have saved seeds since the beginning of time. The Grow Benzie Seed Saving Guild has been saving seeds since its formation in 2008. Two citizen seed savers who tend this project are in conversation. This outdoor program is offered as part of the GAAC’s exhibition Food Is Art / Art Is Food, in the GAAC gallery through August 19.
Food and flower seeds don’t just grow in the seed catalog, but are strategically gathered and harvested. Grow Benzie’s heritage project brings together seed enthusiasts who maintain a seed library at Grow Benzie in Benzonia. The guild offers regular events to teach how to plant for seed harvesting, save seeds, and provide a venue to share stories and all aspects of the story of the seed. GAAC Gallery Manager Sarah Bearup-Neal will talk about this ongoing project with Josh Stoltz, Grow Benzie executive director; and Becky Thatcher, project seed librarian.
For more information about this free program or the Food Is Art/ Art Is Food exhibition, or call 231/334-6112.

Artist Pop-Up + Demos at the GAAC
2021-09-11 11:00 - 15:00 | Glen Arbor Arts Center, 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636
The Artist Pop-Ups + Demos turn the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s front yard and parking area into open-air exhibition and music venues. Participating studio artists will demonstrate what they do, talk about their work, and exhibit on September 11, 11 am – 3 pm. The Pop-Up exhibitors are: Lauren Everett Finn, painting; Tracie Herkner, hand spinner; Colleen Kole, improve quilt maker; Mark Mehaffey, watercolor and acrylic painting; Jessica Kovan, mixed media; Sue Nichols, needle felting; John Huston, raku pottery firing.
In addition to exhibiting visual artists, the September Pop-Up features live music from acoustical string players Glenn Wolff and Windy Ridge, 12:30 – 2 pm. The Pop-Up is part of the GAAC’s 6ft Apart Art Series. It’s free and open to the public. A rain date has been scheduled for September 12. For more information go to GlenArborArt.org/EVENTS. The GAAC is located at 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.

Heritage Day at Empire Area Museum
2021-10-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Empire Area Museum, 11544 S Lacore St , Empire, MI, 49630, United States
The Empire Area Museum Complex celebrates Heritage Day at the museum on Saturday October 9th, 2021 from 1 – 4pm.

Repeat feature this year include the fantastic collection of hand made Faberge type eggs made in Empire in the 1970’s by Helen Witt. A must see. Vintage cars, bicycles, tractors, hit and miss engines, and much more fill the grounds around the museum along with old fashion craft and food demonstrations making this a fun filled afternoon for the whole family.

Free popcorn served all afternoon. Moomers ice cream is also always a big hit. Sales benefit the museum!!

Enjoy our woodworking shop, blacksmith shop, turn of the century saloon, one room school, fire house and Billy Beeman Barn filled with many pieces of horse drawn equipment. Historic walking tours of the village will take place during the afternoon. Music of all kinds will fill the air for your enjoyment. A beautiful hand crafted quilt by the “Empire Quilters” will be raffled at 3:00PM. Please bring the whole family and help us celebrate our 49th Anniversary.

Fire Department OPEN HOUSE TOO! Admission is free and donations are encouraged.

Spiritual Discovery in a Time of Upheaval
2022-06-28 19:30 - 20:30 | Glen Arbor Township Hall
A talk on Christian Science. Real change and healing come from new views of people, power, and prayer.

Summer Children's Events at Glen Lake Library
2022-08-04 11:00 - 12:30 | Glen Lake Community Library, 10115 Front Street, Empire, MI, 49630, United States
The final two programs for Glen Lake Library’s Summer Reading Program will be held on August 4 and August 11th at 11:00 AM. The program on August 4th will host children’s author and illustrator Lori Taylor. She will share stories of sea monsters from long ago and even bring along a couple of live “sea monsters”. Participants will learn to draw water critters and create their own “sea monster” art. Lori will also have her children’s chapter books for sale after her presentation. On August 11th we welcome Skye, a Welsh Corgi to our library as part of our Dog Gone summer program. We will feature some dog gone good dog stories, Aunt Lulu and Harry, the Dirty Dog and Bark, George, after which kids can make their own dog gone fun puppet and read a story to Skye. He loves a good dog story! For further information please call the library 231.326.5163 or visit our web page www.glenlakelibrary.net.
