Glen Lake Chamber of Commerce

Trunk Show at Becky Thatcher Designs Featuring Marcel Roelofs
2016-07-13 10:00 - 18:00 (America/Detroit) | Michigan
Becky Thatcher Designs will welcome Marcel Roelofs to both its Glen Arbor and Traverse City locations for trunk shows this July.
European designer Roelofs has lived and worked in Germany since the 70’s. A self-taught designer, Roelofs has created a unique interchangeable clasp system for necklaces, earrings and rings that has brought him international recognition.
Meet Marcel Roelofs in person at Becky Thatcher Designs in Glen Arbor on July 13 between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. He will later visit the Traverse City location from July 14-July 16.

Glen Arbor Cherry Tours
2016-07-14 01:30 - 16:00, 2016-07-14 10:00 - 12:30, 2016-07-21 01:30 - 16:00, 2016-07-21 10:00 - 12:30, 2016-07-28 10:00 - 12:30, 2016-07-28 13:30 - 16:00 | Cherry Republic
Join Cherry Republic with a packed and lively tour aboard the Big Red Bus into the heart and soul of the “Cherry Republic.” See and learn how farmers harvest, wash and pit cherries. Watch the crew at Cherry Republic turn those ruby red morsels of joy into Original Cherry Salsa. Taste a product fresh off the assembly line! Hear first hand from the President, Bob Sutherland, the endearing and humorous stories surrounding this heartfelt company.
Tour dates
Thursdays 10 am & 1:30 pm | Duration about 2-2.5hrs
June 30th, July 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
$25 per person, 12 and under free.
Sign up on the Cherry Republic website: http://www.cherryrepublic.com/experience/ga-tours/
Call 231.334.3150 or email info@cherryrepublic.com

Tuesday Tea and Talk Series
2016-07-19 15:00 - 16:00 | Becky Thatcher Designs, 5795 Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636, United States
Explore the backgrounds of unique gemstones while enjoying tea and scones in Becky’s garden. This week we have a special guest speaker “The Gem Hunter”!

Lisa Maxbauer Price, author of Squash Boom Beet Book Signing
2016-07-20 11:00 - 11:30 | Cottage Book Shop, 5989 Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636, United States
Lisa Maxbauer Price, author of Squash Boom Beet
Wednesday, July 20
Storytime, book signing and craft
Squash Boom Beet
By Lisa Maxbauer Price
$18.95
Tasting new vegetables can be an exciting adventure for children, especially when trying foods like dragon tongue beans, dinosaur kale, fairy tale eggplant and candy cane beets. Journey from A to Z and enjoy beautiful photography of exciting farm foods: everything from awesome Asparagus to green tiger Zucchini. Kids will love this new book all about fun foods, and parents will love how it inspires and educates their little ones to be brave, healthy eaters!
(Ages 2 and up)

Summer Tasting Series - Short's Brewing Company
2016-07-21 15:00 - 18:00 | Anderson’s Market
Join us for our Summer Tasting Series as explore wine (and sometimes beer and spirits) from around the world, paired with delicious house made small bites. These complimentary events will be held every Friday in the wine department at the market.
This special Thursday event will feature Bellaire, Michigan-based Short’s Brewing Company. Enjoy a variety of samples from their exceptional beer lineup from 3-6pm in the market. For more info on Short’s, visit http://shortsbrewing.com. For a full lineup of tasting events at the market, visit http://andersonsglenarbor.com/events. Cheers!

Monday Movies with Ernest Hemingway
2016-07-25 09:00 - 22:30 | Forest Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor, MI, 49636, United States
Monday Movies with Ernest Hemingway
Monday July 11 and 25 at 9:00 p.m.
Behind Forest Gallery
Join us for for Movie Night with Ernest Hemingway, we will be showing two of the many film adaptations of his novels.
The original film version of A Farewell to Arms released in 1932 and starred Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper.
To Have or Have Not, the great Bogey and Bacall star in this romance-war-adventure that released in 1944

Tuesday Tea and Talk Series
2016-07-26 15:00 - 16:00 | Becky Thatcher Designs, 5795 Lake Street, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636, United States
Explore the backgrounds of unique gemstones while enjoying tea in Becky’s garden. This weeks topic is Beryls, with aquamarine, morganite & emeralds.

Alison DeCamp, author of My Near Death Adventures, I Almost Died. Again Book Signing
2016-07-27 11:00 - 11:30 | Cottage Book Shop, 5989 Lake St, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636, United States
Alison DeCamp, author of My Near Death Adventures, I Almost Died. Again
Wednesday, July 27 at 11:00 a.m.
Storytime, book signing and craft.
My Near Death Adventures, I Almost Died. Again
By Alison DeCamp
Crown $16.99
It is 1895 in Michigan. But now, instead of helping out rough-and-tumble lumberjacks, Stanley Slater (aka Stan the Man) must go to school. And on top of that, he has to look after Cuddy, a younger boy, before and after school. When his ne’er-do-well father shows up in town, Stan finally has a chance to meet the man he s dreamed about for so long. Plus, it will give Stan a chance to impress the infamous Captain Slater.) But Captain Slater isn t quite what Stan expected. In fact, Stan isn t so sure he wants to be like his dad Captain Slater at all. A knee-slapping and engaging tale!
(Ages 8 and up)

Northern Home + Table Show
2016-08-05 11:00 - 2016-08-11 15:00 | Michigan
Center Gallery hosts the inaugural Northern Home + Table Show Aug. 5-11 at the gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. A reception to open this group show is Aug. 5, 6-8 p.m.

Home is where the art is, and Northern Home + Table celebrates artist-made objects for the abode – from woven and sewn textiles to glass lamp finials, ceramic table settings to framed narrative paper cuttings. The exhibition features work by studio artists represented by Lake Street Studios, and invited friends. A list of exhibitors is at www.lakestreetstudiosglenarbor.com.

As part of the exhibition, exhibiting potter John Huston will conduct a raku firing on Sunday, Aug. 7, 1 p.m. on the gallery’s side yard. Raku is an ancient Japanese method of firing clay objects using natural materials — paper, dried vegetation – to fuel the fire. A raku firing is underscored by centuries of tradition and ritual, making it a full-senses experience.

For more information, please call Center Gallery, 231/334-3179.

Raku Firing
2016-08-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Michigan
As part of the Northern Home + Table exhibition at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor, exhibiting potter John Huston will conduct a raku firing on Sunday, Aug. 7, 1 p.m. on the gallery’s side yard. Raku is an ancient Japanese method of firing clay objects using natural materials — paper, dried vegetation – to fuel the fire. A raku firing is underscored by centuries of tradition and ritual, making it a full-senses experience.

For more information, please call Center Gallery, 231/334-3179.

Chamber Member Meeting - August 2016
2016-08-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Michigan
August 9th, 2016
Please join us for the August Glen Lake Chamber Members Meeting.
This months meeting will be hosted by Sue at the Cottage Book Shop in Glen Arbor. Thank you Sue!
Schedule
5:30pm | Social
6:15pm | Meeting
We hope to see you there!
Members and others, feel free to attend, bring a colleague or friend! ALL are welcome to attend.

Gallery Opening + Live Music by
2016-09-03 17:00 - 20:00 | Synchronicity Art Gallery, 6671 Western Ave, Glen Arbor, MI, United States
Labor Day weekend ~ Synchronicity will host 2 man group “Plumville Project” playing eclectic live music for our gallery opening, also serving wine and cheese.

Painting Demonstration with Lisa Flahive
2016-09-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Center Gallery at Lake Street Studios
Traverse City artist Lisa Flahive will conduct a painting demonstration at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor, on Saturday, Sept. 10, 1 p.m. The event is open to the public.
Flahive paints the immediacy of local streets, beaches, cafes and jazz clubs. She is artist-in-residence for Chateau Chantel Wintery in Traverse City. Her view of these diverse worlds will be on display in a series of new works at Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor, Sept. 2-15.
For more information, please call 231/334-3179.

Cross Country Tournament at Manitou Passage Golf Club
2016-09-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Manitou Passage Golf Club, 4600 Club Drive, Cedar, MI, 49621, United States
What, you may ask, is a Cross Country Golf Tournament?
A Cross Country Tournament is basically the same as a regular 4 person best ball, except that we are have taken the liberty of re-designing the holes (not literally). Instead of playing the holes as they currently are laid out, you will play them not only in a different order, but to different locations as well. For example, you may be starting out teeing off from the #1 tee box, but your target green will be #17 instead of #1. You might then proceed to #8 tee box and play to #7 green. You get the picture…we will be playing a total of 9 holes.
Keep one thing in mind, the number 1 goal of this tournament is to “Have fun!” This is a goofy format and there will be some goofy scores, but it will also give a chance to say “Thank You” to those who have supported us this season.
Format:

4 person best shot

Start Time:

10am shotgun start

Fees:

$36 per person, non-members
$18 per person, members

Includes:

9 holes of golf
Cart
Lunch
Prizes! (Let’s just say that the prizes are not your conventional gift certificates. And, remember…this is for fun!)

Advance registration is required by September 2, 2016. Call 231.228.6000.

Chamber Member Meeting - Sept. 2016
2016-09-13 17:30 - 19:00 | Michigan
September 13th, 2016
Please join us for the September 2016 Glen Lake Chamber Members Meeting, hosted at
Century 21 Northland/Northland Vacation Rentals
Schedule
5:30pm | Social
6:15pm | Meeting
We hope to see you there!
Members and others, feel free to attend, bring a colleague or friend! ALL are welcome to attend.

Shoreline Vignettes: New Paintings by Craig Weisse
2016-09-16 11:00 - 2016-10-09 15:00 | Center Gallery at Lake Street Studios
Empire painter Craig Weisse exhibits Impressionist images of his shoreline community Sept. 16-October 9, Center Gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.

Weisse, a retired physician, has lived in Empire for 27 years. In that time he has focused his painting on the locality, both its natural features as well as the historical and neighborhood buildings that give this community its character. He works in gouache and oil, and strives to convey the “internalized landscape” – an emotional and nostalgic take on a familiar place.

A reception for the artist opens the exhibit Sept. 16, 6 -8 p.m. at the gallery. For more information, please call 231/334-3179.

Ornamental Home
2016-09-16 11:00 - 2016-10-09 15:00 | Center Gallery at Lake Street Studios
Center Gallery hosts an exhibition of artist-made holiday ornaments by eight area makers Sept. 16-October 9. A reception opens the exhibition Sept. 16, 6-8 p.m. at the gallery, 6023 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.

Each ornament is a small art object, ranging in media from clay to paper to recycled materials construction. Artists represented in the show are: Kim Bazemore, metal; Sarah Bearup-Neal, fiber; Beth Bricker, paper cut-outs; Julie Kradel, clay; Jenee Rowe, recycled cloth; Cherrie Stege, copper; Amy Stevens, paper; and Phil Wilson, clay. In addition to ornaments, Center Gallery will show oil paintings by Craig Weisse. An Empire resident, Weisse focuses his painting on the shoreline community in which he has lived for 27 years.

For more information, please call 231/334-3179.

Chamber Member Fall Dinner
2016-10-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Michigan
October 11th, 2016
Please join us for our Annual Glen Lake Chamber Member Dinner on October 11th at The Homestead’s Café Manitou.
Schedule
5:30pm | Social
6:15pm | Dinner & Meeting*
*Cost of Dinner and drinks. Special Menu for the event.
We hope to see you there!
Members and others, feel free to attend, bring a colleague or friend! ALL are welcome to attend.

Anderson's Market 2nd Annual Fall Harvest Fest
2016-10-22 14:00 - 17:00 | Anderson’s Market
Celebrate local tastes of fall at Anderson’s! Join us for our annual event featuring kid’s activities, free homemade donuts & cider, wine & beer samplings, local apples, cheese tastings and more. You can also order your Thanksgiving turkey from Duerksen’s farm and preview some new foods we will have in the market for the holidays. This annual event takes place on the next-to-last Saturday every October.
Need an even better reason to be in Glen Arbor? The Glen Arbor Pumpkin Festival is the same afternoon! We look forward to seeing all of you in town for this family-friendly day of fun!

Cocktails and signing with Antoine Laurain, author of The Red Notebook
2016-10-26 18:00 - 20:00 | The Homestead, 1 Wood Ridge Rd, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636, United States
Cottage Book Shop is pleased to welcome Antoine Laurain, the author of several of our favorite books, The Red Notebook and The President’s Hat. Please join us for an evening of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and books. We will be at Camp Firefly in the Homestead. ($20 for hors d’ouvres, cash bar) Antoine will be traveling to our area to tell us about and sign his new book French Rhapsody (Gallic Press $14.95, due October 11) which combines his trademark charm with a satirical take on modern France.
Middle-aged doctor Alain Massoulier has received a life-changing letter thirty-three years too late. Lost in the Paris postal system for decades, the letter from Polydor, dated 1983, offers a recording contract to The Holograms, in which Alain played lead guitar. Back then The Holograms had believed in their cutting-edge sound. However, the music industry remained indifferent, and eventually the band split up, each going their own way. Alain is overcome by nostalgia, and is tempted to track down the members of the group. But in a world where everything and everyone has changed . . . where will his quest take him?
Antoine Laurain is a Parisian screenwriter, antiques collector and the author of six novels, three of which are available in English. The President’s Hat was a 2013 ABA Indies Introduce choice. Don’t miss this fun event. Prepaid reservations can be made by calling 231-334-4223.

Halloween ~ Trick or Treating in Glen Arbor
2016-10-30 12:00 - 16:00 | Downtown Glen Arbor, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636, United States
Join us on Sunday October 30th 2016, just before Halloween, from 12-4pm for a fun afternoon of trick or treating in downtown Glen Arbor! Dress up in your Halloween finest and bring the whole family for treats from all participating businesses. This is a wonderful event, open to the public, and free for all to enjoy!
Beyond trick or treating, it’s a great time of year to shop off-season sales, get some locally sourced holiday gifts and dine at a variety of eateries.
Enjoy plenty of family-friendly recreation from a simple hike in the National Park, take a bike ride on the new section of the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail, play at the Glen Arbor community park, or take a relaxing scenic drive.

Event photos provided by Bob Ashmun © Ashmun Portrait Art ~ Thank you. Please contact for permission to use.

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Songs, Stories & S'mores
2016-12-29 17:30 - 20:30 | Mountain Flowers Lodge at The Homestead, 1 Wood Ridge Road, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636, United States
Mountain Flowers Lodge at The Homestead
Join in on some good ‘ole fashioned family fun. Local folk musicians and story tellers host an evening of sing-a-long songs and story time at Mountain Flowers Lodge from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. We’ll also have the outdoor fireplace roaring for marshmallow roasting and s’mores.
Adults: $12; Children $9; Children under 5 years old are free.

Magic Show with Ben Whiting
2016-12-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Mountain Flowers Lodge at The Homestead, 1 Wood Ridge Road, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636, United States
Mountain Flowers Lodge at The Homestead
With a career spanning from the Magic Castle in Los Angeles to New York’s Off-Broadway playhouses, Award-winning actor, playwright, and magician Ben Whiting is one of the world’s premiere entertainers. With corporate and private clients alike prizing his humor, originality, and ability to connect with an audience, Ben combines these things with world-class sleight of hand and mind reading to create an entertainment experience second to none.
Show happens at Mountain Flowers Lodge on Thursday, December 29th from 7–8 pm. Cost is $5 per person and $20 for a family of five or more. To learn more, visit http://www.benwhiting.com/. For tickets, contact 231.334.5100.

Gonzo's Bigg Dogg Brew Master Dinner
2017-01-07 17:00 - 21:00 | The Homestead, 1 Wood Ridge Rd, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636, United States
Nonna’s at The Homestead
The Homestead’s Chef, John Piombo and Gonzo’s Bigg Dogg Brew Master, Greg “Gonzo” Haner team up for an exclusive dinner that combines great beer with delicous food. Those of you who have experienced Nonna’s, know that Chef John has a passion for food. Like Chef, Greg “Gonzo” has a unique talent and love…but his is for craft beer and brewing. Gonzo’s BiggDogg Brewing in Kalamazoo was established in 2013 and has allowed him to share is passion with others.
Guests will enjoy Gonzo’s beer throughout the entire weekend at Beppi’s. But for an exclusive experience and an opportunity to meet Chef Piombo and Gonzo join us at Nonna’s on Saturday evening for a five course meal and beer pairings. Cost is $65 per person. Reservations are required. Call 231.334.5222.

Cooking Demonstration: Fresh Pasta
2017-01-08 12:00 - 14:00 | The Homestead, 1 Wood Ridge Rd, Glen Arbor, MI, 49636, United States
Nonna’s at The Homestead
Homemade pasta adds an elegant touch to any Italian feast. Back by popular demand, Chef John Piombo of Nonna’s will offer an educational (and delicious!) cooking demonstration for those who wish to learn the art of pasta creation. $25 per person.
