The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s Glen Arbor Players head back in time to Hollywood in its next production, “Sunset Boulevard.” Performances are June 1 +2 at the Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, 4902 W. MacFarlane Road, Burdickville. The performance is free. It’s 1950’s Hollywood, and the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to
Two Michigan poets have cast Lake Michigan as the setting for a new telling of an ancient struggle in the The Lake Michigan Mermaid. Poets Linda Nemec Foster of Grand Rapids, and Anne-Marie Oomen of Empire created an epic poem in book form about coming of age in a troubled world. They read from their 2018 work and
The blues duo Mulebone returns to the Manitou Music Festival stage on Sunday, July 15, 8 pm. Mulebone brings inventive instrumental know-how and expressive blues that evoke the Mississippi Delta to Studio Stage at 6023 S. Lake St. behind Lake Street Studios. The Manitou Music Festival is a project of the Glen Arbor Arts Center.
Jeremy Kittel, one of the great violinists and creative musicians of his generation, brings it all to the Manitou Music Festival stage on Wednesday, July 18, 8 pm. Kittel is known for his technical expertise and sonic sensitivity. He is a composer and performer, and blends inventive ideas and techniques from other genres into Irish
The Glen Arbor Players perform Leland playwright Priscilla Cogan’s new work, “The Summer Cottage,” on July 20 +21, 7:30 pm in the auditorium at the Leelanau School, 1 Old Homestead Road, in Glen Arbor. Cogan’s work, a full-length, comedy drama, brings four generations of women to a lakeside cottage where they confront a range of persistent
Plein Art Weekend: SUNDOWNER | Thursday, August 2 at sunset - 8 – 10:30 pm The kick-off event of the 10th annual Plein Art Weekend is the Sundowner – a challenging painting opportunity that features artists capturing the beauty and awe of the sunset over Glen Lake and Lake Michigan. In true plein air fashion,
An annual tradition returns to the Glen Arbor Arts Center. The GAAC’s 2018 Member Show, a showcase of GAAC members’ talents, opens August 17 with an artists’ reception, 6 – 8 pm at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake Street, Glen Arbor. The GAAC Members’ Show will display up to 50 works by as many member-artists.
The Glen Arbor Arts Center presents agriCULTURE: Barnyards and Farmscapes, a juried exhibition exploring the interconnections of food, farming and community through the lenses of art, architecture, film, history and theater. agriCULTURE opens Friday, September 14 with a reception from 6 – 8 pm. The show runs through November 1. agriCULTURE zeros in on the
The Glen Arbor Arts Center presents “What Will Be In The Fields Tomorrow?”, a readers’ theater-style production, Saturday, September 29, 7 – 9 pm at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. “Fields” touches on a wide range of issues at the center of modern agriculture: food production, food quality, sustainable agriculture, and the
The “Little Artists” program returns Friday, October 5. Each session is geared towards pre-school age children and includes interactive, process-based projects that nurture natural creativity. Each session starts with a short discussion, a story, and then an interactive, hands-on project. Parents and children will work together to make and take home amazing art each week.
The “Little Artists” program returns for October 2018! Each session is geared towards pre-school age children and includes interactive, process-based projects that nurture natural creativity. Each session starts with a short discussion, a story, and then an interactive, hands-on project. Parents and children will work together to make and take home amazing art each week.
The Glen Arbor Arts Center presents “Romancing the Heartland: American Regionalism,” a visual exploration of the work of the Regionalists, a uniquely American art movement that flourished in the years between the world wars. This brown bag art history presentation is Wednesday, October 17, noon at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. Linda
