Events Calendar
The Traverse City area hosts a wide variety of festivals throughout the year. By far our largest annual event is the National Cherry Festival, held in early July in downtown Traverse City. Other major celebrations throughout the year are listed below, with links to the official sites if available.
For information and online purchase of ticketed events in the Traverse City area go to TREATickets.
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Arts of the Woodland Indians
This exhibition draws from the museum's collection of art by the Woodland Indians. Not only does this exhibition include excellent examples of quillwork and sweetgrass basketry from both Michigan and Ottawa artists, but also prints by artists of the famed woodland or Anishinabe style of painting, such as Norval Morrisseau and Roy Thomas.
Hours: Mon-Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun 1 - 5 pm, Thurs - Open until 8 pm. Admission: Adults $6, Children $4 The museum is closed on major holidays.
River of Gold
River of Gold is not only visually stunning. It also gives viewers an invaluable glimpse into a Panamanian society as it was 1,000 years ago.
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Inuit Print
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College of Traverse City, Michigan will organize an exhibition consisting of 50 prints in observance of this significant 50th Anniversary milestone. Prints will be selected from the Museum's collection and represent each year of the 50 year history of Inuit printmaking beginning with 1959. The museum holds prints from co-operatives including Baker Lake, Cape Dorset, Holman, Pangnirtung, as well as miscellaneous and independent co-operatives. The prints exhibited will also include a Cape Dorset 2009 Annual Print Collection release.
The exhibition will open with the date of the annual release sale of the Cape Dorset 2009 Annual Print Collection. This will also coincide with the annual meeting of the Inuit Art Society consisting of Inuit Art collectors throughout the United States who will meet at the Dennos Museum Center the weekend of the Annual Dorset Collection release.
Hours: Mon-Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun 1 - 5 pm, Thurs - Open until 8 pm. Admission: Adults $6, Children $4 The museum is closed on major holidays.
Presidential Papers and Portraits
This exhibition explores presidential papers from the likes of James Madison, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington as well as portraits of these important American leaders. Presidential Papers and Portraits was organized in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities' Picturing America Program.
Hours: Mon-Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Sun 1 - 5 pm, Thurs - Open until 8 pm. Admission: Adults $6, Children $4 The museum is closed on major holidays.
Chance to Dance
Beginners and experienced dancers are invited to come enjoy an eclectic mix of dance styles including waltz, blues, swing/jitterbug, slowdance, tango, Latin (salsa, cha-cha), and more. Participants will practice learned steps and discover new ones with dance instructor Mykl Werth and others on hand to assist. Dance nights are available every Friday, Oct 23 to Dec 4 (except Nov 27). Admission is $5 at the door. No partner necessary. Wear slippery-soled shoes.
Northwestern Michigan College
Cats
(231) 947-2210
Bow & Sparrow
San Francisco aerial dance company Bow & Sparrow announces it's first tour to Michigan for the premiere of NeverAfter, an exhilarating blend of dance, circus and aerial arts, rhythmic tap, theater, and comedy improv. This unique mix of performance art will be unlike anything that Traverse City audiences have seen before and will feature gravity defying dancing on one of a kind aerial apparatus, masterful rhythmic tap, body moving music, and hilarious entertainment.
NeverAfter also marks the professional return of co-artistic director Alayna Stroud, who was raised in Michigan and attended Interlochen Arts Academy. After Interlochen she attended the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts and has danced for numerous companies nationally and internationally.
The show is filled with colorfully elaborate and surreal costumes designed and created by Stroud as well as large painted sets by LA-based graffiti artist Hieronymus. The movement hovers and floats, the words bring laughs, and the audience will get to participate in the outcome. The show also features a performance on a new cirque apparatus called the Cyr Wheel, a metal hoop five feet in diameter that rolls and spins on the ground with a dancer standing in the circle controlling the direction and momentum.
Tickets are $15 in advance at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/86450 or $20 at the door.
