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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CalculArt: Mathematics as Art in a 3-D Virtual Environment
The exhibit features a 3-screened, back-projection portable virtual-reality environment called CANVAS. Created by the Beckman Institute, at the University of Illinios. It allows visitors to interact and create their own imagery in planned workshops.
Ways of Seeing: The Abstract Art of Jennifer Gardiner Lam, Delbert Michel, and Debra Lanning
These artists' depict real forms in a simplified or reduced way, keeping only an illusion of the original natural subject. The landscape...the human form...even music...all used as starting points.
The Mercado is located within historic Building 50 at the Grand Traverse Commons in Traverse City.
Jump to Japan: Discovering Culture Through Popular Art
(Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. )The Great Lakes Children's Museum brings this exciting new exhibit to the historic Con Foster Museum building at Clinch Park in Traverse City. Jump to Japan focuses on three art forms-anime (animation), manga (comic books and graphic novels), and traditional woodblock and scroll prints. Pokeman and Hello Kitty are well known icons of Japanese pop culture and are immensely popular with American youth. This exhibit connects these popular art forms to Japanese Culture in a 1,500 square foot three-part exhibit.
Con Foster Musuem hours of operation: Monday -Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 11am-5pm
Home Builders Association 2008 Parade of Homes
Thirty-five beautiful new homes located throughout the greater Grand Traverse area are featured in this years parade. Advanced tickets are available at the Traverse City Visitor Center for $8. A Parade Home audio CD tour guide is only $2. Beginning June 14th $10 tickets will be available at all Parade Homes.
Hours are as follows:Sat. June 14th and 21st-12pm-9pm, Sundays, June 15th and 22nd 12pm-5pm, Mon. & Tues. June 16th and 17th 3pm-9pm, Weds. June 18th Closed, Thurs. & Fri. June 19th and 20th 12pm-9pm.
Carrie Newcomer in Concert
Carrie Newcomer's songs emcompass her whole life. On guitar she punches out a rhythmic backbeat and her singing style is bluesy and brash, sultry and constantly seething emotion. Her songs portray a strength of charector, an honesty about life and the view that all wrongs can be righted.
Tickets are available at Borders Books, Oryana, Cuppa'Joe, Patisserie Amie & the Insideout Gallery for $15 in advance, or $20 at the door. Students $10
