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.
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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.
John Heffron, comic
Winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Michigan native John Heffron burst onto the comedy scene while still in college – at the University of Michigan’s Main Street Comedy Showcase. His comedy has evolved organically as he has grown from fun-loving college student to bewildered husband, and his youthful personality and cynical wisdom result in a witty combination that nobody can resist. $20 adult, $17 senior and $9 student
Box Office
Great Michigan Read: Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Ms. Nguyen is touring Michigan in support of the Michigan Humanities Council’s Great Michigan Read, the statewide initiative, which started in July 2007. The Great Michigan Read is a community reading program, meant to encourage Michiganders to read and rediscover literature. It focuses on a statewide reading of Bich Minh Nguyen’s “Stealing Buddha’s Dinner”, intended to encourage reading and discussion of a famous American author with strong ties to northern Michigan.
“Stealing Buddha’s Dinner,” is a memoir chronicling Nguyen’s migration from Vietnam in 1975 and her coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan in the 1980s. Along the way, she struggles to construct her own cultural identity from a menagerie of uniquely American influences.
The book is appropriate for adult and high school readers.
