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.

Annual Event

Arts & Culture

Family Event

Farm Markets

Festivals

Wine & Culinary

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September 14th, 2009 - January 3rd, 2010

Arts of the Woodland Indians

Arts & Culture

Location: Dennos Museum Center

Website: www.dennosmuseum.org

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.

Phone: (231) 995-1055

October 11th, 2009 - March 28th, 2010

River of Gold

Arts & Culture

Location: Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College

Website: www.dennosmuseum.org

This exhibit presents more than 120 exquisitely crafted pieces of Precolumbian goldwork from the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s 1940 excavations at the ancient cemetery site of Sitio Conte in what is now central Panama. The exhibition includes large embossed plaques, cast pendants and nose ornaments, gold-sheathed ear rods, and necklaces of intricate beads-as well as polychrome ceramics, and objects made of precious and semi-precious stones, whale-tooth ivory, and bone.

In the first section of the exhibit, visitors are introduced to the geographical setting of central Panama and the excavations at Sitio Conte. The exciting story of the dramatic find of a multi-grave burial containing a wealth of gold is told through site photographs, maps, drawings, even a video from the original color film of the archaeological team. The second section reconstructs lifestyles of Precolumbian society in ancient Panama. The third section analyzes the tantalizing iconography found on Sitio Conte goldwork and ceramics to help viewers interpret aspects of a long-lost ideology. The sophisticated metallurgical processes by which the goldsmiths of Sitio Conte achieved extraordinary results are thoughtfully explained in the final section of the exhibition.

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.

The Dennos Museum Center is open Monday through Saturday, 10am to 5pm, Thursdays til 8 pm and Sunday, 1-5 pm. The Museum is closed major holidays. Admission is $6 adults, $4 children.

Phone: (231) 995-1055

October 15th, 2009

Lord of the Gourd

Annual Event

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Location: Kingsley Branch Library

Patrick Harrison, Lord of the Gourd, Professional Pumpkin Carver! Stop in Thursday to watch Patrick perform the art of pumpkin carving.

Phone: (231) 263-5484

October 15th, 2009

An Evening with Keller Williams

Arts & Culture

Time: 8:00 PM

Location: City Opera House, 106 E Front St

Website: www.porterhouseproductions.com

Keller Williams has built a career on his uncanny ability to captivate a packed house - all by himself. He's been called a "one-man band." A "solo cult-hero." "Music's mad-scientist." Doors open at 7:00 PM. General Admission Presale - $20.00.

Phone: (800) 836-0717

October 15th - 24th, 2009

The Book of Matthew Liebowitz

Arts & Culture

(Sun. Thu. Fri. Sat. )

Location: Studio Theatre, Old Town Playhouse

Website: www.oldtownplayhouse.com

Nearing 40 and still a starving artist, Matt Liebowitz struggles with a recent separation from his wife, his floundering writing career and the inertia which has lead him to juggling pizza making and waiting tables with receiving rejection notices from publishers.

When his widowed and grieving father Howard stays with him for a few weeks, Matt sees his father in a new light and must address his own fears. Supported and challenged by his flamboyant upstairs neighbor, his taciturn brother and bossy sister-in-law, and his earnest wife, Matt must decide what he values and what he will fight to keep.
Thursday, Friday & Saturday performances - 8:00 PM, Sunday performances - 3:00 PM

E-Mail: office@oldtownplayhouse.com

Phone: (231) 947-2210