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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September 14th, 2009 - January 3rd, 2010

Arts of the Woodland Indians

Arts & Culture
Location: Dennos Museum Center

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
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 16th, 2009 - January 3rd, 2010

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Inuit Print

Arts & Culture
Location: Dennos Museum Center

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.

Phone: (231) 995-1055
October 18th, 2009 - January 3rd, 2010

Presidential Papers and Portraits

Arts & Culture
Location: Dennos Museum Center

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.

Phone: (231) 995-1055
November 15th - 22nd, 2009

Cats

Arts & Culture
(Sun. Thu. )
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Old Town Playhouse
        Few musicals in the history of musical theatre have captured the hearts and imaginations of young and old alike as Cats has.
        With lyrics drawn from the poet T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats; through its series of captivating songs and dances, Cats tells the story of the annual gathering of the Jellicle cats. They meet each year for one cat to be reborn into a new life on a “Journey to the  Heaviside Layer.”
        As each tells the story of their name and place in this clowder of cats, you will be suspended by the magic of the poetry and music that has entranced audiences world-wide – Now and forever!
        Thursday, Friday & Saturday performances - 8:00 PM, Sunday performances - 3:00 PM
Phone: (231) 947-2210
November 20th - 22nd, 2009

"Dance Revolution"

Arts & Culture
Location: Corson Auditorium, Interlochen Center for the Arts

Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Ballets Russes with an explosion of dance, as the Interlochen Dance Ensemble performs a dynamic repertory program with live orchestra, chorus, percussion ensemble and four pianos. Explore concepts that revolutionized the dance world … from Nijinska’s groundbreaking Les Noces to Randy Duncan’s soulful, African-inspired Journey.  Friday & Saturday performances: 7:30 PM, Sunday performance 1:00 PM.  $14 adult, $12 senior and $9 student

Contact Information:
Box Office
Phone: (800) 681-5920
November 20th - 22nd, 2009

Zonta Club Festival of Trees-Hagerty Ctr.

Annual Event
Location: NMC Great Lakes Campus-Hagerty Center
You won't want to miss this gala event to kick off the holiday season in style! Music, fabulous food, drinks, and both a live & silent auction--you'll have a great time and you'll even feel great the next day knowing that all the proceeds go to our good cause!
 
Friday
     Festival Open to Public - 9am – 5pm
     Special Needs and School Tree Day - 9am – 5pm
     Charles Murphy Small World Holiday Show - 3pm – 9pm
     Gals, Glam & Glitz – Girls Night Out - 7pm – 10pm
Saturday
     Festival Open to Public - Noon – 5 pm
     Pancake Breakfast with Santa* – 2 seatings - 9 am and 11am
     Short Films Big Message- Arts & Culture Night* - 7 pm
Sunday
     Festival Open to Public - 9 am – 4 pm
     Sunday Morning Coffee - 9 am – 2 pm
     Silent Auction Closes at 4 pm!

The NMC Great Lakes Campus-Hagerty Center is located at 715 East Front Street in Traverse City. 

Buy Tickets Online at TREATickets.com

Phone: (231) 883-4775
November 22nd, 2009

Suttons Bay Holiday Open House

Annual Event
12:00 Noon to 5:00 PM
Location: Suttons Bay

Sharing Traditions: Shopping for Quality begins in our "Specialty Shops" - Shops and businesses in Suttons Bay will be open from noon to 5 p.m., thanking customers for their patronage through the year with refreshments and activities during this traditionally festive afternoon.

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