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What's Happening in Leelanau County
April
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Talk about Art - Altered Books, Pam Yee Gianola
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April 29, 2010
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The Glen Arbor Art Association’s Talk About Art series will feature book artist, Pam Yee who will speak at 7:30PM, Thursday, April 29 at the GAAA. She will talk about altered books, which are usually created from discarded hardbound books that have been saved from the landfill and recreated to become coffee table books. Yee’s talk will also touch on her own handmade books and she will bring samples of both.
Pam Yee is a mixed media artist who began making cards for family and friends. She has worked in fibers (knitting), wood (jewelry, books, furniture & mobile), paper (books & cards), plexiglas (books), and leather and metal (books & jewelry).
Pam is an avid recycler and uses discarded objects in her altered books along with all manner of mixed media. Inks, paint, rubber stamps, paint palettes, fibers, photos, images from magazines, new and old newspapers, cardstocks and anything that isn't mailed down may be used in her altered books. She also makes hand bound books from simple folded books of paper to Coptic stitched books with leather, wood, metal, clay, and Plexiglas covers.
She was Co-President of ISABA (International Society of Altered Book Artists) from 2002-2004 and President from 2004-2007. ISABA is an online organization whose mission is to promote altered books as an art form. Pam has taken classes around the country and teaches locally and in Hawaii. She lives in the woods of Honor, MI with her painter husband, Ron Gianola.
The Talk About Art series gives the community an opportunity to meet some of our many accomplished local artists and gain an appreciation and understanding of art and how it is created. The talks are free and open to the public.
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May
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Orvis Michigan Fly Fishing School
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May weekends
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Orvis Michigan Fly Fishing Schools at The Homestead
May 1-2, 8-9, 15-16, 22-23, 29-30
Special lodging rates available at The Homestead, call 231.334.5100 for more details
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Talk about Art - Watercolor Artist, Edee Joppich
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May 6, 2010
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Watercolor artist, Edee Joppich will wrap up this year’s Talk About Art series at 7:30PM, Thursday, May 6 at the Glen Arbor Art Association. She is a painter, teacher, juror and since 1980, the owner of Joppich’s Bay Street Gallery in Northport. She will candidly share the “agony and the ecstasy” of her forty-five years as a productive, dedicated painter. In showing and discussing her work, she will discuss the sources of her inspiration and ideas; how they are developed into works of art and how she manages to find studio time with the demanding schedule of her busy “other” life.
Edee Joppich received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Marygrove College, Detroit, followed by graduate studies at Wayne State University. Art councils, museums, universities and professional galleries have hosted her 48 one woman shows. Edee’s paintings have been accepted in over 200 regional, national and international exhibits, winning many awards. Honors include a fellowship from the International Society of Experimental Artists, a Signature membership in the National Collage Society, an Artist in Residency from the city of Farmington Hills, Michigan and the Michigan Council for the Arts. Her works are included in five art books published nationally and internationally as will as corporate and private collections nationwide. She has travelled widely and painting trips provide ideas and inspirations for her collage and watercolor paintings.
Edee has been teaching for over 40 years, sharing her joy of art and life with thousands of students. This fall Edee Joppich will teach a watercolor workshop for the Glen Arbor Art Association at The Homestead Resort, October 4-7.
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June
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Orvis Michigan Fly Fishing School
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June weekends
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Orvis Michigan Fly Fishing School at The Homestead.
June 5-6, 12-13, 19-20, 26-27.
Special lodging rates available at The Homestead, call 231.334.5100 for more details
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M-22 Challenge
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June 12, 2010
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The M-22 Challenge is a multi-discipline event based in beautiful Leelanau County in Northern Michigan. The event is designed to challenge athletes against the natural terrain and environmental elements of the area.
Are you up to the Challenge?
· Run the "Dune Climb" overlooking Lake Michigan
· Bike around Big and Little Glen Lakes
· Paddle crystal waters of Little Glen Lake
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Leland Wine & Food Festival
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June 12, 2010
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The Leland Wine & Food Festival is a northern Michigan tradition held on the second Saturday in June. Noon til 6pm.
Come enjoy a day near the Leland Harbor and Leland's historic Fishtown tasting wines from local wineries and tasting the specialties from local restaurants and vendors.
Listen to live music in the park all day from The Fabulous Horndogs and enjoy the beautiful view of Lake Michigan and the Manitou Islands.
Admission is $10.00 and includes an etched wine glass and two tickets for wine tasting. Additional wine tasting tickets are available.
Food vendors accept cash only. No dogs allowed. Sorry!
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Premium Pour
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June 12, 2009
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Come to the tasting rooms of Leelanau County and enjoy an after-hours wine tasting experience. Hosted by the Leelanau Peninsula Vintner's Association , this event is part of the Second Fridays events which is offered each month, on the second Friday from 5pm to 8pm.
Premium Pour falls the night before the popular Leland Wine Festival and gives you and opportunity to tune up your palate with some "top shelf" and "library" wines from Leelanau's wineries.
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Northport Lighthouse & Maritime Festival
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June 20, 2009
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The Northport Lighthouse & Maritime Festival, Saturday, June 20, 2009 at Haserot Park and Marina Parks in downtown Northport. There will be lots of activities including Maritime Historical Displays and Demonstrations, Schooner Cruises ($30 per person), children’s activities, Arts & Crafts Sow, U.S. Coast Guard Participation, a Fish Boil sponsored by the Northport-Omena Chamber of Commerce, Entertainment and much, much more.
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Siegfried Idyll
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June 28, 2009
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Chamber Music North presents "Sundays at Three" series with Siegfried Idyll.
Musicians of the Chicago based Prairie Winds team up with regional performers to render one of the most exquisite works written as a gift of love. Richard Wagner composed Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to his wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869.
Location: Milliken Auditorium in Traverse City
Ticket prices: $25 Advance, $30 At Door, $8 Student
Call 231.995.1553 for tickets or purchase online at www.chambermusicnorth.com.
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July
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Orvis Michigan Fly Fishing School
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July weekends
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Orvis Michigan Fly Fishing Schools at The Homestead.
July 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, 24-25, 31-Aug 1
Special lodging rates available at The Homestead, call 231.334.5100 for more details.
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Leland Fireworks
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July 3, 2010
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Come share in the charm of our small town Independence Day festivities!
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National Cherry Festival
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July 3-10, 2010
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Empire Anchor Days
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July 17, 2010
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Parade through Empire, 1 pm.
Chicken BBQ, 2 - 8 pm
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Dune Climb Concert
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July 12, 2009
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Annual Dune Climb Concert
Performer: Shout Sister Shout: Steppin' In It with Rachel Davis
Join us to listen to the upbeat, foot stompin' band. This wonderful family event located at the scenic Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Dune Climb. If you have never experienced this concert before, you are in for a treat!
Date/Time: Sunday, July 12
Concert 7:00 pm
Cost: FREE Concert
Location: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Bring your lawn chair and blanket.)
Rain – Empire Town Hall
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Top of the Mountain Concert
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July 14, 2009
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Enjoy local Northern Michigan performers, Pat Niemesto, Chris Skellenger and Andre Villoch for a concert on Bay Mountain at The Homestead. Ride the chairlift to the top of the mountain overlooking beautiful Sleeping Bear Bay and enjoy an outdoor concert.
Tickets $10/person. Beer, wine and soda cash bar. For tickets, call 231.334.5378.
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Suttons Bay Blues Festival
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July 25, 2009
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Enjoy blues by the bay at the Suttons Bay Blues Festival on Saturday, July 25th from Noon to 9pm in the Suttons Bay Marina Park.
Festival features: Sonny Landreth, Harper, Pete Fetters Electric Band, Regular Boys, Sneaky Pete, Pete "Big Dog" Fetters, plus some local favorites.
Tickets: $20 in advance; $25 at the gate.
Visit: http://www.thehomesteadresort.com/specials.php for Suttons Bay Blues Festival package which includes tickets or call 231.334.5100.
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Traverse City Film Festival
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July 28 - Aug 2, 2009
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The Traverse City Film Festival is a charitable and educational non-profit organization that holds an annual event in one of the most beautiful areas of the country — Traverse City, Michigan. The festival is committed to showing "Just Great Movies" and helping to save one of America's few indigenous art forms — the cinema.
The fifth annual Traverse City Film Festival will be held July 28 through August 2, 2009.
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August
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Orvis Michigan Fly Fishing School
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August weekends
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Orvis Michigan Fly Fishing Schools at The Homestead.
August 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, 28-29
Special lodging rates available at The Homestead, call 231.334.5100 for more details
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Dunegrass
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August 6 -8, 2010
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This will be the 18th Annual “Sleeping Bear Dunegrass and Blues Festival”. Located near beautiful Empire, MI. , Lake Michigan and the world famous Sleeping Bear Dunes.
This beautiful location offers more than 30 acres of property for parking, primitive camping, food and craft vendors, safety services, kids tent, and so much more!
Come spend the weekend and enjoy the beaches of Lake Michigan and if you’re real adventurous, go for a hike on the Sleeping Bear Dunes!
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Port Oneida Fair
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August 13 - 14, 2010
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A celebration of rural arts and culture in the Port Oneida Historic Farm District located within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (four miles north of Glen Arbor, on M-22).
Exhibits and demonstrations over two days at five farms and the Port Oneida Schoolhouse. Some of the activities include: Native American crafts, folk music, blacksmith, civil war re-enactors, antique bicycles, antique cars, landscape painting, storytelling, quilting, horse & wagon rides, barn dance, fur trader, weavers, celtic music, maritime history, barn building, nature hikes and more!
Park pass required. For more information contact Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore at 231.326.5134.
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September
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Orvis Michigan Fly Fishing School
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September weekends
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Orvis Michigan Fly Fishing Schools at The Homestead. September 5-6, 12-13, 19-20, 26-27. Special lodging rates available at The Homestead.
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October
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Autumn Dunes Eco-Photo Tour Weekend
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October 16-18, 2009
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The favorite Great Lakes Photo Tour for alumni! Participants are treated to one of the most beautiful areas in Michigan. The splendor of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the quaintness of the Leelanau Peninsula offer outstanding scenic view of sweeping dunes, vast Lake Michigan shorelines and Wyeth-like farm scenes, all accented with the colors of the season. You'll be guided on tour by naturalist photographer, Mark S. Carlson and digital expert, Bob Grzesiak.
Complete tour package includes: tuition, two nights' lodging in a Fiddler's Pond guest room. For more information or reservations, please call Great Lakes Photo Tours at 517.230.1655.
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Noveber
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December
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January
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February
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Talk about Art - Author, Lynne Rae Perkins
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February 4, 2010
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The second artist to speak for the Talk About Art series will be author Lynne Rae Perkins at 7:30PM, Thursday, February 4 at the Glen Arbor Art Association. In her presentation called "Have Fun With It”, Ms. Perkins will talk about what she has learned about writing for children, and what she hopes to learn.
Lynne Rae Perkins was awarded the Newbery Medal for Criss Cross published in 2005 for children ages 10 and up. She is the author of one other book for teens—All Alone in the Universe, a companion to Criss Cross. Lynne Rae Perkins has also written and illustrated several picture books, including The Broken Cat; Snow Music, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and a Book Sense Top Ten Pick; and Pictures from Our Vacation. In April of this year another Perkins book will be published, As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth for ages 18 and up.
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Art from Wine Country:Taste The Passion
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February 5, 2010
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This special evening kicks off the Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association’s Taste the Passion weekend. The event will feature art and wine from Leelanau County paired with fabulous tapas by The Homestead’s Chef John Piombo. Part of the proceeds from admissions will go to GAAA for class scholarships and the after school art program. The Glen Arbor Art Association is organizing the invitational art exhibit. Entrance fee of $20 per person includes tickets for two glasses of wine and food from multiple food stations. Additional wine tickets are available for purchase ($4/ticket or 3 tickets for $10).
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Taste The Passion: Wine, Chocolate, Love
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February 6 - 7, 2010
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Love is in the air as you celebrate the upcoming Valentine's Day at the "Taste the Passion" weekend February 6 & 7, 2010. This special weekend celebrates wine, chocolate and love in anticipation of Valentine's Day! The combination of winter's beauty in Leelanau with the special pleasures of life always makes for wonderful weekend.
The weekend starts on Saturday as participants head to their first winery stop to collect a souvenir glass. Then the fun begins with special pours and tasty chocolate treats offered at wineries between the hours of 11am and 5pm on Saturday, and Noon and 5pm on Sunday. However, because one cannot survive on chocolate alone (tempting as it may sound), savory dishes will be served at a number of tasting rooms.
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Empire Winterfest
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February 12 - 14, 2010
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Empire's Winterfest takes place the second weekend of every February.
The most popular event is the famous Polar Bear Dip - Watch or Join brave or "touched" people jump in a hole cut in the ice on South Bar Lake!
For more information about the festivities, call Phil at Deerings Market 231.326.5249
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Glen Arbor Winterfest
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February 13, 2010
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Join the fun on the deck of BooneDocks for the Chili Cookoff, or join The Sportsman Shop for the Perch Fishing Contest!
Chili served from 12 noon until 3:30 pm (or until the chili runs out!) Tickets can be purchased on the deck. The Homestead Resort is also offering a chili cook off package, Call 231.334.5100 for more information about the chili cookoff package.
There is also a Perch Fishing Contest, from 7 am - 1 pm.
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Talk about Art - Sculptor, Dewey Blocksma
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February 18
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The third artist to speak for the Talk About Art series will be sculptor, Dewey Blocksma at 7:30PM, Thursday, February 18 at the Glen Arbor Art Association. Dewey will show a few photos of his fascinating journey as an artist and he will give a feel for the folk, outsider and other art traditions which influence his work. He will share some folk art pieces from his own collection and some of his recent sculptures.
Dewey Blocksma was born on an air force base near Amarillo, Texas in 1943. After the war, he found himself in Lahore, Pakistan where his father helped establish a hospital in 1948. Home schooled, he soon found himself in charge of drawing all the animals for a global mural. Making his own kites and toys became the foundation upon which his art was later constructed, just as Calder’s Circus became the inspiration for mobiles and stabiles.
Dewey attended Northwestern Medical School in the heart of Chicago where he would learn anatomy, window shop on Michigan Avenue, haunt the Chicago Art Institute and demonstrate at the Democratic National Convention in 1968. After medical school Dewey trained in surgery and then took a break from his education to spend a few weeks at the Worcester Museum School of Art and nine months on a Norwegian Square Rigged School Ship where he was ship surgeon and instructor of biology and art, sailing from Bergen, Norway to Dakar, Senegal and back to Bergen via the Azores.
Starting in 1972 Dewey lived in Ann Arbor commuting to Jackson, Michigan, where he worked as one of the first full time ER Physicians. He bought a grist mill where he began making things again. Later in the 70’s as part of a transition to art he began working in hospitals all over Michigan including a 30 day locum tenens in Northport where he soon discovered Tamarack Gallery, a gallery where he has shown to this day. About 1980 he left the practice of medicine eventually settling in Beulah.
Dewey showed for many years at the Xochipilli Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan and at the Judy Saslow Gallery in Chicago. His work appears in the collections of the Dennos Museum, Johnson Toy Collection, NY; MGM Studios, LA: Time-Life Collection, Detroit and the Leo Burnett Advertising Agency of CA.
The Talk About Art series gives the community an opportunity to meet some of our many accomplished local artists and gain an appreciation and understanding of art and how it is created. The talks are free and open to the public.
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March
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Winter at The Vineyards Wine Tour at The Homestead
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March 5 - 7, 2010
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A best seller...this package includes two nights' lodging, breakfast buffet each morning, a tasting tour of four Leelanau County wineries on Saturday with transportation provided, and a to-go lunch provided. That evening, you'll enjoy an exquisite five course winemaker dinner prepared by Chef John Piombo featuring wines with each course at Nonna's.
For more information on pricing and availibility, please contact The Homestead Resort, at 231.334.5100.
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Talk about Art - Professor Sada Omoto
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March 18
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The fourth program in the Talk About Art series will feature retired art history professor, Sada Omoto who will speak at 7:30PM, Thursday, March 18 at the Glen Arbor Art Association. His talk is titled, “Regionalism Revisited” focusing on art, artists, and the culture of Northwest Lower Michigan.
Born and raised near Seattle and educated in the Midwest (Oberlin, Michigan State, and Ohio State),
Sada Omoto taught art history at Bradley University, Wayne State, and Michigan State. Since moving to Leland in 1997, he has concentrated on painting at the Old Art Building in Leland. His early background has made him sensitive to the diversity of art history traditions which has shaped his creativity as an artist in Northwest Lower Michigan.
Sada Omoto’s March 18th talk at the Glen Arbor Art Association will explore the question of how we identify and relate to the geography, the history, the countryside and the Big Lake, a constant reminder of this region. This uniqueness cries out to our artists to paint, sketch, document and preserve this wonderful Northwest Lower Michigan. In art history texts, “Regional Art” ordinarily is applied to the triumvirate of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry, and appears to disregard those artists whose works seem to be outside the traditional art history category of “Regional Art.” What of the countless names of less recognized artists and their works in this part of Michigan?
The Talk About Art series gives the community an opportunity to meet some of our many accomplished local artists and gain an appreciation and understanding of art and how it is created. The talks are free and open to the public. The final two in the series are Pam Yee, Altered Books (April 29) and Edee Joppich, Color (May 6).
The Glen Arbor Art Association is located across from Cherry Republic behind Lake Street Studios in Glen Arbor. For more information call 231/334-6112 or e-mail info@glenarborart.org.
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