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PREVIOUS EVENTS: 2003 - 2004
- 2005 - 2006 - 2007
April
17, 2003
3 pm - 8 pm. On The Air -- Broadcasting Career
Fair. Grand Traverse Heritage Center, 322 Sixth St, Traverse City.
April
24, 2003
9:30 am - 11 am. Book discussion
led by Paul Nelson, Aquinas College: "Plain Speaking: Harry Truman,"
by Merle Miller. Yankee Clipper Branch Library, 2025 Leonard NE, Grand
Rapids.
May
1 , 2003
9:30 am - 11 am. Book discussion
led by Dr. Kathleen Blumreich, GVSU: "The Saving Graces," by
Patricia Gaffney. Yankee Clipper Branch Library, 2025 Leonard NE, Grand
Rapids.
May 6, 2003
8 am - 4 pm. New World Remix exhibit.
Covert High School mall, Covert.
May 7, 2003
8 am - 9 pm. New World Remix exhibit.
Covert High School mall, Covert.
May 8, 2003
10 am - 9 pm. New World Remix exhibit.
Van Buren ISD Conference Center, Lawrence.
May 9, 2003
7:30 pm. Visiting Author: Jim Harrison
at the Dogwood Fine Arts Festival. Dowagiac Middle School Auditorium,
Dowagiac.
May
10, 2003
Keweenaw Krayons
Traditions Alive Program
Presentation to the Eastern UP History Group, St. Ignace, Michigan
May 10 & 11, 2003
Keweenaw Krayons
Traditions Alive Program
will
have cooking and sketching demonstrations at the "Unique Shops
of the Keweenaw Spring Tour" at the Ramblin' Rose Art Center in Mohawk,
MI.
May 11, 2003
12 - 5 pm.
Keweenaw Krayons Traditions Alive Program
will participate
in the "Heritage Fair" at the Copper Country Mall in Houghton,
MI. A display will be provided from 12-5 and students will be in costume
at the mall from 1-3.
May
15 , 2003
9:30 am - 11 am. Book discussion
led by Dr. Wendy Winner, GVSU: "The Lovely Bones," by Alice
Sebold. Yankee Clipper Branch Library, 2025 Leonard NE, Grand Rapids.
May
17, 2003
9:00 am. Keweenaw
Krayons Traditions Alive Program will have a
presentation to the Northland History
Consortium Conference in the Memorial Union Ballroom at Michigan Tech
University, Houghton,MI.
May 18, 2003
7 pm. "The impact of television on American
Thought and Culture," by Gary Hoppenstand, professor of American
Thought & Language at Michigan State University. Grand
Traverse Heritage Center, 322 Sixth St, Traverse City.
May
22 , 2003
9:30 am - 11 am. Book discussion
led by Paul Nelson, Aquinas College: "Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,"
by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Yankee Clipper Branch Library, 2025 Leonard NE,
Grand Rapids.
May
31, 2003
1:00 - 3:00 pm. Keweenaw
Krayons Traditions Alive Program will have a
presentation at
Tea on the Laurium Manor Porch.
Through June 8, 2003
On The Air. ConFoster Museum Traverse City.
June
13, 2003
7:00 pm. Keweenaw
Krayons Traditions Alive Program will have a
presentation at the Bridgefest
Parade.
June
14, 2003
1:00 - 3:00
pm. Keweenaw Krayons Traditions Alive Program will have a
presentation at the South Range Museum Open House 1 - 3 p.m.
June
14, 2003
Keweenaw Krayons
Traditions Alive Program will participate
in the Bridgefest Parade in Houghton, MI.
Through
June 15, 2003
Varian Fry & The Uneasy Years. MSU Museum,
East Lansing.
June
21, 2003
10 a.m. to 4 p.m Keweenaw Krayons
Traditions Alive Program will participate at Day of Fun at the Ramblin'
Rose Arts Center, Mohawk - Ice Cream Making - 1900's Toy Making and more.
June 23, 2003
“Dr. Sujata Warner:
Remembering, Recognizing, Envisioning,” at the Michigan Coalition
Against Domestic Abuse Conference. June 23, 2003, 8 pm, Hotel Pontchartrain,
Detroit. Sponsoring Organization: Michigan Coalition Against Domestic
and Sexual Violence. Phone: 517-347-7000. Project Director: Mary Keefe,
517-347-1377, mkeefe@mcadsv.org
July
1, 2003
keweenaw Krayons Traditions Alive
Program will paticipate at South Range Centennial Celebration
July 4, 2003
Keweenaw Krayons
Traditions Alive Program will participate
in area (Mohawk, Ahmeek, Lake Linden, etc.) parades throughout the
day.
July 11, 2003
Keweenaw Krayons
Traditions Alive Program will participate
in the Strawberry Festival in Chassell, MI.
July 19-20, 2003
Memories from Hamblin Family Day
Celebration. Claude Evans Park, Battle Creek.
August 8-9, 2003
Port
Oneida Fair: A Celebration of Rural Culture.
Port
Oneida Rural Historic District, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore,
Glen Arbor.
August 8-10, 2003
Talkers & Tellers at the Great
Lakes Folklife Festival, East Lansing.
August
16, 2003
Keweenaw Krayons
Traditions Alive Program will participate
in the "Calumet Heritage Day" events, Calumet, MI.
June 28, 2003 - September 14, 2003
Pursuits & Pleasures: Baroque
Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Dennos Museum Center at
Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City.
July
27 - September 21, 2003
On The Air exhibit
at Port Huron Museum, Port Huron
September
2003 - November 2003
Memories From Hamblin traveling
exhibit. Various locations TBA.
September 8 & 9, 2003
Created
with our Hands: Lansing’s History through the Voices of the Union.BoarsHead
Theater, Lansing. Dates & times TBA.
September
20, 2003
Michigan Touring Arts & Humanities Showcase. 8 am - 4:30
pm. $35/person. Brighton Center for the Performing Arts, Brighton. Contact:
517-372-7770, contact@michiganhumanities.org, or link
here for more information and a registration form (MS
Word, pdf).
Nokomis Fall Festival: Traditional Native Foods, Contemporary
Native Music," 2 pm - 7 pm at Nokomis Learning Center, Okemos. FREE.
From 2 - 5 pm: series of presentations by humanities scholars on native
plants and their uses, traditional Native foods, contemporary Native music,
and upcoming Nokomis events. From 5 - 7 pm: concert featuring "Acoutsic
Warriors," a Native American folk-rock duo. Phone: 517-349-5777.
Project Director: Adriana Greci Green, 517-349-5777, info@nokomis.org
Keweenaw
Krayons Traditions Alive Program will participate
in the "Parade of Nations", Houghton, MI.
September
23, 2003
"An Evening of the Blues." at University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Sponsoring Organization: Detroit Public Television and the University
of Michigan-Dearborn. Phone: 313-873-7200. Project Director: Anne Patten,
313-876-8130, apatten@dptv.org
September
26-27, 2003
“Native American Artwork
and Legends with Shirley Brauker,” at Studio 23/The Arts Center,
Bay City. Sponsoring Organzation: Studio 23/The Arts Center. Phone: 989-894-2323.
Project Director: Jeremy Mikolajczak, 989-894-2323.
October
1 , 2003
Dr. Edwart Linenthal, keynote speaker at Michigan Museums Association
Annual Conference, 10:45 am, at Peter White Public Library Arts Center,
Marquette. Sponsoring Organization: Michigan Museums Association. Phone:
517-482-4055. Project Director: Teresa Goforth, 517-482-4055, gofortht@michiganmuseums.org
October
3 - 4, 2003
"Wanting
Only to be Heard: Writing from Your Life" conference at the Quality
Inn in West Branch. On Oct. 3 will be a poetry reading by Larry Levy and
a presentation by fiction writer Jack Driscoll, who will read his published
story “Wanting Only To Be Heard.” On Oct. 4, Driscoll will
give a keynote address and a workshop. Other workshops will be led by
Annette LaLonde (personal journals as a source for writing), Marylou Bugh
(the art of writing memoir), and Chris Lucka (common documents -- recipes,
letters, notes -- as sources for “found poetry.”)
October
9, 2003
Theresa Rosado, keynote lecture at "La Cultura de Michigan Vive"
(Michigan Culture Lives!), 6:30 pm, at Saginaw Valley State University's
Rhea Miller Recital Hall. Sponsoring Organization: Tri-City SER. Phone:
989-497-2070. Project Director: Adrienne Lewis, 989-497-2070, adlewis@chartermi.net
"The Consololation of Poetry," presented by
Barbara Neri, 7:30 pm, at the Sponberg Theatre, Quirk Bldg, Eastern Michigan
University, Ypsilanti. Fee: $4-$6. Sponsoring Organization: Spotlight
Performance Series, Dept. of Communications and Theatre, EMU. Project
Director: Melissa Houhauser-Thatcher,734-487-7888, mhohauser@emich.edu
October
16, 2003
Lecture on Creativity, Process and Art,
presented by Barbara Neri, 7:30 pm, at the Halle Library Auditorium, Eastern
Michigan University, Ypsilanti. Free. Sponsoring Organization: Spotlight
Performance Series, Dept. of Communications and Theatre, EMU. Project
Director: Melissa Houhauser-Thatcher,734-487-7888, mhohauser@emich.edu
"Wanting
Only to be Heard: Writing from Your Life" session
at Java Junction in West Branch which will focus on “blocked artists”
and feature a two-hour class on The Artists Way by Mark Bryan, Julia Cameron,
and Catherine Allen as a source for staying connected to writing endeavors.
October 17-18, 2003
Michigan Story Festival, Mt. Pleasant.
October
18, 2003
Workshop on Creativity, Process and Art,
presented by Barbara Neri, 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm, at the Sponberg Theatre,
Quirk Bldg, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti. Free. Sponsoring Organization:
Spotlight Performance Series, Dept. of Communications and Theatre, EMU.
Project Director: Melissa Houhauser-Thatcher,734-487-7888, mhohauser@emich.edu
October
25, 2003
"Word Wise: A Celebration of Reading and Writing."
A keynote speech will be delivered by author Elmore Leonard (Tishomingo
Blues, Pagan Babies, Be Cool, Cuba Libra, Out of Sight, Get Shorty) at
9:00 am on Saturday, October 24 at the Clare Sergeant Auditorium of the
Carnegie Branch of the Jackson District Library (JDL). From 10:00 through
1:00 pm, two workshop sessions of four workshops each will be held throughout
the Carnegie Branch of the JDL. The workshop subjects are: “Web
Based Resources for Writers;” “Getting Your Work Published;”
“Writing Memoirs and Family Histories;” “Crime and Mystery
Writing;” “Writing Comics and Graphic Novels;” and,
“Writing Poetry.” The writers who will participate at the
book signing and the workshops include: Leonard, Deb Dabies, Lonnie Hull
DuPont (The Haiku Box), Ann Purmell (Apple Cider Making Days, Giraffes,
Where Wild Babies Sleep, Christmas Tree Farming), Richard Truxall, Rich
Contrell, Ed Francis (Rhianna, Mistress of the Blade), Paul Sizer (Little
White Mouse), Hector Trujillo (Cry of the Cihulu), Michelle Sawyer (They
Say She Tastes Like Honey), John Robinson (Johnny’s Jukebox Trivia,
1001 Fantastic Qustions From The Golden Age of Rock & Roll), Donrad
Montgomery, William Baetz, James Dixon, and Van Baldwin. The cost is $35
to attend the keynote speech and workshops. Sponsoring Organization: Jackson
District Library, 517-788-4099. Project Director: Barbara Decker, 517-788-4099,
deckerbm@jackson.lib.mi.us
"Wanting
Only to be Heard: Writing from Your Life" discussion at Java
Junction by the “One Month, One Book, One Evening” book group
which will discuss the memoire The Liars Club.
November
20 , 2003
"One Book, One Community: The Giver by Lois Lowry."
7 pm at the Bridges Theater and Workshop Inc., 132 Pipestone, Benton Harbor.
Book reading and improvisational activities. Free Event. Sponsoring Organization:
Lincoln Township Public Library, 269-429-9575. Project Director: Nancy
Fette, 269-982-4628, nfette@remc11.k12.mi.us
December 4, 2003
Voices from Michigan Farm
Women by Carl McIlvain at the Michigan Farmers Union State Convention.
3 pm. Best Western, 7711 W Saginaw Hwy, Lansing.
December 6, 2003
"A Night To Remember"
Civil War Christmas Ball. 8 - 11 pm at the McKenny
Union Ballroom, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti. $20/person prepaid,
$25 at the door. For more information contact Pam Setla at 313-534-4678
or psetla@yahoo.com
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