Community Calendar

HEART OF A TREE, SOUL OF A STORM
OPENING RECEPTION: September 25 from 5-7pm

Creative works rooted in a fallen tree and shaped by the 2025 ice storm that changed the landscape.

​​​In the early morning hours of March 29–30, 2025, a beloved 150+year-old, 70-foot-tall Basswood tree fell during a devastating ice storm. Located at Bier Art Gallery and Pottery Studio, just south of Charlevoix in Norwood Township, the tree was a natural landmark—towering, graceful, and deeply rooted in the community.

Charlevoix Circle of Arts invited artists to honor this fallen icon and the ice storm that changed the landscape through works of art. This juried show will feature artwork created directly from the Basswood tree itself, as well as works inspired by the March 2025 ice storm.

​Recognition will be given for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place works as part of the exhibit.

Exhibit will be open during regular business hours:
Monday - Friday 11am to 4pm
Saturdays 11am to 3pm

After dark, these birds come to life! Wander through the Seberon “Boo” Litzenburger Nature Preserve with Brad to try to call in owls and learn all about these magnificent birds!

Join LTC environmental education staff at the Charlevoix Public Library for an evening with one of northern Michigan’s most iconic and least often seen mammals. By November, black bears are moving toward their dens and their bodies are undergoing a remarkable physiological transformation. We’ll follow a bear’s year from spring emergence through the frenzied hyperphagia of fall, exploring how they read and move through the same forests, wetlands, and ridgelines that define the landscape LTC works to protect.

It's a biodiversity identification party!
Want a break from the gales of November? Spend an evening with LTC and other naturalists looking at what people documented and discovered in the Straits Area and posted on iNaturalist.org. We will help make IDs individually and as a group. We will share what we are seeing, and take moments to learn and appreciate the natural wonders we share this area with. Bring your laptop, field guides, and curiosity, or just the last one! We will have field guides, pizza, and a main screen for group IDing!

Registration required and capped at 15 people.

Join LTC environmental education staff at the Charlevoix Public Library for an evening at the edge of one of the world’s great forests. Northern Michigan sits at the southern boundary of the boreal zone, the vast belt of spruce, fir, tamarack, and bog that stretches across Canada and encircles the northern hemisphere. We’ll explore what makes this forest so globally significant, which birds, plants, and insects tie our own landscape to the boreal, and why December is exactly the right moment to think about what lies just beyond the horizon.