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The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s fall exhibition, Everyday Objects, explores the new and unexpected aesthetic possibilities in mundane objects – as art-making materials, and as new objects and ideas. This juried exhibition opens August 27, runs through October 28. In addition to the exhibition, the GAAC is offering four companion programs that dig deeper into the ideas behind Everyday Objects: Online interviews with visual artists from Leelanau County and Ohio whose work is built from repurposed and second-hand objects. An online interview with Leelanau County author Lynne Rae Perkins about her new book, The Museum of Everything. “Everyday Objects: Common Things, Uncommon Art” is an art historical survey of work created during the 20th and 21st centuries from plumbing fixtures, shoes, and tires – among other things. Viewable online. Read more about these programs at GlenArborArt.org/EXHIBITS. Everyday Objects is free and open to the public. The GAAC is located at 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor.

**NEWS ALERT** Contact: Kelli Stepka, HR Talent Manager talent@cherryrepublic.com | 231/334-3150, ext. 205 CHERRY REPUBLIC TO HOST INAUGURAL BENZIE COUNTY JOB FAIR GLEN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 20, 2021 — Cherry Republic will host its first ever Benzie County Job Fair tomorrow, Thursday, Oct. 21, from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Cherry retailer’s new fulfillment center at 8160 Cadillac Highway in Benzonia. The company will be hiring 100+ packers and shippers to work at its facilities in Benzonia and Empire during the fall and holiday seasons. Employees will enjoy flexible schedules, competitive wages, 25% off Cherry Republic products, and a certified Safer Work Environment. In 2020, Cherry Republic was named a Top 20 Workplace by the Detroit Free Press. Masks are required for the Job Fair, and pre-registration is highly recommended. Applicants can pre-register by visiting cherryrepublic.com/JOBS. For more information, email talent@cherryrepublic.com, or call 231/334-3150, ext 205.

Join Interlochen Arts Academy’s creative writing students as they celebrate the release of their quarterly literary journal, The Red Wheelbarrow. Enjoy a wide variety of poetry and prose readings from the latest edition.

Dabble in the Arts Series: Meditative Mandala Painting Thursday, October 21, 2021 6 - 8pm *REGISTER BY: Oct. 18 CLASS FEE: $40 FORMAT: IN-PERSON With local artist & instructor Sharon Smithem! Create a beautiful painted 6 x 6" canvas and learn the Ancient Indian Meditative painting technique of Mandala. In this class, you will be learning how to create a perfect symmetrical design using acrylic paint dot paint brushes and many beautiful acrylic colors. This is a fun meditative exercise, just have fun and enjoy! All materials provided, including Mandala dotting tool set- tools are yours to take home when finished.

Artists of all skill levels are welcome to join our non-instructed, open studio figure drawing sessions with an unclothed model. Easels, drawing boards, tables, and drawing horses will be made available for artist use. Artists must bring their own art materials. Ages 18 and up, registration is required.

The International Affairs Forum at Northwestern Michigan College will connect remotely with Vanessa Acker, political unit chief of the U.S. State Department Office of Russian Affairs to discuss the current state of US - Russian relations and strategies going forward. This in-person event is October 21 at 6:00 PM at the Dennos Museum Center Milliken Auditorium with the option to livestream online. Learn more at TCIAF.com Event details & livestream info: https://www.tciaf.com/oct-21-2021 General info and membership details: https://tciaf.com/

Bringing back a live event for the first time since January 2020! Fulfillament is a storytelling event where five local community leaders and entrepreneurs will take the stage to tell their journey of how they found fulfillment through vocation- the inside story. Each storyteller will issue a challenge for the audience to do something to find fulfillment in their own lives. STORYTELLERS: Yana Dee, Yana Dee Apparel Matt Bullock, Tent Craft Jonathan Timm, Musician Anne Bonney, Speaker David Leith, Three Tree Tent A $500 grant is awarded to an audience member with a good idea that needs some help to get it started. Send us the form BEFORE October 21 so we can announce the winner AT the event! TICKETS: On sale at the Opera House site $15 online or $18 at the door for in person, $10 for a live stream access during the event from your home..

Join us via Zoom for a celebration featuring park staff and park partners. We will announce the name of the mobile visitor center and more! Follow this link to virtually celebrate our anniversary event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83162114744

A small group of people help Jesus tell different parables by using a wide variety of games, storytelling techniques, and hefty doses of comic timing. With songs ranging in style from pop to vaudeville, this story of kindness, tolerance, and love dances across the stage. Masks required while in the building, and no food or beverages allowed.

The stage adaptation of the 1985 cult film “Clue” is coming to West Shore Community College’s Center Stage Theater. Performances will run October 21, 22, and 23 at 7:30 p.m., and October 24 at 2 p.m. Based on the Paramount film and the Hasbro board game, the show is described as a “murder-mystery comedy thriller” that follows six guests at a mysterious dinner party where they find themselves implicated as murder suspects when their host turns up dead. Wadsworth, the butler, leads Mrs. Peacock, Mr. Green, Colonel Mustard, and other guests to try to find the killer as the body count builds. Following in the footsteps of the film, the project bills itself as a “comedy whodunit.” “This truly is a performance that keeps you guessing and laughing until the end,” says Michelle Kiessel, director of theater. “It is an engaging show and we are so excited to bring it to our community.” Customers can purchase reserved seating tickets online at westshore.edu/performingarts or call 231-843-5507. One can also stop by the box office located in the bookstore at the Schoenherr Campus Center. Visa, Master Card and Discover credit cards are accepted.