Community Calendar

Benzie Community Chorus Sounds of Summer 2026 Concert Series presents Finding Time

Tickets are $20, available at benziechorus.org or the QR code. Children 10 and under are free with an adult.

Limited seating will be available at the door when it opens at 6:30 p.m.

For more information, contact benziechorus@gmail.com or call 231-651-0311

Performances by the Clam Lake Band happening every Monday starting June 29 at 7:00pm running through August 3. The band has been holding their concerts at the Pavilion for now over 50 years. Each week is a new theme.

Follow their Facebook page for more information.

This week-long event has contests for pros, amateurs, ladies and youth. Learn more and register at http://ludingtonoffshoreclassic.org

Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Time: 9 am–12 pm
Registration Deadline: Thursday, July 9, 2026
Location: TBD
Skill: All

Other Sessions in 4-Part Series: Monet (July 7). Porter (July 21). Kahn (July 28).

Imagine if history’s greatest landscape painters had the opportunity to paint in Sleeping Bear country, “The Most Beautiful Place In America.” This is a class to not only learn the techniques of plein air painting but also to learn about the methods of history’s great landscape painters. Each class will start off with a brief illustrated presentation, beginning with The History Of Landscape Painting, and moving on to newly featured artists for 2026, including Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Fairfield Porter, and Wolf Kahn. Following the presentations, students will seek to incorporate ideas learned into their own paintings. The instructor will give frequent demonstrations and provide close personal attention to each student.

Objective: Conceptual Understanding

Outcome: Development of Personal Style

The Elk Rapids Garden Club will hold the 2026 Garden Walk on July 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year’s theme, “Blue to Green and All the Colors in Between,” celebrates the beauty, creativity and diversity of seven local gardens throughout the greater Elk Rapids community.

Proceeds from this event support the Club's mission to protect the environment, educate members and the community, and beautify the Village.

Tickets for the Walk are $15. For tickets and more information go to www.elkrapidsgardenclub.com.

Join us for Outdoor Story Time! Outside the library, overlooking the beach. Please bring a blanket for your family to sit on.
These story times are geared toward pre-k to second graders and their caregivers, but fun for all who attend!

Rain site is the library’s lower level Community Room.

Come to the museum and join an informal tour of our current exhibitions with one of our docents.

Tours are free with museum admission and will begin at 12:00 PM. Please meet by the front desk a few minutes before the tour begins.

The advent of internationalist refugee aid has long been told as an inspirational story of humanitarians fighting tirelessly for a system for that would recognize and guarantee the rights of displaced and dispossessed people. But thinking historically about the genesis of modern refugee policy tells us that has long had a different goal: to make use of refugees as cheap workers in an emerging system of global industrial capitalism. This talk traces the century-long history of the ways in which modern refugee regimes have sought not to protect refugee rights but to remake refugees as migrant labor, serving the interests of states and capital rather than the interests of displaced people themselves.

This is brought to you in partnership with the NMC International Affairs Forum. Registration is required. Livestreaming is available.

LAURA ROBSON, Elihu Professor of Global Affairs and History at Yale University, is a scholar of international and Middle Eastern history, with a special interest in questions of refugeedom, forced migration, and statelessness. She has published extensively on the topics of refugee and minority rights, forced migration, ethnic cleansing, and the emergence of international legal regimes around resettlement and asylum. She received her PhD from Yale in 2009 and holds additional degrees from Tulane University, the Royal Academy of Music, and Oxford University.

Pack a picnic and enjoy live local music at Pennsylvania Park during Crooked Tree Arts Center’s summer Concerts in the Park series, Wednesdays and Fridays from noon – 1 pm.

This week-long event has contests for pros, amateurs, ladies and youth. Learn more and register at http://ludingtonoffshoreclassic.org