Almanac

The subject of the “Great American Dream” is explored through photographer Charles Mintz’s series, “Lustron Stories.” Lustron Corporation manufactured porcelain-baked, enamel-coated, all-steel houses between 1948 and 1950 in Columbus, Ohio. The kit homes were shipped-to-site and assembled by local contractors. Many of the homes are still in use today. This project set out to discover who lives in these homes now.

The Historic Peter Dougherty Mission House in Old Mission offers tours Fridays through Sundays from 1 pm until 4:30 pm starting July 2, 2021. Closed 4th of July. Group tours of the 1842 Mission House and outbuildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places can be arranged no later than 2 days prior by emailing doughertyoldmission@yahoo.com See website oldmissionhouse.com for more information.

Experience the diverse range and repertoire of the guitar courtesy of the Interlochen Arts Academy guitar studio. Enjoy a program of solo and ensemble works in a variety of genres performed on both acoustic and electric instruments.

What would happen if you put four of literature’s most iconic heroines in the same room? That’s the premise behind Jaclyn Backhaus’s imaginative play You On the Moors Now. After rejecting the proposals of their suitors, Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennet, Jo March, and Cathy Earnshaw unite for a conversation about romance and marriage—challenging gender norms and cultural conventions in the process.

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.

<b>NMC Concert Band, Pat Brumbaugh – Director</b><br/><br/><b>“SPACE...THE FINAL FRONTIER”</b><br/><br/><b>Music from all of your favorite space themed television shows & Gustav Holst's "The Planets"</b><br/><br/>General Admission. Tickets purchased prior to the event are $12 for adults, and $7 for students and seniors*. Tickets at the door are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors**. Cash purchases at the door are appreciated!<br/><br/>Call (800) 836-0717 for more information.<br/><br/>*Ticket processing fees will be added at checkout<br/><br/>**Merchant processing fees may be added for credit card purchases<br/><br/>

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.

Traverse City artist Denise Samuels papers the walls of the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s Lobby Gallery with Paper Constructions. Samuels exhibits sculptural, geometric constructions with recycled papers – cereal boxes, common cardboard and other heavier fibers she sometimes paints and alters – and stitches each hand-cut piece together with wire. Paper Constructions opens September 4 and runs through December 17. After receiving a BFA and MFA from University of Michigan with a concentration in Fibers, Denise taught art at Cranbrook/Kingwood Upper and Middle Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, for 29 years. At the same time, she maintained a practice exploring work that brought together painting, print-making and sculpture. “This was sustained through inspiration from my students, travel, workshops and the inspiring Cranbrook surroundings,” Denise said. In the collage constructions, pieces of cardboard are retrieved from the trash to become treasure.  Other materials are collected from sales or gifts from friends. The pieces are measured, cut and sewn with fine wire to create a self-supporting and dimensional cloth.