Community Calendar

Join us for an engaging event focused on fostering respectful and thoughtful conversations that help move us forward...together. Let's break down barriers and learn how to keep discussions friendly and productive, even when opinions differ. Everyone's voice matters! Come be a part of the movement toward a kinder, more connected community.

This engaging event will feature speakers from national programs and communities who have come together to discover shared goals and values. There will be opportunities for discussion and connection.
(THIS PROGRAM IS NEITHER SPONSORED NOR ENDORSED BY THE TADL)

Reserve your spot via Eventbrite, email purplecongressnwmi@gmail.com or just show up-everyone is welcome!

Join us for Queer Tales Book Club where we chat about books that are by and/or about LGBTQIA+ people. Reading is not required, and everyone is welcome.

We meet on the third Tuesday of the month at 7pm in the Nelson Room.

Free, peer-led mental health support groups: NAMI Family Support and NAMI Connection Group.

Both held Wednesdays, 12pm at Christ Church, 430 Fair St. (See website for zoom link)

Free, peer-led mental health support: NAMI Connection Group. Held Wednesdays, 5pm Online (see website for zoom link) and at Child & Family Services, 3785 Veterans Dr.

Solo Square Dance is a one-person dance concert created and performed by Nic Gareiss commemorating the 1935 Dance Halls Act which banned Irish citizens from dancing in homes.

Ninety years later, this 60-minute show combines movement, speaking, and song inspired by this and other such movement prohibitions, including the dancing ban in Pound, Virginia (only lifted in 1999!) which required that dancing permits not be granted “to anyone who is not a proper person, nor to anyone without good moral character.”

Set in-the-round, Solo Square Dance engages traditional and original step dance movement from Ireland, Canada, and Appalachia to think about the power of rural do-it-yourself arts in public/private life, probing the subversive power of dancing bodies. The show begs the question: in light of its historic bans, can dance (continue to) be a means of transgression, liberation, and social transformation for our times?

Join us for an evening where storytellers tell true, first-person stories about times in their lives that they were in platonic, romantic, or family love and anything in between.

Topics of discussion will be plans for upcoming programs, book sales and volunteer opportunities. Anyone interested in supporting the library is always welcome.

9:30am social time & 10am meeting held at Helena Township Community Center, 8751 Helena Rd, Alden. 231-331-4318.

Creative Wellness Monthly Gathering
Facilitators: Carol Hohle & Meridith Mulcahy

Time: 1:30 pm–3 pm

Registration Deadline: N/A

Location: Meet at the GAAC front desk, then follow the fun—we may head to locations like Pine Street Studio or Thoreson Farm Studio during the summer. (Reserve Pinestreet Classroom as permanent option)
Skill: All Skill Levels
Cost: $10 member/ $12 nonmember
Min/Max: N/A
Time to Set Up: 15 minutes
Time to Clean Up: 15 minutes

This group will gather once a month to share and learn more about the value of creativity in our daily lives. Over a warm mug of brewed tea/coffee (or ice tea/lemonade in the summer!), come connect with others, share ideas, find inspiration, and practical tips to lead a more creative and whole-hearted approach to life. Each month, in addition to checking in with one another, we will explore different practices (journaling, stitching, collaging, photography) that may pique your creative curiosity.

Each week the group will meet at the front desk of the Glen Arbor Art Center and will move to locations such as Pine Street Studio, the GAAC Classroom, the GAAC grove or Thoreson Farm.

Peninsula Fire Department will conduct free training on how to respond effectively to bleeding emergencies.

Email ctaylor@peninsulafire.org to register.

Connect to essential analysis from Kori Schake, Ph.D., Senior Fellow & Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute & author of The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States. Schake has had a distinguished career in government, including at the US State Department, the US Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House.This event in presented in partnership with Central Michigan University Hart-Milliken Speaker Series.

Advance purchase of in-person or online tickets recommended. All IAF regular season events are free admission for current students and educators.