May 18 Saturday
SATURDAY MAY 18 AT 7:00 PM - OLD ART BUILDING IN LELAND, MICHIGAN - BENEFITS OLD ART BUILDING - CAST AND CREW Q&A MODERATED BY MAGGIE PAVAO, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR TUSEN TAKK FOUNDATION
HOSTED IN COLLABORATION WITH TUSEN TAKK FOUNDATION - 100 SEATS
$10 TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW
No one fights to preserve a multiplex, but some people will risk everything to save a marquee. Through booms and busts, Delft Theatres Inc. - and its innovative gem, The Nordic - endured in Marquette Michigan for almost 100 years, even as the world changed endlessly around them. Local kid Bernie Rosendahl’s modern crusade to restore the historic arthouse to its former glory leads filmmakers to discover a hidden cinema empire in the Upper Peninsula.
Portraying the fascinating history of motion pictures through one iconic screen - and featuring dozens of real-life Marquette locations and characters - Marqueetown is the true story of chasing your dreams, redefining failure and success, and reembracing the enduring magic of cinema.
Written and Directed by Joseph Beyer and Jordan Anderson
The Leelanau County Public Libraries are proud to invite you to an evening with acclaimed author William Kent Krueger. Join us at the Northport Public School Performing Arts Center on May 18th at 7pm (doors at 6pm) for an engaging conversation between Krueger and fellow writer Aaron Stander.This event is part of our community read of Krueger's latest book "The River We Remember". Get a copy and join the conversation! Book discussions will be held at each library. Contact your library for more details.Krueger is known for his masterful storytelling and compelling characters. His book "This Tender Land" spent nearly six months on the New York Times bestseller list after it was published in 2019.There is no cost to attend, but registration is required and seats are limited. Please sign up at your local Leelanau Library. Doors open at 6pm.
Old Town Playhouse is headed back to the '80s when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up and a wedding singer was the coolest guy in the room! It’s 1985, and rock star wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey's favorite wedding singer. He's the life of the party until his own fiancée leaves him at the altar. Shot through the heart, Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own. Enter Julia, a winsome waitress who wins his affection. As luck would have it, Julia is about to be married to a Wall Street shark, and, unless Robbie can pull off the performance of a decade, the girl of his dreams will be gone forever.
Coming to Gopherwood Concerts, on May 18 th (rescheduled from March 9 th ) , Moss Manor is Seth Bernard, Michael Dause, and Dan Rickabusa, Patrick Booth, and Justin Avdek a group of veteran professional musicians from various walks of life, drawn together by the isolation of a global pandemic and their own desire to work with each other in a project that became a bit more enduring than they might have first envisioned. They hit the Gopherwood Stage on May 18 th at 7:00 pm
Atmospheric, harmonious, and in tune with a world of nature, their music is both comfortable and engaging. Multi-instrumentalism reigns to create a vital soundscape that promises to serve the respected Gopherwood listening audience well.
May 19 Sunday
The Grand Traverse Audubon Club is offering bird walks on Sundays, April 7th through June 30th. Locations and meeting times will vary each week. Visit grandtraverseaudubon.org to find the times, locations, and map links. No experience necessary!
Ecstatic Dance is a space for your own expression of movement or dance, however big or small that may be. Movement is free-form and individual. Music is provided, but this is not a class. This is a space to connect with ourselves, listen to our bodies, and move through whatever is happening in our lives at the moment. It's a space to free the body to move without judgment. All ages, all bodies welcome.
Ernest Hemingway casts a long shadow in literature—reaching beyond his status as a giant of 20th-century fiction and a Nobel Prize winner—extending even into comic books. Appearing alongside Superman, Captain Marvel, and Cerebus, Hemingway has even battled fascists alongside Wolverine in Spain and teamed up with Mickey Mouse in Italian comics.
Robert K. Elder’s research into Hemingway’s comic presence demonstrates the truly international reach of Hemingway as a pop culture icon. In more than 120 appearances across multiple languages, Hemingway is often portrayed as the hypermasculine legend: bearded, boozed up, and ready to throw a punch. But just as often, comic book writers see past the bravado to the sensitive artist looking for validation. Hemingway’s role in these comics ranges from the divine to the ridiculous, as his image is recorded, distorted, lampooned, and whittled down to its essential parts.
As Elder notes, comic book creators and Hemingway share a natural kinship. The comic book page demands an economy of words, much like Hemingway’s less-is-more “iceberg theory,” only in graphic form. In addition, he turned out to be the perfect avatar for comic book artists wanting to tell history-rich stories, as he experienced beautiful places during the most chaotic times: Paris in the 1920s, Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Cuba on the brink of revolution, France during World War I and during World War II just after the Allies landed in Normandy. Hemingway in Comics provides a unique lens for considering one of our most influential authors. Not only for the dedicated Hemingway fan, this book will appeal to all those with an appreciation for comics, pop culture, and the absurd.
Robert K. Elder is the curator of the exhibition "Hemingway In Comics "on view at the Dennos through May 26, 2024.
This program is presented by Tom George, M.D., vice-president of the Kalamazoo Abraham Lincoln Institute. In his discussion about Lincoln, Tea and the Ladies’ Library Movement he will be revealing recent findings related to Lincoln’s only visit to Michigan. Free Event. Sponsored by Alden District Library & Friends, 8751 Helena Rd, Alden, 231-331-4318.
Create your own magical flower fairy! Have fun embellishing your fairy with fabric flower dresses, colorful threads, and ribbons. All ages are welcome, no registration is required.