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Wee Wonders Pre-K Art Workshop |
Location: Community Room, Public Safety Building, 435 North Michigan St., Big Rapids
This workshop series is designed to help parents and their preschool-aged children explore natural creative expression in one session each week for four weeks. Sessions include “Music is Marvelous,” “Clay Day Play Day,” “Wacky Imaginings” and “Fabulous Fabric.”
Please bring a mom- or dad-sized button-down shirt with short or cutoff sleeves for a child’s smock.
Registration in advance is required due to limited space, and participants are asked to plan to attend all sessions. To register, please contact Adriana Mallett at (231) 796-0712 or eamallett@gmail.com.
FREE Admission |
| 7:00PM |
9:00PM |
"Tea for Two-morrow" Play |
Location: Immanuel Lutheran Church, 726 Fuller, Big Rapids.
Tea for Two-Morrow examines the changing roles of first ladies of the United States, imagining discussions between entering and departing first ladies on the afternoons of inauguration days in 1797, 1861, 1921 and 1993.
Featuring Katherine LaPietra, Nell Rose Hill, Vicky Scott, Suzette Compton, Raquel Jackmond, Linda Rinehart, Jerena Keys and Lori Hathaway, this play looks closely at the circumstances that define a presidency and asks if the first lady should serve as a hostess and ribbon cutter or take on a social cause to inspire the nation. How should first ladies play their roles against the backdrops of a new nation, civil war, scandal and feminization?
Following the production, playwright and director Barbara Pillsbury will lead a discussion.
For more information, contact Immanuel Lutheran Church at (231) 796-8273. This venue offers hearing loop technology for patrons with hearing difficulties.
FREE admission |
| 9:00AM |
2:00PM |
Snowmobile Safety Class |
The Osceola County Sherrif's Offics is hosting a snomobile safety class in Reed City. The cost of the class is $10.00 per student, and pre registration is required. All those interested in the class must be between the ages of 12-16. Please contact the Sheriff's Office at (231) 832-2288 during normal business hours with any questions and to register. |
| 11:00AM |
3:00PM |
"Demon Masks and Timelines" Art Exhibit |
Location: Rankin Art Gallery
Retired Big Rapids High School art teacher James MaloneBeach will exhibit his work titled \\\"Demon Masks and Timelines\\\" at the Rankin Center Art Gallery. The February 16 reception will feature remarks by the artist and refreshments.
Created by pressing stoneware clay into a stylized plaster mold of the artist\\\'s face, each series of mask collections in the exhibit represents a timeline of MaloneBeach\\\'s personal response to a family, local or national event.
MaloneBeach\\\'s work has been shown at numerous venues in the United States and Portugal, with permanent collections of his work in the Newark Museum, the Swedish Royal Cabinet of Coins and Medals, the British Museum and the National Museum of the Netherlands.
Contact the Rankin Center Art Gallery at (231) 591-2536 for more information.
FREE Admission
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| 1:00PM |
5:00PM |
Drawing Wildlife Art Workshop with Rod Lawrence |
Location: Card Wildlife Education Center.
Artist Rod Lawrence of Kalkaska, Mich. presents a wildlife drawing workshop for beginners, covering basic drawing methods and techniques.
Lawrence's popular informal workshops create a relaxed environment in which to learn more about art and enhance creative efforts. Artists need not specialize in wildlife subjects or a specific medium to participate -- all are welcome.
To learn more about Lawrence or view images from past workshops, visit www.rodlawrence.com.
The Card Wildlife Center is Ferris' 5,000 square foot museum of wildlife specimens from around the world. An educational resource for students and the public, its specimens also offer an excellent selection of animal figures for art study.
Seating is limited and participants must register in advance. Please contact Carrie Weis at (231) 591-2536 or email weisc@ferris.edu.
FREE Admission
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11:00PM |
Flat River Big Band Music and Dance |
Location: Holiday Inn Ballroom, 1005 Perry Ave., Big Rapids.
For a fifth year with Festival of the Arts, the popular Flat River Big Band presents a fun-filled evening of big band dance music for all, hosted in the ballroom of the Big Rapids Holiday Inn and Conference Center.
Great for dancers and for those who prefer to sit and listen, the Flat River Big Band's swing era sound includes well-known selections from the famous jazz bands of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and the Dorsey brothers, and also features contemporary pieces sure to appeal to younger listeners, as well.
Fronted by trumpeter Jeff Ayres and announcer Bob Gould, the Greenville, Mich. band regularly appears in music festivals and at private engagements throughout western and central Michigan.
This year's performance will feature vocals by local singer Marilyn Fulmer, of Canadian Lakes.
For more information, contact Richard Scott Cohen at (231) 591-2484 or rscohen@ferris.edu.
FREE Admission
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| 7:00PM |
9:30PM |
Foreign Film Festival: "Seraphine" |
Location: Interdiciplinary Resource Center Room 120.
The third installment in the 2012 Festival of the Arts' Foreign Film Festival is the French drama "Seraphine" (2008, 125 minutes, not rated).
"Seraphine" is based on the true story of Seraphine de Senlis, a charwoman in a small town in France. De Senlis, who was considered eccentric and lived in poverty, spent the little money she had on paints for her strange, exuberant and moving paintings. When a famous German art collector recognized the quality of her work in 1914, she was propelled into a life for which she was ill-prepared.
For more information, contact Laurel Nicol at (231) 796-6139.
FREE Admission
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