Calendar is accurate at time of writing (Updated 6/30/09.) ALWAYS call to check, if you don’t live next door! Links to events and classes are found throughout the calendar (words are in a different color type - red-brown on my screen). Place your cursor over the words (if the cursor turns into a hand, that means it's a link) and click for more information. Press your "back" button to return to the calendar. Ongoing Fires Around the Lakes Regional Glass Competition show. Ends July 30; no charge to visit. Sponsored in part by Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. Ongoing Bay College features a variety of exhibits in its two galleries. Call Larry Leffel at 786-5802 for information. Ongoing Wednesdays 4 to 6 p.m. - Loyal Order of the Oblong Table Writers' Group meets with Darby Mitchell at 8th Street Coffeehouse, 8th and Ludington Streets. Call 786-2553 for information. 7/1 Noon - Bring your brown bag lunch and enjoy "Paul Stankard: inventing illusions" video featuring the hot glass creation of Stankard's wildflowers and insects. No charge. 7/3 BONIFAS CLOSED FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY. Reopens for regular hours on Tuesday, July 7. Happy Birthday, U.S.A.! 7/6 Art in the Park begins in six area locations. Elementary students enjoy Monstrous art projects with leadership from April South-Olson. 7/11 7 p.m. - Legacy, Celtic music in the Theater. Tickets $15. 7/8 Noon - Bring your brown bag lunch and enjoy "American art glass, 1880-1930" video. No charge. 7/14 The floating music-arts museum ship Point Counterpoint will dock at the Manistique Marina with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra. Visit HERE for more information. 7/15 Noon - Bring your brown bag lunch and enjoy "Beads and beyond with LeRoy Goertz" video showing the creation of beads, perfume bottles, and hummingbirds. No charge. 7/15 7:30 p.m. - Main Waterfront Concert at the Manistique Marina. Free. Various concerts presented at the Marina through Friday, July 17. 7/18 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Shoot for the Arts at Black Duck Sporting Clays in Rapid River. Make a noise, join the Big Bang Club - AND support the arts! 7/20 1 to 3 p.m. - TeenScene begins again, bringing a space for artists in middle and high school to work on individual or collaborative projects under the aegis of artist Eddie Moritz. 7/22 Noon - Bring your brown bag lunch and enjoy "Walls of light: history of stained glass" video depicting glass from 5000 years ago in the Middle East to today. No charge. 7/29 Noon - Bring your brown bag lunch and enjoy "Glass Masters at work: Lino Tagliapietra" video showcasing one of the men who helped shape the world of contemporary studio glass. No charge. 7/30 Last day to enjoy "Fires Around the Lakes: Ten Years After Regional Glass Competition". 8/1 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. - Bay Area Art Association presents the Waterfront Art Festival with art, food and music, in Ludington Park. Look for the Young Artists' Market while you're there for some amazing work from artists 18 and under. 8/6 Secret World: Art & Adventure on America's Inland Seas featuring works by Christopher Winters opens in the Gallery. No charge to visit. Watch for collaborations with the Delta County Historical Society and the Friends of the Escanaba Public Library. 8/8 2 to 4 p.m. - Artists reception and gallery walk for Secret World: Art & Adventure on America's Inland Seas. Christopher Winters leads the walk. No charge to attend. 8/12 Very Special Arts Michigan Exhibit opens in the Studio Gallery. Show ends September 5; no charge to visit. Sponsored in part by Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. 8/15 7 p.m. - Claudia Schmidt, folk-jazz-blues-singer-songwriter in the Theater. Tickets $15. 9/5 Last day to enjoy VSA Michigan exhibit in the Studio Gallery. No charge. 9/10 Last day to enjoy Secret World: Art & Adventure on America's Inland Seas featuring works by Christopher Winters. 9/17 Living Traditions: Distant Thunder, works from contemporary Canadian Native Americans and Reflections from the Great Lakes Native American Art from Wisconsin and Michigan opens in the Gallery. No charge to visit. Sponsored in part by funding from Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. 10/29 Last day to enjoy Living Traditions: Distant Thunder, works from contemporary Canadian Native Americans and Reflections from the Great Lakes Native American Art from Wisconsin and Michigan in the Gallery. No charge to visit. 11/7 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. - Holiday Arts Fair: the kinder, gentler way to start your holiday shopping (or conclude it, if you're one of those organized people!) No charge to attend. Treasures galore. 11/10 Bay Area Art Association Show opens in the Studio Gallery. Show ends December 15. No charge to enjoy. 11/12 Northern Exposure XVI, annual juried competiton for U.P. artists in all media over 18 years of age. Through December 19. No charge to attend, thanks in part to MCACA sponsorship. 11/12 7 to 9 p.m. - Artists reception for Northern Exposure XVI, annual juried competiton for U.P. artists in all media over 18 years of age. Through December 19. No charge to attend, thanks in part to MCACA sponsorship. 12/15 Last day to enjoy Bay Area Art Association Show in the Studio Gallery. Show ends December 15. No charge to visit. 12/19 Last day to enjoy Northern Exposure XVI. No charge to attend, thanks in part to MCACA sponsorship. 12/24 Noon - Arts Center closes for Christmas break. See you in 2010! **All classes must meet student minimums by at least one week before class begins in order to run. Registration will remain open as long as space is available; walk-ins are fine if we have materials and room. Best bet is to call for class status and register by class deadline.