• Krasel Art Center
A place where imagination and art fills your senses.

• Kresge Art Museum, MSU
Kresge Art Museum, founded in 1959, houses Michigan State University's collection of over 7,000 works of art. Portions of the collection are on continuous display, offering a rich diversity of style, technique and media.

• Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival
Experience the artistry of world-class musicians performing classic and contemporary chamber works in 18 beautiful venues this summer. The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival presents its 14th season, led by Artistic Director and pianist, James Tocco featuring the music of various artists including Ludwig van Beethoven and Leon Kirchner.

• Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra
This orchestra began with a small group of mostly volunteer, retired professional musicians who performed a set of three concerts under the direction of a variety of guest conductors to raise funds to support a developing local youth orchestra. That developing youth orchestra program gave birth to the now extraordinarily successful Dorothy Gerber Beginning Strings programs of the Crooked Tree Arts Center. Today, the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra is a relatively large chamber orchestra of approximately ...

• Chamber Music Society of Detroit
Founded in 1944, The Chamber Music Society of Detroit, has emerged as one of the most prestigious presenters of world-class chamber music in the United States today. The tenth oldest of such organizations recognized by Chamber Music America, the society remains dedicated to presenting the world's most outstanding composers and performers of standard classical repertoire and contemporary works.

• Fontana Chamber Arts
Fontana Chamber Arts seeks to enrich the human spirit by supporting the creation and performance of high quality chamber music within the diverse communities we serve.

• Raven Hill Discovery Center
Raven Hill Discovery Center is the only place in northern Lower Michigan where children and adults can link science, history & the arts with hands-on activities and explorations both indoors and outdoors. Connections emerge through classes, exhibits and facilities that provide opportunities for all ages to learn, create, grow and play.

• Detroit Science Center
Founded by Detroit businessman and philanthropist Dexter Ferry nearly 30 years ago, the Detroit Science Center was among the first centers for scientific exploration and learning in the country to include an IMAX® Dome Theatre. An exhibit floor and program plan encouraged hands-on interaction, exploration and study of science and technology.

• Upper Peninsula Children's Museum
A hands-on exploratory learning environment designed by kids for FUN! The Museum offers a variety of exciting programs and exhibits that engage thousands of families from across the region and around the globe each year.

• Brazeal Dennard Chorale
The Chorale is a group of highly trained singers dedicated to developing the choral art to its highest professional level. They are deeply committed to the rediscovery and performance of significant choral works by African American composers.

• Rackham Symphony Choir
The driving rhythms of African Sanctus; the fusion of prose and song of the Holocaust Cantata; and Too Hot to Handel, the blues-jazz-gospel reinvention of Handel's Messiah, inspire and excite. Whether classical or contemporary, the Rackham Symphony Choir's repertoire covers a variety of musical cultures, styles and periods, from the great classical compositions to unique and rarely performed works.

• Dance Gallery Foundation
Promotes, develops, and produces modern dance performances, and provides dance training and educational experiences of the highest artistic quality.

• Eisenhower Dance Ensemble Inc
Considered Michigan's premier contemporary dance company, EDE has achieved significant critical acclaim as well as enthusiastic audience support. The company tours nationally and internationally with 6-8 dancers and presents a local 4-5 concert subscription season each year.

• Detroit Dance Collective
The company is committed to the creation and production of high quality dance and related arts programming that is accessible and affordable to all citizens; and provides a showcase for professional and emerging Michigan artists.

• Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers
This extraordinary company of poetic and athletic dancers is committed to revealing the language of modern dance to adults and children alike. Critics have called Wellspring's work "dramatic," "impassioned," "seamless," "compelling," "exuberant" and "life-affirming."

• Waterfront Film Festival
In what has quickly become a tradition, the idyllic resort village of Saugatuck, Michigan comes alive each June with filmgoers, actors, producers and directors sharing the excitement as outstanding independent films from all over the United States are screened in casual, intimate settings. Entertainment professionals from Los Angeles, New York and Michigan created the Waterfront Film Festival.

• East Lansing Film Festival

• Flint Film Festival
October 17-18, 2008

• Traverse City Film Festival
The festival will present the best of independent, foreign, and documentary films in several indoor movie houses, including the State Theatre, the City Opera House, and the Old Town Playhouse.

• Detroit Windsor International Film Festival
Spread out over two metropolitan, international cities, the DWIFF is pulls our community into focus, as we welcome the world to share in our creativity, talent and resources.

• Brighton Film Festival

• Thriller! Chiller! Film Festival
October 23-26, 2008

• Lowell Area Historical Museum
Discover Lowell's History at the Lowell Area Historical Museum. "To enrich, delight and inspire our community and visitors through the preservation and presentation of Lowell Area History"

• Idlewild Jazz Fest
Festival acts range from big band to fusion, providing enough versatility to suit the breadth of any jazz enthusiast's eight-track/LP/CD collection. The hope is to make the Idlewild Jazz Festival a proving ground for stellar artists poised for breakout success.

• The Ark
The Ark is Ann Arbor's nonprofit home for acoustic music. Considered one of the top music clubs in the world, The Ark is renowned for the quality and breadth of its programming

• Wayne State University Press
Founded in 1941, Wayne State University Press is a leading publisher of Great Lakes books, Judaica, and African American studies, as well as a wide range of other scholarly and general interest titles.

• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
The KIA's mission is to cultivate the creation and appreciation of the visual arts for the communities of West Michigan.

• Flint Institute of Arts
The museum's permanent collection includes more than 7,000 works of art, many of which are by renowned artists from the past and present. The FIA Art School offers classes for students from age 2 1/2 to senior citizens, and thousands of adults and children visit the museum or participate in its programs annually.

• Crooked Tree Arts Council
The Crooked Tree Arts Center houses two art galleries; a 235-seat thrust stage theatre; studios for dance, pottery, painting, and music lessons; offices and meeting rooms. Each session of the Community School of the Arts offers more than 350 hours of instruction in music, art and dance. CTAC also takes its show on the road. More than 5,000 students in Charlevoix and Emmet County were treated to in-school performaces by the Jeff Haas Trio, River North Chicago Dance Company and the Lark String Quartet.

• Ann Arbor Summer Festival
Each year, the three-week event offers dozens of performances, events, activities, exhibitions, parties and more, with eclectic music, dance, theater, film, visual arts and family fun.

• Calumet Theatre Company
Incorporated in 1983 as an independent, non-profit cultural organization to program events and encourage continuing restoration the theatre annually hosts symphony, folk music, jazz, opera, theatre, dance, and community events, as well as public meetings and guided tours.

• Marygrove College
Urban, Personal, Unique, Cosmopolitan. Exciting, challenging, encouraging and life-transforming.

• Kirtland Community College
The Kirtland Center for the Performing Arts is a major attraction, and an asset for northern, lower Michigan.

• Tibbits Opera Foundation
Professional summer stock and children's theatre draw large summer crowds. Winter events include concerts, Community Theatre, Christmas shows, recitals, children's theatre, and professional productions. Work from area artists is an ongoing exhibit.

• Croswell Opera House and Fine Arts Association
At the center of Adrian's downtown for 141 years The Croswell Opera House continues to be a center for the arts in Lenawee County. Today the theater has a reputation for presenting quality musicals and plays with the help of its community and equity actors and volunteers.

• Birmingham Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra
The BBSO strives to cultivate interest in the musical arts for the entire family with emphasis on educational growth. The orchestra has won for 12 years in the row, the Award for being the "Most Outstanding Community Orchestra in Southeastern Michigan" presented by the Detroit Motor City Awards.

• Kalamazoo Symphony
KSO presents professional orchestra performances and education programs for audiences throughout southwest Michigan, fostering lifelong appreciation and support for symphonic music.

• Interlochen Center for the Arts
Situated on a 1,200-acre campus, Interlochen Center for the Arts is the only community in the world that brings together: 2500 students for a summer arts camp program, 500 students for a fine arts high school, two 24-hour listener-supported public radio stations, year-round arts programs for adults AND 600 arts presentations annually by students, faculty and world-renowned guest artists and eight decades worth of alumni worldwide, including a galaxy of arts luminaries.

• Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Founded as a community orchestra in 1928 by five musically-inclined members of the local Methodist Church the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra has since grown to become a main player in Ann Arbor's world of art and culture. Since 1986 the A2SO has been a fully professional orchestra, first under the baton of Carl St.Clair, followed by Sam Wong and now headed by Maestro Arie Lipsky.

• Wild Swan Theater
Twenty seven years of rave reviews from young people, parents, teachers, and the press has made Wild Swan Theater one of the most admired professional theaters for families in the nation, garnering praise for its ingenious artistry, its innovative audience accessibility program, and its projects for participants with disabilities.

• Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
An internationally acclaimed, award winning professional performing arts training program which achieves youth development through the arts. Our celebrated national model of youth development, made possible through the generous support of many corporations, foundations and individuals, emphasizes excellence on stage and in life.

• Williamston Theatre Project
With an Arts Project grant from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs in support of their first full season, the Williamston Theatre launched 2006-2007 with the Midwest premiere of "Rounding Third," a comedy by Richard Dresser. Performances June 26-Aug. 3, 2008 of Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson Winner of both the 1980 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as best play of the season.

• Jewish Ensemble Theatre 
Our mission is to produce theatre of the highest professional standards and to provide a stage for the exploration of ideas that confront issues of humanity and community from the Jewish perspective.

• BoarsHead Theater
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 is BoarsHead Day!
From 12-1 p.m. we will celebrate this momentous occasion with a variety of performance events around downtown Lansing. Locations such as City Hall lobby, Capital National Bank and Cooley Law School will be turned into theatrical spaces as we showcase the power of performance and celebrate BoarsHead Day!

• Buckham Fine Arts Project
134-1/2 West Second Street
Flint, MI 48502
(810) 239 6334

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Saturday, 10-3 (or by appointment)

• John Ball Zoo
Celebrating the Wonders of our Natural World...

• Binder Park Zoo
The Mission of Binder Park Zoo is that people in Michigan will understand, conserve, and empathize with nature, and have a quality outdoor recreation experience.