Arts & Entertainment

Published March 22, 2019

Mount Clemens - Clinton - Harrison Journal

Feasibility study just the start for local art

MOUNT CLEMENS — The Mount Clemens Foundation and the Anton Art Center recently received an $18,500 grant award from the DTE Foundation to invite Artspace to the city to conduct a feasibility study for potential future art and life expansion.

Published March 19, 2019

Rochester Post

New festival aims to highlight student artists, musicians

ROCHESTER — Oakland University student Ciara Sosnowski is hoping to bring an art and music festival to Rochester this summer. Sosnowski, 19, a recent graduate of Rochester Adams High, created the Rochester Fringe Fest — a nonprofit art and music festival for students — last year.

Published March 19, 2019

Grosse Pointe Times

Fairytale favorites find new life onstage in ‘Shrek the Musical’

GROSSE POINTE PARK — Grosse Pointe Theatre’s latest show is “Shrek the Musical,” a theatrical production based on the popular book and animated film. But while “Shrek” is certainly family-friendly, you don’t need to be a kid — or bring one — to enjoy it.

The artwork of Amy Ferguson, of Royal Oak, will be at the spring art fair at the Royal Oak Farmers Market April 4-5.

Published March 19, 2019

Royal Oak Review

Art fair to spring back to Royal Oak Farmers Market

ROYAL OAK — The third annual spring art fair will roll into the Royal Oak Farmers Market Thursday, April 4, and Friday, April 5.

Published March 18, 2019

Birmingham - Bloomfield Eagle

Regional glass show returns to Janice Charach Gallery

WEST BLOOMFIELD — It could be argued that anyone who can take glass and mold it into beautiful pieces of art is exceptional. But the best of those exceptional folks are the ones who are slated to be at the annual Michigan Regional Glass Exhibition March 24-May 9 in West Bloomfield.

Published March 15, 2019

Sterling Heights Sentry

Ford actors living a fairy tale with ‘Shrek’

Like ogres and onions, theatrical shows have many layers.

Henry Ford II High School students are preparing to cover all of them in rehearsals before performing “Shrek the Musical” March 21-23.

Published March 12, 2019

Birmingham - Bloomfield Eagle

Board approves renovation plan for Maple Theater

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP — The Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees unanimously approved plans to renovate the Maple Theater late last month, along with an amendment to the theater’s liquor license agreement to reflect those changes.

Berkley senior and stage manager of the school’s upcoming production of “Disaster!” Nora Rhein makes some notes during a March 7 rehearsal. According to musical director John Hopkins, Rhein knows the show better than anyone and is the production’s engine.

Published March 12, 2019

Woodward Talk

Berkley High School takes on musical ‘Disaster!’

BERKLEY — Berkley High School’s upcoming spring musical is shaping up to be a real disaster.

Hitting the stage this month is the school’s production of the musical “Disaster!” in which the plot follows a floating casino and nightclub that’s hit with multiple disasters on its opening night. The musical is an homage to the disaster films of the 1970s.

Published March 8, 2019

Mount Clemens - Clinton - Harrison Journal

Fifth installment in sculpture program eyed for this fall

HARRISON TOWNSHIP — Erik and Israel Nordin, of the Detroit Design Center, are back in town, and they have a clear idea of what, and where, the next installment in the Harrison Township Beautification Commission’s sculpture program will be.

Published March 8, 2019

Grosse Pointe Times

Writer publishes new poetry collection, ‘Goodbye Toothless House’

CITY — In “Goodbye Toothless House,” her first full-length collection of poetry, Kelly Fordon explores the deceptively serene territory of modern suburbia and exposes dark, sometimes bitter undercurrents.

The Moby Dick sculpture, which is part of the Northland Art Collection, was recently installed in the fountain at the Southfield Public Library, 26000 Evergreen Road.

Published March 6, 2019

Southfield Sun

A whale of a fountain

SOUTHFIELD — A sculpture named after the titular character of Moby Dick, the 1851 novel by Herman Melville, was installed Feb. 21 in the fountain in front of the Southfield Public Library, 26000 Evergreen Road.

Published March 5, 2019

Fraser - Clinton Township Chronicle

The 1970s are ‘right on’ in program series

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Slip into those platform shoes, put on that polyester pantsuit and get ready to do The Hustle: “The 1970s: Heavy, Hip and Happenin’” program at the Lorenzo Cultural Center has begun.

Published March 5, 2019

Grosse Pointe Times

Origami helps artist find her wings

GROSSE POINTE FARMS — Thousands of paper cranes — some only about the size of a dime — have found a safe place to land at Grosse Pointe Congregational Church in Grosse Pointe Farms.

Published March 5, 2019

Farmington Press

Annual film festival prepares to change the world one ticket at a time

FARMINGTON/FARMINGTON HILLS — The sixth annual Greater Farmington Film Festival is preparing to change the world again this year. The six-film lineup will be shown at Farmington Civic Theater March 7-9.

Published March 5, 2019

Birmingham - Bloomfield Eagle

Late Detroit artist featured at BBAC

BIRMINGHAM — Nothing could ever keep artist Mary Ann Aitken from sharing her observant, unique soul with the world, and helping others to do the same. Not even death.

Published March 4, 2019

Royal Oak Review

Royal Oak Symphony Orchestra and Metropolitan Detroit Chorale team up for concert

ROYAL OAK — At 8 p.m. March 15, the Royal Oak Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Detroit Chorale will come together for a joint performance at the recently remodeled Wagner Auditorium at Seaholm High School.

Published March 4, 2019

Royal Oak Review

Royal Oak accepting applications for Art Explored program

ROYAL OAK — The Royal Oak Commission for the Arts is appealing to artists far and wide to apply to its 2019-20 Art Explored program, in which local artists’ art installations are installed throughout the city’s downtown district.

Published February 28, 2019

West Bloomfield Beacon

WBHS student shows off skills on ‘American Ninja Warrior Junior’

WEST BLOOMFIELD — West Bloomfield resident Sophia Beaulieu, 14, knows how to perform body-twisting feats and maneuvers that show off her physical prowess — while suspended over water, no less.

Beaulieu was a contestant on “American Ninja Warrior Junior” through Universal Kids last fall, which was scheduled to air March 2.

Published February 26, 2019

Troy Times

Get the dish at Taste of Troy

A popular harbinger of spring returns to tempt taste buds at the 27th annual Taste of Troy March 3 to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Troy.

Kate Mazzara, a librarian at Clinton-Macomb Public Library South Branch, joined a group of librarians from across the state to select this year’s list of Michigan Notable Books.

Published February 26, 2019

Fraser - Clinton Township Chronicle

Faygo, Red Wings and MC5: Michigan’s Notable Books of 2019

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Michigan’s rich history is exemplified in literary works on an annual basis, and only a chosen few make the cut as the best representations.