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Downtown residents invited to share thoughts about future of city

Submitted 04-07-2015 under NEWS

Mix, Mingle and Share Your Voice hopes to prompt residents to meet their neighbors and learn about important issues in the community.

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Collaborative Design class teams up with DisArt

Submitted 04-07-2015 under NEWS

The Collaborative Projects class at Kendall College is a course developed for connecting students in various design fields to a real world, hands on venture. The class has been working with DisArt to create signage, brochures, and wayfinding materials to help with the new festival.

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Curator Spotlight: Michael Demaagd Rodriguez

Submitted 04-06-2015 under NONPROFITS

"I do consider myself an active part of the "art ecosystem" in roles as a collector, a builder, and most recently, as a curator,” Michael DeMaagd Rodriguez curator of “Masks & Faces” at Have Company during Art.Downtown.

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Michigan Cider Week aims to spread education, create community

Submitted 04-06-2015 under LOCAL LIFE

From April 5-11, the Michigan Cider Association is holding events to build education and excitement about Michigan’s craft cider economy.

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Great Lakes International Cider & Perry Competition to celebrate growing industry

Submitted 04-03-2015 under LOCAL LIFE

The competition, held April 10-12, will exhibit the craft cider and perry - a beverage made from fermented pears -  made by producers from eight countries.

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LadyFest celebrates Grand Rapids women

Submitted 04-02-2015 under LOCAL LIFE

The event includes diverse performances from musicians and poets, as well as DIY educational workshops.

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Community organizations work to improve bicycle accessibility for transportation

Submitted 03-31-2015 under LOCAL LIFE

Spoke Folks, Boston Square Community Bikes and the Greater Grand Rapids Bicycle Coalition are all working to make biking accessible and safe in our city.

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Art.Downtown. to highlight hundreds of local artists at one night event

Submitted 03-31-2015 under LOCAL LIFE

This spring's Art.Downtown. will feature 400 different artists in 30 venues, displaying their work or performing everywhere from U-Haul trailers to the Grand Rapids Art Museum.

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Inclusion: Moving our community from diversity to being "upstanders"

Submitted 03-31-2015 under PLACE-MATTERS

Most everyone knows what it feels like to not be included: to not be chosen for the team or feeling out of place within a group. It’s hard to imagine not feeling part of a community where you live—but it happens—more often than we want to believe.

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Wine and Canvas wants to prove you can paint

Submitted 03-30-2015 under LOCAL LIFE

Wine and Canvas Grand Rapids features local artists giving step by step painting instructions in a relaxed atmosphere.

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