This is an abbreviated version of Catalyst Radio. WYCE fund drive ended last Friday, and the Catalyst Radio spot was donated to the cause. Concurrent to the spring drive are...
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Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
Tagged: Arts, disabilities, Downtown, folk art, heartside, heartside gallery, Heartside Ministry
Heartside Gallery and Studio began in 1993 as a small offshoot of Heartside Ministry, a program working to enrich and empower the people living in the shadow of downtown Grand...
Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
Tagged: Club Prensa, Cook Arts, GAAH, Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities, Grease!, press club, Theater
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Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
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Each week the Volunteer Center highlights a compelling skills-based volunteer (SBV) opportunity found on our Volunteer Solutions website. This week's SBV opportunity comes from...
Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
Tagged: Grand Rapids, nonprofit smackdown, nonprofits, ynpngr
Local nonprofit leaders squared off Friday night in a Nonprofit Smackdown at Wealthy Theatre as part of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network’s (YNPN) national...
Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
Tagged: beauty, downtown events, salons
Choosing a beauty salon in downtown Grand Rapids can be a daunting task. In the half-mile between Sheldon Boulevard and Ionia Avenue alone, there are several to choose from. I spoke with upper...
Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
Tagged: greenspace, Parks, sustainability
We often think about infrastructure in modern cities as a those hardscaped things - roads, bridges, and so on -- that foster productivity and efficiency. But we should also think about...
Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
Tagged: award, boys & girls club, cesar vargas, Grand Valley State, Michigan, Scholarship, steil club, university of michigan, youth of the year
Club members from the Steil and Seidman Boys & Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids recently submitted applications for this year’s...
Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
Tagged: charities, digital divide, internet, mobile, nonprofits, smart phone
Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
Tagged: Alynn Guerra, ann chuchvara, Anna Campbell, art, art criticism, Elizabeth Goddard, Kate Silvio, Mandy Cano Villalobos, Margie Erlandson, Maureen Nollette, Michele Bosak, Miriam Slager, review, shelly klein, steketees
Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
Tagged: hunger walk
The 34th annual Hunger Walk will be on May 7 beginning at 8:00 AM and you are cordially invited to join us.
This year it is the Access/GRACE Hunger Walk as the transition to a new...
Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
The normally laid-back, music-filled airwaves of radio station WYCE take on slightly different feel this week as volunteer...
Posted: 13 years 26 weeks
Tagged: single stream recycling
The city's new single stream recycling program is nearly seven months old, and it is time to check in and see how the program...
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Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Lady GaGa, music, review, Van Andel Arena
Lady Gaga arrived at Van Andel Arena on Tuesday, March 1st to perform at the final...
Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
The time has come: the last Sunday of the month. Three proposals were up for Sunday Soup #12, although only...
Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Chiaroscuro Film Series, film, UICA
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
If that’s the case, then the Toronto International Film Festival should feel rather proud as they’ve inspired one of the area's most...
Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
Tagged: dogs, hospital, ruff readers, therapy, West Michigan
Friends Terrilynne Lymburner and Jeanne Lewis founded West Michigan Therapy Dogs (WMTD) in 2001 after witnessing...
Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
Tagged: child, family, Literacy Center of West Michigan, parents, reading
Literacy Center of West Michigan family literacy coordinator Shay Kraley provides complimentary tutoring, workshops and events designed to assist...
Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Art in Public, heartside, Lambert Zuidervaart, policy, UICA
This week, we're joined by Lambert Zuidervaart, a former philosophy professor at Calvin College and co-chair of the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts' board...
Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Funny, Gilda's Club, laughfest, Volunteers
Bill Cosby landed in private jet at the Grand Rapids airport. A LaughFest host and a driver greeted him, then tried to respect his privacy in case he...
Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
Literacy Center of West Michigan (LCWM) Executive Director, Susan Ledy announced that Tatum Rucker would be joining the non-...
Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
Tagged: art, UICA, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
On June 13, 2007, several past and present members of the Visual Arts Committee (VAC) met at UICA. Their lively, two-hour discussion covered UICA’s history, some philosophy of art, the nature of...
Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Community, discussion, skeptics
Skeptics in the Pub (SITP) is the name of the monthly meetup by the organization Center for Inquiry (CFI). According to the Center's website, their...
Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
The United States has the dubious distinction of having the greatest percentage of people that are obese. Almost 34% of the population is considered to be suffering from...
Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Cook Arts Center, cubs, GAAH, Grand Rapids Community Media Center, Grand Rapids Creative Youth Center, Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities, kids, Lorena Slager, press club, Steffanie Rosalez, students, youth
On a gray afternoon, the Cook Arts Center (644 Grandville SW) is a beacon of color. In the lobby, kids sit around a table, each with beams of crayons radiating around them. One floor above, their...
Posted: 13 years 27 weeks
It's a little gray right now, but March is going out like a lamb. It is spring, and the season for festivals and street fairs is nigh.
Rapidian readers, we'd like to see and be seen...
Posted: 13 years 28 weeks
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Land Banks are Us!
Land bank: Two not-so-provocative four-letter words, strung together to form a term that most of us have never heard or used. What if I came to your door...
Posted: 13 years 28 weeks
Tagged: GRCC, Mediterranian food
This article was written and edited by Shawn Barnes, Drew Brackett, James Byers, David Frederick, and Donnie Hauck for EN 102-1593 at GRCC.
About nine months ago, Grand...