UPDATED: article now includes video of the February 7, 2011 edition of City Connection, courtesy of GRTV
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Posted: 13 years 33 weeks
Tagged: City Connection, GRCMC, GRTV, Linda Gellasch, Mayor Heartwell
Posted: 13 years 33 weeks
Tagged: Alex Forest, Chris Carron, Grand Rapids Historical Society, Grand Rapids Public Museum, Marilyn Merdzinski, museum collection, old museum, VanAndel Museum Center, Veronica Kandl
Plans to showcase the community's historical "hidden treasures" inside a new "learning laboratory" will be unveiled Thursday evening when the curatorial and interpretation staff of the...
Posted: 13 years 33 weeks
Tagged: Orientation, Rapidian, reporters, users
"What have I gotten myself into?"
How many times have you said that to yourself after making a leap that you thought was a good idea? I know I sometimes jump in, feet first and thrilled as...
Posted: 13 years 33 weeks
Tagged: art, Bayard Gallery, gentrification, History, peter wege, revitalization, uptown, Wealthy Street, Wealthy Theatre
In the wake of continuing vandalism in the Wealthy Street business district, I feel compelled to offer...
Posted: 13 years 34 weeks
Tagged: City Horses, Glance at the Past, Grand Rapids, History, Michigan, Radio, WYCE
This episode of Glance at the Past focuses on the role of horses in the city.
Posted: 13 years 34 weeks
Tagged: art, GRAM, Grand Rapids Art Museum, photography
Friday Nights at GRAM
Grand Rapids Art Museum
101 Monroe Center St. NW
Fridays, 5:00 - 9:00 pm
Conversations begin at 7:00pm
Unwind during...
Posted: 13 years 34 weeks
This week, Mark C. Lewis of Neighborhood Ventures fills us in on a new initiative to instill healthy habits in urban youth. Partnering with...
Posted: 13 years 34 weeks
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 Rapids, Michigan’s...
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Grand Rapids Community Foundation hopes to spark innovation among local nonprofit organizations by encouraging them to engage the 50+ population in community volunteer efforts. This spring,...
Posted: 13 years 34 weeks
Tagged: Capital Lunch, downtown events., God's Kitchen, Grand Rapids, homeless, hungry, Soup's On for all
On Monday, January 24, 2011 the 13th Annual Soup’s On for All! was celebrated at the B.O.B. in downtown Grand Rapids. Hundreds of friends and supporters of the Heartside Community...
Posted: 13 years 34 weeks
Tagged: skills-based volunteerism
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...
Posted: 13 years 34 weeks
Tagged: foraging, homesteading, local food, organics, quality, realfood, Restaurants, vegetables
Frugal. Quality. Hyper-Local. Traditional. Artisanal. Bartering. Food empowerment. Now that we are one month into 2011, it's already shaping up to be a fun year on...
Posted: 13 years 34 weeks
Tagged: photograhy, picturesque, Richmond Park, snowmageddon, snowpocalypse, winter, winterwest
That was a hard title to type, especially in light of a blizzard on the horizon, descending upon us at dusk today.
"Snowpocalypse" and "snowmageddon" have been bandied around, so this...
Posted: 13 years 34 weeks
Tagged: 88.1 fm, Glance at the Past, Grand Rapids, History, Maya Lin, Michigan, Radio, WYCE
Maya Lin designed the central gathering area in downtown Grand Rapids.
Posted: 13 years 34 weeks
Tagged: Black, census, creative class, Hispanic, Newsweek, Tina Brown
All the heated responses to Newsweek last week got me thinking: what would Tina Brown see if she picked up...
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
Tagged: Community, Division Avenue Arts Collective, grant, Jaime Johnson, Jeff Kraus, Sunday Soup, The Daac
On the last Sunday of January, interested community participants gathered at the Division Avenue Arts Collective (115 S. Division) at 6 p.m. for the first Sunday Soup mini-grant potluck of...
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
Tagged: 88.1 fm, Charles Belknap, Glance at the Past, Grand Rapids, History, Indian Mounds, Michigan, Radio, WYCE
Grand Rapids' original Indian Mounds have been replaced by reconstructions.
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
Tagged: awards, business, Chamber, collaboration, entrepreneurship, Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids business, innovation, progressive
The Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce EPIC Awards, launched in 2010, combines three of its traditional events into one EPIC event!
EPIC is an acronym for Entrepreneurial,...
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
Tagged: East Side Canal, Glance at the Past, Grand Rapids, History, Lucious Lyon, Radio, WYCE
The East Side Power Canal was started in 1835 and completed in 1842.
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
This week, we speak with Nola Steketee, executive director for West Grand Neighborhood Organization. West Grand is home to CMC -...
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
Tagged: art, Events & Activities, fundraiser, january, Kendall College of Art and Design, live music, outside the lines, sazarac, sazerac lounge, the saz
Tomorrow (Saturday, January 29th) brings the first annual "Outside the Lines" event to the Sazerac Lounge in Grand Rapids. Local "non-artists" are putting the last finishes on their entries, which...
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
Tagged: 2 West Fulton, Architecture, art, Built Form, design, UICA, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Via Design
When the Director of MCA Denver, Adam Lerner, toured the new UICA, he said that he loved how the building felt like a “cityscape.” He also noted that UICA's space would present contemporary art...
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
Tagged: community grants, grants, nonprofit, youth
The Youth Grant Committee (YGC) is comprised of public, private and home-schooled high school students from the greater Grand Rapids area. During the school year, members meet and assess youth...
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
Tagged: 5x5 Night, arts funding, DIY, funding, microgrant, philanthropy, Sunday Soup, The Daac
A lot of people have asked us recently about our thoughts on the newly announced 5x5 Night, and some of the similarities it...
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
Doug Bouwer of High Pointe Real Estate attended the January Heartside Business Association meeting to share plans for an extension at 245 Cherry Street....
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
Tagged: Casey Stratton, Grand Rapids, Interlochen Arts Academy, Jammie Awards, Michigan, Musician, singer, songwriter, WYCE
When songs come together for Casey Stratton, musical structure leads the creative process. Interestingly, he talks about the "lyric writer" in the...
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
ArtPrize founder Rick DeVos today announced 5x5 Night (pronounced “five by five”) a new event to be held the last Tuesday evening of each month in Grand Rapids. Five presenters will have five...
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
Tagged: Afrika Bambaata, Governor Slugwell, Grand Rapids Hip Coalition, hip hop, Lifequest Ministries, postponed, Victor Williams, youth
Two Grand Rapids appearences by legendary hip-hop progeniter Afrika Bambaataa have been postponed due to illness. In a statement made by...
Posted: 13 years 35 weeks
Tagged: Assorted Anonymous, Dave Trax, DJ Trax, hip-hop, local music, louie's, Mr. Smith, Norm Biz, NVious, rocket lounge
The Grand Rapids hip-hop scene is larger than one might think, and there are new artists emerging all the time. Each one differs from the others in some way, and Assorted Anonymous is looking to...
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Congratulations to the performers and residents who came together to create a fun event for Heartside Residents and the Grand Rapids Community at...