Houghton - Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
2024-09-25 00:00 - 2024-10-24 23:59 UTC | Memorial Union Building, MTU, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI, 49908, United States
Copper Shores Outreach & Education is hosting a free two-day Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) on Monday, October 28 and Tuesday, October 29 at the MUB Alumni Lounge on Michigan Tech’s campus. This two day workshop runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day, teaching people the skills the help prevent suicide, and how to intervene to help keep someone safe from suicide.

Those who partake in ASIST include both trained professionals and members of the general public. People do not need to have any training in suicide prevention or intervention prior to attending ASIST. With ASIST, people can provide guidance and suicide first-aid to a person with thoughts of suicide in ways that meet their individual safety needs, as well as identify the key elements of an effective suicide safety plan and the actions required to implement it.

This training is open to the public, and provided at no cost. To register for the training contact Kristine Martens at 1 (906) 523-5920, extension 2060, or email kmartens@coppershores.org. The deadline to register is October 24.

To learn more about ASIST, visit livingworks.net/asist. To learn more about the programming available at Outreach & Education, visit coppershores.org/outreach-and-education.

Houghton - Upper Peninsula Accessibility Summit
2024-09-26 09:00 - 16:00 | Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, Michgian, 49931
Houghton’s first-ever Upper Peninsula Accessibility Summit (UPAS) takes place this week at Michigan Technological University (MTU). The event brings
together advocates, community leaders, and innovators to address accessibility challenges in the Keweenaw and more broadly, Northern Michigan, focusing on rural and recreational areas.

UPAS is Thursday, Sept. 26 from 9am to 4pm and Friday, Sept. 27 from 9am to 2pm at the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts at MTU in Houghton, MI.
The summit will create a safe space for all to come together and share ideas and listen to stories of accessibility advocates. UPAS will create actionable solutions and initiatives to improve accessibility throughout the Upper Peninsula.

Accessible Keweenaw Initiative partners include Keweenaw Community Foundation, The Western U.P. Planning and Development Region (WUPPDR), Visit Keweenaw and Michigan Tech. Keynote speakers include Kaelynn Partlow, a Lead Technician and Autism advocate featured on Netflix’s “Love on the Spectrum,” and Robin Jones, Director of the Great Lakes ADA Center and Accessibility Advisor for the 2024 Democratic Convention. These two women will bring valuable
experience in Autism advocacy and disability rights to the summit.

Hancock - Unveiling of Sculptures at the Quincy Dry House Ruins
2024-09-26 10:00 - 12:30 | Quincy Dry House Ruins, US Hwy 41, Hancock, Michigan, 49930
Keweenaw National Historical Park, the Keweenaw NHP Advisory Commission, and Isle Royale and Keweenaw Parks Association scheduled the unveiling of four sculptures on the landscape at the Quincy Dry House Ruins along US-41, Thursday, September 26, from 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.; all members of the public are invited to attend.

Art has been a part of the history of the National Parks since the 1870s when Hudson River School painters captured majestic Western landscapes. Keweenaw NHP and its partners set out to commission an art piece that captures the workers and families who were once sprawled densely throughout the Copper Country, showing the everyday lives of those who are gone, but not forgotten. Artist Kasey Koski has captured those themes through the metal of her sculptures.

Koski is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and educator living in Wenatchee, Washington. From 2015 to 2023, she served as exhibits curator for the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center and is currently serving as curator for the Chelan County Museum. Her ties to the Keweenaw run deep. She attended Finlandia University and is descended from mining immigrants to the Keweenaw.

Koski and Keweenaw NHP will hold numerous events throughout September for all to attend. On Saturday, September 21 and 28 from noon – 2:00 p.m. at the Calumet Visitor Center, Koski will host a hands-on workshop where participants of ages can create silhouettes of their own. Join her on Wednesday, September 25 at 6:00 p.m. at the Calumet Visitor Center for her presentation on her inspiration and process for creating the sculptures.

To learn more about the program visit: https://go.nps.gov/KeweArtist2024

To find Kasey’s portfolio, blog, and more visit https://www.kaseykoskiart.com/

L'Anse - Meet & Greet Luncheon
2024-09-26 11:30 | Baraga County Chamber of Commerce, 1 N. Main Street, L'Anse, Michigan, 49946
Small Business Association of MICHIGAN

Strategic Partner MEET & GREET Luncheon

Learn more about SBAM and their Strategic Partnership. SBAM President & CEO Brian Calley will give a legislative update regarding proposed legislation currently being considered in Lansing. This will also be a time to learn how to maximize your SBAM membership.

SBAM works with various organizations around the state to offer joint memberships known as an SBAM Strategic Partner. As a member of the Baraga County Chamber of Commerce, you are also an SBAM member,. SBAM Strategic Partner members have access to SBAM benefits, events, products, services, and more! There is no charge to attend and a complimentary lunch will be provided.

Thursday, September 26
11:30 am
Baraga County Chamber of Commerce
f1 N Main, L’Anse, MI 49946
Register at https://member.sbam.org/events

Lake Linden - STUFF A BLUE GOOSE
2024-09-26 13:00 - 16:00 | Louie’s Super Foods, 5400 Bridge Street, Lake Linden, Michigan, 49945
Troopers from the Michigan State Police Calumet Post and five grocery stores in Baraga and Houghton counties will be working together to host “STUFF A BLUE GOOSE” Harvest Gathering charity events. The purpose is to raise hunger awareness and to provide food to local food pantries.

Troopers will be at Louie’s Super Foods in Lake Linden, Larry’s Market in Baraga, Pat’s Foods in L’Anse, and Pat’s Foods in Calumet, to assist in the collection of donated food items and to answer questions regarding the food drive. A “BLUE GOOSE” patrol car will be at the sites to haul donated items to local food pantries at the conclusion of the events. The events will be as follows:

Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. at Louie’s Super Foods in Lake Linden
Wednesday, October 2, 2024, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Larry’s Market in Baraga
Saturday, October 5, 2024, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Pat’s Foods in L’Anse
Saturday, October 5, 2024, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Pat’s Foods in Calumet

All grocery stores will have pre-made bags available for purchase, which will be stuffed in the “BLUE GOOSE”. Each bag will be pre-filled with non-perishable food items. You may also donate your own non-perishable food items.

There is a significant need for food items in our local pantries and the participation and involvement from the public is greatly appreciated. Come help “STUFF A BLUE GOOSE”.

Hancock Tori & Farmers Market
2024-09-26 15:00 - 18:00 | Quincy Green, 401 Quincy Street, Hancock, Michigan, 49930
Hancock Tori & Farmers Market
Every Thursday from June 13th to October 10th
Quincy Green, Hancock, MI
3:00pm – 6:00pm

Artists Address Featured Works
2024-09-26 17:30 - 19:00 | MI
Northern Michigan University’s DeVos Art Museum will host an artist talk and reception featuring Liz Ward and Robert Ziebell at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26. The artists will discuss their work currently on display. Their project titled “Across Time and Place” explores the artists’ approaches to understanding and interpreting place through multimedia artworks. Their works examine the nuance of place and delve into the richness of our world today and in past periods.
Ziebell’s career spans 30 years. His work has been exhibited in numerous U.S. museums, galleries and film festivals. He is a lens-based artist who creates new visual languages by bridging still and motion imagery.
Ward is a multimedia artist who explores the meaning of landscape through layers of human, natural and environmental history, memory and experience. Her work has been featured in more than 200 group shows and more than 30 solo exhibitions in galleries, alternative spaces and museums.
Learn more at nmuartmuseum.com/.

Hancock - Laura Foster Nicholson Exhibit
2024-09-26 19:00 | Finlandia Art Gallery, 435 Quincy Street, Hancock, Michigan, 49930
The Finlandia Art Gallery will present Foretelling the Future, Reflecting the Past, a textile exhibit by Laura Foster Nicholson.

The exhibit will be held at The Finlandia Art Gallery, located in the Finnish American Heritage Center (FAHC), Hancock from September 26 to November 13, 2024.

A reception for the artist will take place at the gallery, Thursday, September 26, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public, refreshments will be served.

Methane Glow, 2022, 23” x 43”, Wool, mylar, cotton

“Climate change is not the future, it is now,” says Foster Nicholson in describing her work. An award winning textile artist, Foster Nicholson uses her weavings to convey her deep concern for the environment and the effects of climate change. In her Finlandia Art Gallery exhibition “Foretelling the Future, Reflecting the Past” Foster Nicholson will present two of her series: Venice and Containers.

The Lagoon, Flooding, 2020, 27” x 44”, Wool, mylar, cotton

Her Venice series strives to convey the future of damage, dislocation and loss faced by all of us living near large bodies of water as a result of rising sea levels. “The poignance of seeing such a treasure of an artwork, the City of Venice, annually inundated with devastating flooding, is a dramatic beacon, highlighting the plight faced by cities around the world.”

Il Redentore, Flooded, 2020, 36″ x 30.5″

In her Containers series, she visually distills our societies ever increasing appetite for consumer goods and the vast network of shipping and trucking routes needed to meet that appetite. “The manufacture of the goods, the energy expended, the end use of goods no longer desired, all deeply affect our environment and our health.”

MV Express Pearl Fire, 2021, 25” x 45”, Wool, mylar, cotton

Foster Nicholson is of Scottish and English heritage and had strong support from her family to study art. Her education led her first to Kansas City Art Institute where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, but it was her graduate education at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield, Michigan that made her a life-long friend of Finland.
“I went on to get my MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art which was highly recommended by my professor. Cranbrook is a very small but intensively aesthetic school, dedicated to the hand, critical thought and vision, and the goals of the arts and crafts movement, a handmade environment,” says Foster Nicholson.

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

“Eliel & Loja Saarinen, a Finnish Architect and his textile designer wife, designed much of the original Cranbrook community, with buildings detailed down to the laying of each brick, bringing in sculptors and metalsmiths and weavers to embellish and bring to life this extraordinary Finnish American environment. Their aesthetic has lived on for decades at Cranbrook, and I became a devotee.”

“So now, I am part Finnish, by adoption,” continues Foster Nicholson. “I was, and still am, mesmerized by the totally designed environment, engaging art and craft and design in equal portions. When I was a student there, I had a work-study job at the Cranbrook Museum, helping to prepare Loja Saarinen’s rugs and textiles for a large exhibition about Cranbrook (Design in America: the Cranbrook Vision, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art). And now, I live in New Harmony, Indiana, a Utopian settlement full of art, artists, visionaries, and life.”

Foster Nicholson’s artwork is in a number of museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the archives of the Venice Biennale, Racine Art Museum, Reading Public Museum, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Cotsent Collection of the Textile Museum, Washington, DC, as well as many private and corporate collections.

Foretelling the Future, Reflecting the Past will be on display at The Finlandia Gallery through November 13, 2024.
The Finlandia Art Gallery is located in the Finnish American Heritage Center, 435 Quincy Street, Hancock. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. Please call 906-487-7309 or email gallery@finlandiafoundation.org for more information.
