Keep It In The UP!

Marquette Regional History Center presents: Senior Support Series: Prepping for a Long Winter
2024-12-04 13:30 - 15:00 UTC | Michigan
Marquette Regional History Center presents:
Senior Support Series: Prepping for a Long Winter
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. at the Marquette Regional History Center.
Have you ever heard a poem that hits home? Poetry can express a world of emotion in one moment. Through poetry we have found in the History Center collection, along with simple art making and music, we will focus on the light moments that help us through a long U.P. winter. Free program, free coffee, door prizes. Part of our Senior Support Series daytime programming. For more info visit marquettehistory.org
Senior Support Series (SSS): New for 2024
History is health! We hear consistently from you, our audience, that our programs ignite curiosity, social interaction, and community involvement. In coordination with Mapping Medicare, we are launching a day-time series. Themes include nutrition, music, cognitive acuity, local history and more. We will inspire more of this whole-health approach as a resource particularly designed for our seniors. Free, donations appreciated. Wednesday afternoons to provide daytime programming. Attendees have an opportunity to win door prizes such as $100 in grocery gift cards at each session. Complementary Dead River Coffee Roasters coffee. Meets at the MRHC. All ages welcome. Four sessions this year.

Marquette County Board of Health Meeting
2024-12-04 18:00 | Marquette County Courthouse, 234 W. Baraga Avenue, Marquette, Michigan, 49855
The regular monthly meeting of the Marquette County Board of Health will be held on Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 6:00 pm. The meeting will take place in Room 231 of the Henry A. Skewis Annex, Marquette Country Courthouse, Marquette.

League of Women Voters of Marquette County Meeting
2024-12-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Michigan
The League of Women Voters of Marquette County will hold its membership meeting on Wednesday, December 4th at 6:45 p.m. The meeting will be held in Studio 1, lower level of the Peter White Public Library, 217 N. Front, St. Marquette. Social time begins at 6:30 p.m. Marquette County residents are welcome to attend. For more information, send an email message to lwvmqtco@gmail.com.

The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

NMU Jazz Concert
2024-12-04 19:30 - 20:30 | Michigan
The Northern Michigan University jazz ensembles will present their second concert of the fall season at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, in Reynolds Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. The concert will feature both the NMU Jazz Band and the NMU Jazz Combo.
The NMU Jazz Band is a standard big band with five saxophones, four trumpets, four trombones and a rhythm section. This group will be playing a variety of material, including standards by Neil Hefti (Cute) and Oscar Pettiford (Blues in the Closet), a Beatles tune (Blackbird), and a crazy funk tune by saxophonist Jeff Coffin titled The Mad Hatter Rides Again. Senior Nick Wegrzyn will be featured as a student conductor on Jeff Jarvis’ Critical Mass, and the whole audience will be encouraged to participate in an arrangement of Take the A Train that the band will put together live on stage.
The combo is a sextet this semester, with three horns and a rhythm section. It will perform a mixture of original compositions and arrangements by the group members.
