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SUMMARY:Library Card Sign-Up
DESCRIPTION:September is Library Card Sign-up Month! \n(ISHPEMING\, MI) – This September\, the Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library invites you to celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month and discover how a single card can open the door to endless opportunities. Today’s libraries connect communities to information\, inspiration\, and each other. This year’s theme\, “One Card\, Endless Possibilities\,” is a reminder that libraries are for everyone—no matter your age\, background\, or goals. Whether you’re diving into a new hobby\, searching for your next great read\, brushing up on tech skills\, or helping your child succeed in school\, it all starts with a library card. Getting a library card is free\, easy\, and empowering.  \nLibrary cards for the Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library are available for free to residents living within the City of Ishpeming and surrounding townships including: Champion\, Ely\, Humboldt\, Ishpeming\, and Tilden townships. Also\, if you are a Negaunee resident with a Negaunee Library Card\, you are eligible to sign up for an Ishpeming card as well. \nAt the Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library\, you’ll find diverse programs\, book clubs\, author talks\, storytimes\, crafting classes\, presentations\, and more. Throughout the month of September\, the library will continue to offer an expansive lineup of programs. Programs are free and open to the public\, and don’t require a library card to attend\, so stop on in for one of our many programs.  \nOn Thursday\, September 4th from 1-3pm\, our monthly Drop-In and Draw Club will meet and artist Kathi Hanson will teach the group about Water-Soluble Graphite Tips and Techniques! All supplies will be provided. For teens and adults. \nOur popular Tot Tuesday Storytime will start back up on Tuesday\, September 9th at 11am and will continue to meet every Tuesday at 11am in September.  \nOn September 11th at 4pm\, Graphic Novel Book Club for kids in grades 4-7 will meet and discuss the chosen book! Snacks will be provided and newcomers are always welcome. \nIn partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association Michigan Chapter\, Upper Peninsula\, the library will be offering Memory Café programs open to all adults and the Alzheimer’s Association will be onsite as a special guest to answer questions and provide information. The first event is on Wednesday\, September 17th at 1pm at the library and we will be planting pretty mums for fall. Registration for this event is required\, so please call the library at 906-486-4381 to register. \nLego Club will meet on Thursday\, September 18th at 5pm and kids are invited to build Legos with friends and work to complete various challenges! \nOn Wednesday\, September 24th at 4pm\, Marilena Corradino will be at the library to teach Italian in a casual conversation format. This class is perfect for beginners or those who want to practice speaking Italian with others. Additional classes will continue in the October and November months as well. \n The library’s Silent Book Club will start meeting again in the fall at Velodrome Coffee in Ishpeming. Our first meeting date is Saturday\, September 27th from Noon-1:30pm. Bring your own book of choice to read silently for 1 hour with fellow bookworms\, followed by time to socialize and talk about books! \nNicole Johnson\, Librarian at the Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library states that to her\, “Library Card Sign-Up Month is all about highlighting everything that is available for people at our library! We strive to be a community hub where there is something for everyone to enjoy from books to engaging programs and much more.” \nStop by the library for a visit to celebrate with them during Library Card Sign-Up Month. Check out the Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library’s active Facebook page and visit their website at ishpeminglibrary.info.
URL:https://www.keepitintheup.com/event/library-card-sign-up/
LOCATION:Ishpeming Carnegie Library\, 317 N Main St\, Ishpeming\, MI\, 49849\, United States
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SUMMARY:NMU Hosts Environmental Action Week
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Action Week at Northern Michigan University will take place starting Wednesday\, Sept. 17\, with the university hosting various events to highlight the role of activism and advocacy as it relates to the environment\, climate and sustainability.  \nThe events taking place for Environmental Action Week are as follows: \n  \nWednesday\, Sept. 17 \n\n“Deuda Natal” Poetry Reading\, 6-7:30 p.m. in 2315 John X. Jamrich Hall. Puerto Rican poet Mara Pastor will read excerpts from her award-winning poetry book\, “Deuda Natal\,” which features environmental themes. \n\nThursday\, Sept. 18 \n\nPoetry and Environment Workshop with poet Mara Pastor\, 6:30-8 p.m. in 2315 John X. Jamrich Hall. This creative writing workshop will focus on poetry and the environment.\n\nMonday\, Sept. 22 \n\nMaking Music for Social and Environmental Change\, 4-5:30 p.m. in the Wahtera Pavilion. Local musicians Tyler Dettloff\, Ash Roskowski\, Brian Wallen and Jon Gillette will discuss how their music promotes social and environmental change and perform their works.\n\nTuesday\, Sept. 23 \n\nPower Mapping for Environmental Justice\, 1-2:30 p.m. in 1100 John X. Jamrich Hall. This workshop seeks to empower change agents whose goals are catalyzing social transformation towards equity and sustainability.\nStudent Forum on Climate\, 6-8 p.m. in 1322 John X. Jamrich Hall. \n\nWednesday\, Sept 24 \n\nSocial Justice through Inner Peace – Guided Mindfulness Practice\, 11 a.m. – noon in 111C Harden Hall. Angela Miller-Porter will teach some mindfulness practices that individuals can do to center themselves to better engage in social justice action. \nCrafty Communication – Anti-Fascist Greeting Cards and Activist Button-Making\, 5-7 p.m. in 2317 John X. Jamrich Hall. Create anti-facist greeting cards and activist buttons while learning about the history of protests against the destruction of the environment from Professor Anna Zimmer and Rebecca Daly of the Olson Library.\n\nThursday\, Sept. 25 \n\nEngaging in Conflict with Civility\, 6-8 p.m. in 1315 John X. Jamrich Hall. This workshop encourages participants to rethink conflict and become involved in civil discourse with people outside of their own social and political circles.\nEnvironmental Trivia with Quiz Bowl\, 7 p.m. in 1322 John X. Jamrich Hall. \n\nFriday\, Sept. 26 \n\nMarch for Climate\, 1-2 p.m. from the Lodge to the Northern Center. \nPolicy Advocacy for Environmental Protection\, 2-2:50 p.m. in 1313 John X. Jamrich Hall. This workshop focuses on engaging state legislators to produce environmental policies as well as Michigan’s role in wetland protection. \nQueer Activism and Vision Boards with the NMU Queers and Allies Club\, 3-4:30 p.m. in 1318 John X. Jamrich Hall.\n\nMonday\, Sept 29 \n\nInterdisciplinary Environmentalism Panel – Studying the Environment in a Fraught Time\, 6-8 p.m. in 1322 John X. Jamrich Hall. Professors Alex Stoner (Sociology)\, Amy Hamilton (English)\, April Lindala (Native American Studies) and Sal Ryman (Social Work) will discuss how their work connects to the environment and how they work in the current political climate.\n\nThese events are sponsored by the Earth\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences\, Sociology and Anthropology\, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Languages\, Literatures and International Studies departments. Other collaborators include Tomorrow’s Voices\, EcoReps\, Queers and Allies and Conservation Crew.
URL:https://www.keepitintheup.com/event/nmu-hosts-environmental-action-week/
LOCATION:Northern Michigan University\, Marquette\, Michigan
CATEGORIES:Central UP Events
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SUMMARY:Northern Tier\, an exhibition of oil paintings by Finnish American artist Eric Aho
DESCRIPTION:The Finlandia Art Gallery and Finlandia Foundation National (FFN) are pleased to present Northern Tier\, an exhibition of oil paintings by Finnish American artist Eric Aho. The exhibit will be on display from September 18 to November 13\, 2025\, at the Finlandia Art Gallery\, located in the Finnish American Heritage Center in Hancock.  \nA reception for the artist will take place on Thursday\, October 9\, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.\, with an artist talk beginning at 7:20 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. \nAho will also be participating in Finlandia Foundation’s first Artist in Residency program\, coming to the Copper Country in early October to find inspiration in our lush forests and pristine shoreline. During his residency\, Aho will complete several finished artworks which will be on display alongside 25 works sent from his Vermont studio.  \nFFN recognized Eric Aho as Artist of the Year from 2022-2024\, honoring his outstanding contributions to contemporary art and celebrating his deep connections to his Finnish American culture and traditions. This exhibition and residency serve as a culmination to his contributions as Artist of the Year. \nAho is a third-generation Finnish American living in Vermont. His grandfather emigrated to the United States in 1903\, followed by his grandmother and uncle in 1906. His aunt and father were born in the Finnish community of Sugar Creek\, Ohio\, in 1917 and 1920\, respectively. Shortly after his father’s birth\, the family relocated to the vibrant Finnish community in Fitchburg and Townsend\, Massachusetts. \nAho maintains strong personal and professional ties to his ancestral Finland and credits his Finnish American upbringing as a continuing source of inspiration and influence in his work. \nHis paintings represent the Finnish way of life\, strongly connected to nature\, sauna and community. In his Finlandia Art Gallery exhibit Northern Tier\, Aho will exhibit paintings that are shaped by both memory and direct observation of northern boreal forests\, forests that stretch across high northern latitudes. Providing a particularly rich and complex subject for Aho\, northern boreal forests represent both a biome and a wellspring for his imagination. For many years\, Aho has painted across vast geographic locations\, from the northern United States to the Laurentian Mountains of Canada\, and across to Scandinavia and the Finnish taiga. \n“These trees-along with their verdant understories and varied terrains\, often punctuated by streams\, rapids\, and glacial erratics-register in my eye and imagination as the forests central to our archetypal associations\,” says Aho. “My forest paintings\, like much of my work\, invite multiple meanings and interpretations. I’m inclined to suggest unseen human presence in the forest through the materiality of paint itself. Oil color oozes and tenses\, puckers and shines\, drawing our attention to the human-like qualities of the forest beyond the limbs\, trunks\, veins\, and crowns we share in common.” \n“Forests are wild and mysterious places\, but they are also familiar refuges\,” continues Aho. “At times\, they’re grand and architectural-cathedral-like\, with arcades\, columns\, vaults\, and aisles. Other woods are smaller and feel intimate. Their spaces\, organized like rooms\, hallways\, foyers\, and thresholds\, evoke the places we live in and inhabit. In these ways\, the Northern Tier paintings are as much about worlds within the forested places as they are about the world of paint and its magical ability to transform space and time.” \nNorthern Tier will be on display through November 13\, 2025. 
URL:https://www.keepitintheup.com/event/northern-tier-an-exhibition-of-oil-paintings-by-finnish-american-artist-eric-aho/
LOCATION:Finnish American Heritage Center\, 435 Quincy Street\, Hancock\, Michgian\, 49930
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SUMMARY:Superior Shipwrecks Exhibit Opens at Beaumier Center
DESCRIPTION:The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center at Northern Michigan University will open a new exhibition titled “Gales of November: Shipwrecks on Lake Superior” at noon on Friday\, Sept. 19\, in its gallery in Gries Hall. \nFrom the earliest days of sailing vessels on Lake Superior\, November has taken its toll on the maritime trade. This exhibit will look at some of the more famous and fascinating shipwrecks that led to either the disappearance of a vessel or its eventual destruction.   \nIn November\, large arctic air masses in Alaska and Canada begin to make their way southeast across the lakes\, while low-pressure systems from the Gulf of Mexico travel northward toward the lakes. When these systems collide over the Great Lakes\, it creates a very unstable weather pattern that can essentially turn into an inland hurricane. One nickname for these storms is the “Witch of November\,” characterized by gale-force winds\, massive waves and quick-changing weather patterns.  \nNovember will mark the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the “Edmund Fitzgerald” and the story of that tragedy will be chronicled in the exhibit. Other shipwrecks that will be featured include the “Algoma” (1885)\, “Bannockburn” (1902)\, “Lucerne” (1886)\, “Myron” (1919) and many others. Each section will feature images of these ships\, copies of weather maps from the day they sank\, and newspaper headlines of some of the storms that wrecked their havoc on Lake Superior shipping. There will also be several artifacts on display from various Lake Superior shipwrecks on loan from Isle Royale National Park. \nVisitors can also view a selection of drawings on display by the noted maritime artist Ed Pusick that feature his dramatic interpretations of various shipwrecks\, including the “Edmund Fitzgerald.” These drawings are on loan from the Fred Stonehouse collection at the Marquette Maritime Museum. Pusick (1927-2006) was a Navy veteran and architectural illustrator\, best known as the “Master of Disaster” for his detailed illustrations of Great Lakes shipwrecks. After a military accident disabled him\, he pursued his passion for drawing\, creating influential shipwreck art that was featured on the History Channel\, in museums and in books by historians such as Fred Stonehouse.  \nThe exhibition will be on display in the Beaumier Center’s gallery through Dec. 20 and is free and open to the public. The Beaumier Center is open from noon to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday and from noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays.
URL:https://www.keepitintheup.com/event/superior-shipwrecks-exhibit-opens-at-beaumier-center/
LOCATION:NMU Beaumier Heritage Center\, 1401 Presque Avenue\, Gries Hall\,\, Marquette\, MI\, 49855\, United States
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SUMMARY:Stick it to Cancer 2025 Hockey Tournament
DESCRIPTION:Stick-it-to-Cancer-2025 event poster \nInfo at https://stickittocancer.org/ \nSpectator admission free (tax deductible donations accepted).
URL:https://www.keepitintheup.com/event/stick-it-to-cancer-2025-hockey-tournament/
LOCATION:MI
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