Central UP Events

Please join us at the MICHIGAN STATE POLICE SAULT STE. MARIE POST 3900 I-75 Business Spur, Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783 on Friday, October 24, 2025 6:00 pm-8:00pm for the HALLOWEEN DROP-IN We will have MSP Specialty Teams, K9 Demonstrations Child Fingerprint Kits, MSP Patrol Vehicles, Recruiting, Treats, Costume Contest at 7:15pm, and more. Contact Tpr. Michael Mariuzza or Camela Yeck for more information. MSP Sault Ste. Marie Post: 906-632-2217

STORM, a historical multi-media performance on Great Lakes storms and shipwrecks, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, in Jamrich Hall 1100 at Northern Michigan University. It is hosted by NMU’s Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center. Maritime historian Ric Mixter returns to his hometown of Marquette with musician Dan Hall to tell the Edmund Fitzgerald story in a unique way: with Hall’s custom music on key characters in the storm and Mixter’s exclusive interviews from those who were eyewitnesses to the search and discoveries made 550 feet below Lake Superior.  Gordon Lightfoot turned the Great Lakes’ largest shipwreck into

The Downtown Marquette Farmers Market is gearing up for a festive fall and holiday season with a full lineup of special events and seasonal markets. Trick or Treat at the Market Saturday, October 25 | 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Dress up in your best costume and join the fun as market vendors hand out treats to trick-or-treaters of all ages. Final Outdoor Farmers Markets of the Season Saturdays, November 1, 8, and 15 | 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Enjoy the last outdoor farmers markets of 2025 and stock up on late-season produce, baked goods, and local products before

Saturdays, October (4, 11, 18, 25), 2025. 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.  Peter White Public Library Great Room.  Songs, rhymes, stories and finger-plays geared towards babies through preschool with a loving adult.  Older siblings and older children are welcome.  No admission charge.  For more information and to check the status of the program, call 906-226-4323 or visit www.pwpl.info.

The sidewalks of Marquette will be filled with ghouls, goblins, and other costumed kiddos! Parents are invited to bring their children to Trick or Treat at participating downtown businesses. Please look for the Downtown Halloween Trick or Treat poster in the window. We ask that participants please follow all safety guidelines set forth by the Marquette City Police. All of Downtown Marquette is open to trick-or-treaters at participating businesses who display the signs linked above. The 100 & 200 block of W. Washington will be closed again this year to make the busy center safer for children when visiting participating

Get ready for Halloween in Downtown Marquette on October 25th from 4-7 pm. The 100 and 200 blocks of Washington St. will transform into a Halloween haven for our annual Downtown Trick-or-Treat. The streets will be closed to traffic, making it a safe and fun environment for costumed kiddos to collect candy from participating stores.

The Northern Michigan University Music Department will host its first NMU choral concert of the fall semester at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, in a new location: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Marquette. Admission to the “Sacred Currents” concert is free and open to the public.  Director and Professor Erin Colwitz will be assisted by student directors and choral music education majors Jessica Schrader and Sophie Laskaris. The concert will feature sacred choral works with the Arts Chorale and the University Choir, along with Professor Patrick Booth on saxophone and Jan Brodersen on organ.  “This will be a unique concert,”

Mondays & Thursdays, October (2, 6, 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, 27, 30), 2025. 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Peter White Public Library Great Room.  For children 18 to 36 months with a loving adult,siblings welcome. Stories and songs to engage the curious mind and wiggly body, followed by sensory play activities.  No admission charge.  Registration not required.  For more information and to check the status of the program, call 906-226-4323 or visit www.pwpl.info.

Monday October 27, 2025. 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.  Peter White Public Library Community Room.  Get in the Halloween mood at this Spooky Fun Fandom program!

Monday, October 27, 2025, 2024.  6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.  Peter White Public Library Community Room.  All Ages, Adults, Seniors, Teens. On Dylan Thomas’ 111th birthday, join Russell Thorburn, National Endowment for the Arts recipient and first U.P. Poet Laureate, and musicians Dylan Trost and Patrick Booth for a special reading from Thorburn’s recently published poetry (And the Heart Will Not Quicken) collection from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Cornerstone Press. Acclaimed writer Peter Markus says of the book, “Thorburn reminds you of all the ways a poem can make us feel alive.”  No admission charge.  For more information, contact Marty