August 3, 2026

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Annual Hiroshima Candle Float on the Boardman River

Thursday, August 6
8:30PM
Sara Hardy Farmers Market (Parking Lot B, SW corner of E Grandview Pkwy & Cass St), TC
Other
Free

Make candle floats with provided materials, launch them on the Boardman River, & join a silent walk along the riverbank & bridges as the lights drift downstream. Local kayakers & canoeists will guide & collect the floats.

August 6 - August 6

Thursday 6

Elk Rapids Harbor Days
8:30 a.m.
Elk Rapids

American Tree: Building A United State of Trees
9:00 a.m.
Glen Arbor Arts Center, Main Gallery

Poetic Visions Of Port Oneida: Painting And Poems That Reimagine
9:00 a.m.
Glen Arbor Arts Center, Lobby Gallery

"For the Birds" Art Exhibition
9:30 a.m.
Leelanau Twp. Library, Northport

"Modern Movement: Martha Graham & Barbara Morgan"
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Bonfield Gallery, Petoskey

32nd Annual 18th Century Mackinaw Trade Fair
10:00 a.m.
Conkling Heritage Park, Mackinaw City

Cherry State of Mind
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Cornwell Gallery, TC

Coffee @ Ten, Petoskey
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey

Container
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Carnegie Galleries, TC

In Motion: Making Art Dance
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey

Nancy Foster Retrospective Exhibition: "Threads of Life"
10:00 a.m.
Oliver Art Center, Frankfort

Paint Grand Traverse: Extended Exhibit
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Cornwell & Carnegie Galleries, TC

"Americans"
11:00 a.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

4th Annual Great Bodies Group Exhibit
11:00 a.m.
Higher Art Gallery, TC

Caroline Monnet: "This Old House is All We Have"
11:00 a.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

Xavi Bou: "Echoes of Flight"
11:00 a.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

Luncheon Lecture: Protecting Our Monarch Butterflies
11:30 a.m.
NCMC, Library Conference Center, Petoskey

Roots
12:30 p.m.
Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan

Onekama Days
1:30 p.m.
Onekama

FPCL Annual Used Book Sale
3:00 p.m.
Peninsula Community Library, TC

NMRPOA Meeting
5:00 p.m.
TC Elks Club

Sons of Norway Picnic
5:30 p.m.
Cherry Bend Community Park, picnic shelter, Elmwood Twp.

Boyne City Pirate Fest
6:00 p.m.
Boyne City

Harbor Springs Street Musique: Women of Street Musique
6:30 p.m.
Downtown Harbor Springs

Community Conversations with Area Journalists
7:00 p.m.
Elberta Heritage Center

Concerts On the Lawn: Remembering Patsy Cline with Judy Harrison
7:00 p.m.
GT Pavilions, TC

Live on the Lake: The Marsupials
7:00 p.m.
East Park, Odmark Pavilion, Charlevoix

Summer Sounds Concert: Jacob McLeod
7:00 p.m.
Michigan Legacy Art Park, Amphitheater, Thompsonville

West Side Story
7:00 p.m.
Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium

Annual Hiroshima Candle Float on the Boardman River
8:30 p.m.
Sara Hardy Farmers Market (Parking Lot B, SW corner of E Grandview Pkwy & Cass St), TC

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