October 1, 2026

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C.S. Lewis Festival: Remember Your Fairy Tales - Finding Hope with Lewis & Tolkien

Friday, October 2
3:30PM
Beards Brewery & Great Lakes Center for the Arts
Festival

Oct. 1-4. Today includes Book Signing with Dr. Malcolm Guite at Beards Brewery, Petoskey from 3:30-5pm; & Community Arts Night at Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor from 6-8:30pm. Student artwork will be on display, with student poetry readings & monologues presented on stage, & musical performances by Bobbee Pennington and The Wildflower Collective accompanied by a live on-stage painting by artist Megan Genevieve, inspired by C.S. Lewis.

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October 2 - October 2

Friday 2

"At Least A Dozen Friends"
9:00 a.m.
Glen Arbor Arts Center, Lobby Gallery

"Taking Flight"
9:00 a.m.
Glen Arbor Arts Center

"Americana"
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Cornwell & Carnegie Galleries, TC

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

Atmospheres: Photography by Steve Loveless
10:00 a.m.
Oliver Art Center, Frankfort

Echoes: Revisiting Memory
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gilbert Gallery, Petoskey

Field of Vision
10:00 a.m.
Oliver Art Center, Frankfort

Jon Langford: Honky Tonk Heaven
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Carnegie Rotunda, TC

Traverse Area Camera Club - Fall 26' Winners Showcase
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Cornwell & Carnegie Galleries, TC

Women + Water: Life Bearers, Teachers, Storytellers
10:00 a.m.
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Atrium Gallery, Petoskey

"Full Circle: Waste Plastic Transformations"
11:00 a.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

"Heart of a Tree, Soul of a Storm"
11:00 a.m.
Charlevoix Circle of Arts

"Women and Water: Woven Portraits from Around the World"
11:00 a.m.
Petoskey District Library, 2nd floor

Darryl Brown: "Bubbles of Love"
11:00 a.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

Drawing to Motion: Contemporary Inuit Art From The Dennos Museum
11:00 a.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

Material World: Ten Women
11:00 a.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

C.S. Lewis Festival: Remember Your Fairy Tales - Finding Hope with Lewis & Tolkien
3:30 p.m.
Beards Brewery & Great Lakes Center for the Arts

Artists Talk: Material World
4:00 p.m.
Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC

Artist Reception: Tinker Studio 10th Anniversay
5:00 p.m.
Tinker Studio, TC

17th Annual Skitoberfest
6:00 p.m.
Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls

The Dead Ends on Spruce
6:00 p.m.
Spruce St., TC

Uncork Up North
6:00 p.m.
Hagerty Garage, TC

Fort Fright
6:30 p.m.
Colonial Michilimackinac, Mackinaw City

Nuts
7:00 p.m.
Old Town Playhouse, TC

Fall Dance Performance
7:30 p.m.
Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium

Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie
7:30 p.m.
The MATCH, Cherryland Center, TC

Kamikaze Comedy
8:00 p.m.
Right Brain Brewery, TC

Mark Farner's American Band: SOLD OUT
8:00 p.m.
Odawa Casino Resort, Ovation Hall, Petoskey

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