Weekend Idea Round-Up

It's time for another fun filled edition of your weekend idea round-up. This week, Kelly and I are combating cabin fever with a few spring events, starting with Butterflies Are Blooming at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids. Wouldn't this simply be a perfect opportunity to snap a few shots for next week's West Michigan Wednesday? Of course! Who doesn't want to see butterflies flitting and floating about with their colorful wings and dainty legs. Actually, one of my dearest friends is terrified of butterflies, and I simply don't understand it. She won't enter a butterfly house with me. Absolutely refuses! Yet butterfly exhibits make me feel like I'm in a fairy tale, and I so desperately want one to land on me. "They" say if you wear bright colors and lovely scents, they'll come to you, so when I make my annual visit to see Butterflies Are Blooming, I will surely follow these directions.

Meanwhile, we also talk about a great Mardi Gras themed fundraiser for the Silver Beach Carousel in St. Joseph and a mouth watering Spanish cooking class at Chateau Chantal Winery & Inn in Traverse City. Enjoy!

High five,

Shannon

All Weekend

• Grand Rapids: DeVos Performance Hall: Broadway Grand Rapids presents Grease
• Interlochen Center for the Arts: Cyrano de Bergerac

Saturday

• Grand Rapids: Gerald R. Ford Museum: Chris Vallillo: Abraham Lincoln in Song
• Manistee: Little River Casino: The Association / Jay And The Americans 
• St. Joseph: Silver Beach Carousel: Pardi Gras
• Traverse City: Chateau Chantal Winery & Inn: Cooking Class - Techniques of Spanish Cooking

Sunday

• Muskegon Museum of Art: Cinema Sunday Film: Descended from Guerillas: The Pioneers of American Independent Cinema

 Don’t Forget

• Coopersville Farm Museum: Art of Rural Life Gallery: Photography Exhibit by Peg Alofs Becker | Through April 16  
• Grand Rapids Art Museum: Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey | Through March 20
• Grand Rapids Public Museum: Bodies Revealed | Through May 1
• Grand Rapids: Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park: Jim Dine: Sculpture | Through May 8
• Grand Rapids: Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park: Butterflies Are Blooming | Through April 30
• Marshall: Cornwell's Turkeyville USA: Peace in the Valley | Through April 16
• Muskegon Museum of Art: We Are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball | Through March 13
• Muskegon Museum of Art: Upcycling! Creating More with Less | Through April 11
• Muskegon Museum of Art: Primal Inspirations/Contemporary Artifacts | Through April 10
• South Haven Center for the Arts: Building Blocks | Through March 28
• South Haven Center for the Arts: Artists in Transition | Through March 20
• Traverse City Restaurant Week | Through March 5