Community Calendar

Join us this Mother’s Day Weekend for an inspiring day of art, activism, and community! Art for Aid is excited to host its spring market featuring incredible local artists and craftspeople, all coming together to support vital causes through the power of art.

🗓 Date: May 10, 2025
🕛 Time: Noon to 7pm
📍 Location: Vertex Coffee, Ypsilanti, Michigan

This year’s theme focuses on food sovereignty in Palestine, Southeast Michigan, and Los Angeles. By visiting our market, you’re helping ensure that no one goes hungry, as part of your purchases will go directly to food sovereignty efforts and social justice movements both locally and internationally.

Last year, thanks to our amazing community, we raised over $10,000 for organizations like the Gaza Medical Tent, Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, Mutual Aid Network of Ypsilanti, and New Disabled South. Let's make an even bigger impact this year!

Bring your friends and family to experience art with a purpose and show your support for global and local communities. Together, we can empower artists as advocates and activists. Let’s create change, one artwork at a time!

See you there!

Mama knows best and we're talking about it!

This Mother's Day, delve deeper into the unspoken truths of motherhood with a special edition of RedeemHer's Bring it Here. Leave it Here. support group. On May 10th we're going Beyond the Basics to bring you an inspiring Mother's Day Lunch event!

We're honored to welcome Dr. Evelyn Collins the author of "10 Things Your Mama Should Have Told You" for an engaging conversation about valuable lessons.

Join us for connection, reflection, and of course LUNCH!

Email ContactUs@RedeemHerNPO.org for more info.

MIOCA is proud to present our Mother's Day Time to Teal Run/Walk in Downtown Ann Arbor on Sunday, May 11, 2025!

Grab your family and friends to join us for our annual Mother's Day Time to Teal 5K and Fun Run! This event is an opportunity for us to gather to celebrate the incredible women in our lives, while raising crucial ovarian cancer awareness in our community.

Both the 5K and one mile Fun Run are walker-friendly!

We are honored to continue the tradition of this race inspired by our co-founder Pam Dahlmann, who lost her mother to ovarian cancer and sought a meaningful way to celebrate her memory on Mother’s Day. Sadly, Geri Fournier, co-founder of MIOCA, whose memory this honors, lost her battle in 2011.

Through this event, we aim to raise vital awareness for this often overlooked and under-researched disease, while honoring those impacted by ovarian cancer. The event continues today to bring together mothers, daughters, family, and friends while supporting the fight against ovarian cancer.

10-piece big band led by Chris Smith, specializing in hot jazz of the 1920s and 30s. Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Duke Ellington and other jazz legends are prominent in their repertoire. For listening or dancing.

The Ann Arbor branch of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA), is hosting its 4th annual Vyshyvanka Day celebration, a festive community gathering. Vyshyvanka Day is celebrated each year on the third Thursday of May in Ukraine and internationally, showcasing Ukraine’s unique cultural heritage through the distinctive patterns of an embroidered shirt, vyshyvanka (pronounced vysh-Y-vahn-ka). Guests are welcome (or encouraged) to wear flower crowns, vyshyvanka shirts, or any Ukrainian-themed T-shirt, but all are welcome to come as they are!

This celebration is also a fundraiser for Hospitallers, a Ukrainian volunteer organization of paramedics who save lives on the frontlines.

Sponsors: TeaHaus, Zingerman’s, Ukrainian Selfreliance Michigan Federal Credit Union, Ukrainian American Archives and Museum.
Music: The Tryzub (Trident) Trio Jazz Combo will be playing live music – piano, double bass, and drums.
Food and Beverages: Nalysnyky (Ukrainian stuffed crepes) by Ptashka Crepes, Varenyky (pierogi) by Ukrainian Homemade Food, Ukrainian beer & cocktails by York.
Activities: Guests will have the opportunity to support the fundraiser in a variety of ways: buy raffle tickets for gift baskets, take a selfie in a stunning floral headdress, Vyshyvanka embroidery display, “Ink as Identity” Ukrainian Tattoo Exhibit, Ukrainian art, and more!
Please join us in this cultural celebration in support of a worthy cause. Come and help us support Ukraine!

10-piece big band led by Chris Smith, specializing in hot jazz of the 1920s and 30s. Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Duke Ellington and other jazz legends are prominent in their repertoire. For listening or dancing.

WEMU will be relocating to a new location on campus later this year. In preperation for the move, we'll be bringing out items from our premium room from past fund drives. It's your chance to get a great deal on a t-shirt, hoodie, item to drink from or other item from our previous fund raising efforts.

We'll be outside King Hall (weather permitting) on the East side of the building (campus map: https://www.emich.edu/map/documents/emu-campus-map.pdf). Paid parking is available in the Pease Lot across from Swoop's Food Pantry.

No previews, no phone calls, please.

"On Healing Land, Birds Perch" is a short documentary that tells the remarkable stories behind one of the most iconic photos in history, while acting as a portal into the “varied carols,” to borrow from Walt Whitman, of trauma and the American journey. This is the first documentary, from a Vietnamese born filmmaker that explores the continuing aftershocks of the Vietnam War from the perspectives of both sides of the war: North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese including Vietnamese Americans alive today. The story is told through the iconic Pulitzer winning photo of General Loan shooting a Vietcong, Captain Nguyen Van Lem in the head, two days after the 1968 Tet Offensive.

A discussion and audience Q&A with filmmaker Naja Pham Lockwood will follow the film.

Join us for the annual Hometown Half Marathon & 5k/10k! A run local-themed event that is perfect for the whole family.
The fun includes -

Great Swag - designer shirt & custom medal
Chip-timing with live results and awards
Pacers for the half marathon
Free photos
Delicious Treats waiting at the finish line
Plenty of fun!

Grab your friends and family, you are not going to want to miss this one!
Can't make the race? No problem! We offer a virtual race option where you can run anywhere, at any time, and still earn the fun swag!

*Youth-based pricing for the 5k/10k, 12 & Under are only $15!

Half Marathon Registration includes a custom bib, designer shirt, and an awesome finisher medal!
10k registration includes a custom bib, designer shirt, and an awesome finisher medal!
5k registration includes a custom bib, designer shirt, and an awesome finisher medal!
1 Mile registration is untimed and includes a custom bib, designer shirt, and an awesome finisher medal!
The kid's dash is a fun, untimed dash for our kiddos ages 10 and under. Registration includes a mini bib, youth-sized shirt, and a specifically crafted medal for our kids' dash event! (If your child wants to run the kid's dash, and doesn't want the SWAG, they are welcome to run with us on race day for free!)

*Register by midnight on Thursday, two Thursdays before race day, to guarantee your shirt!

10-piece big band led by Chris Smith, specializing in hot jazz of the 1920s and 30s. Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Duke Ellington and other jazz legends are prominent in their repertoire. For listening or dancing.