Community Calendar

Spend a day in the country at the Webster Fall Festival, a popular family event now in it's 42nd year! Co-sponsored by the Webster Township Historical Society and the Webster United Church of Christ, the Fall Festival offers something for the whole family - hay rides, childrens activities, a farm petting zoo, sheep dog demonstrations, old fashioned baseball, vintage cars and machinery, old-time crafts, historic buildings, food trucks, a silent auction, 50/50 raffles, and an afternoon of live music on the Dieterle Corncrib Stage. Free admission and parking. For more information visit - Websterfallfestival.org

3 Songwriters , 3 sets a great night of music
7 PM Door
8 PM Music
$10 advance // $15 at door https://www.eventbrite.com/.../emily-rose-mike-ward-and...

Emily Rose is a singer/songwriter, recording artist and published poet based in Detroit, Michigan. Her songs are featured in PlayStation Four’s Detroit Become Human, and the film Welcome to Happiness. She also created and hosts Ghost Night, a celebrated monthly series in her hometown which honors departed songwriters.

Monte Pride is a Michigan-born and based singer-songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist whose music recalls the delicate vocals of Simon & Garfunkel, with guitar-work reminiscent of The Tallest Man On Earth and early Joni Mitchell. Paired with electric, ambient soundscapes, he blends haunting melodies with vivid lyricism to create lush, experimental folk songs.

Detroit Singer-songwriter, Mike Ward lyrically-centric, vocally-charged folk songs that occasionally take on social issues. Those are what singer-songwriter Mike Ward loves to create. Living in Detroit, Mike grew up listening to Irish music and singing in choirs. A few of his influences are Jason Isbell, Nanci Griffith, Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and John Prine.
His writing echoes along empty sidewalks, on our nation’s backroads, in family portraits, and in the thin lines between joy and tragedy, love and loss, past, present and future. Mike spent the better part of 40 years on the creative side of the advertising industry but now creates music full time and is immersed in the Michigan music scene.

Refugia Festival is an innovative event series that combines music performances with educational workshops and community service to advocate for environmental conservation through sound. This year’s event takes place on Sunday, September 28th, in Nichols Arboretum. Refugia Festival 2025 features mainstage presentations by regional artists, ensembles, and educators, along with a community-curated arts gallery, an interactive tabling area to connect with local community organizations, the unveiling of a new Soundscape Meters installation, a stewardship activity, and more! Refugia is a pay-as-you-can, family-friendly event. For more information, please visit https://www.refugiafestival.com/rf2025.

In collaboration with Sounds of the Zoo

Residing in California and traveling the world from Japan, Goh Kurosawa is a musician armed with Honey Beast (his guitar), Lucky8 (his amp), fresh original songs, electrifying soundscapes and stunning arrangements of familiar global melodies.

Goh has performed in schools, community centers, public libraries, and a wide range of other settings and festivals for music, art, and movement. He has completed more than 20 tours in Japan since 2006, and he has conducted music workshops/seminars all over the world at universities, music schools and other educational institutions.

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. Great for listening or dancing.

Gary Graham is an American fashion designer and artist. He founded his eponymous women’s wear line in New York City in 1999, gaining notice for its exquisite detailing, fine craftsmanship, and historical erudition. For twenty years, his designs were sold at his Tribeca retail flagship store and through luxury retailers worldwide. He now produces small-batch collections in his rural upstate New York studio under the moniker GaryGraham422, drawing inspiration from historical figures and antique textiles to create visionary 21st-century fashion.

Alongside his design work, he maintains a robust artistic practice. Working with institutions such as the Old Manse, Hancock Shaker Village, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, and the American Folk Art Museum, Graham has created installations, clothing collections, drawings, and sculpture inspired by these sites’ histories, architecture, and curated objects. His talk, Extracting Ghosts, will focus on his research-based, site-specific work.

He has collaborated with artists such as Kara Walker (costume design for her 2024 – 2026 installation Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and Meredith Monk (the 2015 sound installation The Conversation at the Peabody Essex Museum). His work is held in the permanent collections of the Peabody Essex Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, the Phoenix Art Museum, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. In his only foray into reality TV, he was a finalist on season two of the Amazon fashion design competition series Making the Cut.

Graham earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. He currently holds a teaching position in the Textiles Department at the Rhode Island School of Design.

With support from Design Core Detroit.

This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.

Series presenting partners: Detroit PBS, ALL ARTS, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.

The Michigan Art Gallery at Schmidt's Antiques proudly announces the opening of a major retrospective exhibition featuring over fifty never-before-seen European and American landscape paintings as well as portraits by renowned Ann Arbor artist Leon Makielski (1885–1974).
The European works were painted during Makielski’s early years studying and traveling across the continent, primarily in Paris. The American works include atmospheric scenes from Vermont, painted during travels to New England around the time Makielski met poet Robert Frost, and landscapes from Virginia, drawn from visits to his family in Appalachia.
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6th, 2025 / 3PM-7PM
Public Exhibition & Sale: Open every Saturday until October 11th / 9AM-5PM
Works will be available for purchase in the gallery and online at www.michiganartgallery.com.
*Please note: This sale is on the third floor of our gallery, which is a converted 1910s barn without elevator access. Please email info@schmidtsantiques.com or call 734-434-2660 with any inquiries regarding access.
To learn more about The Michigan Art Gallery, please contact:
The Michigan Art Gallery at Schmidt's Antiques 5138 W. Michigan Avenue Ypsilanti, MI 48197 @michiganartgallery @schmidtsantiquesinc (T) 734-434-2660 (E) info@schmidtsantiques.com

Alla Boara seeks to bring recognition and new life to Italy’s diverse history of regional folk music. Their modern arrangements of traditional folk songs are variously surprising, playful, mournful, tender and bewitching.

Their dynamic work aims to inspire audiences of all ethnic heritages to treasure their musical roots and consider historical songs’ contemporary cultural relevance. The group has received critical acclaim for its originality and accessibility.

Nearly fifty years ago, a groundbreaking moment changed the course of history. On
October 7, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-106, opening enrollment
to women at all US service academies.

On the 50th anniversary of that signing, Kathleen Kornahrens will tell of her experience
as a member of the first class to include women at the US Air Force Academy. She will
be joined by her classmate Colonel Gail Colvin, USAF (Ret.) to examine the legacy of
President Ford’s signature.

Following the talk there will be a sale and signing of Kathleen’s book, “Bring Me Men…”
Brought Women: Marching with the First Female Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy.