http://events.grnow.com/events/ en-us Copyright 2004-2010 Refresh Web Development LLC http://www.HeliosCalendar.com http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=rss Upcoming Event Information From The GRNow Event Calendar http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125671 Visit the Coopersville Farm Museum this February and March and take a step back in time.  Volunteers, staff, family, and friends share some of their most heart warming treasures.  If you love dolls, new displays will have you standing in awe.  Take a look at the antique miniature porcelain dolls, American Girls, Cabbage Patch, China Dolls, Gerber Babies, Kewpies, Quints, and dolls from the collection of Barbara Flowers-Taylor representing black history.  Call the Coopersville Farm Museum with any questions. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125671 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=120813 January 22 - June 13, 2010World War II was the most devastating conflict in history with much of Europe and Asia left in ruins at war's end. Yet, there was no peace. The superpowers of the United States and Soviet Union and their ideologies of democracy versus tyranny competed for prominence on the world stage in a cold war. For over 40 years these nuclear superpowers maintained a standoff and avoided a hot war that could have potentially destroyed the planet.Open daily from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. (Closed New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day).Admission is $7.00 for adults, $6.00 for senior citizens and military service members, $5.00 for college students with ID, $3.00 for youth ages 6-18, and free for children under the age of 5. Free parking is available. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=120813 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=121164 Experience a praying mantis, a stick insect, a caterpillar, a locust and more; all magnified to be larger than life!The exhibit skews scale and proportion to create an environment that "shrinks" the visitor to a size smaller than the insects under investigation, in a humorous role reversal. Visitors can enter the Bug House with its dirt walls and framed portraits of family members, check out the giant aerosol can of people repellant, part the grass to more closely explore the praying mantis, and enter the fighting atlas beetles' vignette from below via worm hole.Dig deeper into bug life and lore in regularly scheduled sessions in the Bug Lab, exploring such subjects as bug life cycles, anatomy & adaptations, and bug "jobs."Big Bug Nights Enjoy special evening packages March 1-5, April 1-9 and May 10-14. 5-9 pm. Package includes Museum admission, special exhibit admission, a planetarium show, unlimited carousel rides and dinner for just $10 per person. (Members pay just $5.) Big BIG BUGSBig, BIG BUGS! runs February 20 - May 31.$2 in addition to general Museum admission. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=121164 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123559 Butterflies Are Blooming is Meijer Gardens' most popular annual exhibition and the largest temporary tropical butterfly exhibit in the nation. March 1-April 30, visitors can escape the Michigan winter and mingle with more than 6,000 tropical butterflies flying free in the 15,000-square-foot Lena Meijer Conservatory.The exhibition boasts more than 40 different species from the Far East, Africa and Central America. Each week hundreds of chrysalises arrive at Meijer Gardens and are painstakingly sorted, inspected, labeled and pinned in our sealed Butterfly Bungalow. The chrysalises are then placed in a special emergence area of the Bungalow where visitors can witness through a window their magical transformation into butterflies! Long-time favorites such as the Blue Morpho, with its large metallic blue wings and the Clearwing, with its see-through wings will return. Others such as the Tree Nymph, Black Swordtail, Leopard Lacewing and the Atlas Moth, with its impressive six-to-twelve-inch wingspan are also expected to make appearances.Once ready to be released into the Conservatory, the butterflies are placed on plants where they acclimate to the environment and gain strength before taking to the air. It's a wonderful place for photos and just one of the opportunities for visitors to observe the butterflies up-close and personal. Throughout the tropical environment, butterflies can be viewed drinking nectar from the flowering plants and feeding stations, lighting on the odd nose or shoulder, and congregating along the stream beds, as well as in flight all around.During the exhibition, the Lena Meijer Children's Garden offers special activities. Additionally, interactive displays are featured throughout.Exhibit hours: Monday, Wednesday-Sunday, 9 am-5 pm; Tuesday, 9 am-9 pm http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123559 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=104413 Grand Rapids Art MuseumJanuary 29 - April 18, 2010Made possible byKate and Richard Wolters FoundationWarner, Norcross & Judd LLPDirk and Victoria HoffiusSteven and Susan HoffiusAlexander Calder (1898-1976) was a sculptor, painter, printmaker, designer, and performance artist. The first gift that he gave his future wife Louisa James was a bracelet he made of hammered brass. In 1930 she wrote to her mother, "Sandy appreciates and enjoys the things in life that most people haven't the sense to notice... He has tremendous originality, imagination, and humor, which ...make life colorful and worthwhile." In that year Calder gave Louisa an engagement ring he made in gold.Calder designed and produced more than 1800 works of jewelry, including hundreds of gifts for Louisa. He made jewelry for family members and friends, such as Peggy Guggenheim and Georgia O'Keeffe, and exhibited his jewelry in gallery exhibitions, avoiding precious materials to keep the works affordable. He consciously referenced primitive art and Surrealism in many of the designs that often appear to be small studies for sculpture or drawings in wire.Calder Jewelry commences the Centennial Year of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (1910-2010), recalling Calder's historic association with the Museum during the 1969 installation of La Grande Vitesse. A combination of sculpture, craft, and design, the 100 necklaces, rings, bracelets, and brooches created from the 1930s through the 1960s introduce a new dimension of Alexander Calder's artistic achievement. These works embody the same humor and invention as his mobiles that came to life as they moved.The exhibition is co-organized by the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, and the Calder Foundation, New York. The Grand Rapids Art Museum is the final venue for this exhibition, which has been presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and San Diego Museum of Art, California. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=104413 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124912 Carolina Chocolate Dropswith special guestTue, Mar 9; 8pm, Ladies Lit$15 public; $5 w/ Calvin ID http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124912 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=121881 Tuesdays: College NightGet ready to dance with DJ Danimal spinning Top 40 and all of your party favorites. Don't forget to get there early for our signature Power Hour! $2 You Call Its from 9pm - 10pm$1 You Call Its from 10pm - 11pm$2 You Call Its from 11pm - 12am http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=121881 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128337 FREE or by donation Pilates' mat class open to everyone. Call to reserve a spot, bring your own mat or rent one for $1. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128337 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=120207 This exhibit challenges that myth that women had little impact on public life in the city. This exhibit is not intended to showcase the most influential or outstanding women in Grand Rapids history, rather these individuals represent many time periods and areas of endeavor in which women have helped give our community its distinctive way of life. Meet Dr. Pearl Kendrik and Grace Eldering who created headlines across the nation when they developed the vaccine against whooping cough. Read about Elizabeth Eaglesfield, the first women to practice law in Grand Rapids. (She later obtained a captain’s license and ran a Great Lakes shipping company with her son!) Consider the accomplishments of Evangeline Lamberts, the first woman elected to the Grand Rapids City Commission in 1961. These and many others created a living legacy for the City of Grand Rapids. Free and open to the public. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=120207 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124591 FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE, ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!ONE OF IRELAND'S MOST FAMOUS BAND'SEXCLUSIVE WEST MICHIGAN PERFORMANCE - ONE NIGHT ONLY ON STAGE ONLY 8 DAYS FROM SAINT PATRICK'S DAYCALL 616 899-2640TICKETS $35.00(MUST BE 21 YEARS OR OLDER TO ATTEND CONCERTS) http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124591 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=127942 Park Place Employment Resource FairTuesday, March 9, 20105-7pmLearn about Job PlacementAssistance with Job HuntingResume ServicesEmployment Search PreparationRSVP by Friday, March 5, 2010888-413-4761Park Place Apartments Club House2932 Marshall, SEGrand Rapids, MI  http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=127942 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=122532 Every Tuesday a unique and fun craft activity takes place at Deanna’s Playhouse from 11:00am-12:00pm. Cost is included with paid admission and includes your special craft to take home. Come get creative!  http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=122532 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=117956 70's era Disco, Motown, Funk, & SoulSpun by DJ Hustlah $3 Cover - 21 & Up Every Tuesday Night The Whiskey Lounge http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=117956 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124385 January 20 - June 6, 2010!Experience what it's like to care for animals! * Play the role of a Veterinarian and examine stuffed animals * Provide emergency medical care to your favorite pets * Study animal x-rays * Provide animal grooming to pets * Learn about pet care and help feed animals in the kennel * Cheer for your favorite pet in a cross-country derby race * Exam specimen jars filled with unique animal items * Learn interesting facts in an animal scavenger hunt * Enjoy a special animal Make It Take It activity * Play an animal matching game * Watch real fish swim in a giant aquarium * Create your own puzzle pet http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124385 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=119897 New! Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support Group Meeting: Help, Hope & Positive Support Through Education for Patients & Healthcare Professionals Ongoing: Meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Please be fragrance free. Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM Location: The Peter M. Wege Health & Learning Center (Wege North Building) at St. Mary's Hospital Conference Room #14 (subject to change) Directions: 300 Lafayette Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 Link to map, directions, and parking info: http://www.smmmc.org/about/directions.shtml (click on "directions to Wege Building") Enter Wege Center from parking ramp, head right to take elevator down to first floor conference rooms. Cost: Free What: The launch of a newly formed, upbeat support & education group for those living with, treating, or interested in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)/Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), a.k.a. X-Associated Neuro-immune Disease (XAND). A daytime gathering of caring, supportive individuals seeking proactive strategies to improve life for those with this often misunderstood but debilitating neuro-endocrine-immune condition. Contacts: Lori Chapo Kroger, RN Phone: 616-531-7088 Email: Help4CFS@yahoo.com &Linda Carrington Email: LindaJC@comcast.net Phone: 616-241-3208/616-818-6105 Fax: 616-805-4135 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=119897 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125105 Karaoke every night at 10 p.m. at the GLBT-friendly club. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125105 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125716 Starts 9pm. with TNT's K.J. Tonya http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125716 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=116799 March 8-9, 2010, 7:00 pmTo reserve your seats call 616.878.6800 One of the funniest nights at the theatre you'll ever experiences!Til Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism 3 is the latest class to be unveiled in this sinfully funny series. After teaching countless students about the saints, venial sins, limbo and more, Sister is now offering up hilarious lessons on the Sacraments of Marriage and the Last Rites, including her own wacky version of the Newlywed Game. Classroom participation is a must, so bring along your sweetie and your sense of humor for a session with the country's feistiest couples counselor!Tickets: Adults $29.50; Students $18.50 (high school & younger) http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=116799 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126288 Sara Smolenski, chief judge of Kent County 63rd District  Court, is frequently asked to entertain at charity events. She was the 2009 Community Service honoree at the YWCA's Tribute to Women. Proceeds from a freewill offering at this event will benefit the YWCA's domestic violence services. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126288 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124729 Live local music daily at 7 p.m. at the coffee shop, Monday-Saturday. Church service on Sundays at 5:30 p.m. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124729 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128234 Live local music on Tuesday evenings at Bobarino's on the second floor of The B.O.B. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128234 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123204 Tuesday's - Cardio KickGreat cardio workout! Learn punches, kicks and combinations while relieveing stress and improving cardiovascular and muscular endurance Thursday's - Basic YogaIntroduction to Yoga Poses and movement: Designed for those interested in trying out yoga for the first time.  http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123204 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124617 Open mic night http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124617 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124188 Every year for nearly fifty years during baseball season, Peanuts fans could expect a healthy number of strips portraying Charlie Brown and the Gang engaged in America's favorite pastime. Based heavily on Charles Schulz's childhood experiences with sandlot baseball, the stories of the Peanuts baseball team are in turn whimsical, thoughtful, hilarious, and full of pathos.March 1 - May 1, 2010General admission is free http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124188 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=114138 Jack Frost and the Skies of WinterThis is a family sky show designed with younger family members in mind. Venture along with Allison and her younger brother Michael, as they meet Jack Frost under the cold, dark, starry skies of winter. Investigate the constellations, bright stars, and spine chilling stories about the winter night sky. See if Jack can turn Michael, a very disinterested sky watcher, into an inspired observer of the treasures in the skies above.This is a 40 minute presentation. Jonathan C Truax, Planetarium Director http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=114138 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123532 Open mic night for bands. 21+; no cover http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123532 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=116521 Robots + UsFeb.13 - May 9, 2010Meet the lifelike intelligent machines known as robots-machines we have passionately created to maintain and extend our human capabilities as well as amuse us. Families and children. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=116521 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128389 ROLL & BOWLWSGTodd ErnstMixologyShane Bugai6one6/Defrec | NutationAnd residentsRodney EssenburgRandom SampleAdam Ortiz21+, no cover, unlimited bowling and shoes (2 drink min)18+, $7, unlimited bowling, shoes and a pop!2 levels of craziness you don't want to miss! http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128389 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123815 January 15, 2010 - February, 2011Including over forty photographs from the Museum Collection, this exhibition will explore the historical scope and artistic range of photography by master photographers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Yousef Karsh and Gordon Parks. Documentary photographs, landscapes, cityscapes, portraiture, and social commentary are genres represented. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123815 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=110385 January 29 - May 9, 2010American artist Michele Oka Doner is widely celebrated for her sculpture, installations and public art projects, and is similarly acclaimed for her prints, jewelry and functional objects. Among the most versatile artists working today, the inspiration she draws from nature is the defining factor and unifying force across her repertoire in both formal and spiritual terms. This exhibition, Oka Doner's largest to date, examines the breadth of her endeavors from recent figurative projects in bronze and on paper to iconic functional objects in bronze and silver. Of special note will be her site specific installation of more than 1,500 recently completed ceramic soul catchers completed during her residency at the famed Nymphenburg porcelain studios in Munich, Germany. This exhibition is timed to coincide with the completion of Beneath the Leafy Crown, the expansive 1,200 square foot bronze and terrazzo floor commissioned by Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=110385 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=122658   Classes are designed to help tobacco users deal with triggers, withdrawal symptoms, weight control, daily stress and relapse prevention. Our program is medically based on proven cessation methods and medications. 70% of the people who complete the program are tobacco free. Nicotine addiction is a chronic disease and needs support, we are here to help. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=122658 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126885 An informational dinner to discuss and learn the many amenaties available to the retirement community at Waterford Place.  Come join us and learn why you would love living here! http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126885 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=120098 Every Tuesday at 6:45 p.m. a cribbage club plays a weekly tournament at Holiday Inn Express (5401 28th St Ct, Grand Rapids MI 49546) If you enjoy playing the world's greatest card game, contact club director David Aiken for details (phone: 616.401.8311; email: cribbage@iserv.net). Newcomers welcome. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=120098 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126277 People have been asking for a wine class and starting next month we’re offering one. We’ll do one class a month on the second Tuesday at 7pm for ninety minutes. The wines will be examples of the meeting’s topic of discussion. There will be handouts and maps and all the wines will be tasted blind. You will keep a notebook of the wines from that night as well as all the wines in your personal experiences. The goal of these courses is to advance your wine knowledge from that of consumer to that of connoisseur. To provide a step from enjoying wine to thinking about wine, and quite possibly, beginning to understand wine. This is a purely educational experience. I want to be clear also as to what it is not. This is not a social, not a chance to meet new people, not a chance to sample wines for purchase, and not a chance to catch a buzz. It is a class similar to what you had in college. Meaning, yes there will be quizzes.Here’s the schedule:February 9th- Professional Tasting and Analysis, Making Sense of SensesMarch 9th- The Notion of Terrior, An Exploration into the Essence of Vineyard PlaceApril 13th- Aging Wine, What Happens and Will She Like It?May 11th- Grower Production Versus Big Boys, Do Winemakers, or Winegrowers, create the ‘best’ wines?Each tasting is $35 and will require a credit card reservation. All four classes combined are $125. The class will be limited to 12 students, with a waiting list. Please call Corez at 855-2310 or email Mike@corezwinebar.com to reserve. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126277 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=116365 Towards a Universal Pictoral LanguageJanuary 23 - April 18, 2010Chinese artists adapted the Western-style woodcut to create a pictorial language that resonated with the illiterate masses. They also created the beginnings of communist art in China and, in the most general sense, laid the foundation of modern Chinese art. The exhibition is the first organized in the U.S. to present a comprehensive overview of the beginnings and development of this important art form.This exhibition features 65 Chinese woodblock prints. Thirty pieces are drawn from the collection of the Picker Art Gallery's rare collection of modern Chinese woodcuts from the 1930s and 1940s. In addition, over 30 woodblock prints by eleven contemporary Chinese artists (1950s-today) are included.This exhibition is organized by the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, and was made possible by a generous gift by Robert H.G. Ho. Its showing in Kalamazoo is supported by the Joy Light East Asian Art Acquisition and Exhibition Fund. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=116365 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126956 The real cool cooking school at Bekins offers a wide variety of personalized, hands-on cooking classes designed to make you a better cook. Through a combination of practical professional advice and skill building lessons, you will discover making beautiful, delicious food at home everyday can be a true pleasure.Classes are open to anyone with a passion for cooking or a desire to learn new techniques and guiding principles. From culinary novices to seasoned professionals, the real cool cooking school at Bekins has something for everyone.Classes run in the evening on Tuesday and Thursday. Some daytime classes available on Wednesday and Saturday. Check our class schedule at www.realcoolcookingschool.comCost: $10-$50 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126956 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=127966 "Welcome to the BEST 80's NIGHT that Grand Rapids has to offer!WITH 105.3 HOT FM & GRAVY LIVE FROM 10PM TO MIDNIGHT18 TO GET IN AND 21 TO DRINKUnlike some other 80's nights, who have a predictable play list, unresponsive dj, and skip through the songs before you can even enjoy your favorite part of the song...TAPHOUSE is bringing you the BEST of the 80s in FULL EFFECT! Every song you hear will be accompanied by the MUSIC VIDEO none of us have forgotten! DJ DONNIE D and DJ ELEMNT will be spinning videos and taking your crazy 80s requests all night!For your taste buds we have $2 BEERS and $2 WELLS until midnight!SO COME JOIN IN THE FUN as we revisit the BIg hair, tight jeans, and melodious love song anthems every Wednesday @ the TAPHOUSE!!!DONT FORGET TO VISIT OUR OXYGEN BAR IN THE VIP LOUNGE OFFERING 16 DIFFERENT FLAVORS!!!" http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=127966 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=120814 January 22 - June 13, 2010World War II was the most devastating conflict in history with much of Europe and Asia left in ruins at war's end. Yet, there was no peace. The superpowers of the United States and Soviet Union and their ideologies of democracy versus tyranny competed for prominence on the world stage in a cold war. For over 40 years these nuclear superpowers maintained a standoff and avoided a hot war that could have potentially destroyed the planet.Open daily from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. (Closed New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day).Admission is $7.00 for adults, $6.00 for senior citizens and military service members, $5.00 for college students with ID, $3.00 for youth ages 6-18, and free for children under the age of 5. Free parking is available. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=120814 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=121314 Excellent class to learn how to get and maintain your spine in alignment by strengthening your core. Enjoy the grace of a ballerina with easy ballet floor and barre moves mixed with toning exercises. Get the best of both worlds, dance and fitness. Learn to lengthen and release muscle tension as well as to strengthen without straining. Use your own body weight to createresistance. This class will guide you to build proper alignment, and help you prevent injuries while walking, jogging, or performing any daily activity.No dance experience needed!  In this class the dance segments are simple and focused on quality of execution rather than complexity. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=121314 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=122563 Every Wednesday, with a few holiday exceptions, Bar Divani hosts a wine social. These socials are an opportunity for you to gather with others who share a love of wine, expand (or  begin) your wine knowledge and also to taste some varietals you may not otherwise have had the chance to try.Each social features six tastes and will range in price from $15 to $25. We also have the best retail prices in town - if you like what you taste you can purchase from us. Please check our website for the wine social of the week. On our website you can also join our e-mail list so you are sure of being informed of our weekly events. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=122563 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125722 Base Ten, the first novel in the Women Writing Science Series published by The Feminist Press and the National Science Foundation, combines author Maryann Lesert’s love of the night sky with in-depth research into the challenges faced by women of science. Lesert will discuss how her central characters, jillians and Kera, and several real-life women of science bring women’s way of knowing into the study of the universe, often shaking up and challenging traditions along the way. Free and open to the public. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125722 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=121165 Experience a praying mantis, a stick insect, a caterpillar, a locust and more; all magnified to be larger than life!The exhibit skews scale and proportion to create an environment that "shrinks" the visitor to a size smaller than the insects under investigation, in a humorous role reversal. Visitors can enter the Bug House with its dirt walls and framed portraits of family members, check out the giant aerosol can of people repellant, part the grass to more closely explore the praying mantis, and enter the fighting atlas beetles' vignette from below via worm hole.Dig deeper into bug life and lore in regularly scheduled sessions in the Bug Lab, exploring such subjects as bug life cycles, anatomy & adaptations, and bug "jobs."Big Bug Nights Enjoy special evening packages March 1-5, April 1-9 and May 10-14. 5-9 pm. Package includes Museum admission, special exhibit admission, a planetarium show, unlimited carousel rides and dinner for just $10 per person. (Members pay just $5.) Big BIG BUGSBig, BIG BUGS! runs February 20 - May 31.$2 in addition to general Museum admission. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=121165 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126355 COME CHECK OUT HOLMES & BIG MAC'S BRAND NEWTUESDAY NIGHT FREAKSHOW PLACE TO PARTY!It's time for a real College Night like we've had in the past!That's why JEI, 104-5 WSNX, Lacy Jones and Jashod bring you,BUCKIN BEAVER COLLEGE NIGHT @ THE FRENCH QUARTER every Tuesday night! 18+ admittted, 21+ FREE all night.DJ Larry Maddox spins the best in Top 40 and Hip-Hop all night.Holmes & Big Mac from the Freak Show in the house at 11pLive performance by The Seventh.And $3 drinks all night (and they make em strong)Wanna get an early start? They kick things off at 5pm with Happy Hour with $2 drinks from 5pm to 9pm.Pool tables, big screens everywhere, late night food menuThis will be the hottest college night in GR!Time to change up your Tuesday routine -come check out The French Quarter w/The Freak Showright next to PURPLE EAST downtown GR http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126355 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123560 Butterflies Are Blooming is Meijer Gardens' most popular annual exhibition and the largest temporary tropical butterfly exhibit in the nation. March 1-April 30, visitors can escape the Michigan winter and mingle with more than 6,000 tropical butterflies flying free in the 15,000-square-foot Lena Meijer Conservatory.The exhibition boasts more than 40 different species from the Far East, Africa and Central America. Each week hundreds of chrysalises arrive at Meijer Gardens and are painstakingly sorted, inspected, labeled and pinned in our sealed Butterfly Bungalow. The chrysalises are then placed in a special emergence area of the Bungalow where visitors can witness through a window their magical transformation into butterflies! Long-time favorites such as the Blue Morpho, with its large metallic blue wings and the Clearwing, with its see-through wings will return. Others such as the Tree Nymph, Black Swordtail, Leopard Lacewing and the Atlas Moth, with its impressive six-to-twelve-inch wingspan are also expected to make appearances.Once ready to be released into the Conservatory, the butterflies are placed on plants where they acclimate to the environment and gain strength before taking to the air. It's a wonderful place for photos and just one of the opportunities for visitors to observe the butterflies up-close and personal. Throughout the tropical environment, butterflies can be viewed drinking nectar from the flowering plants and feeding stations, lighting on the odd nose or shoulder, and congregating along the stream beds, as well as in flight all around.During the exhibition, the Lena Meijer Children's Garden offers special activities. Additionally, interactive displays are featured throughout.Exhibit hours: Monday, Wednesday-Sunday, 9 am-5 pm; Tuesday, 9 am-9 pm http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123560 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=104414 Grand Rapids Art MuseumJanuary 29 - April 18, 2010Made possible byKate and Richard Wolters FoundationWarner, Norcross & Judd LLPDirk and Victoria HoffiusSteven and Susan HoffiusAlexander Calder (1898-1976) was a sculptor, painter, printmaker, designer, and performance artist. The first gift that he gave his future wife Louisa James was a bracelet he made of hammered brass. In 1930 she wrote to her mother, "Sandy appreciates and enjoys the things in life that most people haven't the sense to notice... He has tremendous originality, imagination, and humor, which ...make life colorful and worthwhile." In that year Calder gave Louisa an engagement ring he made in gold.Calder designed and produced more than 1800 works of jewelry, including hundreds of gifts for Louisa. He made jewelry for family members and friends, such as Peggy Guggenheim and Georgia O'Keeffe, and exhibited his jewelry in gallery exhibitions, avoiding precious materials to keep the works affordable. He consciously referenced primitive art and Surrealism in many of the designs that often appear to be small studies for sculpture or drawings in wire.Calder Jewelry commences the Centennial Year of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (1910-2010), recalling Calder's historic association with the Museum during the 1969 installation of La Grande Vitesse. A combination of sculpture, craft, and design, the 100 necklaces, rings, bracelets, and brooches created from the 1930s through the 1960s introduce a new dimension of Alexander Calder's artistic achievement. These works embody the same humor and invention as his mobiles that came to life as they moved.The exhibition is co-organized by the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, and the Calder Foundation, New York. The Grand Rapids Art Museum is the final venue for this exhibition, which has been presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and San Diego Museum of Art, California. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=104414 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126331 Come check out the new Crazy F'N 80's at Teazers Bar and Grille!Drink Specials all night!There will be movies, music and trivia with stellar prizes all night.This week is Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club!80's music, Big Hair band music...mullet rock!Biggest Hair wins prizes..all mullets, legwarmers, big hair, crazy colors, wrist bands, spandex welcome...ok maybe not spandex....All 80's all night! http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126331 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=120208 This exhibit challenges that myth that women had little impact on public life in the city. This exhibit is not intended to showcase the most influential or outstanding women in Grand Rapids history, rather these individuals represent many time periods and areas of endeavor in which women have helped give our community its distinctive way of life. Meet Dr. Pearl Kendrik and Grace Eldering who created headlines across the nation when they developed the vaccine against whooping cough. Read about Elizabeth Eaglesfield, the first women to practice law in Grand Rapids. (She later obtained a captain’s license and ran a Great Lakes shipping company with her son!) Consider the accomplishments of Evangeline Lamberts, the first woman elected to the Grand Rapids City Commission in 1961. These and many others created a living legacy for the City of Grand Rapids. Free and open to the public. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=120208 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124890 Culinary Classroom Cooking ClassesMar 10Wednesday6pm - 9pm  Hands-On I Do, You Do, We All Do FondueYou'll love dipping into this class. Delicious meat fondues, classic cheese fondue, chocolate fondue?all great recipes for family or for entertaining. Learn to make some classic French sauces to go with beef fondue. Learn several tasty cheese fondues for dipping veggies & bread. Chef Terri Reese  $40.00 per person http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124890 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125030 Live DJ and dancing Wednesdays through Mondays each week at the GLBT-friendly club. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125030 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128567 Google Fiber for Grand Rapids Community Public MeetingWednesday, March 10, 20106pm-8pmSan Chez Cafe38 W Fulton  Grand Rapids, MI 49503You're invited to the next Community Public Meeting to hear about the Google Fiber for Grand Rapids campaign.  Learn about why a Google Fiber Network is important to you, the Greater Grand Rapids area, & to the great State of Michigan.Find out how you can get more involved with the campaign. San Chez Cafe is hosting this free public event.  Parking is available on-street or if you enter the Monroe Center parking ramp before 6pm, you'll receive one hour of free parking.  The Monroe Center parking ramp is located on the corner of Ionia Ave & Louis NW.    We hope to see you there & thanks for supporting Google Fiber for Grand Rapids!For more information please visit www.inthe616.com.Become a fan of Google Fiber for Grand Rapids on Facebook.     http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128567 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124386 January 20 - June 6, 2010!Experience what it's like to care for animals! * Play the role of a Veterinarian and examine stuffed animals * Provide emergency medical care to your favorite pets * Study animal x-rays * Provide animal grooming to pets * Learn about pet care and help feed animals in the kennel * Cheer for your favorite pet in a cross-country derby race * Exam specimen jars filled with unique animal items * Learn interesting facts in an animal scavenger hunt * Enjoy a special animal Make It Take It activity * Play an animal matching game * Watch real fish swim in a giant aquarium * Create your own puzzle pet http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124386 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=127166 Learn about Paws With A Cause and how Assistance Dogs help those with hearing loss. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=127166 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124477 Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's lavish version of the biblical parable of Joseph will burst on the Civic stage with a large cast. The biblical parable of Joseph and his magnificent coat of many colors is set to an engaging cornucopia of musical styles, from country and calypso to pop and rock n' roll. Follow Joseph from the favor of his Father's eye through servitude in Egypt and the ultimate showdown with the brothers who sold him out of jealousy and which he forgives in a heartfelt reconciliation. Through the clever artistry of Rice and Webber, this Old Testament tale emerges both timely and timeless.Tickets: $16-$30 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124477 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125106 Karaoke every night at 10 p.m. at the GLBT-friendly club. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125106 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=102574 Karaoke at the Radisson is every Wednesday and Thursday night from 7pm-12am. No cover charge http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=102574 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=119797 at one of gr's newest hot spots.... the venue in standale on lake mich drive. amazing drink prices and high quality karaoke/entertainment. also... full kitchen/menu :) http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=119797 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128229 All ages welcome. $13 advance. $15 day of show. Doors 7pm. Show 7:30pm.4 tickets for $34 for a limited time only.With Izza Kizza and Donnis http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128229 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=122910 live jams + laughs with dennie middleton and his pal bradwww.denniemiddleton.comlive music + $2 miller highlife 9pm - 1230am  http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=122910 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124730 Live local music daily at 7 p.m. at the coffee shop, Monday-Saturday. Church service on Sundays at 5:30 p.m. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124730 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128243 Live local music at Bobarino's on the second floor of The B.O.B. + $1 microbrews http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128243 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124189 Every year for nearly fifty years during baseball season, Peanuts fans could expect a healthy number of strips portraying Charlie Brown and the Gang engaged in America's favorite pastime. Based heavily on Charles Schulz's childhood experiences with sandlot baseball, the stories of the Peanuts baseball team are in turn whimsical, thoughtful, hilarious, and full of pathos.March 1 - May 1, 2010General admission is free http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124189 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128840 *GOOGLE FIBER FOR GR TO ANNOUNCE CITY-WIDE EVENT* *What: *Press conference announcing details of an event on March 19 that will serve as a community-wide invitation to Google to select Grand Rapids as a model site for the /Google Fiber for Communities/ program. *When: * 12 noon, Wed., March 10, 2010 *Where: * 25 Ottawa Ave., Suite 600, Grand Rapids (offices of Hanon McKendry)*Who: *Members of the Google Fiber for Grand RapidsSteering Committee (Tommy Allen, Richard App, Pete Brand, Aaron Brander, Laura Caprara, Scott Erickson, Todd Ernst, Tommy Fitzgerald, Paul Jendrasiak, Nick Kuzmin, Jimmy Le, Jennifer Wilson, Mike Yoder) *Why:*West Michigan is making the transition from a manufacturing-centric economy to one built on technology, health sciences, advanced manufacturing and alternative energy, all fueled, in part, by strong higher education. Google fiber will help stimulate growth in these industries, support the higher education needed to develop a highly skilled workforce, and provide our city with a competitive advantage in recruiting and retaining talent. Demonstrating community-wide support is imperative in our bid to bring Google fiber to Grand Rapids.*What is Google Fiber for Grand Rapids?*/Google Fiber for Grand Rapids/ is a citizen-led effort to bring the public together with leaders in local government, economic development, business, education, nonprofit, health care and the media to demonstrate that Grand Rapids is a model city for public/private partnerships and the perfect trial market for the /Google Fiber for Communities/ initiative. Learn more at www.goog616.com . http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=128840 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=116522 Robots + UsFeb.13 - May 9, 2010Meet the lifelike intelligent machines known as robots-machines we have passionately created to maintain and extend our human capabilities as well as amuse us. Families and children. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=116522 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124859 The legend returns! Monte's is bringing back Rock Star Karaoke the second Wednesday of every month! Get your stage swager ready and warm up those vocal cords - this time it's going to be better than ever!Browse through the band's cataloge of songs, pick out your favorite, and belt it along with a LIVE band! Make your dreams of being a rock star come true - at least for a song or two :)We'll be giving you $3 drafts and $3 well drinks ALL NIGHT just in case you need a little liquid courage in you before you get up on stage! This was an absolute blast before, and it's only going to get better. This is only happening once a month, so make sure you don't miss out on Rock Star Karaoke the second Wednesday of every month!!! http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=124859 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123816 January 15, 2010 - February, 2011Including over forty photographs from the Museum Collection, this exhibition will explore the historical scope and artistic range of photography by master photographers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Yousef Karsh and Gordon Parks. Documentary photographs, landscapes, cityscapes, portraiture, and social commentary are genres represented. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123816 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=116645 November 5, 2009 – January 10 & January 14 – April 4, 2010 In 1907, photographer Edward Curtis began work on a series of books and portfolios titled The North American Indian. The intent of the project was to document, both in writing and photography, the lives and cultures of the tribes living in the United States. The final project was comprised of 20 leather bound books, each with an accompanying photographic portfolio, for a total of 2,228 illustrations. The North American Indian was available as a subscription, but due to the price, only about 220 were ever produced. The Hackley Public Library opened a subscription in 1908 and completed its set in 1930. In 1976 the complete set was transferred to the Muskegon Museum of Art as a permanent loan. Two exhibitions will display highlights from this extensive collection.  http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=116645 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=110386 January 29 - May 9, 2010American artist Michele Oka Doner is widely celebrated for her sculpture, installations and public art projects, and is similarly acclaimed for her prints, jewelry and functional objects. Among the most versatile artists working today, the inspiration she draws from nature is the defining factor and unifying force across her repertoire in both formal and spiritual terms. This exhibition, Oka Doner's largest to date, examines the breadth of her endeavors from recent figurative projects in bronze and on paper to iconic functional objects in bronze and silver. Of special note will be her site specific installation of more than 1,500 recently completed ceramic soul catchers completed during her residency at the famed Nymphenburg porcelain studios in Munich, Germany. This exhibition is timed to coincide with the completion of Beneath the Leafy Crown, the expansive 1,200 square foot bronze and terrazzo floor commissioned by Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=110386 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126807 All ages welcome. $10. Doors 7pm. Show 7:30pmWith Jukebox The Ghost + Skybox http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=126807 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=99012  Every Wednesday at 7PM, a Traditional Irish Music Session is held at The Fenian's Irish Pub. Irish musicians and general public welcome to an authentic Irish experience. No cover charge. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=99012 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=116366 Towards a Universal Pictoral LanguageJanuary 23 - April 18, 2010Chinese artists adapted the Western-style woodcut to create a pictorial language that resonated with the illiterate masses. They also created the beginnings of communist art in China and, in the most general sense, laid the foundation of modern Chinese art. The exhibition is the first organized in the U.S. to present a comprehensive overview of the beginnings and development of this important art form.This exhibition features 65 Chinese woodblock prints. Thirty pieces are drawn from the collection of the Picker Art Gallery's rare collection of modern Chinese woodcuts from the 1930s and 1940s. In addition, over 30 woodblock prints by eleven contemporary Chinese artists (1950s-today) are included.This exhibition is organized by the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, and was made possible by a generous gift by Robert H.G. Ho. Its showing in Kalamazoo is supported by the Joy Light East Asian Art Acquisition and Exhibition Fund. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=116366 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125672 Visit the Coopersville Farm Museum this February and March and take a step back in time.  Volunteers, staff, family, and friends share some of their most heart warming treasures.  If you love dolls, new displays will have you standing in awe.  Take a look at the antique miniature porcelain dolls, American Girls, Cabbage Patch, China Dolls, Gerber Babies, Kewpies, Quints, and dolls from the collection of Barbara Flowers-Taylor representing black history.  Call the Coopersville Farm Museum with any questions. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=125672 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=120718 Presented by the Van Andel Global Trade Center, this annual automotive suppliers symposium has been a successful event bringing suppliers together to hear from leaders in the industry. With a different theme each year, this half day program provides current information and resources on the industry and addresses the impact of global trends thereby assisting companies in developing essential business strategies in response to change. Industry experts are invited to share their insights and explore various paths leading to success in an ever-changing global market. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=120718 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=127895 Benefiting Specialized Language Development Center. It's an unforgettable evening with a strolling dinner, entertainment, silent auction, live auction and presentation of the Award. Tickets: $75   http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=127895 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=115186 Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certification CourseClass taught by Rockford AmbulanceAmerican Heart Association Authorized Training2 Year AHA Card Upon Completion 2nd Thursday Each Month: 8:30am-4:30pm  Inital Training & Recertification: $120Optional ACLS Text: $30Optional BLS CPR Module: $20 More info @ www.RockfordAmbulance.comRegistration @ (616) 863-8434 Rockford Ambulance is a Non-Profit Organization since 1968. All Proceeds from Classes go to Rockford Ambulance Education Program. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=115186 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=122507 Every Thursday an interactive, creative and amazing activity takes place at Deanna’s Playhouse for children ages 8 and younger! Children are encouraged to be expressive and hands on.  Look for the “Lady Wearing an Amazing Hat” from 11:00am-12:00pm to learn and explore through Amazing Activities. For more information call 616-396-7566 or 800-577-7661. http://events.grnow.com/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=122507 Thu, 11 Mar 2010