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The Kindleberger Summer Festival of the Performing Arts is a community tradition that draws thousands of people to Parchment over a six-day period in mid-July. In 2022 we celebrate 40 years of Festival plays! We proudly present the 40th cornerstone event, the Festival youth show and family musical in beautiful Kindleberger Park, "BEDTIME STORIES (AS TOLD BY OUR DAD) (WHO MESSED THEM UP)" and "THE WIZARD OF OZ", Wed, July 6 - Sun, July 10.
FESTIVAL DAY, SAT JULY 9TH, showcases the Arts & Crafts Show, Grad Bash Pancake Breakfast, 5K Race/Fitness Walk, The Kindleberger Car Cruise-In, Children's Activities, Friends of the Library Book Sale, Parchment Garden Club Plant Sale, Outdoor Theatre, and Festival Parade featuring our GRAND MARSHAL TERESE BANNER, long-time Parchment resident and beloved district teacher! Visit https://kindlebergerarts.org/festival/parade/ to enter the parade!
We send out a special invitation to ALL Festival alumni to find their way home to help us celebrate this remarkable 40th Anniversay milestone event. An Alumni Committee, headed up by Festival originator Shirley "Zen" Campbell, has organized special events for Festival Day including a Pop Up Museum full of Festival artifacts and photos, A Play in A Day workshop and performance presented by Festival alum Elizabeth Keiser, Big Nazo Performance Troupe, Shooting Comet Photo Booth, and much more! See more about the special alumni activities at https://kindlebergerarts.org/alumni-celebration/.

Cornhole players of two divisions are invited to enter for a chance to win cash prizes! Backyard Social players will compete on Friday, July 8 at lower ball diamonds in Kindleberger Park. Professional players will toss it up a notch on Sunday, July 10 at the Parchment High School gym. Visit https://kindlebergerarts.org/festival/cornhole-tournaments/ to register your team!

To close out our 40th Festival, we welcome singer/songwriter Matt Giraud back for his fourth engagement at The Stage in beautiful Kindleberger Park as the grand finale of the 40th Kindleberger Summer Festival of the Performing Arts! Come join us on Monday, July 11 at 6:30pm to listen to the musical genius of this impressive showman!

There is something for everyone at the Kindleberger Summer Festival! Make plans to join us for a nostalgic visit as a Festival alum, to find free family-friendly fun in and around Kindleberger Park on Festival Day, to play and win cash prizes and bragging rights for a year at the Backyard Social or Professional Cornhole Tournaments, or to come enjoy the exceptional performances you've come to expect at The Stage at Kindleberger Wednesday through Monday!
Visit www.kindlebergerarts.org for a complete schedule of FREE Festival events and to register for the 5K or Cornhole Tournaments!
Lawn seating for play performances. Concession snacks and meals will be available for purchase from local nonprofit groups and food truck vendors!
**No rain site for Stage performances.

The Kindleberger Summer Festival Youth Play was introduced in 1990, giving area youth an opportunity to participate in the magic of story telling on the stage! We are excited to present in 2022 the very appropriate youth production, Bedtime Stories (As Told by our Dad) (Who Messed Them Up), a nod to every parent who has had that bedtime experience when they’re completely out of gas and the kids don’t want to go to sleep! The youth production will be directed by Connar Klock, a first-time director for the Kindleberger Summer Festival. We welcome Connar to Kindleberger Park!

Play Synopsis: It’s Dad’s turn to tell his three rambunctious kids their bedtime stories, but when he gets fuzzy on the details, the classics get creative: a prince with a snoring problem spices up The Princess and The Pea, The Boy Who Cried Wolf cries dinosaur instead, and Rumpelstiltskin helps turn all that pesky gold into straw. You may think you know your fairy tales, but not the way Dad tells them.

PERFORMANCE DATES are Wed-Fri, July 6-8 at 5:30pm, Sat, July 9 and Sun, July 10 at 3:30pm at The Stage in Kindleberger Park, Parchment, MI. Join us for one or five performances of a FREE family show for kids and adults alike! Lawn seating, bring chair or blanket, food vendors are on site to serve dinner or snacks for your pleasure! **No rain site for Stage performances.

Thank you to our MANY generous 2022 FESTIVAL SPONSORS!
The Irving S. Gilmore Foundation
Harold and Grace UpJohn Foundation
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo
Bell's Brewery
Drug and Laboratory Disposal Inc
Lewis C. Howard, Inc.
Nieboer Heating & Cooling
Seelye Ford Kalamazoo
Mercantile Bank
Building Restoration
Advia Credit Union
DeAnna Phillips Realtor, Five Star Realty
Adams Heating & Cooling
What's New Estate Sales PUMC
State Farm Ins - Ty Kelley Agent
Prein & Newhof
T&L Rentals and Inflatables
SignCrafters, LLC
St Ambrose Catholic Church
Parchment Family Practice
FOP Kalamazoo Lodge #98
Butler, Toweson, and Payseno, PLLC
Knights of Columbus
Kalamazoo Corvette Club
Parchment Community Library
The Fountains Banquet Center
Hardings Friendly Market - Parchment
Parchment Garden Club
Parchment United Methodist Church
Biggby Coffee - Parchment
Ryan's Barbershop
Arbor Financial Credit Union
RiverRun Press
Midlink Business Park
Theatre Kalamazoo
American Cornhole League
T&J Towing

The Kindleberger Arts is excited to announce our Family Musical for the 40th Anniversary Kindleberger Summer Festival of the Performing Arts! Directed by Ken Holda, this summer we bring to The Stage at Kindleberger the timeless and enduring THE WIZARD OF OZ! Based on the classic 1939 MGM movie musical and book by L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz is a classic musical that has enchanted families for generations. The Wizard of Oz has a special place in our four decades of outdoor theatre history, performed in Kindleberger Park as the second musical staged in 1986.

So once again, we’re off to see the Wizard! Audiences young and old will be dazzled by the brightly colored sets and charmed by its timeless score which includes one of the greatest hit songs in musical history, the Oscar winning, “Over the Rainbow”. A story of good witches, wicked witches, munchkins, a cowardly lion in search of courage, a tin man in search of a heart, a scarecrow in search of a brain, and a young girl from Kansas in search of home. It’s a show for the entire family filled with eye-popping costumes, rib-tickling humor, breath-taking adventure. And whether it makes new memories for Festival families or conjures up special memories from an earlier era on Scout Hill in the park, everyone will be delighted to experience or relive the whimsical and wonderful THE WIZARD OF OZ! There’s no place like Kindleberger!

PERFORMANCE DATES are Wed-Fri, July 6-8 at 7pm, Sat, July 9 at 5pm, and Sun, July 10 at 5pm at The Stage in Kindleberger Park, Parchment, MI. Join us for one or five performances of a FREE family show for kids and adults alike! Lawn seating, bring chair or blanket, food vendors are on site to serve dinner or snacks for your pleasure! **No rain site for Stage performances.

Thank you to our MANY generous 2022 FESTIVAL SPONSORS!
The Irving S. Gilmore Foundation
Harold and Grace UpJohn Foundation
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo
Bell's Brewery
Drug and Laboratory Disposal Inc
Lewis C. Howard, Inc.
Nieboer Heating & Cooling
Seelye Ford Kalamazoo
Mercantile Bank
Building Restoration
Advia Credit Union
DeAnna Phillips Realtor, Five Star Realty
Adams Heating & Cooling
What's New Estate Sales PUMC
State Farm Ins - Ty Kelley Agent
Prein & Newhof
T&L Rentals and Inflatables
SignCrafters, LLC
St Ambrose Catholic Church
Parchment Family Practice
FOP Kalamazoo Lodge #98
Butler, Toweson, and Payseno, PLLC
Knights of Columbus
Kalamazoo Corvette Club
Parchment Community Library
The Fountains Banquet Center
Hardings Friendly Market - Parchment
Parchment Garden Club
Parchment United Methodist Church
Biggby Coffee - Parchment
Ryan's Barbershop
Arbor Financial Credit Union
RiverRun Press
Midlink Business Park
Theatre Kalamazoo
American Cornhole League
T&J Towing

The Kindleberger Summer Festival Youth Play was introduced in 1990, giving area youth an opportunity to participate in the magic of story telling on the stage! We are excited to present in 2022 the very appropriate youth production, Bedtime Stories (As Told by our Dad) (Who Messed Them Up), a nod to every parent who has had that bedtime experience when they’re completely out of gas and the kids don’t want to go to sleep! The youth production will be directed by Connar Klock, a first-time director for the Kindleberger Summer Festival. We welcome Connar to Kindleberger Park!

Play Synopsis: It’s Dad’s turn to tell his three rambunctious kids their bedtime stories, but when he gets fuzzy on the details, the classics get creative: a prince with a snoring problem spices up The Princess and The Pea, The Boy Who Cried Wolf cries dinosaur instead, and Rumpelstiltskin helps turn all that pesky gold into straw. You may think you know your fairy tales, but not the way Dad tells them.

PERFORMANCE DATES are Wed-Fri, July 6-8 at 5:30pm, Sat, July 9 and Sun, July 10 at 3:30pm at The Stage in Kindleberger Park, Parchment, MI. Join us for one or five performances of a FREE family show for kids and adults alike! Lawn seating, bring chair or blanket, food vendors are on site to serve dinner or snacks for your pleasure! **No rain site for Stage performances.

Thank you to our MANY generous 2022 FESTIVAL SPONSORS!
The Irving S. Gilmore Foundation
Harold and Grace UpJohn Foundation
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo
Bell's Brewery
Drug and Laboratory Disposal Inc
Lewis C. Howard, Inc.
Nieboer Heating & Cooling
Seelye Ford Kalamazoo
Mercantile Bank
Building Restoration
Advia Credit Union
DeAnna Phillips Realtor, Five Star Realty
Adams Heating & Cooling
What's New Estate Sales PUMC
State Farm Ins - Ty Kelley Agent
Prein & Newhof
T&L Rentals and Inflatables
SignCrafters, LLC
St Ambrose Catholic Church
Parchment Family Practice
FOP Kalamazoo Lodge #98
Butler, Toweson, and Payseno, PLLC
Knights of Columbus
Kalamazoo Corvette Club
Parchment Community Library
The Fountains Banquet Center
Hardings Friendly Market - Parchment
Parchment Garden Club
Parchment United Methodist Church
Biggby Coffee - Parchment
Ryan's Barbershop
Arbor Financial Credit Union
RiverRun Press
Midlink Business Park
Theatre Kalamazoo
American Cornhole League
T&J Towing

The Kindleberger Summer Festival of the Performing Arts is a community tradition that draws thousands of people to Parchment over a six-day period in mid-July. In 2022 we celebrate 40 years of Festival plays! We proudly present the 40th cornerstone event, the Festival youth show and family musical in beautiful Kindleberger Park, "BEDTIME STORIES (AS TOLD BY OUR DAD) (WHO MESSED THEM UP)" and "THE WIZARD OF OZ", Wed, July 6 - Sun, July 10.
FESTIVAL DAY, SAT JULY 9TH, showcases the Arts & Crafts Show, Grad Bash Pancake Breakfast, 5K Race/Fitness Walk, The Kindleberger Car Cruise-In, Children's Activities, Friends of the Library Book Sale, Parchment Garden Club Plant Sale, Outdoor Theatre, and Festival Parade featuring our GRAND MARSHAL TERESE BANNER, long-time Parchment resident and beloved district teacher! Visit https://kindlebergerarts.org/festival/parade/ to enter the parade!
We send out a special invitation to ALL Festival alumni to find their way home to help us celebrate this remarkable 40th Anniversay milestone event. An Alumni Committee, headed up by Festival originator Shirley "Zen" Campbell, has organized special events for Festival Day including a Pop Up Museum full of Festival artifacts and photos, A Play in A Day workshop and performance presented by Festival alum Elizabeth Keiser, Big Nazo Performance Troupe, Shooting Comet Photo Booth, and much more! See more about the special alumni activities at https://kindlebergerarts.org/alumni-celebration/.

Cornhole players of two divisions are invited to enter for a chance to win cash prizes! Backyard Social players will compete on Friday, July 8 at lower ball diamonds in Kindleberger Park. Professional players will toss it up a notch on Sunday, July 10 at the Parchment High School gym. Visit https://kindlebergerarts.org/festival/cornhole-tournaments/ to register your team!

To close out our 40th Festival, we welcome singer/songwriter Matt Giraud back for his fourth engagement at The Stage in beautiful Kindleberger Park as the grand finale of the 40th Kindleberger Summer Festival of the Performing Arts! Come join us on Monday, July 11 at 6:30pm to listen to the musical genius of this impressive showman!

There is something for everyone at the Kindleberger Summer Festival! Make plans to join us for a nostalgic visit as a Festival alum, to find free family-friendly fun in and around Kindleberger Park on Festival Day, to play and win cash prizes and bragging rights for a year at the Backyard Social or Professional Cornhole Tournaments, or to come enjoy the exceptional performances you've come to expect at The Stage at Kindleberger Wednesday through Monday!
Visit www.kindlebergerarts.org for a complete schedule of FREE Festival events and to register for the 5K or Cornhole Tournaments!
Lawn seating for play performances. Concession snacks and meals will be available for purchase from local nonprofit groups and food truck vendors!
**No rain site for Stage performances.

The Kindleberger Arts is excited to announce our Family Musical for the 40th Anniversary Kindleberger Summer Festival of the Performing Arts! Directed by Ken Holda, this summer we bring to The Stage at Kindleberger the timeless and enduring THE WIZARD OF OZ! Based on the classic 1939 MGM movie musical and book by L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz is a classic musical that has enchanted families for generations. The Wizard of Oz has a special place in our four decades of outdoor theatre history, performed in Kindleberger Park as the second musical staged in 1986.

So once again, we’re off to see the Wizard! Audiences young and old will be dazzled by the brightly colored sets and charmed by its timeless score which includes one of the greatest hit songs in musical history, the Oscar winning, “Over the Rainbow”. A story of good witches, wicked witches, munchkins, a cowardly lion in search of courage, a tin man in search of a heart, a scarecrow in search of a brain, and a young girl from Kansas in search of home. It’s a show for the entire family filled with eye-popping costumes, rib-tickling humor, breath-taking adventure. And whether it makes new memories for Festival families or conjures up special memories from an earlier era on Scout Hill in the park, everyone will be delighted to experience or relive the whimsical and wonderful THE WIZARD OF OZ! There’s no place like Kindleberger!

PERFORMANCE DATES are Wed-Fri, July 6-8 at 7pm, Sat, July 9 at 5pm, and Sun, July 10 at 5pm at The Stage in Kindleberger Park, Parchment, MI. Join us for one or five performances of a FREE family show for kids and adults alike! Lawn seating, bring chair or blanket, food vendors are on site to serve dinner or snacks for your pleasure! **No rain site for Stage performances.

Thank you to our MANY generous 2022 FESTIVAL SPONSORS!
The Irving S. Gilmore Foundation
Harold and Grace UpJohn Foundation
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo
Bell's Brewery
Drug and Laboratory Disposal Inc
Lewis C. Howard, Inc.
Nieboer Heating & Cooling
Seelye Ford Kalamazoo
Mercantile Bank
Building Restoration
Advia Credit Union
DeAnna Phillips Realtor, Five Star Realty
Adams Heating & Cooling
What's New Estate Sales PUMC
State Farm Ins - Ty Kelley Agent
Prein & Newhof
T&L Rentals and Inflatables
SignCrafters, LLC
St Ambrose Catholic Church
Parchment Family Practice
FOP Kalamazoo Lodge #98
Butler, Toweson, and Payseno, PLLC
Knights of Columbus
Kalamazoo Corvette Club
Parchment Community Library
The Fountains Banquet Center
Hardings Friendly Market - Parchment
Parchment Garden Club
Parchment United Methodist Church
Biggby Coffee - Parchment
Ryan's Barbershop
Arbor Financial Credit Union
RiverRun Press
Midlink Business Park
Theatre Kalamazoo
American Cornhole League
T&J Towing

The Kindleberger Summer Festival Youth Play was introduced in 1990, giving area youth an opportunity to participate in the magic of story telling on the stage! We are excited to present in 2022 the very appropriate youth production, Bedtime Stories (As Told by our Dad) (Who Messed Them Up), a nod to every parent who has had that bedtime experience when they’re completely out of gas and the kids don’t want to go to sleep! The youth production will be directed by Connar Klock, a first-time director for the Kindleberger Summer Festival. We welcome Connar to Kindleberger Park!

Play Synopsis: It’s Dad’s turn to tell his three rambunctious kids their bedtime stories, but when he gets fuzzy on the details, the classics get creative: a prince with a snoring problem spices up The Princess and The Pea, The Boy Who Cried Wolf cries dinosaur instead, and Rumpelstiltskin helps turn all that pesky gold into straw. You may think you know your fairy tales, but not the way Dad tells them.

PERFORMANCE DATES are Wed-Fri, July 6-8 at 5:30pm, Sat, July 9 and Sun, July 10 at 3:30pm at The Stage in Kindleberger Park, Parchment, MI. Join us for one or five performances of a FREE family show for kids and adults alike! Lawn seating, bring chair or blanket, food vendors are on site to serve dinner or snacks for your pleasure! **No rain site for Stage performances.

Thank you to our MANY generous 2022 FESTIVAL SPONSORS!
The Irving S. Gilmore Foundation
Harold and Grace UpJohn Foundation
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo
Bell's Brewery
Drug and Laboratory Disposal Inc
Lewis C. Howard, Inc.
Nieboer Heating & Cooling
Seelye Ford Kalamazoo
Mercantile Bank
Building Restoration
Advia Credit Union
DeAnna Phillips Realtor, Five Star Realty
Adams Heating & Cooling
What's New Estate Sales PUMC
State Farm Ins - Ty Kelley Agent
Prein & Newhof
T&L Rentals and Inflatables
SignCrafters, LLC
St Ambrose Catholic Church
Parchment Family Practice
FOP Kalamazoo Lodge #98
Butler, Toweson, and Payseno, PLLC
Knights of Columbus
Kalamazoo Corvette Club
Parchment Community Library
The Fountains Banquet Center
Hardings Friendly Market - Parchment
Parchment Garden Club
Parchment United Methodist Church
Biggby Coffee - Parchment
Ryan's Barbershop
Arbor Financial Credit Union
RiverRun Press
Midlink Business Park
Theatre Kalamazoo
American Cornhole League
T&J Towing

The Kindleberger Summer Festival of the Performing Arts is a community tradition that draws thousands of people to Parchment over a six-day period in mid-July. In 2022 we celebrate 40 years of Festival plays! We proudly present the 40th cornerstone event, the Festival youth show and family musical in beautiful Kindleberger Park, "BEDTIME STORIES (AS TOLD BY OUR DAD) (WHO MESSED THEM UP)" and "THE WIZARD OF OZ", Wed, July 6 - Sun, July 10.
FESTIVAL DAY, SAT JULY 9TH, showcases the Arts & Crafts Show, Grad Bash Pancake Breakfast, 5K Race/Fitness Walk, The Kindleberger Car Cruise-In, Children's Activities, Friends of the Library Book Sale, Parchment Garden Club Plant Sale, Outdoor Theatre, and Festival Parade featuring our GRAND MARSHAL TERESE BANNER, long-time Parchment resident and beloved district teacher! Visit https://kindlebergerarts.org/festival/parade/ to enter the parade!
We send out a special invitation to ALL Festival alumni to find their way home to help us celebrate this remarkable 40th Anniversay milestone event. An Alumni Committee, headed up by Festival originator Shirley "Zen" Campbell, has organized special events for Festival Day including a Pop Up Museum full of Festival artifacts and photos, A Play in A Day workshop and performance presented by Festival alum Elizabeth Keiser, Big Nazo Performance Troupe, Shooting Comet Photo Booth, and much more! See more about the special alumni activities at https://kindlebergerarts.org/alumni-celebration/.

Cornhole players of two divisions are invited to enter for a chance to win cash prizes! Backyard Social players will compete on Friday, July 8 at lower ball diamonds in Kindleberger Park. Professional players will toss it up a notch on Sunday, July 10 at the Parchment High School gym. Visit https://kindlebergerarts.org/festival/cornhole-tournaments/ to register your team!

To close out our 40th Festival, we welcome singer/songwriter Matt Giraud back for his fourth engagement at The Stage in beautiful Kindleberger Park as the grand finale of the 40th Kindleberger Summer Festival of the Performing Arts! Come join us on Monday, July 11 at 6:30pm to listen to the musical genius of this impressive showman!

There is something for everyone at the Kindleberger Summer Festival! Make plans to join us for a nostalgic visit as a Festival alum, to find free family-friendly fun in and around Kindleberger Park on Festival Day, to play and win cash prizes and bragging rights for a year at the Backyard Social or Professional Cornhole Tournaments, or to come enjoy the exceptional performances you've come to expect at The Stage at Kindleberger Wednesday through Monday!
Visit www.kindlebergerarts.org for a complete schedule of FREE Festival events and to register for the 5K or Cornhole Tournaments!
Lawn seating for play performances. Concession snacks and meals will be available for purchase from local nonprofit groups and food truck vendors!
**No rain site for Stage performances.

The Kindleberger Arts is excited to announce our Family Musical for the 40th Anniversary Kindleberger Summer Festival of the Performing Arts! Directed by Ken Holda, this summer we bring to The Stage at Kindleberger the timeless and enduring THE WIZARD OF OZ! Based on the classic 1939 MGM movie musical and book by L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz is a classic musical that has enchanted families for generations. The Wizard of Oz has a special place in our four decades of outdoor theatre history, performed in Kindleberger Park as the second musical staged in 1986.

So once again, we’re off to see the Wizard! Audiences young and old will be dazzled by the brightly colored sets and charmed by its timeless score which includes one of the greatest hit songs in musical history, the Oscar winning, “Over the Rainbow”. A story of good witches, wicked witches, munchkins, a cowardly lion in search of courage, a tin man in search of a heart, a scarecrow in search of a brain, and a young girl from Kansas in search of home. It’s a show for the entire family filled with eye-popping costumes, rib-tickling humor, breath-taking adventure. And whether it makes new memories for Festival families or conjures up special memories from an earlier era on Scout Hill in the park, everyone will be delighted to experience or relive the whimsical and wonderful THE WIZARD OF OZ! There’s no place like Kindleberger!

PERFORMANCE DATES are Wed-Fri, July 6-8 at 7pm, Sat, July 9 at 5pm, and Sun, July 10 at 5pm at The Stage in Kindleberger Park, Parchment, MI. Join us for one or five performances of a FREE family show for kids and adults alike! Lawn seating, bring chair or blanket, food vendors are on site to serve dinner or snacks for your pleasure! **No rain site for Stage performances.

Thank you to our MANY generous 2022 FESTIVAL SPONSORS!
The Irving S. Gilmore Foundation
Harold and Grace UpJohn Foundation
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo
Bell's Brewery
Drug and Laboratory Disposal Inc
Lewis C. Howard, Inc.
Nieboer Heating & Cooling
Seelye Ford Kalamazoo
Mercantile Bank
Building Restoration
Advia Credit Union
DeAnna Phillips Realtor, Five Star Realty
Adams Heating & Cooling
What's New Estate Sales PUMC
State Farm Ins - Ty Kelley Agent
Prein & Newhof
T&L Rentals and Inflatables
SignCrafters, LLC
St Ambrose Catholic Church
Parchment Family Practice
FOP Kalamazoo Lodge #98
Butler, Toweson, and Payseno, PLLC
Knights of Columbus
Kalamazoo Corvette Club
Parchment Community Library
The Fountains Banquet Center
Hardings Friendly Market - Parchment
Parchment Garden Club
Parchment United Methodist Church
Biggby Coffee - Parchment
Ryan's Barbershop
Arbor Financial Credit Union
RiverRun Press
Midlink Business Park
Theatre Kalamazoo
American Cornhole League
T&J Towing

600 German cars expected at the Gilmore Car Museum on July 9

DeutscheMarques, America’s largest all-German car show, is celebrating their 10th anniversary Saturday, July 9, 2022 at the Gilmore Car Museum.

The show has seen double-digit growth year over year. In 2021 – after taking a pandemic break – 500 cars showed up to celebrate all things German, including cars, food and beverages. Thousands of visitors came to enjoy the Museum and the cars. 600 beautiful cars are anticipated this year.