Community Calendar

Saturday, July 19, 9:30 am – Noon

Join Lea Sevigny of Joyful Wildcrafting for this hands-on workshop. Learn to identify, harvest, and prepare wild ingredients to make a concentrated root beer syrup. When mixed with carbonated water, this syrup creates a delicious root beer soda. Participants will enjoy root beer floats with syrup created together in class and will have the confidence to be able to recreate the syrup at home. Part of the Returning and Reskilling at DeLano Homestead Series: NatureCenter.org/Returning

Fee: $10.50/Member, $15/Non-Member. Registration required. Audience: Adults & Teens Meet: KNC Camp, lower level

Glass Camp is the hottest Summer Camp in Kalamazoo! With multiple options based on age, studio preference, time commitment, and price point – we have something for just about everyone. Students will learn the tools, equipment, and basic techniques of glass blowing, torch working, and/or kiln fusing. They will work side-by-side with our talented artist instructors, and also create collaboratively with their peers. Each student will create a number of projects, regardless of which Summer Glass Camp option they choose.

See the options at the link below and find the perfect fit for your budding artist. Sign them up with a friend or they can make one here – either way they’ll be talking about Summer Glass Camp all year long!

https://glassartkalamazoo.org/summer-glass-camps/

Glass Camp is the hottest Summer Camp in Kalamazoo! With multiple options based on age, studio preference, time commitment, and price point – we have something for just about everyone. Students will learn the tools, equipment, and basic techniques of glass blowing, torch working, and/or kiln fusing. They will work side-by-side with our talented artist instructors, and also create collaboratively with their peers. Each student will create a number of projects, regardless of which Summer Glass Camp option they choose.

See the options at the link below and find the perfect fit for your budding artist. Sign them up with a friend or they can make one here – either way they’ll be talking about Summer Glass Camp all year long!

https://glassartkalamazoo.org/summer-glass-camps/

Glass Camp is the hottest Summer Camp in Kalamazoo! With multiple options based on age, studio preference, time commitment, and price point – we have something for just about everyone. Students will learn the tools, equipment, and basic techniques of glass blowing, torch working, and/or kiln fusing. They will work side-by-side with our talented artist instructors, and also create collaboratively with their peers. Each student will create a number of projects, regardless of which Summer Glass Camp option they choose.

See the options at the link below and find the perfect fit for your budding artist. Sign them up with a friend or they can make one here – either way they’ll be talking about Summer Glass Camp all year long!

https://glassartkalamazoo.org/summer-glass-camps/

Glass Camp is the hottest Summer Camp in Kalamazoo! With multiple options based on age, studio preference, time commitment, and price point – we have something for just about everyone. Students will learn the tools, equipment, and basic techniques of glass blowing, torch working, and/or kiln fusing. They will work side-by-side with our talented artist instructors, and also create collaboratively with their peers. Each student will create a number of projects, regardless of which Summer Glass Camp option they choose.

See the options at the link below and find the perfect fit for your budding artist. Sign them up with a friend or they can make one here – either way they’ll be talking about Summer Glass Camp all year long!

https://glassartkalamazoo.org/summer-glass-camps/

Women’s Wilderness Retreat
Saturday, August 30, 8:30 am – 7 pm

We’ll begin with a gentle yoga session. Throughout the day, enjoy a guided foraging walk, engaging art projects, practical women’s safety tips for the trails, flower arranging, mindfulness practices, and Zentangle drawing. End the day with free time or sound bathing before gathering for a relaxing dinner with wine. All meals and activities are included in fee.

Schedule:
8:30 am: Arrival at KNC’s Stryker Nature Preserve
8:45 am: Morning yoga session
9:30 am: Breakfast
10:15 am: Barn quilt square painting -or- Zentangle drawing and mindfulness
Noon: Lunch
1:30 pm: Foraging Hike
3:15 pm: Women’s trail safety
4:15 pm: Sound bathing
5:30 pm: Dinner & reflection

Fee: $175/Member, $200/Non-Member. Registration required. Audience: Adults Meet: Carver House, KNC’s Stryker Nature Preserve

Please join us the first Saturday of each month at 9 AM (barring special events or bad weather which will be announced on our Facebook page), for "Beginning Birding Walks," led by experienced birders from the Audubon Society of Kalamazoo. This event is free and open to the public. Meet at the second parking lot at Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery in Mattawan, just off SR 43. All skill levels are welcome.

We will enjoy nature while typically identifying 20-40 species of birds, plus butterflies, frogs, etc. Over 200 bird species have been sighted at Wolf Lake, which offers a variety of habitats and easy walking trails. Annual highlights include colorful songbirds like orioles, warblers, tanagers, hawks and eagles, kingfishers, Great Blue and Green Herons, and over 20 species of waterfowl. Eastern Bluebirds can be found year-round! Children accompanying adults are welcome. The focus is on birding fundamentals, and extra binoculars are always available. The walk typically takes about 2 hours (but feel free to arrive late or leave early).

Please join us the first Saturday of each month at 9 AM (barring special events or bad weather which will be announced on our Facebook page), for "Beginning Birding Walks," led by experienced birders from the Audubon Society of Kalamazoo. This event is free and open to the public. Meet at the second parking lot at Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery in Mattawan, just off SR 43. All skill levels are welcome.

We will enjoy nature while typically identifying 20-40 species of birds, plus butterflies, frogs, etc. Over 200 bird species have been sighted at Wolf Lake, which offers a variety of habitats and easy walking trails. Annual highlights include colorful songbirds like orioles, warblers, tanagers, hawks and eagles, kingfishers, Great Blue and Green Herons, and over 20 species of waterfowl. Eastern Bluebirds can be found year-round! Children accompanying adults are welcome. The focus is on birding fundamentals, and extra binoculars are always available. The walk typically takes about 2 hours (but feel free to arrive late or leave early).

Please join us the first Saturday of each month at 9 AM (barring special events or bad weather which will be announced on our Facebook page), for "Beginning Birding Walks," led by experienced birders from the Audubon Society of Kalamazoo. This event is free and open to the public. Meet at the second parking lot at Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery in Mattawan, just off SR 43. All skill levels are welcome.

We will enjoy nature while typically identifying 20-40 species of birds, plus butterflies, frogs, etc. Over 200 bird species have been sighted at Wolf Lake, which offers a variety of habitats and easy walking trails. Annual highlights include colorful songbirds like orioles, warblers, tanagers, hawks and eagles, kingfishers, Great Blue and Green Herons, and over 20 species of waterfowl. Eastern Bluebirds can be found year-round! Children accompanying adults are welcome. The focus is on birding fundamentals, and extra binoculars are always available. The walk typically takes about 2 hours (but feel free to arrive late or leave early).

Please join us the first Saturday of each month at 9 AM (barring special events or bad weather which will be announced on our Facebook page), for "Beginning Birding Walks," led by experienced birders from the Audubon Society of Kalamazoo. This event is free and open to the public. Meet at the second parking lot at Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery in Mattawan, just off SR 43. All skill levels are welcome.

We will enjoy nature while typically identifying 20-40 species of birds, plus butterflies, frogs, etc. Over 200 bird species have been sighted at Wolf Lake, which offers a variety of habitats and easy walking trails. Annual highlights include colorful songbirds like orioles, warblers, tanagers, hawks and eagles, kingfishers, Great Blue and Green Herons, and over 20 species of waterfowl. Eastern Bluebirds can be found year-round! Children accompanying adults are welcome. The focus is on birding fundamentals, and extra binoculars are always available. The walk typically takes about 2 hours (but feel free to arrive late or leave early).