Community Calendar

For the next installment in our lecture series on February 21st, at 3 PM, we will explore the design and evolution of the Oldsmobile Toronado. Join Dick Ruzzin, who served forty years as an executive on the General Motors Design Staff, as he presents the history of the transformative era in the automotive industry and celebrates the artistry behind creating vehicles that became icons of American culture. Copies of his recent book, Designing Dreams, will be available for purchase and signing.

Information on upcoming events, how to become a member, volunteer, or sponsor can be found on our website (www.reoldsmuseum.org/). R.E. Olds Transportation Museum is located at 240 Museum Drive, Lansing, MI 48933. The museum is open Tuesday-Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM, and Sunday 12 PM to 5 PM.

Ages 16+
Come enjoy coffee, conversation and audience participation for an afternoon of poetry, fun and ideas. Area women poets read poems about 5 subjects in rotation, each giving their spin on the topics. It's a fast-paced, different kind of reading, full of engaging and provoking poems to engage an audience of both poetry fans and those unfamiliar with its performance. Poets and themes to be announced closer to the event.
https://gladl.libcal.com/event/14955392

This evening of poetry and experimental music features Lansing Poet Laureate Emeritus Dennis Hinrichsen, author of dementia lyrics (Green Linden Press), with ambient artist Worm Moon, and electronic artist bioPrism.

Day Zero Breakdown (Bogue Street Records, 2026) is the title of an audio accompaniment to dementia lyrics, Dennis Hinrichsen’s twelfth full length collection of poetry and his fifth title overall from Green Linden Press. The poems are an exploration of systemic failure on multiple levels beginning with the diagnosis of two friends with very different forms of dementia, but then branching out to include the failure of late-stage capitalism to address the needs of the homeless in Hinrichsen’s hometown of Lansing, Michigan, as well as issues related to freshwater mismanagement and the death of aquifers on a broader scale. The running motif is water, the body as water, brain as water, body and brain as aquifer, all under extreme forms of stress.

Reception and book signing to follow in the LookOut Gallery (2nd floor, Snyder-Phillips Hall).

Join us for the 39th annual A Rally of Writers, Michigan's biggest and best writers conference. This year's keynote speaker is Hammett Award and Nero Prize-winning novelist, Stephen Mack Jones. There are 16 workshops for writers and poets of all levels.
Early-bird Registration ends March 31.

9th Annual Detroit Festival of Books (aka: Detroit Bookfest)! FREE!

Sunday, July 19, 2026
10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.

Eastern Market
Shed 5
2934 Russell Street
Detroit, Michigan

Entry is FREE!

Our 9th Annual Detroit Bookfest will feature over 300+ vendors selling......you guessed it......BOOKS!
Books of all sorts: used, rare, antiquarian, unusual, ephemera, authors, etc.

Vendors will also be selling vinyl records, comic books, creative arts, vintage board games and more!

Entry is FREE!

Food, beer, and DJ Seven Whales will be bringing the funk music.

Website
https://detroitbookfest.com/

Questions
https://detroitbookfest.com/contact-us/

Photos from 2025
https://detroitbookfest.com/?s=photos+2025

Prospective vendors read this (and apply using link at bottom of article)
https://detroitbookfest.com/dbf2026-vendor-info-timeline/

FB event page
https://www.facebook.com/events/1588205042529502