Apr 05 Friday
March is Scavenger Hunt Mania at the Library for March is Reading Month! Each week will feature a new scavenger hunt type activity taking place inside the library for a total of four different hunts. (Available March 1-31)
Join Potter Park Zoo Staff for an interactive Night at a Living Museum this April 5th from 5-8pm. As part of MSU Science Festival and AZA's Party for the Planet, visitors are welcome to the zoo for free to participate in a night full of science based activities!
Come join staff, zookeepers and volunteers as we explore the natural world. Lots of hands-on activities will allow you to: View the microscopic world as a scientist; try your hand at a simulated veterinary lab; test your skull matching skills; build your own pollinator-friendly garden; and so much more!
The Pickle Mafia Jazz Trio after last year's Lansing Jazz Festival, make their long-awaited return to Old Town Lansing MI, Friday, April 5th, 7pm to 10pm at the critically acclaimed Urban Beat. Witness a true spectacle from the elite modern and virtuosic jazz musicians Charles Lindner, Marco Cirigliano, and Ben Chilbert as they bring to town their new music and flavor. Tickets will sell out so get yours today at www.urbanbeatevents.com
Apr 06 Saturday
Ages 16+Learn adult and pediatric CPR, automated external defibrillator (AED), emergency procedures like rescue breathing, and the Heimlich maneuver, and first aid. Upon workshop completion, students receive a course completion card in Adult and Pediatric CPR with AED and first aid. Class is blended learning online part is sent after registration for class. Registration required, class size limited. This class is not appropriate for those needing training for a healthcare field (doctors, dentists, nurses, EMS, etc.). To register visit our event calendar.
First Saturday means Family Day at the MSU Broad Art Museum! Make creative connections with our exhibitions through free hands-on and interactive family fun throughout the museum. Your imagination can create anything! Join us as we crumple, bend, build, and layer to create something new. All ages are welcome. Registration for this free event is encouraged.
Celebrate the creative and scholarly research of MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design Master of Fine Arts degree candidates Shirin Abedinirad, Gustavo Uriel Ayala, Emily J. Burkhead, Adeline Newmann, and Patrick N. Taylor featured in the 2024 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition! At 6:30pm, a short awards program will take place to announce the Selma and Stanley Hollander Fellowship for Graduate Study and the annual John and Susan Berding Family Foundation endowed Master of Fine Arts Prize. This year the invited guest juror, Teréz Iacovino, Assistant Curator of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, will be in attendance to announce the award. Registration for this free event is encouraged.
OMNIUM CIRCUS is a world-renowned comprehensively inclusive circus company bringing excitement, thrills, and joy to people of all ages as only a circus can! Step into a world of all things possible where we discover the power, the passion, and the perseverance of the human spirit within each of us!
Omnium means of all and belonging to all- presenting the best in family circus entertainment-inclusive and accessible at every performance.
Apr 07 Sunday
Learn the basics of Square or Contra Dance and have fun at these lively FREE monthly workshops! Come solo, bring some friends, make some friends, and learn fun dances in a friendly, relaxed, judgement-free atmosphere. Recorded music, live, in-person instruction, these fun dances are like an amusement park ride you make for yourself! Sessions alternate: Sun. March 3 & Sun. May 5: Contra Dance; Sunday, April 7, Square Dance. Wear comfortable shoes and clothes you can move easily in.
Ann Arbor based songwriter and Michigan Emmy recipient Kitty Donahoe brings her Irish heritage and American roots as an artist to St Paul’s Episcopal Church in a FREE concert sponsored by the Tom and Jean Shawver Memorial Fund. Come enjoy a relaxing afternoon of wonderful Irish music and storytelling.
Apr 09 Tuesday
Mosaic performs contemporary treble choral repertoire while tenor and bass repertory is explored by the Singing Spartans. Sandra Snow and Jonathan Reed, conductors.