Petoskey Lectures

Portraits of Change: Inspiring Activism through Art
Mary Burns, Weaver and Fiber Artist

Join artist Mary Burns as she discusses how art can inspire activism. She will be focusing on her exhibits, "Women and Water: Woven Portraits from Around the World" and "Ancestral Women: Wisconsin’s 12 Tribes.” Between the two exhibits, there are over 40 hand-woven portraits of women who have made a remarkable difference in the world. Burns will share insights into the exhibits, their impacts and inspirations through stories of these women and images of the weavings.

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Exploring a Century in Focus: Harbor Springs
Beth Wemigwase, Curator & Program Coordinator at the Harbor Springs Area Historic Society

Explore the work of early local photographers and discover how photographs serve as important visual records of our community's history. More than simple snapshots, photographs preserve memories and provide invaluable primary sources that help us better understand the people, places, and stories of this area.

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Petoskey’s Historic Buildings
Jane Garver, Little Traverse Historical Society Museum Executive Director

Little Traverse Historical Society Executive Director Jane Garver will discuss the history of some iconic buildings in Petoskey and the ways the buildings have been utilized over their lifetimes. Historic photographs from the Society’s collection will illustrate the talk.

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Caring for Walloon Lake: An Integrated Approach to Conservation
Jon Breithaupt, Executive Director Walloon Lake Association and Conservancy

As Echoes explores the lasting impact of landscapes on memory and experience, this lecture highlights the importance of protecting the places that shape our lives. Learn how the Walloon Lake Association and Conservancy (WLAC), a unique nonprofit formed through the merger of a lake association and a land trust, takes a comprehensive watershed-wide approach to conservation to preserve Walloon Lake for future generations.

Hear from WLAC's Executive Director, Jon Breithaupt, on how WLAC's integrated approach to watershed conservation ensures a healthy future for Walloon Lake, its inhabitants, and the folks that love it so dearly

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Textiles and Memory
Baylee Schmitt, Fiber Artist

Childhood memories, facts, and the fictions invented from them, by ourselves and others on our behalf, are a complex cloth: how can we make sense of what was in order to determine what is, and predict what may be? For me, the answer has been to dissect, distill, and reassemble the spaces and objects inhabited by my family unit. Join me for a discussion of textiles in history, sustaining an artistic practice, and an open dialogue about how intimate spaces and the people within them shape our perspectives.

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The Art of Change through the Body
Hilary Lake, MDiv, Healing Arts Community Ministry and Spiritual Care Advisor for Hospice of Michigan

As a somatic educator, artist, ritualist and hospice chaplain, I share my experience of and perspective on somatics as a field that explores the body from the inside out looking at the whole rather than focused on its parts. From studying with Christine Dakin, one of Martha Graham's principal dancers in The Rite of Spring at Harvard University to living in Nepal studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism to now holding space for individuals and families at the threshold of death, I will share how I learned to experience and honor the body as the ground of being that supports us to go through change and transformation from a place of sensation and relational connection. I'll also share simple practices that can help us to practically be present with the challenges of our lives.

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The Process of Creating Fall for Dance
Ella Galle, School of Ballet student choreographer & Robin Pettersen Guest Choreographer with the Crooked Tree Arts Center School of Ballet - Petoskey

Join CTAC School of Ballet student choreographer, Ella Galle, and long time guest choreographer with the School, Robin Pettersen, for a look behind the scenes into the process of creating Fall for Dance. Fall for Dance has been an annual performance for the CTAC School of Ballet since 2007, showcasing the stylistic range and diverse talents of the School's Pre-professional dance artists. For nearly 20 years, the School of Ballet students have choreographed work, created video projections, designed costumes, lights, and even served as a student director for these productions. This performance experience also provides the students the opportunity to present world premieres set on them by renowned guest choreographers. During this talk, you will get to hear about the history of Fall for Dance and the time, dedication, and nuance it takes to create an evening length production from scratch

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