Community Calendar

Explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and language education at our conference, ‘AI in ESL: Understanding, Implementing, and Navigating Opportunities and Challenges‘ on April 12, 2025.

Empower your teaching with AI-driven strategies, address ethical considerations, and unlock new possibilities for your students. From AI basics to advanced applications, this conference offers insights for ESL educators in schools, churches, and community programs. Connect with innovators, participate in hands-on workshops, and leave with actionable ideas to elevate your ESL instruction.

Please join us for a virtual author conversation with curator Cheney Schopieray.

Come and share a poem, story, joke, or song! Or just come and listen. The Timid Poet Open Mic night is the third Saturday of every month at 2208 Winchell Avenue in Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008. Whether you’ve just written your first poem or you’re a seasoned pro, this is a great space to share your creativity. Everyone is welcome! Our next Open Mic is Saturday, November 16, 2019. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with readings beginning at 7 p.m. You may bring your books of creative writing to sell. Facilities and snacks are provided by the Phoenix Community Church. You can also keep informed by following the Timid Poet Underground blog or Facebook page at https://timidpoetunderground.blogspot.com or https://facebook.com/timidpoetunderground

Join us at the Ford Presidential Library as France Hoang explores powerful lessons about gratitude, duty, and the ripple effects of compassion. His journey stands as a living testament to President Ford's courageous leadership during Operation New Life, which welcomed over 130,000 Vietnamese refugees to America's shores..

From Star Wars to Frozen to Armageddon, to The Titanic to The Martian. An entertaining and enlightening review of all the science that our favorite movies got wrong, combined with some of the stuff they got right. The show incorporates the latest films as well as some classics that you may not have known had any science in them at all!

It’s been fifty years since the guns fell silent in Vietnam. How should we think about the war’s origins, escalation, and ultimate resolution?
Join us as Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall takes a fresh look at the war and its legacy.

Scientex Conferences feels auspicious to invite all the eminent professionals in the field of Neurology and Psychiatry to the 3rd International Conference on Neurology and Mental Disorders, to be host on May 15-16, 2025, in the futuristic city of Dubai, UAE. This premier event is a significant gathering for experts, researchers, and professionals in the field of neurology and mental health, providing a platform to share groundbreaking research, innovative practices, and the latest advancements in the domain.

For professionals in the fields of medicine, industry, pharmacology, surgery, teaching, and learning practices, Neurology 2025 offers a great opportunity. The goal of Neurology 2025 is not only to discuss the main theme of the conference, but also to connect the people in the same field across the globe which may pave the way for building a better community for brighter future in the field of Neurology.

Come and share a poem, story, joke, or song! Or just come and listen. The Timid Poet Open Mic night is the third Saturday of every month at 2208 Winchell Avenue in Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008. Whether you’ve just written your first poem or you’re a seasoned pro, this is a great space to share your creativity. Everyone is welcome! Our next Open Mic is Saturday, November 16, 2019. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with readings beginning at 7 p.m. You may bring your books of creative writing to sell. Facilities and snacks are provided by the Phoenix Community Church. You can also keep informed by following the Timid Poet Underground blog or Facebook page at https://timidpoetunderground.blogspot.com or https://facebook.com/timidpoetunderground

Hosted by the Chief Noonday Chapter of the North Country Trail Association.

This is the perfect opportunity to receive hints and suggestions for hiking activities, and ask any questions you may have about hiking or the North Country Trail.

Chief Noonday chapter members, Jane Norton and Cynthia Clemens, will share not only an introduction to the NCT but also enlighten any interested hiker on basic hiking skills!

Both presenters have logged well over 1000 NCT miles each (day hikes & backpack), across Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

About the North Country Trail:
The NCT is a national scenic trail that goes through 8 states from North Dakota to Vermont, where it intersects the Appalachian Trail (AT). With more than 4900 miles, the NCT is more than twice the length of the AT, and is right in our own backyard. The local Chief Noonday chapter manages and maintains 120 miles of trail through Barry, Kalamazoo and Calhoun counties. Yes! It is right in our own backyard!

The Richland Community Library is excite to welcome Michigan Notable Author Brittany Rogers!

Brittany is a poet, visual artist, essayist, high school teacher, and lifelong Detroiter. Her work has been featured in Underbelly, Mississippi Review, and The Metro Times, just to name a few.

Her debut collection of poems, Good Dress, was selected as a 2025 Michigan Notable Title.

About Good Dress:
Following the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers's Good Dress documents the beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming of age, this collection witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences. With care and incandescent energy, the poems engage with memory, time, interiority, and community.

This program is presented in partnership with the Library of Michigan Foundation & the MI Humanities Grant.