In 2012, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) introduced the first Open Projector Night - a seasonal event that provided both local and regional...
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Posted: 1 year 31 weeks
Tagged: Children, children & family, dance movement therapy, important, new, new staff, non-profit, occupational therapy, social work, speech therapy, staffing, therapy
Comprehensive Therapy Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Ellen Sawyer as the Interim Executive...
Posted: 1 year 31 weeks
Tagged: conversion, ethics, Ethics and Religion Talk, religion
Rev. Ray Lanning, a retired minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, responds:
“ ‘Conversion’ is a word with more than one meaning. There...
Posted: 1 year 32 weeks
Tagged: amazing adaptations, ar time travelers, art + inspiration, artprize, Classes, Events, experiencegr, Grand Rapids, grand rapids african american art and music festival, GRPL, GRPM, Hispanic Heritage Month, Museum, oktoberfest gr, saturday investigation, tour de food trucks, tuesday night swing dancing, whats in your river
Art Prize Begins in Grand Rapids + City of Grand Rapids Announces Additional Events
Posted: 1 year 32 weeks
Tagged: art
The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) recently announced the opening of The Jim Henson...
Posted: 1 year 32 weeks
Tagged: ethics, Ethics and Religion Talk, religion, Retreats
Father Kevin Niehoff, O.P., a Dominican priest who serves as Judicial Vicar, Diocese of Grand Rapids, responds:
“Before the outbreak of COVID-19, my Dominican Province...
Posted: 1 year 33 weeks
Tagged: Affordable Housing, anishinaabe culture day, anishinabek: the people of this place, arts in medicine program, celebrate imagination, city commission, clive barker's hellraiser, committee of the whole, committee on appointments, community development committee, cultural heritage festival, don bertram, Fiscal Committee, fundraiser, Grand Rapids, grand rapids scottish society, GRPD, GRPM, margaret vega, mexican heritage association of west michigan, motherland culture connection, newcomers: the people of this place, Picardo, planetarium, shimmy usa, spector street theatre company, texas children's cancer center, Wealthy Theatre
Grand Rapids Public Museum to Host Cultural Heritage Festival and Anishinaabe Culture Day in October
The ...
Posted: 1 year 33 weeks
Kenan’s descent into addiction began when he took his first drink at 14 years old. Although it started out innocently enough, he found alcohol to be a crutch that he couldn’t live...
Posted: 1 year 33 weeks
Tagged: Car Insurance, ethics, Ethics and Religion Talk, religion, STDs
Question: If the driver's behavior causes bodily harm to a passenger should the insurance company be on the hook for the damages?...
Posted: 1 year 33 weeks
Tagged: drama, Theater, Tuesdays with Morrie, Wealthy Street Theatre
Twenty-five years ago, Tuesdays With Morrie was published. Its author, Mitch Albom, had written it to pay for a dying friend’s medical bills. Beyond that, he had modest hopes. He...
Posted: 1 year 33 weeks
Tagged: Art for Kids, Children, Classes, disabilities, disability, early childhood, early childhood education, education, pre k, preschool, special ed, Special Education, STEAM
Comprehensive Therapy Center is blowing off some STEAM this fall with the launch of our newest program, Learning...
Posted: 1 year 34 weeks
Tagged: fire cadet program, firearms, firefighter, Grand Rapids, GRFD, GRPD, GRPM, gun buyback, guns, internship, John Ball Zoo, Labor Day, membership, SAFE task force
Grand Rapids Police Department and SAFE Task Force To Hold Anonymous Gun Buyback Event in Push for Violent Crime Prevention
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Posted: 1 year 34 weeks
Tagged: ethics, Ethics and Religion Talk, fear, religion, theology
It is often agreed by both therapists and clergy that a large number of people grow up in homes and congregations where fear is the dominant factor in theology. This has emotionally and...
Posted: 1 year 35 weeks
Tagged: Art Prize, cinema, city commission, commission night out, consulado de mexico en detroit, el castillo de la pureza, el juego, fabiola, Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Police Department, GRPD, hope soledad, imcine, la increible historia del nino piedra, la pinata, la revolucion de juan escopeta, maquinaria panamericana, mexican film festival, mexican heritage association of west michigan, michigan state police, msp, national community survey, polvo de estrellas, secretaria de cultura, shooting, tzithu, Wealthy Theatre, y luego
First Annual Mexican Film Festival to Take Place at Wealthy Theatre in September
In September, Wealthy Theatre, the...
Posted: 1 year 35 weeks
Tagged: cemetery, ethics, Ethics and Religion Talk, Profanity, religion
The Ethics and Religion Talk column is looking for your questions! Want to challenge or question our panel of clergy, representing 10 different denominations and traditions? Have you struggled...
Posted: 1 year 36 weeks
Tagged: adult storytime, bird flu, city commission, clyde park, commission night out, Creston Brewery, first ward, flamingos, Grand Rapids, GRPL, John Ball Zoo, national community survey, Pine Rest, route 10, sibley elementary school, Special Olympics Michigan, Spectrum Health, stories, the rapid
Grand Rapids Public Library to Host "Adult Storytime" Events
The Grand Rapids Public Library has announced that it...
Posted: 1 year 36 weeks
By the time alcohol had really sunk its claws into Doug, he realized he didn’t want to stop drinking – he wanted to stop being caught drinking.
He’d been caught a lot...
Posted: 1 year 36 weeks
Over the years, Hollywood has gotten more and more explicit in displaying nudity, sexual situations and violence. I am curious about how the clergy members on this panel choose which content they...
Posted: 1 year 37 weeks
Tagged: birds, Downtown, Fish, fitness court, Grand Rapids, Grand River, GRPM, immunization, insects, KCHD, mdhhs, Monroe Avenue, opening ceremony, road closure, Science, vaccine
Grand Rapids Public Museum To Hold Nature-Based, Educational Programs for Students in August
On August 27, the Grand Rapids Public Museum will be introducing three...
Posted: 1 year 37 weeks
If a member of your flock approaches you with an honest admission that he or she no longer believes in a core doctrine of your religion (afterlife, the idea of God, salvation, etc.), would you...
Posted: 1 year 38 weeks
Tagged: Art Museum, avalon cutts-jones, concerts, debra perrt, dress code, exhibit, GRAM on the Green, Grand Rapids, GRPS, Karisa Wilson, Museum, rachel brooke band, reverend jesse ray, sarena rae, Schools, serita black rose, the music that raised us, uniform, WYCE
Two Concerts Left in the 2022 GRAM on the Green Series
This year's GRAM on the Green series, a partnership between the Grand...
Posted: 1 year 38 weeks
Over the years, Hollywood has gotten more and more explicit in displaying nudity, sexual situations and violence. I am curious about how the clergy members on this panel choose which content they...
Posted: 1 year 39 weeks
Tagged: city clerk, city commission, committee of the whole, committee on appointments, community development committee, dogs, election, Eric Winstrom, Fiscal Committee, Grand Rapids, GRPD, parks and rec, polling, precinct 64, richmond park pool, voting
Several Committee/Commission Meetings Take Place in Grand Rapids on Tuesday
On Tuesday, July 26, city leadership gathered at City Hall for a day full of meetings. In the...
Posted: 1 year 39 weeks
Tagged: Archeology, ethics, Ethics and Religion Talk, faith, History, Linguistics, religion
It is hard for me to think that anyone “of a certain age” alive today can hold to the same religious beliefs that they did decades ago, given the vast amount of new archeological,...
Posted: 1 year 40 weeks
Tagged: athletics, butterflies, commissioner, congress, election, firefighter challenge, garden, governor, Grand Rapids, hammock, Kent County, Michigan, Park, primaries, representative
Firefighters and Athletes Take on the Firefighter Challenge in Grand Rapids
... Posted: 1 year 40 weeks
As community need continues to grow, Guiding Light is preparing to welcome eight men recovering from drug and alcohol addiction to its sober-living community, Iron House.
The first two men...
Posted: 1 year 40 weeks
Tagged: Chicago, Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, exhibition, field museum, Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Public Museum, GRPM, Mexico, Museum, Oaxaca, ofrenda, photograph
What is Día de los Muertos?
Día de los Muertos, known in English as “The Day of the Dead,” is a Mexican holiday...
Posted: 1 year 40 weeks
The question: Standards of dress have become more casual and this trend accelerated during the word-from-home environment of the pandemic. I've seen t-shirts with questionable messages in the...
Posted: 1 year 41 weeks
Tagged: Circle Theatre, Live Theater, Musical Theater, The Music Man
The Music Man premiered sixty-five years ago (1957) and was set forty-five years before that (1912). Math-oriented readers have already deduced that 110 years separate us from the...
Posted: 1 year 41 weeks
Tagged: cdc, christopher becker, christopher schurr, Grand Rapids, Grand River, interactive, KCHD, Kent County, mdhhs, monkeypox, mosquitoes, people v christopher schurr, sixth street bridge, usgs, virus, water quality, west nile
Kent County Health Department Confirms Presence of Monkeypox and West Nile Viruses in West Michigan
The Kent County Health Department (KCHD) ...