The Museum hosts numerous concerts and events throughout the season including our Silent Film Series, School Days Program and much more. In addition it serves as the perfect backdrop for weddings, receptions, business meetings and parties and is available for rental from May through December.

The Old Art Building offers a variety of classes for students.

The Village Theater at Cherry Hill offers performances of various plays throughout the school year. Normally five different plays will be put on stage at a frequency of about one a month, or every other month.

"The mission of Thunder Bay Theatre is to provide a year-round schedule of programs, including mainstage productions, educational shows and theatre workshops. Organized as a non-profit corporation, TBT is a professional theatre committed to entertaining its audiences with high quality productions utilizing its resident professional company augmented with community talent."

At the Traverse Symphony Orchestra, we believe in the importance of music education and strive to nurture a love of music in children and the community. Music helps with math, science, coordination, creativity, languages and cooperation. Our free family programs are offered twice every season, bringing the classical music experience to all ages. Get up close and personal with symphonic music, instruments and our musicians.

From theater to modern dance, from Brazil to China, UMS School Day Performances feature some of the world’s best performing artists and use the arts to ignite student imagination and support student growth and development.

Performances serve kindergarten through high school students and teachers receive UMS Learning Guides to facilitate meaningful connections between the performance and classroom curriculum.

The Warren Symphony Orchestra offers spring orchestra concerts geared specifically to children.

Wellspring offers an alternative approach for children's and adult modern dance classes through its unique philosophy of teaching and learning from the "inside out" versus traditional methods of learning rote movements, copied from the outside. Students learn creativity, build strength, increase flexibility, improve coordination and learn the basics of body alignment and movement. In a relaxed and nurturing environment, Wellspring classes allow learners to feel safe and accepted as opposed to a competitive/team approach.

No previous dance experience is needed. Classes require no special attire, just comfortable clothing and bare feet. Classes are ongoing and students are welcome to join at any time during a semester.

Partner your school with the West Michigan Symphony Link Up program (a nationally recognized curriculum by Carnegie Hall) to bring music and melody to your classroom students in grades 3-5. Link Up is a year-long curriculum for music classrooms focusing (this year) on how music moves. Link Up draws on concert repertoire and culminates with students performing at the Frauenthal Theater in Muskegon. Students learn soprano recorder, sing, compose, meet musicians and perform together at the WMS Link Up Concert.

The Act One School Series provides curriculum-linked, performing arts enrichmentactivities for students in grades K-12. Shows produced by nationally touring youth theatre companies bring characters from history and literature to life in one-hour school-day matinees. The lecture-demonstration format of selected shows provides a perfect opportunity to introduce students to cultural music and dance artists from around the world.