Ann Arbor Community Events and Entertainment for October
Fall is here! Grab you family and friends and take the fun outdoors to enjoy all that the season in Ann Arbor has to offer – immaculate colors, football season and activities galore! October in Ann Arbor is fantastic and here’s how you can enjoy it: check out a country fair, take the family apple and pumpkin picking at a local orchard, spend date night at a musical or concert, educate yourself on local issues, spend a ladies day out at a local craft show, and of course, have a blast at the local Halloween festivities! Don’t forget to let me know how you enjoy your experiences!
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9/19/2009 – 11/1/2009
WIARD’S ORCHARDS AND COUNTRY FAIR
Wiard’s Orchard and Country Fair has it all for fall: Apple Orchards, U Pick Apples, U Pick Pumpkins, a cider mill with cider mill donuts, bakery, pony rides, a corn maze, petting farm, giant inflatables, Old West hayrides, and more!
Makes Wiard’s Country Fair a great place for fall adventure. The-hand dipped caramel apples have people talking all over Metro Detroit! Wiard’s has been serving the community since 1853, growing beautiful farm fresh apples, baking awesome apple pies, and serving customers with a smile.
5565 Meritt Road
Ypsilanti, MI
Phone: (734) 482-7744
Map/Driving Directions
Event Website
Hours: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Cost: Wednesday-Friday $8.25, Saturday-Sunday $11.50 or $8.75 after 4:30 p.m.
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10/1/2009 – 10/18/2009
SWEENEY TODD
The rare instance of a musical thriller, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. His thirst for blood soon expands to include his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful proprietress of the pie shop downstairs soon has the people of London lining up in droves with her mysterious new meat pie recipe.
Sophisticated, macabre, visceral and uncompromising, “Sweeney Todd” nevertheless has a great sense of fun, mixing intense drama with howlingly funny moments of dark humor: audiences find themselves laughing hysterically one moment and gasping in surprise the next.
The Encore Theatre
3126 Broad Street
Dexter, MI
Phone: (734) 286-6200
Event Website
Hours: Thursdays at 7p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m.
Cost: $22-$28
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10/2/2009
UMPHREY’S MCGEE
Like true sons of the American Midwest, Umphrey’s McGee has risen to the upper echelons of the improvisational-rock scene through their seamless compositing of diverse musical influences, from progressive-rock to metal to funk to folk to jazz-fusion to classic song-based rock-and roll, all woven together with infectious melodies, thought-provoking lyrics, pristine harmonies, blistering musicianship, and rollicking grooves that keep dem bones a-shaking throughout the course of their patented sonic sagas. Mantis is the first Umphrey’s album to consist entirely of material never previously performed on the road, where the band rules the improv-rock circuit and plays more than 100 shows each year.
The Michigan Theater
603 E. Liberty Street
Ann Arbor, MI
Map/Driving Directions
Theater Website
Phone: (800) 745-3000
Hours: 8:00 PM
Cost: $22.50
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10/4/2009
JOHN GORKA
The modern renaissance of folk music began when John Gorka won the Kerrville Folk Festival’s New Folk award in 1984, and it grew to maturity when he released his debut album, “I Know,” three years later. Here was a singer-songwriter with a striking baritone voice that made you feel like you’d been hearing it all your life, with the songwriting chops to take on and see into nearly every type of song–from personal pieces about love and sadness, to bemused observations about daily life, political thinking-aloud, and sheer, unmitigated whimsy. More than two decades later, John Gorka still calls himself an aspiring folksinger, and his music just keeps getting deeper and better. Opening is singer-songwriter Drew Nelson, who has a new release, “Dusty Road to Beulah Land.” This Grand Rapids native has a big fan in his corner, named John Gorka.
The Ark
316 S. Main Street
Ann Arbor, MI
Map/Driving Directions
Theater Website
Phone: (734) 761-1451
Hours: 7:30PM
Cost: $17.50
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10/7/2009
HUNGRY PLANET – HEALTHY SCHOOLS
Peter Menzel is a freelance photojournalist whose award-winning photographs have appeared in national and international publications including National Geographic, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, Geo, Stern, Paris Match, Life and Le Figaro. His book, Hungry Planet: What The World Eats, a collaboration with author and editor Faith D’Aluisio, is a photojournalistic study of 30 families from 24 countries and the food they eat during the course of one week. Each family was asked to purchase – at the authors’ expense – a typical week’s groceries, whether sacks of grain and potatoes and overripe bananas, or rows of packaged cereals, sodas and take-out pizzas. The food is photographed in a full-page family portrait, offering a thought-provoking look at what the world eats. Hungry Planet received the 2006 James Beard Best Book Award and was awarded the 2005 Harry Chapin Media Award. Peter will be joined by Kim Eagle, MD, the Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Cardiovascular Center at the University of Michigan Health System. Dr. Eagle is the director of Project Healthy Schools, a community-university collaborative that provides school-based programming to reduce childhood obesity and its long-term health risks. Project Healthy Schools was designed to teach students about heart-healthy lifestyles, especially nutrition, with hopes of reducing their future risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. This event is made possible through a Partners In Research Program with the National Institutes of Health and is cosponsored by the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research.
The Ark
316 S. Main Street
Ann Arbor, MI
Map/Driving Directions
Theater Website
Phone: (734) 761-1451
Hours: 7:00-8:30PM
Cost: FREE!
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10/10/2009
CRAFT AND GIFT SHOW
Visit the Second Annual Craft and Gift Show at Ann Arbor’s Interfaith Center for Spiritual Growth, featuring unique gifts and one-of-a-kind artwear benefiting local and global artisans, including beautiful accessories from a Brazilian women’s collective, clothing and scarves from India, and handwoven items from Ecuador. Come do your holiday shopping early! Local artists will be selling their original photography prints and note cards, jewelry of all types (beads, semi-precious stones, glass, crystals, sterling), accessories, original calligraphy paintings, and handmade natural soaps. $1 admission includes raffle ticket.
Interfaith Center for Spiritual Growth
704 Airport Blvd
Ann Arbor, MI
Venue Website
Phone: (734) 327-0270
Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Cost: $1
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10/15/2009 – 10/18/2009
EVITA
Illegitimate and impoverished, fifteen-year old Eva Duarte escaped rural Argentina to seek fame as an actress in Buenos Aires. Combining unfettered ambition and shrewd manipulation with astonishing charisma, Eva worked her way up the social ladder through theatre, movies, radio, and men, ultimately meeting Colonel Juan Perón – a rising star in the military and political scene. Together they form a union that carries Perón to the presidency. Eva’s power as First Lady would endear her to the masses, horrify established society, and effect hatred in the military. Only death could halt her meteoric rise, which brought an outpouring of public grief unseen until the death of Princess Diana. Filled with beautiful and terrible works, Eva Perón’s life and death would acquire mythical status.
University of Michigan
Mendelssohn Theater
911 N. University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI
Website
Phone: (734) 764-2538
Hours: Thursday at 7:30 p.m, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m.; Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
Cost: TBA
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10/20/2009-10/25/2009
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST – SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE
Self-denial is in fashion at the court of Navarre where the young King and three of his courtiers solemnly forswear all pleasures in favor of serious study. But the Princess of France and her all-too-lovely entourage have other ideas, and it isn’t long before young love, with its glad eyes, hesitations and embarrassments, has broken every self-imposed rule of the all-male ‘academe’. Shakespeare’s boisterous celebration of the claims of young love is a festive parade of every weapon in the youthful playwright’s comic arsenal – from excruciating cross-purposes to silly impersonations, drunkenness, bustups and pratfalls. It’s also his most joyful banquet of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parody.
Power Center
121 Fletcher Street
Ann Arbor, MI
Map/Driving Directions
Website
Phone: (734) 764-2538
Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 8:00pm, Sunday 2:00pm
Cost: $18-$60
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10/23/2009
EMMYLOU HARRIS
With a career that has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, garnered a remarkable 12 Grammy Awards and stirred music lovers for more than thirty years and counting, Emmylou Harris has been rightfully hailed as a major figure in several of America’s most important musical movements of the past three decades. The songbird’s contributions to country-rock, the bluegrass revival, folk music, and the Americana movement are widely lauded, and in recent years Emmylou Harris certainly has carved out a sound that is uniquely her own.
The Michigan Theater
603 E. Liberty Street
Ann Arbor, MI
Map/Driving Directions
Theater Website
Phone: (800) 745-3000
Hours: TBA
Cost: $35.00-$65.00
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10/27/2009
LOUD AND RICH: AN EVENING WITH RICHARD THOMPSON AND LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III
With a career that has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, garnered a remarkable 12 Grammy Awards and stirred music lovers for more than thirty years and counting, Emmylou Harris has been rightfully hailed as a major figure in several of America’s most important musical movements of the past three decades. The songbird’s contributions to country-rock, the bluegrass revival, folk music, and the Americana movement are widely lauded, and in recent years Emmylou Harris certainly has carved out a sound that is uniquely her own.
The Michigan Theater
603 E. Liberty Street
Ann Arbor, MI
Map/Driving Directions
Theater Website
Phone: (800) 745-3000
Hours: 7:30pm
Cost: $25-$65
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10/30/2009
HALLOWEEN TREAT PARADE
Join the merchants of downtown Ann Arbor for the ninth annual Treat Parade. Area merchants will welcome costumed characters with greets and treats. Black and orange balloons fly from participating businesses. Join the fun from 11am to 5pm.
Get an early start and head to the Ann Arbor District Library on S. Fifth Ave. to get in the mood with a spooky story. Two story times to choose from 9:30am and 10:30 am. All creatures welcome
Main Street Area
Ann Arbor, MI
Website
Phone: (734) 668-7112 ext. 22
Hours: 11a.m. to 5p.m.
Cost: FREE!
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Above was a sampling of the activities occurring in our community during the month of October. There are many interesting events from concerts to apple picking to musicals to holiday fun! There is something for everyone this month so do something new then let me know how it was!
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