HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – Lots of great things to do in the Holland area this week!
2/29 Monday: Team Trivia Mondays at the Curragh- A plethora of categories gives all team members their strong subject and ensures the useless knowledge stored away will finally be put to good use. What does matter is that everyone has fun! Curragh prizes are usually, $30 gift certificates for first place, $20 gift certificates for second and $10 gift certificates for third. Team size does not matter. 73 East 8th Street, Holland; 7-9pm; Free.
3/1 Tuesday: Hope College Guest Artist: David Baskeyfield, Organ at Jack H. Miller Center for the Arts Concert Hall- avid Baskeyfield is a British organist currently living in Rochester, upstate New York. Most recently the first prize winner at the Canadian International Organ Competition 2014 (among three other prizes including audience prize), earlier competition success includes first and audience prizes at St Albans. 221 Columbia Ave., Holland; 7:30pm; Free.
3/2 Wednesday: Hope College Art Exhibit – Katie Wynne: Work Day at DePree Art Center and Gallery- From Katie Wynne’s website: To be an escapist, you must first perceive a prison. I see a reality suffocated by firm definitions. In the process of categorizing, we simplify, and in doing so deny the complexity of experience. How much space really exists between celebration and loss, between comfort and vacancy? I don’t want to separate out these terms, I want to see them collapse back together, creating a space where dualities are inseparable. In a reality of too much orderliness, I am keeping room for the untamed. My work relies on the reciprocal relationship between human and object. Through the residual energy of their making, objects gain their presence. They sit unassumingly, offering you their structure and their skin. The marks of experience, of external forces, have shifted and scarred them. Through these objects we can read the rise and fall of the human drama, both grand and foolish. 160 East 12th St, Holland; 10am-5pm; Free.
3/3 Thursday: Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series: Tarfia Faizullah & Jamaal May at Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts – Recital Hall- Tarfia is a Bangladeshi-American poet, performer, and educator. She was born in 1980 in Brooklyn, NY and raised in west Texas. She received an MFA in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University and is the author of Seam (SIU 2014), as well as Register of Eliminated Villages, forthcoming from Graywolf in 2017. Jamaal May’s first book of poems, Hum, is a “bittersweet love song” to the ruined streets of his native Detroit. Boston Review writes, “In May’s skilled hands, Keats’s urn becomes a Chinese takeout box and Wordsworth’s abbey spires are belching Zug Island factories.” May’s poetry uses images of technology past and present to render the “hum” that drives human identity and connection. Since Hum’s publication in 2013, May has won the Beatrice Hawley Award, the ALA Notable Book Award, and was a finalist for the NAACP Image award and Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He has also published two chapbooks, The God Engine and The Whetting of Teeth. 221 Columbia Ave., Holland; 7pm; Free.
3/4 Friday thru 3/6 Sunday: Girlfriends Weekend- his re-vamped event is a great time to bring your girlfriends to Downtown Holland for shopping and fun! Downtown Holland is offering one great weekend package for all of girlfriends this year…for just $50 per person. Your registration fee includes a swag bag stuffed with goodies from our stores, a coupon book full of savings, fun hands-on activities, a cocktail party kick-off on Friday afternoon at the Courtyard Marriott and Sunday brunch at Alpenrose Restaurant! For an additional registration fee, you can also choose to attend the Breakfast and Fashion Show at 9:00 am on Saturday morning at the Haworth Inn and Conference Center and/or the Pajama Party on Saturday night from 8:30 pm – 11:30 pm at the Park Theatre. The party will feature a DJ, dancing, cash bar, a free photo booth and party favors. Your first drink is on us, too!
