2012 Concert Season:

Feb. 19 - Friends in Song III, 3:30 pm at the WCC Towsley Auditorium

April 29 - Experience The Master, 3:30 pm at the EMU Pease Auditorium

May 26 - Annual Riverside Park Pops Concert, 2:00 pm at Ypsilanti's Riverside Park (This is a free event)

Come with friends or make new ones as you travel this beautiful winemaking region in comfort.

Michigan Wineries have sprouted all over the state. Our perfect climate and rich soil produces savory wines that are unique to Michigan--all waiting for you to select your favorite.

Join us in the tasting rooms along the Southeastern Michigan wine trail. Enjoy a day of tantalizing your taste buds and learning about sweet and dry, red and white wines, Rieslings, Pinots, Cabernets and more. Take a break from your hectic schedule and let us handle the logistics. Your job is simple—enjoy the day, friends & new acquaintances, and the WINE!

Sunday, April 15 - Carson's                                

Saturday, June 23 - Real Seafood

Sunday, July 29 - Carson's

Saturday, August 18 - Palio

Sunday, September 9 - Carson's (Grandparents Wine Tour)

Saturday, October 27 - Real Seafood

Local brews have unique flavors, style and tastes that you will not find in a bottle—especially one from out West or another country. Going local is cool and tasty!

All of our tours begin at our local favorite, Wolverine State Brewery, with samplings of a few home town brews. Then it's off to a Brew Festival where you will join many other brew lovers in a search for new brews to add to your list of winners, or jump on the Detroit Brew tour to visit 3 or 4 downtown breweries. Finally, for the perfect ending, we will arrive back at Wolverine, for a final brew, new stories, friends and a renewed love of our beloved state -- and it's unique brews!

Join us for one of our brew tours:                                                                        

March 10 - Detroit Brew Tour                                                                                                                                      

April 21 - Detroit Brew Tour                                                                         

May 12 - Mother's Day Brew Tour

May 19 - World Expo of Beer, Frankenmuth ($60 per person)

June 9 - Bavarian Festival, Frankenmuth ($35 per person)

August 11 - Detroit Brew Tour

Oct. 20 - MI Brewer's Guild Fall Beer Festival, Eastern Market

Haroon Mirza is a noted visual artist who wants us to listen, to train our ears on the incidental sounds that surround us, and to connect sound to the objects that create it. In his work Mirza explores and attempts to restore the relationships humans have with sound that occur through objects, actions, and forces, relationships largely screened behind the black boxes of electronic keyboards, digital music players, TV monitors, and the bits of information they play. In experiencing his work, we the audience are placed in an in-between position, vacillating between isolating the part and apprehending the whole. The installation itself performs for us as an "unfolding composition in time," and we the audience unfold too, though our acts of looking, listening, seeing, and hearing. His installations-which could also be considered unique time-based concerts-have captured the attention of the public and critics alike; he was awarded the prestigious Northern Art Prize in 2010 (he lives in Sheffield, England as well as London), and his work for the 2011 Venice Biennale garnered the Silver Lion Award as the most promising young artist. This exhibition, guest curated by Elizabeth Thomas, is Haroon Mirza's first solo museum exhibition in the United States.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund, and the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

A World Premiere by Don Zolidis and Winner of the 2004 Princess Grace Award for Playwriting and the 2011 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award.

When Carol Gelling discovers that a buffalo born on her farm is pure white, she thinks it’s nothing more than a curiosity. She soon learns that the birth of the white buffalo fulfills an ancient Sioux prophecy -- the coming of peace on earth and unity of mankind. Almost overnight, her small farm becomes a hotbed of spiritual outpouring -- from Native American pilgrims to the Dalai Lama. When a mysterious businessman offers to buy the calf, Carol must decide whether the white buffalo signals the end of her financial hardships or the beginning of her own spiritual enrichment. This award-winning new play weaves a magical story of forgiveness, hope, and belonging.

The Chelsea Comfort Inn has a PURPLE ROSE THEATRE PACKAGE for the 'White Buffalo' performances:$165.00 +tax, includes accommodations, a hot breakfast buffet, and 2 tickets to the Purple Rose Theatre. This offer is available from March 29 - June 2, 2012.