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Summer Reading Program
Coming Summer 2026
Performers and Presenters
Check out the fantastic performers and presenters that we featured this past summer!
Jen Strauss
Storyteller
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Since 1993, Jen has been sharing her passion for Storytelling with audiences of all ages in all places. She has performed at Leelanau Township Library many times!
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Since 1993, Jen has been sharing her passion for Storytelling with audiences of all ages in all places. She has performed at Leelanau Township Library many times!
Great Lakes Children's Mobile Museum
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The Purpose of the Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum is to provide educational opportunities that enhance the understanding of the area’s maritime heritage. Towards this goal it must effectively restore and maintain the cultural landscape for the benefit of the community.
The Great Lakes Children’s Museum’s Mobile Museum is a hands-on learning festival on wheels! Exhibits and activities can pop up anywhere! The Mobile Museum is a way to learn and play around the Grand Traverse Region outdoors in parks and playgrounds. Join us for a Children’s Museum experience without the walls!
Grand Traverse Lighthouse
ROV and Shipwreck presentations
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The Purpose of the Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum is to provide educational opportunities that enhance the understanding of the area’s maritime heritage. Towards this goal it must effectively restore and maintain the cultural landscape for the benefit of the community.
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The Purpose of the Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum is to provide educational opportunities that enhance the understanding of the area’s maritime heritage. Towards this goal it must effectively restore and maintain the cultural landscape for the benefit of the community.
Miriam Pico
Singer & Songwriter
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Teaching PEACE & LOVE through music, movement, stories, and family fun! ALL are welcome. ALL are loved, loved, loved.
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Teaching PEACE & LOVE through music, movement, stories, and family fun! ALL are welcome. ALL are loved, loved, loved.
Lori Fithian
Drum Circle Facilitator
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Lori Fithian has been facilitating drum circles and leading workshops for the last five years. She has played hand drums and studied many different drumming traditions since 1990. However, playing on tupperware bowls as a child seems to be the real beginning of her rhythmical career. Having played the French horn since the fifth grade, she brings a life-long love of music and rhythm to her drum circles and workshops.
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Lori Fithian has been facilitating drum circles and leading workshops for the last five years. She has played hand drums and studied many different drumming traditions since 1990. However, playing on tupperware bowls as a child seems to be the real beginning of her rhythmical career. Having played the French horn since the fifth grade, she brings a life-long love of music and rhythm to her drum circles and workshops.
Full Tilt Comedy
Improv Group
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Enjoy a not-too-long performance where the Full Tilt players use YOUR suggestions to create scenes and characters right before your eyes. Join us for optional 30 minutes of play time! We will guide the tall and the small through silly games that inspire curiosity, collaboration, and fun, all in the spirit of "yes, and..."
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Enjoy a not-too-long performance where the Full Tilt players use YOUR suggestions to create scenes and characters right before your eyes. Join us for optional 30 minutes of play time! We will guide the tall and the small through silly games that inspire curiosity, collaboration, and fun, all in the spirit of "yes, and..."
Northport Arts Association
Children's Art Activities
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Northport Arts Association strives to be a valued resource for artists and to engage our community in the greater world of the arts.
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Northport Arts Association strives to be a valued resource for artists and to engage our community in the greater world of the arts.
Beverly The Music Lady
Singer along with Marc the Balloon Meister
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Since 1996, Beverly has sharing songs with young children as the Music Lady. Performances include song, movement and lot's of fun! This year Marc the Balloon Meister will join for the addition of comedy and balloon creations.
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Since 1996, Beverly has sharing songs with young children as the Music Lady. Performances include song, movement and lot's of fun! This year Marc the Balloon Meister will join for the addition of comedy and balloon creations.
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