Join Michigan Touring Artist and Storyteller Jen Strauss for Michigan Legends and Lore, then stay for her playful and interactive Storytelling to Story Writing Workshop.  Come listen and learn as Jen tells her stories, then gives you easy-to-use tips and tools to help you hone your own storytelling and writing skills. Emberlight’s Performance Infusion series provides audiences an understanding of what makes […]

Take a virtual walk through the woods with UP artists Cedar Nelson and Donna Wilcox, two talented women who see creative possibilities everywhere in nature.  Watch them at work, crafting with simple tools and natural foraged materials.  Learn to appreciate the bounty that surrounds us, as Donna and Cedar share their unique perspectives of the wild world. Emberlight’s Performance […]

Join Emberlight for this poignant tribute to miners everywhere, with a special focus on those of the Gogebic Range.  The afternoon will feature local historians Ivan Hellen and Larry Peterson, music from Ironwood troubadour Bob Michaels, and an ensemble reading of When it Comes: a Poem for Voices, written by Kathleen Carlton Johnson of Lake Linden, Michigan. Emberlight’s Performance Infusion series provides audiences […]

Learn how freshly shorn sheep’s wool becomes cloth.  Using age-old techniques, wool is washed, carded, spun, and woven. Once the cloth is off the loom, we invite you to help with waulking the cloth, a process which involves wetting the wool, then passing and pounding it to the rhythm of traditional Scottish waulking songs.  Local […]

Poetry read outside on a balmy summer afternoon – what could be better? This event brings together poets from the Emberlight National Poetry Contest to read their works, and celebrate the awarding of Poet Laureate honors to the top contestant. Woven into the afternoon will be music from mandolin player Fran Strong and guitar player […]

Join us for this cooperative venture led by potter Lauren Duffy of Ashland, with help from her cohorts the Dragonistas, as they build a pottery kiln in the shape of a dragon using locally sourced red clay to cover a metal and mesh frame. Watch as the kiln is loaded with pottery made by area […]