CANCELED/RESCHEDULED

• KISS: Previously scheduled for Sept. 11, DTE Energy Music Theatre, Independence Twp., has been rescheduled to Sept. 1, 2021.

• 89th Annual Peach Festival: Canceled for 2020, previously scheduled for Sept. 3-7, downtown Romeo, https://romeopeachfestival.com.

• Hamtramck Labor Day Festival: Canceled, downtown Hamtramck.

• Annual Art on the Bay: Canceled for 2020, downtown New Baltimore, www.artonthebay.com, 810-394-1570.

• Michigan Renaissance Festival: Canceled for 2020, Holly, previously purchased tickets will be valid for the 2021 festival, www.michrenfest.com.

Tickets will be honored for rescheduled shows. Ticketholders have 30 days to request a refund at point of purchase. Tickets on sale at Ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000, Livenation.com, 313Presents.com.

FESTIVALS

• 41st Annual Detroit’s Jazz Festival: Sept. 4-7, will be held without audiences and streamed or broadcast “live”, free. Performances will be broadcast on public radio and television stations and at detroitjazzfest.org, and on the DetroitJazzFest LIVE! App.

• 2020 Michigan State Fair: scheduled at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, will transition to a free online event, Sept. 3-7, michiganstatefairllc.com.

• Soaring Eagle Arts, Beats & Eats: Main event canceled, Sept. 4-7, virtual and scaled-down live events with social distancing planned, downtown Royal Oak, artsbeatseats.com.

• Crafty Dragon, alternative to annual Dragon on the Lake Festival: 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Aug. 29, downtown Lake Orion. Chalk Art Challenge, sign up to create artwork on pavement in the Children’s Park parking lot. Spaces are limited, register at bit.ly/2020chalkart. Live art workshops and classes are 10 a.m.-5 p.m., outside the Orion Art Center, 115 S. Anderson Street, Lake Orion. Sign up at orionartcenter.org. Crafty Dragon Social is 5-7:30 p.m. or 8:30-11 p.m., featuring beer, wine and cocktail tasting and live music, $180+ for table of 4, orionartcenter.org.

FUNDRAISERS

• Virtual Rent Party- Lighthouse emergency housing nonprofit fundraiser: 7 p.m. Aug. 29, live-streaming from the front steps of the former Stanley Kresge estate in Detroit. The event is in the spirit of the rent party tradition, which offered a DIY solution for families facing eviction in the 1920s, features Mike Jellick on piano, www.facebook.com/LighthouseMichigan.

• The Sounds of Summer: open air concert fundraiser 7 p.m. Aug. 29 and 4 p.m. Aug. 30, on Theatre NOVA’s front porch, using social distancing, $20 per person or $50 for a family of four (adults and children) per performance. To benefit Theatre NOVA. Purchase at TheatreNova.org.

• Fall Showcase, fall fashion event: Noon-4 p.m. Aug. 30 and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 31, Council Re|sale, 3297 West 12 Mile Road, Berkley. National Council of Jewish Women, Michigan. Shoppers can purchase a $25 VIP early entry fee by appointment, call 248-548-6664.

• A Virtual Evening with We Banjo: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20, The Ark of Ann Arbor’s 24th annual fall fundraiser, MC’d by Acoustic Café’s Rob Reinhart, www.theark.org, $10-$500.

ART

• 35th Annual OUR TOWN Art Show and Sale: Sept. 10-30, virtual event, The Community House of Birmingham, www.communityhouse.com/event/our-town-art-show-sale.

• Detroit Institute of Arts: Reopened with timed tickets at dia.org/reopening.

• Paint Creek Center for the Arts: The PCCA reopened with virtual and in-person art classes, pccart.org.

• Shapeshifters-Transformations in Contemporary Art: Cranbrook Art Museum has reopened to the public, Cranbrook Art Museum, 39221 Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills, cranbrookartmuseum.org, 248-645-3329, timed online registration recommended.

• “Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Verses”: Katherine Kasdorf, Detroit Institute of Arts, Associate Curator of Arts of Asia and the Islamic World, insight and history on a Buddhist manuscript from eastern India, bit.ly/2TlNdus.

• 12th Annual Polish Pottery Sale: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 29, and Aug. 31-Sept. 5, Acorn Farm, 367 Main St., Milford, 248-684-1373, acornfarmmi.com.

• “Michigan’s Great Lakes”: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash on view through Aug. 30 at DIA dia.org/greatlakes. Share on social media and tag #MyGreatLakesatTheDIA to be a part of the discussion.

• Art Talk: Online discussion of “Watson and the Shark” by John Singelton Copley, At Home with the DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts, dia.org/athome.

• Art-Making: Cylinder Seals-School Field Trip From Home with the DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts, dia.org/athome.

• Student Artwork Exhibit: PTA Reflections Program through Sept. 2, Farmington Hills City Hall, 31555 W. 11 Mile Road, Farmington Hills, sites.google.com/site/farmingtonptareflections.

• West of Center-Juried All-Media Exhibition: Sept. 2-26, Northville Art House, 215 W. Cady in Northville, masks required, virtual exhibition also, 248-344-0497, www.northvillearthouse.org.

• Call for artists: All media inspired by the theme “Once Upon a Time,” for exhibit by Arts Alive, through Sept. 8, at Tibbits Opera House. Artists may submit up to three pieces at $5 per submission. Cash prizes will be awarded based on audience votes. Artists may sell work on commission, 517-278-6029, email artsalivecw@gmail.com, facebook.com/Arts-Alive-Coldwater.

• Our Town Art Show & Sale: virtual, Sept. 10, The Community House, communityhouse.com.

• “We Used to Gather”: exhibit through Sept. 18, Library Street Collective, 1260 Library St., Detroit, lscgallery.com.

• ArtParty @ Home: Unlike the one-night benefit of the past, patrons can view art and participate in silent auction online through Sept. 24, Anton Art Center, theartcenter.org. Free to view, donations requested.

• Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is accepting entries for the annual Ray and Nancy Loeschner Art Competition. Two $5,000 purchase awards (one for two-dimensional and one for photography) will be paid for the winning entries in addition to becoming a part of Meijer Gardens’ permanent collection. The competition is open to all artists, 18+. Register at meijergardens.org/award by Oct. 23.

AUDITIONS

Oakland Youth Orchestras Call for auditions: online virtually via a Zoom video, Aug. 29. String, woodwind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists, ages 7-18, are invited to audition for Oakland Youth Orchestras, (OYO) register at www.oyomi.org. OYO is offering a reduced tuition fee of $300. Tuition assistance and merit based scholarships are available, contact admin@oyomi.org.

BEATS

• Harmonic Swell & The Bridge of Reverberation-Pop-up concert series: 7-8:30 p.m. Aug. 28; Sept. 11 and Sept. 25, outdoors, downtown Berkley between Clark’s Ice Cream at 3312 12 Mile Road, and Odd Fellows Antiques, Berkeley DDA, DowntownBerkley.com, space is limited.

• Metallica-Encore Drive-In Nights Show: Aug. 29, One Night Only at Drive-In Theaters Across North America, includes four digital downloads of S&M2 album with each ticket purchase, $115+ per car, ticketmaster.com/encore-metallica. Venues include Canterbury Village Drive-In, Lake Orion; Ford Wyoming Drive-In, Dearborn and US 23 Drive In Theatre, Flint.

• George Bedard and the Kingpins, and special guest, “Mr. B” Braun: Livestream show is 8-9:30 p.m. Aug. 29, from The Ark, Ann Arbor, theark.org.

• Two Taylors: 4-8 p.m. Aug. 29, performing on the patio, Brownie’s on the Lake, 24214 Jefferson Ave., St. Clair Shores, browniesonthelake.com.

• LiveNation Live From Home: Concerts include Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Kidz Bop at livenation.com/livefromhome, #Togetherapart.

• “Rewind”: The Gilbert Jackson Chorale of Waterford Twp. recorded concerts at jacksonchorale.org/past-performances. For info or requests, email gilbertjacksonchorale@gmail.com.

• 2020 Unity in the Community: Drive-in concert series 6:30 p.m. Fridays in August, Pontiac City Hall parking lot. Attendees listen from cars or bring lawn chairs, maximum of four people per vehicle. Masks and social distancing required, pontiac.mi.us. Free concert, limited capacity.

• Trumpeter Charlie Porter: 7 and 9 p.m. Sept. 4-5, Night Out On Main Street with dinner and a show, The Blue LLama Jazz Club, 314 S. Main St., Ann Arbor, bluellamaclub.com/event/charlie-porter, $65 each.

CLASSICAL

• Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival: Aug. 26-30, Sila-The Breath of the World is 6-7 p.m. Aug. 29 at Cranbrook upper school quad, 39221 Woodward Ave Bloomfield Hills, limited tickets, face masks required. Also virtual events: Ivalas Quartet in Conversation and Performance at 11 a.m.-noon, Aug. 28; Miniature Music Dramas at 7-8:30 p.m. Aug. 28; Viano String Quartet in Conversation and Performance, 11 a.m.-noon, Aug. 29; “The singing will never be done” quartet at 1-2:30 p.m. Aug. 30, www.greatlakeschambermusic.org/performances.

• Detroit Symphony Orchestra: “Summer Sessions-DSO Outdoors” Yoga and live music 9 a.m. Aug. 29 and 7 p.m. Sept. 1 at Sosnick Courtyard, 51 Parsons St., Detroit, $15 each. Register at dso.org/summer.

• Detroit Symphony Orchestra: 3 p.m. Aug. 30 at Clark Park, Detroit, with masks and social distancing, temperature checks at entrance. Patrons to bring their own chairs or blankets. Register at dso.org/summer.

• Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Recordings of previous concerts on DSO Replay at dso.org/replay.

• “Mambo Encore”: Michigan Philharmonic of Plymouth, youtu.be/QzaXKlVyij4, michiganphil.org.

DANCE

• Virtual Dance Club: Michigan Opera Theatre “Dance Dialogues” explores a new performance every month. Members receive a link to watch on their own time, culminating in a virtual discussion on the third Tuesday of the month, moderated by guest dance experts. Paul Taylor Dance Company discussion is 3 p.m. Sept. 15. Future dialogues include Ballet Hispánico, Merce Cunningham and “The Nutcracker,” michiganopera.org/dialogues-dance.

DRIVE-IN THEATER

• Emagine Novi Drive-In: “The New Mutants”: pre-show activities start at 7 p.m., movie at 9:15 p.m. Aug. 27-30, south side parking lot of Twelve Mile Crossing at Fountain Walk, 44425 W. 12 Mile Road, Novi. COVID-19 precautions, concession delivery to car, no outside food or beverages allowed, emagine-entertainment.com, $30 per vehicle with no more than six people. RVs and limousines excluded.

• Canterbury Village: Powered by Emagine, movies: Aug. 27-30; Sept. 2, Sept. 4-7 and Sept. 9 at Canterbury Village, 2359 Joslyn Ct., Lake Orion. Tickets at BigTickets.com, facebook.com/canterburyvillagelakeorion, rain or shine, $20+.

• Movies at dusk: “Frozen 2” Aug. 28 at Kensington Metropark, Milford Twp.; “Toy Story 4” Aug. 29 at Willow Metropark, Huron Twp.; “Aladdin” Sept. 5 at Stony Creek Metropark, Shelby Twp., free with Metropark pass, first-come-first-parked basis, socially distanced safety measures, metroparks.com/movies.

• Metallica-Encore Drive-In Nights Show: Aug. 29, One Night Only at Drive-In Theaters Across North America, includes four digital downloads of S&M2 album with each ticket purchase, $115+ per car, ticketmaster.com/encore-metallica. Venues include Canterbury Village Drive-In, Lake Orion; Ford Wyoming Drive-In, Dearborn and US 23 Drive In Theatre, Flint.

• MJR Digital Cinemas: Concession pickup and delivery through the DoorDash mobile app available at select locations including MJR Southgate Cinema 20, MJR Waterford Cinema 16, MJR Chesterfield Cinema 16, and MJR Troy Grand Cinema 16, within the service area, mjrtheatres.com.

FAMILY

• Jurassic Quest Drive-Thru Experience: Touring exhibit of 70+ lifelike dinosaurs Wed.-Sun., through Aug. 30, at DTE Energy Music Theatre parking area, Independence Twp. Timed tickets start at $49 for hourlong passenger car ride, purchased at 313Presents.com or jurassicquest.com. No food sales, guests may bring snacks. Staff will deliver merchandise for purchase at the Dino Store. Guests to remain in vehicles during the tour, and wear masks if they exit vehicle in allowed areas.

• DIA At Home: Family Art Projects Neighborhood Collage and Art-Making-Stabiles, freestanding geometric sculptures. Access the Detroit Institute of Arts online to view collections and online resources for children and adults, dia.org/athome, dia.org/education/resources, dia.org/videos.

• Pure Michigan virtual tours: Live cams at beaches and exhibits through #VirtualPureMichigan campaign, on Pure Michigan’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter channels, facebook.com/puremichigan.

• Michigan History for Kids: For third and fourth grades, exploring history and heritage of all Michigan peoples, michigankids.org/home.

• CreativeBug: Joann Fabrics & Crafts offers two months free website subscription with access to thousands of online arts and crafts courses, creativebug.com.

• Libraries: While closed, many libraries offer online services, including e-books, mel.org/welcome.

FILM

• FilmCon 2020, a free series of interactive sessions with industry professionals, presented by the Motion Picture Institute in Troy, is 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 29. Register at bit. ly/2020filmcon. For information, visit mpifilm.com.

• Emagine Virtual Cinema: Emagine and partners provide select films at home via TV, mobile devices or computer through Emagine Virtual Cinema. Bleeker Street and Magnolia Pictures $12 per movie, Distrib Films US $10 per movie and subscription-based Film Movement $12 per movie; emagine-entertainment.com/virtual-cinema.

• “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” (restored): DFT @ Home, through Sept. 14, Detroit Film Theatre, dia.org/visit/detroit-film-theatre, $10+.

• “Gordon Lightfoot-If You Could Read My Mind”: documentary DFT @ Home virtual tickets and benefit for the Detroit Film Theatre, dia.org/visit/detroit-film-theatre, $9.99+.

MUSEUMS

• Autonomous vehicle exhibit: The Michigan Science Center in partnership with Ford Motor Co., open Thursday-Sunday. Tickets must be reserved in advance, due to COVID-19 protocols, bit.ly/3jsZrwt, free admission, 313-577-8400, Mi-Sci.org.

• Royal Oak Historical Society Museum: Annual Cruisin’ Woodward Exhibit, at the Northwood Firestation, 1411 Webster Road, Royal Oak, free entry, donations accepted, royaloakhistoricalsociety.com.

• The Henry Ford: Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village has reopened, 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn. Ford Rouge Factory Tour and the Giant Screen Experience closed until further notice, thehenryford.org.

• “Capturing A Culture Change-Motown Through The Lens of Jim Hendin”: Motown Museum reopened with smaller tour groups and enhanced safety measures. Online tickets, motownmuseum.org/visit/hours-admissions. Masks required inside museum. Guests will be greeted by an associate outside. New hours 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.

• Ford House grounds and gardens: Historic estate of Edsel and Eleanor Ford in Grosse Pointe Shores, reopened for tours, with timed entry, social distancing and masks. Visitors must register in advance, fordhouse.org, $5 each, no tickets at the gate. Ford House, historical buildings, visitor center and museum store closed. Restrooms near the Gate Lodge. Ford House mobile app available at fordhouse.org and App Store.

• Cranbrook Institute of Science: reopened to the public, Aug. 26, with free admission, Aug. 26-Sept. 6, visitors are required to pre-register online in advance, maximum capacity is 50 guests. The Institute will be open Wednesday-Sunday, option to view museum collections and videos online at science.cranbrook.edu. Cranbrook House & Gardens are open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. daily. Visitors welcome to explore grounds for free this year. The Acheson Planetarium remains closed until further notice. Cranbrook House and the Conservatory Greenhouse remain closed, housegardens.cranbrook.edu.

Note: Many events are canceled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Check with venues for updates.

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