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Events, Summer in Ann Arbor

Start of our summer schedule

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Waiting for the Independence Day Parade to start in 2013 with Tea Haus friends.

Summertime is a season of plenty. And we will be part of plenty of good community events and art fairs this year.  We’re still adding events but here’s an early look at the joyful and delicious events for 2016:

June 12 – Grillin’ – the delicious fundraiser for Food Gatherers. Buy your ticket now – and provide lots of                     meals through soup kitchens, senior centers and more.

June 29 – Mity Nice Friends & Family Free Day. Like us on Facebook and you lick us for free!

July 4 – Independence Day Parade.  A fun community celebration produced by the Jaycees in downtown                  Ann Arbor.  Starts at 10, but arrive by 9:15 for best seating.

July 10 – Huron River Day. Come savor life, music, kayaking on the river. Fun family event produced by                    the Park Department.

July 18 –  Townie Party.  Music, youth art, food, fun and more to warm up for the Art Fair.

July 21-24 — Ann Arbor Art Fair.

Aug. 6 & 7 –  Belle Isle Art Fair in Detroit

In between all this, we are available for company picnics, family reunions and summer celebrations, weddings, bat mitzvahs, block parties and more.  We like backyard and park and neighborhood fun as well as the big events!

Art Fair 2013, near the Diag.
Art Fair 2013, near the Diag.

 

Events, Kerrytown news

It’s a Mystery who will show up at the last Second Sunday of the year

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It’s called All Things Mysterious, this upcoming special day at the Mity Nice cart and the Sunday Artisan Market. And it will be a day full of surprises and mysteries, with some magic thrown in for good measure.

Yet it started out as a place holder or maybe a joke, when the Mity Nice crew first started planning the Second Sunday events early this spring. We knew we wanted a half year of joyful activities and events, yet we had not yet figured out what our October theme would be. The other five months came to us with ease, but not the last one.

So when we created the schedule and the sweet little postcards that adorn so many refrigerators around town, we wrote in “Mystery” for that month.

Eureka! We had a great idea and eventually we realized it worked perfectly, mixing in a little bit of Halloween with a lot of surprise – including some mystery guests and performers.

So we are sworn to secrecy a lot of this, but some entertainers you’ll recognize from our Mity Nice Street Fair and some are new to the Second Sunday scene. Some may be so mysterious you’ll never know their true identity.

One thing that is no surprise is our Mity Nice Arts & Crafts area, where children and adults play around and make things, whether they be sock puppets, bookmarks or a pirate’s moustache. We’re adding some mystery games near our cart on Detroit Street, too, because games are such fun. (Anyone for another hand of poetry cards?)

What:  A fun family day full of games, crafts, entertainment and many mysteries. (But no mystery meat, we promise. Our cart is all vegetarian and vegan treats!)

When: Sunday, Oct. 14, 11:30 to 3 p.m.

Where: At the Mity Nice cart, on the sidewalk at 303 Detroit Street, and throughout the Sunday Artisan Market

Who: Anyone who enjoys fall, mysteries, sweet treats or art – that’s all of us! Plus our friends from the Leslie Science & Nature Center are coming as our charity partner, and they’re bringing some mystery guests.

Why: Because next to Michigan-made Italian ice and other sweets, what could be more wonderful than a day full of joy and mysteries?

How:  How about creating a secret identity, just for the day of All Things Mysterious. Or maybe you want to pull your copy of Harriet the Spy or Encyclopedia Brown and read something mysterious before you show up.

What else:  We cannot tell you, or it will ruin the mystery and the fun surprises!

Events, Kerrytown news

Come play on June 6, you street performers, magicians, musicians and buskers

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We like street performers and buskers, since they add to the street life and energy of our communities. So we’ve have had room for them on our sidewalk-space (and permit) for more than a year now.

But this is bigger, much bigger. A Street Performers Fair on July 8 (yes, it’s a Second Sunday celebration).

We will spotlight seven to 10 performers that day, and give them prizes, free food and an audience. We’d like many of them to be locals from Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Dexter and other nearby communities. (We’re inviting in a few from the Detroit area too.)

To join the fun, musicians, acrobats, magicians, improv and other performers need to try out. Here’s the audition details:

Date:  Wednesday, June 6th.

Time: 6 – 8 p.m.

Place: Kerrytown, right near our cart on the sidewalk at 303 Detroit Street

All acts must be family friendly – PG rated or better.  Music should be acoustic for auditions; if you’re chosen for the fair, you may use a sound system.

Performers also can submit a MP3 or other examples of their work, with a short statement as to why they want to be part of this new event. But priority will be given to those who actually show up and put on a 5- to 10-minute show for us.

A second tryout is scheduled for Sunday, June 17, 2-4 p.m., if needed.

Questions? Ideas? Email us at busker@mitynice.com or generositygrows@yahoo.com

We hope to have an audience for these tryouts, so grab a lawn chair, mango ice or a lemonade and sit down to enjoy the evening.