Calling all players.  A group of people play American Mah Jongg every Thursday afternoon in the Okemos Schuler Books & Music store’s Café.  The group invites all players to join them Thursdays at noon for lunch and 1:00pm (until about 3pm) to play American Mah Jongg in the Café.  If you don’t know how to play but would like to learn the game, the group recommends reading A Beginner’s Guide to American Mah Jongg by Elaine Sandberg.

Greg Bliss currently cohosts the Smokin’ Spoken Word weekly show featured at The Eastown Hookah Lounge and Blaze’s Hookah Lounge on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.  Before moving to Grand Rapids he was one of three founding members of the Michigan Shakespeare Festival in Jackson, Michigan.  After moving to Grand Rapids Greg served on the performance art committee at UICA for several years, co-founded the X-Performance Group, brainstormed the famous 24 Theatre sessions and has hosted many events and workshops at his Etage Bleu performance studios.  Currently, he is developing a series of video performances with Prose PC.  Over the course of the last ten years he has performed and competed across the nation including special performances in NYC, Seattle, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo.

Scrabble club will meet in the studio when no events are scheduled.  All ages and all skill levels welcome.

Join us for an exciting event that will explore an original approach to the climate change crisis which represents a call-to-action based on moral and spiritual premises. Moral Ground presents diverse viewpoints by writers from every walk of life, encompassing an engaging discussion with specific suggestions for personal action and a positive, hopeful, and forward-looking perspective on a divisive issue. With a forward written by Desmond Tutu, Moral Ground appeals to the sense of ethical values and moral responsibility that every human has to take care of the planet, for other species, for ourselves, and for future generations. Editor Michael Nelson, a professor of environmental ethics at Michigan State University – along with a number of his colleagues – will read from the book’s essays, written by over 80 visionaries, including the Dalai Lama, Thomas L. Friedman, John Paul II, Barbara Kingsolver and Barack Obama.