Join us for light refreshments and a chance to win a $50 gift card from Schuler as we highlight our Business to Business Programs and Community Services.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T122015Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T000000Z UID:http://www.schulerbooks.com/event/author-talk-and-booksigning-chris-kemp-his-new-book-floating-gold-natural-and-unnatural-histor URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.schulerbooks.com/event/author-talk-and-booksigning-chris-kemp-his-new-book-floating-gold-natural-and-unnatural-histor SUMMARY:Author Talk and Booksigning with Chris Kemp for his new book\, Floating Gold\: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris (28th St.) DESCRIPTION:"\;Preternaturally hardened whale dung"\; is not the first image that comes to mind when we think of perfume\, otherwise a symbol of glamour and allure. A rare secretion produced only by sperm whales\, ambergris is expelled at sea and floats on ocean currents for years\, slowly transforming\, before it sometimes washes ashore looking like a nondescript waxy pebble. Christopher Kemp uncovers the unique history of ambergris.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T122015Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T000000Z UID:http://www.schulerbooks.com/event/tasting-and-touring-michigan%E2%80%99s-homegrown-food-jaye-beeler-eastwood URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.schulerbooks.com/event/tasting-and-touring-michigan%E2%80%99s-homegrown-food-jaye-beeler-eastwood SUMMARY:Tasting and Touring Michigan’s Homegrown Food with Jaye Beeler (Eastwood) DESCRIPTION:Tasting and Touring Michigan’s Homegrown Food embraces the surging interest in eating local food for our physical and economic health\, and for tasting the pleasure of simple\, delicious\, beautiful food. Author Jaye Beeler\, former Food Editor for the Grand Rapids Press\, will bring samples of Michigan food for you to taste as she takes you on a culinary tour that reaches north from the cranberry bogs and thimbleberry jam of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to the southeastern inner city garden plots of Detroit. Seasoned journalist Jaye and award-winning photographer Dianne Carroll Burdick team up to take you there through their visual and descriptive look at the essence of agricultural Michigan.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T122015Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120525T230000Z UID:http://www.schulerbooks.com/event/final-friday-music-series-featuring-local-singersongwriter-jason-norman-downtown-gr URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.schulerbooks.com/event/final-friday-music-series-featuring-local-singersongwriter-jason-norman-downtown-gr SUMMARY:Final Friday Music Series featuring local singer/songwriter Jason Norman (Downtown G.R.) DESCRIPTION:With sounds like Tom Petty and Elvis Costello\, Jason Norman is a Grand Rapids artist who started his solo career in 2009 after playing lead guitar in the band Mill Point.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T122015Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120526T000000Z UID:http://www.schulerbooks.com/event/indie-folk-musician-shannon-stephens-performs-28th-st URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.schulerbooks.com/event/indie-folk-musician-shannon-stephens-performs-28th-st SUMMARY:Indie Folk Musician Shannon Stephens Performs (28th St.) DESCRIPTION:Shannon Stephens is a Seattle-based singer/songwriter with a winding road behind her. Her third album\, Pull It Together\, is the result of nearly two decades spent traversing a unique musical landscape. The album captures a fresh sense of self-assurance and a sound that weaves hard truths with sweet melodies for an emotionally gripping blues-tinged brand of indie folk.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120522T122015Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120601T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120601T000000Z UID:http://www.schulerbooks.com/event/author-talk-booksigning-jane-knuth-her-new-book-thrift-store-graces URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.schulerbooks.com/event/author-talk-booksigning-jane-knuth-her-new-book-thrift-store-graces SUMMARY:Author Talk & Booksigning with Jane Knuth for Her New Book\, Thrift Store Graces. DESCRIPTION:Similar to Jane's first book\, Thrift Store Graces contains personal accounts of Knuth's experiences serving as a once reluctant\, now enthusiastic volunteer at a thrift store in Kalamazoo. Witty\, inspiring\, and thought-provoking all at once\, the story subtly compels us to redefine what it means to volunteer and to rethink why it is that we volunteer in the first place.
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