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Weekly Highlights in Michigan

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Jack-O-Lanterns Among the Trees
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Jack-O-Lanterns Among the Trees

Stage Nature Center in Troy hosts Jack-O-Lanterns Among the Trees on Saturday, October 24, when carved pumpkins light the ADA-accessible Sugar Maple Loop.

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Corvino Book Launch at WSU
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Corvino Book Launch at WSU

Philosopher John Corvino launches The Other Side: A Moderate's Manifesto on How to Disagree on Oct. 21, 2026, at Wayne State's Community Arts Auditorium, delivering his rejoinder through AI voice cloning.

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Not-So-Scary Haunted House
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Not-So-Scary Haunted House

The Ann Arbor District Library's kid-friendly haunted house goes quiet, bright, and touch-free for one hour on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at the Downtown Library.

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Packard Proving Grounds Fall
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Packard Proving Grounds Fall

The Packard Proving Grounds in Shelby Township throws open its gates for a free afternoon of Packard history, classic cars and community fun on Sunday, October 25, 2026.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Kinusaiga Class at Three Blue

A hands-on kinusaiga workshop at Three Blue Brushes in Grand Rapids on October 19, 2026 turns fabric scraps into a finished no-sew Japanese mosaic in an 8x8 frame.

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Addams Family Dinner at Red Haven
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Addams Family Dinner at Red Haven

Red Haven in Okemos turns its four-course pop-up dinner into an Addams Mansion feast on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, with dishes built around Thing, Pugsley, Wednesday, Gomez and Morticia.

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Sensory Night Lights Up Mason
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Sensory Night Lights Up Mason

Jack O'Lanterns Unleashed brings a quiet, sensory-friendly evening of more than 5,000 hand-carved pumpkins to the Ingham County Fairgrounds in Mason, Michigan on October 14, 2026.

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Girls in the Graveyard at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Girls in the Graveyard at

Outlier Media's annual walking tour returns to Detroit's historic Elmwood Cemetery on Oct. 16 and 17, 2026, resurrecting the stories of the women who shaped the city.

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WSU Planetarium Family Day Shows
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

WSU Planetarium Family Day Shows

Wayne State's planetarium in Old Main opens its doors for free 25-minute dome shows on Family and Friends Day, October 17, 2026, in Midtown Detroit.

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Detroit Free Press Marathon 2026
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Detroit Free Press Marathon 2026

The 49th Detroit Free Press Marathon takes over Detroit and Windsor Oct. 16-18, 2026, with a sold-out international course, a free finish-line party at Campus Martius, and the world's only underwater international mile.

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Sweet House Guided Tour, Grand
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Sweet House Guided Tour, Grand

Grand Rapids' 1860s Sweet House opens for a free guided tour and champagne toast on Oct. 18, 2026, marking America's 250th anniversary.

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Banned Together, Reading Free
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Banned Together, Reading Free

Two Ferndale booksellers turned a national week of protest into a walkable downtown festival of banned and challenged books.

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Creepy Critters, Live and Up
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Creepy Critters, Live and Up

The Outdoor Discovery Center brings Michigan's most misunderstood animals to Roselle Park for one hands-on October evening.

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Snorting, Slobbering and Saving
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Snorting, Slobbering and Saving

Dogtoberfest, the free Lock 3 gathering of pugs, peanut butter and oddballs, grew out of a scrappy Akron hot dog stand and a pug rescue's need for a party.

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Riding the Husky Chair: Mont
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Riding the Husky Chair: Mont

For a few weekends each fall, the chairlift at Michigan's oldest ski area carries passengers up 440 feet of Keweenaw hillside for a view of autumn that most people only ever see from the ground.

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A Museum That Began on a Boat
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Museum That Began on a Boat

As the Detroit Historical Society marks a rare convergence of anniversaries, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle offers free evening admission on October 1 — a chance to wander a maritime collection that literally grew out of the wreck of the last commercial sailing ship on the Great Lakes.

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From a Graffiti Trench to a $80
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

From a Graffiti Trench to a $80

The community fall festival returns to Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park on October 3 and 4, a year after it helped christen Detroit's newest riverfront park with more than 55,000 visitors.

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The Blind Hustler: Dancing
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

The Blind Hustler: Dancing

Every Monday in Detroit, a woman who lost her vision six years ago leads a dance class where no one watches, no one looks in a mirror, and everyone finds their own beat.

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Where Detroit's Lunch Break
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Where Detroit's Lunch Break

A weekly food truck rally on a square once home to the city's first marketplace brings 80 rotating vendors, a historic fountain, and 2,500 hungry Detroiters together in the shadow of the Woodward Plan.

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Beyond the Frame: ArtPrize 2026
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Beyond the Frame: ArtPrize 2026

Grand Rapids' radical public-vote art experiment returns with a preview week and a renewed commitment to openness — proof that the city itself remains the ultimate artwork.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A River of Rust and Green: The

Every September, hundreds of vintage tractors rumble across the Mackinac Bridge in a free, family-friendly spectacle that has become a beloved northern Michigan tradition.

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Thirty Years of Wild Miles: How
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–14, 2026

Thirty Years of Wild Miles: How

As Run Wild celebrates its 30th anniversary at the Detroit Zoo, the race that began as a veterinary collaboration has grown into a beloved tradition funding world-class animal care.

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Gold Medals, Giggles, and Goo
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Gold Medals, Giggles, and Goo

On Sunday, September 13, 2026, Brighton's youngest athletes take to SELCRA Meijer Park for a day of races, throws, and medals in the Tot Olympics.

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Seventy-Five Years of Wheels
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–14, 2026

Seventy-Five Years of Wheels

America's longest-running antique car show returns to Greenfield Village for its diamond anniversary, celebrating the dawn of the automobile.

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Tap, drums, and Detroit soul
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–14, 2026

Tap, drums, and Detroit soul

A muralist and sneaker designer who has secretly tapped since age 15 teams up with a Grammy-nominated producer for a free night of rhythm, jazz, and hip-hop inside Detroit's reborn train station.

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A Moment in the Sun: How One
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–14, 2026

A Moment in the Sun: How One

Sixteen years after Aaron Segedi's sister gave him a liver and a community gave him hope, hundreds of kids with disabilities will take the field at Woodhaven High School as Downriver's most beloved football tradition returns.

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A Dress for the Dance
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–14, 2026

A Dress for the Dance

One woman's simple idea — donate a few dresses so no student sits out homecoming — has grown into a free formal-wear giveaway at a Grand Rapids roller rink.

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Five Generations of Greek Olive
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–14, 2026

Five Generations of Greek Olive

Old World Olive Co. brings a world-ranked Greek producer family to the Downtown Market for a free tasting that ends with an invitation to harvest olives on their estate in Greece.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A River of Rust and Green: The

Each September, hundreds of vintage farm machines chug across Michigan's iconic Mackinac Bridge, turning a modern engineering marvel into a rolling museum of agricultural heritage.

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When the Pool Goes to the Dogs
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

When the Pool Goes to the Dogs

Every September, after the water park closes for the season, Washtenaw County's dogs get one final day of splashing, swimming, and pure joy at Rolling Hills County Park.

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A Thousand Paper Wings: Ann
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Thousand Paper Wings: Ann

At the Leslie Science & Nature Center, a September ritual releases a threatened species into a three-thousand-mile journey — and turns every tag into citizen science.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Wings, Music, and a Mission: The

A two-time cancer survivor's Labor Day tradition brings together flavor, philanthropy, and family fun at Lansing's Adado Riverfront Park.

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A Corn Maze Becomes a Tribute
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Corn Maze Becomes a Tribute

Robinette's Apple Haus & Winery's 6.5-acre maze honors the late country icon and her Imagination Library, turning a planned fall attraction into a heartfelt memorial.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Wings, Music, and a Mission: The

Every Labor Day weekend, Lansing's riverfront fills with the scent of hot sauce and hope as the Michigan Chicken Wing Festival raises money and awareness for cancer survivors.

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Calling the Spirits: Joe Lovano
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Calling the Spirits: Joe Lovano

Half a century after blowing until dawn in Detroit's storied jazz clubs, saxophonist Joe Lovano anchors the world's largest free jazz festival with three performances spanning his restless, shape-shifting career.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Small Downriver City Finds Its Voice on Blank Walls: Inside Allen Park's Paint the Park Festival

In its second year, Allen Park's Paint the Park festival turned a quiet downtown into an open-air gallery, proving that a community's identity can be painted one wall at a time.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Free Beats on the Riverfront

A faith-driven festival turns the Grand River waterfront into a free, family-friendly hip-hop stage every August.

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A Small Downriver City Finds Its
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Small Downriver City Finds Its

In its second year, Allen Park's Paint the Park festival turned a quiet downtown into an open-air gallery, proving that a community's identity can be painted one wall at a time.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Cars, Chrome, and Community: The

From a chamber-of-commerce experiment to a quarter-million-person tradition, the Metro Cruise returned to Rogers Plaza in August 2026 with new attractions, shorter hours, and the same engine-thrumming heart it's had since 2005.

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A Space for Us to Be Ourselves
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Space for Us to Be Ourselves

OutFront Kalamazoo and the Institute of Public Scholarship bring a celebration of queer Black joy to Bates Alley for the first time, grounded in a movement three decades in the making.

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RazMania brings Jared Goff and
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

RazMania brings Jared Goff and

A father-daughter duo brings a weekend of trading cards, athlete meet-and-greets, and free admission for kids to Pontiac.

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Ghosts, Ghouls, and a Great Lakes Freighter
Weekly Highlight Aug 23–29, 2026

Ghosts, Ghouls, and a Great Lakes Freighter

Michigan's paranormal convention declared itself dead in 2024. This August it returns to Sault Ste. Marie under a new name — smaller, stranger, and staged in a city old enough to have earned its hauntings.

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Ghosts, Ghouls, and a Great
Weekly Highlight Aug 23–29, 2026

Ghosts, Ghouls, and a Great

Michigan's paranormal convention declared itself dead in 2024. This August it returns to Sault Ste. Marie under a new name — smaller, stranger, and staged in a city old enough to have earned its hauntings.

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