Events

June 7-9, 2019

STARTING AT $425* PER PERSON IN THE HOTEL
STARTING AT $473* PER PERSON IN THE TOWER

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

• 2 Nights accommodations
• 2 Breakfast buffets at Sweetwater American Bistro ($10 upcharge for Sunday brunch per person)
• VIP Saturday Wine Tour Ticket to Bowers Harbor Vineyards (11:00a.m. - 2:00p.m.) includes wine tasting paired with light food, vineyards history, and wine education
• 20% off Spa coupon for a second treatment valued at $110 or more
• One Hydro Flask Wine Tumbler per guest
• 1 of the spa treatments below per person:
  •     50 min Relaxation Massage
  •     50 min Just the Two of Us Massage
  •     50 min Mother to Be Massage
  •     Northern Nature Body Glow
  •     Organic Coconut Apricot Sugar Scrub
  •     Aromatherapy Infused Stress Relief Wrap
  •     Refreshing Organic Facial
  •     Clarifying Probiotic Facial
  •     Northern Serenity Manicure & Pedicure

ABOUT BOWERS HARBOR VINEYARDS
February 1-3, 2019 tour description:
We will start by celebrating with bubbles! Enjoy samples of Traditional Méthode Champenoise Sparkling Wine while our wine specialist gives you a brief overview of the Winery, Tasting Room and Vineyard History. Next, we will guide you through a variety of samples of white and red wines, ranging from dry to sweet. Along with your wine tasting, we will have a charcuterie and gourmet cheese board provided by the Boathouse restaurant. During our tasting and food pairings, we will discuss our unique wine-growing conditions, and educate you with interesting viticulture and microclimate trivia. This will be a fun and relaxing time to ask questions and celebrate what our region has to offer. To end your VIP experience, we will take you into our Proprietor’s Cellar for a handmade Chocolate Truffle paired with our most awarded red wine, our 2896 Langley Meritage. Take advantage of seasonal wine discounts and receive a souvenir wine glass to take home with you. Taste, Learn, Enjoy!


June 7-9, 2019 tour description:
Our Vineyard Tour will start with a glass of Traditional Méthode Champenoise Sparkling Wine. While sipping your bubbly, we will give you a brief overview of the Winery, Tasting Room and Vineyard History. We then will walk you through two or more of our estate vineyards, explaining the grape varietals and the stage of growth at that moment in time. Your wine guide will also tell you a brief history of the BHV vineyard blocks, give explanations about our unique wine-growing conditions, and educate you with fun, and perhaps to some exciting, viticulture and micro climate trivia. Your tour ends at outdoor tables overlooking the Langley Vineyard and Lake Michigan’s Bowers Harbor. We will pour some of our most awarded wines and serve them with several food complements such as: local cheese and crackers, our very own peach salsa and tortilla chips, and end with a sweet treat, local strawberry shortcake. Take advantage of seasonal wine discounts and receive a souvenir wine glass to take home with you. Taste, Learn, Enjoy!

This package is not currently available to book online. Please call 231-534-6000 for reservations.

*The above rates are per person, based on double occupancy. The above pricing includes 11% tax and $16.95 nightly resort fee. Rooms at this rate are limited. Not available to groups. Not valid with holiday brunches. May not be combined with other offers. Certain other restrictions may apply. Must be at least 21 years of age. Package includes transportation to and from Bowers Harbor Vineyards. The shuttle leaves our lobby at 11:30 a.m. and returns to the Resort by 2:30 p.m.

The event, which is open to the community, draws hundreds of people for the chance to meet with more than 80 employers, making it a prime occasion for creating opportunities and growth.

Northwestern Michigan's premier career fair is a great chance to meet employers who are hiring, and talk about full-time and part-time jobs and internships.

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STARTING AT $368 PER PERSON IN THE HOTEL
STARTING AT $408 PER PERSON IN THE TOWER

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

• 2 Nights accommodations
• 2 Breakfast buffets at Sweetwater American Bistro ($10 upcharge for Sunday brunch per person)
• VIP Saturday Wine Tour Ticket to L. Mawby Winery includes wine tasting paired with light food, vineyards history, and wine education
• 20% off Spa coupon for a second treatment valued at $110 or more
• One Hydro Flask Wine Tumbler per guest
• 1 of the spa treatments below per person:
  •     50 min Relaxation Massage
  •     50 min Just the Two of Us Massage
  •     50 min Mother to Be Massage
  •     Northern Nature Body Glow
  •     Organic Coconut Apricot Sugar Scrub
  •     Aromatherapy Infused Stress Relief Wrap
  •     Refreshing Organic Facial
  •     Clarifying Probiotic Facial
  •     Northern Serenity Manicure & Pedicure

ABOUT L. MAWBY WINERY

Celebrate Spring with MAWBY.  They'll welcome the return of blossoms and bee with our deliciously fun Bubbles.  All of our wines sparkle, naturally, and their winemaker Mike Laing with take you through the process.   You'll sample 4 wines including Talismon, a field blend from grapes grown right on their property.  Or maybe you prefer something fresh and fruity, like Detroit. They also offer ciders and small lot seasonal wines that are only available in their tasting room.

To accompany your wine tasting, they offer a selection of locally made spreads with crackers.  Sit back, relax and enjoy the MAWBYness.

For reservations, call 800-236-1577.

*The above rates are per person, based on double occupancy. The above pricing includes 11% tax and $16.95 nightly resort fee. Rooms at this rate are limited. Not available to groups. Not valid with holiday brunches. May not be combined with other offers. Certain other restrictions may apply. Must be at least 21 years of age. Package includes transportation to and from L. Mawby. The shuttle leaves our lobby at 11:30 a.m. and returns to the Resort by 2:30 p.m.

December 7-9, 2019

STARTING AT $347* PER PERSON IN THE HOTEL
STARTING AT $387* PER PERSON IN THE TOWER

March 22-24, 2019

STARTING AT $347* PER PERSON IN THE HOTEL
STARTING AT $387* PER PERSON IN THE TOWER

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

• 2 Nights accommodations
• 2 Breakfast buffets at Sweetwater American Bistro ($10 upcharge for Sunday brunch per person)
• VIP Saturday Wine Tour Ticket to Rove Estate Winery (11:30a.m. - 2:30p.m.) includes wine tasting paired with light food, vineyards history, and wine education
• 20% off Spa coupon for a second treatment valued at $110 or more
• One Hydro Flask Wine Tumbler per guest
• 1 of the spa treatments below per person:
  •     50 min Relaxation Massage
  •     50 min Just the Two of Us Massage
  •     50 min Mother to Be Massage
  •     Northern Nature Body Glow
  •     Organic Coconut Apricot Sugar Scrub
  •     Aromatherapy Infused Stress Relief Wrap
  •     Refreshing Organic Facial
  •     Clarifying Probiotic Facial
  •     Northern Serenity Manicure & Pedicure

ABOUT ROVE ESTATE WINERY

It's only from the highest point on the Leelanau Peninsula that one can truly appreciate the breathtaking beauty that is the Traverse Wine Coast. Join them in celebrating our rich Irish heritage through an overview of the story of the "Irish Wine geese". Then, while overlooking the rolling vineyard, you will taste our award-winning wines while they will discuss the art of food and wine pairing, with an emphasis on local food choices. This fun and interactive overview will cover the fundamentals and extend down the culinary road less traveled for their featured “Rogue Pairings.” Come thirsty for knowledge, fun, and leave with wine to share with your nearest and dearest. The spirit of Rove will create a lasting memory.  roveestate.com

For reservations, call 800-236-1577.

*The above rates are per person, based on double occupancy. The above pricing includes 11% tax and $16.95 nightly resort fee. Rooms at this rate are limited. Not available to groups. Not valid with holiday brunches. May not be combined with other offers. Certain other restrictions may apply. Must be at least 21 years of age. Package includes transportation to and from Rove Estate Winery. The shuttle leaves our lobby at 11:30 a.m. and returns to the Resort by 2:30 p.m.

Join in on Saturday, March 16 at 9 am in Traverse City’s Warehouse District and put on your GREEN! After your run, stay afterwards for the Post Race Party at the Workshop Brewing Company.

Each racer will receive a commemorative t-shirt, accurate timing and results, medals for top finishers, prizes for best Irish costume, a complimentary beverage (must present photo ID), and free entertainment!

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As many as 1,000 festival-goers attend each year, enjoying free music at this family-oriented event. More than 100 musicians from Northern Michigan's folk, bluegrass and acoustic music scene will perform at the festival. Folk and acoustic musicians from across northern Michigan and beyond will be playing at seven stages, including those dedicated to "New Folk" and "Kids Music." In addition to the 'stages' spread throughout the ground floor Mercado corridor of Building 50 and Kirkbride Hall, there is also a satellite stage at the Left Foot Charley winery, just west across the parking lot in the Village. Storefronts will be open and performing artists will have CDs for sale at a CD table.

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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin was one of ten books selected for this season’s Battle of the Books—northern Michigan’s beloved reading tournament for local fourth and fifth graders. This year, the National Writer's Series expanded team eligibility to the three-county region:  Benzie, Grand Traverse and Leelanau. Pitting 48 teams against each other in an electrifying trivia bowl, kids work together to correctly answer a hodgepodge of questions about the ten books they’ve read together.

Grace Lin is our headline author at the Battle of the Books championship. After the two teams face off in the grand finale, Grace will hand out awards and then talk about her Newberry-winning novel, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. In this stunning fantasy, inspired by Chinese folklore, Grace has created a wondrous world of magical beasts and daring exploits. Afterward, she’ll sign books.

Grace Lin’s tales of adventure and fantasy have enthralled young readers since she first published Where the Mountains Meet the Moon, the first of a trilogy that contains all the wonder, peril and warmth of mythical, ancient China. She is the author and illustrator of more than a dozen books, including The Ugly Vegetables, Dim Sum for Everyone! and The Year of the Dog. While most of Grace’s books are about the Asian-American experience, she believes, “Books erase bias—they make the uncommon everyday, and the mundane exotic. A book makes all cultures universal.”

Event Details
Sunday March 17, 2019
Traverse City Opera House
2:30PM // Doors at 2PM
Battle  Tournament/Team Awards/Grace Lin Presentation
Post-event book signing with pizza and refreshments!

Tickets:
Free

National Writers Series has hosted more than 120 conversations with nationally recognized authors and guest hosts. Called one of America’s “premier literary events,” (Poets & Writers magazine), a “national treasure” by Harvard professor and philosopher Michael Sandel, and hailed by authors and publishers across the country as a must-see evening of conversation with today’s best storytellers, the National Writers Series has hosted events with Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, winners of Oscars and Emmys and Tonys, living legends and, according to People Magazine, two of the “most influential people in the world.”

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Divisions:

This year, as you may know, The Bob will feature new combo divisions in order to create an overall better experience for all players. The Bob will be offering Men’s, Women’s and Mixed Doubles in the following Combo Divisions: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and Open.

Format: Main Draw: 2 out of 3 sets w/ 10 point tie breaker in lieu of a third set. Regular scoring will be used.
Consolation Draw: 1 consolation match will be played. 2 out of 3 sets with a 10 point tie breaker in lieu of a third set. All matches will use NO AD Scoring.

Entry Fee: $60.00 per player for each division entered (limited to 2 – 1 men/women & 1 mixed)

Entry fee includes a minimum of two matches per event (we’ll do our best!), a great 2017\8 BOB t-shirt, and Saturday night -  BOB BASH!

BOB Bash: Saturday night will feature the Bob Bash at the Grand Traverse Resort & Spa.  The Bob Scholarship award winners will be presented. High School Seniors can apply for The BOB Scholarship at the following link - https://form.jotform.com/73124990622153

Dinner only guest bracelets are available for $10. Enjoy a new style dinner and stay for the dancing and the party!

Tournament registration deadline is Friday, February 16!  Register here: Questions? Call George Lowe, 231-534-6776, or Lisa Seymour, 231-534-6787

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Dags und Timmah perform originals & thoughtfully arranged versions of critically acclaimed British influenced alternative rock. Sit back, relax, and enjoy drinks from our Lobby Bar as you listen to the music.

Pelz Golf Institute research has proven that golfers lose almost 80 percent of their shots to par inside of 100 yards from the hole. To that end, our golf school curriculum focuses strictly on what Dave defines as “The Scoring Game,” a combination of the short game (distance wedges, pitching, chipping, sand play) and putting, which comprise 60 to 65 percent of the total number of shots played per round. From three-foot putts to full wedge and long bunker shots, at this truly unique golf school, you’ll learn to properly execute shots from any scoring position.

Pelz’s staff instructors are highly-trained teaching professionals, and the low student/teacher ratio allows instructors to concentrate solely on their students and students on their instruction in the short game.

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Join over 60 outfitters and exhibitors from around the world. Bring the kids, come in and look around at many species of animals on display, bid on silent auction items and maybe book a hunt of a lifetime.

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The race consists of a 1.2 mile swim in West Grand Traverse Bay, a 56 mile bike through Leelanau County and Benzie County, and a 13.1 mile run along Boardman Lake, finishing on Front Street in the heart of downtown Traverse City. Athletes and spectators will find a host of unique restaurants and a variety of wineries and breweries to enjoy during their time in Traverse City.

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Steve Hamilton is the two-time Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels. Since his breakout success, A Cold Day in Paradise, introduced readers to hero P.I. Alex McKnight in 1998, Hamilton has either won or been nominated for every major accolade in crime fiction. His recent Nick Mason series was also widely lauded. The Second Life of Nick Mason was an instant New York Times bestseller, attracting praise from the King of Horror himself, who tweeted, “Trust Stephen King. This book is the real deal.” The Nick Mason series is currently in film development with Lionsgate. 

After a five-year hiatus, Hamilton returns to the detective series that put him on the map. Dead Man Running is the highly-anticipated eleventh book in the series. When a series of gruesome murders leads to an arrest, the deranged killer agrees to lead authorities to another victim who is still alive – but only if a certain retired Detroit cop comes along: Alex McKnight. 

Hamilton called Gruley’s latest book, Bleak Harbor, “the best book Gruley has written and unlike any crime novel I’ve ever read.” It takes place in Bleak Harbor, a lakeside Michigan vacation town where, every summer, an annual festival draws tourists from all over the country. Sound familiar? Carey Peters, a descendent of the town’s founders, lives there with her husband and their son, Danny. But Carey’s family legacy mutates into an albatross of nightmarish proportions when her family becomes the target of extortion and Danny, a teenager with autism, is the defenseless instrument.

Gruley is an award-winning journalist and author of the highly-praised Starvation Lake trilogy, which are set in a fictional town modeled on Bellaire, Michigan. Growing up near Detroit, he worked for the Detroit News before beginning a career at The Wall Street Journal where, in 2002, he shared the Pulitzer Prize awarded to the journal’s staff for its coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Gruley now writes long-form features for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine.

Event Details
Thursday June 27, 2019
Traverse City Opera House
7PM // Doors at 6PM
Live Music, Cash Bar, and Morsels Sweet Treats
Stage conversation and Q&A with authors
Post-event book signing

Tickets:
$5.00 Students
$15.00 Reserved
$25.00 Premium Reserved

National Writers Series has hosted more than 120 conversations with nationally recognized authors and guest hosts. Called one of America’s “premier literary events,” (Poets & Writers magazine), a “national treasure” by Harvard professor and philosopher Michael Sandel, and hailed by authors and publishers across the country as a must-see evening of conversation with today’s best storytellers, the National Writers Series has hosted events with Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, winners of Oscars and Emmys and Tonys, living legends and, according to People Magazine, two of the “most influential people in the world.”

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Something was in the air in the 1960s; or, perhaps, it was the stars that had aligned to rouse some of the most turbulent and revolutionary events the modern world had seen. It would be those same stars that two world superpowers would shoot for.

The political, social, and technological factors that would make the 1960s a turbulent decade also aligned to make it one of the most revolutionary periods in modern history. The year was 1962, and President John F. Kennedy had just announced his intention to put a man on the moon by the decade’s end. The first commercial jet airliner had begun operation only nine years prior, a revolution that launched the West into the Jet Age. In other words, such a goal alone was astonishing—never mind its ultimate success.
Brinkley recreates the nationalistic fervor surrounding the Space Race in riveting detail with all-new first-hand accounts from the likes of astronaut John Glenn, rocketeer Wernher von Braun, and his own signature insights and depth of historical knowledge.  

Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and author of several New York Times  best-selling works of nonfiction including  The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America  and  The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast  and is editor of two volumes of  Reagan Diaries.

Event Details
Saturday July 13, 2019
Traverse City Opera House
7PM // Doors at 6PM
Live Music, Cash Bar, and Morsels Sweet Treats
Stage conversation and Q&A with author
Post-event book signing

Tickets:
$5.00 Students
$17.00 Reserved
$27.00 Premium Reserved

National Writers Series has hosted more than 120 conversations with nationally recognized authors and guest hosts. Called one of America’s “premier literary events,” (Poets & Writers magazine), a “national treasure” by Harvard professor and philosopher Michael Sandel, and hailed by authors and publishers across the country as a must-see evening of conversation with today’s best storytellers, the National Writers Series has hosted events with Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, winners of Oscars and Emmys and Tonys, living legends and, according to People Magazine, two of the “most influential people in the world.”

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Elizabeth Letts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion and The Perfect Horse, which won the PEN Center USA Literary Award for research nonfiction, as well as two previous novels, Quality of Care and Family Planning. She lives in southern California.

Elizabeth Berg is the author of many bestselling novels, including The Story of Arthur Truluv, Open House (an Oprah’s Book Club selection), Talk Before Sleep, and The Year of Pleasures, as well as the short story collection The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted. Berg’s work has been published in 30 countries, and three of her novels have been turned into television movies. She lives in Chicago.

Nancy Thayer is the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding, Secrets in Summer, The Island House, The Guest Cottage, An Island Christmas, Nantucket Sisters, A Nantucket Christmas, Island Girls, Summer Breeze, Heat Wave, Beachcombers, Summer House, Moon Shell Beach, and The Hot Flash Club. She lives on Nantucket and her next novel, Surfside Sisters, will be published in July 2019.

Event Details
Friday May 10, 2019
Traverse City Opera House
7PM // Doors at 6PM
Live Music, Cash Bar, and Morsels Sweet Treats
Stage conversation and Q&A with authors
Post-event book signing

Tickets:
$30/$40  Reserve/Premium Reserved Seating ~  Book Choice: The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg   
$40/$50  Reserve/Premium Reserved Seating ~ Book Choice:  Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
$30/$40  Reserve/Premium Reserved Seating ~ Book Choice:  A Nantucket Wedding by Nancy Thayer

National Writers Series has hosted more than 120 conversations with nationally recognized authors and guest hosts. Called one of America’s “premier literary events,” (Poets & Writers magazine), a “national treasure” by Harvard professor and philosopher Michael Sandel, and hailed by authors and publishers across the country as a must-see evening of conversation with today’s best storytellers, the National Writers Series has hosted events with Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, winners of Oscars and Emmys and Tonys, living legends and, according to People Magazine, two of the “most influential people in the world.”

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While working as a reporter, Gave continued to lead a clandestine life. In 1989, he flew to Helsinki, Finland, the audacious first step in orchestrating the defection of five Russian hockey players from behind the iron curtain.

The individual stories of the Russian Five read like pulse-pounding spy novels. Part thriller, part memoir, part Russian fairytale, the story that unfolds after they were brought together by the masterful Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman is authentic – and truly unforgettable.

Best-selling author Mitch Albom says that the Gave was “an envoy, Russian-speaker and secret-keeper. No one could write this story with the detail, depth and understanding that Gave delivers.”

Gave is also a writer/producer for an award-winning documentary film, winner of Audience Choice Awards at film festival showings in Detroit, Seattle and Traverse City.

A native of suburban Detroit, Gave spent 40 years in the news industry with stops at The Associated Press, the Dallas Morning News, where he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and the Detroit Free Press. More recently, he spent 15 years as a college journalism instructor. He lives in Roscommon, Michigan, where he continues to write and fly fish in the AuSable River.

Event Details
Friday March 8, 2019
Traverse City Opera House
7PM // Doors at 6PM
Live Music, Cash Bar, and Morsels Sweet Treats
Stage conversation and Q&A with author
Post-event book signing

Tickets:
$5.00 Students
$15.00 Reserved
$25.00 Premium Reserved

National Writers Series has hosted more than 120 conversations with nationally recognized authors and guest hosts. Called one of America’s “premier literary events,” (Poets & Writers magazine), a “national treasure” by Harvard professor and philosopher Michael Sandel, and hailed by authors and publishers across the country as a must-see evening of conversation with today’s best storytellers, the National Writers Series has hosted events with Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, winners of Oscars and Emmys and Tonys, living legends and, according to People Magazine, two of the “most influential people in the world.”

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Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times-bestselling author and Edgar Award-winning author of thirty-two novels. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the United States and has been published in thirty-five countries.  After a successful career in corporate law, Scottoline released her first legal thriller, Everywhere that Mary Went, in 1994. Her debut was nominated for an Edgar Award, the most prestigious award given in crime fiction. Her second novel, Final Appeal, won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original in 1995. Since then, she has gone on to write 30 more critically acclaimed novels, and her recent, After Anna, was a #1 bestseller.

Scottoline also writes a weekly column with her daughter, Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and those universally beloved stories have been adapted into a series of bestselling memoirs. In addition to writing, Lisa reviews popular fiction and non-fiction, and her reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Lisa has served as President of Mystery Writers of America and has taught a course she developed, “Justice in Fiction” at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. She lives in the Philadelphia area.

Event Details
Monday ~ April 15, 2019
Traverse City Opera House
7PM // Doors at 6PM
Live Music, Cash Bar, and Morsels Sweet Treats
Stage conversation and Q&A with author
Post-event book signing

Tickets:
$5.00 Students
$17.00 Reserved
$27.00 Premium Reserved

National Writers Series has hosted more than 120 conversations with nationally recognized authors and guest hosts. Called one of America’s “premier literary events,” (Poets & Writers magazine), a “national treasure” by Harvard professor and philosopher Michael Sandel, and hailed by authors and publishers across the country as a must-see evening of conversation with today’s best storytellers, the National Writers Series has hosted events with Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, winners of Oscars and Emmys and Tonys, living legends and, according to People Magazine, two of the “most influential people in the world.”

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Having fled her wealthy arms-manufacturer husband and the anti-Semitic tide in Europe, Lamarr eventually landed in Hollywood. Between starring in big-budget films and maintaining the vamp persona bestowed upon her by Hollywood execs, Lamarr tinkered away in her home laboratory to gain the kind of intellectual fulfillment that life as a professional bombshell couldn’t offer.

With her co-inventor, George Anthiel, she engineered a revolutionary frequency-jumping technology—a precursor to GPS, Wifi, and Bluetooth. But Lamarr’s passion for science didn’t pair with the era’s prescribed role for women—least of all one of such extraordinary beauty. Owing in equal parts to her gender and stunning good looks, Lamarr was not taken seriously.

The development could have ended the war much sooner and spared countless lives; instead, the Navy rejected it, literally sealing its fate with a classified designation for decades to come.

Now a USA Today national bestselling author, Benedict spent her early career as a litigator at two of the country’s premier law firms. She decided to leave the practice of law to  pursue her dream: unearthing and writing the hidden historical stories of women. Her narratively connected series of historical novels include The Other Einstein which tells the tale of Albert Einstein’s first wife, a physicist herself, and Carnegie’s Maid. She also published The Chrysalis, The Map Thief and Brigid of Kildare, all historical novels.

Event Details
Thursday ~ May 30, 2019
Traverse City Opera House
7PM // Doors at 6PM
Live Music, Cash Bar, and Morsels Sweet Treats
Stage conversation and Q&A with author
Post-event book signing

Tickets:
$5.00 Students
$15.00 Reserved
$25.00 Premium Reserved

National Writers Series has hosted more than 120 conversations with nationally recognized authors and guest hosts. Called one of America’s “premier literary events,” (Poets & Writers magazine), a “national treasure” by Harvard professor and philosopher Michael Sandel, and hailed by authors and publishers across the country as a must-see evening of conversation with today’s best storytellers, the National Writers Series has hosted events with Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, winners of Oscars and Emmys and Tonys, living legends and, according to People Magazine, two of the “most influential people in the world.”

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Park at Jolly Pumpkin, arrive early and check out their brunch, before or after, then board the TC Brew Bus and start your trek! The TC Brew Bus will transport you to Brys Estate Vineyard and Winery. From there you will follow a flagged snowshoe trail across Old Mission Peninsula to Bowers Harbor Vineyards, then snowshoe back to where you parked at Jolly Pumpkin.

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Schools utilize private trout ponds and classrooms, as well as serene stretches of the Boardman River only a few minutes away. Orvis Michigan is designed to introduce the intricacies of fly fishing to an absolute novice, but even experienced fly anglers will find personal and advanced instruction tailored to their level of experience. From knots to entomology, casting to tackle, the instructors at Orvis Michigan will fully prepare you to step into the stream.
 
At Orvis Michigan you’ll learn:
– Casting techniques
– Proper fly selection
– Essential knots
– How to play, land and safely release fish
– How to choose your gear and tackle
– How to read the water
– Stream entomology, and more!

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The race will be jam packed full of fun and excitement and will be open to bikers of all ages and skill levels. Join them for this fun filled event located at 45 North Vineyard Trail in Lake Leelanau, Michigan.

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A perfect way to welcome in the summer in one of the most breathtakingly beautiful areas of Northern Michigan, this laid–back event will have a lakeside picnic vibe & local light bites.

June 8, 2019 -10am-5pm
Tickets: $40 in advance, or $45 day-of event (if available)

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This is a fantastic way to try lots of your favorite munchies and see how great they taste when complemented by wine. Tickets are $15 per person and include a souvenir wine glass a snack-and-wine pairing at each participating winery.

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We are hosting daily activities for Spring Break families starting Friday, March 22, including family movie nights, giant inflatable family fun zone, and more. Most events are complimentary. Please call the Health Club at 231-534-6770 with any questions or to register in-advance for select activities.

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The 3.1 mile course will start at 10am on Jazz Live Field on the grounds of Grand Traverse Resort and Spa and loop back to the start area, with portions of the race running on Lautner road.

The race will be followed by an after party with refreshments, an inflatable obstacle course, color toss and a spray down area.

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The annual Suds & Snow event includes a 1/2 mile hike through the back woods of Timber Ridge Resort where we host two live-music stages featuring local musicians, 20+ craft breweries serving beer, wine, & cider, and local food vendors. The original Traverse City winter microbrew event is sure to be Northern Michigan’s ultimate “Party in the Woods”! The 13th anniversary event is Saturday, March 2, 2019, from 1:00-6:00 pm.

We are pleased to offer Grand Traverse Resort and Spa complimentary shuttle service to Suds & Snow. As well as great rates starting at $109 in the Hotel. Call 231-534-6000 and use code SUDS.

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Stick around after the race for a wacky post-run party, featuring "Best Beard Contest," live music and plenty of warm food and cold beer. Prizes will be awarded for the First Place Male and Female as well as for Best Natural Beard and Best Assisted Beard.

The race is open to participants 21 or over. Must provide photo ID.

For race details or to register for the race, visit The Great Beerd Run 5K website.

It celebrates that heritage every year during the first full week of July with an eight-day party featuring over 150 family activities: air shows, fireworks, parades (including the nation's largest all-children parade) games, races, midway rides, demonstrations, nightly outdoor concerts and lots of chances to taste delicious cherry products.

Now in its 91st year, the Cherry Festival is Traverse City's signature event, drawing as many as 500,000 attendees from around the country. Since almost all the events are free, it offers more than a week of affordable family fun.

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For a complete list of events, visit the TC Beer Week website.

11% tax and $16.95 nightly resort fee apply. Rooms at this rate are limited. Not available to groups. May not be combined with other offers. Certain other restrictions may apply. Dates of avilability are subject to change. Must be 21.

Take a culinary excusrion during Traverse City Restaurant Week, February 24 - March 2. Traverse City's finest restaurants will offer a three course dinner menu for $25 or $35 per person.

Reservations are strongly encouraged.

Can't get enough of Traverse City's tastiest week? Stay the night with us! Call 231-534-6000 and mention TC Restaurant Week to find out about our Restaurant Week rate.

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