Event: Classical Afternoon at Sweetwaters Plymouth Green Place: Sweetwaters Plymouth Green Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010. Time: 2pm-3pm
Join us tomorrow evening at our Plymouth Green location for the beautiful musical stylings of flutist Emily Perryman and harpist Amy Ley. Locally, Emily and Amy have performed as a duo at the UM School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Museum of Art, Firefly Club, and Kerry town Concert house and have also enjoyed sharing their music with residents at Arbor Hospice, Glacier Hills Senior Living Community, and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. Emily and Amy are delighted to bring café music from the concert house to the coffee house with their first appearance at Sweetwater’s.
Emily Perryman maintains an active teaching and freelance career, performing regularly with the Ann Arbor, Flint and Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestras, Michigan Sinfonietta, and First Presbyterian Churches of Ann Arbor and Flint.
Amy Ley has the pleasure of being the principal harpist with a number of orchestras in south eastern Michigan and Ontario including the Ann Arbor Symphony, Flint Symphony, and the Windsor Symphony Orchestra. She has performed as a soloist with a number of orchestras and has had her performances broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio network across Canada and the United States.
Place: Sweetwaters downtown, corner of W. Washington St. & Ashley
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Time: 7pm-9pm
Our feature is award-winning poet Christine Rhein, who will read from her prize-winning book, Wild Flight (Texas Tech University Press, 2008). She will also share new poems from a work-in-progress, exploring themes of love, technology, and intersections of the two.
Open mic follows. Bring 3-1/2 minutes of your best work! 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
Place: Sweetwaters Downtown, corner of W. Washington St. and Ashley St.
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010 – April 30, 2010
FestiFools Parade
Place: Main St., Downtown Ann Arbor
Date: Sunday, April 11, 2010
Sweetwaters is proud to announce an art show like no other. Starting April 1, 2010, come view amazing 3D artwork created by the masterminds behind FestiFools, the annual Ann Arbor street parade!
Paricipate and join the foolishness during the actual FestiFools parade on Sunday, April 11, 2010 on Main St. in downtown Ann Arbor.
Place: Sweetwaters Plymouth Green, corner of Plymouth and Green Rd.
Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010
Time: 2-3pm
Cost: FREE
Join Barb at Sweetwaters Plymouth Green to taste our NEW espresso blend, our Abianno espresso (Barb calls it “liquid gold”), and our featured coffee Ethiopian Sidamo.
Learn what makes a great shot of espresso and to describe the characteristics of a brewed coffee.
Don’t miss out on great coffee and conversation with Barb!
Space is limited. Sign up with the staff at the counter or call Sweetwaters Plymouth Green @ 734-327-6330 and reserve your spot.
Place: Sweetwaters Downtown, corner of W. Washington St. & Ashley
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010
Time: 7:30pm-11:00pm
Join us as Classical Revolution performs on Thursday, April 1st at Sweetwaters downtown. The Phoenix Quartet, visiting artists at the University of Michigan School of Music, will be performing String Quartet No. 3 by Bright Sheng, UM faculty member.
For more information on the Phoenix Quartet, please click here.
For more information on Classical Revolution, please click here.
Place: Sweetwaters Downtown, corner of Washington and Ashley.
Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010
Time: 9am-1pm
Scott Beal, from the Neutral Zone, is teaching a writing workshop for adults on Saturday, March 20th from 9am to 1pm, right here at the Downtown location of Sweetwaters!
The workshop is called “Unleash Your Outlandishness: Poems of Audacity and Weirdness.” Scott has designed it to be full of fun writing exercises to get people thinking and writing in unusual ways, to create surprising and wonderful poems! There may be tarot cards involved, and/or food coloring, and/or finger puppets. And more! No experience necessary. The workshop will be equally fun and productive for people who have never written a poem and for people who write poems regularly.
And though the workshop title says “poems”, really that means you can write in whatever form or style you’d like!
The cost of the workshop is $50 for a 4 hour session, AND it includes the cost of a delectable snack and drink from Sweetwaters, AND all proceeds go to support independent publishing and arts education for kids!
Place: Sweetwaters downtown, corner of W. Washington St. & Ashley
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Time: 7pm-9pm
Our feature is Keith Taylor, Ann Arbor’s beloved poet, who has won awards for his work here and in Europe. Keith will read from his most recent book, If the World Becomes So Bright, and from his new collection of intriguing eight liners that will be published soon. Keith is the coordinator of undergraduate creative writing at U of M and Director of the Bear River Writers’ Conference.
Open mic follows. Bring 3-1/2 minutes of your best work! 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
In Mandarin – Xin Nian Kuei Le – phonetically [shin-nian-kwie-le]
In Cantonese - Gung Hai Fat Choi – phonetically [gong-hey-faat-choy]
Celebrate the Year of the Tiger on Feb 14th at Sweetwaters with an Imperial Milk Tea or a Dragon Eye!
Sweeten the day for someone special with our Chinese New Year inspired Red Pockets! Fill with the traditional Asian gift of money or sweeter yet…a Sweetwaters Gift Card!
Place: Sweetwaters downtown, corner of W. Washington St. & Ashley
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Time: 7pm-9pm
Feature is Jennifer Metsker, who teaches composition and creative writing at the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast magazine, and many others. Jennifer has won Hopwood awards for poetry, fiction, and essay. “Poltergeist,” published in The Southern Review, was also selected for Verse Daily
Open mic follows. Bring 3 minutes of your best work!
For more information contact Chris Lord at 734-369-2798 or go to the Writers Reading website.
Sweetwaters Writers Reading night is held the third Tuesday of every month.
