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| Arts and Culture |
| Culture |
| Since 1970, Grand Rapids has been host to an annual
festival of the arts downtown, known to locals simply as "Festival
(insert year here)". The first weekend in June, several
blocks of downtown surrounding the Calder stabile next to City
Hall are closed to traffic. Festival (http://www.festivalofthearts.org)
features several stages with free live performances, food booths
selling a variety of ethnic cuisine, art demonstrations and
sales, and other arts-related activities. Organizers bill it
as the largest all-volunteer arts festival in the United States.
Also in Calder Plaza, Grand Rapids hosts a variety of country-specific
ethnic festivals throughout the summer season. |
| In mid-2004, Grand Rapids began construction on
a new, larger building for its art museum collection. The new
building site is several blocks from the present museum, facing
downtown's Rosa Parks Circle. |
| Grand Rapids is home to several colleges and universities.
Aquinas College, Calvin College, Reformed Bible College and
Cornerstone University are private, religious schools, each
with a campus on the east side of the city. Grand Rapids Community
College maintains an extensive campus downtown and facilities
in other parts of the city and surrounding region. Grand Valley
State University continues to develop its presence in the city
with an expanding downtown campus, begun in the late 1990s on
the west bank of the Grand River. Ferris State University has
a growing campus downtown, including Kendall College of Art
and Design and the Applied Technology Center (operated with
GRCC). Davenport University, a state-wide educational institution,
has one of its main campuses in downtown Grand Rapids. |
| Other cultural links |
- Grand Rapids Art Museum (http://www.gramonline.org/)
- Grand Rapids Symphony (http://www.grsymphony.org/)
- Opera Grand Rapids (http://www.operagr.com/)
- Grand Rapids Civic Theatre (http://www.grct.org/)
- Urban Institute for Contemporary Art (http://uica.org/)
- Spectrum Theatre (http://web.grcc.cc.mi.us/Theater/spectrumnew.htm)
Frederik Meijer Botanical Gardens & Sculpture Park (http://www.meijergardens.org/)
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