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Celebrating the Mother-Daughter Journey with Kellie Carbone • May 10, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at Crazy Wisdom Community Room • Experience Mother’s Day as you never have before! Gather in a sacred space with your mother or daughter to share our journeys as we strive to be our most awakened selves. The day will include rituals, poetry, pampering, sisterhood, and healing. $160 mother/daughter pair. Additional participants may attend for $65. Call 302-3530; kellie@kelliecarbone.com.

Mother/Maiden Day with Tree of Life Studio Staff and Friends • May 10, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. • The perfect Mother’s Day gift! Join us on this special day for girls only. The day will include an upbeat Nia routine, self defense for females, mandala making, laughter yoga, drumming, songs, and more. Bring your mom or daughter, or find one here! Ages 7 and up. $60 individual or $90 mother/daughter pair. Call 433-0697; www.treeoflifestudio.org.

10th Anniversary Celebration Concert with Interfaith Center for Spiritual Growth • June 7, 7:30 p.m. • The many talented members of our Center come together in creativity, community, and celebration on this special evening. The tentative roster includes singer/guitarist Craig Brann, singer Rev. Dave Bell, the Interfaith Drummers, dancer Irena Nagler from Nightfire, songwriter/keyboardist Laura Massaro, and the duo Synchronicity, as well as singer/songwriter Scott McWhinney, who will also emcee. The public is warmly invited to enjoy this concert and visit the center’s new, permanent home. $15 suggested minimum donation. Refreshments for sale. Call Dave at 734-327-0270; www.interfaithspirit.org.

Summer Celebration with Indigo Forest Pregnancy and Early Parenting Store and Class Studio • July 12, Noon-5 p.m. • Because “it takes a village”, Indigo Forest and Tree City Diapers team up for their 2nd Annual Summer Celebration featuring Ring of Steel stunt action theater and “pirate village”, with free shows and children’s activities. Amazing sales and in-store raffles top off this family-friendly event. Free. Call 994-8010; beth@indigoforestcompany.com.

Ann Arbor Summer Festival • June 13-July 6 • The long-awaited summer festival returns with Mainstage performances primarily at the Power Center, featuring especially “A Prairie Home Companion: with Garrison Keillor, a live broadcast at Hill Auditorium on June 14, 5:45 p.m. Tickets range from $25-$65. For tickets, call 764-2538 or 800-221-1229. Also featured is Top of the Park, the annual outdoor music and movie series focusing on local and regional artists. Taking place on the grass at Ingalls Mall, in front of Rackham School of Graduate Studies on Washington Street near Burton Memorial Tower. Entertaining and family-friendly performances vary widely, with a movie once it’s dark. You’ve got to go at least once per summer for this unusual, wonderful, and well-attended Ann Arbor event! Admission is free for Top of the Park events. For schedule of events for Mainstage and Top of the Park, visit www.annarborsummerfestival.org.

Plymouth Green Street Fair • May 3-4: Saturday 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. • Green Street Fair was founded to help educate and inform people of all ages about the benefits of green, organic, eco-friendly products and services. Companies, artisans, entertainers, and speakers in a friendly and family-oriented outdoor environment. Presented by Whole Foods. For more information, visit www.greenstreetfair.org.

Element Pledge Ceremony with Gateways Center for Life Enrichment • June 1, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. • The basis for the Element Pledge Ceremony lies in our deep desire to unite our heavenly and earthly natures and be empowered to express something of divine truth in daily life. This ceremony provides an opportunity to put forward an intention, in the presence of witnesses, to study and experience one of the four elements for a set period of time. This is a journey of connection to the planet, to the divine, to the self. $15 donation appreciated with lunch provided. For information regarding the pledge preparations necessary, call 734-332-4666; gatewayscenter@hotmail.com.

Spirit of Healing Community Meditation at the Sanctuary of the Genesis Center • May 3, 6:30-9:30 p.m. • Everyone is a healer, and everyone needs healing. Join in a three-hour meditation — an immersion in healing and spiritual energy. We are assembling healers from various backgrounds who have agreed to fill the worship center with healing energies and vibrations for three hours. $5 donation; all proceeds over cost will be donated to Ann Arbor Hospice. Call Linda Benedict at 355-5385 or Bob Sanger at 276-7507; spiritsurfer11@msn.com.

Green Street Fair in Plymouth: Come Visit Herbalist Jim McDonald • May 3, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and May 4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. • Jim McDonald will have a booth in the Health and Wellness Area of this holistic festival in downtown Plymouth and will be talking herbs throughout the weekend. He will also offer some impromptu herb walks to point out and share about the early spring weeds and wildflowers that are such precious medicines. Free. Call Jim at 248-737-3589; jim@herbcraft.org.

Song Sermon with the Laz Trio and Cinco de Mayo Potluck at Interfaith Center for Spiritual Growth • May 4: Service at 10:45 a.m., Potluck at 12:15 p.m. • The Laz Trio will present a song sermon in place of a traditional lecture. With Laz Slomovits on vocals, guitar, fiddle, and folk flutes; Helen Slomovits on Celtic harp, silver flute, and vocals; and Lori Fithian on percussion and vocals, the Trio performs uplifting original songs and world music-flavored improvisations. All are invited to join afterward in a potluck lunch honoring the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo. Free. Call Dave at 327-0270; dave@interfaithspirit.org.

Sunday Celebration Service: Guest Speaker Rev. Jon Mundy at Interfaith Center for Spiritual Growth • June 1, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. • Rev. Jon Mundy is an author and lecturer on A Course in Miracles and one of the few remaining people to have personally known Dr. Helen Schucman, scribe of ACIM, and Dr. William Thetford, her collaborator and colleague. Free. Call Dave at 327-0270; dave@interfaithspirit.org.

Full Moon Bonfire and Potluck with Deanne Bednar of Strawbale Studio • May 20, June 18, July 18, Aug. 16; 6-9 p.m. • Bring a dish to pass and join us as we enjoy nature and some time outdoors with others interested in sustainability. We will enjoy a woodstove fire in the Strawbale Studio, a thatched roof cottage, if it rains. Located in North Oakland County. Free with donations welcome. Overnight optional. Call 248-628-1887; www.strawbalestudio.org.

Candlelight Meditation and Healing with Lighthouse Center in Whitmore Lake • Sundays, 6-7:15 p.m. • Begin the new week by renewing your spirit with chanting, meditation, prayer, visualization, and a healing circle. Reiki healing available as well. No cost. Call Prachi at 734-449-4381; thielp17@yahoo.com.

Little Lake Holistic Health and Wellness Fair with Rob Koliner • June 21, 2-5 p.m. • The Holistic Health and Wellness Fair will focus on services available at the Little Lake complex, including physical therapy, yoga, acupuncture, chiropractic, massage, body and energy work, holistic medicine, green design building and remodeling, and more. Free. Call 761-5908; naetdoc@aol.com.