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Break out of your cocoon, and spread your wings! Come to the True Self Prom, and dance with us!

Join us for this Community-Led Event organized and hosted by NMC Pride student group and Dennos Museum with a a DJ from the Audio Technology student body. 

• When: Saturday, 3/16/2024 from 7PM to 9PM

• Where: Dennos Museum Center

• Who: Anyone 18+ is welcome!

• How: Tickets are available here: http://tinyurl.com/trueselfprom

• Tickets for students are free, for all others admission is $5. There is an option to donate to our student group if someone would like. 

Dress code is semi-formal, and we will be providing light refreshments. 

Join us for this Community-Led Event at Ethnology Distillation on March 9th, 2024. Enjoy 2 djs while we dance the night away!

Title Track and We The People – MI are happy to present Understanding Racial Justice (URJ), a five-week course for white people ready to lean into the racial justice movement. Themes explored will include race, racism, identity, solidarity, accountability, collective liberation, cultural healing and embodied antiracism practice. The third week will feature special guest presenters who will share stories in insights from their lived experiences as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) people. This course includes creative and somatic practices that support integration, connectivity, and resilience.

Our next in person URJ cohort will be offered on Monday evenings from 5:30-7:30pm for 5 weeks February 5th-March 4th at Farm Club.

Sliding scale of $125-$500 ($25-$100 a week) with scholarships available.

Title Track and We The People – MI are happy to present Understanding Racial Justice (URJ), a five-week course for white people ready to lean into the racial justice movement. Themes explored will include race, racism, identity, solidarity, accountability, collective liberation, cultural healing and embodied antiracism practice. The third week will feature special guest presenters who will share stories in insights from their lived experiences as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) people. This course includes creative and somatic practices that support integration, connectivity, and resilience.

Our next in person URJ cohort will be offered on Monday evenings 5:30-7:30pm for 5 weeks,
February 5th-March 4th at Farm Club.

Sliding scale of $125-$500 ($25-$100 a week) with scholarships available.

Title Track and We The People – MI are happy to present Understanding Racial Justice (URJ), a five-week course for white people ready to lean into the racial justice movement. Themes explored will include race, racism, identity, solidarity, accountability, collective liberation, cultural healing and embodied antiracism practice. The third week will feature special guest presenters who will share stories in insights from their lived experiences as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) people. This course includes creative and somatic practices that support integration, connectivity, and resilience.

Our next in person URJ cohort will be offered on Monday evenings from 5:30-7:30pm for 5 weeks, February 5th-March 4th at Farm Club.

Sliding scale of $125-$500 ($25-$100 a week) with scholarships available.

Title Track and We The People – MI are happy to present Understanding Racial Justice (URJ), a five-week course for white people ready to lean into the racial justice movement. Themes explored will include race, racism, identity, solidarity, accountability, collective liberation, cultural healing and embodied antiracism practice. The third week will feature special guest presenters who will share stories in insights from their lived experiences as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) people. This course includes creative and somatic practices that support integration, connectivity, and resilience.

Our next in person URJ cohort will be offered on Monday evenings from 5:30-7:30pm for 5 weeks, February 5th- March 4th at Farm Club.

Sliding scale of $125-$500 ($25-$100 a week) with scholarships available.

Title Track and We The People – MI are happy to present Understanding Racial Justice (URJ), a five-week course for white people ready to lean into the racial justice movement. Themes explored will include race, racism, identity, solidarity, accountability, collective liberation, cultural healing and embodied antiracism practice. The third week will feature special guest presenters who will share stories in insights from their lived experiences as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) people. This course includes creative and somatic practices that support integration, connectivity, and resilience.

Our next in person URJ cohort will be offered on Monday evenings from 5:30-7:30 for 5 weeks, February 5th- March 4th at Farm Club.

Sliding scale of $125-$500 ($25-$100 a week) with scholarships available.

Join this Community Led event, Queer Tales Book Club where we chat about books that are by and/or about LGBTQIA+ people. Reading is not required, and everyone is welcome.

We hang out on the third Tuesday of the month at 7pm in the Nelson Room.

This month's book is: Amor Actually: A Holiday Romance Anthology by Adriana Herrera, Sabrina Sol, Diana Muñoz Stewart, Alexis Daria, Zoey Castile, Mia Sosa, Priscilla Oliveras.

Join us for this Community-Led Event!

Queer Tales Book Club, where we chat about books that are by and/or about LGBTQIA+ people. Reading is not required, and everyone is welcome.

We hang out on the third Tuesday of the month at 7pm in the Nelson Room. This month’s book will be Amor Actually.

A vigil to honor the trans, nonbinary, agender, and genderqueer lives that were lost over the past year. Vigil includes a welcoming, a reading of the names of the lives lost, a chance at offering readings, poems, prayers, and lighting candles.

5:30 - 6pm | Space to honor Trans lives

6 - 8pm | Food and Art walk centering Trans Joy

Collaboration with UNP, Evergreen, and Polestar.

A Community-Led Event with the Michael Chetcuti Foundation!
Northport Pride’s “Tea Dance 3.0”

October 1, 2023 2pm to 6pm at Willlowbrook Mill hosted by The Michael Chetcuti Foundation with special guest MC @MarciaX3nyc and music by @jacedj

Use promo code “UPNORTHPRIDE” for $5 off.

Join us Thursday, September 28th, 6-9 pm for 3 hours of dancing, prancing, and splashing at The Delmar's beautifully heated outdoor pool. 2BaysDJs will set the vibe. Careful now. Slippery when wet.

Tickets will be $35 (Available August 11) and include access to The Delamar's outdoor pool, extra yummy snacks, and all the body-positive, booty-shaking, cannon-balling goodness you can handle.

Limited cabana purchases available with seating and perks for groups of 8.

Must be 18 years or older to attend.

Cash bar with a $10 speciality cocktail.

Dress code: PG13; the Delamar will have guests with families

Dance the Rainbow

Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Check-in at 5:30 / Performance begins at 6 pm in the 2nd floor lobby $25 ticket
The Alluvion at Commongrounds
414 E. Eighth Street, Traverse City, MI
https://www.thealluvion.org/

Alluvion Arts @ 414 presents a one-night only performance that integrates visual and performance art in a way you’ve never seen before. In partnership with Up North Pride, this event kicks off Pride Week on September 26th with an evening focused on dismantling the patriarchy to make room for free expression. Inspired by the work of visual artist Winnie van der Rijn, and in collaboration with painter and award winning dancer/choreographer, Peter Sparling. Assisted by five professional dancers from NW Michigan, Sparling conducts a lecture-demonstration that removes van der Rijn’s wearable art from the wall and replaces them with Sparling’s rainbow-colored vestments, banners and murals. Part TED Talk, part catwalk, part improv jam, the performance features dancers Katie Dorn & Leslie Williams, (Interlochen), Finley VanPatten (Crooked Tree/Petoskey), Ben Cheney (Croft Residency/Horton Bay) and Yali Rivlin (Manistee). Double bass player Paul Erhard provides musical commentary.

This event takes place in the second floor lobby of the Commongrounds building and moves inside the Alluvion, also on the second floor. Entry to the event starts at 5:30 with the performance beginning at 6 pm. At the conclusion of the performance, audience members are invited to enjoy light refreshments.

Van der Rijn’s exhibition “And So She Did” is on display August 22nd-September 26th on the second floor of Commongrounds. Van der Rijn is an award winning, multi-disciplinary artist of opportunity–collecting materials, experimenting with techniques and pursuing her curiosities. Her art practice includes textiles, sculpture, collage, actions and collaboration (which she considers its own art form). She actively exhibits her work throughout the United States and abroad. Her most recent body of work ‘How to Dismantle the Patriarchy’ is an examination & deconstruction of the power in menswear.

For more information please contact Alluvion Arts curator, Jessica Kooiman Parker by email;

jessica@commongrounds.coop

Kick off Up North Pride Week with this Community Led Event, a personal look inside the life and creative mind of one of the 20th century’s greatest British artists: David Hockney. The film looks back at his formative years in the British pop art scene and his experiences as a gay man.

This film is free. Please register in advance. Limit of 35 people, please limit groups to four people.

Come enjoy this Community Led Event at the Dennos Museum. Center

“We are welcoming Hawk Owls back to campus with a joyful celebration of pride. Dance, enjoy snacks, and view art at this 18+ friendly event. Members, NMC Employees, and the public are welcome to attend. Enjoy 0 proof cocktails from Audacia Elixirs. One drink ticket provided with your reservation. Additional drink tickets available for $10 per drink at the bar. 

Join this Community Led Event with Traverse Area District Library, Queer Tales Book Club where we chat about books that are by and/or about LGBTQ+ people. Reading is not required, and everyone is welcome.

We hang out on the third Tuesday of the month at 7pm in the Nelson Room.

This month's book will be Hijab Butch Blues.

Title Track and We The People – MI are happy to present Understanding Racial Justice (URJ), a five-week course for white people ready to lean into the racial justice movement. URJ was co-created in 2020 by skilled, longtime organizers and facilitators Simon Wolff and Seth Bernard (see full bios below). We just completed our fourth cohort of Understanding Racial Justice in 2023 and are looking forward to welcoming more committed folks into our URJ alumni community this fall, now almost 300 strong. Learn more and register below.

Our Fall in-person Traverse City cohort will meet on Tuesday evenings from 5:30 – 7:30pm, September 19 – October 17. Our 16th cohort will be facilitated by Lucy Waechter Webb and Tess Waechter Smith. Location TBA.

Our next virtual cohort of URJ will also be offered this fall on Monday evenings from October 16 – November 13. This cohort will meet from 5:30-7:30pm via zoom and be facilitated by Lucy Waechter Webb and Chris Good.

Community education dinner to discuss prevention tools for sexual health.

Continuous collaboration between TJCC, Gilead Community Liaison and UNP to promote prevention and treatment around HIV, STIs and Equitable Status-Neutral Sexual Health.

Little Fleet is putting on quite the show, and we’re all invited!

All Call Music Festival, in its second year, has a lineup sure to please. The day kicks off at 3pm and the last act goes on at 8pm. Come for the music, the food trucks, the joy of spending a late summer day with friends and community.

Use discount code “OpentoAllCall” at checkout before the end of the month for 20% off.

Join us for a Community Led Event at Middle Coast Brewing on August 30th from 6-8pm for a night of community, solidarity, and cocktails! Pride themed drinks, music and fun for all. This event is designed for mingling, meeting new people, and building a stronger community.

Thank you Middle Coast Brewing Company!

Join us for Queer Tales Book Club where we chat about books that are by and/or about LGBTQ+ people. Reading is not required, and everyone is welcome.

We hang out on the third Tuesday of the month at 7pm in the Nelson Room.

This month's book is The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. Available through the TADL Catalog, or MeLCat, or as an audiobook on Hoopla.

Join us for Queer Tales Book Club where we chat about books that are by and/or about LGBTQ+ people. Reading is not required, and everyone is welcome.

We hang out on the third Tuesday of the month at 7pm in the Nelson Room.

This month's book is Grandad's Camper by Harry Woodgate. You can get it through TADL or MeLCat.