🌞 hello, friends 🌞

🌱 MAY 🌱

Some recent photos from events. Tim Eriksen at CCFF ♥️ 🪕

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We’re putting on a lot of great events this spring! Especially excited to work with the Capital City Film Festival on a bunch of them, including a block of Afrofuturist film with “Distant Planet Project”! 🌍 Hope you can come out! Please RSVP if you plan to attend, seating is limited. Thanks!

Low ticket alert 🚨 The LSO & CCFF are presenting a very interesting chamber music concert w/ film accompaniment tomorrow, and there are very low tickets available for each of the two screenings (6 & 8 PM). Tix online!

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The Poetry Room ♥️ A very full house and great vibes tonight!

Hiroya Tsukamoto is an NYC-based fingerstyle guitarist from Kyoto. He pays us a visit every year or two, and shares truly transcendent compositions and charming stories from his travels. He returns on Sunday, March 30 for a 3 PM show!

Brilliant partnerships coming to the neighborhood! Particularly happy to share that many of these events are free or very low cost. The time is now! Emerge, get inspired, find community, enjoy your life!

In the shop 11 - 5ish today and tomorrow! 📚 There’s also a drop-in Irish Music session tomorrow afternoon! See our website for details. 🎻

Getting very excited for these Capital City Film Festival collabs next month! A whole block of Afrofuturist film and comic events coming soon, too!

Neighborhood meeting next week, for those of you in or around REO Town!

Another great show from Tim O’Shea & Joe Nielsen this past Saturday! Lively energy and lovely crowd that night ♥️ Thanks for coming out, if ye did!

Hope y’all had a good spring break 🌴 We’re back in the book shop this Saturday from 11-4:30, then hosting the brilliant Irish folk singer, Tim O’Shea, Saturday night!

Contemporary chamber music w/ the LSO last night!

Great events coming up, with the express purpose of making our lives more enjoyable and full of beautiful things that provoke interesting thoughts. Also, we’ll be taking some time off this weekend, lol. ❤️

Hiroya Tsukamoto will be here on March 30! Matinee show! Brilliant! youtu.be/cPo_zjw-o18

ALT RAP was incredible. Thanks to everyone showing up for hip hop in Lansing ♥️♥️♥️ Keep an eye on The Player, LucyV, J.Plantana, AreWhy and Beyond Infinity- and look for more Night Alliance events!

Tonight! Night Alliance + Okemos Coffee Shop present ALT RAP, featuring J.Plantana, The Player (see video 🤩) & other up-and-coming hip hop artists from mid-Michigan! $5 cover ❤️

Next up: ALT RAP is a showcase of local hip-hop artists, with cover starting at $5! Co-produced by Night Alliance and Okemos Coffee Shop, featuring some of our favorite up-and-coming artists! #lansinghiphop

Brilliant standup comedy show with Ricarlo Winston (📸), Adam Degi & Emily Burkhart tonight! Thanks to everyone who came out! #lansingcomedy

Roads/sidewalks are looking clear ❄️ and we’ve got a great comedy show for you tonight! 7:30 show, BYOB from Sleepwalker! #liveattherobin #lansingcomedy

Headed this way in May! A brilliant, bluegrass-adjacent trio from Kansas. I feel like some of y'all who were here for The Wild Honey Collective last week would really dig this! youtu.be/IdNYQEsfHZ4?...

We host standup comedy! Next show is coming up this Thursday!

Thanks for another great #ambientannotations! w/ niceghost, Carter Crosby, Stephanie Vasko & a bunch of cool people in the house ♥️

#ambientannotations is this Saturday at noon! Experimental music in the bookshop, featuring Carter Crosby (pic), @stephanievasko.bsky.social and niceghost! Free!

Sammie Hershock and Philip Bowen were lovely tonight! Two songwriters that draw from deep emotional wells, and the mix of Appalachian folk and retro-tinged keyboard ballads made for a varied and wonderful show. It happened! It was great! I’m sharing it!

Hi 👋 We’re here to organize and spread the word about art, music and community events in our corner of Lansing. Feels… nicer here? Thanks for following ♥️