Creative Café

A unique open mic event to share your creative gifts in community and receive supportive feedback in the way you want to receive it. 

Do you sing? 

Play an instrument? 

Write poetry? 

Dance? 

Paint? 

Make cookies? 

Any creative form is welcome and invited! 

Michigan singer songwriter, educator and organizer, Sam Cooper will be the guest emcee this month and will offer her gifts throughout the evening. She might even invite us all into song together! Everyone is invited to come and share as well.

Registration is appreciated for performers and drop ins are welcome!

Come as you are, all are welcome: people of all sizes, shapes, ages and abilities – no prior experience is needed.

Doors open at 6:30 for refreshments and mingling and the open mic will start at 7pm. If you would like to receive feedback, you’re welcome to ask for it when you share. 

Free to all thanks to the Petoskey Public Library.

Refreshments will be available for sale.
Please register or reach out to Hilary at hilaryjlake@gmail.com if you’d like to sell refreshments or vend a craft during the event. All vendors are welcome to vend for free. 

Location:

Petoskey Library Labyrinth outside as long as the weather permits or across the street at
The Carnegie Building, 451 Mitchell Rd. Petoskey, MI

Guidelines: You are invited to bring all of who you are and to be supportive of everyone else. Feel free to reach out to Hilary with any questions at hilaryjlake@gmail.com.

Co-Hosts:

Samantha Cooper’s voice is a gentle force. Her songs speak for their sound; from contemplative respites to keen PSA’s. Sam’s voice and violin appear on over seventy midwest albums. Her roles include songwriter, session musician, youth worker, organizer, event producer and mediator. Sam primarily works with The Michigan Climate Action Network, The Great Lakes Water Protector Network, Great Lakes Creatives and Youth Arts Alliance. Sam also co-founded and co-produces Hearth & Hymn and Solidarity Songs, a choir sharing songs of grief and joy in solidarity with justice, healing and movement work.

Offered in collaboration with My Oasis Center and sponsored by the Petoskey Library.