A conversation between musician and author Antionio Michael Downing and Kaylan Waterman, musician and host of Detroit’s Kumbuka, an annual remembrance of African Americans in the literary arts. Antonio Michael’s new book, Saga Boy; My Life of Blackness and Becoming, is being released in Canada this month and in the U.S. in September. Written, in part, in our own northern Michigan, Saga Boy tells the harrowing story of the 11-year old Antonio Michael’s displacement from the rainforest of Trinidad to the snowy wilderness of Canada when his beloved grandmother died and his subsequent metamorphosis.
Blackness & Becoming promises a captivating conversation between Downing and Waterman, as well as an opportunity for Q&A and audience comment.
Join event hosts the NMC Library and Title Track, on Saturday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. via zoom: nmc.zoom.us/j/93785985852 (Webinar ID: 937 8598 5852).
Join Student Life, Student Success, the Student Government Association, Residence Life and other campus groups Thursday, Feb. 25, from 4–8 p.m. on the lawn behind East Hall for an evening of games, prizes and free pizza and hot chocolate in the Hawk Owl Café!
NMC Student Life has invited two spoken word poets to perform live via zoom this Wednesday, Feb. 17 from 1–2 p.m. Spoken word poets Jae Nichelle and Quindell Peyton will be performing with a focus on Black History Month, addressing issues that impact their communities, along with bringing a message filled with inspiration and hope, All NMC students are invited to join this event; they can join via this Zoom link.
Quindell Peyton will perform a piece called ‘This Little Light of Mine’ that metaphorically talks about the light absorbing aspect of melanin and how Black Americans have shined that light throughout our history in this country. Quindell Peyton is from Detroit, and has been traveling through Michigan for six years doing speeches and spoken words at health events, black history events, and leadership conferences in Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Pontiac. He writes: “it is truly my dream to inspire people to follow their dreams and the light that shines toward the eventuality of their own lives, despite societal cautions and individual fears.”
Jae Nichelle will perform multiple pieces connected to Black History Month; she focuses a great deal of her work on black womanhood and mental health. With over 50 million views on Facebook and 1 million on YouTube, Jae Nichelle is a viral spoken word artist from Louisiana. Her work has been featured in Best New Poets 2020, and she’s been winning poetry slams since she was 16. She has shared: “my guilty pleasures include crop tops, taco bell, and starting projects that I’ll never finish.”
The International Affairs Forum presents Outlooks on US National Security with Karen Greenberg at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18. Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law and author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State and The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days. She is a renowned expert on national security, terrorism, and civil liberties whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, Mother Jones, and on major news channels. She is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Join the discussion about national security challenges facing the Biden-Harris administration.
For more information and to register for this virtual event, go to TCIAF.com.
Suggested donation $10 for non-members. Free to students and educators.
Enrollment Services at Northwestern Michigan College is pleased to offer a virtual financial aid fair for current college students, prospective students, and parents. This is open to anyone, regardless of which college they are planning to attend.
The fair will consist of three 20-minute virtual sessions with questions and answers following each session. Attendees are welcome to come and go at any time to catch a topic of interest.
Counting the Cost of College – comparing schools (5:30-6 p.m.)
Types of Financial Aid (6-6:30 p.m.)
How to Find and Apply for Scholarships (6:30-7 p.m.)
Join Mark and Whitney as they bring people together with the global power of music! Watch and listen to how the Playing For Change Foundation is creating positive change for marginalized youth in diverse communities through music and arts education. Find answers on how PFC has partnered with musicians such as Jason Mraz, Billie Eilish, Maroon 5, Ringo Starr, Sara Bareilles, Ziggy Marley, Becky G. Lucas Nelson, and others to promote global understanding!
IAF hosts a special evening to honor the late Vice Admiral John Currier, career aviator and former IAF board member.
VADM Currier was the recipient of the Harmon International Trophy for aviation, which resides in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. He shares this accolade with the likes of Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Yeager, and “Buzz” Aldrin.
U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City Commander Charles “Chuck” Webb will provide remarks. A first-person interview with VADM Currier describing his most daring and commendable rescue mission will also be aired.
Join us for this virtual event via Zoom. All proceeds go to the Vice Admiral John P. Currier Aviation Scholarship at Northwestern Michigan College.
In honor of MLK day, join the Student Life office for a showing of “John Lewis: Good Trouble” — an intimate account of legendary U.S. Representative John Lewis’s life, from his teenage years on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement, to becoming a legislative powerhouse.
Local musician Seth Bernard will be joining us in the beginning with a new song to kick off the evening.
Join us on Thursday, Dec. 10 from 7 to 9 p.m. to celebrate the end of the semester. Ornament kits with cocoa are available. Contact Student Success at (231) 995-3021 to arrange picking up a kit.
NMC’s Alpha Rho Pi proudly presents a screening of “John Lewis: Good Trouble” — an intimate account of legendary U.S. Representative John Lewis’s life, from his teenage years on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement, to becoming a legislative powerhouse.
The screening will take place Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m., followed by a panel discussion.
NMC’s Music Department, in collaboration with the NMC Audio Tech and Visual Communications programs, is pleased to announce the premiere of “The Lesson of the Lark” — a new concert work celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of Women’s Voting Rights hosted by Jeffrey Cobb, Director of Music Programs. The piece, which is meant to uplift and unify us during these challenging times, is a multi-movement work composed for narrator, soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists, chorus, and jazz orchestra. The work takes its inspiration from the language of Jazz, including elements of Swing, Blues, Bossa Nova ,Gospel, Salsa, and improvisation.
“The Lesson of the Lark,” is based on local author Laura Knight Cobb’s recently published book of the same name. The book, written to celebrate this year’s 100th Anniversary of the ratification of Women’s Voting Rights, is a dramatic interpretation of the struggle for women’s voting rights, told through the characters of a Girl, a Lark, and a Gardener, in beautiful prose and stunning artwork. A portion of the proceeds from the book’s sales go to the Equal Means Equal organization whose goal is to complete the ratification of the original Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution.
Want to learn a little more about sustainability and taking care of our planet? NMC’s Phi Theta Kappa chapter, Alpha Rho Pi, presents a screening of The Clean Bin Project.
This short comedic documentary follows partners Jen and Grant as they try to live zero waste for an entire year, and opens our eyes to the sobering amount of waste we create.
On Thursday, Nov. 19 at 2 p.m., IAF will welcome Kim Ghattas, New York Times best-selling author, former BBC journalist, and current non-resident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Ghattas knows the factors that have shaped the modern Middle East, and her vast experience provides deep insight into American foreign relations.
As the BBC’s US State Department correspondent, Ghattas travelled regularly with Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry. Her front row seat to the making of American foreign policy led her to write the book, The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power, which became a New York Times bestseller. The book includes personal reflections about being a child in war-torn Lebanon, growing up with questions about America.
In January 2020, Kim Ghattas released her new book, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East.
This event is open to the public, free for students and educators. Regular season IAF events are “pay what you can” for non-members. Livestream via Zoom including Q & A. More info at TCIAF.com
On Saturday, October 24th, 2020, NMC’s eSports student group will be hosting its first eSports Tournament at 6 p.m., online in partnership with Shine Media. It will be a Rocket League 3V3 tournament between NMC students.
Shine Media is a digital broadcasting company, co-owned by one of NMC’s veteran students.
This Friday, Oct. 2, at 6:30 p.m., we will be learning how to make brigadeiro from Brazil over zoom. This can be done in the microwave or on the stove top if you choose to follow along. Rayssa (Hi-ee-sah) from Brazil will be teaching us. Please feel free to reach out to bhanbury@nmc.edu or message us on Facebook if you have any questions about this! Scan our QR code to the right to find us on Facebook and follow us to stay up with all of our latest events.
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Are the goals of profit and climate solutions incompatible? What roles can government and business play in addressing climate change? And how has industry abroad worked to tackle these challenges? Join us for a case study discussion on Indonesia with former US Ambassador Robert Blake.
Amb. Blake served 31 years in the U.S. State Department including as Ambassador to Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Maldives, and as Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia. He is currently Executive Director at McLarty Associates, a Washington-based international trade advisory group.
This event is open to the public, and “pay what you can” for non-members. Broadcast livestream via Zoom, including Q&A. Submit questions during the webinar or email ahead to iaf@nmc.edu.
Join us for a pumpkin painting party in the West Hall Innovation Center on Thursday, Oct. 1 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tag your pumpkin #nmcfallidays to enter our competition! Prizes for scariest, funniest, best school spirit, and most overall likes! We’ll share your entries on the Student Success Center Facebook page.
All participants get a free coupon to the Hawk Owl Cafe where you can grab some yummy fall treats.
(Curbside pickup will also be available with pumpkin painting kits set outside West Hall’s main entrance for students to pick up and take home.)
A conversation between musician and author Antionio Michael Downing and Kaylan Waterman, musician and host of Detroit’s Kumbuka, an annual remembrance of African Americans in the literary arts. Antonio Michael’s new book, Saga Boy; My Life of Blackness and Becoming, is being released in Canada this month and in the U.S. in September. Written, in part, in our own northern Michigan, Saga Boy tells the harrowing story of the 11-year old Antonio Michael’s displacement from the rainforest of Trinidad to the snowy wilderness of Canada when his beloved grandmother died and his subsequent metamorphosis.
Join Student Life, Student Success, the Student Government Association, Residence Life and other campus groups Thursday, Feb. 25, from 4–8 p.m. on the lawn behind East Hall for an evening of games, prizes and free pizza and hot chocolate in the Hawk Owl Café!
The International Affairs Forum presents Outlooks on US National Security with Karen Greenberg at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 18. Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law and author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State and The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days. She is a renowned expert on national security, terrorism, and civil liberties whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, Mother Jones, and on major news channels. She is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 3–4 p.m.
IAF hosts a special evening to honor the late Vice Admiral John Currier, career aviator and former IAF board member.
MONDAY, JAN. 18, 7–9 P.M. VIA ZOOM
Let’s get together online for some holiday fun!
Want to learn a little more about sustainability and taking care of our planet? NMC’s Phi Theta Kappa chapter, Alpha Rho Pi, presents a screening of The Clean Bin Project.
On Thursday, Nov. 19 at 2 p.m., IAF will welcome Kim Ghattas, New York Times best-selling author, former BBC journalist, and current non-resident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Ghattas knows the factors that have shaped the modern Middle East, and her vast experience provides deep insight into American foreign relations.
This Friday, Oct. 2, at 6:30 p.m., we will be learning how to make brigadeiro from Brazil over zoom. This can be done in the microwave or on the stove top if you choose to follow along. Rayssa (Hi-ee-sah) from Brazil will be teaching us. Please feel free to reach out to 
THURSDAY, OCT. 15 @ 5 PM ET via ZOOM
Ready to get in the fall spirit?
Celebrate National Coffee Day by joining NMC President Nick Nissley for coffee on Tuesday, Sept. 29!