Riverside Arts Center

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Resident Artists and Theater Companies:

Michigan Classical Repertory Theatre

PTD Productions

Redbud Productions

Calendar of Events

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RAC Newsletter

Some of our friends and colleagues:

Ypsilanti Downtown Development Authority

Ypsilanti Convention and Visitors Bureau

Ypsilanti Heritage Foundation

Ann Arbor Area
Community Foundation

 

Welcome to the RAC!

The Riverside Arts Center is a "multi-purpose cultural arts venue providing performance, exhibit, studio, office and reception space for artists and arts and cultural organizations to enrich the Ypsilanti community through the arts and cultural experiences."

  • To learn more about RAC's history and our plans for the future, follow the "More About RAC" link at the left.
  • Take a virtual tour of the RAC building by following the "Tour RAC" link.
  • RAC is the performance home for several theater groups; check them out!
  • There's something going on at RAC almost every week; check the Calendar of Events regularly.
Attention Patrons and Friends of Riverside Arts Center:
The long awaited project to construct an elevator and stair connector between our two buildings has begun!
From July 1st thru November 1st we will be in "excuse our dust" mode.
All scheduled events will take place and the public should encounter little to detract from their Riverside experience.
We hope you are as excited as we are as we enable more space to be used for the arts in downtown Ypsilantii

In the theater:

September 18-21 & 25-27
PTD Productions presents
The Foreigner
by Larry Shue

Charlie’s well meaning friend, Sgt. Froggy LeSueur, persuades Charlie to join him on a three-day respite at a rundown fishing lodge near an army base where Froggy conducts an annual demolition class. To protect his super shy friend from unwanted social intercourse with landlady Betty Meeks and her guests, Froggy passes him off as a foreigner who neither speaks or understands English. Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should, when a group of devious characters must deal with a stranger who they think doesn’t understand a word being said. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax. Charlie’s metamorphoses from bland doormat to lovable charmer with personality-plus make for a farce that is a highly charged hilarious evening.

Performances Thursday through Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM. Please see the PTD website for details.

In the Gallery:

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September 4-27: It Grows on Trees--II is an exhibit of creative woodworking, including sculpture, turning, and furniture, which seeks to raise the level and recognition of woodworking as an art form in Michigan.Opening reception September 5.

September 4-27 at Riverside Off-Center: Trumpets of Democracy: Blood for Oil! will showcase acrylic paintings on wood and sculpture by Ed Stopke of Ann Arbor. Reception Friday, September 5, from 4:30 to 7:30 PM, at the Riverside Off Center, 64. N. Huron Street.

CALL FOR ARTISTS: The Riverside Arts Center Gallery invites artists to participate in the Second Annual Juried Holiday Art Show (November 7-9). Submissions of paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, sculpture, wood, metal, glass, paper, photography, jewelry, textiles, fiber, and mixed media art are welcome. Details available here.

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