COMMUNITY PARTNER
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Discover opportunities for enrichment and growth, hosted by trusted community partners.
GPAA: A Morning Out: Every 1st and Third Tuesday
Connect with friends, share stories, and create art to take home. Join us from 10:30 a.m.–noon on the first and third Tuesdays of each month.
Color Theory with Saveria Giovinazzo
In this class students will explore the intrinsic existence of color theory. Instruction in the use of the color wheel will be covered, as well as, color harmony, color psychology and the properties of color.
An Evening Out for Vets : Every 2nd & 4th Tuesday
Winston Churchill: "Painting came to my rescue in a most trying time."
The program is free and open to all veterans and their families on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month.
All materials are provided.
Gilda’s Club: Yoga with a View
Join yoga instructor, Abby Chmil, for this inclusive and accessible yoga class supporting your body and mind through breathwork, meditation, and mindful movement. We'll explore postures on the mat, kneeling, and standing, with options to adjust intensity based on your comfort and energy level. Every body is different and so is every yoga practice, but we suspect you’ll come away from this one feeling simply rejuvenated!
Gilda’s Club: Tai Chi on the Lake
Join Tai Chi practitioner Vernice McDaniel for a slow-flow session focused on gentle movement, mindfulness, and stress relief. You’ll learn how to weave simple, restorative exercises into your routine to boost balance, flexibility, mood, and overall well-being. With over 20 years as a meditation coach, Vernice brings a calm, welcoming presence to help you reconnect with your body and find your center—no experience needed.
Gilda’s Club: Chair Yoga
Yoga is a practice that connects the body, breath, and mind. Chair yoga is a gentle form of yoga that is done while seated or using a chair for balance. Join Page as she guides you to build strength, enhance concentration, and harness deep breathing for body and mind.
Gilda’s Club: Grief Yoga with Laverne Santangelo
Please join Laverne Santangelo, LPC & RYT, for a unique mindfulness experience aimed at supporting emotional release and healing and helping navigate the intensity of grief. Laverne’s practice incorporates guided yoga and mindfulness practices, breathwork, relaxation, and essential oil aromatherapy to guide you on this journey. No flexibility or yoga experience are necessary, and chairs will be available to make this program accessible to all.
Gilda’s Club: On the Horizon Fiber Arts Group
Are you a knitter or crocheter? Do you love embroidery, cross stitch, or needlepoint? Whatever your fiber art of choice the mindful, repetitive motions of these timeless crafts can help you reduce stress and anxiety and improve memory and focus…and the social benefits of crafting with a group can’t be beat!
Lunch and Learn: Navigating Grief with Stacy
Join us for a nourishing Lunch & Learn exploring how grief lives in the body, mind, and spirit, and how to recognize its subtle signs within ourselves. Together, we’ll discuss holistic approaches to healing—through mindful presence, energy, breath practices, and natural support for emotional balance.
Gilda’s Club Snacking in Season
In this demonstration, we will bring in whatever fruits and veggies are in season this month to prepare and try delicious, quick, and portable recipes that are suitable for snacking or a small meal.
White Line Block Printing with Nobuko Yamasaki
White-line woodblock printmaking began in 1915, the first woodblock printmaking unique to the United States. Western artists admired the Eastern traditional type of woodblock printing made by the Japanese artists. The Eastern art form required several blocks of wood to produce a finished print. The Western printmakers of 1915 created their own style of woodblock printing using only one block of wood.
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
Gilda’s Club: Previvor/High Risk Support Group
Cancer treatment can make it hard to eat well—but a nourishing smoothie can be an easy win. Stop by to sample a delicious, nutrient-packed smoothie crafted to support your health and taste buds. Each month features a fresh new recipe, made with care and loaded with fruits, veggies, and flavor.
Gilda’s Club: Art Therapy
Art Therapy uses various forms of artistic expression to explore themes such as mindfulness, self-awareness, self-esteem, self-compassion, emotion, anxiety, stress, connections/relationships, change, problem solving, coping skills, grief and loss.
Golden Cloud Workshop with Donald Cronkhite
Since 2004, more than 20 years ago, Donald has been working on his cloudscape series. Several pieces are in the collections of Michigan universities and art galleries. In this two session workshop, he will
share with students how he paints his cloudscapes.
Grosse Pointe Veterans Club Meeting
Join the Grosse Pointe Veterans Club for its meeting on Feb. 12, 2026 at 2 p.m.
Your Old Mansion: Love and Romance in Early America
For the second lecture in the "Celebrating the Nation's 250th Birthday" series, you are invited to a learn about Valentine's Day in early America with Jayne Ptolemy, a curator of manuscripts at the William L. Clements Library on the U of M Ann Arbor campus.
American Legion Grosse Pointe Post 303 Meeting
Join the American Legion Grosse Pointe Post 303 for its meeting on Feb. 17 at 6 p.m.
Special Needs Resource Fair
The Special Needs Resource Alliance is a collaboration of local non-profit organizations, school systems and service providers who work together to offer exceptional support for individuals with special needs in Southeast Michigan, sharing the goals of embracing, supporting and developing social and educational opportunities for individuals with special needs and their families
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
New Plant Introductions with George Papadelis
Learn about new plant introductions for 2026 that you can include your garden.
Each year George Papadelis, owner of Telly's Greenhouse and Garden Center, tours growers and shows to see the new introductions for this season and others upcoming. Please join us as George gives us a visual feast of what we will see at local nurseries this year. It's a good way to consider what new plants you may want to include in your garden.
GPGC Legacy Seminar
Join us for our exciting 5th Annual Legacy Seminar “Impact Nature by the Little Things You Do,” with speaker Dr. Doug Tallamy for two insightful lectures explaining how our individual actions can help nature and wildlife around us. “In the past we have asked one thing of our gardens: that they be pretty. Now they have to support life, sequester carbon, feed pollinators, and manage water.”
Your Old Mansion: Curators of Maps at the Clements Library
Presented by the Grosse Pointe Artists Association as part of its Your Old Mansion lecture series celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday, this lecture features Sierra Laddusaw and Mary Pedley of the William L. Clements Library exploring the history of mapping Michigan.
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
Gilda’s Club: Art Therapy
Art Therapy uses various forms of artistic expression to explore themes such as mindfulness, self-awareness, self-esteem, self-compassion, emotion, anxiety, stress, connections/relationships, change, problem solving, coping skills, grief and loss.
Grosse Pointe Veterans Club Meeting
Join the Grosse Pointe Veterans Club for its meeting on March 12, 2026 at 2 p.m.
American Legion Grosse Pointe Post 303 Meeting
Join the American Legion Grosse Pointe Post 303 for its meeting on March 17 at 6 p.m.
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
Your Old Mansion: Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775
Presented by the Grosse Pointe Artists Association as part of its Your Old Mansion lecture series celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday, this lecture explores the events leading to the opening shots of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord.
Gilda’s Club: Art Therapy
Art Therapy uses various forms of artistic expression to explore themes such as mindfulness, self-awareness, self-esteem, self-compassion, emotion, anxiety, stress, connections/relationships, change, problem solving, coping skills, grief and loss.
Grosse Pointe Veterans Club Meeting
Join the Grosse Pointe Veterans Club for its meeting on April 9, 2026 at 2 p.m.
Your Old Mansion: The Making of the DIA
Presented by the Grosse Pointe Artists Association as part of its Your Old Mansion lecture series celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday, this lecture features artist and Detroit historian Mike Kroll exploring the partnership between Dr. Wilhelm Valentiner and Edsel Ford and its lasting impact on the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
American Legion Grosse Pointe Post 303 Meeting
Join the American Legion Grosse Pointe Post 303 for its meeting on April 21 at 6 p.m.
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
Gilda’s Club: Art Therapy
Art Therapy uses various forms of artistic expression to explore themes such as mindfulness, self-awareness, self-esteem, self-compassion, emotion, anxiety, stress, connections/relationships, change, problem solving, coping skills, grief and loss.
American Legion Grosse Pointe Post 303 Meeting
Join the American Legion Grosse Pointe Post 303 for its meeting on May 19 at 6 p.m.
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
Gilda’s Club: Art Therapy
Art Therapy uses various forms of artistic expression to explore themes such as mindfulness, self-awareness, self-esteem, self-compassion, emotion, anxiety, stress, connections/relationships, change, problem solving, coping skills, grief and loss.
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
Gilda’s Club: Art Therapy
Art Therapy uses various forms of artistic expression to explore themes such as mindfulness, self-awareness, self-esteem, self-compassion, emotion, anxiety, stress, connections/relationships, change, problem solving, coping skills, grief and loss.
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
Grosse Pointe Veterans Club Meeting
Join the Grosse Pointe Veterans Club for its meeting on Oct. 8, 2026 at 2 p.m.
Gilda’s Club: New Member Meeting
Join us for an introductory orientation led by a member of our clinical team. We’ll walk you through the full range of services we offer, explain how to access care, and work with you to create a personalized support plan tailored to your needs.
Heroes’ Movement Gala
Join Heroes' Movement for their 2nd annual Gala at The War Memorial! Enjoy dinner, an open bar, and live music by Packin' Heat while mingling in cocktail attire.
Gilda’s Club: Art Therapy
Art Therapy uses various forms of artistic expression to explore themes such as mindfulness, self-awareness, self-esteem, self-compassion, emotion, anxiety, stress, connections/relationships, change, problem solving, coping skills, grief and loss.
Portraits with Liz Frankland
Become more confident painting portraits in this four week class!
Liz will guide you through several exercises designed to increase your knowledge of anatomy and decision making through brushwork. Building from initial studies of individual features, each student will complete a portrait of their choosing. Liz will demonstrate in each session and provide individual guidance.