Events, meeting, exhibits planned for April 2008

Continuing

Historic Home Tours. Whaley House, a 21-room Victorian house restored to 1880s period; 624 E. Kearsley St.; 1 to 4 p.m. every Sunday each month; $5 (235-6841). Sloan Museum Program. "Rides and Rebels," motorcycle exhibits and programs; Sloan Museum, 1221 E. Kearsley St.; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through July; $6 (237-3450). Sloan Museum Program. "Unearth the World of Treasure"; Sloan Museum, 1221 E. Kearsley St.; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through April 20; $6 (237-3450). Flint Youth Theatre. "The Giver" by Lois Lowry and adapted by Eric Coble; Bower Theater, 1220 E. Kearsley St.; 7:30 Fridays and Saturdays through April 26 and 4:30 p.m. April 19 and April 26; $16 (237-7333). Exhibit. "How to Make Books," works by book makers and artists Esther K. Smith and Dikko Faust; MCC Visual Arts and Design Center Fine Arts Gallery, 1401 E. Court St.; 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays through April 22; free (762-0443).

Saturday, April 12

FSO Concert. Flint Symphony Orchestra with  Augusto Diemecke, violin, and the women of the Flint Festival Chorus performs "In the Steppes of Central Asia" by Borodin, "The Four Seasons"  by Vivaldi, "Mother Goose Suite" by Ravel and "La Mer" by Debussy; Whiting, 1241 E. Kearsley St.; 8 p.m.; $9.50 to $56  (237-7333). Drama. "Expecting Isabel" by Lisa Loomer; UM-F Theater; 7:30 p.m. today and 2 p.m. tomorrow; $10 (237-6520).

Sunday, April 13

Flint Youth Theatre. "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead" by Bert V. Royal; Bower Theater, 1220 E. Kearsley St.; call for time; $5 (237-1530). Concert. The Flint Theater Organ Club presents "Pipes, Picks and Pops" with the Capitol Theater pipe organ played by Scott Smith and the Flint Banjo Club; Flint Institute of Music, 1025 E. Kearsley St.; 3 p.m.; $15 (653-4976).

Tuesday, April 15

Armchair Traveler. "Rocky Mountains"; Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St.; 12:15 p.m.; free, bring lunch (232-7111). Teen Author  Forum. Femi Osofisan, author of "The Oriki of a Grasshopper and Other Plays"; Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St.; 10 a.m.; free (232-7111). Fiction Only Book Club. Femi Osofisan, author of "The Oriki of a Grasshopper and Other Plays"; Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St.; noon;  free (232-7111). Meet the Author. Meet Femi Osofisan; Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St.; 7 p.m.;  free (232-7111).

Thursday, April 17

Lecture. Jared Diamond, author of "Guns, Germs and Steel," is featured in the Ballenger Eminent Persons Lecture Series, Mott Community College, 1401 E. Court St.; 7 p.m.; free (762-0200). Common Hour. An open forum to discuss issues affecting the greater downtown; Good Beans Cafe, 328 Grand Traverse St.; 5 p.m.; free (230-7684).

Friday, April 18

Teen Writers' Forum. Teens interested in writing; Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St.; 3:30 to 5 p.m.; free (232-7111).

Tuesday, April 22

Armchair Traveler. "Charms of Holland"; Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St.; 12:15 p.m.; free, bring lunch (232-7111).

Thursday, April 24

Common Hour. An open forum to discuss issues affecting the greater downtown; Good Beans Cafe, 328 Grand Traverse St.; 5 p.m.; free (230-7684). Genealogy Research Online. Internet class; Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St.; 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.; free (249-2569).

Sunday, April 27

Concert. 30th Annual Showcase Concert with Flint Youth Symphony, Flint Youth Wind Ensemble, Flint Youth String Orchestra, Flint Youth Philharmonia, Flint Festival Youth Chorus, Flint Youth Ballet, Youth Dance Ensemble, Children's Performance Workshop and FSPA string classes; Whiting, 1241 E. Kearsley St.; 3 p.m.; $10 (237-7333).

Tuesday, April 29

Armchair Traveler. "This is Switzerland"; Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St.; 12:15 p.m.; free, bring lunch (232-7111).

Thursday, May 1

Law Day. Panel discussion on "Sound Teenage Driving" presented by the Genesee County Bar Association; Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St.; 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (232-7111). McCree Theatre. "Dreamgirls"; Bower Theater, 1220 E. Kearsley St.; 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and 3 and 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through May 18; $18 (232-9243)(web). Common Hour. An open forum to discuss issues affecting the greater downtown; Good Beans Cafe, 328 Grand Traverse St.; 5 p.m.; free (230-7684).

Saturday, May 3

Carriage Town Clean Up. Meet at Good Beans Cafe, 328 N. Grand Traverse; 8 a.m. to noon; free (237-4663).

Sunday, May 4

Lecture. Jeff Corwin, host of Animal Planet's "The Jeff Corwin Experience"; Whiting, 1241 E. Kearsley St.; 3 p.m.; $18 to $38  (237-7333).

Thursday, May 8

Common Hour. An open forum to discuss issues affecting the greater downtown; Good Beans Cafe, 328 Grand Traverse St.; 5 p.m.; free (230-7684).

Friday, May 9

Lecture. Private investigators, Glen Roy Walker and Dan Monroe, discuss their profession; MCC's Applewood Cafe in the Prahl College Center, 1401 E. Court St.; 9:30 a.m.; $10 (762-0390)(web).

Thursday, May 15

Common Hour. An open forum to discuss issues affecting the greater downtown; Good Beans Cafe, 328 Grand Traverse St.; 5 p.m.; free (230-7684).

Friday, May 16

Music at St. Paul's. The Michigan State University Community Children's Choir; St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 711 S. Saginaw St.; 3:30 p.m.; $10 (569-1545).

Tuesday, May 20

Christian Science Lecture. "If God Is All, Where Is He at This Moment" by John Adams; Longway Planetarium, 1310 E. Kearsley St.; 7 p.m.; free (694-3437).

Thursday, May 22

Common Hour. An open forum to discuss issues affecting the greater downtown; Good Beans Cafe, 328 Grand Traverse St.; 5 p.m.; free (230-7684).

Thursday, May 29

Common Hour. An open forum to discuss issues affecting the greater downtown; Good Beans Cafe, 328 Grand Traverse St.; 5 p.m.; free (230-7684).

Thursday, June 19

Exhibit. The Dignity Vietnam Wall, a three-quarter scale model of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.; Genesee Parks Bluebell Beach; through June 22; free (606-1300).