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What is geneseefun.com?

geneseefun.com is a comprehensive on-line resource for Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Events, Sports and Recreation. It highlights programs in theaters, museums, and outdoor venues throughout Genesee County, Holly and Owosso. It provides information that is in a single convenient online site and offers a calendar of events. geneseefun.com allows you to click or browse to find performances and exhibitions, classes and workshops, venues and artists. geneseefun.com lists what is available at the theater, cultural destinations, and sporting events. It also provides you with date, time, and even maps. So come and have fun in Genesee County!

Who is geneseefun.com?

geneseefun.com is a direct result of recommendations from the Communications Task Force of the Community Cultural Plan (CCP), a project administered by the Greater Flint Arts Council. Established in 1967, the Greater Flint Arts Council (GFAC) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is "to be a catalyst of, and advocate for, increased artistic and cultural enrichment in our ethnically diverse community." GFAC strives to promote and celebrate the arts-building new partnerships and to lay foundations of cultural growth for all the arts in our community.

The Greater Flint Arts Council is supported by grants from the Ruth Mott Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

Why geneseefun.com?

geneseefun.com wants you to be aware of the arts, culture and events in Genesee County. Discover its diversity. Get out and be part of it. Listen to the Flint Symphony Orchestra, attend a concert at Whiting Auditorium, enjoy a gospel musical at McCree Theater, browse the exhibits at Sloan Museum or Flint Institute of Arts, experience nostalgia from another time at Crossroads Village, bring your Family to the numerous festivals or see Tiger Woods at the Buick Open. We want YOU – the long-time resident, recent arrival, or visitor – to enjoy the vibrancy and the creative spirit that is in the Greater Flint Arts and Cultural Scene.

The first step is knowing what’s there, so we have created this “virtual visitors’ center for the arts, culture and fun” to be your single, simple, one-stop source for information about performances and venues, exhibitions and destinations, workshops and other special events in Genesee County and surrounding areas.

Contact us and find out more.

Featured Annual Events

January GFAC Members Exhibition / ARTWALK	February Jazz Festival Featuring Award-Winning Jazz Musicians, Student Performers Michigan African American Artists Exhibition / ARTWALK
March Financial Plus Cool City Art Auction	April Alpha Montessori School Exhibition / ARTWALK
May UM-Flint Student Exhibition / ARTWALK	June Flint Art Fair The 2008 Buick Open PGA Golf Tournament Sloan’s 2008 Auto Fair Celebrates 100 Years of GM and the GM #10 FUTURLINER!
July FLINT 4TH of July Festival TUNES AT NOON	August Back to the Bricks Cruise and Car Show Crim Festival of Races Genesee County Fair Michigan Renaissance Festival Flint Jazz Festival TUNES AT NOON The Carry Nation Festival Assenmacher 100 Bicycle Tour
September Golden Memories Car Show Salute to Seniors Flint Festival of Quilts Michigan Renaissance Festival	October Bikes on the Bricks Halloween at Crossroads
November Christmas at Crossroads Village Michigan Clay Artists Invitational	December Christmas at Crossroads Village Michigan Glass Artist Invitational Dickens Festival

Featured Sections
- Rave Reviews
  Hear what members have to say
- Top 10 Events
  The best of the best from your reviews
- Submit an Event
  Post your events on geneseefun
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About Greater Flint Arts Council
- Geneseefun is brought to you by the Greater Flint Arts Council (GFAC), a nonprofit organization connecting residents and visitors to arts and culture to enrich the Flint region of Michigan.
  
  Click here to find out more about GFAC.
Flint CVB's selection of the Week...
- The Flint Area Convention & Visitors Bureau suggests the following discount package...
- Step Back in Time at Crossroads Village & The Huckleberry Railroad!
  
  Step into Crossroads Village and experience life as it was in the small towns scattered across Flint and Genesee County more than 100 years ago. With its 35 historic structures, Villagers, in period dress, welcome visitors into their homes, mills, and shops dating back to the 1800's. Follow the wooden walks to the post office, schoolhouse, the General Store, cider mill, and other village trades and Victorian-era homes. Experience a ride on the Huckleberry Railroad, a paddle wheel riverboat, or a Parker's 1910 "Superior Wheel."
  
  Discounted, overnight packages, for two, are available starting as low as $70, which includes accommodations at a Flint and Genesee County area hotel, Village admission, and a train or boat ride. Always Family Friendly! Crossroads' 2008 season runs Saturday, May 24 through Monday, September 1.
  
  For more information CLICK HERE or call the Flint Area Convention & Visitors Bureau at 1-877-FLINT-MI or (810) 232-3261.
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