The 109 Cultural Exchange

01/17/2025

Still Time to Get your Mac's February VIP Card. Just $10 and you get Mac's Discounts for Lunch or Dinner the whole month of February. Mac's is donating $10 per Card to Saline Main Street to support downtown community Events.

12/15/2024

We are happy to host the Saline Painters Saline Painters Guild in our space. Stop in when the sign is out to view their work!

05/01/2024

12/02/2023

Chocolate Moonshine is setting up in the 109 to serve truffles and farm-to-table FUDGE for 2023 Cocoa Crawl! Be sure to stop by and see all the vendors!

05/08/2023

Ladies night out
🌺May 11🌺
Downtown Saline

04/06/2023

Come see Salt Valley Art's gallery at The 109 until April 21st followed by a Silent auction 4/23 at 400 W. Russell Street, Entrance A at Evangelical Homes, Saline.
https://www.saltvalleyarts.org/_files/ugd/5e08ba_6a2e556fcf6a42a291f6c7574502dc86.pdf

02/18/2023

Shout out to Rebecca Groeb for decorating the 109 window displaying some of her original art. She is also teaching a class on creative leadership as part of our education series!

12/12/2022

Hear Adrian Diffy's vocal talents as "Grandfather" in "The Great Bear" on Amazon Prime! You may have seen Adrian at the 109 in one or both of the Mind the Gap productions: "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" of "Deck the Halls with Masks an Folly" . Congrats Adrian! "

Rated TV-PG. A boy must venture into a forbidden forest to rescue his little sister from the clutches of an ancient, massive bear.

12/10/2022

Come see Mind! Today at 2:00! Invite your friends!
https://secure.givelively.org/event/coppertree-collective/mind-dec-10th-2pm?fbclid=IwAR2hGDrtdPqdvBP1M5sKgLA2NKrnd45kbViVSO5WRxRcJ6EM5qSShgOqrV8

Should we accept all sides of ourselves, or try to hold them in? What happens when it’s hard to control your different sides?Spinning Dot’s Artist In Residence perform...

12/10/2022

Artist Profile: Cameron Prevatte is a teaching artist, performer, and puppeteer from Greensboro, North Carolina. His specialty is working with cardboard, tape, mache, and other found objects to make puppets and masks come to life. Physical theatre, clowning, and object manipulation are the core of his training, as he continues to investigate how to spark imagination in his audiences. As an educator, Cameron uses hands-on lessons, facilitating collaborative spaces for the child artist to create. He recently created a multi sided mask for a short piece for elementary school students entitled Mind!,using multiple facial expressions to communicate non-verbally to the child audience. His workshops use newspaper, tape, and other found objects to create masks and puppets for performance use. Cameron has worked with North Carolina based group Paperhand Puppet Intervention for a decade, animating giant masks, pageant puppets, and other multi person puppets.
He has been a teaching artist for multiple organizations, including summer circus artist at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, lead visual art and dramatics teacher at The Piedmont School, and touring school performer with the North Carolina Theatre for Young People. He has taught with Spinning Dot Theatre for the past year as director and deviser of new work with their Youth company. He currently resides in Detroit, getting his MFA in Applied Drama and Theatre for the Young from Eastern Michigan University. Cameron has a BFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
See Cameron in "Mind!" 2:00 at the 109 Sat. Dec. 10th
https://secure.givelively.org/event/coppertree-collective/mind-dec-10th-2pm

12/09/2022

Meet the Artists behind this Saturday's performance of Mind! Presented by spinning Dot Theatre!
Jenny Anne Koppera, Project Director, has her MFA in Drama/Theatre for the Young from Eastern Michigan University, and she is active nationally and internationally in the field of children’s theatre.
In 2010, she received a national AATE Doyle Fellowship Special Recognition Award for her work in the field, and in 2011, she was one of 6 global interns selected for the ASSITEJ World Congress. In 2012, Jenny was selected as one of the Rye Fellows at the IPAY Showcase, and she was the TYA/USA Delegate to the International Directors’ Seminar hosted by ASSITEJ Germany in 2013. She was honored to be selected as the 2014 Ann Shaw Fellowship Recipient. Jenny has worked with TYA/USA, ASSITEJ International, International Performing Arts for Youth Showcase, American Alliance for Theatre and Education, The Kennedy Center’s New Visions/New Voices program, Write Local. Play Global., and Imaginate Children’s Theatre Festival.
Locally, Jenny was one of the founding creators of Eastern Michigan University’s Global Play Project, CrossTown Theatre Troupe, and Educational Theatre Collaborative. Professionally, Jenny comes from a background in dance, theatre, and the study of the French language. In addition to her work with Spinning Dot, she frequently directs, choreographs, and lectures at Eastern Michigan University.