The inaugural "Summer Concerts at Reynolds" series at Northern Michigan University will kick off with guitar professor Christopher Shoelen at 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, in Reynolds Recital Hall. He will present a program that features some of the most renowned pieces for the Spanish guitar, and transport the audience to the streets of Spain with passionate Andalusian harmonies.

Northern Michigan University's DeVos Art Museum will host its annual "North of the 45th" exhibition June 20-Aug. 1. The juried show features artists who reside above the 45th parallel in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. A reception is scheduled at 6 p.m. Friday, July 25.

The Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center at Northern Michigan University will offer three free walking tours of NMU's campus this summer. All are open to the public. The tours are scheduled at 11 a.m. on June 20, July 11 and Aug. 8., beginning at the Carillon Towers next to the Northern Center just off Lee Drive.

Northern Michigan University Theatre & Dance will present “Love Letters” by A.R. Gurney, a past nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play features two characters—Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III—whose 50-year correspondence chronicles their evolving relationship and shared confidences. It has been described as “a tender, tragi-comic and nuanced examination of the shared nostalgia, missed opportunities and deep closeness of two lifelong, complicated friends.” Showtimes are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 26 through Saturday, June 28, in Forest Roberts Theatre.  

Northern Michigan University students in an intro to entrepreneurship course create businesses from scratch on a tight timeline and gain experience in the associated accounting, finance, management and marketing aspects. The businesses are shut down when the class ends and all net proceeds are donated to area charitable organizations. Verdant Vessels, an environmentally friendly, passive clay pot irrigation system, was one of the new venture highlights last semester. Its $195 in proceeds benefitted the NMU Food Pantry.