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Center for Cultural Programs Since 1883

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Upcoming Programs and Events

May 20, 2025: Dark Corners of Michigan History

By Tobin T. Buhk, Author

Visit some of Michigan’s creepiest locations in this photographic expedition of historic prisons and county jails. Take a trip back in time and venture inside the old Detroit House of Corrections, the State Penitentiary at Jackson and several county jails. Eavesdrop on inmates working off the “hard labor” portion of their sentences in the prison shops, enter a cellblock, and learn about late 19th century prison life. Meet the wardens, turnkeys, keepers, sheriffs and their most infamous residents.

Tobin T. Buhk is a freelance author specializing in historical true crime. To research his first book, Cause of Death, he volunteered in a county morgue. His subsequent true-crime publications include Skeletons in the Closet, True Crime in the Civil War, and Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids. Mr. Buhk lectures frequently on historic crime.

May 29 –31, 2025: Scott Club Annual Rummage Sale

Drop off donations:
Tuesday, May 27th and Wednesday, May 28th – 10 am to 2 pm.

Sale:
Thursday, May 29th, and Friday, May 30th – 9 am to 4 pm.
Saturday, May 31st – 9 am to noon

Shop for treasures and support South Haven Scott Club’s major fundraiser by donating clean items in good condition and attending the sale to take advantage of some incredible bargains. Proceeds will help support maintenance of the Scott Club, a Michigan Historic site, and the rich variety of programs offered.

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Concert Series

Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 3 pm – Yu-Lien The

An Enchanting Concert of Character Pieces
We are thrilled to welcome pianist and educator Yu-Lien The who will perform on Sunday, May 18th. Join us for a delightful hour-long classical concert featuring Scriabin’s Preludes Opus 11 as well as Fanny (Mendelssohn) Hensel’s “Songs for Piano, Opus 8” and more.

In person at Scott Club: RSVP by May 16 (required) to: info@scottclub.org

Livestream: Scott Club Facebook page & Foundry Hall Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/foundryhall

FREE and open to all

Asian-German pianist Yu-Lien The (D.M.A.) has appeared throughout the US, Europe, and Southeast-Asia as a recitalist and chamber musician. A prizewinner of the 12th International Piano Competition Viotti-Valsesia (Italy) and the Deutsche Musikwettbewerb, she has performed at the Gilmore Keyboard Festival and venues such as Detroit Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall. Dr. The frequently collaborates with saxophonists Joe Lulloff and Henning Schröder, and they have championed new works by composers such as Dorothy Chang, Stacy Garrop, and Carter Pann.

A dedicated piano pedagogue and sought-after clinician, Dr. The is an Associate Professor of Keyboard Studies at WMU’s Irving S. Gilmore School of Music, where she teaches Applied Piano, Keyboard Literature, Keyboard Pedagogy, coaches chamber music ensembles, and supervises the class piano program. She spends her summers teaching and performing at the Brevard Summer Music Institute in North Carolina. Dr. The also engages in discourse of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her latest project is a collaboration with Bethany Kamau McKnight, creating a database of piano pedagogy pieces composed and arranged by underrepresented composers.

This concert is presented in collaboration with Foundry Hall and is supported in part by Holtec-Palisades, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Programs are FREE and open to all!

All programs begin at 1:00 p.m. unless noted otherwise. This year’s programs and concerts will be a hybrid of in-person (at the Scott Club unless noted otherwise) and online. Non-members/guests please send email to info@scottclub.org to request a Zoom link.

The South Haven Scott Club was organized in 1883 as a reading circle and has been providing cultural events to the community ever since then in its Michigan historic site. Located at the corner of Phoenix Road and Pearl Street in South Haven, Scott Club is a stately Queen Anne style building of sandstone capped by a cupola of carved oak. Two historic windows of Austrian stained glass frame our east and west walls and serve as a cultural icon to the east entrance to the city.

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Activities supported in part by the MICHIGAN ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.