The Events Barn will be hosting workshops by
institute for sustainable living, art
& natural design
ISLAND’s mission is to create spaces that explore the
integration of art, natural design and sustainable living.
We do this to begin answering the question: Can we live in
such a way that cares for small places?
Our vision is inspired in large part by the work and
writings of Wendell Berry, whose essay "The Purpose of a
Coherent Community" asks a number of similar questions. Our
work is to create such a small place, coherently connected
to the arts, to agriculture, ecology and the larger
cultural and economic communities of Bellaire, Forest Home
Township, Antrim County and Northwest Lower Michigan.