Community Life
Even as a busy student or professional, you will need to kick back and take a break now and then. Ann Arbor and its surrounding area offers hundreds of parks and recreational areas, great cultural opportunities and, for those with children, a wealth of free or low-cost things to do with kids. There also are more than 100 places of worship in Ann Arbor and the surrounding area.
Check it out:
Here’s a sampling of what Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and nearby Detroit offer:
- Take an Underground Railroad tour at Ann Arbor’s African American Cultural and Historical Museum
- Drive to Detroit and visit the Museum of African American History
- Learn salsa in the U-M Salsa Rueda Club
- Enroll the kids in the African American Saturday Academy for ages 11-16
- Get a haircut at Class and Elegance Salon, or any of the other fine area salons
- See the Diego Rivera murals and the African collection at the Detroit Institute for the Arts
- Join the African American Book Club that meets at Nicola’s Books
- Annual Dance for Mother Earth PowWow
- Take a tango class at Michigan Argentine Tango Club
- Take the train to Chicago . . . and read along the way.
- Annual Ypsilanti Heritage Festival
- Cultural Eventsl at Detroit Zoo
- National Museum of the Tuskegee Airmen, Detroit
- Detroit International Jazz Festival
- Gospel Festival at Abundant Harvest Church, Ann Arbor
- Juneteenth End-of-Slavery in U.S. Celebration, Ann Arbor
- Annual MLK celebration
- Other Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Annual events
