Monday – Friday, July 8 – 12, 2024 — 10 a.m. in Voorhies Hall

Tuesday & Thursday, July 9 & 11 — 4 – 5 p.m. in the Large Tent

All of Prof. Ferrer’s lectures are FREE Non-Ticketed Events, open to the public.

Professor Ada Ferrer presents a series of lectures exploring 500 years of relations between Cuba and the United States. A Cuban American herself, Professor Ferrer’s deeply personal account of Cuban history focuses on the experiences of the island’s inhabitants, not just the centuries of geopolitics that have shaped their fate. In the 18th and 19th centuries, these forces were rooted in sugar and slavery. In the 20th century, they were defined by Cuban efforts to shake off U.S. political domination and to claim independence—a struggle that began long before Fidel Castro’s rise to power.

Professor Ferrer has conducted research in Cuba since 1990. Her book, Cuba: An American History, won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 2022. Her essay, “My Brother’s Keeper,” published by The New Yorker, tells the story of her family’s relationship with the Cuban Revolution. Professor Ferrer is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University.

Monday – Thursday, July 8 – 11, 2024 — 9 a.m. in Loud Hall

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: $25 Members/$35 Non-members

Bay View member and Cuban refugee Armando Gonzalez-Perez will share his personal experiences in the final days of Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship in Cuba, and in the anguish, desperation, disillusionment and impotence brought about by Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution in 1959. The class will focus on Gonzalez-Perez’s book Stolen Dreams, a fictional account of a Cuban baseball player caught up in the political turmoil. Both the book and the class will explain why thousands of Cubans like Gonzalez-Perez risked their lives to pursue freedom.

Monday, July 8, 2024 — 7:30 p.m. in Loud Hall

FREE/Donation

Cuba and the Cameraman is a 2017 documentary written, directed, and co-produced by Jon Alpert. It shows life in Cuba for three struggling families over the course of 45 years, from the cautious optimism of the early 1970s, to the harrowing 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union and the 2016 death of Fidel Castro.

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 — 9 a.m. in Crist Hall

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: $55 Members/$65 Non-members

Learn how to provide a Cuban culinary experience with a classic Ropa Vieja, rice, black beans, plantains, and a virgin mojito.

Tuesdays & Fridays, June 18 – August 9, 2024 — 11:15 a.m. – 12 p.m. in Evelyn Hall

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: $50 Members/$60 Non-members

Learning a new language as an adult benefits our brain like few other activities: being bi- or multi-lingual decreases the likelihood of developing dementia, and can slow the cognitive decline common in adulthood. Join Sinde Wickersham in this 5-week course to start enjoying the benefits and fun of communicating in Spanish. Younger students can benefit from keeping their school learning fresh over the summer. No prior experience with the language is expected. ¡Hablemos!

**PLEASE NOTE: There will not be classes on July 2 or July 5.

Thursday, August 1, 2024
7pm in Voorhies Hall

Bridges is FREE for all to attend.

Saturday, August 3, 2024 — 8 p.m. in Hall Auditorium

Tickets: $35 Reserved Seating/$25 General Admission/$20 Kids 12 & Under

David Kwong returns to Bay View in 2024 with his new show, Wordplay: An Evening of (More!) Puzzles and Magic.

If you missed last year’s show, now is your chance to experience the mind-bending magic and mentalism of David Kwong. If you did catch David’s act in 2023, you’ll find a whole new set of enigmas and illusions this year to stretch your brain.

He’ll even teach a trick or two to kids in the audience, from his upcoming book How to Fool Your Parents (release date October 2024).

About the Speaker: David Kwong is a Ted-Talk Favorite Magician and Cruciverbalist Who:

• delights and confounds audiences from New York to Los Angeles with his unique blend of mentalism and prestidigitation.
• creates crossword puzzles for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
• consulted for the worldwide hit Now You See Me
• garnered a Critic’s Pick from the New York Times 
• sold out his 2023 run at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC
• wrote the upcoming kids’ magic trick book How to Fool Your Parents (October 2024)
  

David Kwong is an expert in enigmas and illusions. He delights and challenges audiences around the world with his intellectual brand of magic. His one-man show has played to packed houses in New York and Los Angeles, and recently sold out the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. His show Inside the Box garnered a Critic’s Pick from the New York Times. His kids book of magic tricks, How to Fool Your Parents will hit shelves in October 2024.”

Now, the Los Angeles-based “cruciverbalist” (Kwong has created crossword puzzles for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times) is bringing his unique blend of magic and puzzles to the Bay View Association’s Hall Auditorium with his performance Wordplay: An Evening of (More!) Puzzles and Magic. He will also be teaching a few tricks from his forthcoming book, How to Fool Your Parents.

Saturday, June 22, 2024 — 7 p.m. in Voorhies Hall

Advance Tickets: $10 members/$15 non-members

Tickets at the Door: $20 for everyone

You can win an argument, or you can change someone’s mind—but make no mistake: they are not the same thing.

You might win an argument by shouting people down and having the last word, but you won’t bring them around to your way of thinking. Worse, it might also cost you your closest friendships and family ties.

Changing minds, on the other hand, requires a different style of communication—one that relies on practicing mindfulness and grace. The result? Healthier, more harmonious relationships and maybe a few altered opinions.

Podcaster, TV personality, and radio host Mike Slater will show how changing the way you relate to people you disagree with may encourage them to change the way they think. No matter where you stand on today’s hot-button issues, you’ll learn how to persuade others and heal the fraught relationships in your life.

About the Speaker: Mike Slater is a podcaster and host of the Breitbart News Daily show on Sirius XM/Patriot. He is the author of the book How to Change Someone’s Mind and the children’s book, Imagine Jack and the History Kids. 

With a degree in history from Yale University, Mike is a frequent guest on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, Fox Business, and The Dr. Drew Show on HLN. He was recently named one of the Top 5 “Young Guns” of Talk Radio.

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 — 7 p.m. in Voorhies Hall

Advance Tickets: $10 members/$20 non-members

Tickets at the Door: $25 for everyone

Thursday, June 27, 2024 — 7 p.m. in Voorhies Hall

Advance Tickets: $10 members/$20 non-members

Tickets at the Door: $25 for everyone

The iconic movement known as “Mid-Century Modern” design burst onto the scene after World War II, evolved through the 1960s and 70s, and continues to inspire the most sought-after home and office designs in the U.S. and abroad.

Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills played a crucial role in incubating both the talent and the aesthetic of the MCM movement. Leading architects, designers and artists such as Ray and Charles Eames, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen all got their start at Cranbrook. Many of their designs were manufactured by the Herman Miller Company in Grand Rapids.

About the Speaker: MillerKnoll Curatorial Fellow Bridget Bartal will give Bay View audiences an exclusive, sneak peek at her groundbreaking research, which details the rich, intertwined history of Cranbrook and the MCM movement. The first-ever exhibition and publication, titled Eventually Everything Connects: Making Mid-Century Modern, will be unveiled at Cranbrook in the summer of 2025.