Mother's Day Ideas: Kalamazoo Has You Covered

You already ordered flowers, and you plan on picking up a dozen chocolate covered strawberries. Mother's Day is covered, as far as you're concerned. But, remember; it's a whole day for Mom. So treat her to something fun this Sunday with art, a nature walk, or team trivia!

Second Sight/Insight II: Kalamazoo Institute of Art, 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Does a picture really tell a thousand words? For this reprise of the successful 2005 exhibition, guest curator Elaine Seaman selected works from the KIA's collection that beg to be interpreted in a literary way. Each work of art is accompanied by the literary response of a local poet. Click here for details.

Spring Wildflower Walk on the Trout Run Trail: Kalamazoo Nature Center, 2 p.m.

This trail has some of the best wildflowers! Learn to identify these beauties during a leisurely mile-long hike in the DeLano woods. Click here for details.

Gilmore Rising Stars/Igor Levit: Wellspring Theater Epic Center, 4 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.

In the spring of 2014, Igor Levit returned to the Festival Heidelberger Frühling, where he serves as artistic director for the Chamber Music Academy. This summer, he is artist-in-residence at the Kissinger Sommer as well as at the Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where he will debut with the Deutsches-Symphonie Orchester Berlin.

Levit began performing a Beethoven Sonata cycle in the fall of 2013, and he continues doing so this season. Composer Frederic Rzewski has dedicated eight sonatas of his cycle, “Nano Sonaten,” to Levit and is currently composing a world premiere for Levit in 2015.

Levit's performance will include works by Bach, Beethoven, Ronald Stevenson, and Prokofiev. Click here for details.