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Website. festivalgr .org. The Festival of the Arts – known locally as simply Festival, typically with the year added (e.g. "Festival 2005") – is a three-day multimedia arts festival, held annually at the La Grande Vitesse sculpture in Grand Rapids, Michigan on the first Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of June. The event is free and open to all.
Grand Rapids, Michigan. / 42.96111°N 85.65556°W / 42.96111; -85.65556. Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States. [ 4] At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,893, [ 5] making it the second-most populous city in Michigan, after Detroit. Grand Rapids is the central city of the Grand ...
1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) Millennium Park is the largest urban park in West Michigan, located on the southwest side of Grand Rapids. Millennium Park connects four of the major cities in the area together, including Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Grandville, and Walker. When completed, the park will be twice as large as New York City's Central Park, at ...
Painted steel. Dimensions. 13 m × 9.1 m × 16 m (43 ft × 30 ft × 54 ft) Location. Vandenberg Plaza, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Coordinates. 42°58′10″N 85°40′15″W / 42.96937°N 85.67075°W / 42.96937; -85.67075. La Grande Vitesse, a public sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, is located on the large concrete plaza ...
Website. Official website. Grand Rapids Charter Township is a charter township of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 18,905 at the 2020 census. [ 2] The township is bordered by Grand Rapids to the west and East Grand Rapids to the southwest, but the township is administered autonomously.
DeVos Place Convention Center, erected on the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a multi-purpose convention center. It is named for Richard DeVos, who donated $20 million towards its construction. The convention center contains a large, 162,000 square foot exhibit hall and an additional 40,000 square foot ballroom.
SleazyWorld Go was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and moved to Kansas City, Missouri as a teenager. His parents are from Haiti. According to the Michigan Department of Corrections, he pleaded guilty to armed robbery after an incident in 2015. In 2016, he was sentenced to four years in prison.
On April 4, 2022, Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old resident of Grand Rapids, was fatally shot by Officer Christopher Schurr of the Grand Rapids Police Department during a scuffle between the two in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. After Lyoya began to flee the scene, Schurr attempted to detain him, unsuccessfully fired a taser at Lyoya, and ...