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The Boardman Review Spring Issue Release PartyApril 8th | 6-8 PM | Nocturnal Bloom Brewing
This spring, The Boardman Review turns to the spaces where identity, craft, and community take shape—often quietly, often unexpectedly. Across these essays, voices from Northern Michigan and beyond explore what it means to build something lasting: a life, a place, a practice, a sense of belonging.
- In “The Future Sounds Independent,” Musician Agnes Su traces a thread across generations, where a young musician steps into the same age—and perhaps the same calling—as her great-great grandmother, finding connection and creative voice through community radio.
- Emma Boonstra’s “Between Two Countrysides” moves between rural England and Northern Michigan, where a design studio called House on Horizon rooted in antique sourcing and restoration reveals how objects—and the hands that care for them—carry continuity across landscapes and time.
- In “The Sum of Its Parts,” Justin Rivard reflects on building a brewery, Nocturnal Bloom, shaped by grief, collaboration, and resilience—less a business than a gathering place formed through shared effort and collective hope.
- Nick Poli’s “A Place to Be” looks to Northeast Michigan, where The Sunset Project is helping reshape the region’s creative identity by supporting a growing community of artists and makers.
- In “A Trip That Changed Everything,” Nazma Begum recounts an unexpected journey to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula—a first camping experience that begins in uncertainty and unfolds into transformation.
- And in “Finding Home Again,” Sarah Hughes, executive director of Northern Michigan Supportive Housing, reflects on returning to Northern Michigan under difficult circumstances, where refuge becomes a foundation for renewed purpose and a deeper commitment to supporting those facing homelessness and mental health challenges.
Together, these stories form a portrait of movement and return, of inherited paths and newly forged ones—reminding us that home is not always a fixed place, but something we build, carry, and rediscover.
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Nocturnal Bloom Brewing, 3344 Cass Rd, Traverse City, MI 49684-9152, United States
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