annual citizen exchange moves to Fall slot

The Michigan-Shiga Sister State Board welcomes applications for the Goodwill Mission to Shiga, including five days of home-stay experiences with a Shiga host family as well as day trips to Kyoto and other neighboring areas. http://www.isp.msu.edu/jcmu/alumni/goodwill/

annual art exchange through Feb. 28

http://www.briggspubliclibrary.org/ is exhibiting over 200 pictures in the 13th annual display

of art from Konan-shi, the sister city to St. Johns, Michigan, through the month of February.

View a sample of pictures (others from 2008), or see this year's work with commentary by Shiga Official, Ms. Miyamura:

some of the songs performed at the opening reception Feb. 5,

or hear Alyson G, one of the young artist who describes her work.