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Celebrate the Buick Open's 50th Anniversary: June 23-29 at Warwick Hills!!
Get into the "summer swing" at this year's Buick Open at Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club in beautiful Grand Blanc, Michigan. This year will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Buick Open, Michigan's only PGA Golf Tournament! And while you're here, discover all that Genesee County has to offer: beautiful parks, lakes and wetlands, historic towns and villages, great shopping, and many unique attractions. For you car buffs, a visit wouldn't be complete without a visit to the Sloan Museum.
Discounted, overnight packages are available for the 2008 Buick Open offering savings of over 40% on Anyday Grounds Passes, Weeklong Grounds Badges, and Clubhouse Badges. Packages, for two, are now available starting under $100 per night and include Buick Open admission and overnight accommodations, of your choice, at a Flint and Genesee County area hotel. Don't miss out on this summer's hottest ticket!!!
To learn more about Buick Open's discounted packages, or other packages, please contact our Tourism Department at 1-877-FLINT-MI or (810) 232-3261 or check out our discounted"Overnight Pure FunPaks".
Cars from the collection of Nicola Bulgari:Summer Exhibit at the Sloan Museum May 17 through September 14, 2008
This exhibit highlights some of the finest examples of historic Buick automobiles from the collection of Nicola Bulgari. Featured are Mr. Bulgari's favorite, a 1935 Buick 96-S, and a 1940 Buick State Wagon that was once owned by movie star, Bette Davis.
Extended through July 2008 at the Sloan Museum:Rides & Rebels. Come celebrate the adventure, look, lifestyle of motorcycles and riders! For more information, contact the Sloan at 810- 237-3450.
Coming to the Whiting in June:Rachel Price: Friday, June 6 at 8 p.m.
This young, gifted jazz vocalist from Nashville is a star on the rise! Her rich voice and quick grasp of the subtleties of jazz can be heard in her repertoire of great American standards.
Rhythm of Illusion represents a cross section of prints and drawings by M.C. Escher, one of the most popular and intriguing artists of the 20th century. The exhibit includes 80 works of art through themes such as forms in space, experiments in perspective, landscape and fantasy scenes.
Portraits of the Most Important and Influential Artists of the Modern Era presents 18 portraits by Jacques Moitoret, of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century, including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock and Jeff Koons.
Visit the Longway Planetarium and check out The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket, weekends at 12:30.(Recommended for families with children 4-9 years old.) Watch as an empty refrigerator box is turned into something really different: a cardboard rocket! Then, take a magical journey through outer space to learn about the planets of our Solar System.
Playing at 2 p.m. weekends, Laser Show: The Great Space Chase. (Recommended for everyone!) Join the chase as Lieutenant Photeus pursues the diabolical Captail Zenon across the universe in this fun filled laser show.
On weekends at 3:30 p.m., watch Nine Planets & Counting. (Recommended for adults and children 10 and up.) How many planets are there? Find out in this exciting Planetarium Show. This show includes a look at the moon, planets and constellations of our current night sky. For more information, contact the Longway at (810) 237-3400.
Open May 24 through September 1, 2008, Crossroads Village & Hucklebery Railroad with special programs and events that highlight our heritage and Michigan life in the 1800's! Explore the 34 historic structures in the 51-acre Village. Visit the blacksmith busy at his forge, mills where the power of water turns grain into flour, saws liogs into lumber and presses apples into cool, sweet cider! For more information, call 1-800-648-PARK.
Here's some more great Stuff for Kids in Flint & Genesee County!!
Get into the "summer swing" at this year's Buick Open at Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club in beautiful Grand Blanc, Michigan. This year will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Buick Open, Michigan's only PGA Golf Tournament! And while you're here, discover all that Genesee County has to offer: beautiful parks, lakes and wetlands, historic towns and villages, great shopping, and many unique attractions. For you car buffs, a visit wouldn't be complete without a visit to the Sloan Museum.
Coming to the Whiting in June: 
Now through June 15, 2008 at the Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan's 2nd largest art museum: 
watch Nine Planets & Counting. (Recommended for adults and children 10 and up.) How many planets are there? Find out in this exciting Planetarium Show. This show includes a look at the moon, planets and constellations of our current night sky. For more information, contact the Longway at (810) 237-3400. 
Crossroads Village & Hucklebery Railroad 
