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The Bay View Education Program is proud to announce its first-ever theme week devoted to all things nautical. Ships Ahoy! Week, scheduled from June 26 through July 1, presents a five-day lineup of events and guest speakers celebrating ships, yachts, boats, and the history of boating in Michigan and beyond. 

Highlights include: 

Monday 6/26, 7:30 p.m. in Voorhies Auditorium: Public screening of the documentary film Maiden (this film is about the first all-female team to compete in the around-the-world Whitbread race).  

Join Bay View Association for Inside the Box: An Evening of Puzzles and Magic. David Kwong is an expert in enigmas and illusions. He delights and challenges audiences around the world with his intellectual brand of magic. His one-man show The Enigmatist had a year-long run in New York, playing to sold-out crowds both there and in Los Angeles. His show Inside the Box garnered a Critic’s Pick from the New York Times. 

Now, this Los Angeles-based “cruciverbalist” (Kwong has created crossword puzzles for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times) is bringing his unique blend of magic and wordplay to the Bay View Association’s Hall Auditorium on Saturday, July 8 from 8-9:30 p.m. The title of his performance is Inside the Box: An Evening of Puzzles and Magic. 

A Harvard graduate, Kwong has conjured a career out of puzzles and magic—what he calls “the two nerdiest hobbies.”  In addition to creating crossword puzzles and performing mind-bending stunts on stage, Kwong is also Hollywood’s go-to magician and puzzle creator. He has served as Secret-Code Advisor for NBC’s TV show Blindspot, and Lead Magic Consultant on the popular film series Now You See Me.  

Join Bay View Association’s Bridges: Crossing Cultural Divides 2023 – a discussion with James Edward Mills about his book The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors.

About James Edward Mills 

James Edward Mills is a freelance journalist and independent media producer based in Madison, Wisconsin. Mills has worked in the outdoor industry since 1989 as a guide, outfitter, independent sales representative, writer, and photographer. The co-writer/co-producer of the documentary film “An American Ascent,” Mills is a 2014 Fellow of the Mountain & Wilderness Writing Program of the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, and the 2016 recipient of the Paul K. Petzoldt Award for Environmental Education. 

Outdoor Magazine named James Edward Mills’s book The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors one of the 10 outdoor books that shaped the last decade. Sierra Club Vice President Spencer Black called it “an important new book about a crucial challenge facing the conservation movement.”  

The challenge, Mills explains, is that while the nation’s wild places—national and state parks, forests, preserves, and wilderness areas—belong to all Americans, not all of us use and value these resources equally. Minority populations are much less likely to seek recreation, adventure, and solace in our wilderness spaces.  As our country grows increasingly multicultural, who then, will become the stewards of our natural legacy?