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27th Annual Flint Jazz Festival Discounted Overnight Packages!
Relax and discover the "JAZZY" sounds of Flint, Michigan, and beyond, during the 27th Annual Flint Jazz Festival at Riverbank Park in downtown Flint. The 2008 Flint Jazz Festival is being held Friday through Sunday, August 1 - 3.
Watch and enjoy regional and national Jazz headliners perform like never before - rain or shine. Also, get the opportunity to watch these great artists up-close and personal in the new comfortable VIP Jazz Tent - exclusively available only through the Flint CVB's "Overnight Pure FunPaks" discounted website.
Flint Jazz Festival discounted, overnight packages, for two, start at $65 per night, and includes VIP Jazz Tent Guest Admission and overnight accommodations at a Flint and Genesee County area hotel. To learn more about the Flint Jazz Festival's overnight FunPak, and other discounted packages, please contact our Tourism Department at 1-877-FLINT-MI or (810) 232-3261 or check out our discounted "Overnight Pure FunPaks".
Michigan's Highest Honor for the Flint Institute of Arts
The Flint Institute of Arts was honored at the 2007 Governor’s Awards for Arts & Culture as the recipient of the Arts/Cultural Organization Award. This is the highest award a cultural organization can receive in the state of Michigan.
The event was sponsored by ArtServe and took place at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Governor Granholm was a featured speaker and presenter, and FIA Director John Henry accepted the award on behalf of the Flint Institute of Arts. This is the first time the Flint Institute of Arts has been nominated for and won this prestigious award.
The FIA was described by the Governor’s Awards peer review panel as “the epicenter for the visual arts in Genesee County”. The FIA is the second largest art museum in Michigan with a collection of over 7,000 works, education programs serve over 30,000 children annually, and its museum art school is the 10th largest in the nation!
Now at the Flint Institute of Art through September 28:
ED MCGOWIN: Name Change.
Ed McGowin legally changed his name 12 times and has continued to create unique works of art under these different guises for the past three and a half decades. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, sculptures, and installations. Discounted overnight packages are available contact our Tourism Department at 1-877-FLINT-MI or (810) 232-3261 or check out our discounted "Overnight Pure FunPaks".
Celebrate 100 years of GM at the GM 100th Celebration, July 12-20! From tours of the Durant-Dort Headquarters, the birthplace of GM, to concerts, garden and home tours, car cruises, and parades, there's something for everyone during this historic celebration. For more information, visit the GM 100th web site at www.flintgm100.com. Coming to the area's only IMAX in Grand Blanc: The Dark Knight:
The IMAX Experience will feature four sequences filmed with IMAX cameras. This marks the first time ever that a major feature film has been even partially shot using IMAX cameras, marking a revolutionary integration of the two film formats.
Discover over 26,000 acres of county parks, and state parks and recreation areas in and around Genesee County. Beat the heat and go swimming and boating in our many area lakes, without the long drive up north! Mom and Dad will love saving money on gas!
Ever try Disc Golf? It's like golf, only you play it with a frisbee! Check out Goldenrod Disc Golf Course, part of the Genesee County Parks, and Holly Woods Disc Golf Course at the Holly Recreation Center.
If biking or mountain biking is your thing, you'll love our rolling hills, and beautiful scenery and park land. Many Genesee County Parks offer 1-2 mile trails, as well as a BMX track at Richfield County Park. (Sanctioned by the National Bicycle League.)
Holly Recreation Area, a State Park, has 23 miles of biking trails in five loops around the Holdridge Lakes Area. The trail was designed, built and maintained by the Holly/Flint Chapter of the Michigan Mountain Biking Association. An additional 8 miles of biking trails are also now available on the Wilderness Trail, surrounding McGinnis Lake Campground. Seven Lakes State Park also has mountain biking on a beautiful 5 mile trail.
Don't miss the Annual Seven Lakes State Park Balloon Race on Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, July 27, weather permitting, in the Fenton/Holly area. Balloons will be launched at 7 p.m., as the winds allow, on both days. Other activities during the festival include tethered balloon rides, balloon, swimming, boating, fishing, camping, picnic areas, music, food, canoes, paddle boats, biking, contests, and more. For more information, call (248) 634-3094 or check out Capt. Phogg Balloon Rides.
Relax and discover the "JAZZY" sounds of Flint, Michigan, and beyond, during the 27th Annual Flint Jazz Festival at Riverbank Park in downtown Flint. The 2008 Flint Jazz Festival is being held Friday through Sunday, August 1 - 3. 
The Flint Institute of Arts was honored at the 2007 Governor’s Awards for Arts & Culture as the recipient of the Arts/Cultural Organization Award. This is the highest award a cultural organization can receive in the state of Michigan.
The event was sponsored by ArtServe and took place at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Governor Granholm was a featured speaker and presenter, and FIA Director John Henry accepted the award on behalf of the Flint Institute of Arts. This is the first time the Flint Institute of Arts has been nominated for and won this prestigious award. 
Coming to the area's only IMAX in Grand Blanc:
Discover over 26,000 acres of county parks, and state parks and recreation areas in and around Genesee County. Beat the heat and go 
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Don't miss the Annual Seven Lakes State Park Balloon Race on Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, July 27, weather permitting, in the Fenton/Holly area. Balloons will be launched at 7 p.m., as the winds allow, on both days. Other activities during the festival include tethered balloon rides, balloon, swimming, boating, fishing, camping, picnic areas, music, food, canoes, paddle boats, biking, contests, and more. For more information, call (248) 634-3094 or check out 
