Grand Rapids, Michigan

===Entertainment and performing arts===
[[File:Wealthy Theatre Grand Rapids.jpg|thumb|[[Wealthy Theatre]]]]
Grand Rapids has several popular concert venues in which numerous bands have performed, including 20 Monroe Live, the DAAC, the Intersection, DeVos Performance Hall, Van Andel Arena, Royce Auditorium in St. Cecilia Music Center, Forest Hills Fine Arts Center, The Pyramid Scheme, and the Deltaplex.

The Schubert Male Chorus of Grand Rapids was founded by Henry C. Post on November 19, 1883; the chorus continues to perform a variety of music.

The [[Grand Rapids Symphony]], founded in 1930, is the largest performing arts organization in Grand Rapids with a roster of about 50 full-time and 30 part-time musicians. In addition to its own concert series, the orchestra under music director [[Marcelo Lehninger]] accompanies productions by Grand Rapids Ballet and Opera Grand Rapids, presenting more than 400 performances a year.<ref name="Symphony">{{cite web |title = About the GRS |url = http://grsymphony.org/about |access-date = August 20, 2017 |publisher = The Grand Rapids Symphony |archive-date = November 24, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101124041754/http://grsymphony.org/about |url-status = live }}</ref>

[[File:Grand Rapids Symphony - Marcelo Lehninger.jpg|left|thumb|[[Grand Rapids Symphony]] ]]

The Grand Rapids Barbershop Chapter Great Lakes Chorus is an all-male ''[[a cappella]]'' [[barbershop music|barbershop]] harmony chorus, including quartets. It is one of the oldest chapters in the Barbershop Harmony Society (formally known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, or SPEBSQSA). The Grand Rapids chapter organized on November 1, 1939, for quartet singers; it is credited for holding the first society-sanctioned quartet contest in the "Michigan District" (now Pioneer District) in March 1941. In 1944 the Grand Rapids Chapter is credited with having the first International Quartet champions, "The Harmony Halls." In 1947 the Great Lakes Chorus (then called the Grand Rapids Chorus) was founded. In 1953 the first International Chorus Competition was held, and the Great Lakes Chorus took First Place, the first "International Convention Championship Chorus", under the direction of Robert Weaver.<ref name="GLC">{{cite web |title = About/History |url = http://greatlakeschorus.org/about/ |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101218074657/http://greatlakeschorus.org/about/ |archive-date = December 18, 2010 |access-date = December 15, 2010 |publisher = Great Lakes Chorus }}</ref> The chorus is still very active as a non-profit singing for community, competition, and contracted performances.

Grand Rapids Ballet Company was founded in 1971 and is one of Michigan's few professional ballet companies.<ref name="ballet">{{cite web |title = Crafted in Michigan: The Grand Rapids Ballet is en pointe |url = https://www.mlive.com/michigansbest/2020/08/crafted-in-michigan-the-grand-rapids-ballet-is-en-pointe.html |access-date = August 24, 2020 |work = MLive |archive-date = August 27, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200827204531/https://www.mlive.com/michigansbest/2020/08/crafted-in-michigan-the-grand-rapids-ballet-is-en-pointe.html |url-status = live }}</ref> The ballet company is on Ellsworth Avenue in the [[Heartside]] neighborhood, where it moved in 2000. In 2007, it expanded its facility by adding the LEED-certified Peter Wege Theater.<ref name=ballet/>

Opera Grand Rapids, founded in 1966, is the state's longest-running professional company.<ref>{{cite web |date = September 10, 2010 |title = History |url = http://www.operagr.com/history.htm |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101016075240/http://www.operagr.com/history.html |archive-date = October 16, 2010 |access-date = December 15, 2010 |publisher = Opera Grand Rapids }}</ref> In February 2010, the opera moved into a new facility in the Fulton Heights neighborhood.<ref>{{cite news |last = Kaczmarczyk |first = Jeffrey |date = February 16, 2010 |title = Opera Grand Rapids Begins Move-in at its $2.5 Million First Permanent Home |url = http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/02/opera_grand_rapids_begins_move.html |work = MLive |access-date = August 20, 2017 |archive-date = July 24, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170724002832/http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/02/opera_grand_rapids_begins_move.html |url-status = live }}</ref>

Grand Rapids is also home to Art Prize, the largest art exposition in the U.S. Art Prize began in 2009 with the over 200,000 visitors and has since doubled the number of visitors it receives each year. Artprize receives many international visitors each year and is still growing with over 1,500 entries from 48 countries across 200+ venues in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title = The ArtPrize Story |url = https://www.artprize.org/history/story |access-date = April 10, 2017 |publisher = Artprize |archive-date = April 11, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170411055629/https://www.artprize.org/history/story |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title = ArtPrize 2015 Has a Little More Art, and a Lot More International Artists |work = MLive |url = http://www.mlive.com/artprize/index.ssf/2015/06/artprize_2015_has_a_little_more_art_but_a_lot_more_international_artists.html |access-date = August 21, 2017 |archive-date = August 21, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170821045050/http://www.mlive.com/artprize/index.ssf/2015/06/artprize_2015_has_a_little_more_art_but_a_lot_more_international_artists.html |url-status = live }}</ref>
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