Join for the AARC Retreat, May 9-11, 2025
When
Friday evening, May 9, 2025
through
Sunday afternoon, May 11, 2025
(this is Mother’s Day Weekend)
Where
The Butzel Retreat Center at Camp Tamarack (about a one hour drive Northeast of Ann Arbor in Ortonville, Michigan)
Registration
Registration must be completed by midnight, Friday, May 2, 2025. Pricing is flexible to make sure everyone can attend regardless of financial situation.
To register click on the button below:
More information about the Butzel Retreat Center can be found HERE
Great photos from last year’s retreat are HERE
WHAT TO EXPECT THIS YEAR
Like last year, the retreat will offer an opportunity to reconnect with our community, the Earth and yourself in beautiful, natural surroundings. It’s about the people, the place, and the experience. We hope you will join!
The retreat will also offer
- A chance to celebrate Shabbat as a community
- Meaningful, musical services
- Various workshops, discussion groups and other activities led by our talented community members
- Fun activities offered by Tamarack Adventure Center, including swimming, kayaking and canoeing
- Hikes exploring around the beautiful lakes on the 1,100 wooded acres of Tamarack/Camp Maas
- A Saturday night party with music and dancing
- Campfires with S’mores and singing* Childcare and Children’s Programming
- …and other surprises as well!
A motel-like room at the Butzel Retreat Center (instead of shared cabins with bunks at the Specialty Camper Village like last year).
This means we will have…
- Private rooms with their own bathrooms, instead of cabins (Rooms at Butzel can sleep up to four people with one queen size bed, one twin size bed and upon request, two fold out cots. )
- Convenient parking next to our accommodations, instead of a parking lot that is a long walk away
- ADA conforming facilities, instead of potentially difficult to traverse stairs and grounds
- Meals cooked by Butzel staff and served in our own dining room, instead of eating children’s camp food at the main dining hall
We look forward to seeing you at the retreat!
