Strong, proud, ruffled and resilient - sums up Mitten Staters!
You can't keep a good Michigander down.

Super soft heather white tri-blend tee. 

Designed in Michigan by The Mitten State.
Assembled in USA.

SHOP MORE LAUGHFEST GEAR

Gilda’s LaughFest, the nation’s first-ever community-wide festival of laughter, has quickly earned a reputation for being one of the nation’s marquee events for both participants and artists. This major 10- day Midwest festival is based in Grand Rapids and includes events throughout West Michigan. Created by Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids and launched in March 2011 to celebrate laughter for the health of it, the festival features stand-up, improv, showcases, and a variety of seriously funny stuff.

We are serious about our “funny” here. LaughFest brings together a diverse audience of children and adults every March to honor laughter as an essential part of emotional health and wellbeing. And what better time for a laughter festival than when it’s typically cold, icy, and distinctly un-funny outside?

All proceeds from LaughFest benefit the programs offered through Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids, a free community with a comprehensive program of education, structured sharing times, networking, lectures, workshops, and social activities designed to support emotional health. In addition, each year of LaughFest has attracted an average of 50,000 attendees to West Michigan!

2021 marks an extra-special year for Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids as we celebrate 20 years of operations.

Super soft heather red tri-blend poly/cotton/rayon (50/25/25) tee.

Designed in Michigan by The Mitten State.
Assembled in USA.

SHOP MORE LAUGHFEST GEAR

Gilda’s LaughFest, the nation’s first-ever community-wide festival of laughter, has quickly earned a reputation for being one of the nation’s marquee events for both participants and artists. This major 10- day Midwest festival is based in Grand Rapids and includes events throughout West Michigan. Created by Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids and launched in March 2011 to celebrate laughter for the health of it, the festival features stand-up, improv, showcases, and a variety of seriously funny stuff.

We are serious about our “funny” here. LaughFest brings together a diverse audience of children and adults every March to honor laughter as an essential part of emotional health and wellbeing. And what better time for a laughter festival than when it’s typically cold, icy, and distinctly un-funny outside?

All proceeds from LaughFest benefit the programs offered through Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids, a free community with a comprehensive program of education, structured sharing times, networking, lectures, workshops, and social activities designed to support emotional health. In addition, each year of LaughFest has attracted an average of 50,000 attendees to West Michigan!

2021 marks an extra-special year for Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids as we celebrate 20 years of operations.

Designed in Michigan by The Mitten State.
Assembled in USA.

Who Needs a Zoo Day?‍

Well, here’s a new design to help raise funds for a place we’ve all been!

Conservation is at the core of all we do here at John Ball Zoo as we work to save wildlife and wild places. Together, we are making a difference.

Through the generous support given we are able to contribute support initiatives right here in the Great Lakes Region and abroad. Examples of this work are regional field conservation work to protect Lake Sturgeon, Piping Plovers, Eastern Box turtles, wood turtles, and monarch butterflies.

Globally, John Ball Zoo partners with organizations such as Red Panda Network (RPN) who we provided funding towards their habitat restoration initiative to plant 10,000 trees in Nepal as well as their efforts to supply fuel-efficient cooking stoves to the people of Nepal. The zoo also works abroad with the Lion Recovery Fund’s goal to double the number of lions by 2050 and also funded ranger patrols and forest road closures that are helping to protect the remaining 500 Amur tigers who are in the wild from poachers.

Your support of JBZ and other conservation efforts is having a direct impact on the conservation of threatened and endangered species, and for that, we thank you.

Super soft heather black tri-blend poly/cotton/rayon (50/25/25) tee.

Designed in Michigan by The Mitten State.
Assembled in USA.

Designed in Michigan by The Mitten State.
Assembled in USA.

The 1978-79 season saw the Owls post the best record in the IHL by winning 50 games!

Fun Fact: Their arena became an important part of the team's history! Being several feet shorter than most IHL arenas, this "short-coming" became a notorious advantage for the Owls.

Super soft heather white tri-blend poly/cotton/rayon (50/25/25) tee.

Designed in Michigan by The Mitten State.
Assembled in USA.