Travel

  • DIA- Tiff Massey: 7 Mile + Livernois Exhibition & Lunch in the DIA Cafe

    DIA- Tiff Massey: 7 Mile + Livernois Exhibition & Lunch in the DIA Cafe

    Thursday, February 27, 2025 | 10:00-1:45pm

    In conjunction with our cultural series on Africa, visit the DIA to experience this spectacular exhibit of local artist, Tiff Massey. Massey creates installations, public art, and wearable sculptures inspired by adornment. 7 Mile + Livernois is Massey’s most ambitious museum installation to date, featuring new sculptures commissioned by the DIA in conversation with works by several other artists from the museum’s collection. Massey’s work reimagines art’s role in the community and offers a vibrant, inclusive view of Detroit. Enjoy lunch on your own in the café during the 2 and ½ hour visit to the museum.

  • Cantoro’s Italian Market - Lunch at Trattoria & Shopping in the Market

    Cantoro's Italian Market - Lunch at Trattoria & Shopping in the Market

    Thursday, March 6, 2025 | 11:00-2:15pm

    This offering is currently at capacity. Please call the office to check availability. 

    Cantoro’s Italian Market Participants are responsible for lunch & gratuity payment.Let Next transport you to an authentic Italian market and Trattoria in Plymouth. When we arrive, we will be taken on a short tour of the market followed by a delicious lunch at the onsite restaurant. The menu is full of flavorful choices such as Linguine Con Porcini, Panino Rustico and Salsiccia E Peperoni Pizza! Before we depart, you will have some time to do a little shopping at the market. One bag maximum, please.

  • Life of Pi: A Theatrical Production Like Nothing Else!

    Life of Pi: A Theatrical Production Like Nothing Else!

    Thursday, March 13, 2025 | 11:30-5:30pm

    This offering is currently at capacity. Please call the office to be added to the wait list. 

    Wharton Center, East Lansing - Depart Next at 11:30 am and plan to return around 5:30 pm.

    Winner of three Tony Awards for Best Play, the Broadway sensation Life of Pi is “an exhilarating evening of theater” (The Wall Street Journal). Based on the novel that became a worldwide phenomenon, Life of Pi is an epic story of perseverance and hope that speaks to every generation and “gives new life to Broadway” (The Today Show). After a shipwreck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi survives on a lifeboat with four companions, a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Complimentary box lunch and snacks will be served on the Next van.

    This trip is being subsidized with a generous grant from the Wharton Center!

    Location: The Wharton Center, East Lansing