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Welcome to The 109 Cultural Exchange!

The 109 Cultural Exchange is our multipurpose people space — a new nexus for arts and cultural events located in the heart of Downtown Saline. Learn more!

Saline Main Street is working with partners 
Salt Valley Arts, Mind the Gap Theatre, The Saline Post, Yogacentric and Saline Area Historical Society to bring artists, creatives, mercantile pioneers and storytellers together.

Follow The 109’s events and opportunities here.

For an up-to-date list of events and art, exhibits check out our Facebook page.

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Past Events

May 11, 2023, 6 - 9 pm

Ladies’ Night Out 2023

We are happy to share that Saline Main Street is hosting a long overdue Ladies Night Out! Our theme this year is “FLOWER POWER : Keep on Growing”  on Thursday May 11th from 6:00 – 9:00 pm.  A great opportunity to visit shops you haven’t had a chance to yet, or support your favorites!  Start at the 109 Cultural Exchange to enter raffles and check out our vendors, then move around town to collect flower necklaces - the more you collect the more times you can enter into our grand prize raffle basket!  See you downtown on May 11! [read more]
Save the date for Wednesday October 26th, 6:30P to 8:30P

Downtown Saline for Halloween 2022!

Wednesday October 26, 2022 6:30 to 8:30PM

Absolutely nothing scary going on at this Halloween party :) Meet us in the Key Bank parking lot and McKay Street as darkness falls and be sure to join all the groovy ghoulies for fun in Downtown Saline!

Magic Joe performances will amaze you! Throw Yo Hands Up DJ Aaron will make dance! Downtown Scarecrows will smile back at you! And so so many cool trucks to be bop around — surprises galore make this the event of the season for kids and families. Can’t wait to see your costumes 🤩😆🎃👻 too!

Ring of STEEL returns to Downtown Saline! Only

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Save the date | FRIDAY September 16th and SATURDAY the 17th, 2022.

Saline Main Street Presents Oktoberfest 2022!

Saline, Michigan

Join us for the 17th Annual Oktoberfest in the Heart of Downtown Saline!

PROST people! Mark your calendars now for Oktoberfest Saline 2022 on September 16th and 17th and be sure to join us for this wunderbar community event in Downtown Saline.

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Every Thursday night, 7P to 9

Salty Summer Sounds Concert Series 2022!

Saline, Michigan

Join us every Thursday night for live music and dancing over the yellow lines! Opening night for 2022 is June 16th in the heart of Downtown Saline —

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This landscape painting depicts native SE Michigan plants along the edge of a river with a pedestrian bridge and trees.
A reception will be held Sunday, May 1 from 1:30–3 PM.

Sandra Difazio | “Visual Impressions of Michigan”

The 109 Cultural Exchange will host an exhibition of oil paintings by Sandra Difazio, April 18 – May 18. 

Difazio paints en plein air, in locales throughout the state where she focuses on the effects of shifting light and shadow within the environment. Her exhibition,“Visual Impressions of Michigan,” captures urban scenes, farms, fields, lakes, rivers, and shore lines of the Great Lakes. “Plein air painting gives me the opportunity to feel the environment and attempt to translate what I experience. The complexity tests my ability to think things out.”

Difazio’s work has been included in “Art Around Saline,” and has appeared in numerous juried and solo exhibits throughout Michigan. She has been a member o

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