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Using Dance To Connect Detroiters To Their Cultural Heritage

Detroit is a city you have to participate in to begin to understand. As someone with a background in dance, I have more recently become curious about the role that dance serves in a community. Not only its general oneness, joy, and health benefits, but particularly African style dance, and what that means to so many people that live in the city, a city that is more than 80 percent African American. African dance is a total body articulation that intends to move societies into healthier socia...

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Ride For A Good Cause At Handlebars For The Homeless This Weekend

Handlebars for the Homeless is a 16-mile guided bike tour of Detroit hosted by the Neighborhood Service Organization on August 16th. The NSO has been serving the community since 1955, and you can support their work by coming out to this event and cycling for a cause. Its an opportunity to do good, get a new perspective on the city, and learn about what the NSO has been up to. “More than 16,000 men and women are estimated to be homeless in Detroit,” said NSO President and CEO Sheilah P. Clay. “...

Pop Over To The Riverfront For The Mo Pop Festival's First Year Downtown

I’m here to tell you all mo’ about Mo Pop… coming this weekend, July 25-26 at West Riverfront Park. Mo Pop Festival is an all-encompassing outdoor entertainment weekend. It is a two-day celebration of music, art, food, and craft beer, with more than a dozen bands, art installations, food trucks, beer vendors, and interactive experiences to be had. Headliners for the festival include Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine with Ben Bridwell, Passion Pit, and Chromeo. Other notables on the bill are Viet Con...

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10 Detroit Urban Farms Rooting Goodness Into The City

According to the Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development, there are about 10 million acres of farmland in Michigan and the state is home to 52,194 farms. As Detroit’s landscape has changed with depopulation, urban agriculture has sprung up in lots and fields across the city. Besides simply growing food, these are places to learn, teach, and spend quality time. According to Keep Growing Detroit, there are 1,400 urban gardens and farms located in Detroit. Through those operation...

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Want To Meet Some Of The Young Innovators And Doers Of Detroit? Check Out Professional's Night Out

There are a lot of interesting people attracted to Detroit lately. But how do you meet these kind of people and form a connection with them? Kicking off its inaugural year, Professional’s Night Out (PNO) will provide a semi-formal networking and dining experience for the entrepreneur, the working professional, the creative, and the foodie. A first of its kind, 3-part indoor and outdoor event, PNO will exclusively bring achievers from across Detroit together for the dual purpose of connecting...

Historic Alger Theater Hosting First View And Brew In More Than 20 Years

With great spirit, Friends of the Alger Theater are hosting a movie showing inside the Alger Theater for the first time in over 25 years. Classic horror/humor flick, Young Frankenstein will be shown, and brews will be served, sponsored by Motor City Brewing Works this Sunday, June 14 at 5:30 p.m. with doors opening at 4:30 p.m. Beyond just a great time with friends, the night will mark true progress for the people of Detroit, and the kind of down to earth culture our city denotes. The A...

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QUICK TIP: Art Opening In West Village Detroit This Saturday

In West Village, Detroit on Saturday, June 6, Townhouse Gallery will open it’s third exhibit titled Art Farm: A Farmers Daughter Exhibit, featuring high quality works from art educator Courtney Kurncz , her students, and her children. New to Detroit from Grand Rapids, Courtney has recently accepted the 6th, 7th and 8th grade art teaching position at Detroit Waldorf School and is highly motivated to continue her career in Detroit. Prior to moving to Detroit Courtney was a K-8 art teacher at Gra...

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Detroit Survived Prohibition, Detroit Can Survive Today

Mickey Lyons has been crawling through all of the hidden Detroit speakeasies that survived Prohibition as a bartender and as a writer. Every Tuesday I travel to Nancy Whiskey’s to hunker down with the Daily Detroit team to write stories, eat, and drink… whiskey. I’ve known that I wanted to write this story for a while, but when Mickey emailed me last Tuesday to let me know she would be bartending at Nancy Whiskey’s the same day and time that I would be there, I knew there must be something t...

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QUICK TIP: Shepard Fairey Opens Exhibit At Library Street Collective Tonight

Prestigious cities to art, Washington D.C., London, England, New York City, and Los Angeles house work by one of today’s most influential street artists, Shepard Fairey. Detroit is now one of those artful cities added to his list. Along with the largely talked about mural on the back of the Compuware Building that is now complete, an exhibition at Library Street Collective called PRINTED MATTERS: Creation & Destruction features his latest collection opens tonight at 6 p.m. Fairey is return...

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"Windows On Frida" Opens At Cafe Con Leche May 30

A local coffee shop with a passionate following in the Southwest and New Center neighborhoods of the city, Cafe con Leche, is hosting a showcase created by local Detroit artists, “Windows on Frida.” Cafe con Leche is a Detroit-based cafe serving Latin inspired food and beverages. They are teaming up with Art & Fashion Metropolitan Detroit, a collective that aims to inpsire, support, and showcase the work of local and international artists and designers in Detroit. Together they created a...

PGA Professionals Inspire Detroit Youth Through Golf

Thousands of dollars in scholarships support Detroit high school students by simply playing the game of golf. Golf teaches the students college preparation, business acumen, and important life skills. The Midnight Golf program was founded in 2001 to improve under-served young adults’ personal and professional development, college success, and appreciation of the game of golf. This impact on the 128 Detroit high school students who have completed the program, will continue to reward Detroit y...

Act II: The Tempest At The DIA Opens Tonight

This weekend officially kicks off PUBLIC WORK’s rendition of Shakespeare’s, “The Tempest” performed by the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit. The first show will open tonight, Friday, May 8, at 8 p.m. at the Detroit Institute of Arts and run through this and next weekend. This is an essential drama for our city. “Theatre is training for all things that we want from our citizens. It is about imagining the world from someone else’s point of view,” said Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis. He fu...

Wellness Through Art Exhibition At Redford Library

Returning to the Redford Township District Library again this year, the 4th annual ‘Wellness Through Art’ Exhibition will present a public showing of this year’s creations on Tuesday, May 19 from 12:00 to 7:00 p.m. The Wellness Through Art initiative is offered each spring to Development Center clients as an inventive way for them to learn how to freely express themselves and connect with others. Development Centers is a nonprofit whose mission is committed to improving the lives of individu...

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QUICK TIP: Palmer Park Art Fair Showcases Detroit's Creativity This Weekend

The forecast for this weekend looks bright and inspiring for this free event for everyone in Detroit. This Saturday, May 2 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, May 3 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., 75 professional artists, 12 emerging high school artists, food, interactive art activities, and live demos will color Detroit’s Palmer Park in this new season. This year, a new Teen Artists Program opens at the event as an opportunity for 12 artists from area high schools to sell their art work. These stud...

Pewabic To Focus On Art Education in Detroit Public Schools

Art is an essential part of a child’s education, and art is an essential part of Detroit’s emergence. Pewabic, founded in Detroit in 1903, is a community of makers, educators, and innovators   devoted to progressing ceramics. They are a non-profit organization that creates ceramics relevant and accessible to all. And at the present, they are focusing on supporting art education in Detroit Public Schools. At Burton International School, Pewabic has worked with more than 200 of the Detroit...

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Book Lovers Rejoice: Pages Bookshop Grand Opening Is This Saturday

On Saturday, May 2, bookstores across the country will be having parties to celebrate independent bookstores. Pages Bookshop will celebrate its grand opening in conjunction starting at 10 a.m. through 10 p.m. with author readings, book giveaways, introduction of Blind Date with Books, music, food, and drinks. Susan Murphy, Pages Bookshop co-owner, has centered her life around books. From that center, and because of the difference reading has made in her life, she lives in confidence that books...

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A Special Series of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" is Coming to Detroit

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit has been chosen as the first theatre company to produce The Public Theater of New York’s PUBLIC WORKS musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” The production will take place at the Detroit Institute of Arts, May 7-May 17. “Partnering with The Public, which may have the richest and most important history of any American theater, is an incredible honor for the young artists of Mosaic,” said Rick Sperling, Mosaic founder and artistic director. “This is a...

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Creating New Identities Through Art In Detroit At Marygrove College

The Gallery at Marygrove College presents “Identify” as their senior art exhibition for 2015. At the opening reception this Saturday, April 18, it is to be a show that not only represents what people are creating in our city, Detroit, but what our city, Detroit, can create in its people. Art therapy senior, Jennifer Awad, is an international student and artist from Toronto, Canada at Marygrove College. She was serendipitously drawn to Detroit to pursue her ode to staying present and to also gr...