DSG Shares at the Georgia Street Community Garden

[ May 30, 2009; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] DSG Shares, a project of Detroit Synergy, provides volunteers with an opportunity to engage in a service learning event once per month designed to address a specific social issue plaguing our community – hunger and homelessness. Each event engages volunteers in community impact with a Detroit organization while educating them on the realities of hunger [...]

Friday Night Live! at the DIA featuring Sara Lee Guthrie, Johnny Irion, and Robert Jones

[ May 28, 2009; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Friday, May 29, 2009 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

7 & 8:30 p.m.

Sara Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, daughter and son-in-law of Arlo Guthrie, join Detroit singer and guitarist Robert Jones for a performance channeling the passion of musicians involved in 20th century American labor and civil rights conflicts, including Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Josh White.
 
American Chronicles: [...]

Ingray CD Release at Hard Rock Cafe

[ May 28, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Recently chosen to represent Detroit in the Hard Rock Café’s international “Ambassadors of Rock” competition, Ingray’s music is truly a global rock and roll experience. “Our influences are not local, they are from different parts of the world. As a result, we bring a unique spirit to the stage along with a bond of friendship, [...]

FJC’s ArtSeen at the DIA

[ May 28, 2009; 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] The Founders Junior Council of the Detroit Institute of Arts invites you to step back into a simpler time with this month’s “ArtSeen,” highlighting the Norman Rockwell exhibit “American Chronicles.”  Hors d’oeuvres and an open bar all night, with music provided by Matt Leddy.  Modern chic attire.
 
Where: DIA, inside the Diego Rivera Court, Detroit
When: 7:00PM-11:00PM
Tix: [...]

Blessing of the Bikes in Detroit

[ May 31, 2009; 11:00 am; ] For the first time, the Spirit of Hope is having a Blessing of the Bikes event in Detroit’s North Corktown neighborhood.

The event will be held this Sunday, May 31st during 11 a.m. worship. The church is at the corner of Trumbull, Grand River, and Martin Luther King.

If the weather cooperates, this will be held outside, [...]

Film: “The Murder of Fred Hampton”

[ May 29, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] 1971 (88 mins.) Recently re-released on DVD
Friday May 29, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
5920 Second Avenue at Antoinette, Near WSU in Detroit

People’s Summit Fundraiser/Discussion
Suggested Donation: $5
Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton, a young leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, electrified the African American and progressive movement in Chicago during 1968-69. He formed an alliance of street gangs [...]

Detroit’s Shorts 2009 Film Festival

[ May 28, 2009 7:00 pm to May 31, 2009 3:00 pm. May 28, 2009 7:00 pm to May 31, 2009 3:00 pm. ] A three-day community event, celebrating the finest examples of the cinematic short form by featuring films from around the globe with running times 10 minutes and under.

Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 7:00pm
Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 3:00pm
1515 Broadway + Boll YMCA

Detroit Shorts, a festival of short films running May 28 – 31, 2009, has announced [...]

Extreme Animals W/Will Sessions Play Art Spiegelman’s Opening Night

[ June 7, 2009 12:00 pm to July 26, 2009 12:00 pm. ] Three New Exhibitions
- Art Spiegelman: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
- Linkage Artists Select Artists
Jesper Just | With Mixed Emotions

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Opening Reception: Friday, May 29, 2009 at 8:00pm to 12:00am

ART SPIEGELMAN: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG %@&*!
May 29 – July 26, 2009
Extreme Animals
Art Spiegelman
Pittsburgh and San Diego [...]

Artcite Exhibition Extended Through June 20, 2009

[ May 8, 2009 7:30 pm to June 13, 2009 7:30 pm. ] May 8 – June 20, 2009

Artcite Inc.,
Windsor’s Artist-Run Centre for the Contemporary Arts presents

“An Exhibition of Paintings of Exhibitions and Paintings” by Phil Delisle
and “Signs of Culture” by Adam Matak

Opening reception: Friday, May 8, 7:30 pm
The Artists will be in attendance
by Phil Delisle
Phil Delisle makes bold, graphic paintings about painting and about paintings [...]

Ride On The Art Train…With Stops In Bejing And Glen Arbor

It certainly has been a busy ride this month. I’ve travelled from Bejing to Glen Arbor and back….always on the same quest, searching for those bits and pieces of inspiration that keep driving me onward to create that essential work of art. I seek that one piece that will speak to me, providing all the answers to my never-ending questions about life, art, love and existence, the missing piece to the…