Archive for February, 2010

“Finding A Place Where Love Hides” at The Marlene Boll Theatre

[ January 29, 2010 1:00 pm to February 7, 2010 1:00 pm. ] A Stage Play by Shii Productions
January 29 Through February 7, 2010

This 1920s play has a comedic undertones with a dramatic feel. Become a part of the journey of life through the eyes of the various characters. From the life learning lessons of Hattie Mae and Sallie Mae, To the spiritual journey of Ms.Bertha and her [...]

On Longing

When I was a little girl my dad traveled. Every week he’d make his way to a work destination that was five hours away. Monday mornings before we got up for school, he would leave me, my mother and my two brothers and reappear on Thursday or Friday evening for the weekends.

In the ‘60’s [...]

Joseph Winterhalter: “Painting/Paperwork” at the BBAC

Closing Reception Thursday 11 February 2010, 5 to 8 pm
F.o.R. # 14, 2009, 24″ x 20″
Latex, acrylic, chalk, powdered graphite, oil, wax on canvas.
Photo: Steve Paszt
Joseph Winterhalter’s exhibit “Painting/Paperwork” could easily be called “Architecture/Poetry”; words that filled my mind as I viewed Winterhalter’s large scale canvases and ‘Text Works’. Putting industrial materials to [...]

Who Wants To Make Great ART

Saturday, January 30, 2010, 1:00pm – 2:00pm
At CCS
Alice Schneider needs assistance making a video. She needs people to dress in all black. If you have long hair I would like it pulled back. If you have short hair it should be slicked back. You should not to care about your black [...]

Film Screening: The Future of Food

Friday, January 29, 2009
6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Detroit Waldorf School, RSVP
Detroit Waldorf School (DWS) will host a film screening of The Future of Food on Friday, January 29, 2009, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The Future of Food, a groundbreaking documentary released in 2004, distills the complex technology and key regulatory, legal, [...]

Mosaic Youth Theatre Purchases New Center Building

Mosaic Youth Theatre has acquired a historic 40,000-square-foot building on Second Avenue in New Center, the former location of WTVS and WJBK. The plan is to renovate it as a permanent home for the program and a center dedicated to youth excellence with offices, studio and rehearsal space and a 180-seat black box theater. Mosaic [...]

Professional Artists and Intructors Conduct Free Workshops

Whole Planet-Artful Dreams of Peace Workshops
February 6, 13 and 14 2010
The Ann Arbor Art Center is partnering with Whole Foods Markets and their Whole Planet Foundation to offer Whole Planet-Artful Dreams of Peace Workshops. These FREE family workshops will be held on Saturdays, February 6 and 13 from 1:30 – 3:30 [...]

Toyota Lecture Series on Design presents Kyle Cooper

[ February 17, 2010; 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Co-founder of Imaginary Forces and founder of Prologue Films
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Wendell W. Anderson Auditorium

Kyle Cooper
Emmy Award-winner Kyle Cooper has directed and produced over 150 main title sequences and founded two internationally recognized film design and production companies: Prologue Films, founded in 2003, was a finalist in the 2008 National Design Awards, [...]

Magenta Giraffe Theatre Co. Accepting Submissions For Staged Reading Festival

Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company is now accepting submissions for its Second Annual Staged Reading Festival.
As part of its mission “to reestablish and expand Detroit’s theatre district,” Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company is now accepting submissions of plays by Michigan natives or current Michigan residents to stage as part of a festival to take place this spring. [...]

Call for Proposals: The Macomb Center for the Performing Arts Gallery

Deadline: Submissions must be received by February 12, 2010.
The Art Gallery Exhibition Committee is seeking submissions to be included in individual or group exhibitions for upcoming 2010-2011 season.
The Art Gallery at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts is an exhibition space that displays a diversified selection of visual works by local, national and international [...]