New Films Add Sparkle To Global Thursdays Season

Featuring: Virtuoso Bassam Saba marks new CD, offers music workshop
And: Recent film festival circuit favorites including the classic “El Norte”
Thursdays at the Arab American National Museum
Compelling films fresh from the international festival circuit and an Arabic music virtuoso marking his latest recording will warm up metro Detroit audiences this winter and early spring [...]

Art Exhibit At Madonna Has A Green Theme

[ January 15, 2010 12:00 am to February 22, 2010 12:00 am. ] Exhibit runs Jan. 15 – Feb. 22, 2010
Artists Reception, Jan. 23, 2010

The Majesty of Yellowstone by Mandy Getschman, photographyInspired by an Oprah Winfrey show that focused on the environment, “The Green Show” is a multi-media art exhibit that aims to educate people about the effects of their actions on the planet. The work of 11 [...]

Auditions For A New Production Of “Forgotten”

The Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant: An Original Jazz-Folk Opera
Elise Bryant, Director; Bill Meyer, Music Director; Sam Kirkland and Dave Elsila, Producers
“FORGOTTEN: The Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant” will be presented at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, March 26, 2010. Elise Bryant will direct this new production, and [...]

Planet Ant Late Night Series: “Snowbound” Performances Added

[ January 8, 2010 8:00 pm to January 23, 2010 8:00 pm. ] January 8th-23rd, 2010
ADDED SHOWS:
THURSDAY JANUARY 21ST 9:30PM
SATURDAY JANUARY 23RD 11:00PM

by Margaret Edwartowski
Directed By Michael Carnow
Featuring: Jon Ager, Stephen Blackwell, Connie Cowper & Jenny Tocco

Left to right: Jon Ager, Steven Blackwell, Jenny Tocco,
Photo by: Shannon FerranteThe hard living of 1870 Colorado has left Sara Adler to care for her alcoholic brother, his motherless [...]

Funny (not funny) at work • detroit

[ January 22, 2010 6:00 pm to February 26, 2010 6:00 pm. ] Recent Comic Art Exhibiting Signs of Black Humor
Opening reception, January 22, 6 – 9 pm
January 22, 2010 – February 26, 2010
Curated by Ryan Standfest

“Bard Beach Portrait,” (2006-2009)
by Taylor Mckimens
Dante’s Lament (2010) Ian Huebert
The “FUNNY (not funny)” exhibition seeks to elicit uncomfortable laughter in the realm of black humor– a place where the serious and the [...]

2010 Urban Edge Show at Grosse Pointe Art Center

[ January 22, 2010 5:00 pm to March 6, 2010 5:00 pm. ] Opening Reception Friday January 22, 2010
Opening Recxeption 6:30 pm- 9 pm
Runs through March 6, 2010
Juror: Taurus Burns

The Grosse Pointe Art Center will host it’s third annual URBAN EDGE Exhibit in the gallery located at 16900 Kercheval in the City of Grosse Pointe .  The exhibit opens January 22 and ends March 6, 2010.   The social [...]

Art Classes for early 2010 at Arts & Ideas

Arts & Ideas, the newly opened gallery/teaching studio has  announced its schedule of adult art courses, starting in February and taught by experienced teacher Kalaj. “Shaqe uses an exploratory approach when teaching students, focusing on developing each student’s own individual talents and art interests,” says Tolinski. Thus, class sizes will be small, students require no [...]

“WoodEngrained Messages” at Art & Ideas

[ January 16, 2010 8:00 am to March 2, 2010 8:00 am. ] Opening Reception Saturday, Jan. 16, 7 to 11 p.m
Through March 2, 2010
Aboriginal Horse block
“WoodEngrained Messages,” features the woodcuts of the gallery’s artist-in-residence, Shaqe Kalaj. The public is invited to the exhibition’s free opening reception and lecture, which will take place from 7 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 16, at the gallery at 15095 [...]

Drop-In Classes: Detroit Dance Collective

Beginning January 12
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED BALLET
Saturday 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
POLYNESIAN AEROBICS
Thursday 7:30 – 8:30 AM
ADVANCED MODERN DANCE TECHNIQUE
with Barbara Selinger, DDC artistic director
Mon & Fri 10:00 – 11:30 AM
DDC’s modern technique classes are designed to encourage articulation and versatility, and prepare dancers for the infinite demands of contemporary choreography. Based on the Humphrey-Limón tradition, the classes [...]

Auto Show Extravaganza

Friday, January 15, 2010 at 7:25pm -12:00am
Client & Employee Appreciation Event
feautured artists
Michael Schuster, Mark Barrera, & Jim Smutek
Designers The Broadway Detroit
Live Jazz by De-Jazz
This is a full service event with live jazz, cash bar, strolling buffet, and art show.
This evening shows that we really appreciate our clients and staff,
Everyone wonders what is in the [...]