My Times In Black and White

Saturday, March 6, 2010, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Robin D. Stone, an independent journalist who has edited for the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Essence Magazine, will speak on her late husband’s book, “My Times In Black and White.” The author, Gerald M. Boyd, shattered the color barrier of the white establishment’s most exclusive media giant, [...]

And Still They Prospered: Lorenzo Cultural Center Examines the 1930s

[ February 27, 2010 12:00 pm to May 8, 2010 12:00 pm. ] February 27-May 8, 2010

Gil Rinke hands up a poster to Bob Tarnacki as part of the preparation for the
And Still They Prospered: Living Through the Great Depression series. What did it take to not only survive the greatest economic challenge this country has ever faced but to rise up from that challenge and create [...]

A Celebration of Urban League of Detroit’s 100 Year History

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Saturday, February 27, 2010, 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Featuring special guest Marc Morial, President of the National Urban League and former Mayor of New Orleans. Priority seating for Urban League of Detroit and Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Members.
This event is FREE and open to the [...]

Free Screening of Food, Inc. to Address Detroit’s Obesity, Diabetes Rates & Lack of Food Access

Wednesday, February 17, 2010- 7pm
In Eastern Market’s heated Shed 5

EcoZoic Detroit, in partnership with Detroit Evolution, Eastern Market Corporation, and Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit, will host a free screening of the documentary, Food, Inc on Wednesday, February 17, at 7pm at Eastern Market’s heated Shed 5, on the corner of Russell and Alfred. [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]

Cranbrook Academy of Art [SPRING] Edition Lecture Series

Reflecting the current variety of contemporary creative practices, the [SPRING] Edition Lecture Series presents a series of evenings with all forms of innovative inquiry.  A part of the academic program at Cranbrook Academy of Art, the lectures are open to the public – inviting the community to share in the ideas and discussions of the [...]

Detroit: Breeding Ground Exhibit Lives On In Print and Video

Michael McGillis, “Grommet”
Politely curious about why I have been redefining my base in Detroit, my son asked, “what are things like in Detroit?” After he has been living and working for ten years on a bucolic campus in Alexandria Virginia and now living on a boat in Seattle for three years I knew [...]

PechaKucha Night Detroit Volume 6

[ November 28, 2009; 6:30 pm; ] Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 6:30PM
Detroit Film Theatre

You are invited to take part in an intimate evening with a select few of Metropolitan Detroit’s finest creative professionals.

Detroit’s sixth volume of the international phenomena, Pechkucha Night is coming to the Detroit Institute of Arts Film Theatre on Tuesday November 24th.

Doors open at 6:30 pm. Presentations begin [...]

Detroit: Breeding Ground – A discussion on sculpture

Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 4pm
within the social landscape at the Museum of New Art
Abigail Newbold
On Sunday November 1st at 4pm the Museum of New Art (MONA) will host a panel discussion and the release of the exhibition catalogue for its current show – Detroit: Breeding Ground.
This panel focuses on the state of [...]