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 [...]

Fuzzy Dice 1, Cyclists 0

Senate Bill 276, aka the Fuzzy Dice Bill, passed the Michigan Senate unanimously.

According to the Detroit News:
Fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview mirror would no longer be outlawed under a bill that won passage in the Senate today.
The chamber voted unanimously for a measure that strikes down a law that says items dangling from the [...]

Free Documentary Film: “Our School”

[ October 21, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] October’s Detroit Abides, A Free Transition Movie Night
Wednesday, October 21st, 7 – 9 pm
in Eastern Market’s Shed 5

This month’s topic: The Detroit Public School System

Please Note: As we move into Fall weather please remember to bring a sweater, blanket and friends to stay warm. Though Shed 5 is enclosed and heated, it is a large [...]

Senior Artists Take Center Stage At The BBAC

In an innovative program aimed at increasing access to art and art making for seniors, the BBAC launches Seniors @ the Center. Free drop-in workshops for seniors take place on second Tuesdays this fall – October 13, November 10 & December 8.
The drop-in art workshops take place 11 AM-2 PM. All activities are [...]

Visiting Artist Tran T. Kim-Trang at OU

[ October 19, 2009; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Judd Award lecture series at Oakland University

Monday, October 19, 2009, 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Art and Art History Department
Oakland Center Gold Rooms B&C

Tran T. Kim-TrangOakland University presents an artist talk by visiting artist Tran T. Kim-Trang, acclaimed creator of The Blindness Series videos.

These works will be pre-screened in two parts, all in Wilson Hall room 309 at [...]

Scarab Club: Patricia Hill Burnett Lecture

Wednesday, September 30th, 6-8 pm
The lecture is free and open to the public
The Scarab Club will host an informal lecture in conjunction with an exhibition by renowned painter, Patricia Hill Burnett. Ms. Burnett has a long association with the Scarab Club, having been one of the first women to hold a studio in [...]

Matthew Crawford: Toyota Lecture Series On Design At CCS

[ October 16, 2009; 7:00 pm; ] Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 6 p.m.
Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium

Matthew Crawford, photo by Robert AdamoMatthew Crawford’s New York Times best-selling book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work brings alive an experience that was once quite common, but now seems to be receding from society-the experience of making and [...]

Art Detroit Now: Writing an Image: Chinese Literati Art

[ September 13, 2009 2:30 pm to November 29, 2009 2:30 pm. ] September 11 – November 22, 2009

Painting Demonstration
by Shuishan Yu
Saturday, October 3, 1:00PM
Art Detroit Now

Oakland University Art Gallery (OUAG)
Department of Art and Art History
College of Arts and Sciences
208 Wilson Hall
2200 North Squirrel Road
Rochester, MI 48309-4401

Chris Bedford’s Movie: Coming Home: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy

[ August 19, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Detroit Abides, Monthly Free Movie & Discussion
Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Eastern Market’s Shed 5

In 1973, British economist E.F. Schumacher wrote “Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered”, – a book that offered a vision of an economy driven by a desire for harmony, not greed; an economy based on community and [...]