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Detroit, MI 48226
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ARTLAB J is ... a creative laboratory for artists to present new and provoking work (presents programs like Detroit Dance Race to support artists works) movement companies (ARTLAB J Dance, ARTLAB J Dance II, ARTLAB J Movement Theatre) producer of the Detroit Dance City Festival (annual celebration of dance held each summer in Downtown Detroit) producer of "Moving with Detroit" (networking event and Dance Magazine brining dance industry pros and audiences together to talk dance in Detroit) a school (featuring classes and workshops by master teachers)
If you haven't heard about the Muslim Interscholastic Tournament (MIST), then you need to get MISTified! MIST is an awesome event where high schoolers of all faith have a chance to face off in 30 different competitive events (e.g. Quranic Recitation, Photography, Debate, Basketball, Poetry, Short Film, etc.) for a chance to win some amazing prizes and scholarships. Top competitors from each of the 15+ Regional tournaments around North America qualify to compete in MIST Nationals, to be held this summer! For more information, visit mistdetroit.com!
Starting in Fall 2011, Brush Park Preservation Society began, focusing on keeping the Alfred Street houses somewhat presentable. Over the years our work has led to drastic improvements of the look on the street. Also, during our time, AMC filmed Low Winter Sun in the Ransom Gillis House. Also, Batman Vs. Superman was filmed in the historic mansion too. Now Nicole Curtis, the Rehab Addict is renovating the storied home as well as filming episodes of her wildly popular show. In the coming years our neighborhood will be transformed with new buildings and the restoration of the remaining houses on Alfred Street. Code of Conduct: This is a place for people to come and hold conversations about our old houses and watch the progress going on in the neighborhood. We don't allow vulgarities, offensive speech or any irrelevant political talk. This will lead to a removal from the page. Welcome to Brush Park. Welcome to Detroit!
The Wright-Kay Building, originally known as the Schwankovsky Temple of Music, is one of the oldest buildings in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It is located at 1500 Woodward Avenue, at the corner of Woodward and John R. Street, in proximity to the Lower Woodward Avenue Historic District. The building was listed on the State of Michigan's Historical Register in 1980 as #P25241.History and descriptionThe building, designed by Gordon W. Lloyd, was constructed for the F. J. Schwankovsky Company, a retailer of musical instruments. It was completed in 1891, and sat on the growing fringe of Detroit's Woodward Avenue, between Grand Circus Park and Campus Martius Park. The Schwankovsky Company went out of business a couple of decades after the building opened; subsequently, from 1920 to 1978, the structure was occupied by the Wright-Kay jewelry firm. Its current use includes a clothing store on the first floor, a restaurant on the second floor and residential units above.The Wright-Kay is a Queen Anne style building with Romanesque accents, faced with brick and brownstone trimmings. A corner turret extends from the second to the fifth floor; the second floor of the structure contains a one-time concert ballroom. The building was erected with a cast iron frame, and was among the first ones in Detroit featuring an electrical elevator.
Founded in 2013 and based in Detroit, the COLORS Co-Op Academy is an intensive learning experience designed to cultivate new worker-owned good food businesses rooted in principles of democracy, sustainability, and justice. We envision a community-based economy in which all people are contributing with dignity, respect, and ownership. We work towards this vision by developing worker Cooperatives grounded in the leadership, resources, and needs of communities most affected by social and economic inequity. By linking our actions with movements for worker and food justice, we collectively re-imagine and transform our workplaces, communities, and our local economies.
Newly Formed Michigan Black Chamber of Commerce Introduces its Board of Directors and Statewide Business Drive Organization will be the advocate for the economic empowerment and sustainability of African American businesses in Michigan. Detroit, MI (February 14, 2011) – Michigan black business leaders have come together to combat the challenged Michigan economy for African American businesses by establishing the Michigan Black Chamber of Commerce (MBCC). The black chamber will introduce its board of directors; goals and black business membership drive at a press conference on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. The press conference will be held at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. President and CEO Ron Busby, Sr. of the US Black Chamber of Commerce (USBC) is coming to Detroit to participate in MBCC’s press conference; welcome MBCC as an affiliate; and provide remarks on behalf of the national organization. USBC is the recognized national voice of black business in America. It advocates for more than 1.2 million black-owned businesses’ well-being and prosperity. MBCC’s new board was sworn-in on February 9th by the Honorable Craig Strong, Judge of Wayne County 3rd District Court. The new board members are William Brooks (Chairman), Charlie Beckham (Chairman Elect), Ken Harris (President/CEO), Pamela Rodgers (Vice President), Wayne Phillips (Treasurer), Reuben Munday (Secretary), Louis Green (State Advisor), Rod Rickman (National Advisor), Douglass Diggs, Natalie King, Mark Douglas, Dennis Archer, Jr., Dr. Geneva Williams, Cheryl Richardson, Hiram Jackson, Robert Chavis, Andrew G. McLemore, Jr., T. A. El Amin, Rumia Burbank, Eric Hardy and David Burnley. The MBCC is Michigan’s first statewide black chamber of commerce. The black chamber’s creation is the culmination of efforts by a network of business organizations called the African American Business Alliance. In 2010, the Alliance refocused its advocacy efforts to establish and transition into the first African American statewide business organization – the Michigan Black Chamber of Commerce. According to Ken Harris, the chamber’s president and CEO, “The Michigan Black Chamber of Commerce will aggressively advocate for the economic gardening, growth and capacity building of Michigan black-owned businesses. As a mission-based member driven organization, the black chamber will provide quality resources, benefits, services and access needed to help stimulate economic viability throughout Michigan. Our efforts will nurture an environment of economic parity helping black businesses to expand and create jobs, jobs, jobs in the community." A report of findings on the state of black business will be presented during the MBCC’s State of Black Business Convention to be held on Thursday, June 23, 2011, at the Fort Shelby Hotel Doubletree Guests Suites. During 2011 and 2012, the MBCC will launch local black chambers of commerce throughout many urban cities including Detroit, Lansing, Flint, Grand Rapids, Southfield, Oak Park, Pontiac, Ann Arbor, Benton Harbor, Kalamazoo, Ypsilanti, Jackson, Birmingham, Battle Creek, Idle Wild, Royal Oak and Muskegon. ####
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Y Arts is the arts and humanities branch of the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit. We offer a wide variety of arts programs to youth and adults all over Metro Detroit. Programming is made possible by support from The Kresge Foundation, The Erb Family Foundation, MCACA, and NEA.
2015-16 Opera Season: La Boheme Oct. 17-25, 2015 The Passenger Nov. 14-22, 2015 The Tender Land March 12-13, 2015 at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts Macbeth April 16-24, 2016 Magic Flute May 14-22, 2016
When the 20 year old Arts League of Michigan (ALM) moved into its new home in July of 2009, it was a victory after a 4-year effort. The ALM no longer had to hold arts activities in scattered Metro Detroit venues-it had its own. The new home is a 19th century building formerly known as the Harmonie Club, in what is now, Paradise Valley. It was re-named the Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts Center. The public was welcomed to a fall gala. By that time, the ALM programs were up and running. At the heart of ALM are the arts classes for youngsters ages 7 to 18 in creative writing, dance, theater, photography and especially jazz and visual arts. They have been identifiers of the ALM community-focused arts mission since 1991. That recently expanded with the addition of arts classes for adults. To date, add a succession of art exhibitions, celebrity concerts and master classes, art fairs, artists who use free space in which to create, literary and musical entertainment in Beatrice Buck Park, the new gift shop, plus rentals by the public for private affairs ranging from baby showers to fashion shows to corporate parties, seminars/workshops, weddings and more, and you have the active, stimulating, community-friendly center of arts and culture that the Carr Center is today.
Every year, Program Director and co-founder Joel "fluent" Greene along with Detroit based Poets, MC's, Writers, and DJ's visit schools and deliver unique outreach and performance opportunities to students in the city. After the outreach ends, select students receive the opportunity to perform at the Music Hall immediately before a National/International act takes the stage. Past years saw students open for SAUL WILLIAMS, TALIB KWELI, JESSICA CARE MOORE, PAC DIV, CURREN$Y, BIG SEAN, DJ DON CANNON and more...
Our project is to provide lawn and curb side maintenance for 50 acres of City of Detroit parks and surrounding vacant properties. This task will be performed every 10 days, this work has been performed at the following seven (7) Detroit Parks; Arthur, Hope, Marx, Messmer, Reid, Riordan, and Williams. Our lawn cutting schedule is posted on our website at www.mcgroungscrew.org. Our work ethic is first class. Our standard is top notch. Our working model requires that we at least double cut every lawn, clean up all debris cut that day, empty all trash receptacles, and sweep the walkways, curb side and street areas clean.
Detroit Cares Mentoring is a call to action to every able and caring Black adult to help end the crisis in our community by mentoring our young people who are at risk and by recruiting other caring adults to mentor. NCMM does not offer mentoring services; instead, we encourage local leaders to raise awareness of the need and benefits of mentoring, as well as recruit mentors for organizations that provide mentoring and other youth-support services. We target the needs of Black youngsters, who are greatly overrepresented on long waiting lists for mentors. Unfortunately, Black adult mentors are grossly underrepresented as volunteers for the youngsters in the Black community. NCMM works to fill the pipelines of local organizations with caring Black men and women. Due to the unfortunate underrepresentation of Black adults who volunteer as mentors for the youth in their communities, Black youth are grossly overrepresented on long waiting lists for mentors. NCMM targets the needs of these youth and works to fill the pipelines of local organizations with caring men and women. NCMM is devoted to closing the huge gap between the relatively few Black adult mentors and the millions of vulnerable Black children on mentoring organizations’ waiting lists throughout the nation. It is imperative that we raise awareness of the critical need for mentors and role models among Black adults. We are dedicated to recruiting and connecting mentors with local youth-serving organizations to help guide our struggling children to academic and social success. Research proves that mentoring is a low-cost, high-results solution to a deepening crisis. Mentoring has the power to transform even the most challenged children’s lives.
Detroit based. Semi-Professional theatre company.
There is free, secured parking next to Comerica Park.
We have reached more than 7500 children with our mission to promote optimum health in mind, body and spirit through a yoga-based approach. Giving kids space to be healthy kids since 2005.
The Pakistani Student Association of Wayne State University is a student organization dedicated in educating others of the beautiful history and culture that makeup Pakistan. With annual events and many social opportunities which help students engage with this organization, follow and like this page to always be updated with announcements and any recent events that can come your way! Instagram: @wsupsa Twitter: @wsupsa