Category: Art & Culture
Detroit COVID-19 Memorial Day
The loved ones of Detroiters lost to COVID-19 had a chance to have memorial processions on Belle Isle, where the City of Detroit has set up hundreds of billboards honoring victims of the coronavirus.
Read More8/31/20: One Detroit – Cranbrook Design Tours / Plowshares Theatre / Detroit Jazz Fest / The Wretched Movie
Michigan’s only professional African American Theatre, Plowshares Theatre Company, presents a virtual concert of songs from an original musical set in Detroit past.
Read MoreDetroit Jazz Fest 2020 doesn’t miss a beat
Stephen Henderson talks with Chris Collins, Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation president and artistic director, in conjunction with Rocket Mortgage Director of Community Sponsorships Jasmin DeForrest.
Read MoreSila: The Breath of the World
In their first live concert since March, John Luther Adams’ “Sila: The Breath of the World” will be presented with 32 professional musicians filling The Quad at Cranbrook Upper School. Peter Whorf from WRCJ finds out more.
Read More8/24/20: One Detroit – Detroit Jazz Fest / Arts, Beats & Eats / Sila / DDCdances / Blue LLama Jazz Club
Stephen Henderson talks with Chris Collins, Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation president and artistic director, in conjunction with Rocket Mortgage Director of Community Sponsorships Jasmin DeForrest.
Read MoreX marks the art
AXD and Living X reflects on Detroit’s legacy and evolutions throughout the city, while examining what it means to be both artists and residents of Detroit at this transformative moment.
Read MoreEquity in the Arts
Stephen talks with Nate Wallace from Knight Foundation’s Detroit office about an op-ed he wrote indicating the need for Black Detroiters to have more access to the arts.
Read More8/17/20: One Detroit – Nate Wallace / Seven Last Words of the Unarmed / Hannah Lydia Wilson / AXD
Aaron Dworkin from Arts Engines talks with Dr. Eugene Rogers about the powerful multi-movement choral work by Atlanta-based composer Joel Thompson titled Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.
Read MoreDetroit Trinity International Film Festival
The organizers of the 14th Annual Detroit Trinity International Film Festival have decided that the show must go on.
Read MorePlowshares Theatre Presents a Musical Remembering of ‘Hastings Street’
Michigan’s only professional African American Theatre, Plowshares Theatre Company, presents a virtual concert of songs from an original musical set in Detroit past.
Read More“Hamilton” hitmaker, Jeffrey Seller, talks about the secret of the musical’s success
Chastity Pratt sits down one-on-one with producer Jeffrey Seller, the metro behind “Hamilton” who talks about growing up in Oak Park and how he makes Broadway magic.
Read More7/20/20: One Detroit – The Henry Ford on Reopening / Plowshares Theatre / Black Lives Matter in Photos
The Henry Ford’s CEO Patricia Mooradian on reopening the museum; the Plowshares Theatre to put on a virtual performance this week, Black Lives Matter captured by Detroit Free Press photographer, Mandi Wright and more.
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