Filthy Americans Arts & Cultural Preservation Center will open on Nov. 18 at 1313 Holden St. across from the Lincoln Street Art Park and Recycle Here! Owners, business partners and lifelong Detroiters Filthy Rockwell and William “BJ” Smith are veterans in the city’s underground hip hop and techno music scenes looking to inspire the next generation.
Model D caught up with Bilal Hammoud, public engagement associate with the Michigan Department of State, to ask about voting access and how it feels to be able to raise the voice of his own community on a statewide level.
Matt Naimi and Oren Goldenberg, the owners of the Recycle Here! and Lincoln Street Art Park complex, aim to combat displacement of artists and to preserve culture in the neighborhood where Naimi’s fostered a creative and green-minded community around a factory ruin and a garbage dump (as he fondly puts it) since 2005.
Fel3000ft talks with Model D about his new piece, about coming up as a street artist in Detroit, and how public art that challenges the viewer and sparks meaningful conversation between people is needed now more than ever.
"A lot of art spaces aren’t welcoming spaces. It’s such a prestigious, bougie industry that you can feel like you don’t belong. I want people to experience high-end, fabulous art, to come in and feel like they're supposed to be there. That’s why I opened up this space."
At places like downtown’s Pope Francis Center, The NOAH Project near Comerica Park, and Manna Community Meals at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Corktown, Covenant’s street team offers weekly clinics where medical staff address a full range of needs. They also seek out those far from the system, the “rough sleepers.”
In Southwest Detroit, residents celebrate a different kind of holiday tradition in late December, something that can’t be bought in the holiday hustle, and won’t be found where tourists gather. At the 30-acre Clark Park, a town square to its community, it’s ice skating time.
In terms of yoga instruction that’s focused on form and alignment, Santo Santo won’t be for those who seek a more traditional practice. But that's not what founder Samantha Jameson is going for.
Opioid overdose deaths are on the rise in Detroit. After a lifetime of addiction, one Detroiter found the road to recovery with the help of a local nonprofit health care clinic.
Pianist and composer Pamela Wise's experiences as a Detroiter and speaking with residents form the basis of Matrix X Detroit—The Gentrification Nation, a concert and community discussion on Saturday, Nov. 16 at the Shrine of the Black Madonna.
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