Students at Detroit's Edison Elementary School are getting hands-on art training that could be the gateway to increased interest in higher education and a multitude of career options afterward. Melinda Clynes visits this creative class and comes back impressed with the results.
Patrick Crouch visits the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, where vegetable crops, mushroom gardens and social justice are all being cultivated. And they are not alone in doing crucial work at the intersection of class, race, economics and the future of the city.
The Allied Media Conference is a four-day long grassroots media training seminar, in which professionals and enthusiasts school each other on everything from graphic design and blogging to performance arts and social justice issues. This year's national conference picked Detroit as Ground Zero for the group's guerrilla education training. It all kicks off June 23 at the McGregor Memorial Hall at Wayne State.Registration is still open and is on a sliding income scale ($100 is the suggested amount for the four-day conference). Excerpt:At the AMC, media creation is not only about personal expression, but about transformation – of ourselves and the structures of power around us. We create media that exposes, investigates, resists, heals, builds confidence and radical hope, incites dialogue and debate. We demystify technology, not only learning how to use it, but how to take it apart, fix it and build our own. We do it ourselves and as communities, connecting across geographic and generational boundaries.Find out more or reserve your spot here.
Veronica Grandison spent the last few weeks of her Model D internship exploring one of Detroit's best known commercial districts -- the mile long section of Livernois that also serves as the western border of the University Commons-Palmer Park neighborhood. What did she find? That the best could be yet to come.
After the massively successful Motor City Pride and march we keep the heat turned up with our next next speaker series event on Gay Detroit. It's tonight at downtown's Park Bar. And there is an afterglow, doggy style. Sign up now.
Frank Arvan, an architect who has written about design and urbanism for Model D since 2005, recently traveled to New Orleans and teased out some tasty comparisons to a changing Detroit. The key words in his notes are "density" and "creativity." Read on and join the conversation with your own comments.
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