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Ten community ofrendas fill the DIA for Día de los Muertos
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Ten community ofrendas fill the DIA for Día de los Muertos The Detroit Institute of Arts has mounted its 14th Annual Ofrendas, ten community altars honoring loved ones for el Día de Muertos, on view through November 1. SBy Samantha · Oct 7, 2026
Gilbert Family Foundation puts $125,000 into the Heidelberg Project's next 40 years
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Gilbert Family Foundation puts $125,000 into the Heidelberg Project's next 40 yearsThe Gilbert Family Foundation is investing $125,000 in the Heidelberg Project, Tyree Guyton's outdoor art environment in McDougall-Hunt, to renovate the iconic Number House and support an artist-in-residence program.By Samantha · Oct 6, 2026 Michigan Central and Newlab open applications for their 2027 Detroit creative residency
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Michigan Central and Newlab open applications for their 2027 Detroit creative residencyMichigan Central Art and Newlab Detroit are accepting applications for their 2027 Creative Residency Program, a 12-week residency with a $30,000 unrestricted award for artists working at the intersection of art, technology, and society.By Samantha · Sep 28, 2026 Dossin Great Lakes Museum offers a free docent-led tour on October 31
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Dossin Great Lakes Museum offers a free docent-led tour on October 31A free, one-hour docent-led tour of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle runs October 31, with registration open online.By Samantha · Sep 28, 2026 Detroiters spent the summer painting a 32-foot mural at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum
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Detroiters spent the summer painting a 32-foot mural at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum\"Currents in Color,\" a 32-by-8-foot mural completed panel by panel by community members over the summer, is now installed on the west wall of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle.By Samantha · Sep 25, 2026 The Coney brings Detroit-connected stars to the Opera House to fund youth arts education
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The Coney brings Detroit-connected stars to the Opera House to fund youth arts educationThe Children's Foundation of Michigan is launching The Coney, a star-studded weekend at the Detroit Opera House on September 25 and 26, 2026, to build a permanent endowment for youth arts education in Detroit.By Samantha · Sep 24, 2026 Cass Cafe to reopen in Midtown as a cultural center on Nov. 6
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Cass Cafe to reopen in Midtown as a cultural center on Nov. 6The Midtown restaurant and art gallery that closed in 2022 is set to reopen Nov. 6 as the Cass Cafe Cultural Center, run by the nonprofit Chalfonte Foundation.By Samantha · Sep 24, 2026 Marygrove Conservancy anchors a multigenerational arts community in northwest Detroit
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Marygrove Conservancy anchors a multigenerational arts community in northwest DetroitA layered arts community has taken root at the former Marygrove College campus in northwest Detroit, anchored by a weekly gathering that draws artists from age six to seniors.By Samantha · Sep 23, 2026 Detroit Opera opens its season with a 1930s-set Tosca on November 1
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Detroit Opera opens its season with a 1930s-set Tosca on November 1Detroit Opera launches its 2026-27 season with Puccini's Tosca at the Detroit Opera House on November 1, with soprano Masabane Rangwanasha in the title role and a staging that relocates the thriller to Fascist Italy of the 1930s.By Samantha · Sep 21, 2026 Fash Bash 2026 drew a record crowd of more than 650 to the DIA dance floor
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Fash Bash 2026 drew a record crowd of more than 650 to the DIA dance floorFash Bash 2026, the Detroit Institute of Arts' annual fashion fundraiser, set an attendance record with more than 650 guests, opening with the Neiman Marcus Art of Fashion runway show before the after-party.By Samantha · Sep 19, 2026 Detroit Public Theatre's Shakespeare in Prison ensemble gets the text off the page
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Detroit Public Theatre's Shakespeare in Prison ensemble gets the text off the pageDetroit Public Theatre's Shakespeare in Prison ensemble spent a September 15 session moving monologues from the page into the body, and one member found that standing up finally unlocked Puck's language.By Samantha · Sep 19, 2026 Detroit Public Theatre opens its King Lear season inside a prison, in the ensemble's own words
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Detroit Public Theatre opens its King Lear season inside a prison, in the ensemble's own wordsDetroit Public Theatre has begun its Shakespeare in Prison program for the year, working toward a production of King Lear, and shared the incarcerated ensemble's own words from the first session on September 17.By Samantha · Sep 19, 2026 Detroit Artists Market spotlights Miranda Kyle's watercolor show \"Flowers Know What We Forgot\"
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Detroit Artists Market spotlights Miranda Kyle's watercolor show \"Flowers Know What We Forgot\"Watercolor painter and muralist Miranda Kyle is the latest featured artist at Detroit Artists Market, with a show that centers people of color and turns on memory, identity, and storytelling.By Samantha · Sep 19, 2026 Detroit Artists Market opens 'The Intimacy of Memory,' a ten-artist show on Woodward
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Detroit Artists Market opens 'The Intimacy of Memory,' a ten-artist show on WoodwardDetroit Artists Market has opened 'The Intimacy of Memory,' a group show of ten artists working in installation, fiber, and painting around themes of nostalgia and longing.By Samantha · Sep 19, 2026 Elmwood Cemetery lights up for Elmwood Alight October 1 to 3
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Elmwood Cemetery lights up for Elmwood Alight October 1 to 3Elmwood Alight returns to Detroit's Elmwood Cemetery for three nights, October 1 to 3, turning the 180-year-old grounds into an after-dark walk of light and sound. Tickets are on sale now through Eventbrite.By Samantha · Sep 19, 2026 'Georgia O'Keeffe: Architecture' opens at the DIA, tracing a painter's life through buildings
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'Georgia O'Keeffe: Architecture' opens at the DIA, tracing a painter's life through buildingsThe Detroit Institute of Arts has opened a 35-painting show devoted to Georgia O'Keeffe's decades of work on the built environment, anchored by 'Stables' from its own collection and running through Jan. 3, 2027.By Samantha · Sep 14, 2026 Cosm Detroit opens at Cadillac Square with a sold-out LED dome debut
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Cosm Detroit opens at Cadillac Square with a sold-out LED dome debutCosm Detroit opened September 10 at 25 Cadillac Square, drawing a sold-out crowd of 1,500 to an 87-foot-diameter LED dome, the company's fourth immersive venue in the country.By Samantha · Sep 14, 2026 Season Fair returns to Detroit with eleven galleries at The Shepherd this weekend
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Season Fair returns to Detroit with eleven galleries at The Shepherd this weekendSeason Fair holds its second annual edition September 11 to 13, 2026, at The Shepherd, with eleven local and international galleries and a free day of talks opening the week.By Samantha · Sep 9, 2026 Pewabic Pottery to begin roof restoration on its 1907 Jefferson Avenue studio
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Pewabic Pottery to begin roof restoration on its 1907 Jefferson Avenue studioPewabic Pottery will begin essential roof restoration on its historic Jefferson Avenue studio on Monday, September 14, 2026, and the National Historic Landmark building will stay open during the work.By Samantha · Sep 10, 2026 Detroit Month of Design returns for a 16th year with more than 100 events
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Detroit Month of Design returns for a 16th year with more than 100 eventsDetroit, the only UNESCO City of Design in the United States, spends September on its 16th Month of Design, with more than 100 events across the city under the theme 'Design Moves the Future.'By Samantha · Sep 5, 2026 Kresge publishes 'Tyree's Time,' a monograph on Tyree Guyton's 40 years at the Heidelberg Project
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Kresge publishes 'Tyree's Time,' a monograph on Tyree Guyton's 40 years at the Heidelberg ProjectThe Kresge Foundation has released 'Tyree's Time,' a monograph tracing Tyree Guyton's four decades building the Heidelberg Project as the 2026 Kresge Eminent Artist.By Samantha · Sep 4, 2026 Pewabic Pottery is bringing a neighborhood clay studio to Detroit's east side
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Pewabic Pottery is bringing a neighborhood clay studio to Detroit's east sidePewabic Pottery is launching the Pewabic Neighborhood Studio, a fully accessible community ceramics space near the Cadillac Arts Centre in Little Village, built in partnership with the Progressive Art Studio Collective.By Samantha · Sep 1, 2026 Detroit Wick to open an AI scent studio inside Hudson's Detroit this September
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Detroit Wick to open an AI scent studio inside Hudson's Detroit this SeptemberDetroit Wick is partnering with Every Human to open an immersive AI-guided scent creation experience inside the Hudson's Detroit tower, with a custom-fragrance studio set to open along Nick Gilbert Way in September.By Samantha · Aug 30, 2026 Hudson-Webber Foundation sends $3.6 million to 11 Detroit arts and neighborhood groups
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Hudson-Webber Foundation sends $3.6 million to 11 Detroit arts and neighborhood groupsThe Hudson-Webber Foundation approved $3,605,000 in new grants to 11 Detroit organizations, including $200,000 for MOCAD and $100,000 for the Detroit Sound Conservancy's Blue Bird Inn project.By Samantha · Aug 16, 2026 Kresge Arts in Detroit names 2026 Fellows and Gilda Award winners
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Kresge Arts in Detroit names 2026 Fellows and Gilda Award winnersKresge Arts in Detroit named 20 metro Detroit artists as 2026 Fellows and Gilda Award recipients, sending $50,000 and $5,000 no-strings grants to dancers, filmmakers, and musicians.By Samantha · Jul 5, 2026 MOCAD reopens with a 45-year retrospective for Olayami Dabls
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MOCAD reopens with a 45-year retrospective for Olayami DablsThe Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is back open after an eight-month renovation, and its first slate centers Detroit artists, led by a career-spanning show for bead museum founder Olayami Dabls that runs through July 12.By Strait Journal · Jun 19, 2026 Mid-century Detroit, one lunch break at a time: Norman Zadoorian's photos now at Detroit Historical Museum
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Mid-century Detroit, one lunch break at a time: Norman Zadoorian's photos now at Detroit Historical MuseumForty photographs from Norman Zadoorian's mid-century Detroit street work are on view at the Detroit Historical Museum through May 15, 2027.By Jamie · May 29, 2026 CCS's 101st student exhibition is open through May 29
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CCS's 101st student exhibition is open through May 29The College for Creative Studies has turned its campus into a gallery of thousands of pieces for the 101st time. The show is free and runs through May 29.By Jamie · May 28, 2026 The house on East Ferry Street is the subject of a Smithsonian director's DIA lecture next month
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The house on East Ferry Street is the subject of a Smithsonian director's DIA lecture next monthSmithsonian National Museum of Asian Art director Chase Robinson lectures at the DIA on June 7 about Charles Lang Freer, the Detroit industrialist whose 1906 gift founded a national museum.By Jamie · May 26, 2026 Motor City Cinematheque steps in where Detroit's art theatres left off
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Motor City Cinematheque steps in where Detroit's art theatres left offAfter Main Art Theatre was demolished and Cinema Detroit went to a pop-up model, John Monaghan and Kevin Maher started a roving art film series across metro Detroit.By Marcus · May 13, 2026 Heidelberg Project names new executive director, moves toward arts hub model
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Heidelberg Project names new executive director, moves toward arts hub modelColleen McLellan will take over as executive director in July, as the Heidelberg Project begins a renovation of its Number House into rentable arts space.By Strait Journal · May 13, 2026 Hamilton closes at the Fisher, and Broadway in Detroit lines up six premieres for 2026-27
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Hamilton closes at the Fisher, and Broadway in Detroit lines up six premieres for 2026-27Hamilton ends its Fisher Theatre run May 17, and ATG Detroit has set a 2026-27 Broadway in Detroit season built entirely on Detroit premieres.By Jamie · May 12, 2026 A walkable cardboard maze of Detroit landmarks opens at the Michigan Science Center
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A walkable cardboard maze of Detroit landmarks opens at the Michigan Science CenterA-MAZING Detroit, a life-sized cardboard maze built around seven Detroit neighborhoods, opens Saturday at the Michigan Science Center and is included with general admission.By Jamie · May 7, 2026 CCS turned the Somerset Skywalk into a 700-foot runway for The Show 2026
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CCS turned the Somerset Skywalk into a 700-foot runway for The Show 2026The College for Creative Studies staged its annual student fashion showcase on the glass Skywalk that spans Big Beaver Road, sending more than 100 looks across a 700-foot bridge in front of 354 guests.By Jamie · May 5, 2026 Buffalo Prescott's 'Vernal 2026' fills its Detroit residency with wheatgrass rabbits and a buckwheat snake
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Buffalo Prescott's 'Vernal 2026' fills its Detroit residency with wheatgrass rabbits and a buckwheat snakeThe east-side artist incubator's annual spring show leans into growth and symbiosis, anchored by its resident artists and a room full of soft, living sculpture.By Jamie · May 2, 2026 Hamilton returns to the Fisher Theatre for a three-week run starting April 29
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Hamilton returns to the Fisher Theatre for a three-week run starting April 29The touring production of Hamilton plays the Fisher Theatre from April 29 through May 17, with tickets running $49 to $199 and a $10 lottery for every show.By Jamie · Apr 29, 2026 Detroit's young poets compete at the Wright Museum on May 7
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Detroit's young poets compete at the Wright Museum on May 7InsideOut Literary Arts brings its Detroit Youth Poetry Slam to the Charles H. Wright Museum on May 7, where teen poets compete for a spot on the 2026 Detroit Youth Performance Troupe.By Shawn · Apr 30, 2026 MOCAD reopens with new windows, a new name, and three Detroit shows
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MOCAD reopens with new windows, a new name, and three Detroit showsThe Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit returns Saturday after an eight-month renovation, with a renamed building, a street-facing glass wall, and exhibitions by three Detroit artists.By Samantha · Apr 25, 2026 Carole Harris comes back to where she started
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Carole Harris comes back to where she startedMOCAD's first full survey of fiber artist Carole Harris opens on the museum's reopening day, nearly half a century after Charles McGee gave her a first solo show at his Black artist-run Gallery 7.By Shawn · Apr 25, 2026 Mary-Ann Monforton turns Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead into Heart Land
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Mary-Ann Monforton turns Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead into Heart LandMOCAD keeps its programming alive during a renovation by handing the Mobile Homestead to a Detroit sculptor who fills its four rooms with chicken wire, plaster, and a critique of American wealth.By Samantha · Oct 24, 2025 The DIA's first major Native American show in 30 years
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The DIA's first major Native American show in 30 yearsContemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation opened at the Detroit Institute of Arts on September 28 and runs through April 5, 2026, the museum's first major Native American exhibition in more than three decades.By Jamie · Sep 28, 2025 Detroit's first contemporary art fair opens inside Michigan Central
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Detroit's first contemporary art fair opens inside Michigan CentralSeason, billed as Detroit's first contemporary art fair, ran four days on the sixth floor of Michigan Central with eleven North American galleries and a curated slate of ten local artists.By Samantha · Sep 25, 2025 Murals in the Market comes home for year 10
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Murals in the Market comes home for year 10For its 10th anniversary, Detroit's Murals in the Market returned to Eastern Market with new walls, restorations, and a week of public events.By Jamie · Sep 15, 2025 BLKOUT Walls spreads its third edition across Detroit
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BLKOUT Walls spreads its third edition across DetroitDetroit's Black-led mural festival returned for its third edition with ten new walls, this time pushed out into Woodbridge, Franklin, and East Jefferson.By Samantha · Sep 4, 2025 BLKOUT Walls returns with 10 new murals under the theme A Beautiful Resistance
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BLKOUT Walls returns with 10 new murals under the theme A Beautiful ResistanceDetroit's artist-led mural festival came back in September 2025 with 10 new large-scale walls and a closing block party at Spirit Plaza.By Jamie · Sep 4, 2025 Detroit Month of Design at 15, UNESCO at 10
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Detroit Month of Design at 15, UNESCO at 10Detroit Month of Design returned for its 15th edition in September, lining up more than 95 events as the city marked a decade as the only UNESCO City of Design in the United States.By Jamie · Sep 1, 2025 TIME Puts Detroit's Little Village on Its 2025 World's Greatest Places List
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TIME Puts Detroit's Little Village on Its 2025 World's Greatest Places ListTIME's 2025 World's Greatest Places list named Little Village, the East Village arts campus built by Library Street Collective, as the only Michigan entry.By Jamie · Mar 13, 2025 The Belt turns 10
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The Belt turns 10Ten years after Library Street Collective and Bedrock turned a downtown garment-district alley into a public-art corridor, The Belt is one of Detroit's most-walked outdoor galleries.By Jamie · Nov 13, 2024 Five alebrijes now live on Bagley
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Five alebrijes now live on BagleyFive life-size animal sculptures built from car parts went up along Bagley Street on Friday, the new centerpiece of Mexicantown's redesigned streetscape.By Strait Journal · Nov 1, 2024 The New York Times put Hamtramck Disneyland in a national conversation
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The New York Times put Hamtramck Disneyland in a national conversationA backyard folk art landmark on Klinger Street landed in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, the latest national nod for a piece Hamtramck has been quietly keeping alive.By Marcus · Sep 27, 2024 Michigan Central's new residency pays Detroit artists $30,000 to make things
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Michigan Central's new residency pays Detroit artists $30,000 to make thingsThe Michigan Central x Newlab Creative Residency launches its inaugural cohort this fall: six artists, $30,000 each, six months inside Corktown's innovation campus.By Jamie · Sep 1, 2024 Mighty Real/Queer Detroit returns with a citywide queer art biennial across 11 galleries
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Mighty Real/Queer Detroit returns with a citywide queer art biennial across 11 galleriesThe second Mighty Real/Queer Detroit biennial, I'll Be Your Mirror, opens May 31 with more than 170 artists spread across 11 galleries through June 30.By Strait Journal · May 31, 2024 Hatch Art keeps Hamtramck Disneyland standing
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Hatch Art keeps Hamtramck Disneyland standingNearly a decade after buying the backyard folk-art landmark, the Hamtramck collective Hatch Art is still rebuilding it one rotted beam at a time.By Strait Journal · May 29, 2024 The Shepherd opens, and the East side has a new center of gravity
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The Shepherd opens, and the East side has a new center of gravityLibrary Street Collective reopened the former Good Shepherd church on Saturday as the anchor of Little Village, a multi-block arts campus in East Village.By Jamie · May 18, 2024 OMA drilled roughly 1,500 holes into an old Detroit bakery to make LANTERN glow
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OMA drilled roughly 1,500 holes into an old Detroit bakery to make LANTERN glowLibrary Street Collective and architecture firm OMA have turned the long-empty Blue Bird Baking building in East Village into LANTERN, a 22,300-square-foot arts hub whose south wall lights up at night through roughly 1,500 glass-filled holes.By Jamie · May 17, 2024 Tiff Massey takes four galleries at the DIA
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Tiff Massey takes four galleries at the DIAThe Detroit Institute of Arts has given metalsmith Tiff Massey a full year and four galleries for 7 Mile + Livernois, her most ambitious museum show to date.By Jamie · May 4, 2024 BLACK opens at the Carr Center with eleven Detroit artists
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BLACK opens at the Carr Center with eleven Detroit artistsThe Carr Center's Black History Month group show, BLACK: A Built Language Across Culture and Knowledge, runs free through February 29 with work from eleven Detroit-based Black artists.By Marcus · Jan 19, 2024 Richie Hawtin's short film returns to a 1994 Detroit warehouse party
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Richie Hawtin's short film returns to a 1994 Detroit warehouse partyKids Like Us, executive produced by Richie Hawtin and shot on 35mm, recreates the underground techno night that launched his Plastikman alias at the Packard Plant.By Jamie · Jul 5, 2025 The Carl Craig documentary finally played in Detroit
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The Carl Craig documentary finally played in DetroitDesire: The Carl Craig Story had its Detroit premiere at Newlab inside Michigan Central, two days before Craig closed out Movement's Saturday night.By Jamie · May 22, 2025