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Discover what the Cultural Center has to offer!
Midtown Detroit’s Cultural Center is home to the city’s premier arts and cultural institutions and during the Detroit Festival of the Arts they proudly present special programs for Festival-goers. The following describes the events and programs hosted by these institutions.
CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
6134 Second Avenue
313-873-8100
www.detroitchildrensmuseum.org
Visit our booth in the Imagination Factory Tent in the Chrysler Children’s Fair.
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES
201 E. Kirby
313-664-7400
www.ccscad.edu
Alumni and Student Art Sale on John R between Kirby and Frederick Douglass, Friday 4-8pm, Saturday Noon-7pm and Sunday Noon-7pm. Catch current students in action with live blacksmithing demonstrations. Stop by the CCS tents to enter your name for a chance to win a hand crafted item.
CHARLES H. WRIGHT MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
315 E. Warren Ave
313-494-5800
www.maah-detroit.org
Hours: Fri. & Sat. 9:30am–5pm, Sun. 1–5pm
Special Festival discount admission is $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for children. While at the Museum, don’t miss the exciting and colorful exhibition titled Textural Rhythms - Constructing the Jazz Tradition Contemporary African American Quilts. Look for the Charles H. Wright Museum booth in the Festival’s Chrysler Children’s Fair. The booth with host the Art of Adornment workshop which allows participants the opportunity to make wearable art, using precious minerals, stones, and gems. Creating and wearing jewelry has always been an essential component of traditional African culture.
DETROIT HISTORICAL MUSEUM
5401 Woodward Avenue
313-833-1805
www.detroithistorical.org
Hours: Fri. Noon– 9pm, Sat. Noon–9pm & Sun. Noon–8pm
Enjoy free admission all weekend! Check out our newest exhibits Detroit’s Classic Radio Voices and New to the Collection, featuring artifacts mined from old Tiger Stadium. While waxing nostalgic about the old ballpark, buy seatbacks, bricks, usher shirts and jackets and other souvenirs from Tiger Stadium exclusively inside the Detroit Historical Museum Store! Visit the Tuskegee Airmen display and learn about this group of African American aviation heroes. Make sure you buy your tickets for the Society’s Summer of Wonder raffle - this weekend is your last chance! Finally, browse and purchase clearance items from the Museum Store in our outdoor tent- every item $10 or less during Festival weekend!
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS (DIA)
5200 Woodward Ave.
313-833-7900
www.dia.org
Hours: Fri. 10am-10pm, Sat. & Sun. 10am-6pm
Free admission to Museum and for all programs.
Come inside during our regular business hours to tour our newly reinstalled galleries! If you’re short on time, explore one of our one-hour self guided tours. On Friday, the DIA presents a special live performance by Kristin Hersh in our Detroit Film Theatre (enter on John R Street) - two shows 7:00 & 8:30pm. Her solo career and work with her band, Throwing Muses, has revealed many facets of this prolific talent. Her solo musical trajectory has taken her from her acoustic debut to her appearance in 2005 at the London South Bank Centre’s prestigious Meltdown Festival, appearing alongside Sinead O’Connor, Beth Orton, Tori Amos and event curator Patti Smith. On Saturday, Visit the 40th Michigan Student Film and Video Festival in the Detroit Film Theatre (enter on John R Street)! Saturday, see the K-8 entries at 10a, 1p, 3p, and 5p. Sunday, check out the high school student entries at 10a, 1:30p, 3:30p, and 5:30p. Create your own work of art on the DIA lawn, or visit us at the Chrysler Children’s Fair on Saturday and Sunday.
DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY
5201 Woodward Avenue
313-833-4042
www.detroitpubliclibrary.org
Hours: Fri. & Sat. 10am - 6pm
In celebration of Black Music Month and the Detroit Festival of the Arts, the Detroit Public Library presents We are a Musical People. The exhibit expresses our love of music through image and symbol of family, community and history. A collaboration of DPL’s E. Azalia Hackley Collection, Detroit Children’s Museum, First Circle, Inc., and the Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society. Cass Lobby and Concourse. This year the Focus: HOPE Community Arts Department celebrates 12 years of bringing high school students from diverse communities together through our award-winning program, Focus on the Mission. This exhibit reflects the creativity and enthusiasm of high school students who will go into the future exerting positive influence on attitudes toward culture, race, religion, and poverty. Third Floor. For more than 60 years Detroit photographer Bill Rauhauser has captured this complex and beautiful city through his camera lens. See photographs from the recently acquired Bill & Doris Rauhauser Photography Archive in the Burton Historical Collection. On Saturday, teens 13-17 can compete for prizes and supremacy in Computer Game Wars - H.Y.P.E. Helping Young People Excel in the library’s new teen center. 1-3pm. Also on Saturday, make a craft with DPL Children’s Services in the Chrysler Children’s Fair.
DETROIT RADIO INFORMATIONAL SERVICE (DRIS)
Saturday 10am-noon “Walk with Art.” Start the day with a good deed: a walk-a-thon which raises funds for metro Detroit’s radio reading service for the blind. To register, call (313) 577-7684.
DETROIT SCIENCE CENTER
5020 John R
313-577-8400
www.detroitsciencecenter.org
Hours: Fri. 9am-5pm, Sat. 10am-10pm, Sun. 10am-6pm
General admission is $7.95 for adults, and $6.95 for children (2-12) and Seniors (Ages 60+). Children under two are free. IMAX, Planetarium and special exhibit are an additional charge.
Have a swashbuckling good time with the special exhibit SHIPWRECK: Pirates and Treasure and save $2 off each SHIPWRECK exhibit admission during the Festival of the Arts. Find out what it takes to be a deep-ocean explorer. See priceless historical artifacts from a Civil War-era ship. Battle the forces of a 75-mph hurricane and immerse yourself in pirate lore. Patrons also can enjoy more than 200+ hands-on exhibits, IMAX films, planetarium shows and more at Michigan’s largest science center! Discounted admission is valid June 6-8, 2008. Cannot be combined with any additional offers.
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE
111 E Kirby
313-871-8600
www.iimd.org
Continuous ethnic entertainment in the Hall of Nations, 82nd All World Market, International Gallery, ethnic food in the International Café, and three world-class exhibits: Flags of the World, the Ethel Averbach International Dolls, and the Larry S. Wilkinson Immigrant Ship Collection.
FRIDAY:
5:30pm-OPA DANCERS; 6:20pm-KALIMBA; 7:10pm-NATYATARANGINI; 8:00pm-WAWEL Folk Ensemble; 8:50pm-Echo of the Islands.
SATURDAY:
Noon-Shanegang Cloggers; 12:45pm-BEHAR Bosnian Folklore Dance Troupe; 1:30pm-Scottish Highland Dance Ensemble; 2:15pm- CSIPKE Hungarian Dance Ensemble; 3:00pm-Raices Mexicanas de Detroit; 3:45pm-Hindu Temple Rhythms; 4:30pm-Children Helping Children; 5:40pm-Gwiazda Dancers; 6:30pm-Companeros de Flamenco; 7:20pm-Nova Nada Croatian Folklore Ensemble; 8:10pm-Francisco Solano Band; 9:00pm- THE IBAÑES.
SUNDAY:
12:30pm-SZIKRA Hungarian Zither Ensemble; 1:20pm-Ivory D. Williams; 2:10pm-Troupe Ta’amullat; 3:00pm-La Buena Vida Band; 3:50pm-P.R.C.U.A. Tatry Dancers; 4:40pm-DUNAJEC Polish Song & Dance Ensemble; 5:30pm-Sarisan Slovak Folk Ensemble; 6:20pm-Argentine Tango Detroit; 7:10pm-Tropical Mix; 8:00pm-Athenian Greek Duet.
PRESERVATION WAYNE
4735 Cass
313-577-3559
www.preservationwayne.org
Visit Preservation Wayne at its festival booth on Kirby between Woodward and Cass Saturday & Sunday for our award-winning walking tours, including behind-the-scenes peeks at the magnificent mansions of East Ferry Avenue, including the stately Hecker-Smiley mansion, Freer House, and Beecher House from 1-4:30pm. We’re also offering our Saturday Cultural Center tour. Tickets: $10 per person; $8 for members, students and seniors. Payment by cash, check, Visa or Mastercard.
THE SCARAB CLUB
217 Farnsworth
313-831-1250
www.scarabclub.org
MAIN GALLERY: View the original 60″ x 48″ painting, Bright Stars At Night, by Gilda Snowden that is the featured artwork on the 2008 Festival of the Arts commemorative poster. Blooms, Bugs, Beasts, an exhibition of Michigan and Ontario artists. 8: 00pm Saturday & 7:00pm Sunday- Empty Canvas, performance art concert. 1:30 & 3:30pm Sunday - Madame Cadillac Dance Theatre performances. LOUNGE GALLERY: Scarab Club Patron Member’s Exhibit. GARDEN: Fundraising Silent Auction benefiting the Scarab Club. The club’s private art studios will be open to public. Food by Union Street available for purchase and cash bar.
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
www.wayne.edu
Visit the WSU Press Book Sale on Cass Avenue
WDET DETROIT PUBLIC RADIO
4600 Cass Avenue
313-577-4146
www.wdetfm.org
Stop by the WDET booth at Cass & Kirby throughout the weekend for special contests and giveaways, meet some of your favorite WDET hosts and get information about Detroit’s NPR station! Don’t miss our live broadcast from our booth on Saturday, June 7 featuring Folks Like Us with Matt Watroba (1-4pm) and The Arkansas Traveler with Larry McDaniel (4-6pm).