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MCEWEN STUDIO CONVERTS VACANT HOME HOUSE OPERA SPACE OPENING IN JULY

A(n) Office and McEwen Studio are converting a vacant balloon-frame house in Detroit into the House Opera space for arts and performance.  According to their website and fundraising campaign, “The space opens to the public next month with an Afrotopia festival July 24th and 25th, featuring a new sculpture from Jasmine Murrell crafted with aluminum […]

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PONYRIDE ANNOUNCES ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS THROUGH JUNE 29TH

Ponyride is offering multiple funded artist residencies this Fall 2015 and into the future. The deadline for submissions is noon on Monday June 29, 2015. There is no application fee for applying. ARTIST RESIDENCY FOR INFO/TO APPLY: http://www.ponyride.org/ The open call closes: Monday, June 29th at 12:00 PM EST Awards will be announced: The week […]

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THE DREAM IS NOW EXHIBITION FEATURING PAULA SCHUBATIS’ & HER STUDENTS ARTWORK

Fine artist & Detroit Community High School Teacher Paula Schubatis presents “The Dream Is Now,” an exhibition featuring her own work as well as the collaborative artwork that her students and her have made together. Schubatis is showcasing her large-scale installations in the old theater space on the third floor of The Carr Center. The […]

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ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE @ NIGHT MUSIC SHOWCASE FEATURING LOCAL & NATIONAL ACTS

PLAYGROUND DETROIT already told you about the Allied Media Conference happening in Detroit from June 18-21, 2015. What we didn’t tell you is that it will also showcase music and performance acts exploring the intersection of art and social change. This year AMC will present an expanded line-up with AMC @ Night, a five-day music […]

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PD PRESENTS: BROOKLYN ARTIST LIZA LACROIX FOR POPPS PACKING SUMMER RESIDENCY PROGRAM

PLAYGROUND DETROIT is excited to announce our partnership with Popps Packing to host our 2015 Summer artist in residence, Brooklyn- based painter Liza Lacroix. “Liza Lacroix subverts the canon of painting, rejecting a singular concept of abstraction. Her work is a culmination of figuration, formalism and ultimately catharsis. Lacroix’s recent series draws from the mythic […]

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TRANSPLANT: BROOKLYN/DETROIT/BEYOND AT BUSHWICK OPEN STUDIOS 2015

During Bushwick Open Studios, Detroit-based arts non-profit, Spread Art will present two days of exhibition and programming featuring Brooklyn and Detroit artists, exploring patterns and effects of individual and group migration through site-specific movement, sonic and performance art in the street. Spread Art, an organization led by Christina deRoos and Thomas Bell, was once based […]

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VIDEO PREMIERE: DUANE THE NEW DOG RELEASES BEWARE OF THE DOG TRACK AVAILABLE ON LIMITED VINYL

Detroit-based songwriter and performer Duane The New Dog has premiered his second music video for the latest track, “Beware of the Dog” available on limited white label pressings with 2 other tracks released by Chambray Records. PLAYGROUND DETROIT caught Duane The Teenage Weirdo first performing in 2011 at the Magic Stick [RIP, now revamped as […]

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BURGER THANG AT DETROIT CONTEMPORARY CURATED BY NEUE HAUS DETROIT

Neue Haus Detroit presents Burger Thang, a show of recent works by Matt O’Brien, Chris Moore and Greg Bokor. Around 1982 a small group of kids from Mt. Clemens, Ann Arbor, Hudsonville, Bloomfield Hills, East Lansing and Maumee, Ohio all would meet at a ‘hole in the wall’ around the corner of Cass Avenue and […]

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SHEPARD FAIREY’S LARGEST MURAL TO DATE REVEALED IN CAMPUS MARTIUS & THE BELT

World famous street artist Shepard Fairey, founder of the OBEY, is taking downtown Detroit’s public art scene world renowned! Fairey is making history with his largest mural to date at One Campus Martius. He is also creating several new pieces for The Belt, the art-filled alley that cuts through The Z. (See map below) Fairey’s […]

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THE PLAYGROUND DETROIT GUIDE TO MOVEMENT FESTIVAL WEEKEND AFTER-PARTIES & MORE

Are you ready for Movement Festival weekend? PLAYGROUND DETROIT has you covered for all of the best local after-parties starting with Pre-Movement parties starting Friday! Here is our round-up of the best of the best you should not miss alongside the official Movement Festival line-up. Attendees of the festival can download the official Movement 2015 […]

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TRANSIT POLICY LAB CONFERENCE WORKS TO ADDRESS REGIONAL TRANSIT ISSUES

Transit PolicyLab is a three day gathering focused on transit and mobility issues facing Detroit. The conference will be a super fun, connective and immersive experience. We will work together to dream up solutions through workshops, presentations and sharing our collective knowledge. Also, we will be drinking in all that lovely Port Austin has to […]

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PD PRESENTS: ‘YEAR ONE’ AN INSTALLATION AT GET SUMMERED: DETROIT EDITION BY SAMANTHA BANKS AND MOLLY SODA

Paying homage to the first year of DEMF in 2000 and to anyone’s first experience at Detroit’s internationally magnetic annual music festival, now run by Paxahau as Movement Festival, PLAYGROUND DETROIT presents a multi-media installation by Samantha Banks and Molly Soda. The work will be showcased Saturday, May 23, 2015 at Northern Lights Lounge in conjunction […]

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