Saturday, September 6, 2008 from 12pm-12am
NEW MUSIC DETROIT AND MOCAD PRESENT: STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL MUSIC II

A 12 hour festival of creative avant garde sounds.

Click here to view the complete schedule of performances.

For more information on New Music Detroit, visit their website.

Friday, September 12, 2008 at 7pm
OPENING RECEPTION OF:
BROADCAST
BECOMING: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WEDGE COLLECTION
and
BUSINESS AS USUAL
Doors at 7pm; Music at 9pm
Admission $5; Free for members

Download a PDF of our exhibition announcement.

Join MOCAD for the opening of its three newest exhibitions: Broadcast, Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection and Business as Usual.

Music will be provided by Blanche: "Blanche create a gothic Americana, at once haunting, gloomy, honest and passionate, imbued with a wry irony that aptly transcends the slack-jawed mugging of many similarly bent alt-country hucksters. With a rich history all their own, Blanche call upon the spirits of America's past, not so much with sentimentality for a time they never knew as with a sincere longing for a time when ideas meant something different..."

and also by Gardens: "Gardens features former members of two of Detroit's most promising new acts, Human Eye and Genders. Together they cultivate a more melancholic, anarchic pop drone than either of those forward reaching bands. Equal parts Velvet Underground, Modern Lovers proto-punk and shambling Sonic
Youth, Half Japanese psychedelic anti-pop."

Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 8pm
PERFORMANCE: WILL POWER
(In Collaboration with Wayne State University Residency Program)
Free admission

Will Power is an award-winning actor, rapper, playwright, and educator. He has been described as “electrifying” (Newsday) and a “dynamic performer” (Variety). Viewed as a pioneer in the genre of Hip Hop Theater, Power has created his own style of theatrical communication, fusing original music, rhymed language and dynamic choreography to produce compelling evenings of performance. His adaptation of the Greek tragedy Seven Against Thebes, re-titled The Seven, recently completed a successful Off-Broadway run at the New York Theater Workshop. Will Power's varied skills, high-energy performances and lyrics are matched only by his remarkable teaching ability, providing communities across the globe with tools of self-eXprezion.

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