UPCOMING EVENTS / PAST EVENTS

MOCAD hosts musical, literary, and artistic events throughout the year. Check back often or contact us at info@mocadetroit.org if you would like to be kept up to date on upcoming events.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 7pm
READING: THE WOODWARD LINE, A POETRY SERIES

Second in the Woodward Line series at MOCAD, this reading will feature poets Hayan Charara, Christina Archer and Kevin Rashid.

Hayan Charara was a visiting professor of poetry writing at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. Before that he taught in New York City. He is the author of two collections of poetry, The Sadness of Others and The Alchemist’s Diary. Born in Detroit, Michigan, to immigrant parents, he currently lives in Texas. He is also a woodworker.

Christina M. Archer received her Bachelor’s Degree in Marine Biology. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and also runs www.detroitpoetry.com. She was an assistant coach to the Detroit Poetry Slam team in 2003 and the head coach in both 2004 and 2005. She also works for two after school poetry programs, mentoring youth – InsideOut Literary Arts Project’s City Wide Poets, and Leaps and Bounds in the city of Warren.

Kevin Rashid lives in Detroit where he manages a city-focused curriculum for Wayne State University’s Honors College and the university’s Office of Undergraduate Research. He brought nearly 20 years of experience picking up trash and cutting grass as a groundskeeper to his current position along with a B.A. in English and an M.A. in English with a concentration in post-structural theory, all from Wayne State. He teaches creative writing and his poems have appeared in several books: Inclined to Speak, Abandon Automobile: Detroit City 2001; Arab Detroit: from Margins to Mainstream and various journals.

Sunday December 14, 2008 at 2pm
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: VISUAL MEDICINE AND HISTORY IN THE MAKING

Join us for a special exhibition honoring the participants of Visual Medicine — a MOCAD photography workshop.

All of the photos in this exhibition were taken by local students during a two-day photography workshop lead by world renown photographer Jamel Shabazz.

Also exhibited will be documentation of Visual Medicine taken by the MOCAD staff as well as subsequent photography workshops inspired by Visual Medicine.

Please join us in honoring all the participants, organizations and individuals who made this experience unforgettable.

Thursday December 11, 2008 at 7pm
LECTURE: JACOB PROCTOR

Jacob Proctor is Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), which will reopen to the public in Spring 2009 following a $41.9 million expansion and renovation project. Proctor is founding curator of UMMA Projects, a new series of exhibitions and publications focusing on emerging artists. Upcoming UMMA Projects include Walead Beshty, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Heather Rowe, Cory Arcangel, and Simon Dybbroe Moller, among others. Proctor is also currently organizing the first North American retrospective of seminal conceptual artist (and Michigan native) Douglas Huebler, who passed away in 1997.

Prior to joining UMMA in late 2007, Proctor spent three years at the Harvard University Art Museums while pursuing his PhD in History of Art and Architecture. His most recent exhibition, Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, was presented to critical acclaim in early 2007 at Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum. Between Object and Event, a volume of essays drawn from a symposium Proctor organized in conjunction with the exhibition, is forthcoming.

Saturday, December 6th from 5:00pm-9:30pm
NOEL NIGHT: WITH ARAN RUTH AND SCARLET OAKS
Free Admission

Each of our exhibits — Broadcast, Business as Usual & Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection — will be on view from 5:00pm-9:30pm.

There will be two musical performances, first at 6:00pm and again at 7:00pm: Aran Ruth is an this angel-winged chanteuse who performs beautiful ethereal folk songs of her own creation in the spirit of Nico, Brigitte Fontaine, and Coco Rosie. Also joining us to celebrate this year’s Noel Night will be Detroit’s own low-key country wanderers, Scarlet Oaks who present their own quirky, pop-tinged take on American roots music.

Full of gift items not sold anywhere else in Detroit, our store will be open for visitors to get a jump-start on holiday shopping. The café will serve rich Dagoba hot chocolate and winter weather snacks.

More information on Noel Night.

Friday, December 5, 2008 at 8pm
MUSIC: BOBBY CONN
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS ZOOS OF BERLIN
Admission: $8
all ages

Soulful glam-rocker and unrepentant anarchist, Bobby Conn has been conjuring idiosyncratic, avant-garde pop from his Chicago home base for over a decade. Bringing together a live Dj and violin, with Bobby on guitar and vocals, the sound this unlikely combo creates is a bizarre new product created out of all ideas long since dog-eared and worn. In large part the music is greasy, white-boy rock a la' the Rolling Stones. But a Curtis Mayfield inspired, silky, buttered soul creeps through at every moment, creating an unholy hybrid funk, in the form of sensuous protest songs about Tom Cruise.

Detroit's own Zoos of Berlin will be opening up the evening sharing their own eccentricities in the form of brilliant, art-inflected, prog-pop constructions.

Visit Bobby Conn on Myspace.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 7pm
LECTURE: RISA SHOUP

Risa Shoup has worked for chashama for the past three years to help transform vacant commercial real estate into workspace for artists. Her primary focus has been on emerging multidisciplinary and performing artists, and she has witnessed the aesthetic impact a lack of resources has on these artists. Her talk will focus on the relationship between the artist's intention and the scarcity of resources (particularly space), as well as the important role that video plays in virtually expanding the artist's space.

Saturday, November 29 at 7pm
SCREENING: NEW DIRECTIONS
Admission $10
Cash bar

MOCAD will play host to an upcoming screening party for the pilot episode of New Directions, an original series shot in and around Detroit with cast and crew of local talent.

New Directions tells tales of a clandestine life makeover program that uses divining methods such as tarot cars to determine where a person’s life needs to go. Good or bad, they effect this change by whatever means necessary, filming these often disturbing “interventions” for the titillation of private internet subscribers.

Following the screening, there will be a set by Detroit’s The Oscillating Fan Club. Four of the sixteen songs from their new “creep pop” album “Feverish Dreams as told by…” are featured in the pilot episode.

Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 5pm
EXHIBITION & RECEPTION: URBAN ENGINE

URBAN ENGINE — An alternative-design concept developed in Detroit by University of Detroit Mercy architecture students under the direction of Professors Amy Deines, Will Alsop and Gregory Woods.

Detroit’s Woodward Corridor represents a dynamic urban essay that speaks to the value that public activity contributes to the character of the city. In performing an analysis, we ask, what change in the urban landscape is necessary to maintain peak physical conditions in the city? Is it possible to rebrand a city, like Detroit, with its unique cultural signature?

During a four month period the studio will produce public art and architectural intervention that will act as urban catalysts, to engage the public in refreshing ways that reinvigorates street life along the Woodward axis.

The work produced will be exhibited in Detroit, Canada, England, and Austria; serving as the point of departure for conversations surrounding the challenges of “Urban Rebranding” facing post-industrial cities Globally.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 7pm
READING: TED GREENWALD AND DENNIS TEICHMAN

Ted Greenwald is an artist who resists paraphrase. His official biography reads: "Born 1942. Is from New York forever"--during which time he coedited Ear magazine with Lorenzo Thomas; curated reading series at 98 Greene Street, The Clocktower, and P.S. 1, and taught poetry workshops at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, on whose board of directors he served for many years. Greenwald's spare, abstract, nonreferential poetry unites the person-centered concerns of the New York School in the 60s (Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett) with the formal interests of the Language poets of the next decade (Kit Robinson, Charles Bernstein, Alan Davies), and he remains widely influential among younger writers. He has collaborated with important visual artists such as Les Levine and Gordon Matta-Clark and was a central presence around the Holly Solomon Gallery through the '80s. Important early collections include Common Sense (1978) and The Licorice Chronicles (1979) along with two major book-length poems, You Bet! (1978) and Word of Mouth (1986). His strong reputation for aesthetically uncompromising writing continues with the recent The Up and Up (2004) and 3 (2008).

Dennis Teichman is a native Detroiter. He has been involved in organizing and participating in various arts and writing projects throughout the region. He was co-publisher from 1978-84, with Jim Wanless and Glen Mannisto, of Detroit River Press. Teichman also hosted in a radio program from 1978-82, DIMENSION, on WDET-FM, which featured a blend of poetry and prose, music and interviews with artists from the area and around the world. In 1985, he started Past Tents Press with Deb King and Paul Schwarz, a small press still in operation that concentrates on publishing authors who live, work and have a history if involvement with Detroit and enviorns. Teichman's poetry can be found in Dispatch Detroit, Xcp, Alley Culture, and others (which at this point he can't remember until someone comes along and mentions one, eh?) He is the author of two books of poetry, Edge to Edge and V-8.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 6pm
READING: THE WOODWARD LINE, A POETRY SERIES

As the first in a series of poetry readings bringing world-renowned and award-winning poets to Detroit, Derick Burleson, Carly Sachs, and Detroiter Norene Cashen will read from their own work.

Sunday, November 16, 2008 from 1-3pm
CHILDREN & FAMILY DAY WORKSHOPS: YOUTH WORKSHOP DROP-IN - PRESS/PLAY: KIDS IN THE NOW

MOCAD will be honoring many organizations that are currently working with the youth through art, music and performance. Please join us in a two hour live broadcast of 15 different youth art organizations from around the world on November 16th, 2008.

This broadcast will feature 15 five-minute performances from 15 cities around the world. Each performance will be streamed live, projected onto a large wall in front of an audience and will broadcast onto the internet. This broadcast is an attempt to bring together the knowledge of the creative youth in the world. We have decided to focus on organizations that are working with the youth in nations that are currently in political conflict; in attempt to communicate positive relationships and memories within the youth of each nation including our own.

If you are interested in participating please contact Kt Andresky at: kt@555arts.org

The Press/Play Broadcasts were originally created by Kt Andresky to bring international arts information to the art community of Detroit. It has grown into an informative real-time documentation of what is happening within unrelated parts of the art world at one specific moment. She hopes to gather many young national and international artists and create interaction through telepresence that is not able to take place elsewhere.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 7pm
LECTURE: IRENE HOFMANN
Free admission

Irene Hofmann is the curator of Broadcast, and the Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. Prior to moving to Baltimore, she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Orange County Museum of Art, in Newport Beach, California where she was the curator of the museum’s New Media “Orange Lounge.” From 1996-2001 she served as Curator of Exhibitions at Cranbrook Art Museum where she organized exhibitions with a variety of artists.

Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 7pm
PERFORMANCE: INTERACTIVE INTERFACES AT MOCAD with
MUSIC: CAVE SCIENCE
Free Admission

Brett Renfer and Alyssa Mullen invite audience members to explore and play with interactive projects that challenge the relationship between the physical and the digital. As a presentation of their research these students will install a mixture of hand-crafted interfaces and unique programs intended to create a user-based experience that present a challenging role for technology in our world.

Also: A special music performance by Cave Science.

Thursday November 6, 2008 at 7pm
LECTURE: GREGORY GREEN
Free admission

Since the mid-1980's, Gregory Green has created artworks and performances exploring systems of control and the evolution of individual and collective empowerment. Green's work considers the use of violence, alternatives to violence, and the accessibility of information and technology as vehicles for social or political change. Referencing historical precedents and disturbingly anticipating various current events, Green's provocative works expand the parameters between art and activism, culture and social commentary. With over 24 one-person exhibitions and 100's of group exhibitions Gregory has played a significant role in the contemporary art discourse of the last 20 years. His work is included in major public and private collections, including among others the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Tate Gallery, London, the Saatchi Gallery, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and MAMCO, Geneva; and his work is represented by numerous commercial Galleries in Europe and the United States.

Assistant Professor Green was born in New York State and raised in Europe and on the east coast of the United States. He had been a working artist in New York City for the past 17 years until joining the faculty at the University of South Florida in the fall of 2006. Green attended undergraduate school at The Art Academy of Cincinnati (1981) and graduate school at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1984).

Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 5pm
SPECIAL EVENT: SKILLMAN FOUNDATION + CCS + BANNERS @ MOCAD

With support of the Skillman Foundation, community residents of six neighborhoods advised and guided five CCS students as they designed light pole banners for each community.

The banners in this exhibition are the culmination of months of research and conversation, listening and creativity, meetings and exchange. Best of all, thought, they demonstrate the power of what community/academic collaborations can produce.

This exhibition will run from November 1 to November 5, 2008.

For more information contact: Sioux Trujillo at 313-664-7937

Friday, October 31, 2008 at 8:30pm
BELIEVIN': A HALLOWEEN DANCE PARTY
Presented by the MOCAD New Wave
Admission $5 with costume; $10 without costume

Dee Jay Entertainment provided by: PEOPLES RECORDS
Featuring: Brad Hales, Steve Kenney, Scott Zacharias, Ron Morelli (NYC), The Navy, DJ Jumbo Shrimp, Tommy, Loup Garou, and Disco/Secret Residents

CASH BAR
COSTUME CONTEST
THRILLER DANCE-OFF

Download a fiyer here.

Thursday, October 30th (Angel's and Devil's night) at 8pm
FILM: MURDER CITY: DETROIT, 100 YEARS OF CRIME AND VIOLENCE
Free admission

This locally produced documentary film traces the history of violence in Detroit by exploring the city's most infamous crimes and criminals. From the race riots of 1943, to the ‘67 Rebellion, and on through the cities numerous, ever-evolving organized gangs (the Purple Gang, Young Boys Incorporated, The Chambers Brothers and the more recent Black Mafia Family) the richest aspects of Detroit's dark past are explored. Would the Detroit of today be what it is without it's lurid past life? This raw and unsettling film struggles to find the roots of Detroit's ominous national image, through the use of historical footage, photos, and interviews with experts and involved parties.

Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 7pm
A MOCAD SPECIAL EVENT: LE MASQUERADE
presented by The Greater Wayne County Chapter, The Links, Inc.
in conjunction with Wayne State University College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts
Admission $100—$65 of the price is tax deductible
Proceeds benefit the programming of The Links Foundation, Inc. and will establish a scholarship for the Wayne State University Black Theater Department

Welcome to a night of music, mystery, costume, dancing and fun. An evening dedicated to giving adults a chance to join in the Halloween fun - when is the last time you had fun on Halloween (and not your kids)?

Le Masquerade is the cross between a classic masquerade ball and a funky and fun Halloween party. So come as you are NOT. Play a trick on us and dress up or just treat us with your presence to raise money and awareness for the community programming efforts of the Greater Wayne County Chapter, The Links, Inc. and Wayne State University’s Black Theatre Department.

Download the flyer here.

Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 5pm
CELEBRATE DETROIT BOOKS!—FEATURING JACK LESSENBERRY
presented by the Wayne State University Press
Valet parking; Business casual

Admission:
VIP Champagne Pre-Reception
$100 per person, 5:00 p.m.
Meet and mingle with the authors.
Includes admission to Celebration of Books, a complimentary copy of Summer Dreams or Art in Detroit Public Places and a one year membership in WSU Press Circle of Friends

Celebration Of Books
$25 per person, 6:00 p.m.
$15 for WSU One Card holders and MOCAD members
Includes wine, hors d'oeuvres and desserts
provided by Detroit restaurants
Viewing MOCAD's three new exhibitions: Business as Usual, Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Broadcast

Sunday October 19, 2008 from 1-3pm
CHILDREN & FAMILY DAY WORKSHOPS: YOUTH WORKSHOP DROP-IN—"HISTORY IN THE MAKING"

Jamel Shabazz, photographer featured in Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, leads this Family Day Workshop called "History in the Making". This workshop focuses on portraiture and will involve parents taking photos of kids and kids taking photos of parents. This will also be an open platform for kids to interview parents about family history.

Friday October 17 and Saturday October 18, 2008
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP LEAD BY JAMEL SHABAZZ—"VISUAL MEDICINE"

“Visual Medicine” is a two-day photography workshop’s lead by Jamel Shabazz a Brooklyn based photographer, featured in MOCAD’s current exhibition, Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection. Jamel's work has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Brooklyn Museum, The Contact Photo Festival and the African American Museum in Philadelphia.

High school students from Metro Detroit, who are interested in photography, will have the opportunity to work one on one with Shabazz, who has mentored various youth organizations both in the United States and abroad. His life mission is to encourage young people to use the camera as a tool of communication, to learn about other cultures, and to record their experiences.

“Visual Medicine” will include a “Dress to impress” photo shoot, field photography lessons, group discussions and two short films. Students will also have an opportunity to tour the museum with Shabazz and MOCAD staff.

Itinerary for the 17th through the 19th:

Friday, October 17, 4-7pm
4:00-5:00pm - Introduction
5:00-6:00pm - 2 short films,
6:00-7:00pm - “dress to impress “photo shoot”

Saturday, October 18, 10am-3pm
10:00 am – arrive at MOCAD
10:30-12:30am – trip to field photography locations
12:30-1:00 – lunch
1:30 – return to MOCAD
1:30-3:00 – group discussion, print photos, conclusion

Thursday, October 16th at 7pm
LECTURE: JAMEL SHABAZZ
Free admission

Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection photographer Jamel Shabazz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York in 1960. At the age of 15, he picked up his first camera and started to document his community. During the past seven years he has produced four monographs of his work, Back In The Days, The Last Sunday In June, A Time Before Crack, and Seconds Of My Life. Jamel's work has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Brooklyn Museum, The Contact Photo Festival and the African American Museum in Philadelphia.

Jamel has mentored various youth organizations both here and abroad. His life mission is to encourage young people to use the camera as a tool of communication, to learn about other cultures, and to record their experiences.

Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 6pm
READING: FICTION EVENING
Hosted by Peter Markus, readers include Michael Kimball, Randa Jarrar, and Lynn Crawford.

Join MOCAD for an evening of readings by fiction writers from all over Michigan.

Peter Markus is the author of the novel, Bob, or Man on Boat, as well as three short books of short-short fiction, the most recent of which is The Singing Fish. He is also the co-editor of MOCAD's journal Detroit: Stories.

Born and raised in Lansing, Michigan, Michael Kimball is the author of three award-winning novels. His third novel, Dear Everybody, has just been published in the US, UK, and Canada. His first two novels are The Way the Family Got Away (2000) and How Much of Us There Was (2005), both of which have been translated (or are being translated) into many languages. He is also responsible for the art project — Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) — and the documentary film, I Will Smash You.

Lynn Crawford is an art critic and fiction writer. Her books include Simply Separate People, Fortification Resort, and the forthcoming Simply Separate People, Two. She edits MOCAD's cultural arts journal, Detroit: Stories.

Randa Jarrar is am MFA graduate from the University of Michigan, where A Map of Home won a Hopwood Award and the Geoffrey James Gosling Prize. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares and numerous other journals and anthologies. She is a translator of Arabic fiction, and a columnist for Make/Shift Magazine. She currently lives in Ann Arbor.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 7pm
BALTIMORE ROUND ROBIN TOUR: EYES NIGHT
Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 7pm
BALTIMORE ROUND ROBIN TOUR: FEET NIGHT
Admission $8 for one night; $15 for both

MOCAD and The Crofoot team up to present The Baltimore Round Robin Tour:
Dan Deacon has gathered artists from Wham City, Tarantula Hill, and other crews in the Baltimore music scene for the Baltimore Round Robin Tour. A two evening event in which bands set up and perform on the periphery of the performance space and trade off songs around the room several times while audience stands in the center of the room.

The two nights are split thematically. The first, Eyes Night, will feature folk, noise, and improvisational music, music to be experienced. The second, Feet Night, will consist of music to be moved to, be it in a
dancing or thrashing manner. Finally, the inexplicable "Weird Round" will feature additional artists, misfits, comedy acts, Dj's and other improvised randomness peppered in throughout the nights.

Wednesday, October 8
EYES NIGHT, featuring:
Beach House
Jana Hunter
Wzt Hearts
Nautical Almanac
Lexie Mountain Boys
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez
Ed Schrader
Teeth Mountain
Santa Dads
+
Creepers

Thursday, October 9
FEET NIGHT, featuring:
Dan Deacon
The Death Set
Videohippos
Adventure
Future Islands
Double Dagger
Blood Baby
Height
Lizz King
Nuclear Power Pants
Smart Growth
+
DJ Dog Dick

and the
WEIRD ROUND, featuring:
Mark Brown
Showbeast
Sports Ghosts
Boo Boos
Cornelious and Pitifa
Ram Ones
Funny Clown

Advance tickets available through the Crofoot

Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 2 pm
SYMPOSIUM: AVANT–GARDE ART: THE LEGACY OF A TEAM

The term “avant–garde arts” is a popular expression loosely used but seldom explored. This symposium will seek to clarify the origins of the term, its evolution and current usage. The program will be moderated by Robert del Valle, arts and theatre critic for Real Detroit Weekly.

The panelists will investigate the paths of the artistic trends that emerged from Europe beginning in the 1830s that eventually came to be called avant-garde, bohemian and modernist. They will also attempt to define the wide-ranging usage of the term avant-garde as it relates to the visual arts, design, music, literature and fashion. An underlying theme of the discussion will be how artistic vanguards have plotted new aesthetic movements in visual and performing arts, and how these movements have led to the development of important and influential counter-cultures, from the early romantics and bohemians to the beatniks, hippies and punks.

Offering their insights are Roy Kotynek, Professor Emeritus of History at Oakland University and John Cohassey, of Pontiac, authors of the new book American Cultural Rebels (McFarland & Co. 2008) and James Hart, adjunct professor of art at the College for Creative Studies.

Following the program will be a reception and book signing in the MOCAD Café.

The symposium is sponsored by the Book Club of Detroit, College for Creative Studies, The Scarab Club and MOCAD.

Friday, September 26, 2008 at 8pm
FILM AND MUSIC: CARTUNE XPREZ
WITH LIVE PERFORMANCES BY CARJACK! AND HOOLIGANSHIP
admission $7
all ages

Cartune Xprez is a annual touring multi-media film and music event organized by Portland, Oregon electronic music and art duo, Hooliganship. The tour features a 70 minute festival of collected short videos by cutting edge artists from around the world. Artists screening works in this year's Cartune Xprez tour will be; Paper Rad, Bruce Bickford, Adrian Freeman, Shana Moulton, Takeshi Murata, and more.

performing live before and after the screenings will be: Carjack! a Detroit based one-man band antagonistically playing with the 80's, by using synthesizers, guitars and electronics to deconstruct popular music into a street-worn blend of grimy, throbbing electro and high energy Detroit rock ‘n roll.

Next will be: Hooliganship are a bizarre spectacle of a band who create a live soundtrack, on synthesizers and bass guitar, for the 3D cartoons that they themselves screen, create and appear in as central characters.

Visit Carjack! on Myspace.

Visit Hooliganship at their website.

Sunday, September 21, 2008 from 1-3pm
CHILDREN & FAMILY DAY WORKSHOPS: YOUTH WORKSHOP DROP-IN
Free admission, materials provided, all ages welcome

Everyone is invited as MOCAD presents some exotic world music instrument demos and live music for the whole family.

Instrument demos from:
Marko Novachcoff, a multi-instrumentailst who has worked with countless Detroit-area ensembles, including Odu Afrobeat Orchestra, Immigrant Suns
Orchestra, THTX, and Only a Mother, as well as working as a sideman to avant garde luminaries such as Eugene Chadbourne, Can's Damo Suzuki, Frank
Pahl, and Detroit's own, Faruq Z. Bey. On top of being a busy performer Marko is a musicologist and renowned collector of exotic instruments from
around the world.

Aside from receiving instrument demos from Marko Novachcoff, participants will partake in an instrument making workshop lead by him as well.

Don't miss the live performance at 2:30pm by
The Don't Look Now Jug Band, ubiquitous folkies exploring rootsy Americana from the depths of the Cass Corridor. Featuring considering Detroit participating artist Maurice Greenia Jr. and a myriad of other Detroit artists, writers, eccentrics and oddballs. Over the course of it's 20 year existence the Jug Band have become a staple at area street carnivals, art shows, and outdoor events. Unquestionably long enough to be considered a genuine Detroit institution.

Visit the Don't Look Now Jug Band's Myspace page.

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.

Winner of several prestigious awards, including the TCG Peter Zeisler Memorial Award, a Lucille Lortell Award, a 2005 Joyce Award, and a 2005 NYFA Fellowship, Power has also been featured in a variety of television roles. He has appeared on The Colbert Report (Comedy Central), Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason (PBS), Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC) and Russell Simmon's Def Poetry Jam (HBO). He has also composed lyrics and music that have been used on MTV, UPN's Moesha, and Kingpin on NBC.

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 provided by:

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. Heartbreak and denial hearken back to a time when sinister could be beautiful and creepiness was enticing. The resultant songs, lonely ballads of lost summers, wayfaring strangers, and long swept away leaves, come together to create a product distinctly and proudly Old World Detroit.

Busily spreading their homespun philosophy throughout the world, Blanche have been very active in recent years. They were chosen to perform with Charlie Louvin (of the legendary Louvin Brothers) in London for the BBC's Electric Proms festival, as well as appearing on Louvin's self-titled, Grammy nominated 2007 album. Members of Blanche have even backed Loretta Lynn on her Van Lear Rose album and appeared in the Johnny Cash bio-pic Walk The Line.

and:

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.

Visit Blanche at www.blanchemusic.com
or at their Myspace page.

Visit Gardens their Myspace page.

Saturday, September 6th from 12pm-12am
NEW MUSIC DETROIT AND MOCAD PRESENT: STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL MUSIC II
Admission $12 until 8pm; $8 after 8pm

A 12 hour festival of creative avant garde sounds.

Schedule of performances*:

Gina DiBello, violin
Shannon Orme, bass clarinet
Robert Conway, piano
Robert Tye, guitar
Daniel Bauch, marimba
Alexander Hanna, double bass

Frank Pahl & special guests

Gina DiBello, violin
Adrienne Rönmark, violin
Jill Collier, cello
Robert Conway, piano
Ian Ding, marimba
Joel Peterson, double bass
Frank Pahl, ukelele

Jessica Sherwood, flute

Adrienne Rönmark, violin
Gina DiBello, violin

Shannon Orme, clarinet

Karl Pituch, forn

Jessica Sherwood, flute

Virgil Moorefield & Ian Ding, drum set

Debra Fayroian, cello
Daniel Bauch, percussion

Jessica Sherwood, flute

1) Iggy Pop / Phil Kline: Search and Destroy
2) Wild Cherry / Danny Felsenfeld: Play That Funky Music
3) Carl Vine: Rash
4) Jacob Ter Veldhuis: The Body Of Your Dreams

Andrew Russo, solo piano

Ian Ding, zarb

Gina DiBello, violin
Adrienne Rönmark, violin
Theresa Rudolph, viola
Una O'Riordan, cello

Adrienne Rönmark, violin
Daniel Bauch, vibraphone
Brian Jones, marimba
Ian Ding, keyboard
Gina DiBello, bass keyboard
Alexander Hanna, double bass

Adrienne Rönmark, violin
Robert Tye, electric guitar

Adrienne Rönmark, violin
Debra Fayroian, cello
Jeffery Zook, flute/piccolo
Shannon Orme, clarinet
Robert Conway, piano
Ian Ding, percussion

Gina DiBello, violin
Theresa Rudolph, viola
Debra Fayroian, cello
Brandy Hudelson, flute
Shannon Orme, clarinet
Zach Shemon, soprano saxophone
D.J. Sparr, guitar
Robert Tye, guitar
Daniel Bauch, percussion
Ian Ding, percussion

members of New Music Detroit

1) Bill Frisell: Spell
2) Bill Frisell: Let Me In
3) Robert Tye: Naked Except For Clown Shoes

Robert Tye, guitars
Mark Kieme, saxophones
Dale Grisa, keyboards
Alex Trajano, drum set

I) Exposed Zipper
II) Trans Fatty Acid’s Rein
III) Mara’s Lullaby
IV) Picke Trousers
V) Evil Yellow Penguin
VI) Mechanically Separated Chicken Parts

Una O'Riordan, cello
Andrew Russo, piano
Ian Ding, marimba

Daniel Bauch, marimba
Ian Ding, marimba

1) Opening
2) Broken Glass
3) Lefty’s Elegy
4) Zrenden Rodejan Marija!
5) Troica
6) Machine V

Gina DiBello, amplified violin
Una O'Riordan, amplified cello
Daniel Bauch, amplified marimba
Robert Tye, electric guitar
Marc Mellits, keyboard

Andrew Russo, solo piano

Una O'Riordan, cello
Sharon Sparrow, flute
Jeffery Zook, flute

Gina DiBello, violin
Adrienne Rönmark, violin
Theresa Rudolph, viola
Una O'Riordan, cello

Shannon Orme, bass clarinet
Zach Shemon, baritone saxophone
Andrew Russo, piano
Ian Ding, percussion
Brian Jones, percussion

Daniel Bauch, percussion
Ian Ding, percussion
Brian Jones, percussion
Nicholas Papador, percussion
Daniel Karas, percussion
Jonathan Smith, percussion
Christopher Thompson, percussion
Dane Crozier, percussion
Aziz Barnard-Luce, percussion
Jessica Sherwood, piccolo
Jessica Petrus, voice
Katherine Wakefield, voice

Everyone!

Sunday, July 20 from 1-3pm
CHILDREN & FAMILY DAY WORKSHOPS: YOUTH WORKSHOP DROP-IN
Free admission, materials provided, all ages welcome

Fabric Scraps Construction Workshop
Teacher: Sarah Lapinski, Wounds Menswear
Fashion designer and TIME STEREO collaborator Sarah Lapinski leads a workshop for all ages, constructing sculptures and other artworks from fabric scraps – exploring colors and textures.