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555 Nonprofit Gallery and Studios is a volunteer artist run organization providing affordable studios and workspace, gallery space, exhibition programs, arts education programs, and an Artist in Residency.

Media and creativity to transform ourselves and our world

The 11th annual Allied Media Conference will advance our visions for a just and creative world. It will be a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. For the past 10 years, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers and social justice organizers. The 2009 AMC will draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment. We are ready to create, connect and transform.

11th annual Allied Media Conference July 16-19th 2009

Allied Media Projects (AMP) supports the growth of media-based organizing models and disseminates them through the Allied Media Conference, an annual gathering of social justice organizers and alternative media makers in Detroit.

Website:http://www.alliedmediaconference.org

Detroit Summer Info line & Voicemail: 313.333.6779

Email Detroit Summer: detroitsummer.org

Write to us at: PO Box 32108, Detroit, MI 48232

The Yes Farm is a group committed to living and creating in Detroit. They believe the arts play an important role in the community and seek to bring art into the lives of the people in the community.

The goal is to establish a permanent location for artists to live and work. They also hold a deep commitment to ecology, would like to grow food, and create artistic open spaces in the neighborhood. It is their hope to contribute something positive to the community through art.

The Yes Farm is located at 5199 Moran on the corner of Farnsworth and Moran in Detroit and can be contacted at theyesfarm@gmail.com

http://www.theyesfarm.blogspot.com/

First shut down the streets in 2004 to bring jazz, blues, food, arts and crafts, and other activities to Detroit’s lower Eastside. Since that time it has grown to a two-day long event that draws over 18,000 people. This event brings the community together to celebrate the rich history of the neighborhood and highlight the work that is being done to create its future. Jazzin’ on Jefferson features a number of local and national artists. Past headliners include Marcus Belgrave, Eddie Bo & the Motor City All-Stars featuring Johnnie Basset, Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Lonnie Brooks Blues Band.

http://www.jazzinonjefferson.com

May 8 - 10, 2008, most Metro-Detroit galleries had unique events including openings, workshops, open houses, demonstrations and meet & greets.