Event Details
Come experience a free community event advocating for peace and justice in our communities through visual art, music, and spoken word.Be part of an evening that celebrates creativity, community, and the courage not only to tell our stories, but to act on them.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
JULIANNA SANROMAN ROJAS
Julianna Sanromán Rojas is a Mexican-American interdisciplinary artist and MFA candidate at the University of Michigan's Stamps School of Art & Design, born and raised in Southwest Detroit. Working across painting, installation, performance, and participatory altar-making, her practice explores memory, migration, familial separation, and the ways we continue loving across distance.
MARISSA RUBAIAI
Marissa Rubaiai is a Detroit-based Mexican-American, Assyrian interdisciplinary artist who identifies with the LBGTQ+ community. Marissa works primarily with oil painting and drawing mediums, but also ventures out into other formats, as well. Her work explores themes rooted in memory, personal experience, and healing. She uses her creativity to better the world, raising funds to help Gaza and Lebanon.She shares her love of art with young students as an instructor at Motor City Street Dance Academy, and at a middle school in Southwest Detroit.
PETE CALDWELL and TAMMY CROXALL
Singers/Musicians/SongwritersLocal artists Pete Caldwell and Tammy Croxall will share a song, as well as original spoken word set to music. Pete and Tammy are veteran performers, sharing their messages of hope, community, and peace at venues around the Metro Detroit area.
DO YOU HAVE ART TO SHARE?
There is still room on the docket for more artists to take part! we invite artists, musicians, writers, dancers, and creators of all types (even culinary!) to contribute their work on themes of immigration, protest, or other social justice issues for this, or for future events. Activist and socially conscious art of all forms is encouraged—visual, musical, poetic, multimedia, or even dance and movement.For more information or to inquire about contributing art or performance pieces, please contact Pastor Suzy: Pastor@DearbornFirstUMC.org, 313-563-5200, ext. 1
ADDITIONAL EVENT INFORMATION:
• Enter via the doors off the parking lot, at the rear of the building.
• Free and Accessible Parking: in the lot behind the church
(driveways on Morley and Garrison Streets), at the curb or in the
city lot on Garrison Street.• Barrier-Free access (wheelchair parking and lift)
• Barrier-Free and gender-neutral restrooms See less