Dearborn Peace Park West

Just before Thanksgiving, Dearborn kicks off the holidays at PEACE Park West by transforming the park into a dazzling experience with thousands of lights, live performances, festive treats, Santa’s first appearance of the season, and the ceremonial lighting of Dearborn’s 32 ft. Christmas tree.
The event also signifies the start of Wanderlights’ two-month run, with immersive, interactive light exhibits and fun for the whole family.

Local Event: Dearborn Wanderlights Holiday Kickoff

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Dearborn Wanderlights Holiday Kickoff

Just before Thanksgiving, Dearborn kicks off the holidays at PEACE Park West by transforming the park into a dazzling...

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Dearborn First United Methodist Church

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 &amp; 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. 1ADDITIONAL 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

Local Event: A Night of Art and Protest

A Night of Art and Protest

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Dearborn Wanderlights Holiday Kickoff

NOV

19

6:00 PM

Dearborn Peace Park West, 22271 W Village Dr, Dearborn, MI

A Night of Art and Protest