A Night of Art & Protest
Thursday, October 15 @ 6:30 p.m.
Dearborn First UMC, 22124 Garrison St.
Come experience an evening of justice-seeking through a variety of art forms: visual art, music, storytelling, and poetry. These events will focus on the need to organize, find your voice, your method of expression, and your place in the long marathon to building a community of peace and justice.
Learn about ICE and the immigration detention process
We'll hear from the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC) and volunteers from the Immigrant Action Coalition (IAC), working directly with detainees and families at the Baldwin detention center.
They'll help us better understand the immigration process, detention, deportation and due process, while sharing ways our community can listen, connect and get involved.
The evening will feature music, art, and poetry.
Using creative expression to seek social change makes our time together not only informative, but meaningful and surrounded by beauty.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
VISUAL ART:
Artist Darcel Deneau will share a portrait of her grandmother and a short story about her grandmother's life in Mexico, welcoming and protecting immigrants. Learn more about Darcel here: https://www.darceldeneau.com
Artist "She" shares art, reverse painted on salvaged windows. Learn more about She here: https://www.artbysheri.com
MUSIC:
Singer Irisbeth Flores and Guitarist Gabriel De Alba will share two Mexican folk songs and will talk about their meaning.
Coach Ismael "Ish" Ledesma, community mentor and high school coach, having spent decades working with families and youth of SW Detroit, shares a song of storytelling.
POETRY:
Poet Sarah Tombelli will read Maya Angelou's "Family"
Learn more about these organizations and ways to get involved
Following the program, peruse the Community Resource table with information and toolkits from community organizations such as:
Michigan Immigrant Rights Center
Immigration Action Coalition
Immigration Law and Justice Michigan
Detroit People’s Assembly
L.I.B.R.E.S.
Do you have art to share?
There is still room for more artists to participate on November 12 and January 21! 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 or Jeff Karoub
OR BRING YOUR OWN PROTEST SIGN - THAT’S ART TOO!
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