Organized by a collective of local NextGen creatives, the festival is a representation of everything that makes Southwest Detroit unique.
In this time of great change and collective grief, we need community spaces to heal. We gather to offer free, accessible healing spaces for grassroots Detroit groups, and to deepen our relationships with communities.
6-week Summer Reading Program Targeting Pre-K -4th Grade Students Using Kumon Curriculum and Technology to Help Prevent Summer Learning Loss and Promote Reading Growth.
Kids Voices Matter program provides prevention education to give kids the necessary tools to keep them safe on and off line!
Providing a platform for those harmed by the nonprofit industrial complex
Juneteenth est. 1865 when the last African peoples freedom was reinstated in America. Juneteenth Detroit Festival honors our yesterday by celebrating who we are today and getting excited about who we'll be tomorrow.
This Celebration is focused on the Latinx millennial & Gen Z community consisting of over 40 participating artists, community organizations, & performers to celebrate this cultural holiday.
La Casa Guadalupana promotes family literacy, adult education, work force prep and tutoring in southwest Detroit and positively impacts the lives of immigrant adults and children.
BBSV makes history visible through sharing community histories and amplifying the legacy and continuing impact of Black Bottom.
Please join us in bringing Motor City Mobile Wellness directly to people, family and communities in Detroit, who deserve compassionate healing support and safer responses.
Halloween has been around a very long time I came up with a Halloween Hunt where children can be safe while having fun Trick a Treating in a different way!
Support accessible, equitable music education that is culturally relavant to Detroit!
Children are our future, voting is very essential for our children's future. Our children have suffered so much due to a Pandemic and the media negativity, bullying, violence, etc. Let's keep them focused!
The inagural SWFest 2021 is a FREE large scale music and art festival taking place at the historic Senate Theater in Southwest Detroit.
The Detroit Suzuki Academy of Music is raising money to support new instruments and violin classes in Detroit.
La Casa Guadalupana promotes family literacy, adult education, work force prep and tutoring in southwest Detroit and positively impacts the lives of immigrant adults and children.
Honoring unsung women changing Detroit neighborhoods
Help the Congress of Communities Youth Council members build a Community Center in southwest Detroit! ¡Ayuda a los jóvenes de Congreso de Comunidades construir un centro de comunidades en southwest Detroit!
This project is to bring comfort and healing to front line workers, educators and people in our community during the covid-19 pandemic by offering a unique coloring book of original, imaginative and inspiring designs.
We are supporting Detroiters experiencing homelessness who are directly affected by COVID-19.
The Belle Isle Aquarium is a beloved cultural asset left vulnerable to an uncertain future during this challenging time. We need your to help to #TipTheScales!
Providing education, workforce development, entrepreneurship, and human service opportunities to Detroiters in the safest way possible.
To support Detroit Artist and the creative community by raising funds for direct emergency relief through virtual prompts for arts-based practices and joy-affirming activities.
This Earth Day support Green Living Science and our mission to create the next generation of environmental leaders!
Supporting the Detroit creative community raise much needed funds through weekly performances and crowd funding opportunities.
Together, across the neighborhoods, we grieve those needlessly lost in the pandemic. Community billboards honor the dead and remind us to continue social distancing.
Grassroots public art improves neighborhood livability
We Are Culture Creators, more than music!
A participatory theatre experience that aims to amplify the stories of young Detroiters who have experienced homelessness or housing insecurity and have resorted to couch-surfing as a means to survive.
Detroiters Helping each other through a fundraising campaign that will repair cement porch for our neighbor, a long time Southwest Detroit homeowner and grandmother.
A series of pop-up performances, in the style of Mexican Carpas, around Detroit that share the diversity of Latino culture and encourage cultural exchange.
Professional neighbors reclaim space for an affordable artist residency and 3D printing lab
LYFFE is a health and financial education program at Warrendale Charter Academy in Detroit that builds students’ knowledge and skills about physical, emotional, and social health.
Writing plays to show life experiences to reach the community about so many things that people go through in life: homelesssness, depression, sucide, bad relationships, etc.
Communities Can Create, a program helping older individuals and young people create art as a hobby or as a career path.
We will create several interactive murals with homeless and high-risk girls and young women engaging them in the art making process and inspiring joy and positivity in their lives through art.
A Meeting Space and Rehearsal Studio for local artists and community groups
A free, neighborhood arts festival on the Detroit River with contemporary art installations and interactive events honoring the site’s history and facilitating community engagement for residents of all ages!
Harnessing the creative power of gardening, writing, and personal growth
La Casa Guadalupana promotes family literacy, adult education, work force prep and tutoring in southwest Detroit and positively impacts the lives of immigrant adults and children.
Cleopatra Boy uses the historical figure of Cleopatra to illustrate how women, POC, and LGBTQIA+ individuals in positions of power risk losing control of their own images and histories resulting in false narratives.
We bring STEM educational opportunities to kids in the North End of Detroit with two new 1st Robotocs League© neighborhood teams. The Lego Jr. Team is for ages 6 - 10 and the Lego Team is for ages 9 - 14.
Providing food that everyone can enjoy with our gluten/dairy/egg/and soy free menu
Creations is a family owned business, that was birthed out of an economic hardship.We create scrumptious flavors that will leave your tastebuds wanting more! Quality is our goal!
Biz Kidz - economically developing our communities by helping our future entrepreneurs focus on job growth and creation.
Creative expression, community awareness, and positive self-esteem
Help us fuel the next generation of powerful youth voices!
Providing the neighborhood with the tools they need to get good done!
We will be focusing on underprivileged kids in facilities, kids whose parents are incarcerated or have passed away.
