For three days this April, Ypsilanti’s Riverside Arts Center will be host to a new film festival. The festival, called IFFY (Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti), is the brainchild of local filmmakers Donald Harrison and Martin Thoburn, who, as you may recall, pulled a few strings this last summer and brought the traveling version of the […]
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IFFY: The Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti
Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti Also tagged 24 Hour Shootout, 48-hour film project, afro-futurism, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Chris Sandon, Cinemasports, Clermont Lounge, Deja Vu, Donald Harrison, film festival, Hafsah Mijinyawa, Hump, IFFY, independent film, Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti, international film, Juliet Hinely, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Riverside Arts Center, Shadow Art Fair, Welcome to Commie High 8 Comments
Being reminded of David Blair at POP-X
When my friend David Blair, the much loved Detroit poet, passed away unexpectedly about five years ago, I said here on the site that I thought it was likely, given the kind of man that David was, and the poetry that he’d produced during his lifetime, that we’d continue to be reminded of him through […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Detroit, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Andrew Thompson, cartography, David Blair, Donald Harrison, FLY Children's Art Center, Linette Lao, Lisa Waud, maps, Marie Tharp, Omari Rush, Philip Levine, poetry, POP-X 5 Comments
Toilet reading, Junglefowl, and restorative justice… on episode 27 of the Saturday Six Pack
During episode 24 of the Saturday Six Pack, there were quite a few good exchanges between Dr. Benjamin Edmondson, the new superintendent of Ypsilanti Community Schools, and the students who had gathered in the AM 1700 studio to ask him questions about his plans for the future of our district. Of those exchanges, my favorites […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Education, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 24 Hour Shootout, accountability, AM 1700, banishment, Belinda Dulin, Benjamin Edmondson, bread, dialogue, Dispute Resolution Center, inclusion, indie film, Jason Voss, Junglefowl, justice, Mark Ducker, Melissa Coppola, Michelle Rose-Armstrong, payola, Peri Stone-Palmquist, Pete Larson, punishment, puppet Mark, restorative justice, restorative practices, Stefan Carr, Student Advocacy Center, suspension, threats, Ypsilanti Community Schools 32 Comments