Marygrove Conservancy Arts & Culture

Support the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series on Giving Tuesday!
The Marygrove Conservancy is pleased to announce that the thirty-fourth guest in the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS) is novelist and essayist Robert Jones, Jr. He will deliver the Bauder Lecture at Marygrove at 8 pm on April 28, 2023.
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Mark your calendars THIS FRIDAY April 8 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT for the 33rd Annual Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS).

Join PBS Books, Marygrove Conservancy, and The Tuxedo Project Detroit to hear a LIVE conversation from this year's guest author, New York Times Best selling Novelist Brit Bennett!

See you Friday:

2022 CAALS Bauder Lecture Online Livestream with Brit Bennett Join us virtually for the live stream of the 2022 Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series lecture featuring author Brit Bennett!

After four long years, In Detroit returns to the stage with their production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, a co-production with the African-American Shakespeare Company in San Francisco.

More info can be found here: https://visitdetroit.com/shakespeare-in-detroit-emerges-at-marygrove/

Marygrove's own Shakespeare In Detroit is hosting auditions for its filmed, summer production of A Midsummer Night's Dream for youth between the ages of 14 and 18 years old!
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Youth Auditions | shakespeareindetroit Shakespeare in Detroit (SiD) is hosting auditions for its filmed, summer production of A Midsummer Night's Dream FOR YOUTH between the ages of 14 and 18 years old. This is a part of the nonprofit's educational program, Shakespeare STEAM. Learn more about the program HERE and read below in its entir...

In addition to the upcoming CAALS lecture with Brit Bennet, The Tuxedo Project will also host two series of virtual discussions surrounding Bennett's novels 'The Mothers' and 'The Vanishing Half'. You can find more info and register to participate in the book chats here;

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Starting Tonight!
DPTV presents: "Detroit Performs - Live From Marygrove"; a weekly variety series highlighting local artists, hosted by Satori Shakoor.
Read more about this amazing series below, and be sure to tune in!

Detroit talent to shine on new DPTV series debuting Wednesday Local talent will be front and center when Detroit Public Television debuts "Detroit Performs – Live from Marygrove."

Register now! Don’t wait! In just a few short hours we will be LIVE!

Conservancy’s Department of Arts & Culture presents The New York Times best-selling
author and contributing opinion writer, Roxane Gay as the 32nd guest author of the Contemporary American Author Lecture Series (CAALS).

We are thrilled to welcome her to our Marygrove Conservancy Arts & Culture campus (via Facebook Live) with Detroit Today’s own Stephen Henderson as moderator. Don’t miss it!

The event will be broadcast by Detroit Public Television, so be sure to tune in! To register, visit link in our bio!

Register now! Don’t wait!

Conservancy’s Department of Arts & Culture presents The New York Times best-selling author and contributing opinion writer, Roxane Gay as the 32nd guest author in the Contemporary American Author Lecture Series (CAALS). Stephen Henderson, host of WTVS’s American Black Journal and WDET 101.9FM’s Detroit Today will be our host. Roxane Gay has written several books and is at work on television and film projects. She also publishes a newsletter, The Audacity. Please join us in welcoming Roxane Gay to our Marygrove Conservancy Arts & Culture campus!

The event will be broadcast by Detroit Public Television so be sure to tune in!

To register, visit link in our bio!

Can you believe it’s only seven days until Roxane Gay's Reading?! That’s right! Make sure you’ve saved the date and join us for an amazing evening on April 23rd.

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It’ll be here before you know it and you really don’t want to miss it! Feminist cultural critic, Dr. Roxane Gay will deliver the Bauder Lecture via Facebook at 7:00 pm on Friday, April 23, 2021. We can’t wait to present her as our 32nd guest in the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series.

Her fiction and non-fiction ignite conversations, her poignant work has made her one of today’s most acclaimed writers as her work is thought-provoking, bold, and piercing on current issues involving feminism, race, gender, popular culture.

Don't forget to register at www.bit.ly/caals.

Save the Date! You Don’t Want to Miss This!

We are proud to present feminist cultural critic Roxane Gay as our 32nd guest in the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. Dr. Gay will deliver the Bauder Lecture via Facebook at 7:00 pm on Friday, April 23, 2021.

Born in Omaha, studied at Yale University, Vermont College of Norwich University, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before completing a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication at Michigan Technological University. She has held faculty positions at Eastern Illinois University, Purdue University, and Yale University.

Her stories and essays have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney's, Tin House, The Oxford American magazine, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Nation Magazine, and in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, and Best S*x Writing 2012. Dr. Gay’s fiction and nonfiction reflect “passionate opinions” and offer “willful provocations” about race, gender, and the human body. She is the author of two books of short stories, Ayiti (2011) and Difficult Women (2017); a novel, An Untamed State (2014); The New York Times best-selling essay collection, Bad Feminist (2014); and the provocative memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017).

Moreover, in a collaboration with poet Yona Harvey, Dr. Gay produced the Marvel comic book, Black Panther: World of Wakanda (2016). Dr. Gay is also the editor of Not That Bad: Dispatches from R**e Culture (2018) and The Best American Short Stories, 2018 (2018). Currently, she is also a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.

Make sure to Save the Date for this very special event!
It will be broadcasted by Detroit Public Television and is free and open to the public.
Register online: https://detroitartsculture.wixsite.com/caals/home-2

We are proud to present feminist cultural critic Roxane Gay, our 32nd guest in the Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. Dr. Gay is the The New York Times best-selling author and is currently its contributing opinion writer too! Nonetheless, lovers or admirers of her poignant work can start saving the date to enjoy her appearance on the Marygrove Conservancy campus! She is one of today’s most acclaimed writers, her work is thought-provoking, bold, and piercing on current issues involving feminism, race, gender, popular culture.

Accompany us as she delivers the Bauder Lecture via Facebook on Friday, April 23, 2021 at 7:00pm.
This event will be broadcasted by Detroit Public Television, and is free and open to the public.
Save the date and register online at: http://www.bit.ly/caals

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