100TH Year Celebration Calendar Grace Lee Boggs

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GRACE LEE BOGGS

100TH Year Celebration Calendar

Monday, June 15, 2015

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Movie: Burning Times

Bioneers, NOW Detroit

MSU Center-Detroit

3408 Woodward Ave

Detroit 48201

 

Sunday, June 21, 2015

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Conference Closing: Allied Media Conference

Wayne State University: McGregor Conference Center

494 Ferry Mall

Detroit, MI

 

Monday, June 22, 2015

11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Discussion: Creating Community with Imagination

Birwood House

12602 Birwood

Detroit, MI 48238

 

12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Detroit Asian Youth Tour: Honoring Vincent Chin

Tour:

Meet at Chinatown

Peterborough and Cass

Detroit MI 48201

 

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

After tour treats at Avalon International Breads

422 West Willis

Detroit MI 48201

 

10:00 pm

Fireworks Freedom Festival

Detroit River Front

 

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

9:30 am – 11:00 am

Discussion: Revolutionary Imagination

Boggs Center

3061 Field Street

Detroit MI 48214

 

12:00pm – 2:00pm

Spiritual Gathering:

Spiritual Gathering in Celebration of Grace Lee Boggs’ 100th Birthday

Ford Wellness Center

5555 Connor Ave    (Samaritan Center)

Detroit MI 48213

 

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Theater: Power of Grace Workshop

Matrix Theater & Reggie Flowers

2730 Bagley Ave

Detroit, MI 48216

 

7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

(after People’s Water Board meeting)

Conversation, performance, ritual

Roots and Spirit: Hip hop and spirituality

Cass Commons

4605 Cass Ave

Detroit MI 48201

 

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Community Engagement: Feedom Freedom

866 Manistique

Detroit, MI 48215

 

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Community Engagement: Celebrating Grace’s Legacy

The James and Grace Lee Boggs School

4141 Mitchell

Detroit, MI 48207

 

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Tour: East Side Assets

Riverfront East Congregational Initiative

Leave from Boggs School

4141 Mitchell

Detroit, MI 48207

 

Thursday, June 25, 2015

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Discussion: From Rebellion to Revolution

Boggs Center

3061 Field St.

Detroit, MI 48214

 

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Protest: Faygo Pop Company

3579 Gratiot Ave.

Detroit, MI 48207

 Friday, June 26, 2015

12:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Tour: From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls

Boggs Center

3061 Field St.

Detroit, MI 48214

*** This is a tour by car. Drivers needed

Rich  Feldman 248-225-8037 richardfeldman60@gmail.com For information regarding Detroit Tours:  From Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls, send email to Rich or contact boggscenter@boggscenter.org

3:30—4:30 pm

Avalon Treats

Chocolate chips for Grace

422 West Willis

Detroit, MI 48201

  6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Birthday Celebration: Grace Lee Boggs 100 Years Old

With Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute Film: Loving vs. Virginia 7pm

Charles Wright Museum of African American History

315 E. Warren Ave.

Detroit, MI

 Saturday, June 27, 2015

10:00 am – 3:00 pm

March & Festival: Silence The Violence March & The People’s Festival

The Church of the Messiah

231 E. Grand Blvd.

Detroit, MI 48214

Announcements & Requests

In honor of Grace, we encourage people to do 100 minutes plus1 for the future of community building activities.

 

Visit www.graceleeboggs100.org for more information.


  1. Reblogged this on grootslegaljustice and commented:
    I’ll be joining in on these events, along with other activists of the Detroit 2012, 2013 and 2014 gatherings, inspired by the presence and participation of the veteran organizer Grace Lee Boggs.




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