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Premiere Issue of 'The Southwest Detroiter' Debuts at Mama Coo's Boutique
Premiere Issue of 'The Southwest Detroiter' Debuts at Mama Coo's Boutique

We made a zine together. In community. And we sold (out) a zine together. In community.

Alana Rodriguez offered her store, Mama Coo’s Boutique on Trumbull and Bagley, to host a release party for the limited edition run of ‘The Southwest Detroiter’.

The Southwest Detroiter is a curated, multimedia community storytelling project. It centers hyperlocal wisdom, experience, and creativity of Southwest Detroit. 

The premiere issue features Zoë Villegas’s ‘Standing In The Shadows of Love’ with photographs by Erik Paul Howard.

With the support of friends, fans, fellow artists, and local businesses all 25 copies were gone in less than two hours. Projects like this give everyone an opportunity to chip in where they fit in.

Everyone that purchased a copy contributed to the youth and community programming that makes it possible, the materials to make the zine, and supported their local artists and businesses.

 
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SNAPSHOT: Detroit Synergy Bike Tour

Detroit Synergy, a volunteer based organization in Detroit, hosted Motor City Muralism 2 on Saturday, May 13th.  The event is a bicycle tour that has two primary purposes "to introduce people to artwork around the city and, in doing so, to also introduce them to neighborhoods and businesses around the city" said Joanna Porvin, the coordinator of this year's ride with 100+ riders.  The tour began at the Detroit Institute of Arts and included views of Yamasaki's mural of Grace Lee Boggs, street art at Recycle Here and the Lincoln Street Art Park, murals in Corktown, Juan Carlos Hearn's mural on Gigante Mercado on Michigan Avenue at Wesson, Dasic Fernandez' murals on Hacienda Foods on Vernor at Cavalry, and The Alley Project (TAP) near Avis and Woodmere.

At TAP they were greeted by youth leaders, Gabriela Santiago-Romero and Nyasia Valdez.  The two gave them a brief introduction and tour of The Alley Project and its walking gallery along the 750 foot alley between Woodmere and Elsmere before the riders headed back down Vernor toward Cafe con Leche where they were able to enjoy the sites and sounds of Southwest Detroit before ending for the day.

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