CultureShift: ‘Hood Work’ panel discussion frames art as a tool for change

Allied Media Projects’ newest speaker series kicked off last month, featuring an event happening at MOCAD later this week. The AMP Seeds Series amplifies the voices of grassroots organizers and the issues that are impacting them here in the city of Detroit.

The series’ next talk is titled, “Hood Work: Neighborhood as Resistance,” and will focus on how the neighborhoods of Detroit are driving the city’s cultural renaissance, even as they deal with disinvestment, trauma and violence. A panel of artists and activists will discuss how we can center and uplift neighborhood-rooted artists in Detroit, and redistribute the resources needed for these communities to thrive.

One of the panelists is Bryce Detroit, a multi-modal Afro-futurist artist, activist, griot, designer and pioneer of Entertainment Justice. The director of the AMP Seeds Program is Nandi Comer, Michigan’s Poet Laureate, a teacher and a writer. The two joined CultureShift to discuss the Seeds Series and the role of art in strengthening community and combating gentrification.

“In the now, we have very real issues that are impacting many of us, and we have a lot of real, righteous work to do in this in this lifetime of ours.” — Bryce Detroit, artist and activist

Listen: ‘Hood Work’ panel discussion frames art as a tool for change