New collaborations with community groups and an expansion into Ypsilanti's Riverside Park are just a few new elements of the ypsiGLOW celebration, which will take place on Oct. 29.
We talked with three Ypsilanti-based horror authors about what draws them to the horror genre and why they love living in Ypsilanti.
It's widely known that COVID-19 has caused a huge surge in park usage and outdoor activity, but what does that renewed interest in the outdoors mean for the future of Southeast Michigan's parks?
"As organizations, we cannot do all of the things, even if we feel compelled to," says Desirae Simmons, co-director of the Interfaith Council on Peace and Justice. "And we don't want these areas of work to be moving without one another because that diminishes power and impact, and can make it feel like we have different goals, which is not true. So how do we stack solutions to the issues we’re trying to solve so that we can have a wider coalition and move multiple things at one time?"
Bias is in every decision-making process, but in the tech world, programmers' biases may have particularly harmful effects on the people their products are intended to serve.
Organizers say the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need to reexamine childcare issues, such as the challenge of affordability and long wait lists, that many local parents currently face.
Eight Ypsilanti-area writers who exemplify the values of community writing lab YpsiWrites – including Concentrate's own Sarah Rigg – have been named to the lab’s Writers of Ypsilanti cohort for 2021.
The opening reception is the first public event held by CultureVerse, which was founded in May and aims to use technology to expand access to art.
What was supposed to be a one-off virtual gathering has since snowballed into a series of lively monthly virtual sessions featuring local leaders of color in conversation on a variety of issues.
Recent years in Dixboro have seen the reinvigoration of a beloved restaurant, the establishment of a farmers market, and the founding of a school for traditional arts and crafts.
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