Events by Month
June 30, 2018
Bring Your Block Club! Special Screening of ARISE Detroit Documentary
For our next Bring Your Block Club event, you are invited to join us for a special documentary screening of “ARISE Detroit! The City, the Heart, the Hope” on Saturday, June 30 at the Detroit Historical Museum. This is a free event with free parking included!
Please reserve your seats by emailing katherineb@detroithistorical.org or calling 313.833.1807.
July 6, 2018
Detroit 67: The Healing, Reconciliation & Truth Collective's 1-Year Reunion
Admission is free, but please register at eventbrite.com
July 7, 2018
July 11, 2018
Senior Days
Wednesday, July 11 & Wednesday, August 15
$8 per person
Gallery Visit
9:30–11 a.m.
Visit the galleries at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on your own time. Enjoy learning more detailed information about the exhibit from gallery guides stationed in the Gothic Room, the Built By the River exhibition and the William Clay Ford Pilot House.
The Detroit River: A Dynamic Maritime Highway
11 a.m.–12 p.m.
July 13, 2018
July 14, 2018
Midtown Walking Tour
This tour is SOLD OUT. Please contact Casie at 313.833.1801 for wait list information.
Join Scott Lowell and Carolyn Howard, owners of Traffic Jam and Snug, as they take you on a tour around central Midtown. See buildings that have been renovated by the couple and learn about how the area has changed. As you finish the tour, enjoy lunch at Traffic Jam and Snug (included in the ticket price).
July 14, 2018
Summer Film Series: Revolution '67
July 1967 doesn’t only mark a significant time in Detroit’s history, but in the history of Newark, New Jersey as well. Revolution ’67 focuses on the urban rebellion that took place in Newark, which helped reveal the long-standing racial, economic and political forces which generated inner city poverty. Perspectives told from city officials, police and residents shed a light on what took place and how decades of industrial decline, unemployment, job and housing discrimination, and more led up to the uprising.
Summer Film Series: Revolution '67
July 1967 doesn’t only mark a significant time in Detroit’s history, but in the history of Newark, New Jersey as well. Revolution ’67 focuses on the urban rebellion that took place in Newark, which helped reveal the long-standing racial, economic and political forces which generated inner city poverty. Perspectives told from city officials, police and residents shed a light on what took place and how decades of industrial decline, unemployment, job and housing discrimination, and more led up to the uprising.
July 15, 2018
Summer Film Series: Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes
The discovery of a human skull in the depths of Lake Superior begins a story that will take historian and author Brendon Baillod across two Great Lakes and a century of history. It takes him and a team of elite technical divers more than 20 miles off Milwaukee where they discover the wreck of one of Lake Michigan’s lost queens. It takes them to the remote waters of Lake Superior where they risk their lives to determine the identity of yet another lost ship.
Admission is FREE. Shown at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum. Running Time: 45 minutes.
Summer Film Series: Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes
The discovery of a human skull in the depths of Lake Superior begins a story that will take historian and author Brendon Baillod across two Great Lakes and a century of history. It takes him and a team of elite technical divers more than 20 miles off Milwaukee where they discover the wreck of one of Lake Michigan’s lost queens. It takes them to the remote waters of Lake Superior where they risk their lives to determine the identity of yet another lost ship.
Admission is FREE. Shown at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum. Running Time: 45 minutes.
July 15, 2018
Summer Film Series: Revolution '67
July 1967 doesn’t only mark a significant time in Detroit’s history, but in the history of Newark, New Jersey as well. Revolution ’67 focuses on the urban rebellion that took place in Newark, which helped reveal the long-standing racial, economic and political forces which generated inner city poverty. Perspectives told from city officials, police and residents shed a light on what took place and how decades of industrial decline, unemployment, job and housing discrimination, and more led up to the uprising.
Summer Film Series: Revolution '67
July 1967 doesn’t only mark a significant time in Detroit’s history, but in the history of Newark, New Jersey as well. Revolution ’67 focuses on the urban rebellion that took place in Newark, which helped reveal the long-standing racial, economic and political forces which generated inner city poverty. Perspectives told from city officials, police and residents shed a light on what took place and how decades of industrial decline, unemployment, job and housing discrimination, and more led up to the uprising.
July 19, 2018
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant
This tour is SOLD OUT. Please contact Casie at 313.833.1801 for wait list information.
Special Thursday evening tour!
The Ford Piquette Avenue Plant manufactured a number of early Ford automobiles, but the most famous was the Ford Model T. Inexpensive, durable and easy to drive and repair, the Model T revolutionized transportation and society. This special tour will take a look at areas of the plant not normally accessible to the public and explain how the plant was saved.
Third Thursday Speaker Series: Tale of Two Cities
Detroit: A Tale of Two Cities by Peter Werbe and Harvey Ovshinsky
Third Thursday Speaker Series: Tale of Two Cities
Detroit: A Tale of Two Cities by Peter Werbe and Harvey Ovshinsky
July 21, 2018
MLK Poster dedication
Join us for the unveiling of the most recent addition to the "Detroit 67: Perspectives" exhibition: an historic Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. poster noting all of his civil right marches. Donated in honor of Albert S. Jones, Past Vice President Highland Park Branch of the National Association for the Advance of Colored People (NAACP). Dr. Tony Ingram, N. Charles Anderson and Pastor Julius C. Hope will give brief remarks.
RSVP to Alicia Jones: aliciarenea2@yahoo.com or (248) 255-6336.
July 22, 2018
Gordon Park Oral History Activation
In collaboration with event host Brothers Always Together, the Detroit Historical Society will offer a Detroit 67 Project activity tent at Gordon Park – located at the corner of Rosa Parks and Clairmount Streets in Detroit – featuring our new Neighborhood Oral History Project and other interactive programming.
July 26, 2018
D67 Project Explores Economic Opportunity - Panel Series
Have you ever wanted to start your own business or learn about community & economic development?
Join the Detroit 67 Project & Detroit Public Library for a conversation series about the resources & opportunities available in your neighborhood, including information offered through the Detroit Public Library's Technology, Literacy and Career Centers!
Each event includes a panel discussion + Q&A. Connect directly with the organizations listed below!
July 28, 2018
Antique Outboards at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Free admission!
In what is becoming a Belle Isle tradition, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum will host a colorful gathering of antique outboard motors and vintage powerboats on Saturday, July 28. The outboard motor, which was first commercially manufactured in Detroit, democratized the boating industry. Given the lakes, rivers and mechanical know-how in the region, it is not surprising that Michigan and Ontario have a rich history of building, driving and racing outboards and the boats designed to accommodate them.
