Events by Month
September 4, 2021
Bee's Knees and Beaux Arts: 1920s Architectural Tour #2
Limited tickets still available!
From the fantastic facade of the Fox Theater to the grandeur of the Guardian Building, Detroit is full of Art Deco, Beaux Arts and 1920s architectural splendor. Tour downtown Detroit and discover the stories behind some of Detroit’s most famous buildings
September 6, 2021
Special Holiday Hours
This year, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum will be OPEN with special afternoon hours on Labor Day, Monday, September 6!
Admission is free with a suggested $5 donation.
Reserve advance tickets at: https://bit.ly/3ltYDer
September 9, 2021
Public Art in the Cultural Center Tour #2
Limited tickets still available!
Detroit’s Cultural Center is home to an array of sculptures, murals and statues, big and small. Join our walking tour to explore more than 30 works and learn about the artists who created them. Highlights include the Josephine Ford Sculpture Garden and the McGregor Memorial Conference Center Sculpture Court.
September 15, 2021
HISTORY X DESIGN: Tour Debut
Lafayette Plaisance Park
1592 Antietam Ave, Detroit, MI 48207
Join us for the debut of the Invoking the Spirit: Detroit’s Historic Black Bottom walking tour, created by the Detroit Historical Society, Design Core Detroit and Octane Design for the 2021 Detroit Month of Design. With community partnership from Bailey Park Neighborhood Development Corporation and Black Bottom Archives.
September 16, 2021
Virtual Third Thursday Speaker Series: Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals
In honor of the Detroit Historical Society’s centennial anniversary, our upcoming Third Thursday Speaker Series events will focus on Detroit stories from the past that still impact us today. Each month's discussion will bring a contemporary perspective to a different decade of the last hundred years!
September 21, 2021
Virtual Event! Exiled to Motown Solidarity Panel
How have different communities sought to heal from the punitive histories of the United States? How does storytelling allow us to collectively envision realities beyond the carceral state? From the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II to migrant detention and the prison industrial complex, this panel will explore how our communities engage in healing justice around the collective memory of traumatic events to come to a place where we value abolition.
September 23, 2021
SOLD OUT! Members-Only Reception & Tour
You and a guest are invited to join us at the Detroit Historical Museum for a casual reception where you can mix and mingle with other members while enjoying music, refreshments, docent-led gallery tours
September 24, 2021
Freep Film Festival | Shorts Program III: True Stories
This program pairs two Motor City-made films that sidestep a purist documentary approach, instead employing narrative devices to tell true Detroit stories. The movies will be followed by a discussion about using methods traditionally associated with fiction to seek greater truths through cinema. A Q&A will follow the films.
1) ‘One Sweet Night’
September 25, 2021
Indigenous History of Belle Isle Walking Tour #3
Limited tickets still available!
Join us on an important journey through Swan island, known to many as Belle Isle, as we discuss the Native history of Detroit and the surrounding region.
Fort Wayne Scavenger Hunt
Date change! Limited tickets still available!
In a game of numbers and puzzles, discover historic Fort Wayne while searching for clues and solving Detroit themed-equations to win a prize. Using a map of the fort and mysterious envelopes as tools, you’ll have four hours to complete the course, but speed will be rewarded.
September 25, 2021
Indigenous History of Belle Isle Walking Tour #4
Limited tickets still available!
Join us on an important journey through Swan island, known to many as Belle Isle, as we discuss the Native history of Detroit and the surrounding region.
Freep Film Festival | Digging for Weldon Irvine
This exploration of the mysterious life, struggle and music of the great Weldon J. Irvine Jr., the prolific musician-composer-playwright perhaps best known for penning the civil rights anthem “Young, Gifted and Black.” Irvine, who wrote over 500 songs and more than 50 plays, was deeply vital to the culture of black freedom expression, yet is somehow overlooked within that very lexicon.
September 26, 2021
Freep Film Festival | Detroit Remember When: Rockin' Robin
If you grew up in Detroit, chances are Robin Seymour narrated your musical memories as one of the city's most popular DJs, whose career stretched back to the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s. He made his name at radio stations like WXYZ and WKNR along with hosting "Swingin' Time Dance Party" On CKLW-TV in the ’60s while helping propel the careers of many Motown acts and the likes of Bob Seger and Mitch Ryder. He passed away in April of 2020, but his role in Detroit broadcasting history won't be forgotten.
Year: 2020
