CONCERT OF COLORS: DETROIT’S DIVERSITY FESTIVAL
JULY 19-23, 2023
All events are free
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The Concert of Colors is metro Detroit’s free annual diversity-themed music festival. Global music at its finest at this colorful, festive, upbeat coveted summer event. Concert of Colors has become the Midwest’s biggest diversity and arts festival.
The goal of the upbeat, week-long festival is to unite metro Detroit’s diverse communities and ethnic groups through music and dance from around the world – and creating dialogue where participants embrace freedom of expression.
Opening Night at the Concert of Colors – A FORUM ON COMMUNITY, CULTURE AND RACE: AIR, WATER, LAND & CLIMATE CHANGE
Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at 6:00-8:30 PM
Location: Arab American National Museum
Moderator: Hina Baloch
Hina Baloch is the executive director of climate change communications and strategy at General Motors.
Panelists:
Hadassah GreenSky – A Waganakising Odawa (Little Traverse Bay Bands) from Detroit, Michigan. She is an activist, community organizer, curator, cultural worker, indigenous futurist working as a visual artist, jazz singer, musician, dancer (both modern and powwow), bead artist, seamstress, graphic designer, photographer, videographer and model.
Bana Kabalan – An interdisciplinary Lebanese-American visual performative artist who is currently a PhD student in aquatic ecology.
Cherise Morris is an award-winning poet, multidisciplinary artist, ritualist and spiritual worker born and raised in rural Virginia.
Annabel Rabiyah is the cofounder of Awafi Kitchen, an Iraqi Jewish cultural food initiative. Through sharing recipes and making meals, Awafi pays tribute to a lesser-known culinary heritage.