Thu, Sep 03
|River Trail
Between Your Love & Mine
Architecture and Design Installation Exploring Themes of Borders, Community and Kinship by Writer and Curator Stefan Novakovic
Time & Location
Sep 03, 2026, 5:00 PM – Sep 30, 2026, 9:00 PM
River Trail, 1265 Parkview St, Detroit, MI 48214, USA
About the event
Installation is located in Little Village & features work from UNECORATED, SOCA, OSD+ & Castor Design.
Look south, and you can almost see Canada. Past Belle Isle, the border is less than two miles away - an invisible line bisecting the Detroit River. On the far shore is Windsor. Viewed from an airplane, or even certain street corners, two cities appear as one. In some ways, they are. Before a colonial border was drawn, the Anishnabeg of the Three Fires Confederacy stewarded these lands. After the Revolutionary War and the Jay Treaty, both shores shared entwined histories, from the Underground Railroad to an integrated industrial economy.
For thousands of nurses, students, and auto workers, daily commutes traverse an international boundary. Family, friendship, and culture all transcend divisions of nation through the more fundamental stuff of love and community. Some recall a pre-9/11 border that hardly existed, with passage punctuated by…