Wed, Sep 30
|W.I.S.E Partnership
Born in Sepia
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2026, 6:00 PM – Oct 01, 2026, 4:00 PM
W.I.S.E Partnership, 2700 W Chicago, Detroit, MI 48206, USA
About the event
The Ideate Cultural Arts Festival (WISE Partnership): film series, Born in Sepia fashion activation, jazz, Spiral Initiative + community events.
The Ideate Cultural Arts Festival (Sponsored by WISE Partnership) is a Month of Design activation centered on creative exchange, community storytelling, and multidisciplinary cultural production. The festival brings together a series of interconnected public programs that highlight Detroit filmmakers, designers, musicians, and community artists through immersive, accessible events held across multiple days.
Programming includes a monthly film series featuring work by Detroit filmmakers. The Spiral Initiative transforms outdoor space into a living gallery, presenting site responsive artworks that invite public interaction and engagement with land, memory, and environment.
Community activations expand the festival beyond traditional exhibition formats, including spoken word mic nights, mosaic making on the land, dye workshops in newly obtained greenhouses. Select programming also includes micro grant opportunities to support local creative work.
Spiral Initiative/ Open Mic Night-…