Fri, Sep 18
|Dossin Great Lakes Museum
Eco-Punks: Lessons from the 1967 Love-In on Belle Isle
A One-Day Convening Examining Detroit’s Geologic Landscape and Rock Music Histories
Time & Location
Sep 18, 2026, 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Dossin Great Lakes Museum, 100 The Strand, Detroit, MI 48207, USA
About the event
Eco-Punks is a one-day interdisciplinary convening bringing together activists, archivists, community practitioners, culture-bearers, environmental researchers, geologists, music historians, and musicians, and to examine how Detroit’s geologic landscape and rock music histories have been shaped by industrial growth and climate change.
Eco-Punks explores what emerges when Detroit’s rock music histories are examined through an eco-critical lens grounded in the region’s geological properties. The program considers rock as both material substrate and cultural form, connecting the formation of land to the formation of sound. By convening artists, scholars, and community partners, the workshop’s themes investigate how industrialization and climate change have shaped both Detroit’s physical landscape and its musical and social movements.
The convening examine how industrialization, extraction, and climate change have shaped Detroit’s physical landscape and cultural movements situated on Belle Isle, a site that embodies both geological history and civic assembly.