Edition No. 95
Arts and Culture
The Carr Center features a unique 13-part music series featuring works by a wide range of women composers.
Community and Family
The annual changing of the leaves in Michigan is quite the sight to behold! An NPR podcast dives in to why this change takes place in fall.
New Standards Jazz Crawl features works by women composers
The New Standards Jazz Crawl is a unique 13-part music series curated by National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master and Carr Center Artistic Director Terri Lyne Carrington. The 75-minute sets recognize a wide range of works by women jazz composers.
New Standards is part one of Shifting The Narrative: Jazz and Gender Justice, an installation examining the intersection of history, gender, race, and innovation, resulting in a transformational and provocative multimedia art and music experience.
The events are free to the public and takes place on October 14, 15, 20, 21 and 28 at cultural centers and institutions including:
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit Historical Museum
Detroit Public Library
Detroit Symphony Orchestra - The Cube
MOCAD
The Scarab Club
The Wright Museum
The NEW Carr Center Performance Studio
The Jazz Crawl was curated by Carrington with support from the Detroit Institute of Arts, Midtown Detroit, Inc. and the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation.
For more details on specific dates or to learn more about part one of the instillation, click on the button below.
Why Do Leaves Change Color During Fall?
This week, we take a seasonal look back at an NPR podcast asking the question of “Why Do Leaves Change Color During Fall?”
From being green in September to colors like red, orange, and yellow by the end of October, the annual changing of the leaves in Michigan is quite the sight to behold.
This 2020 podcast from NPR includes a scientific perspective on peak leaf season in an interview with Botanist Tanisha Williams. It details that not all trees have leaf's that change color, environmental cues, photosynthesis and more.
Click below for a link to the podcast.
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