Anyone for Tennis? 2018 summer residency showcase featuring Forrest Hudes (LA), Laurent De Wolf (NL) and Sereina Steinemann (SUI).
Drinks, Dutch pancakes and maybe even table tennis!!
Anyone For Tennis?
Category: EVENTS
Garlia Cornelia’s End of Residency Reading
Please Join us Sunday, July 29th from 7pm – 9pm after the Hamtramck Block Party for the culmination of Garlia’s Residency at Popps Packing. There will be a reading of the new work I have written during this two-week period.
Following the reading there will be a brief talkback and a chance to learn what I’ve been doing as a Writer and Producer in New York over the last 10 years.
RSVP using the Google Form
The Event is free of charge.
We’re looking forward to seeing you on Sunday!
GARLIA CORNELIA
Garlia is a writer, producer, photographer and mother. A Native of Detroit, MI, Garlia founded Blackboard Reading Series, a monthly series devoted to Black Playwrights in September of 2008, incubated by the cell, a performance space in Manhattan’s Chelsea. She is an OBIE Award winning Theatre producer with Harlem9, the producing collaborative responsible for “48Hours in…™Harlem” and “48Hours in…™EL BRONX”. Garlia holds an MFA in Playwrighting from The New School for Drama, and an MA in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University. Her Essays and articles have appeared in “The New York Times”, “The Washington Post”, “Howlround” and “Salon.com“. Residencies: Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America.
POPPS PACKING PINEWOOD DERBY FUNDRAISER
It has been 3 long years since we stood around a long sloping track in the Popps yard to watch goofy, crazy, amazing little art cars race for the title of fastest in the land. But we can wait no longer and are extremely excited to announce that Vol. 4 of the Popps Pinewood Derby Fundraiser will be happening on Saturday, July 28th!!
Silent auction of all one-of-a-kind artist made derby cars + food, drinks, raffle, live music and special performances. And lets not forget the extra special kids race that kicks off the event at 6PM.
5:30 Norma Jean Haynes (prelude music)
6:00 Kids Derby Race
6:30 Post Imperial Jazz Band
7:30 Artist Car Races
10:00 Botanical Fortress
and DJ Sisteranna will be spinning jams throughout the night!!
All proceeds go towards supporting Popps Emporium and related programs. to learn more:
https://www.patronicity.com/popps
One Night Only Residency Exhibition with Allison Baker
Summer Artist Resident Allison Baker will be hosting an open studio exhibition at Popps Packing on July 7th.
https://www.allisonbaker.com/
“Sweetness is the most cunning means of crowd control.
Gilded gumdrops: pastel, gelatinous, rolled in sugar and arsenic that suck fillings from your molars and leave sweaters on your teeth.
My work is half melted-ice cream peppered with sand.
My work is an incantation.
Repulsive and candy colored to greedily over-consume until your stomach sours and the grape gum has lost all its flavor, yet you hungrily work your jaw, chewing away hoping that the cloying artificiality will rush back to your mouth still wet with anticipation.”
Paradise Travel Company by Jova Lynne
Popps Emporium is pleased to present Paradise Travel Company by Jova Lynne.
“The Travel agent is here to help plan your trip to Paradise, a remote location between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The travel agent is here to assist you in exploring the depths of your imagination – taking you to a place where fantasy becomes reality and colonization becomes conquest. Come to Paradise Travel Company, the place where everyone wishes they were.”
http://www.jovalynne.com/
© JOVA LYNNE
The exhibition will be on display in the emporium from July 7th, 2018 – August 11th, 2018
Register for Camp Carpenter!
Popps Packing Presents:
CAMP CARPENTER
Two Sessions: July 23 – 27 & August 6-10, 2018
Camp Carpenter is a weeklong outdoor adventure camp for ages 7-16 set in and around Popps Packing’s dynamic buildings, art installations, and green spaces. Campers will work alongside professional artists to design, build and create imaginative worlds of their own making. Youth will learn to use basic hand tools, to take their designs from idea to reality, to collaborate across age groups, to tell imaginative stories through theater games and role playing and more — all while contributing the betterment of the Detroit/Hamtramck community through the construction of a lasting play space for all. Register online here.
All Materials included. Bring a bag lunch, a good attitude and your imagination!!
This year we are offering 2 sessions!!
Dates: July 23-July 27 and August 6-August 10, 2018
(Mon. through Fri.) from 9:30AM-3:00PM
Weekly Rate: Pay what you can, Suggested $200 for non-residents; free for Detroit District 3, Hamtramck, and Highland Park residents
Location: Popps Packing, 2037 Carpenter St., Detroit, MI 48212
Contact us at poppspacking@gmail.com
Register online here.
To see images form last years amazing camp visit our Facebook page here
Check out the great story by Zak Rosen about our camp on NPR last year here
Considering donating materials and supplies to the Camp!
- broken wooden furniture,
- wood scraps (no particle board or splintery stuff please,
- workbenches,
- saw horses,
- ladders
- large tarps
- corrugated plastics and metal
- hinges
- rope
- wood (2”x4”x96” wood, 4’x8’ 1/4” plywood, balsa wood)
Or Donate to support our teaching artists and staff so we can keep the camp free for local youth!
Checks be mailed to: Popps Packing 12138 St. Aubin, Hamtramck MI 48212
We are a 501c3 not -for -Profit organization so your donation is 100% tax deductible!!!
Contact us at poppspacking@gmail.com with any questions
Learn more about Adventure Playgrounds and some of our inspirations for Camp Carpenter:
https://beamcamp.org/projects/
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/08/04/334896321/where-the-wild-things-play
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/
https://popupadventureplaygrounds.wordpress.com/welcome/pop-up-adventure-playgrounds/
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/04/03/395797459/the-value-of-wild-risky-play-fire-mud-hammers-and-nails
This Project is made possible with support from Michigan Council of Arts and Cultural Affairs Mini Grant Program and Culture Source, the Peck Family Foundation and Enterprise Collaborative Action Grant.
Traveling to Turiya: The Future Mapping Project by Ingrid LaFleur
Opening Reception:
Saturday May 5, 2015
6-9PM.
Popps Emporium, 2025 Carpenter, Detroit
Guided Meditations on Sunday May 6, 13 and 20 at 2PM
Traveling to Turiya: The Future Mapping Project outlines how to attain turiya, pure consciousness, in Hindu philosophy and investigates the theory that de-colonial futures can be created only when all trauma is cleansed from the body.
For this installation, Lafluer created a series of sculptures that utilize over twenty varieties of crystals such as pyrite, black tourmaline, amethyst, and bismuth, which she believes can heal traumas and help us transcend into the cosmos. The sculptural installation is accompanied by a sound essay that brings together the wisdom of Audre Lorde, Eartha Kitt, Octavia Butler, Sun Ra, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.
Transcending the human experience is the only safe place where futures can be imagined freely without limitation. LaFleur believes the map for the future can be found within the transcendent music meditations created by jazz musician and Hindu practitioner, Alice Coltrane. Inspired by the composition Galaxy in Turiya, LaFleur finds a kinship with Detroit born Coltrane and regards her as a Patron Saint of their hometown.
Traveling to Turiya: The Future Mapping Project
May 5- May 26, 2018
Popps Emporium
2025 Carpenter, Detroit
Ingrid LaFleur is a cultural producer, arts advocate, pleasure activist, founder of AFROTOPIA, and former candidate for mayor of Detroit. LaFleur has developed and organized art exhibitions both nationally and internationally with a curatorial focus on
Afrofuturism. In 2013, LaFleur founded AFROTOPIA, an evolving creative research project that investigates the possibilities of using the arts movement Afrofuturism as psychosocial healing.
Within her artistic practice, using sculpture, sound, site-specific installation and performance, LaFleur further unpacks ideas around trauma, which have arisen as a result of audience engagement through AFROTOPIA. She has exhibited in BOOM City Detroit curated by Dashboard Co-op (2015); the Something Else Off Biennial, Cairo, Egypt curated by Simon Njami (2015); Future Africa-Visions in Time at the Iwalewahaus at University of Bayreuth, Germany (2015-ongoing); Traveling to Turiya: The Future Mapping Project at the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College; Take Root Among the Stars at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.
LaFleur has presented at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA),
TEDxBrooklyn, TEDxDetroit, Iwalewahaus at the University of Bayreuth (Bayreuth, Germany), Ideas City, New Museum (New York), AfroTech Conference (Dortmund, Germany), and Black in Design at Harvard University, among others.
LaFleur is based in Detroit, Michigan.
Residency exhibition with Eric Magassa.
ONE NIGHT ONLY EVENT!
Saturday April 21, 2018 7-10PM.
Join us for a special exhibition of works in progress by Artist In Residence , Eric Magassa (Sweden). 
Eric Magassa (1972) is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Magassa has a rich cultural background and was brought up moving back and forth between Gothenburg and Paris with his Swedish mother and French father from Senegalese and Malian descent. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Magassa studied at Central Saint Martins, London and The Art Students League of New York.
“Eric Magassa’s body of work spans a variety of materials and methods ranging from painting, collage, and print to cinematic sequences and performative camera set-ups. His many years as a DJ built an intimate connection between his image creation and music. A brief glimpse into the Eric Magassa studio reveals inspirational material in the form of ethnographic artifacts, textiles, modernist sculptures, colored pieces of paper, spray paint, color tubes, books, music and snap shots of abstract urban environments reduced to structures, surfaces and compositions. Objects and artifacts that have long lost their meaning are captured and given new contexts. Driven by restlessness, but above all, curiosity, the fragments are used to reinterpret the world. Despite the vast range of sources, an unmistakable aesthetic with visual unity is created.
For Eric Magassa, art is not a representation of an objective view, but a way of understanding and connecting with life. He does this through heightened presence and concentration within a world of perpetual motion. Through the constant flow of images and impressions, his work suggests a holistic worldview, and the possibility of a utopia of diversity, and a world without borders.”
-Translated excerpts from an essay written by Angelica Olsson
This residency is made possible through an ongoing partnership with the Region Västra Götaland, Sweden.
Check out the Facebook event
The Lounge of Saturn- A winter salon exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 9, 7-10PM
Popps Packing is pleased to present our winter salon show, The Lounge of Saturn. Saturn is known as the mythological god of generation, dissolution, plenty, wealth, agriculture, periodic renewal and liberation as well as the god of time. During the month of December the Romans celebrated Saturn during the Saturnalia Festival, a time of feasting, role reversals, free speech, gift-giving and revelry. The Lounge of Saturn is our way to pay homage to the season, to the god of renewal, to honor the cycles of life and death and all that lies in between. The Lounge of Saturn will be an actual lounge space that folks can hang out in and relax while also viewing, sitting on and interacting with the art on display. The exhibition will feature both functional works and non functional works, video, installation, fine art, outsider art, printed matter, found objects, ceramics, sculpture and more.
Some of the featured artists include: Jessica Frelinghuysen, Ryan Standfest, Millee Tibbs, Marie Hermann, Scott Hocking, Clint Snider, Chris Schanck, Ryan Haas, James Viste, John Rizzo, James Collins, Peter Dunn, Adrian Hatfield, Anders Ruhwald, Alex Buzzalini, Victoria Shaheen, Teresa Petersen, Virgina Torrence, Henry Crissman, Chris Riddell, Michael McGillis, Noah Mantei, Graem Whyte, Faina Lerman, John Charnota, Alison Wong, Andrea Eckert, Nathan Tonning, Vince Troia, James Collins, Tim Van Laar, Rosie Sharp, Jonathon Rajewski, Kevin McCoy, Andrew Mehall and a few special guest performances.
Residency Open Studio: Patrick Schlotterback and Peter Rand
Join us on Saturday, November 25, from 1-6pm for an Open Studio event with our current Artists in Residence, Patrick Schlottereback and Peter Rand.