Welcome Welcome to Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, an internationally acclaimed, award winning professional performing arts training program which achieves youth development through the arts. Our celebrated national model of youth development, made possible through the generous support of many corporations, foundations and individuals, emphasizes excellence on stage and in life.

Join Detroit Summer’s Live Media Arts Project (LAMP) for weekly artist community workshops. LAMP is a production of youth artists and adult artist mentors who have decided to respond to the crisis in education, particularly around the issue of drop-outs, emphasizing the critical voices of youth. Whereas mainstream dialogue on this issue reduces youth to mere statistics and puts forward a band-aid or reactionary solutions to the crisis, the goal of this project is to center the concerns and creativity of young people in the debate over the current crisis in education.

Matrix Theatre Company creates everything from scratch, from the puppets you see, to over 70 original plays. We are one source of the creation of arts, and transformation of people and communities through the arts. If you'd like to join us on our journey, please send us an email! We'd love to have you.

International Educators for World Peace

During the Civil Rights decade—the 1960s—Reverend Cleage became increasingly Afro-centric in his thought. He changed his name to Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman and then developed an Afro centric version of Christianity, so he renamed his church, The Shrine of the Black Madonna. He contended that Christ and many of his disciples were African in origin and suggested that Europeans had captured and twisted Christianity to assist in their enslaving Africans. He argued strongly for African American control of their own fate.

University of Detroit Mercy

Through the Detroit Asian Youth Project, Hmong American and other Asian American youth in Detroit develop leadership skills and awareness of their identity, community, and social justice issues. DAY Project has had two successful summer intensive programs as well as a weekly mentoring program focused on preparing for college. The youth often collaborate with Detroit Summer on community projects.

The mission of the program is three-fold: 1) To increase awareness about the impact of violence and educate the public on ways to reduce the incidents among at-risk youth, 2) To discuss with youth means for conflict resolution and the importance of making wise decisions, and 3) To increase the awareness about the abilities of persons with disabilities.

Our Mission Founded in 1990, Bioneers is a nonprofit organization that promotes practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities. "It's All Alive, It's All Intelligent, It's All Connected." Bioneers offers pragmatic solutions that honor the living web of the natural world as the most fertile source of inspiration and models. It's all alive.

works to bring about peace locally, nationally, and globally through prayer, study, and action. We are rooted in spirituality, dedicated to studying issues of justice from the vantage point of all those involved, and espouse working for peace with justice through nonviolent conflict resolution.

Based in Detroit, Co-Lab Creative is an interdisciplinary group formed to initiate creative, educational projects that address social inequity and ecological distress. Our projects emphasize community involvement and involve Detroit youth at a variety of ages. Current projects include schoolyard gardening and grassroots product design. The goal is to create beautiful, well-crafted, quality designs and places that express respect for humanity and the natural environment. link to co-lab creative: http://www.geocities.com/colabcreative/

Mission: Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center and Gallery promotes and inspires justice and peace through the visual and performing arts by: Serving as a forum for artists to present works which comment on social conditions... Project of Central United Methodist Church.

CRANBROOK PEACE FOUNDATION

The philosophy of the Cranbrook Peace Foundation is rooted in the concept that conflict is natural. Conflict can provide an important opportunity for change and a violent response is neither inevitable nor necessarily productive. Conversly, we also believe that peace is a mainstream desire. A peace activist protesting a war and a soccer mom involved in the PTA can both play a role in promoting a peaceful coexistance. Typically, peace organizations react to conflict as it occurs, and often attention is directed toward the confrontation rather than to the root causes of such conflict.

DETROIT AGRICULTURE NETWORK Community and backyard gardens play an important role in the City of Detroit. They provide thousands of pounds of fresh, nutritious produce for Detroit families and they improve communities by connecting neighbors, providing an alternative to trash strewn vacant lots, improving property values and reducing crime. In an effort to maximize these benefits, the Detroit Agriculture Network, Earthworks Garden/Capuchin Soup Kitchen, The Greening of Detroit and Michigan State University have teamed up to help provide access to resources and educational opportunities for community, school and family gardeners.

Word and World is intended to provide radical education and training for Christian disciples committed to the work of social transformation. Building capacity for movements of faith-based witness and work in service, solidarity, justice, peace and social change including individuals, communities and organizations, is Word and World's specific purpose.

Using art to provoke thought, promote discussion, inspire action and heal communities, the Heidelberg Project began as an outdoor art environment in the heart of Detroit, but it has grown into much more. Today the project is recognized around the world as a demonstration of the power of creativity to transform all those whose lives it touches. The Heidelberg Project offers a forum for ideas, a seed of hope, and a bright vision for the future.

The Catherine Ferguson Academy is a Detroit public high school for pregnant teens and teenage mothers. Paul Weertz, the agriscience teacher at the academy, has developed a small farming program at the school, complete with chickens, bees, rabbits, goats,a cow and a barn constructed by the students. This innovative program has helped foster important life skills for young parents and enhanced an sense of connectedness and purpose among students.

America's Most Progressive Community Newspaper.
The Michigan Citizen has been published every Sunday on a weekly basis since November of 1978. It was founded by Charles D. Kelly and is currently published by his daughter, Catherine Kelly. The Michigan Citizen targets the state's African American and progressive minded community. From block club presidents to mayors, school board trustees to state legislators, activists and self-help advocates, The Michigan Citizen reaches those shaping the future of our communities.

Mission Statement: We stand in active opposition to forces that suppress human dignity, freedom and justice. From a position of solidarity with those who suffer oppression and injustice locally and globally, MCHR will promote awareness and commitment to human rights through education, community organization, and action

We are residents of Huntington Woods, Michigan -- joined by friends and activisits in neighboring communities -- who are deeply troubled by our country's current foreign policy. This reckless pursuit of war and aggression does not make us feel safer in our homes. In fact, it increases the threat of terrorism for all of us, and risks the lives of our young soldiers for ill-considered reasons.

Words of Peace Michigan

Words of Peace Michigan is a non-profit group of volunteers who promote education on the topic of personal peace and fulfillment. Our activities and events feature the message of Prem Rawat, known widely as Maharaji.