Every third Thursday, from July 2023 through June 2024, visitors can receive free admission to Cranbrook Art Museum from 11am–8pm AND Cranbrook Institute of Science from 5–8pm. Cranbrook Art Museum remains free on all remaining Thursdays of each month. Visitors are requested to register in advance to visit Cranbrook Institute of Science via their website. Walk-ins are welcome, but entrance is not guaranteed due to capacity limits.
At Cranbrook Art Museum 4:30pm to 9:30pm:
Join us in celebrating the summer solstice with music and making! On the longest day of the year, we’ll celebrate the sun across Cranbrook Art Museum’s sprawling grounds with an immersive interactive improvisational performance by Jared Talaga and David Hurley, sun-themed artmaking on the Peristyle and in the ArtLab, a sunset vinyl dance party DJ’ed by Nervous Recs, a Tacos Hernandez food truck pop up, special treats at FIKA Café and more!
In their performance, Hurley and Talaga present a rhythmically balanced sonic exploration transitioning leads from one to another and building upon and from where each decides to take the improvisation. Presented in quadraphonic, the duo’s rhythms and sonic landscape they create will feel as if, it is moving all around you and the entire space, transitioning rhythms from Hurley’s percussive instruments will fall in and out of alignment with the ever-changing rhythms Talaga is creating on the Buchla Modular Synthesizer, resulting in an even greater rhythmic diversity as the duo’s frequencies combine and collide on top of each other.
The Summer Solstice Celebration is co-presented with our partner Moondog Cafe. Located in the heart of Detroit, Moondog is a new music venue, café, and listening space centered on creating an essential outlet and resource for neighbors, music seekers, Detroit’s creative communities, and touring artists making a stop in Detroit. Moondog serves as an intimate platform for local and visiting artists, encouraging new relationships and the strengthening of bonds across distances, centered around listening to and sharing new music.
Free Third Thursdays is a program sponsored by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
Registration coming soon.
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