Author: tvasher

See through my perspective of Hamtramck. A place my family has been a part of for more than 100 years. I choose to document day-to-life, the people, and events as I acclimate back to the city my family has since all left. Born on Charest in ‘97, my life began in Hamtramck. My father moved us to a new home in New Baltimore in 2001, being the first of our family to leave. In the next year, my parents would split up and I would spend my weekends in my grandmother’s small apartment on Belmont. In 2021, I moved back to the city on my own, with the goal to document the beauty and culture of the city.

**Christopher Street Gallery is a community-centered art space located in Hamtramck, Michigan dedicated to showcasing contemporary work by local and regional artists. The gallery features rotating exhibitions, including solo and group shows, and serves as a welcoming platform for creative exchange, cultural expression, and neighborhood engagement. Rooted in Hamtramck’s diverse arts scene, Christopher Street Gallery supports artists at all stages while fostering meaningful connections between art and community. Operating under the umbrella of the Passenger Recovery Community Center (PRCC), the gallery champions local artists while providing a safe, art-centric space for those in recovery. Tim’s vision for CSG is inextricably linked with his personal history and his dedication to the LGBTQ+ community. “The name resonated with me when I lived in Berlin. Christopher Street Days held a special place in my heart!” he explains, referring to the European LGBTQ+ celebration that commemorates the Christopher Street Riots (Stonewall). This powerful homage establishes the gallery’s foundation in inclusivity and historical significance. **

Food, fun, music, and most of all, one of the greatest collections of artists and their work in Detroit! https://www.facebook.com/events/2076111413293298/?active_tab=about

Artists Studios inside a historic brick building in Detroit

The Hamtramck Night Bazaar is a vibrant evening market that showcases artists, makers, and small business owners from Hamtramck and beyond! Our line up for entertainment at the Bazaar: 6-7pm: Raphique 7-8pm: Butterbeets 8-9pm: Marqu3tte

Discover Hamtramck is a platform powered by Hamtramck’s Downtown Development Authority. The DDA is committed to bringing life to our unique downtown, city, and community. The Hamtramck Night Bazaar is one of the ways the DDA empowers small business owners, the community, and artists.

Help Florian East brew their annual community oyster stout. Kids coloring will be available.

Step inside the Motivational Museum, a 2,900-square-foot gallery featuring an incredible collection of art and photography from local and international artists. Explore amazing pieces from around the world in a space where you can slow down, be present, enjoy the atmosphere, connect with art, etc or find the perfect piece to take home. Whether you come to experience the art, get inspired, or purchase something that speaks to you, there’s something here for everyone.

Tons of artists. Bios posted in the gallery

Wine of the World is a solo exhibition by Michaela Nichelle that examines how kinship is formed, utilizing both domestic and public archives. Through the examination of Black women’s roles and labor, Nichelle honors the legacies of memory-keeping and the radical fight for preservation and justice she’s inherited. Through jacquard weavings, hand-sewn flags, and performance documentation, Witness Nichelle’s Altar Keeping practice as she boldly answers the question “how y’all kin?” Hatch studio artists will also have open studios during HNAF– explore work from Mike Kelly, Andrew Dall’olmo, Tisch Mikhail Lewis, and more!

Michaela Nichelle is an interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and arts educator whose practice lives at the intersection of Black girlhood studies, memory, and fine arts. Working across domestic installation, food narratives, culturally specific performance, text, and archival practices, she explores Black girlhood as a site of care, remembrance, and communal knowledge. Grounded in homegirling theory, Nichelle approaches artmaking as a heartfelt practice of remembering and honoring herself alongside generations of Black women and girls whose lives, labor, and everyday rituals shape collective histories. She positions herself as an Altar Keeper: a caretaker, historian, and steward of communal memory who tends to the cultural and spiritual practices that sustain Black life. Through this practice, she asks how remembrance can become an act of liberation, imagining the altar as both a physical and conceptual space where Black girlhood is preserved, celebrated, and continually restored.

Gallery will be showing artworks from Sanda Cook, Luke MacGilvray and Michael Jankovich.

Students will be selling arts, crafts and other goods in their outdoor garden space, and will also include music cold drinks and snacks. All proceeds will go to benefit the Horizon Media Arts program.

High School students at Horizon High School embarking the journey of peace and love through artistic expression and harmonic collaboration. Plugging in to ourselves, our world and each other. Our mission and goal is to raise money to support the endevours of the media arts program and club including enhancing community engagement, field trips and community service.

Join Detroit-based musician, composer, and visual artist Zara Teicher for two workshops, one on October 2nd and one on October 3rd, exploring sound as a pathway for play. We’ll experiment, listen deeply, let loose, get silly, improvise, and follow (or maybe break?) the rules of different game-type pieces. In the spirit of folk traditions and drawing from the work of Pauline Oliveros, Fluxus, and others, we’ll connect to each other as a community through sound making as a living social language. We will use our bodies, voices, and every day objects (that are actually instruments in disguise). Participants can attend one or both workshops. Please register for workshops separately on Partiful. The workshops will culminate in a parade in which we’ll play music together as the “What’s Cooking Orchestra!?!” alongside the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Fest Monster Parade at 8 p.m. on Saturday night.

*Those attending on Saturday 10/3 should bring a kitchen item to play music on. 6-8pm each night Presented by Detroit Folk School and Play House Laboratories Suggested Donation $20 (Pay what you can)). Register and pre-pay on Partiful. Cash accepted at the door. Oct. 2 Partiful link: https://partiful.com/e/IEn2QC0Tmy6kJsUIlcFb?c=Ec3m2i-t Oct. 3 Partiful link: https://partiful.com/e/7eX3gItZUFF4MH3hqydB?c=jtts-r_9

Zara Teicher is a musician/artist/educator in Detroit. She has taught experimental music as adjunct faculty at Cranbrook Academy of Art and as a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois-Chicago. Currently, Zara is Resident Artist at Smith Shop Detroit where she is building sculptural brass and metal instruments. She has performed and shown work across Southeast Michigan, in Chicago, and in Los Angeles where she played with the Grammy-nominated ensemble Wild Up, among other new music residencies and such. Zara has an MFA from CalArts and a Bachelor’s of Music degree from Northwestern University. Importantly, she is a mom to two very fun kids and two silly Corgis. Recently, she’s been enjoying the sounds of the cicadas in the trees.

SoundHenge is a communal sound experience that has been happening semi yearly for 12 years, making its debut at the 2014 HNAF as Qbert in The Woods SoundHenge is an improvised sound jam in which participants are spread out among 9 stations in a large 150′ diameter circle and play simultaneously while creating a magical soundscape amongst the trees.

Stay tuned for this years lineup of sound masters!! MERCH AND Refreshments will be available for purchase during the event.

Location: Carpenter Park, 2055 Carpenter Ave Park and adjacent Popps Gardens ( across the street from Popps Packing.