Awesome Foundation

Detroit has lost most of the neighborhood movie theaters that shaped its film culture, and the ones that survive — the Redford, the Senate, the Alger, the Penn, Cinema Detroit, the Ford-Wyoming Drive-In — are held together by people whose stories nobody has recorded. I want to fix that before it's too late. The Last Reel is an audio/visual oral history of Detroit's independent ...

Play It Forward Air & Motion Discovery Project will give young children the chance to explore one of the most fascinating things they can't even see — air! Through hands-on Air Toobz and a Wind Tunnel, children will experiment with airflow, movement and flight. They can connect and rearrange tubes, send lightweight objects rushing through them, test what flies or floats in ...

I like taking long walks and often stop at a fenced lot wondering what is being built. Finding an answer can mean jumping from a city map to a meeting agenda to a PDF. I built BayDashboard.com to bring housing and transportation projects, meetings, news, and original records together. I changed parts of the site after speaking with municipal planners, and about 1,500 people have...

For a child who has never held an instrument, the chance to try one can open a door they never knew existed. Portland Metro Concert Band plans a free Petting Zoo concert, bringing the joy of live music together with the chance to touch and explore the instruments that make it. Volunteer musicians in animal costumes will bring the petting zoo theme to life, demonstrate different...

I visited the Skwxwú7mesh Lilwat7úl Cultural Centre and saw these totally awesome hoodies of local plants with their names in English and Squamish language. They are made by a Squamish artist and called ‘We are the Land, The Land is us’. I want to re-create this concept, but using the language of THIS land: Mohawk/Kenyenkeha.