Sign Up For Model D’s 3rd Anniversary Party & Speaker Series

Model D is celebrating our 3rd year with a special speaker series, music and party on June 20 at the Max — in conjunction with the DSO’s 8 Days in June.

It’s free, but you must sign up. Click here to do so.

Our panel starts at 5 p.m. with registration, 5:30 for the presentation. The lineup is a group of doers, changemakers, people whose contributions are transforming the face of Detroit. Cool people doing cool things for the city.

They include:

• Aaron Alston, developer of the Vinton Building in Detroit, CEO of Cadre Systems and a co-owner of Candor Marketing
• Phil Cooley, co-founder of Slow’s BarBQ in Corktown
• Anne Parsons, director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
• Marsha Miro, founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
• Jason Huvaere, president of Paxahau, the music promoters behind the Movement festival
• Claire Neslon, owner of Bureau of Urban Living and organizer of Open City Detroit

After the panel, we’ll have a reception and entertainment from nospectacle in the atrium of the Max. Cranbrook Art Academy artists will show. The reception is open to the public, cash bar, starting at 6:30 p.m.

And our b-day gift to you: Model D readers get a 20 percent discount on that evening’s 8 Days in June show. Purchase tickets at the box office or online here. Use the promotional code 08Days. The show starts at 8 p.m.

Photographs by Marvin Shaouni
Marvin Shaouni is the managing photographer for Metromode & Model D.