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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

November, 2008
Premier and panel discussion, Regional Roots: The Birth and Evolution of Detroit and Its People, Detroit.

Regional Roots -- (2008)

Grant Awarded: April 2008

Type of Grant: Michigan People, Michigan Places ... Our Stories, Our Lilves

Sponsor: Wayne State University

Collaborators: One of Us Films, Walter P. Reuther Library, Detroit Public Television

Contact: Ann Slawnik, Director, Detroit Orientation Institute. 313-577-0171, ann.slawnik@wayne.edu

Award: $15,000

This project includes the production and interactive use of a new 30-minute signature film documentary, Regional Roots: The Birth and Evolution of Detroit and Its People through the Detroit Orientation Institute’s biannual three-day orientation program. A film premiere, free and open to the public, will also occur at WSU’s Law School in November including a live panel discussion. Panelists will be from different regional ethnic and cultural groups as well as business and community leaders. The proposal states that the Detroit Orientation Institute was created in 1987 to inform top-level business leaders and media decision makers about the positive aspects of living and working in metro Detroit. The three-day biannual event is its signature program. Project also speaks to reaching a wider audience and assisting same in making historical connections to their own lives, inspiring them to learn of Detroit’s diversity, and encouraging them to embrace the Detroit of today and participate in Detroit’s future renaissance. Film subjects include transitions of the urban core, industrialization, immigration, ribbon farms of early French settlers, segregated housing patterns, reconstruction from the 1805 Detroit fire, Diego Rivera’s mural, racial tensions, musical roots, and others. Detroit Public Television has agreed to at least four broadcasts of the film to the greater Detroit community and links to at least ten other websites will provide national access.