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All About The D

Fundraiser will help support
Detroit's Heidelberg Project.

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20 November 25 • 2010

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my and Steve Ben-Ezra
of West Bloomfield went
on their first date to the
Heidelberg Project. Steve says that the
gauge of whether or not they would go
out again was if Amy liked the funky
artscape in the heart of Detroit. Amy
loved it, and they've been visiting ever
since.
The Heidelberg Project, founded
and created by Detroit artist Tyree
Guyton, has turned a neighborhood's
abandoned buildings into sculptural
monuments that are heavy on polka
dots. Guyton recently accepted an invi-
tation for a one-year residency at the
Laurenz House Foundation in Basel,
Switzerland.
The Ben-Ezras, married now
with three children, returned to the
Heidelberg Project this year to cel-
ebrate their 10th wedding anniversary
in a special way. They wanted to pur-
chase a work of art by Guyton.
When they visited the Heidelberg
Project office and Guyton's studio, they
wound up with an art piece and much
more. They fell in love with the pos-
sibilities the Heidelberg Project pre-
sented for Detroit and asked how they
could help raise money for the project.
On Thursday, Dec. 2, beginning
at 6 p.m., the Ben-Ezras, along with
Kimberly and Gary Goodman of West
Bloomfield and their committee, will
host the Heidelberg Project's fall fund-
raiser, It's All About the D, at the historic

Ford Piquette Plant Museum in Detroit,
where Henry Ford built his Model
T. Food will be provided by Slows Bar
BBQ in Detroit. There will be a special
auction and raffle of art by Guyton.
The fundraiser will celebrate
Detroit and its past and present
creative endeavors. The Erb Family
Foundation in Birmingham will match
dollar for dollar donations raised from
the event.
The Heidelberg Project is a non-
profit community arts organization
whose mission is to improve lives and
neighborhoods through art. While
in the third poorest ZIP code in the
country (on Mt. Elliott and Heidelberg
streets on Detroit's east side), the proj-
ect is the third most-visited cultural
site in the city.
The fundraiser will support build-
ing the Heidelberg Project's signature
capital project, the House That Makes
Sense Center, a community arts cen-
ter featuring a children's gallery and
workshop, an artist—in-residence pro-
gram and an international library.
Sponsors include Florine Mark of
the WW Group Inc. in Farmington
Hills, Shari and Stanley Finsilver of
Orchard Lake and William and Irene
Schumer of General Linen in Detroit.
Tickets: $300, $175 couple/$100
individual, $100 couple/$60 indi-
vidual. For tickets, contact Michelle at
(313) 974-6894. For more on the proj-
ect, go to www.heidelberg.org .

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