30 | JUNE 9 • 2022
faces&places
The third annual JVS + Kadima
Frame of Mind Benefit and Arts
Showcase, held at the Museum
of Contemporary Art Detroit
on May 15, raised almost
$90,000 for the nonprofit
agency’s Creative Expressions
program, which provides
artistic enrichment services for
individuals with serious mental
health challenges or intellectual
and developmental disabilities.
Around 170 people attended
the event, which offered a
theatrical immersive evening
with singing, music, dance,
acting and art. Professional
musicians, dancers and actors
from the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra (DSO), Detroit
Opera and Matrix Theatre
collaborated with JVS + Kadima
members to produce and
perform in the show.
Highlights of the evening
included a performance of
“Memory” from Cats, Vivaldi’s
Spring performed on the violin
by a member with DSO cellist
Jeremy Crosmer, a spaceship
animation featuring a member’s
artwork, an interactive tree
installation called “Walk a Mile
in My Shoes,
” plus a dance
performance to the Motown hit
“Do You Love Me.
”
There was also an art gallery
displaying 100+ works of art by
Creative Expressions artists.
For information about the art program,
go to shopcreativeexpressions.com
or contact Craig Nowak at
craign@kadimacenter.org.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF JEFF AISEN
Third Annual JVS
+ Kadima Frame of
Mind Benefit and
Arts Showcase
Madison, a singer at the event, with artwork
JVS + Kadima Board Member Dani Gillman with Board Chair Kristen Gross
Committee members Dr. Avery Murav, Robin Tobin Murav and Phyllis
Schwartz
Committee member Barbara Eisenberg with JVS + Kadima member
Joel K
JVS + Kadima CEO Paul Blatt with Co-Chairs Barbara and Michael
Kratchman
Board Member Rick Zussman
with Julie Zussman..