Autumn Wonder Walks at Matthaei

Matthaei Botanical Gardens is hosting free guided nature walks on select Wednesdays and Sundays. These walks are FREE, no registration is required. Wonder Walks are designed for all ages to inspire curiosity and learning from each other through activities that model curiosity and honor nature. Wednesday walks begin at 5:30 pm. Sunday walks begin at 1:00 pm. Gather inside the lobby of Matthaei Botanical Gardens about 10 minutes before the start.

Black Cat Pottery Holiday Open House

Saturday, December 7, 10am-4pm, 3903 Grayton St., Detroit, MI 48224. Join Cheryl English and friends for Black Cat Pottery's last event of the year as we open wide the studio doors for our Holiday Open House. We're sharing some never-before-seen, limited edition work, bringing out old favorites, and introducing our inaugural ornament, based on our ever-popular Itty Bitty Box series, available on a limited, introductory basis. We may even plunge into our BCP archive to share some one-of-a-kind pieces we'll never see again. Come join us to celebrate the season!

Black Nature Walk at the Arb

Wed, Oct 16 2024 - Wed, Jan 1 2025

This semester, a Black Nature Walk will wind through Nichols Arboretum in the trails around the Peony garden. The walk is the creation of a group of students enrolled in a Black Ecologies course taught by Professor Bénédicte Boisseron from the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Black ecology is the study of Black people in relation to their environment. In 2022, poet and scholar Joshua Bennett curated an outdoor exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden featuring work by Black poets. Inspired by this, students are now creating a similar experience at Nichols Arboretum. They will showcase poems from Camille T. Dungy's anthology "Black Nature," along with a special "In Memoriam" poem by Marcellus Williams, a death row inmate executed in Missouri on September 24th, 2024.