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Camp and Paxahau unveil MOVEMENT Detroit Art Installations presented by Opportunity Detroit

3-Day Weekend Passes, 3-Day VIP Weekend Passes and Daily Passes Now on Sale at www.Movement.us

DETROIT, MI - Paxahau and Community Arts Moving Projects (CAMP) are pleased to announce the winning art pieces produced by local artists, to be displayed at Movement Detroit 2014, taking place Memorial Day weekend, May 24-26 inside Hart Plaza. This year’s installation is made possible by Opportunity Detroit – a campaign dedicated to promoting Detroit as a place of innovation, creativity and growth.

For the past 5 years, CAMP has called upon Detroit’s artists, makers and thinkers to submit their best ideas for exhibition at Movement and then, relocated and displayed in key locations in Detroit’s neighborhood, with support from Opportunity Detroit.

Artists are selected based on the quality and character of their proposals, as well as their connection to the City of Detroit, its artistic community, and its neighborhood development. The 2014 selections are as follows:

Ernst: King of Cats, by Sean Hagas
Yeah Yoy, Foch, by Louis Cassinelli and Andrew Thompson
Reflection Portal, by John Rizzo and Will Tyrrell
Dystopian Disco: Sonic Crystals, by Bethany Shorb and Kip Ewing
The Good-Time Light-Hearted Lean Peaks, by Patrick Ethen, Ellen Rutt, Alan Sedghi, Eiji Jimbo, Simon Anton, and Rachel Mulder
Amity, by Eddie Bullock

Click here for more info on the 2014 projects and artists.

Tickets for Movement are on sale now and can be purchased by visiting www.Movement.us. The cost for a three-day weekend pass is currently $130 and grants fans general admission access to the festival grounds with in-and-out privileges. The cost for a three-day VIP pass is currently $260 and includes many extras that can be found on the website. Check out the official Movement 2014 trailer online, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjfYii2zOHI
The Movement Electronic Music Festival takes place every Memorial Day weekend inside Hart Plaza – Detroit’s legendary riverfront destination. The festival features: five technologically-rich outdoor stages; more than 100 artists; a posh VIP setting located behind the main stage; dozens of official afterparties; an interactive technology center featuring the hottest gear in the industry; and several art displays to stimulate the senses. Over 107,000 people from around the globe attended the 2013 festival.

About CAMP
CAMP (Community Arts Moving Projects) is a Detroit-based non-profit program developed by Paxahau Event Productions, The Detroit Creative Corridor Center, and artists/ entrepreneurs Vanessa Miller and Melinda Anderson, with support from Omnicorp Detroit, Tech Shop, Detroit Soup, Forward Arts, Recycle Here, and Corktown Studios. The program aims to facilitate the continued progress of Detroit through the exhibition of the region’s exemplary creative talent on the global stage by providing selected applicants with a monetary stipend, technical resources to aid in fabrication, and marketing support for the projects and artists. To date, the CAMP program has supported 24 projects, 80 local artists, and has relocated its artist’s projects into permanent locations in Detroit’s neighborhoods.

About Opportunity Detroit
Opportunity Detroit is a campaign that showcases Detroit’s exciting present and promising future by creating an urban environment that attracts businesses, residents and visitors while promoting Detroit as a great place to live, work and play. The campaign launched as a partnership among a group of 28 locally-based corporations (many of them well-known national brands and businesses), making a long-term commitment to job creation and community investment in Detroit.. Opportunity Detroit started as a commercial, and it continues to evolve as a way to tell Detroit’s story as an emerging high-tech hub, and the city’s ongoing transformation from a muscle economy of the past to the brain economy of the present and future. For more information visit www.opportunitydetroit.com.

About Paxahau
Paxahau, now in its ninth year as producers of the Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit, first established itself 15 years ago as an online resource to promote both Detroit and electronic music. Paxahau is a name synonymous with excellence and an industry reputation that is second to none. Paxahau is proud of their continued independently owned festival status and is recognized across the world by artists and industry executives as a premier production and promotions organization.
To learn more, visit www.paxahau.com.

 

 
   
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