2024: Community Creation Session
New compositions, live poetry, jam session, and salon
Imbolc Community Creation SessionAt 27th Letter Bookstore
3546 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI 48216
February 4, 2024
4pm-8pm
Featuring compositions by Detroit-based musicians, including King Sophia, Ackeem Salmon, Michael Smith, Laina Martin, Indira Edwards, and more
Suggested $10-20 Donation
King Sophia is a cellist of 15 years with a Bachelors in Cello Performance from University of Miami: Frost School of Music. King is also a vocalist, an electric guitarist, a songwriter and composer, an arranger, a conductor, a performer and recording artist, a teacher, and above all, a student and a catalyst for change. King has collaborated with Arthur Hanlon and Meta, and was previously the President of the Black Musicians Caucus at University of Miami, and founded the Black Arts Ensemble to give a platform to young Black musicians while showcasing Black compositions. Under my leadership, the Black Arts Ensemble performed at Street Stages in collaboration with Olympia Arts Miami and at a Miami-Dade Democrat event headlined by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. We also opened for multiple GRAMMY™️ award-winning trumpeter Etienne Charles and his band Creole Soul at the Historic Black Archives Lyric Theater.
Ackeem Salmon is originally from Kingston, Jamaica, and now resides in Detroit, MI. He is a multimedia artist who explores photography with traditional painting and drawing techniques. Ackeem received his BFA from the College for Creative Studies with honors in Photography and Fine Art. He in depth explores how cultural history affects people's present-day identities, and how these identities connect through human commonality and empathy. Internationally recognized for his work, Ackeem has exhibited his work at places such as the Galerie Joseph in Paris, France, the Val de Vie estate in Cape Town, South Africa, Sotheby’s Auction House in New York, and a list of other prominent galleries and venues. Notably, Ackeem is a 2023 awardee in Interdisciplinary Work from the Kresge Foundation and is a former art teacher and a 2021-2023 Teach for America Fellow within Detroit Public Schools.
27th Letter Bookstore is an independent bookstore in Southwest Detroit that strives to highlight historically underrepresented voices and narrative in all forms.