Join us for a very special music performance by the DSO Trio, on Friday, September 17, 2021 from 6:30PM-7:30PM at the Indian Village Centennial Garden.

Let’s enjoy live classical music together with members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra:

David LeDoux, cello, Sheryl Hwangbo Yu, violin, and Jeffery Zook, flute.

This event is FREE and open to the public. Please bring your own blanket or chair.

Join us for a free outdoor classical music performance by AJC Trio: Ashley Nelson, violin, Jasmine James, cello, and Carla Rivers-Johnson, violin, at the Indian Village Centennial Garden on Friday, August 27, 2021 from 6:30-7:30PM.

Let's enjoy the bliss of warm summer air, and the sense of community that comes from enjoying live music together with others.

Please bring your own blanket or chair. This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for a free monthly series of classical music performances by local musicians at the Indian Village Centennial Garden.

Let's enjoy live music outdoor together with the Norwood Trio: Carol Ambrogio Wood, soprano, Kassia Martin, flute, and Sam Martin, clarinet on Friday, July 23, 2021 from 6:30PM-7:30PM.

Bring your own blanket or chair. This event is free and open to the public.

We hope you can join us for this special evening!

Join us for the music performance by an ensemble Six Mile Strings at Centennial Garden.

6MS are a string quartet of friends who focus on performing classical and contemporary works. They aim to expand the scope and artistry of the traditional string quartet by working with artists of many genres and across disciplines. Beyond the concert stage, all four musicians are educators and the quartet works to provide insight into the contemporary world of music as well as giving a fundamental understanding of classical music.

This event is free and open to the public. Please bring your own blanket or chair.

Join artist Lynne Avadenka for the closing reception of her solo exhibition "Intimations" with a very special music performance by an ensemble Virago, on Saturday, November 23 from 7-8:30PM.

Founded in 2018 at the University of Michigan School of Music, Virago is an ensemble that performs contemporary chamber music and free improvisation. They aim to introduce new audiences to the compelling art of free improvisation, and to collaborate with composers with similar missions to create new works for their unique instrumentation.

They are currently working with Detroit-based composer Harriet Steinke to create an evening length, multi-movement composition that incorporates elements of improvisation to be premiered in February 2020.

Committed to educational outreach, Virago has developed a workshop for musicians of all levels which introduces improvisation as a means of gaining instrumental facility, developing active listening skills, and empowering individual creativity.

This event is free and open to the public.

We hope you will join us!

We hope you will join us!

K.OSS Contemporary Art + Detroit Duo The Strange in conjunction with Eastern Market After Dark are pleased to present “Voices of the Carousel”, a cabaret style music performance by Brent McKay and Erik Nordin.

Voices of the Carousel tells the story of an astronaut (Christopher Strange) trapped on a lonely space station somewhere in the distant future.  While contemplating his life purpose, he begins to hear voices that exploit his self-doubt.   Which voice will Christopher ultimately follow?
This haunting performance combines the surrealism of Moulin Rouge and melodic impressionism of Erik Satie with the blurred edges of Pink Floyd.

 Brent McKay and Erik Nordin have been performing together for over a decade.  Their music has been on MTV and national commercials as well as charting nationally on college radio.    

Voices of the Carousel was composed and created with a more symphonic approach with Erik on Piano instead of his main instrument drums.   VOTC explores the duos struggle as artists to remain connected to their creative selves.   Much of the music was composed spontaneously being improvised during the recording session. The album is a 17 song concept album which explores various characters living inside of the artists mind. Each is trying to influence the outcome.   Dr. Charles Rains hypnotizes his patient to release these characters.  The live show includes song, stories and audience interaction.

The carousel is the story of our lives, struggling to remember what it was like to be a child, free to explore and be creative.  

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Formed in 2017, the Detroit-based cosmic folk group Young Supply unites guitarists and vocalists Jeff Raudebaugh and Joey Del Re with upright bassist Paul Sallèles.

Their blend of natural elements create a beautiful sound wave that's delicate but not too soft, dark but not too moody.

Their debut LP, recorded at High Bias Studio under the Ripe Records label, will be released in 2019.

Please listen to one of Young Supply's songs here

This event is free and open to the public.

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This event is an informal opportunity to engage with our current exhibiting artist Annica Cuppetelli in the gallery.

Ask questions and learn first-hand about her work, inspiration, and process.

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Free. No registration required.

Please join artist Annica Cuppetelli and writer Lynn Crawford in a panel discussion about the three-way intersection--and resulting complexities--of fashion, fiction and other creative expression. Moderated by art critic Michael Stone-Richards.

Click to watch Discussion, Part 1 and Q&A, Part 2

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K.OSS Contemporary Art + Detroit Bureau of Sound are pleased to present a sonic response to Larry Cressman's "Fieldwork" by Zac Bru, a head of Detroit Bureau of Sound + artist talk with Larry Cressman and Zac Bru before the performance.

A most honest communion of sight and sound, linking orderly lines of raspberry twigs to repetitious knockings on wood and drums.

This one-night-only sonic response uses the eyes and ears to observe the individuality and sameness that permeates nature.

A sonic response is a mode of performance specific to Zac’s ‘synaesthesia’, which is a kind of miswiring in the brain where an aspect of one sense triggers another, perhaps a correlation of pitch with color, or musical tone with physical texture. The eyes see patterns of small twigs appearing in separate forms connected by blank space -- the ears translate these visual elements into a network of sharp wooden sounds, low rumbling drums, and the heavenly clanging of windchimes. 
13 woodblocks, 3 low drums, 2 hanging windchimes, loops, delay + reverb, amplification

We hope you will join us for this special evening on Thursday November 29th from 7-9PM

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K.OSS Contemporary Art is excited to celebrate Detroit design with Eastern Market After Dark.

We are pleased to present a multimedia light installation "Linear Cycle 4" by Cuppetelli and Mendoza accompanied by "The Nine Magical Tunes of Drums" by Demetrius Thomas.

We hope you will join us for  this special evening!

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Please Join Us For This Wonderful Opening Reception!

A Free Screening of Festival & Prize-winning Films from one of The Finest Schools in the Country - SF Art & Film Workshop

RSVP to info@kossgallery.com

Doors open at 7:30pm for the screening at 8pm

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