Community Access News

LIVE Bike Tour to end bullying

I’m happy to share some video with you of a new friend of the Hub. May I introduce John Tre’vor (aka JT) who has started LIVE which stands for: Love, Inspire, Visualize, Experience. After speaking in schools around Detroit he has decided to take his show on the road and talk to youth throughout the Read more
Flash from the very recent past (last month)

Hey everyone, Last month James and I got to go out to Cody High School on the West Side to hang out with the students there during their Literacy Night event. We played B.I.K.E.O. (BINGO with bike parts), passed out permission slips and donated a bike to be raffled off. We have had a student Read more
Benefit Concert #2 coming up!

We are going to be doing another benefit concert in February. See the flier for the show by clicking on the article title.
Winter Bike Give-a-Way Report (full)

Hello Everyone, You may donate a bike or money to the Hub of Detroit and think to yourself, “Where does it all go?” Well I’m here to answer part of that question. If you donate a kid’s bike (20″ or smaller) to us…we give them to kids! For years we have been rebuilding donated bikes Read more
December YEAB 2011

Hey Everyone, So we have been super lucky this year. This is the second year that we have provided Youth Earn-a-Bike year-round and it has been a success. Even now as December is beginning we have kids knocking down our door wanting to wrench on bikes which is a wonderful thing. Last month in November Read more
Detroit Community Schools

Hello everyone, As you noticed from yesterday’s post, there is a holiday this week. That means that our programming office will be closed down the rest of the week. So I may just skip posting a Friday Opinion piece this week to give you a rest from my ramblings. However, I didn’t want to leave Read more
Fender Bender Programming Change

Hey ya’ll, You may be familiar with a community partner of ours called Fender Bender. For a while (about 2 years!) they have been using our space on Saturdays for women, transgender and genderqueer specific shop time. Well I have good news and bad news. The good news is that they are moving into their Read more
Detroit News and Trans-Liberation response

So recently the Hub of Detroit was in The Detroit News. I happened to be the one interviewed. I think often there is a frustration on both parties, both the interviewer and the interviewee, to connect accurately in a short period of time. While I do appreciate very much the time that Marney Rich Keenan Read more
3rd Annual Safe Streets Youth Ride

Wow that was fast! I just wrote an update mentioning the Safe Streets Youth ride being developed and now we have a flier that you can download and share with the rest of the world. We also have an online registration site set up for the ride. If you go and register before Aug. 13th, Read more