The Film Lab

The Film Lab acknowledges and celebrates the diversity in Detroit and within the community. The contemporary and classic microcinema is there for patrons to enjoy a movie while enjoying a tasty cocktail. Lara Sfire, a native Detroiter, is the owner and co-founder. Sfire is a filmmaker with an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, former gaffer in NY and the Sundance Labs, current member of the Final Girls, a Knight Foundation awardee and OGFG, collectives of female identifying filmmakers, and a series producer for Kresge Arts in Detroit. She also founded Film Shop Detroit, a collective of filmmakers who share works in progress.

Patricia Tucker

In her 20’s, Patricia Tucker applied to and was accepted into the Commercial Art program at the Center for Creative Studies. She continued taking classes in many disciplines, i.e., ceramics, photography, and fine woodworking. After retiring six years ago, she was inspired to show her work. She has exhibited her work at several local galleries - The Kayrod Gallery, The Bridge Gallery, The Anton Center in Mt. Clemens, The Scarab Club and Embrace Creatives.

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Dirt Room

Dirt Room is a Detroit-based musical project made up mainly of two people - SJ Sprague and Patrick Norton. A trancey, sinuous song cycle of modernist no-wave Duo utilizing guitars, guttural vocals, experimental percussive arrangements, dissonant counterpoint patterns, layered samples that are haunting, and mesmerizing at the same time, and a smattering of eerie minor keys.