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La Dispute live show with crowd of fans

Local Spins feature on La Dispute & the DAAC

"Grand Rapids was a different place for music when Jordan Dreyer was growing up. These days, between a handful of venues, you can find solid tunes pretty much any day of the week. But 10 years ago, the most important...

La Dispute band members at a crosswalk

La Dispute/DAAC Benefit feature on Revue

"Rock bands with any sort of depth tend to sprout from unorthodox beginnings. The Ramones perfected its stage show at the gritty CBGB. The Velvet Underground preferred to get weird with Andy Warhol at The Factory. For La Dispute, a...

Blue street map, Site:Lab Rumsey Street Project

Rumsey St. Project

Thanks to Habitat for Humanity of Kent County and Site Lab, The DAAC is going to be doing some programming in the Roosevelt Park neighborhood at a temporary location. *During this project all DAAC programming will be run independently of...

Pink notebook with doodles, LadyFestGR April 14th, 2015

LadyFestGR 2015!

We're excited to be a sponsor for this year's LadyfestGR! All proceeds of this year's event will go to help fund the good work of Girls Rock Grand Rapids!! Facebook Event Schedule Variety Show - Call for Submissions Workshops

Nuns smoking and drinking on the sidewalk

Scope Me & The Click Photo Competition

Thanks to Scope Me, all the participating photographers and everyone who came out to The Click Photo Competition at the Rezervoir Lounge! Through donations and merch sales we raised $216 to go towards programming later this year and our future...

Brick storefront for the Neutral Zone

Neutral Zone Field Trip

Today we took a trip with our friends at the Cook Art Center to visit The Neutral Zone in Ann Arbor. Thanks to John and staff for the great conversation and tour of the killer space!

Photo collage of community members engaged in discussion

Break It Down. Make It Better. Event

This Saturday, DAAC board member Mike Wolf will be facilititating two roundtable discussions for the Avenue for the Arts event titled Break It Down. Make It Better. Comparing Curatorial Practice. Discussions will focus on limited resources for small-scale, non-commercial projects/spaces.

Banner on the side of a building reads REDINK Flint Local 432

Local 432 Field Trip

DAAC board members, Charity & Mike, took a field trip to visit the good folks at Flint Local 432 today to talk shop and check out their awesome all-ages space. Thanks to Aaron, Joel, Layla, Sarah, Chris, John, and Mike...

La Dispute lavender flower and arrow

La Dispute Benefit for The DAAC!

Join us and our friends La Dispute for a special benefit show April 7th at Calvin College's Covenant Fine Art Center! Click here for Ticket info

Packed audience at the Pyramid Scheme, text reads: Thank You!!

THANK YOU!

Whoa! What an exciting month! To everyone who donated to our RocketHub campaign, attended one of our fundraising shows, and sent private donations we'd like to say Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! With your generous donations we can begin...

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