# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 3rd Friday!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm – Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Shawntai Brown is a Detroit-based writer, playwright, and teaching artist whose work focuses on empowering communities through storytelling that educates, challenges, and inspires. Her creative work explores the dialogue between artists and audiences and how those conversations shape communities—particularly for queer people of color.

A 2020 Kresge Live Arts Fellow for playwriting, Shawntai has written more than two dozen plays and currently serves as the School Programs Manager for InsideOut Literary Arts, where Detroit students know her as Poet Brown.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kalamazoo/3rd-friday/200029929840746
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Kalamazoo
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 313 N. Burdick St
- **lat**: 42.2937
- **long**: -85.58346
- **full address**: 313 N. Burdick St, 313 N Burdick St, Kalamazoo, MI 49007-3829, United States

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: 3rd Friday!
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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is 3rd Friday! being held?
  - **A:** 3rd Friday! takes place on Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 pm at 313 N. Burdick St, 313 N Burdick St, Kalamazoo, MI 49007-3829, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing 3rd Friday!?
  - **A:** 3rd Friday! is organized by Institute of Public Scholarship.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** 3rd Friday! is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Kalamazoo, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If 3rd Friday! sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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