‘Parking Lot Picasso’ to turn asphalt into art
April 30 event will take place at Sterling Heights Senior Center
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STERLING HEIGHTS Creatively inclined residents are invited to leave their mark on the city or rather, its pavement at an upcoming event involving chalk art.
The program, titled “Parking Lot Picasso,” is run by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department and will use the south-end lot of the Sterling Heights Senior Center as its canvas.
Forty parking spaces are being reserved for this year’s event, which will take place 6:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, April 30, with a rain date set for Saturday, May 1 at the same time.
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City’s event schedule hopes to give COVID-weary residents a ‘break’
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STERLING HEIGHTS Sterling Heights is optimistic that some newly scheduled events can give people a break from being cooped up in their homes, should the threat of COVID-19 recede from the community.
On April 6, Sterling Heights city officials gathered at the Sterling Heights Community Center and rolled out a list of “Break-Free Blast” public events starting in late spring and continuing through the rest of the year.
Sterling Heights Mayor Michael Taylor lamented how the Community Center had to close so soon after its Feb. 29, 2020, grand opening and how the last major event the city had prior to shutdowns was the Cultural Exchange. Even the 2020 Sterlingfest Art and Music Fair was canceled.
History project to show COVID-19 through kids’ eyes
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STERLING HEIGHTS Art history is in the making in Sterling Heights.
The Sterling Heights Historical Commission wants the city’s youth to do their part to help document for the history books how COVID-19 affected 2020.
The city wants kids and teens ages 18 and younger to create artwork and essays that depict COVID-19 and its impact on current events in a way that will be historically relevant to the future and posterity. Organizers want to gather these works of art and writing as part of a “History Today: The Children of COVID-19” project.