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5 Things To Know This Week: DIA Presentation, Lollapa'D'za Music Festival

Here's what you need to know about Birmingham this week.

  1. City Commission, Planning Board to meet for joint session Monday: The Birmingham City Commission and Planning Board will meet for a joint session at the Monday at 7:30 p.m. On the agenda is: a liquor license policy review, a Complete Streets update, a Woodward pedestrian crossing update, an update from the Transit Oriented Development Task Force and a discussion of O1 and O2 zoning requirements.
  2. School board to meet Tuesday: The Birmingham Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the on West Merrill Street. On the agenda is an update from the Human Reproductive Health Advisory Committee, as presented by Deb Boyer, assistant principal at .
  3. : Representatives from the Detroit Institute of Arts' will present at the at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The presentation will provide an overview of the program as well as the various local activities and community-based interpretative programs planned for the fall.
  4. : will be hosting a music festival beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, featuring dozens of student groups and individual artists performing original pieces and cover songs. All proceeds benefit the Seaholm Theatre's fall production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Rock Concert.
  5. : Danielle McGuire, the author of At the Dark End of the Street, will be reading from her latest works at 7 p.m. Tuesday at . Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Oak Park's The Book Beat. The reading is presented in part by the Michigan Center for the Book and with the Race Relations & Diversity Task Force.


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