(CBS DETROIT) – The Detroit Festival of Books is the largest book festival in Michigan, and it is returning in July for the sixth year at Detroit’s Eastern Market.
Ryan M. Place, founder and chairman of Detroit Bookfest, and Lonni Thomas, director of markets at Eastern Market Partnership, sat down with anchor Jeff Skversky inside the studios of CBS News Detroit on Wednesday, June 21st, 2023 to talk about the upcoming event that is scheduled for Sunday, July 16.
The event will include various books (including authors selling & signing their own books), other items, and a ton of fun activities.
Entry to the event is FREE.
Watch the full conversation with Place and Thomas in the video above.
Pong Detroit is an afterhours ping-pong social club, which is located directly across the street from Eastern Market, inside Bert’s Warehouse (2739 Russell Street).
The brainchild of former Honolulu-based radio DJ and pong enthusiast Mal Lang, their slogan is “unplug and play.”
Mal says, “Soccer is # 1 and table tennis is the # 2 participant sport in world. Table tennis is huge in China, India, Europe (especially Sweden & Germany).”
Pong Detroit (photo by: Ryan M. Place)
Bert’s Warehouse also features a comedy club, kitchen, and bar, so you can drink and pong all night long.
Lessons are available and they will be doing wheelchair table tennis soon. Their other slogan is “Food, drinks, music and pong.”
Fortunately for Bookfest attendees, Mal will be wheeling over some ping-pong tables to Detroit Bookfest, so everyone can enjoy playing some free ping-pong in the streets.
Thank you, Mal!
Michigan shaped ping pong paddle (courtesy of Pong Detroit)
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