Thank You Pure Michigan for featuring Detroit Bookfest on the state of Michigan’s main tourism calendar!

Detroit Bookfest on the Pure Michigan tourism calendar

Big thank you to Pure Michigan for listing Detroit Bookfest on the state of Michigan’s main tourism calendar!

Pure Michigan is a division of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation in Lansing. The MEDC exists to help foster and promote positive economic activity statewide.

We are honored and delighted to be featured on the calendar.

Pure Michigan (courtesy of Pure Michigan)

Fun factoid of the day:

Michigan has the world’s longest freshwater coastline (3, 288 miles).

Detroit Bookfest on the Pure Michigan Calendar

https://www.michigan.org/event/7th-annual-detroit-festival-books-aka-detroit-bookfest-free

Calendar listing of all events

https://www.michigan.org/events

Pure Michigan (courtesy of Pure Michigan)

AI Images of Detroit Bookfest (courtesy of Pete Linforth in the UK)

AI Images of Detroit Bookfest (digital art generated by Pete Linforth in the UK)

Wow! All of these images were generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) courtesy of Pete Linforth, an artist in the United Kingdom.

Pete says:

“I have created Digital Art going way back in the 1980’s when rendering a small resolution image would take over 24 hours! Now these things are done in seconds. I also doodle with black ink pens.”

“I’ve used AI pretty much as it came out into the market place. Basic AI has been around for many years, but recently of course there are hundreds of tools anyone can get into easily. I like the fact that someone with no experience at creating art manually can now create images from their imagination, that’s a great way to bring creativity to the masses. I tend to mainly use Leonardo, it’s a feature rich tool that is growing in popularity and new features are added on a regular basis.”

“Some personal inspirations are Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Escher, Rothko and Emin. Each have their unique view of the world and each had a major influence on my style and general images I like.”

Thank you, Pete! These images are whimsical and fascinating!

Homepage

https://pixabay.com/users/thedigitalartist-202249/

Contact

[email protected]

AI Images of Detroit Bookfest (digital art generated by Pete Linforth in the UK)

Visit Detroit’s official mobile tourism center, the D-Rover Van, will be at Detroit Bookfest!

The D-Rover Van will be at Detroit Bookfest!

*Special thanks to John Francis, Harriet Carter, Stan Smith and the great staff at the DMCVB for this*

The D-Rover Mobile Visitors Center travels around the region, helping to promote Detroit by passing out free magazines, maps, giveaways and special Detroit promotional materials to anyone interested in hearing more about the area.

Owned and operated by the The Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau (DMCVB), the D-Rover will be making its way to Bookfest!

John Francis @ the D Rover from DMCVB (photo by: Detroit’s Debography)

The DMCVB is “the only organization that promotes Metro Detroit regionally, nationally and internationally as a convention, business meeting and tourism destination.”

It is a non-profit economic development corporation which helps generate excitement about the area.

Factoring in all of the ancillary revenue streams (ie: hotels, restaurants, bars, stores, etc), the economic impact of Detroit Festival of Books for the Metro Detroit region is projected to be several million dollars.

Come check out the D-Rover!

Visit Detroit

https://visitdetroit.com/

Visit Detroit calendar of events

https://visitdetroit.com/events/7th-annual-detroit-festival-of-books/

The D-Rover Van will be at Detroit Bookfest!

Here are some fun Detroit facts courtesy of DMCVB’s VisitDetroit.com

Detroit Facts

News Media about Detroit Festival of Books (aka: Detroit Bookfest)

6th annual Detroit Festival of Books in July 2023 at Eastern Market’s Shed 5 in Detroit (photo by Debbie Maciolek)

This is a collection of various news media pieces about Detroit Festival of Books (aka: Detroit Bookfest):

2024

Detroit News (2024)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/2024/07/17/things-to-do-this-weekend-in-metro-detroit/74427331007/

Detroit Free Press (2024)

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/nightlife/2024/07/18/ann-arbor-art-fair-festival-things-to-do-detroit/74440390007/

Michigan Public (2024)

https://www.michiganpublic.org/show/stateside/2024-07-17/stateside-wednesday-july-17-2024

Eastern Michigan University (2024)

https://today.emich.edu/story/story/12748

Live in the D (2024)

https://www.clickondetroit.com/video/live-in-the-d/2024/07/12/heart-of-detroit-birdie-s-bookmobile-on-live-in-the-d/

Fox 2 News (2024)

https://www.fox2detroit.com/video/1474575

Redfin (2024)

https://www.redfin.com/blog/detroit-mi-bucket-list/

DBusiness (2024)

https://www.dbusiness.com/daily-news/dbusiness-daily-update-detroit-festival-of-books-to-expand-in-2024-and-more/

Visit Detroit (2024)

https://visitdetroit.com/events/7th-annual-detroit-festival-of-books/#:~:text=7th%20annual%20Detroit%20Bookfest%20Sunday,%2Dday%20six%2Dhour%20event

2023

CBS News Detroit (2023)

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/detroit-festival-of-books-returns-for-6th-year-in-eastern-market/

Fox 2 Detroit (2023)

https://www.fox2detroit.com/video/1252416

WXYZ Detroit (2023)

https://www.wxyz.com/news/political/spotlight-on-the-news/spotlight-on-the-news-oakland-county-small-business-loans-detroit-bookfest

WDIV ClickonDetroit (2023)

https://www.clickondetroit.com/video/news/2023/07/17/6th-annual-detroit-festival-of-books-held-at-eastern-market/

Fine Books Magazine (2023)

https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/events/book-club-detroit-presents-6th-annual-detroit-festival-books-2023-07-16

2022

Detroit News (2022)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/07/14/family-friendly-day-events-eastern-market-detroit-bookfest/7702727001/

Detroit Free Press (2022)

https://www.freep.com/picture-gallery/news/local/michigan/detroit/2022/07/17/michigan-authors-showcase-books-detroit-festival-books/10082858002/

Photos from the 6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market

Debbie Maciolek is the Official Photographer for Detroit Festival of Books

The 6th annual Detroit Festival of Books (aka: Detroit Bookfest) took place on Sunday, July 16, 2023 at Eastern Market Shed 5 in Detroit.

These photos are courtesy of Detroit photographer Debbie Maciolek and her company DEBOGRAPHY .

Debbie says:

“I had an absolute blast at Detroit Bookfest! Really enjoyed it, especially meeting the book dealers and authors and listening to all the great conversations. Thank you to all the people who interacted with me and helped me get great shots. It was a very diverse crowd of vendors and attendees and I loved seeing all the books, smiles, great food, records, hearing the funk music and I look forward to going next year!”

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6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market Shed 5 (photo by: Debbie Maciolek, aka: Debography) Detroit Bookfest

Darren McCarty @ 6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market Shed 5 (photo by: Debbie Maciolek, aka: Debography) Detroit Bookfest

6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market Shed 5 (photo by: Debbie Maciolek, aka: Debography) Detroit Bookfest

Deon Forrest @ 6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market Shed 5 (photo by: Debbie Maciolek, aka: Debography) Detroit Bookfest

6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market Shed 5 (photo by: Debbie Maciolek, aka: Debography) Detroit Bookfest

John King @ 6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market Shed 5 (photo by: Debbie Maciolek, aka: Debography) Detroit Bookfest

6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market Shed 5 (photo by: Debbie Maciolek, aka: Debography) Detroit Bookfest

Ilana Berry @ 6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market Shed 5 (photo by: Debbie Maciolek, aka: Debography) Detroit Bookfest

6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market Shed 5 (photo by: Debbie Maciolek, aka: Debography) Detroit Bookfest

Birdie’s Bookmobile @ 6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market Shed 5 (photo by: Debbie Maciolek, aka: Debography) Detroit Bookfest

6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market Shed 5 (photo by: Debbie Maciolek, aka: Debography) Detroit Bookfest

Ryan M. Place and Lonni Thomas @ 6th Annual Detroit Festival of Books 2023 @ Eastern Market Shed 5 (photo by: Debbie Maciolek, aka: Debography) Detroit Bookfest