Bryce Detroit

Biography

Bryce Detroit is an Afrofuturist storyteller, activist and a pioneer of entertainment justice. As a designer with a focus on culture, he is an award-winning music producer, performer and curator. And as founder of the Detroit Recordings Company he has shown how effective it can be to use music, entertainment, art and a community legacy to propose cultural infrastructures to preserve, advance and foster originally African narrative, cultural education and a cooperative music industry. In 2014 he founded the ONE MILE Mothership and organized a funk concert with the legendary “Butch” Jones, bringing together four generations of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective. In 2017 Bryce was selected to be the musical curator of the 10th International Design Biennale in St. Etienne. In addition he is the director of the Center for Community Based Enterprises (C2BE), an international appointee of the East Michigan Environmental Action Council and co-founder of the Detroit Community Wealth Fund. As a media-based organiser and activist he is a founding member of Detroit Resists, the Oakland Avenue Artists Coalition and the Detroit Future Youth Network.