up. Programs 2012-2014 One of the strong initial project partners, El Museo del Norte, opened the exhibit, We Will Be Heard!, at the Boulevard House in 2013. This was followed in 2014 by the current exhibit, Las Rebeldes. Preparation for these exhibits involved partners at the University of Michigan and in the community, and they collaboratively completed a lion's share of renovation work inside the house. El Museo has been a primary presence and mobilization force at the Boulevard House for the first year, and drew support from Maria Cotera, Elena Herrada (Fronteras Norteñas), Jennifer Peacock (UM-Program in American Culture) and Mick Kennedy (UM-School of Architecture). The Stamps School of Art & Design (SSA&D) also initiated an art exhibit in spring of 2014, Una Vida Linda by Rolando Palacio, which required additional, continued UM and community partner support in preparing the space. Over the summer of 2014, Nick Tobier (Stamps) and Larry Gant (SSW/SSA&D) used funding through MCubed to host a Detroit-native artist-in-residence, Alana Hoey. In 2014, University of Michigan held several Detroit-based courses at the Boulevard House, including locating the SSW Community-Based Initiative program classwork on site. SSA&D and the School of Music, Theater and Dance (SMTD) also held classes on site. Current After some assessment and evaluation throughout Fall 2014, the direction of the Boulevard House emerged as one which explores a major social theme specific to Southwest Detroit: the theme of contested proverbial and literal ground in a highly heterogeneous community with a number of waves of immigration, strong enclave identities, and immense development pressures associated with large-scale projects, such as highway construction and land use for a new transborder bridge. As part of its praxis, the Boulevard House chose to engage this theme through a number of theoretical and practice models in order to engage different individuals in relevant ways. A great emphasis has been placed on art as a tool of expression, because it allows participants to express the deepest and most fundamental elements of human experience. Boulevard House's programming has been carefully crafted to occupy a niche not currently filled and which appears to be relevant within the community. Current 2015 events include a weekly open discussion group which focuses on Detroit social issues and politics, Kaffe Politik; a quarterly event which features a themed exhibit, music and a panel, Salon Saturday; a monthly event which features a critical film on social policy, Social