Get Beyond the Mainstream This Weekend in Hamtramck

The Vidlings and Tapeheads Film Festival celebrates unusual homegrown visual art.

Vidlings and Tapeheads Fest

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The Vidlings and Tapeheads Film Festival celebrates unusual, and sometimes challenging, visual art.

This unconventional fest returns for its second year this weekend in Hamtramck.

Artists and founder Jerry White Jr. told CultureShift’s Amanda LeClaire that he saw a need in Metro Detroit for a showcase for work which dares to go against the mainstream. 

Author

  • Amanda LeClaire is an award-winning journalist and managing editor and lead reporter of WDET's new environmental series, the Detroit Tree Canopy Project, as well as WDET's CuriosiD podcast. She was the host of WDET’s CultureShift and a founding producer of the station’s flagship news talk show *Detroit Today*. Amanda also served as a Morning Edition host at WDET and previously worked as a host, audio and video producer, and reporter for Arizona Public Media.