Brain Candy #74 is your invitation to slow down, lean in, and remember why gathering in a room with other creative humans still matters. Brain Candy isn’t a lecture or a reading you politely endure—it’s a shared experience. Prose, poetry, music, and visual art collide in real time, with no algorithm in sight and no pressure to be anything but present. Come for the art, stay for the feeling that you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be.
This month’s program features a lineup that knows how to hold a room. Musician Brizzl sets the tone, Rochelle Marrett brings the prose, Booker Snow delivers the poetry, and Keto Green anchors the night with visual art. Each voice is distinct, but together they create something bigger than the sum of the parts—an evening that moves, surprises, and lingers with you on the walk home.
Brain Candy is free to attend, because community shouldn’t come with a cover charge. Supporting the artists is encouraged, hanging out is highly recommended, and curiosity does the rest. If you’re looking for a third place that feeds your brain without draining your soul, this is it. Pull up a chair, bring a friend, and let the night do its thing.
This month's featured artists:
https://www.instagram.com/onebrizzl/
Musician: Brizzl
Brizzl is a musician from Detroit, MI. Now hailing in Wilson, NC. He predominately serves the style of hip-hop and r&b. Brizzl is also a producer, keyboardist and DJ. He has gotten praise from Lupe Fiasco for a retro but still thought-provoking and forward sound.
@onebrizzl
Prose: Rochelle Marrett
Rochelle Marrett is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist from Jamaica.Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Detroit Metro Times, Three Fold Press, and others. She has been supported by MacDowell, Yaddo, Tin House, Baldwin For The Arts, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and Sustainable Arts Foundation. She is a 2022 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow and a Kresge Foundation Gilda Awardee. Her work has been short-listed for the DISQUIET Fiction Prize and the Jesmyn Ward Prize. In 2024, she was awarded a Rona Jaffe Scholarship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.Rochelle holds an honors degree in English from The College of Wooster. She resides with her family in Metro Detroit and is working on her first novel
https://www.rochellemarrett.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iamyourloveletter/
Poetry: Booker Snow
Booker Snow is the author of Journey to Love: Letters Dedicated to Love, volumes one and two, the writer and curator of The Knew Musiq Experience, and part owner of Celestial Cinema Group. What you’ll hear tonight lives somewhere between love, reflection, and truth.
@iamyourloveletter
https://www.instagram.com/_ketogreen/
Visual Art: Keto Green
Keto Green is a Detroit-based contemporary artist known for transforming discarded materials like doors, windows, and scrap wood into vibrant, symbolic art reflecting his struggles with poverty, homelessness, and loss, creating powerful works that convey unity and hope from brokenness. He uses art as a healing process, finding beauty in abandoned objects and expressing themes of resilience, family tragedy, and overcoming adversity, often incorporating bright colors and found items to make positive statements about harsh environments.
@_ketogreen
