Brain Candy returns for another curated evening of live, original work — a focused arts showcase highlighting writers, musicians, and visual artists in a setting designed to give the work the attention it deserves.

Brain Candy is co-produced by the Dan E. Wickett Legacy Committee, the Brain Candy Network, and Green Brain Comics, continuing a shared commitment to supporting and elevating creative voices in our community.

What You’ll Experience

Brain Candy is not an open mic, not a panel, and not an interactive workshop. It is a curated performance night — structured, intentional, and centered on the art and the artist.

This month’s featured creatives include:

Music - Jeff Spisak

Jeff Spisak is a songwriter from Taylor, Michigan. His work spans a variety of genres. He has released over 25 albums sense 2011. His latest album is “The World’s Trying To Kill Me.”

Poetry - Dom Whitten

Dom Witten is a Black poet raised on the beginning of a one-way street in Detroit, MI and the Co-Executive Director and Program Facilitator of the Poetics Lab. Her work establishes futures with more joy, sass, naps and emotional accuracy.

Prose - Reynaldo Hinojosa

Reynaldo Hinojosa is a Science Fiction & Fantasy writer, poet, and Lead Teaching Artist with the non-profit Literary Arts Organization Inside Out. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he writes stories to build worlds. Drawing inspiration from our current reality, he constructs a heterocosm, a world that combines the fantastic and our everyday world.

Visual Art - Dan Kestler

Dan Kestler is a painter who lives in Southfield, MI. He was born in Jewish Memorial Hospital in Washington Heights NY, the son of German and Guatemalan immigrants. This painter doesn’t own, nor does he want to own, a single nice thing.