Black Tech in Black Tie: New Era Detroit's Candlelight Concert for Hotels for the Homeless
Black Tech Saturdays is gifting tickets to New Era Detroit's Black-Tie Candlelight Concert Fundraiser, and we want BTSers in those seats.
The concert supports the sixth annual Hotels for the Homeless. Each Thanksgiving, New Era Detroit books hotel rooms for Detroiters without shelter. The first year was 40 rooms for one night. Six years in, it is a full weekend with three meals a day and housing and job resources on site, and the program has helped more than 10,000 people. All proceeds from Friday go to New Era Detroit's homeless prevention program, which reaches families before a housing crisis does.
Belonging is the word we come back to at every Black Tech Saturday. For a lot of our neighbors, it starts with a safe place to sleep.
The night itself will be beautiful. Florella Strings, the Detroit duo of violinist Carla Rivers-Johnson and cellist Jasmine James, plays by candlelight in the historic Garden Theater, alongside stories of resilience and community.
It is also a room worth being in. A night like this brings out Detroiters who give, who organize, and who treat a neighbor's housing as their own business. Rooms get people to do things they never would have done if they did not come into the room. So come ready to do more than attend. Introduce yourself to the New Era Detroit team. Ask the person beside you what brought them out. Share what you are building, and listen for where your skills, your business, or your network could carry this work further. A good conversation on Friday can turn into years of building together.
Tickets are $100, and ours are a gift to the BTS community. We have a limited number, so register here to request one. If you take a seat, please fill it: come dressed for the occasion and ready to represent this community well.
Can't join us Friday? You can still give at neweraworld.work.
Friday, November 13, 2026Doors open at 6:00 PMGarden Theater, 3929 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201Attire: formal or black