The 2nd Street Performing Arts Center is a Downriver performing arts community gathering space with a mission to provide the communities it serves with a space to experience the performing arts, including dance, music and visual arts. The goal is to produce the highest quality arts entertainment, to have a positive impact on the community and to be an organization where everyone is welcome, equal and can create in an open and accepting environment.

Run completely by volunteers, 2nd Street builds its own sets, runs its own tech, choreographs dances, and much more – all while having day jobs.

“We do this for the love of the arts,” said Gerald Hymer, who serves as president of the Downriver Actors Guild.

While the 2nd Street Performing Arts Center in Wyandotte may be a recently renovated new home for them, the Downriver Actors Guild has been in the Downriver area for 15 years.

Starting off as a youth theater program called Out of the Box, it eventually grew to become the Downriver Actors Guild. The growth continued until it needed to find a new space, and now the former Saint Elizabeth Church at the corner of 2nd Street and Goodell is a bustling community, offering not just theater performance opportunities to all ages but a dance studio and a voice studio, as well.

Overseen by a board of directors, the 2nd Street Performing Arts Center (d.b.a. Downriver Actors Guild) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization serving both the community of Wyandotte and the state of Michigan. The 2nd Street Performing Arts Center provides quality programming and performances that strive to be educational and enrich the arts within our diverse community.

The center, which is home to the Downriver Actors Guild, Downriver Dance Academy and 2nd St. Sound, is a hub for the arts in Wyandotte.

2nd Street commits ourselves to:

• Providing greater access to the arts in both the city of Wyandotte and in the southeastern Michigan communities

• Providing a creative space and inclusive environment for established and emerging local performers and artists

• Ensuring educational and cultural opportunities for all ages

• Remaining inclusive in our overall approach to representation across race/ethnicity, gender, body type, binary/non-binary identification, and physical ability

Programs at 2nd Street include:

• Musicals, plays and live performances for all ages Theater education programs

• Dance education, recitals and performances

• Live music concerts

• Children's summer camps

• Private voice lessons

For more information visit https://www.2ndstpac.com/