Thank goodness that Hamtramck and Detroit are not at war, or folks would never be able to pull off this weekend's Porous Borders Festival.

The festival, which has never been held before, is slated for Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. (check schedule), and will take place along the border of Hamtramck and Detroit. There will be all kinds of events including a kick-off parade, art installations, music, sports, and off the beaten path things like an oil changing competition and a food scavenger hunt. 

The event's website says this:

With spectacle parades, eclectic installations, community conversation-starters, psychogeographic strolls, athletic competitions and more, works reflect and engage the diverse experiences of those living along the border, address the geographic reality of the HAMTRAMCK/DETROIT border, and, in some cases, examine the nature of borders themselves

One of the events, the  food scavenger hunt, is described this way on the festival's website:

Experience a sampling of this area’s incredible border-bending foods in our self-guided culinary tour/scavenger hunt!

Here‘s how to play: Starting as soon as today, visit all eleven locations. When you purchase the suggested item, show the cashier your festival map or print out this webpage to get your certifying signature on the list. Collect all eleven and bring the list to a PBF Information Hub by 5pm on May 17 and win a free tote bag! (Pepto-bismol not included – you can definitely team up with a friend.)  
Another event is a cricket lesson and a cricket match. The website says:

Learn cricket in a fun pickup game coached by Banglatown neighbors! Share your cricket skill or embarrass yourself among the comfort of strangers.

There will be a parade to kick off the festival at 11 a.m Saturday down Carpenter Avenue, at the northern Hamtramck-Detroit border. It will start at Colonel Hamtramck Homes, just off I-75. It's being directed by artist Shoshanna Utchenik with the help of neighbors. 

One of the key themes of the parade is "pollinators," things like bees and butterflies that pollinate flowers without concern for borders. Anyone can come and participate if they show up at 10:30 a..m. at the Colonel Hamtramck Homes' children's gardens.

Children will be dressed as butterflies, squirrels and will be accompanied by stilt-walking flowers.