For the 7th year running, *culture is not optional is partnering with Three Rivers Community Schools to provide FREE summer lunches for kids at the Huss Project. Any school-aged child, from anywhere, are eligible to receive a free lunch! Lunches will be distributed Monday through Friday from 11:45-noon, from June 10 to August 9 (there are no lunches on July 4). Lunch will...
Each year, Huss Future Festival draws over 1,000 people for all sorts of fabulous fun, and the rummage sale is one of the biggest draws. The sale keeps good stuff out of the landfill, helps us get our families ready for school, and raises money to support community-building activities at Huss Project…win, win, win! To keep...
We can’t believe we’re writing this note to you 17 days ahead of our Giant Step Campaign December 15 deadline, but here it is: WE MET OUR $50,000 FUNDRAISING GOAL! This means the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) will match our efforts with an additional $50,000, putting us on track to realize the bigger, better version...
You all have been doing an amazing job in helping us reach our $50,000 goal for the new Huss Project Imaginarium! At this very moment, we have $44,725 in hand toward our goal, which is incredible! Don’t forget: if we reach $50,000 by December 15, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation will match our total with...
Every gift counts: we truly believe this at the Huss Project. That’s why our giving levels for the Giant Step Campaign start at just $1. Every gift counts, every person counts...
We're a few weeks into our Giant Step Campaign to raise money for the Imaginarium at the Huss Project and we hope you've seen some of the renderings of the design vision for the project. We still want to hear your ideas about how we should use the space when it's completed! Submit your idea with a...
The chilly first day of November was warmed with all the excited smiles coming through the doors of the Huss Project to discover the new plans for this historic building. With cups filled to the brim with hot cider and anticipation, our neighbors, friends, and even alumni from Huss’ school days all gathered together in...
Friends, we are on the brink of our Giant Step campaign and we have some news that we’re SO EXCITED to share … but we can’t tell you yet! Watch for the big press release on our kick-off day, November 1. That’s this Thursday! And just a reminder if you’re nearby: our kick-off event is Thursday...
As the warm weather fades into autumn, we take a breath and reflect on just how much has happened at the Huss Project this summer. This season has been full to the brim with cultivating our urban farm, hosting summer lunches for our neighborhood, facilitating service-learning for Camp Tavor, and putting on our 9th annual...
Thank you, Daniel Ferrell, for your gracious and attentive work capturing the spirit of the 9th Annual Huss Future Festival—Dan always does amazing work and we highly recommend him for your video project! We hope you all enjoy watching highlights from our summer festival!...
If you've attended Future Fest, you probably have a sense of the hours and hours of work that go into preparing the space, planning activities, coordinating details (and backup details), and recruiting volunteers, bakers, partner organizations, artists, food vendors, and so much more. And then, come 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, it's all over. Visitors head...
No one was sure what to expect from Huss Future Fest 2018 in the week leading up to the event. A couple of our favorite partners had to cancel and the chance of rain was up to 100%. As we scrambled to implement a rain backup plan, we wondered: will anyone show up? And wow, did...
