Editor’s note: For the fourth year running, our friend and Huss Poet Laureate Elisabeth Wenger wrote a beautiful poem to help us celebrate Future Festival. She read the poem from the music stage during the Festival. Thank you, Elisabeth! “When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound… I go and lie down...
Huss Future Fest is fast-approaching and we need YOU to help create another wonderfully successful event for our community on July 18! Read on for 7 ways you can pitch in… Donate to the rummage sale. The annual rummage sale is one of our biggest and most fun fundraisers for the Huss Project. Please consider contributing...
As part of the visioning process for the city of Three Rivers, Rob and I did a whirlwind presentation about the Huss Project on February 11. So many citizens voiced their support for the Huss Project that we've been invited back to this week's session to do a 10-minute presentation on how we'd spend $500,000. ...
In September, we announced the next Brick Campaign goal: to occupy Huss -- specifically, the old kindergarten room on the north end of the main floor. The primary advantage of occupancy is that we'll be able to do year-round programming, building on our successful summer activities. Another important advantage is that occupancy would relieve us...
Last month, artist Jay Howard created a participatory art piece called "Contemplate with me" in one of the rooms at the Huss Project. Using space heaters and hot coffee to stay warm (the building doesn't have heat), Jay invited folks into his temporary studio to consider together the meaning and function behind public spaces, private...
You may have read somewhere already that *cino is going for a $50,000 grant through the Pepsi Refresh Project, which is giving away $1.3 million each month to organizations selected by popular vote. So what are we going to do with $50,000? Well, here's what we're thinking. We're big believers in the idea that...
If you're in the Three Rivers area, drop by Huss School today for our first annual Huss Future Festival! The festival features a giant rummage sale, art vendors, live music, free fair trade coffee from World Fare and tours of the building. We've even got a ping-pong challenge and an apple barrel train! We'll...
I had a short, but good conversation with a local chef the other night at a party. I jokingly asked him when he's going to start a restaurant in Three Rivers, which I'm sure he gets a lot. Turns out, it's his dream (in retirement?) to start a free restaurant: customers will enjoy...
Three Rivers, MI March 15, 2010. The youth of Three Rivers are going to be cultivating the spirit of community, neighborhood and diversity by growing food collaboratively and sustainably. In April, coordinators of the Triple Ripple Community Garden, Julianna Sauber- and Brenda McGowan-Nurturing Communities Initiative will begin what is hoped to be the first of...
The Tripple Ripple Community Garden project, led by Julianna Sauber and Brenda McGowan, is hosting a few informational meetings to get things rolling. Here are the details: A free community garden is starting at the Huss School property, led by kids giving back to the community. Please attend our first meeting. The kids and the...
Last year at about this time, we felt the spirit move. Kirstin and I were listening to a presentation by Bill Strickland of Manchester Craftsmen's Guild at the annual Jubilee Conference in Pittsburgh and an idea began to take shape. Strickland shared his amazing story, from growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods in...
On the way to work this morning, we heard two stories from Michigan Public Radio that sparked connections for me with the Huss School project. One was about an old school building in Detroit that's being converted into artist studios, retail space, offices and more. The other was this week's edition in a...
