Many folks have asked us about the logistics of purchasing the historic Huss School as the headquarters for *culture is not optional's work in Three Rivers. How could a scrappy, upstart organization afford such a fine palace as this? Well, I'll start from the beginning...
Stephen demonstrates a homemade drum as part of his session for making musical instruments out of recycled materials in the art tent at Huss Future Fest 2012. Around the time we were raising the funds for *cino to purchase Huss School in 2009, we received an out-of-the-blue blog comment from someone named Stephen Wirzylo in Toledo. ...
(David helping with our first Underground Supper Club.) I have lived in Three Rivers for close to ten years. Somewhere in that timeline, Three Rivers changed from being “someplace I lived for now” to “someplace I’m enjoying living and would like to remain in.” There weren’t any Hallmark moments to commemorate this transition from temporary to...
It was truly ‘underground’ at this Sunday’s Underground Supper Club at Florence Church of the Brethren Mennonite, where soft lighting and cheery bunting transformed the basement level of the church into the “Comfort Food Café”. At the second Supper Club fundraiser of its kind, steaming dishes prepared by the *cino intentional community and passed family-style...
At Future Festival 2012, Liesje Brouwer and Hannah Thyberg set up a tent for face painting. There were many different choices to choose from, but like this young man, many chose to be Spider-man. Liesje (as seen above) has had an exuberant amount of experience with face paint, beginning when she worked at a theme...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cinonetwork/7639056908/ When I first moved to Three Rivers the great brick edifice that is Huss School was too large and looming for me to comprehend. My arrival in the winter and the building’s lack of heat allowed me to acclimate to the idea of community development in Three Rivers slowly. Usually I take a running leap...
This post is part of a multimedia series over the next several months of the Brick Campaign telling many of the stories that surround Huss School and the Huss Project. Our second story comes to us from our friend Ryan in Boston. Ryan went to college with some of *cino's volunteer staff members and has been...
This post is the first in what we hope will be a fascinating multimedia series over the next several months of the Brick Campaign telling many of the stories that surround Huss School and the Huss Project. Our first story comes from Marilyn Bullard Abshire, who attended Murray J. Huss School in the late 1930s and...
River Country Journal, a wonderful local news source, covers the launch of the Huss Project Brick Campaign! Check out the article as well as all the rest of Bruce Snook's thoughtful coverage of Southwest Michigan's River Country....
Twinkling lights hung from the half disassembled drop ceiling in the kindergarten room as crowds gathered this past Friday and Saturday evening to enjoy Huss Stories: A Play. Christina, a *cino intern and theatre major at Calvin College, spent her summer interviewing, transcribing and organizing for the reader's theatre-style production, which explored stories from...
Christina Binder, one of our summer 2011 interns, is working on an oral history play that will gather and tell some of the stories of the historic Huss School. Local journalist Bruce Snook recently published a great story and interview about her project in the River Country Journal. Christina is a theatre student at Calvin...
