May 27 is here! We set this date and the $20,000 fundraising goal early in May according to the terms of *cino's offer to purchase the historic Huss School in Three Rivers, Michigan. As I write, we have just over $5,000 left to go and we're still waiting to see what the rest of this...
Only one week to go to our May 27 deadline for raising $20,000. It's way more money than we've ever raised before as an organization for a huge building that will take years and millions of dollars to renovate. We've already acknowledged that we're crazy (but hopefully in a good, faithful crazy kind...
Rob and I had several exciting meeting with local Three Rivers folks this weekend about the potential of Huss School and the ideas that are swirling around in the larger vision for a space in Three Rivers. Several themes emerged from formal and informal conversations:People want to see the Huss School building renovated and...
Kirstin's editorial in the newest issue of catapult looks at how the idea to purchase Huss School is a little crazy ...
Thanks, Andy, for twittering about *cino's Imagining Space project! Andy's recent book, Culture Making, is fantastic and gets at a lot of the ideas driving what we do with *culture is not optional. In fact, we're planning to review it soon for catapult ...
Rob woke me up last night after I had just fallen asleep to let me know that our second donation had come in for Imagining Space--our first donation, really, since the initial one was our own. My first thought, and last one before falling happily back asleep, was, "Wow--the first three donors for this...
Continued from "The road to a space: early conversations" ...
Earlier this week, *culture is not optional put in an offer on historic Huss School in Three Rivers, Michigan. For some, this may be a surprising move for an organization that does much of its work online; however, several folks involved with *cino have been feeling that a move toward a physical space is...
