Five-hundred backpacks with school supplies will be handed out, according to Rob Vander Giessen-Reitsma, the executive director of *culture is not optional.
The Huss Project
Three Rivers was one of 25 communities across America to receive a $50,000 Hometown Grant from T-Mobile. The award was celebrated Saturday.
Saturday’s event at The Huss Project featured 10 acts and raised $1,984 for local, independent journalism.
The $50,000 grant for the new bike shop was one of 25 grants given nationwide by T-Mobile, and will be used to renovate part of the Huss Project for a community bike shop.
The Huss Project Farmer’s Market is hosting its June Second Saturday on Saturday, June 8, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The market will feature local art vendors, live music, and a variety of local vendors selling early season produce, baked goods, syrup, honey, eggs, meat, coffee and more.
The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra will perform three Musical Storybook events during the Huss Project Farmer’s Market (1008 Eighth St., Three Rivers) this summer.
Three Rivers nonprofit *culture is not optional announced they’ve eclipsed 300 children enrolled in their Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program.
The fourth annual Watershed Voice Artist Showcase will return to The Huss Project (1008 8th St.) in Three Rivers on Saturday, July 13 at 6 p.m.
Michigan-based organization Disruptive Disciples Blacksmithing has traveled the state — including multiple stops in Three Rivers — to conduct demonstrations of how to transform disabled gun barrels into fully functional gardening tools. Blacksmith and Pastor Corey Simon, who also happens to be a gun owner and hunter, leads these demonstrations not to support efforts to take people’s guns or rights away, but rather to offer a space to imagine a world with less violence, and to mourn with those who have lost loved ones to gun violence.
Huss Project hosting annual Back-to-School Celebration & community carnival Saturday in Three Rivers
The Huss Project (1008 8th St.) will be hosting their annual Back-to-School Celebration and community carnival on Saturday, August 12, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will include vendors from local community organizations, a musical storybook from The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra (KSO), as well as free backpacks filled with school supplies for any school-aged child in need.
The third annual Watershed Voice Artist Showcase returns this Saturday, July 15 at 6 p.m. at The Huss Project (1008 8th St.) in Three Rivers. Eleven artists from across the midwest will captivate audiences with live music, poetry, and stand-up comedy. Here is a closer look at the performances and acts set to take the stage Saturday night.
Doug and Alek are, in fact, alive. After a lengthy hiatus the duo return to preview the third annual Watershed Voice Artist Showcase (Saturday, July 15, 6 p.m., The Huss Project, Three Rivers), recap all that has happened between the last KYVD episode and this one, including Three Rivers Pride, Alek’s first tattoo(shout out to Portfolio Ink and Amber Ward), and how Alek’s wife Deborah is the Tom Hagen of Watershed Voice.
June 3 marks the first Huss Project Farmer’s Market of the 2023 season. The market will take place every Saturday under the pavilion at 1008 8th St. from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. through September. Here’s a full rundown of what to expect this weekend, and throughout the summer.
If you have a student in need of volunteer hours or are looking for an opportunity to help a local nonprofit ahead of its busy Farmers Market season in June, the Huss Project is hosting its Spring Cleaning Volunteer Day in Three Rivers Saturday.
In lieu of Three Rivers’ annual Solidarity in Diversity event, which will not take place this year, *culture is not optional and the Huss Project (1008 8th St.) will host a screening of two episodes of “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement” beginning at 4 p.m. Monday
The Huss Project will host the annual Three Rivers Area Faith Community (TRAFC) Back to School Celebration on August 13 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. during the Huss Project Farmer’s Market and Second Saturdays Art Market.
The Watershed Voice Artist Showcase will return this Saturday, July 30 with nearly twice as many acts as last year, with 11 scheduled to perform. The second annual showcase will include poetry, rap, hip-hop, gospel and folk/Americana music, with some comedy thrown in for good measure.
In the name of nostalgia and organizational history, we wanted to take a look back at the first annual Watershed Voice Artist Showcase before we look ahead to next week’s show.