Brightmoor Maker Fest 2025: The Spirit of Love
Come Out and Support Creative Futures!
July 26 & 27 @ Sunbridge Community Healing Park
Detroit Community Schools 12675 Burt Rd.
Live Music featuring : Joshua Watkins & Ascension
free food, maker market with T-SHIRTS, SIGNS, FURNITURE, FIXED-UP APPLIANCES, JEWELRY AND MORE), community conversation, family fun, & open-mic!
Maker Fest Fundraiser
$1,223 Left of $7,700!
supporting the makers
There is a group of young people (known as the Brightmoor Makers) who are developing their skills and craft (carpentry, fixing appliances & bikes, t-shirt design, jewelry making, art, movie making). In this process each person is unfolding their own life and the capacities to create new imaginations and realities in this world.
This year the theme of Maker Fest is “The Spirit of Love”. The hope shared by the youth organizing team is that everyone who attends can experience joy, a sense of community and want to come back for next year. We are inviting family fun including:live portraits, games, photos, a raffle, free food, live music, an open mic, community conversation and booths from community partners. The young makers will be supported directly through purchases of crafts for sale at the maker market. The market features: carpentry, t-shirts, fixed-up appliances, bikes, and jewelry.
Today, the world often feels overwhelming, depressing, and upsetting. The hope that lives in the Brightmoor Maker Program is real and tangible. Funding for this program and the school and social support services that serve this community however is threatened right now. There is uncertainty in what the future holds and what support will be available. More than ever, collaborative relationships and direct funding support is vital. The Brightmoor Maker program is a partnership between Sunbridge International Collaborative (Bart Eddy), Detroit Community Schools and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.
Follow @SunbridgeCollaborative on Instagram for more.
The purpose of Maker Fest:
To cultivate and celebrate entrepreneurship, community, creativity and showcase the work of the Brightmoor Makers youth program. Maker Fest aims to inspire hope in Brightmoor and beyond.
Evan Garr & 313 Live Experience
@ Maker Fest 2024
Maker Fest opens up the MakerSpace for everyone to be a part of what is being
created and
connect.
Maker Fest needs your support!
The Festival budget is $7,700 and we already have $5,027 raised. We have 2 weeks to raise an additional $2,673 to cover the festival and support the continuation of enriching the Sunbridge Community Healing Park. Funds will go directly to the food expenses, band, honorariums for community presenters, and hosting needs. Additionally, we are raising funds for building a pond and swing-set in the park which were ideas that emerged through a student-led imagination process last year. Anything we can raise beyond the budget will go towards the coming year program budget.
HealAuRT (Frank and Zuri) are supporting the Maker Fest planning, hosting, and fundraising as collaborators and colleagues of the Brightmoor Makers and Sunbridge International Collaborative. All funds from this fundraiser (501c3 Tax deductible) will be transferred to Sunbridge International Collaborative (to support the Maker Program).
Jayshawn Young, DCHS graduate and Brightmoor Maker Instructor, displays his mastery of the wood chisel lettering upon a large sign commission.
Thank
You !
Enjoy this poem (featured in the flyer)
“The Shape of Love” by Perseis Skipper
Love is not loud, yet it echoes deep,
It lingers in silence, in promises we keep.
It’s not just a fire, wild and bright
But a steady flame in the coldest nights.
It lives in the glance, in the soft-spoken word,
In laughter shared and sorrows heard.
It blooms in everyone, in hands that hold
In fiction whispered, both timid and old.
Love is the warmth in the middle of storms,
The hand on your back when you shake in pain,
It’s choosing to stay, to try and to grow-
To plant a garden where our hearts go.
It isn’t perfect-it stumbles, it cries,
It learns, it mends, it never dies.
It’s patient and flawed, but endlessly true,
A home made of hope that’s built around you.
