Tag: south bend
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Feature: Mary Pottenger and The Process Art Studio
In August of this year I launched LIT Comms and within a few short weeks I had been connected with 1 Million Cups – Mishawaka, thanks to Liz Georges. That first time I was there I met Mary Pottenger of The Process Art Studio, and I knew I wanted to boost her local image as…
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Audition Announcement: Once On This Island
This same community theatre has produced multiple August Wilson plays, Lin Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed In the Heights, as well as theatre-goer favorites such as The Music Man, Legally Blonde, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Their latest announcement invites the community to audition for Once On This Island, a Tony Award-nominated,…
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Feature: Liz Georges, FDN-P, of VibrantSoul Coaching, LLC
Liz Georges, FDN-P (more on that later) and I met through a neighborhood Facebook group. She was intrigued by the combination of my status as a veteran who was also working (at the time) for a mental health organization, and she invited me to one of her well-run networking cocktail parties. We clicked well and she…
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Feature: Pride Housing Solutions
I met Ron and Abby at one of Liz Georges’ networking cocktail parties. (You’ll hear more about Liz in an upcoming blog.) Their matching purple shirts stood out as much as my orange toenails did and I definitely wanted to at least introduce myself. I ran into them again at 1 Million Cups – Mishawaka,…
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Feature: The Mustachioed Woodworker “Where Wood Becomes Art”
Every August, Downtown South Bend hosts Art Beat, one of the largest outdoor arts festivals in South Bend. Hundreds of local artists, vendors, and just awesome humans set up booths and tables to show and sell finished products of their creative outlets and pastimes. Paintings, metalsmithing, fabric, leather, ceramic, polymer, digital, bakers, chefs, and even…
