Detroit, MI, Sunday, August 2​7​, 202​3​, 12:00-​8​:00 PM, The Hug Detroit Day Community Service, Hug Detroit Day, City of ArtZ, LEEP, Tangent Gallery, Vanguard Community Development Corporation (CDC)  many others present the Hug Detroit Family Day Block Party to celebrate the 11th Annual Hug Detroit Day.” Let’s continue to get back to the “hugs and handshakes”.   After a much anticipated renovation, we are happy to announce the grand reopening of the Black Bottom Park,  (https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/black-bottom-neighborhood). 

The Block Party/ Concert Backpack & School Supplies takes place Sunday, August  2​7​, 202​3​, in conjunction with an Art Exhibit and features live painting, musical performances and more. This FREE event will be held at the Black Bottom Park, 905 Milwaukee, Detroit, MI.  This year's theme is “All Things Family”.  It kicks off with a dance celebration featuring a collage of ethnic dancers. We ​will be also collecting backpacks, school supplies, canned goods and non perishable food items starting Jan. 1st through August 27th. ​.

 

Please feel free to bring small tents, picnic baskets, coolers, blankets and chairs. Dress comfortably.  We will have family games to play. And a wonderful group of sponsors to make the day even greater.

 

For interviews and more information please contact Nicole Freeman at 248.383.3385 or Sheila Hale at 313-527-2884, email us at hugdetroitpeople@gmail.com and visit us at www.hugdetroitday.com .

 

It's an official HUG DETROIT DAY city wide event!!! We are so excited about the wonderful news from the Detroit City Council & the Honorable President Brenda Jones. Signing off on Hug Detroit Day being an Annual & City Wide Event in the city of Detroit every Last Sunday in August indefinitely.  

 

“HUG Detroit Day” was founded in 2013 by Nicole (Sky Covington) Freeman, CEO of Nicole Freeman Management and co-founded by Sheila Everette-Hale, CEO of LEEP (Linking Everyday EXTRAORDINARY People) and Everette’s Natural Beauty School, Inc. It is the vision of Sky Covington and Sheila Everette-Hale who shared their desire and passion to take one day out of the year to literally HUG Detroit and its people.  We want to show appreciation for the inspiring accomplishments of this great city and the people therein … to thank those who stayed here through the storm and those who came to help us rise above and excel as we create a New Detroit and new ways of being and doing things together. 

 

Sky Covington’s concept, “Let’s get back to the days of hugs and handshakes,” comes from a place and time when people made an effort to give a hug or handshake, just out of love and respect for their neighbor or friend. 

 

For interviews and more information please contact Nicole Freeman at 248-383-3385 or Sheila Hale at 313-527-2884, email us at hugdetroitpeople@gmail.com and visit us at www.hugdetroitday.com .

 

It's an official HUG DETROIT DAY city wide event!!! We are so excited about the wonderful news from the Detroit City Council & the Honorable President Brenda Jones. Signing off on Hug Detroit Day being an Annual & City Wide Event in the city of Detroit every Last Sunday in August indefinitely.

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