We are asking for your leadership and support for the 1st annual Brite Winter Festival in Cleveland, which will be held on Saturday, February 27, 2010, from 5:00 until 10:00pm at Hart Crane Park in the Flats.

The Brite Winter Festival brings together Cleveland’s vibrant communities to enjoy our winter landscape. The Winter festival gives Clevelanders a reason to celebrate, not hibernate, during the doldrums of winter. Fire, music, food, arts, and sports bring together diverse communities to rejoice in Cleveland, Winter, and our communities.

This is the first annual Brite Winter Festival. The goal is to hold an annual festival that gets people out of the house and into our rich urban landscapes to have fun and meet new people. Such an event also acts as an economic stimulus for the surrounding neighborhood and businesses. We believe in Cleveland, and in the richness of the organizations in our community. Brite Winter offers opportunities for collaborations between organizations with diverse purposes: urban design, academia, arts and entertainment, local businesses, and economic development. By partnering with Pop Up City, the host of successful events such as Leap Night and the Bridge Project, we are building on past successes to create something new together.

We invite you to lend your time, enthusiasm, and/or resources to building Brite Winter into an event that brightens our winter horizon. Please email us for more information on how to get involved.

We know that these are tough times in Cleveland and around the country. Thank you for your time and consideration of our effort to make Cleveland the Best Location in the Nation year-round.

Respectfully,

Jimmy Harris and Emily Hornack [Co-Chairs from CWRU] and Terry Schwarz [Co-Chair from Pop-Up City]

for more information email britewinter@gmail.com