It's the season to be creative! Are you crafting gifts to give to family and friends? Are you looking for a new hobby? These cold days indoors are well spent working on art!

Please join us at Springboard for the Arts to swap art supplies, crafting stories, or just have some cocoa:

December 14
6-7:30 PM
Springboard for the Arts 
262 University Ave West

Please make sure to register:
https://forms.gle/ZVJi1PY6Lpwei1Ac7

Thank you to our friends at Springboard for the Arts for their partnership on this event!

Masks are required when not eating, and they will be provided.
Hazardous art supplies are not permitted (solvents, chemicals requiring ventilation, heat guns, etc). Just ask if you aren't sure! 🙂

How to enter the drawing:

1. Pick up a stamp book at any of the participating businesses on Small Business Saturday, November 26. Businesss will set their own hours!
2. Ask for a stamp when you check out. 
3. You can enter the drawing after you get 5 stamps, 10 stamps enters you into the grand prize drawing!
4. Once you have enough stamps, sign your card and send a photo to 651-228-1855 or info@summit-university.org
5. Winners will be selected on November 29, and notified via phone!

Please note:

While no purchase is necessary to enter, we strongly encourage you to shop when you visit our neighborhood businesses. Take a look around, see what they offer. We hope that everyone will be kind and polite to the people working at our small businesses, and not enter stores to only ask for stamps. 

About those prizes:

These are just some of the prizes that you can win during the Small Business Saturday on Selby Ave Event! Thank you to all of our Selby Ave Businesses for their generous donations!

• Certificates for free subs from Subway on Selby Ave
• $30 gift card from Mississippi Market
• $25 gift card from The Yarnery
• Basket of luxury hair products from Estetica Salon and Spa
• Gift card from Yumi
• Gift card from La Grolla
• Gift card from WA Frost
• Gift card from A Piece of Cake

Come and join Love First and our co-hosts as we create a safe space for youth to trick or treat!! We will have pumpkin painting, a cakewalk, giveaways, a movie and more!

Saturday, October 29
5-8 PM
Carty Park

We are excited to announce the results of our 2022 SUPC Board of Directors Election!

Please join us in welcoming these new Board Members:

Corey Mohan
Sharon Schwarz
Jackie Boyd
James Keane as the representative from the Ramsey Hill Association

And welcoming back these returning Board Members:

Laverne McCartney Knighton
Gerald Garth
Erica Valliant
Jonathan Palmer as the representative from  Hallie Q Brown Community Center 
Dr. Deborah Mitchell as the representative from Aurora St. Anthony Neighborhood Development Corporation
Melvin Giles as the representative from the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance


For a full roster of our current Board of Directors, click here.

Now announcing the Summit-University Logo Lab!

Calling all District 8 Small Business Owners! Do you need a logo? Does your business need to update its image? Do you want to learn about tools that you can use to help you with graphic design?

We are pleased to invite you to apply to participate in the Summit-University Logo Lab Cohort.

We will select 5 small businesses to participate in this group. Working together, the group will brainstorm and develop ideas for logos and provide each other with feedback and support.
Cohort participants will then work 1 on 1 with volunteer graphic designers to develop a basic logo.

The final step in this project is learning how to use their logo on easier to use graphic design programs, and begin creating social media posts, flyers, menus, and much more for their businesses. Participants will be provided with subscriptions to Canva.

Application:
https://forms.gle/ShW1tF1bCPQSiL227