What is Building Bridges?

Building Bridges to a Brighter Tomorrow is a passionate, community-driven initiative dedicated to fostering kindness, love, and acceptance for all.

Events in the series will happen every 4-6 weeks throughout Saline and will feature a different medium through which to experience cultural and personal experiences. Each gathering will happen at a different community location and will feature small group discussions that help us get to know each other better.

Organizers will request a typical donation of $5 per person (subject to change pending material costs). The businesses who are hosting or providing food are doing so partly as a donation to the effort of Building Bridges in our community; please thank them and support them!

Upcoming Community Events

Join us for cultural experiences fostering kindness, love, and acceptance in our community through fun mediums like art, poetry, holiday traditions, dance, and more!

Building Bridges Through Art

• Date: Sunday, November 17, 2024

• Location: Whitepine Studios, 105 W. Michigan Avenue, Saline, MI

• We had a wonderful time doing an original art project, customizing it to our own colors, our own uniting word in the middle.

• Date: Sunday, February 2, 2025

• Location: Fine Print Bookshop, 109 E. Michigan Avenue, Saline, MI

• We enjoyed a presentation on poetry from Bill Gibson, owner of Fine Print Bookshop. He discussed history, cultural versions of poetry from across the world, and led us in a discussion of poetry and our experiences.

• Mac's Acadian Seafood Shack sent a wonderful tray of shrimp, dips, and veggies!

• Sunday, April 6, 2025

• 2:00 pm

• at Mill Pond Manor, 460 W Russell Street

• Bring a sample or picture of something you like to make or do; we'll be sharing our hobbies with each other.

• We'll have a craft project ready to do with the residents of Mill Pond Manor!

• Refreshments will be available.

Building Bridges Through Crafts and Hobbies

Building Bridges Through Poetry

Coming soon...

Building Bridges Book Group: on Deepa Iyer's Book Social Change Now

Saline’s Building Bridges movement is broadening to include a book study. Do you wish that you knew how to move forward and make a difference in our society today? Are you wondering what kind of a role you might play? This book study is for you!

Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American writer, lawyer, and advocate for justice. She has spent more than 15 years in policy advocacy and coalition building in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

In her book, published in 2022, she developed a model of 10 roles people embody as they work for social justice in their communities and the world, called the social change map. Through exploration of the roles and questions for reflection and discussion, she helps each of us consider who we are and who we want to be.

You’re invited to this journey… the pilot group is meeting now, and we anticipate another group to follow.

To be on the waitlist for the next group reading Social Change Now, fill out the form.

Get In Touch

We'd love to hear from you about our community events.