On Saturday February 12th at 7:00pm Inside Detroit will be striving for a chance to beat the Guinness Book of World Record for the Worlds Largest Group Hug! This HUG effort will be held during the annual Motown WinterBlast Celebration!
If you haven't yet gotten your "I Hug Strangers in the D" button, stop by these great Detroit restaurants to pick one up:
Inside Detroit Downtown Welcome Center
1253 Woodward Avenue
313-962-4590
Slows Barbeque
2138 Michigan Avenue
313-962-9828
Hard Rock Cafe
45 Monroe Street
313-964-7625
Vivio's Food & Spirits
2460 Market Street
313-393-1711
Cass Cafe
4620 Cass Avenue
313-831-1400
Buttons for this special event are only $1 and all proceeds go to Inside Detroit to help maintain the Welcome Center and the tours you've come to know and love!
Early registration for the Motown Winter Blast is open all this week at the Inside Detroit Welcome Center, 1253 Woodward Ave, just one block north of Campus Martius Park. Bring canned food or book donations to the Matrix Human Services collection container in our Welcome Center anytime this week and pick up your WinterBlast wristband. You'll also get instructions for Saturday's HUG.
On Saturday evening HUG check-in begins at the Welcome Center at 5:30PM. The count for the official Record Breaking HUG will take place at 7:00PM, around Campus Martius Park. At 6:30PM, an announcement will be made over the Campus Martius Park Skating Rink speakers asking HUGgers to start lining up.
Inside Detroit volunteers, holding HUG signs above, will be disbursed around the edge of Campus Martius Park. Find one of them and they'll direct you exactly where to line up.
At 7:00PM, You'll hear the song "Hello, Detroit" played over the CMP Skating Rink speakers while our volunteers count the number of HUGgers. At the end of the song, we'll all HUG!
Come join us!
A winner has been chosen! Starting on Dec 4th, Noel Night, we will sell buttons to anyone who wants to participate in the hug, or just support Inside Detroit and the button designer. Then during Winter Blast we'll meet at Campus Martius and HUG IT OUT!!!!
Can't wait to see you!
PRESS RELEASE - - ‘I HUG STRANGERS IN THE D’ BUTTON DESIGN CONTEST SEEKS
SUPPORT FOR GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS DETROIT HUG ATTEMPT
Local artists invited to submit design ideas by November 12, 2010 in a show of love for the City
DETROIT, November 1, 2010 — Inside Detroit, a nonprofit whose mission is to promote Detroit
as a preferred destination to live, work and play is leading the charge to attempt to set the
Guinness World Record for the Largest Group Hug right here in Detroit.
The record-breaking hug attempt will be made Saturday, February 12, 2011 during Detroit’s
annual WinterBlast celebration. Inside Detroit wants to get Detroiters and Detroiters-at-heart
involved now to bolster excitement for, and participation in, the attempt.
Active and aspiring artists of all ages are asked to design a three-inch button by November 12,
2010. The button must incorporate the slogan “I Hug Strangers in the D” and the Inside Detroit
logo. Contact
info@insidedetroit.org for a high-resolution logo and to submit final designs. All
entries are due by close of business on November 12, 2010.
A panel of judges will select a winning design. The buttons will then be sold for $1 each
as a fundraiser for Inside Detroit beginning on Noel Night, Detroit’s Cultural Center-wide
holiday "open house" held December 4, 2010.
During Detroit’s annual WinterBlast celebration, February 11 – 13, 2011, supporters of Detroit
will be asked to gather around Campus Martius Park in an attempt to break the record set in
Transylvania in 2009 for the most hugs at one time. More than 10,000 people will need to “hug”
Detroit to take the record.
During the WinterBlast all of the design entries submitted to the contest will be displayed in the
Inside Detroit Welcome Center just north of Campus Martius at 1253 Woodward Avenue.
For more information, or to learn how to become involved in the record attempt, call
313.962.4590, email
info@insidedetroit.org, or visit us on Facebook at
http://tinyurl.com/
IHugStrangersInTheD.
ABOUT INSIDE DETROIT
Inside Detroit is a non profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to promote Detroit as
a preferred destination to live, work and play by educating the public about Detroit’s history,
culture, community and livability. For more information, call 313-962-4590, or visit the Welcome
Center at 1253 Woodward Avenue or InsideDetroit.org.
