‘Arts’ Archives
TODAY: A virtual, safe and deeply celebratory Chrysalis MayDay experience on Sunday, May 3rd!
By CLAIRE CURRAN, HOBT HOBT and the MayDay Council have been in a chrysalis year working to design a more equitable and accessible MayDay Celebration. Now, collectively, we find ourselves in a moment of Chrysalis in Quarantine. In this time of physical distancing, we know now more than ever that MayDay lives IN the community. We, all of us, ARE MayDay! And we will continue to create together in this time of quarantine. Check-out hotb.org for art-making workshops with Graci Horne, Ifrah Mansour, and Mike Hoyt; as well as community activities on May 3rd including a grief and healing meditation led by Serita Colette in the morning, and a community sing (from the safety of your home, yard, or porch) in the afternoon.
In the Heart of the Beast Theatre Executive Leadership Transition
Lisa Marie Brimmer & Claire Curran begin as Interim Co-Executive Directors of In the Heart of the Beast Theatre on May 1st as Corrie Zoll ends his five tenure as Executive Director By CLAIRE CURRAN Lisa and Claire bring creative, equitable, community-centered skills from their past work and artistic experience. We”™re very excited to have their leadership and perspectives at HOBT in this unprecedented moment. Lisa Brimmer, artist and arts administrator, recently Interim Co-Executive Director of Cedar Cultural Center and member FREE BLACK DIRT collective, Lisa has been a critical part of designing, recruiting, and convening HOBT”™s MayDay Council since October 2019. Claire Curran has been HOBT”™s Communications Director for two years, and previously led Communications and Campaigns at Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light. Claire has been a core part of leading the organizational culture shifts necessary for HOBT to embrace a more [...]
New ways to live…heal the earth…as healed
By KITTY O”™MEARA And the people stayed home. And read books and listened, and rested and exercised, and made art and played games, and learned new ways of being and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently. And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless and heartless ways the earth began to heal. And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.
