‘Cover Stories’ Archives
AUTUMN IN OUR HEARTS
This future leader will be able to walk through the English curtain at will and leave it all behind having learned Objibwe and/or Dakota culture, traditions, and language; and the wholeness of the circle of life. He will understand how important autumn is”¦the timing of the leaves that turn to color ”“ bronze, yellow, orange, red ”“ signal when they choke off the flow of nutrients to their leaves whether winter will be early or late. Photo: Jewell Arcoren BY LAURA WATERMAN WITTSTOCK Before cars, before buildings, before the incessant consumption of natural resources, there was another population that went through the seasons, adjusted to disasters, fell in battle, and buried their dead. In less than 100 years, European settlers managed to wipe out over 90% of the old growth forest in what is now Minnesota. Before the arrival of the French and the Ojibwe, the river along what is now St. Paul, bustled with the canoe and watercraft traffic of the Dakota people and [...]
Theatre”'s Community Soul
BY SANDY SPIELER* Perhaps it seems like a contradiction to be a professional theatre with a community soul. Our internal dilemmas---about speaking our artistic voices while also giving community participants a voice; about providing our company with livable wages while keeping the theatre work inexpensive and affordable---are not separate from the external dilemmas of the larger world. Indeed, such a path contains all the recurring dilemmas of seeking to live a soulful life in the midst of our nation, where everything is valued primarily as a commodity of the marketplace. Walking this dilemma is part of being “in the heart of the beast.” In 1979, company member and poet Stephen Linsner suggested the name “In the Heart of the Beast” as a metaphor for our theatre. He wrote, “To be puppeteers in the Heart of the Beast ”¦is to find ourselves in the great world Beast made of families, races, ages, classes, corporations, and nations, [...]
Clyde Turner Basketball Camp At East Phillips Park Cultural & Community Center-17th Ave. & Phillips Community Center-13th Ave.
Coach Karim Jackson says, “Stretch you arms way out!” “Keep them up.” “Now you have it! “That”'s Good!” Is MORE than Basketball! BY CAROL PASS The highlight of summer for hundreds of Phillips kids is the Clyde Turner Youth Basketball Camp. Approximately eighty boys and girls from nine to seventeen years of age filled the East Phillips Park Gym the week of August 14th and the Phillips Community Center the week earlier. They came for basketball and got a whole lot more. Clyde Turner”'s Camp is an Educational Basketball Academy where basketball is utilized as a conduit to learning skills and skill application for success on and off the court. It provides sport opportunities for group social learning, leadership, development of good decision-making skills and a sense of accountability. The Camp is made possible by a partnership with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, East Phillips Improvement Coalition (EPIC), Minneapolis [...]
