‘Events’ Archives
Events August ’22
Compiled by LINDSEY FENNER and JESSIE MERRIAM Gizigos-Dakise (Ojibwe, your aunt is cool), Ne-Dah-Ness Rose Greene, All My Relations Arts Puss in BootsPhoto provided by Hinterhands Puppet Company Natalie Mendez taught participants how to make spring rolls at the Celestial Garden in North. Her next cooking class will be at Tamales y Bicicletas in September. Will Allen will teach vermiculture (using red wiggler worms) as part of WEI’s composting class at Farmer Training Weekend, Sept 24-25, 2022. (w-e-i.org) Free Classes for the Phillips Community Women’s Environmental Institute Amador Hill Farm, Cambridge, MN w-e-i.org Through the classes available in August from Women’s Environmental Institute (at no cost if you live, work, play or pray in the Phillips Neighborhood of South Minneapolis) you can learn to grow peaches in cold climates, take a monthly herb walk in the woods with Heather Mashuga, learn methods of canning tomatoes and making salsa, or [...]
July Events
Puppet artist Felicia Cooper performs "How to Know a Whale”Photo provided by artist At the May People’s Land Network gathering, attendees planted wintersown seedlings at the new raised bed at Hosmer Community Library at 347 E. 36th St. The May People’s Land Network conversation focused on public land sharing for growing food. Credit: Plant Grow Share Food, Land, Art, and Community! Power Tree Quilting Session for Phillips neighbors Wednesday, July 6, 5:30-7:30PM Tamales y Bicicletas, 2820 15th Avenue South Join Million Artist Movement at Tamales y Bicicletas garden, in collaboration with Native Youth Arts Collective. Make a quilt square while we discuss and explore what community safety means to us and dive into our radical imaginations as we reflect on our past, present while using art to envision the future of our communities. This is part of a series of quilting events and conversations through August 2022. Art and ideas generated will be [...]
Cemetery Events Summer ’22
Summer Events at Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery Photo courtesy of TIM MCCALL Check the Friends of the Cemetery Facebook page for more events in the summer and later in the fall. Want a tour but don't see one that works? Contact Sue Hunter Weir at s-hunt1@umn.edu to talk about setting one up. Open Streets East Lake Street Saturday, August 13, 11 AM-4:30 PM Stop by and play old-fashioned games (there will be prizes for the kids), take a self-guided smartphone tour, and talk with volunteers. Murder, Mayhem and More (sponsored by Preserve Minneapolis) Sunday, August 21, Tours at 10 AM and 1 PM 10 AM: Tour will cover the southeast quadrant of the cemetery which includes many of the oldest graves, as well as the grave of our most notorious criminal, and those of notable territorial pioneers. 1 PM: Tour will cover the southwest quadrant of the cemetery, including the grave of William Goodridge, a pre-Civil War conductor on the Underground Railroad, [...]
