‘Events’ Archives
Two exhibits at Hennepin History Museum focus on South Minneapolis
left side of image courtesy Hennepin County Public Library; right side of image courtesy Rita Reed, Star Tribune By Heidi Adelsman Human Toll: A Public History of 35W On view now through the end of 2022, Human Toll explores the community resistance and resilience to the construction of 35 W and illustrates how freeway construction destroyed and divided Black communities across the United States, amplifying the effects of systemic racism still felt today. With photographs, maps, oral histories and archival documents, Human Toll foregrounds the experiences of Black residents of South Minneapolis by exploring stories about displacement, housing discrimination, neighborhood division and environmental justice. Human Toll was researched and developed by a diverse team of South Minneapolis community members and advisors working in collaboration with students and faculty of the University of Minnesota Heritage Studies and Public History program. Retired MnDOT employee Dr. [...]
September Events
Free Thursday Evenings at ASI 3 PM – 8 PM American Swedish Institute 2600 Park Avenue South Free Explore the ASI galleries and the historic Turnblad Mansion with free admission beginning September 1. https://asimn.org. There will be live music on select Thursdays, starting with Scott Keever on Sept. 1st. Keever is an award-winning fingerstyle guitarist who combines an American roots sound with other far ranging styles. https://asimn.org/event/music-thursdays-at-asi-scott-keever Noojimo (She Heals) Through September 17 All My Relations Arts 1414 East Franklin Avenue Free Noojimo (She Heals) celebrates the importance of Aunties in Indigenous spaces. In many Indigenous communities, the Auntie serves as an extra parental role – one who provides mental, physical, and spiritual support to younger relatives. http://www.allmyrelationsarts.com/noojimo-she-heals/ Art Design by Alice Butts Through Our Eyes Festival September 9 – 18 Open Eye [...]
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 [...]
