‘Events’ Archives
May ’23 Events
Bring Her HomeFriday May 54:30 – 8:30 PMEast Phillips Park Cultural and Community Center2307 17th Avenue SFree Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center is hosting a showing of Bring Her Home, a 2022 documentary following three Indigenous women as they fight to vindicate and honor their missing and murdered relatives who have fallen victims to a growing epidemic across Indian country. Despite the lasting effects of historical trauma, each woman must search for healing while navigating racist systems that brought about this very crisis. The event will include guest speakers, a feast, and a tobacco ceremony. Free and open to the community. Piitwewetam: Making is MedicineThrough June 10All My Relations Arts1414 E Franklin AvenueFree Piitwewetam: Making Is Medicine is a commemorative exhibition that presents work by the Gustafson family honoring their son and brother, Piitwewetam (Rolling Thunder), also known as the late Jesse Gustafson, who traveled to the spirit world in [...]
April ’23 Events
Dancing In the Water: An Intergenerational Introduction to Synchronized SwimmingSaturdays, April 1, 8 and 1512 - 2 PMPhillips Aquatic Center2323 11th Ave SFreeExplore movement in the water with the Subversive Sirens at the Phillips Aquatic Center, inside the Phillips Community Center! All levels of swimming ability are welcome, and if you don’t have a swim suit, don’t worry, the aquatic center has culturally appropriate swim attire available for use. Learn some basics of synchronized swimming and then show off your new moves in a routine for a Community Celebration on April 15. Instruction in Spanish and English. Space is limited and RSVPs are required, which you can do here: bit.ly/DancingInTheWater. To attend the Community Celebration, register at https://mixedblood.com/product/12x12-phillips. The Sirens are a synchronized swim team committed to Black liberation, equity in swimming, radical body acceptance & queer visibility whose home pool is the Phillips Aquatic Center. [...]
March ’23 Events
Hidden Gems at Hennepin History Museum. Image: Hennepin History Museum Master Gardener Tomia MacQueen has been an Edible Gardens consultant for 14 years and will facilitate a March 25 class on starting garden seeds indoors. Source: Minneapolis Edible Boulevards SeedsThrough April 29Norway House913 East Franklin Ave.Adults $7Kids 12 & Under FreeOur first exhibit of the season will showcase work from Norwegian multimedia artist, Finn Eirik Modahl, whose newest sculpture, Seeds was unveiled in October at Norway House. This is Modahl’s first work in the United States and is a sister sculpture to Konglo in Sotra, just outside of Bergen.With Seeds, Modahl takes us into a universal and optimistic territory – seeds of change, hope, and new beginnings. The Norwegian Pine — represented through the image of its pinecone — is the state tree of Minnesota, drawing connections between Norway and Minnesota and conjures thoughts about immigration, memories of the past, and the links [...]
