‘Miscellany’ Archives
Pangea World Theater leads Lake Street Arts!
BY ALEJANDRA TOBAR ALATRIZ Lake Street Arts! is an interdisciplinary leadership and community development, multi-year collaborative initiative focusing on place-making and place-keeping through the arts led by Pangea World Theater. Working with artists from East Africa, Latina/o/x and Indigenous Communities along East Lake Street, LSA! uses art as a tool to shape development plans towards a more equitable, sustainable model of growth. Through a generous grant from ArtPlace, LSA! Phase 1 runs through Spring 2016 and Phase 2 begins Summer of 2016.  Goals include a Community Organizing Artist Apprenticeship Program and a Community Based Plan to develop East Lake Street as a Cultural Corridor. LSA! centers People of Color, Immigrant, and Indigenous artists as community organizers that will contextualize Pangea”'s program through 2018. “We will be principled in serving the revered and diverse Lake Street ecosystem. Our guiding principles will keep us [...]
Resilient responses amidst turmoil
“Alley oops” is when a basketball player throws the ball near the basket and another player stuffs it through the net for a score. Alley Communications gives chances for others to “score” by telling their stories and opinions. American Indian Community Development Corporation and Indian Health Board bought the Blue Nile Restaurant; now what? Changing Climate and the Accord agreed by 195 nations in Paris is a monumental development of 2015 ready for action in 2016. Buildings between 19th and 21st Avenues on Lake Street and the Brown Institute/Community Ed Bldg. at Hiawatha and Lake will be razed for new developments. Action is still happening to save the history of one of those structures that has been a church, a lodge hall, and a factory for Burma-Shave and its highway ad signage. Expansion of bread production and employment at Franklin Street Bakery results in closing of retail bake goods shop. Finalizing of scope, plans, and finances of the [...]
