‘Miscellany’ Archives
We Need Each Other
from the series Peace House Community- A Place to Belong... By MARTI MALTBY Marti Maltby Among my other duties, I help coordinate the adult education series at the church that I attend. This fall and winter we have had various congregation members speak about the intersection of their vocation and their faith. In other words, how does their faith affect their work, and how does their work help them see God. When the idea for the series came up, I imagined people speaking about the satisfaction they get from their jobs. While that’s happened, we’ve heard more about enduring difficult times than celebrating joys. Teachers have spoken about schools that are so cash strapped that they don’t buy curriculum for the students, instead telling the teachers to use whatever they can find online. A 22 year old camp counselor told about overhearing a 15 year old begging her friends to break her leg so that she would not have to complete a four day canoe trip. The counselor [...]
A Short, Silent Encounter With Racism
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II On Thursday, November 30, 2023, a friend and member of my church (St. Constantine’s Ukrainian Catholic Church) went to a screening of the film Holodomor: Voices of Survivors- Ukrainian Famine/ Genocide (2015), a horrific tale of Stalin moving in on the Ukrainians refusing to give up their farms for collective farming in 1932-1933. There were interviews with some survivors (from the diabolical forced famine) and from those stories told by descendants of their forefathers and foremothers. Much of the dialogue had a Minneapolis connection (namely through St. Constantine and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church), although many in the audience probably were not from either church. It was $20 and I made a last minute decision to go. My friend gave me a ride to St. Anthony Main Theater. I was the only Black person there (I’ve been in that situation numerous times in Minnesota). I took notes during the film like I always do when I review any movie. The pastor for St. [...]
February ’24 Events
Keith Braveheart, Buffalo Nation: Creating Community, from the exhibit Okizi (To Heal), on view at All My Relations Art through April 13th. CREDIT: All My Relations Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge KeepersThrough March 16Katherine E. Nash Gallery405 21st Avenue SFreeDreaming Our Futures marks the launch of the University of Minnesota’s George Morrison Center for Indigenous Arts, and features work in a wide variety of painting media and esthetic approaches by 29 artists. An opening program will be held on February 3rd from 4-8pm. For more information and gallery hours, go to cla.umn.edu/art/galleries-public-programs/katherine-e-nash-gallery. Okizi (To Heal)Through April 13All My Relations Arts1414 E Franklin AvenueFreeOkizi (To Heal), is a partner exhibition with the American Swedish Institute in response to the traveling exhibition, Arctic Highways: Unbound Indigenous People. Okizi highlights the revitalization efforts that reconnect [...]
