‘Miscellany’ Archives
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING MAYDAY!
Thank you, thank you, thank you to the community for our 39th Annual MayDay Parade & Festival! One of the best ever, attended by 50-70,000 on glorious May 5, 2013. Here”'s the results of our lowered budget this year and our appeal for increased community sustaining support. $80,850 - Individual donations (including Seward Co-op”'s “round up” and MayDay Makers giving) 9,300 - ad sales $7,500 - join in and info tables $18,350 - Food vendors $116,000 - income $93,500 ”“ personnel $7,400 ”“ print/postage/promotion $8,100 ”“ rental equipment/vehicles $2,300 ”“ supplies $4,100 ”“ permits $8,600 ”“ all else $124,000 - expenses So an additional $8,000 will make it all good. To ensure many MayDays to come as we enter our 40th year, you can: Donate through our web site. Use the MayDay appeal envelope you might have received and/or mail us a check. Share the magic of MayDay with others: [...]
Seeds Planted 40 Years Ago
Walker Community Church rises again out of the ground at 31st Street and 16th Avenue 40 weeks after it”'s devastating fire in 2012. Clarasophia Gust By David O”'Fallon In this age of disconnection, we seek each other. In our isolation, we hunger for eyes to meet ours. Faced with problems and dangers that are, literally, world-size, we doubt our own strength to change energy into creation rather than consumption, into collaboration rather than competition. Always some spark in each of us believes that we can. From such sparks came the fire that glows and warms us now as In the Heart of the Beast Theatre. Wandering back into Minneapolis, 40 years ago, after travels and studies from California to Pennsylvania to Vermont, I brought images and commitments nurtured at Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont and New York. And a question; Could a theatre belong to a place, a people? Could it be a living part of their search for connection? Many theatres and their [...]
EPIC Annual Meeting Recap
By Carol Pass, President East Phillips Improvement Coalition Over 100 people attended the EPIC ANNUAL MTG, April 27th  in the rotunda and gym of the East Phillips Park Cultural & Community Center.  It was a huge success with election of 6 new Board members. EPICs commitment of representing the wonderful diversity of East Phillips was continued with the newly elected Board members: Mary Gonsior, Linda Leonard, Earl Simms, Sherdl Kordian, Ali Macali and Aisha Gomez; joining returning Board members, Carol Pass, Rosie Cruz and Jenny Bjorgo. The Breakfast was Mexican style scrambled eggs (Huevos Rancheros) sausage, tamales, sambusas, fish tortes, fruit, all the accoutrements, and 3 EPIC birthday cakes and cupcakes. Many East Phillips residents helped with everything from set-up, food preparation, serving, providing door prizes and even clean-up. Mark Welna of Welna Hdwe., the best hardware store in the world, donated the door prizes & the traditional grand [...]
