‘Miscellany’ Archives
Garden Funding Opportunities
Gardening Matters is excited to offer 10 community garden mini-grants of up to $500 for community food production gardens in the following South Minneapolis neighborhoods: East Isles, Elliot Park, Loring Park, Lowry Hill, Lowry Hill East, Phillips (East, Midtown, West, and Ventura Village), Powderhorn Park and Whittier. These mini-grants are funded by: The Green Patch Program at The Wedge Natural Foods Coop. Thank you to the members and shoppers at the Wedge Co-op, who Choose to Reuse and pass the benefits on to their community Donors who participated in Powderhorn Empty Bowls”' fall fundraising and community-building event to raise funds to end hunger in Powderhorn Park community Eligible gardens are welcome to apply by discussing the grant with your garden group, downloading and filling out the application on Gardening Matters website and submitting your application by May 15, 2013 to Gardening Matters. Grantees will be notified by June 1st and checks will be sent by [...]
MAYDAY MAY 5TH 2013: “SEE THE WORLD”
Bread and Puppet Theater”'s Hallelujah Cantastoria Play and Drawings adapted by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre for MayDay 2013 Parade and Pageant May 5th ~ Starting 1:00 PM at 26th and Bloomington to 34th Street and into Powderhorn Park. Rain and Snow? Date May 12 Listen to KFAI Radio 90.3 FM or @HOBT on Twitter“See the World,” theme will unfold in the 39th In the Heart of the Beast MayDay Parade and Pageant, as a painfully honest and simple story about how our actions affect our beautiful world. It is inspired by and adapted from the Vermont state, 50 year-old “Cheap Art and Political Theater, Bread and Puppet”'s classic cantastoria production called Hallelujah. The power of the script lies in its simplicity, and its profound call to action.
APRIL POOLS!
NO FOOLING! It”'s Historic! In the City of Lakes and Land of 10,000 Lakes! We are living in an historic time in Minneapolis: we are on the verge of having our first indoor public aquatics facility and it”'s located right in the heart of the Phillips Community. When completed, this fabulous new aquatics center will provide swimming lessons for everyone (including adults), a state-of-the-art competition swimming and diving venue, exercise and aerobics classes, and community swimming. In recent months the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board joined us in our belief that Minneapolis should have an aquatics facility. At the MPRB Board meeting on March 6th, President John Erwin stated that the city has a “moral responsibility” to ensure that children in the city learn to swim and, in particular, those many children with no real access to lakes and swimming lessons. This is why it”'s vitally important that all children in Minneapolis learn the valuable [...]
