‘Miscellany’ Archives
Young Leaders Leading Phillips
The Young Leaders Program at St. Paul”'s Lutheran had a very busy summer, working with organizations and people from throughout the community. You can see their work in many parts of the community: New murals at Shalom Garden, at the church and on garages; flower planters throughout the community, relationships with the neighborhood strengthened. One of the Young Leaders, Reyna Urbano submitted a winning photo for the Picturing Peace photo contest: www.picturingpeacempls.com. Angela Barrera has been in the program for five years, and this summer worked with Kayla Kelsey and the Community Arts Team. She talked about her experiences at the Multiple Sclerosis Achievement Center in St. Paul: “MS is a genetic disease that takes over your body and eventually limits your ability to move or hold things. The Young Leaders are making mosaics with the people over at the MS center as well as getting to know them. We have seen how delighted both the young people and the clients are [...]
2012 Bridging Festival
Bridging Festival 2012 “linked” neighbors by Bridging Minneapolis, Whittier Store Front Arts, and Interact combining to embellish the 24th Street pedestrian bridge, neighbors, and neighborhoods working together. By Dallas Johnson Bridging-Artists in Storefronts-Interact Center Partner in Celebration Bridging Minneapolis partnered with Artists in Storefronts and Interact Center to present the 2nd annual Bridging Festival, using music, visual art, textile design, dance, games, a parade, bubbles, face paint and more to create a community bridge from Whittier to Phillips West. During our art-inspired, community-built bridge event, we gathered on the Whittier side of the 24th Street Bridge to don costumes and festooned umbrellas and we paraded onto the bridge, where we had a disco party among chalked messages on the bridge deck, “Make Friends, Community, Peace, Love, Fun Fun Fun!”. We wrote our big wishes on colorful cloth and hung them on the chain link [...]
