‘Miscellany’ Archives
MICAH”'s Housing Advocacy Helps Everyone Help MICAH at October 14 Fund Raiser
By Donna Neste MICAH an inter-faith organization advocates for the homeless; focusing on state and local policy for low-income people to afford rental housing. MICAH worked behind the scenes with lawmakers toward Mpls”' housing fund increases and state adoption of $35 million bonding for affordable housing. MICAH constantly must seek funding. You can contribute and be entertained at their annual fund-raiser. For $30 you will be entertained with jazz, the spoken word, food and some inspiring words from Council member Gary Schiff. Sun. Oct. 14th, 1:30-3:00 p.m.; Capri Theater, 2027 ay Ave. N., Mpls. Order your tickets www.micah.org or Jodi -MICAH 651-646-0612
Phillips Clean Sweep-October 13
By Donna Neste Residents of four Phillips neighborhoods are encouraged to participate in this community-building annual event. Meet 9:00 a.m. Welna Hardware 24th & Bloomington or The Center for Changing Lives at 2400 Park Av. for coffee, juice and bagels. Bags, gloves and pick-up sticks given to participants who go to their blocks or problem areas and pick up trash. At noon come together and celebration with music and lunch in Steward Park. City trucks and employees are hired to help special clean up. HN Cty Sentence to Service also contributes, along with other groups like Banyan Community.
Artists in Storefronts, Interact Center, & Bridging Minneapolis Combine Talents Sept. 9
Join us Sunday, Sept 9, 2012, from 3-6pm for an art-inspired community event, beginning on the Whittier side of the 24th Street Bridge and ending on the Phillips West side. The Sunday afternoon “Bridging Festival” closes out the second run of the Whittier Artists in Storefronts project, which turns vacant or underused storefronts along the Eat Street corridor into ongoing artist exhibition spaces. “The community response to Whittier Artists in Storefronts has been tremendous,” says organizer Joan Vorderbruggen. “This festival is our way of taking that idea of community engagement and bringing it to our neighbors to the west. I love that we can do it via this bridge, using it as a metaphor for art connecting us all.” Inspired by Dallas Johnson”'s Bridging Minneapolis Project, which hosted the first annual “Bridging Festival” last year, installed six murals near the bridge and hosts monthly “Bridge Shenanigans”, [...]
