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Friday March 20th 2026
Anyone living in the Backyard area can help their community to improve health
By Janice Barbee, Cultural Wellness Center
The Backyard Initiative was started two years ago as a community partnership between Allina Hospitals and Clinics and the residents of Phillips, Powderhorn Park, Central, and Corcoran which has the goal of improving the health of the community. Health is defined as 1) a state of physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being; it is not only the absence of infirmity and disease, 2) the state of balance, harmony, and connectedness within and amongst many systems ”“ the body, the family, the community, the environment, and culture; it cannot be seen only in an individual context, and 3) an active state of being; it cannot be achieved by being passive.
This definition of health is not just a state of being ”“ it is a process of becoming, and the residents of the Backyard are using this description of health to become healthier. They are actively working on projects which increase balance, harmony, and connectedness within the community.
The core work of the Backyard Initiative is done within the Citizen Health Action Teams or CHATs. A CHAT is composed of a group of people who work together on a common concern or issue in order to improve the health of the community and build community.… Read the rest “Anyone living in the Backyard area can help their community to improve health”
All My Relations Gallery debuts Frank Big Bear
The Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI) celebrates the All My Relations Gallery Grand Opening with an exhibit of never-before-seen paintings by master artist Frank Big Bear.
Reception and Celebration
January 21, 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m., at All My Relations Gallery, 1414 East Franklin Avenue, Mpls. Hours: Tuesday-Friday 11-6, p.m. Weekends 11-3, p.m. –located in the heart of the American Indian Cultural Corridor, the very neighborhood where Frank Big Bear lived while creating his prolific body of important early work. FREE and open to the public.
Frank Big Bear Paintings””“From the Rez, to the Hood, to the Lake”, presents vivid canvasses by Frank Big Bear, recipient of the Bush Foundation Enduring Visions Award, among other honors. Never-before-seen acrylic paintings, created by this Ojibwe artist best known for his surreal and detailed color pencil drawings, make their debut with this exhibit. Running from January 21, to February 28, 2011,.
Frank Big Bear Paintings is made possible through support of the McKnight Foundation, Target, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Compass/Medtronic, Rosemary H. & David F. Good Family Foundation and in cooperation with Bockley Gallery.
All My Relations Arts is a ten-year old arts program at Ancient Traders Gallery until 2010 when it became an initiative of NACDI Info or tours: contact Elizabeth Day eday@nacdi.org,… Read the rest “All My Relations Gallery debuts Frank Big Bear”
Victor Borge: Life and Laughs of a Scandinavian Humorist Exhibit Opens at the American Swedish Institute
Victor Borge
February 18 ”“ May 1, 2011
Exhibit explores Victor Borge”'s life and achievements with film clips, recordings, photographs and memorabilia. Admission: see below.
Born Børge Rosenbaum in Denmark on January 3, 1909, Mr. Borge trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and began his career in Denmark in the 1930s. While touring in Sweden, the Third Reich invaded Denmark, Borge, being Jewish, could not return home. He went to the U.S on August 28, 1940.
Affectionately called “Great Dane,” Victor Borge was an engaging musician, humorist, humanitarian, and one of the most popular performers in the US and Scandinavia. He effectively used physical and visual elements maintaining a consistent, dynamic energy and high level of spontaneity, marked by impeccable timing and highly developed musicality.
During 60 years in the U.S., he performed on radio and television, in films, on stage, and at the White House. In 1956, he performed on Broadway with his Comedy in Music; still the record for longest-running one-man show. Recognized as an ambassador of goodwill in Denmark and America, he was knighted by the five Nordic countries and honored by U.S. Congress and the United Nations. Borge died Dec. 23, 2000.
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