April ’24 Events
Better Things: A 5X5 Reading Event and Open Mic
Tuesday, April 2
7 PM
Moon Palace Books
3032 Minnehaha Avenue
Free
Please join us for the inauguration of ReEntry Lab’s Better Things reading series, sponsored in partnership with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and Moon Palace Books. This reading will feature five fantastic writers: C. Fausto Cabrera, Chavonn Williams Shen, LM Brimmer, Junauda Petrus, and Sara Dovre Wudali, and will be hosted by Erin Sharkey and Davi Gray.
ReEntry Lab works to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration to a community that’s ready to receive them. You can learn more about ReEntry Lab at reentrylab.org, and about the Better Things series at better-things.org.
Lake Street Art Drop with Renee Dori and Benja Wuest
Thursday, April 4
6 PM
Starts at Midtown Global Market
920 E Lake Street
Free
Join Visit Lake Street starting this month for a free monthly scavenger hunt featuring photo clues on social media and local artwork prizes!
Here’s how it works: Follow us @VisitLakeStreet on Facebook and Instagram, then head to Midtown Global Market with your favorite people. At 6pm, we’ll start posting photo hints for the hiding places of art treasures. Follow the hints to find the art!… Read the rest “April ’24 Events”
Community Journalism Training at Ebenezer Tower!
The 5th and final Alley Communications Community Journalism Training Workshop
conducted by Cirien Saadeh, Journalism of Color Training Center was held on
Saturday, March 16, in the Community Room on the 23rd floor of the Ebenezer Tower
Apartments. It was held as a hybrid event with participants on Zoom and in person. PHOTOS: Susan Gust
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Out of Darkness
from the series Movie Corner
4 out of 5 Stars
Bleecker Street 2024
Thriller/Horror/ Mystery
By HOWARD MCQUITTER II
Scottish director Andrew Cumming has crafted a most unusual film. His first full feature film Out Of Darkness occurs in prehistoric times – 45,000 years ago – where survival is of the utmost importance. Yet Cumming’s clever work does not rely on survival alone but crosses the genres of horror, thriller, and mystery.
The people at that time are hunter gatherers, finding land that is not barren and has enough food and water for subsistence. When the area is barren, Adem (Chuku Modu), the group’s leader, along with Heron (Luna Mwezi), his younger brother Geirr (Kit Young), and their elderly aide Odal (Arno Luning) leave for more fertile land only to find out it is just as barren as the land they left. The group is joined by a straggler, Beyah (Safia Oakley Green) and travels to another unforgiving landscape. Beyah is worried that she and her baby may not survive under the onerous conditions.
The characters speak a fictional tongue called Toga, hence the movie uses subtitles. Although the landscapes are aesthetically beautiful, the dense woods are menacing, dangerous and alluring all at once.… Read the rest “Out of Darkness”
