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By HARVEY WINJE
HOBT has occupied four locations that served as indoor workshops, classrooms, performance stages, and offices while always doing production, teaching, and performing at other indoor and outdoor places. These spaces included parks, schools, theaters, community centers, and streets throughout the Twin Cities area and suburbs.
Other traveling adventures took HOBT to Washington, D.C.; New Orleans, LA; Brookings and Mitchell, SD; Itasca, MN and to the Gulf of Mexico on a Mississippi river towns tour with ”Circle of Water Circus” (currently exhibited at the Hennepin History Museum). In 2000, HOBT performed at the DMZ–Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.
HOBT has been a place that welcomes everyone no matter where it’s taught, performed, or at any one of its four studio/workshop/stage locations:
1973-1985: Walker Community Church 3104 16th Avenue So; demolished after May 27, 2012 fire and then a new Church was built.
1985-1986: Gustavus Adolphus Lodge Hall retail space at 1626 East Lake Street; demolished August 11th 2009 after January 16, 2004 fire with a new apartment building built on lot in the last two years.
1986-1988 Roberts Shoe Store third floor; demolished after a fire on Memorial Day weekend 2018 and currently a vacant lot being planned and developed by the Graves Foundation.… Read the rest “Heart of the Beast Not Limited To a Place”
Someone Thought this was a Good Idea
from the series Peace House Community Journal…
By MARTI MALTBY
A couple of months ago, one of the community members at Peace House Community crawled under the table where we set out pastries so he could take a nap. A newer volunteer asked if this was okay, and I replied that as long as he was breathing and no one was going to trip over him, we would leave him alone. If sleeping under a table on a cement floor in a noisy room is his best option, who am I to make an arbitrary rule that will take his sleep away?
I mentioned this story during a church service recently, and a couple of days later one of PHC’s supporters commented on how uplifting the story was, because it showed how caring we were. Unfortunately, in the two days between telling the story and hearing the comment, my mood had soured because cold weather had set in. My response was succinct. “You say it’s uplifting because I told you about the good part of PHC. The flipside is that there’s a really good chance that one or two of my friends from PHC will freeze to death in the next few months, or will lose their fingers and toes to frostbite, or will die in a tent fire.”… Read the rest “Someone Thought this was a Good Idea”
