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Saturday December 20th 2025
Art For All
By PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL, Semilla Center
The Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts at St. Paul”™s believes that creating art together can be a way of healing for individuals and communities. Semilla will host an “Art Block Party” for Block Clubs, where artists will create art with your neighbors””art that will beautify your street and send a message of unity. Interested? semillacenter@gmail.com
Welcome to Semilla benefit “Art for All” on Saturday, May 16 from 5 to 9 pm, at the Center for Changing Lives, 2400 Park Avenue. Live music, food, hands-on art making, a silent auction, youth photography show and more. $20 suggested donation””discount tickets for volunteers.
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April 2020 Movie Corner
By HOWARD McQUITTER II
“Onward”
(2020)
Animation /Adventure/Action
Pixar Pictures
3.5 of 5
Pixar never (or almost never) makes an animation that isn”™t heart warming, inspirational, or both. The latest is “Onward”, not on the same level as “Toy Story”(1995), “Toy Story 2” (1999),””UP” (2009), “Inside Out” (2015) and WALLE” (2008); but is still entertaining and warmhearted.
Ian (Tom Holland) looks on his bedroom wall to see pictures of his father who passed away while he was a toddler. He misses him dearly and so does his older brother Barley (Chris Pratt). Ian is quite shy and Barley is brass and a bit immature.
On Ian”™s 16th birthday, the boys”™mother, Laurel Lightfoot (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), gives a gift to him and to his brother from his father”“a wizard staff that has the power to bring back their father for 24 hours. While Ian is experimenting with the magic stick something goes wrong conjuring up only the bottom half of their father and the gem on top of the staff disappears. The top half is in a far off land. Barley, Ian, and the bottom half of dad jump into Barley”™s old van taking off on a quest to rejoin the top half of their father having only 24 hours to do so.… Read the rest “April 2020 Movie Corner”
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