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that centers healing, equity, and justice
Owning a Home: Alternative Approaches
Join Urban Homeworks on Zoom Thursday, April 20th from 12-1 PM as we talk about alternate pathways to homeownership—land trusts, co-ops, and townhomes, oh my! Stay tuned as we announce our guest speakers in the coming weeks.
Body Reclamation Dance Workshop
Pangea World Theater’s Lake Street Arts! Body Reclamation
We will break a sweat
all while RECLAIMING the Bodies
and all that we are!Note: This experience centralizes Black and IPOC Communities
DejaJoelle is a Black-Centered - Healing Artist, Choreographer, Director, and Cultural Healing Curator. She believes Dance serves as our connection to ourselves, our communities, and our overall Divinity. DejaJoelle creates intentional spaces for Black, and LGBTQ2community to discover their own practices toward Healing using Dance, Body Reclamation, and other Healing practices. As the world experiences collective hurt and grief, DejaJoelle trusts that our greatest act of REVOLUTION and REBELLION against hatred and corruption is Self-Love, Healing, and Dance. As she refuses to fuel the fire of destruction and heinousness, she instead focuses her Art and energy on properly handling Black people who continue to be mishandled.
Mental Health & Nutrition Workshops
Nutritional strategies to support mental and cognitive health
Our understanding of mental health has evolved to a more comprehensive model that acknowledges nutrition as an influential factor. Research highlights the role food, micronutrients and gut health play in determining our risk of developing mental health issues, as well as our ability to thrive with conditions such as Depression, Anxiety and ADHD.
This three-part series of 75-minute online workshops includes information about three pillars of nutritional approaches to mental health: diet, micronutrients, and the microbiome. You will learn how micronutrients and the microbiome impact common conditions like Depression, Anxiety and ADHD, and dietary strategies commonly used to support mental and cognitive health.
This series is offered by the University of Minnesota Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing and the Integrative Psychiatry & Wellness Program.
Workshop #1: Key nutrients for mental health
Review essential nutrients and their role in supporting mental health
Learn evaluation strategies to understand individualized nutrient needs
Become familiar with food sources of mood-supportive micronutrients
First in a 3-part series. $10-20 each.
Art Makes Change In-Person Workshops - Climate Justice
In Person Workshops
Dates: Feb.12, Feb.19, Feb. 26
Puppeteers Sofía Padilla and Davey Steinman will lead three in person workshops. They will teach students how to build shadow puppets using accessible materials, draw on a lightbox with sand, and mix shadow puppets, sand drawings and human silhouettes for live puppetry performance that speaks to climate justice.
To learn more click HERE
To register early for free click HERE
Our Stories, Ourselves: Writing Workshop: If Money Was No Object
What would you wish for if money was no object? What would your world look like if money was no object? Whether you write in poetry, prose, or not at all, we invite you to this workshop. Using prompts for inspiration, we will blend fiction with non fiction as we bend the world to dream about the possibilities that freedom from financial woes would hold. *This event was previously postponed and rescheduled to this date*
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Register Here:bit.ly/mtass-ifmoney
*the event has optional zoom attendance for those who prefer it*
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Instructor Bio:
Suleiman Adan is an organizer, educator, writer and DEI trainer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is HR manager at Research in Action, a Black-owned community education research firm. Suleiman is also a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, studying Education Psychology. He coordinates a food pantry in Saint Anthony, MN on the weekends, and teaches at Northwest Islamic Community Center where he works with students of all ages on learning the Arabic Language, learning the Quran both in Arabic and English, and interfaith dialogue. Suleiman has also been managing a tutoring company for the last decade on increasing literacy and proficiency in math and science, and instilling the love of reading and writing in BIPOC youth in south Minneapolis
Pangea World Theater’s Lake Street Arts! Writing Our memory into being
Writing Workshop with Anthony Ceballos and Venus DeMars
Register for one of the areas of focus (poetry or creative non-fiction).
This workshop is part of Pangea World Theater's Lake Street Arts! 2023 Season of You Are Here, placekeeping through the arts.
Anthony Ceballos and Venus DeMars will invite people into a lively discussion revolving around creative writing and the act of memory recall and excavation. Through workshop discussion, prompts, and a bit of open writing time, participants will work toward and have the opportunity to write and perform a piece of either creative nonfiction or poetry based in memory.
Limit 12 participants (6 poetry/6 creative non-fiction). Please register for which focus you want to work in. Bring a laptop or pen and paper to the workshop REGISTRATION FREE & REQUIRED
Affirmation Space
The intentions of the space is to welcome people, especially BIPOC and QTBIPOC folx, into the space and have them feel free, seen, nurtured, and held. A space where you can let go, relax, tap into your authenticity and be inspired. The artwork lays down the foundation for that to take place and the people bring in community healing and the collective ancestars.
'Testify' Exhibit and Events
TESTIFY: Americana from Slavery to Today
February 1 - March 29
Building on the success of the original exhibit in 2018, the Diane and Alan Page Collection are again presenting their exhibit of Americana from slavery to today – with renewed calls to action. The exhibit features more than 100 objects of oppression and expression.
Another unique part of the exhibit is "Testify Tuesdays."
Every Tuesday evening through the duration of the exhibit, people can gather to discuss everything from racial justice issues to environmental justice.
Sing & Make Art for Climate
Join MN Interfaith Power & Lights's inaugural Voices for Climate Song Circle with a special singing art build! No need to be a "singer" or an "artist." This will be a fun event where all are welcome, including kids and families!
Sarina Partridge will be leading simple songs to build community, and artists will help us create signs and banners that will be used at the State Capitol rally on February 15.
We'll gather on Sunday, January 29, from 1-4 pm at Spill Paint Not Oil Studio (2500 W. University Ave., St. Paul). Come for a little while or stay the whole afternoon.
Art materials will be provided. Wear clothes you don’t mind getting a bit paint-y.
Please register so Sarina can let you know if there are any updates to the event.
Can't wait to sing, make protest art, and connect with you!
Free Art Makes Change Workshop
Heart of the Beast’s Art Shaping Change Workshops are annually recurring art classes taught by local creatives that explore social justice themes. The focus of the Art Shaping Change 2023 workshops is climate justice. There will be virtual, mixed media art workshops held on zoom and in person puppetry workshops.
Graci Horne & Ifrah Mansour are co-creating this online workshop series. Workshops will explore feelings, findings & footprints using discarded items in your home to make Memorabilia for your very own time-capsule. Through art making, you will explore what it means to be an ancestor and reflect on our collective role and impact on the climate change crisis.
To learn more click HERE
To register early for free click HERE
Virtual Workshops
Dates: Jan. 22, Jan. 29, Feb 5
Home Buying Workshop
We will go over the steps to a successful home buying process from start to finish. Pat Gleason and Bob Austin of Alerus Mortgage will be there to discuss current programs and assistance money available.
You will have almost 60 years of combined experience present to support you, so bring all of your questions!
Snacks and refreshment provided.
Topics:
Understanding home buying process start to finish, financing options including 2-1 interest rate buydown
Minnesota Housing programs MNHousing.gov
City of Lakes Community Land Trust CLCLT.org
Free credit check and what you can do to build/repair credit.
Location: 3500 Bloomington Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55407
Make Your Own Injera
Select 4 Menu items To Cook!
Make Your own Injera!
Ethiopian Coffee ceremony
& Enjoy your meal! $50/person
Community Open House & Poetry Class
Join Exposed Brick Theatre & Million Artist Movement for Community Open Hours at the Affirmation Space Gallery.
Come through anytime from 5 - 8pm, or join us from 6:30 - 7:30 for a poetry class led by Saba Shabazz.
Legislative 101 Training
The Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage will hold a Legislative 101 Training at 5pm-7pm on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. This free training event will provide an overview of the legislative process and information about ways to participate in the making of legislation. Join us to learn simple ways you can engage the legislative process and activate your CMAH Power. REGISTER HERE for free.
Mind, Body and Soul - Convening the Black Community: Black Children and Families
Mind, Body and Soul – Convening the Black Community: Black Children and Families
This convening is a series of work sessions hosted by Deputy Commissioner Stephanie Burrage (Minnesota Department of Education) and Commissioner Robert Doty (Minnesota Department of Revenue) with key leaders of the African American community to hear from Governor Tim Walz, Lieutenant Governor Flanagan, and members of the Administration about specific work focused on African Americans in Minnesota.
Participants will provide feedback and be a part of building recommendations for specific policy and budget proposals for inclusion in the FY2024-25 Biennial Budget that will be rolled out in January 2023. The culmination of these sessions will be a work plan and funding and policy proposals focused on improving outcomes for African Americans in our state. This upcoming convening, focusing on the Children's cabinet will occur August 31, 2022 at 3:00-4:30 p.m.
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Housing Finance Training
ELCD is creating a Housing Development series on the affordable housing continuum, housing cooperatives, housing finance, and housing policy. Led by community-based housing experts and BIPOC, low wealth, and other groups challenged by housing access and stability, the sessions will be an opportunity to expand knowledge in housing and focus on creating effective housing policies and practices to better meet the continuum of housing needs.
#LevelUp Workshop: Changing the Narrative through social media
With a far-reaching audience and a lens for equity, justice, and focus on the Black plight, Marz’s message that “Small Acts Matter” packs a profound ripple effect that can be measured by the success of her campaigns.
Actualizing Equity in Community Engagement
As we continue to navigate the pandemic, what challenges have we faced and what opportunities have we embraced in community organizing?
Telling My Story retreat
After a year and a half of conversations with 16 local writers from our Minnesota literary community, including African Caribbean, African American, and those from multiethnic parentage as well as from the continent of Africa, the Minnesota Black Publishing Arts Collaborative would like to engage the Black community in the process of naming strength and finding healing through writing.
Workshop for First-time Homebuyers
PPL workshops are certified through the Home Stretch program of the Minnesota Home Ownership Center.
Level Up
An affordable professional development series for artists, organizers and community leaders.
Centerst-age 55+
This class is ongoing. Gather with fellow writers ages 55+ and explore the idea of “telling” your memoir.
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