Art to Change the World

Barbara Bridges -Fantasyland
2018-02-03 - 2018-03-30
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire Discusses our nationwide willingness to embrace a factual relativity. Kurt Anderson
In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what’s happening in our country today—this post-factual, “fake news” moment we’re all living through—is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA.
Over the course of five centuries—from the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy sixties, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrials—our love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we’ve never fully acknowledged. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasies—every citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails.

Ubuntu Inquiry Group Begins Feb 1-March 23
2018-02-01
Ubuntu Book/Film Club?
We plan for the reading group to start in February. We will read a book for two months and discuss the writing and the topic, but more importantly, reflect on how these (hopefully) new ideas inform our practice. These book discussions will not focus on critiquing the work as a piece of literature. If there is anything that is boring, it is a book club meeting that starts out with someone saying ”I liked it “ or “ I did not like it” and then everyone comes out swinging in defense of their position! Please send us reading recommendations. Real time book meeting scheduled in early April 2018. Please go and sign up for the discussion right now! https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/discussion-form/

Be Brave Not Perfect Event- Kristi Hemmer
2018-01-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
How is 2018 going for you? Need some inspiration? Join us for our most popular WORDup POWERhour and be inspired and activated and intentional for the rest of 2018 with a Brave not Perfect mindset and a WORDup to anchor it.
And you will explore What would be different if I operated from Brave not Perfect? Because research shows boys are raised to be brave. Girls to perfect. Bottom line: Boys are raised to be possible. Girls to be impossible. This is a problem. In this POWERhour explore how perfection limits your potential and what the rest of 2018 will look like with your WORDup: ___________not Perfect.
This POWERhour includes: a workshop to help you answer What would be different if I operated from Brave not Perfect? and identify your WORDup (your anchor word for 2018) + a journal you will personalize to track your progress in 2018 + a glass of wine + light appetizers + community of other AWEsome women like you.
Gift yourself (and a friend) this special edition POWERhour. Investment includes: a glass of wine, light appetizers, a personalized journal, and an inspirational, action-focused 90 minute experience in a FUN safe space! Limited to 20!
As always, show up as you are. Drop in and out as you can! And if price is stopping you from coming, contact kristi@puttingwomeninpower.com to find a win-win!
5.30pm-5.45pm. Connecting activity.
5.45pm-6.45pm. POWERhour.
6.45pm-7.00pm. Show and Tell your WORDup.
7.00pm. Ready to MOXIE 2018!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-brave-not-perfect-2018-powerhour-tickets-41836655563

The Healing Doll Way Class Starts Barb Kobe
2018-01-15
The Healing Doll Way
My year long training in becoming
a transformative healing artist
​focusing on creating
art and healing dolls
starts January 15, 2018
Read More https://www.barbkobe.com/class-description.html

Members Meeting/Party
2018-01-06 17:00 - 19:00
January 6, 2017 Welcome Party
I am writing to give you a status report and invite you to a members meeting and party on January 6, 2018 starting at 5:00.
Board Member, Lynn Olson, has graciously agreed to host us at Language Central located at 2300 Central Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418. https://www.languagecentral.us/ You will also have the opportunity to meet your Board of Directors and give them any input you might have. Madelynne Engle is flying in for the meeting and other members not living here in Minneapolis are encouraged to attend! We do not have money for travel yet but we will find lodging for you. I will also have a Zoom session set up so out of town members can have the opportunity to chat one-on-one with all attendees. Shira Richter, in Israel, and Elissa Raffa, in Greece, and I have conferenced for several hours using Zoom…. it is a brilliant piece of software. RSVP PLEASE!

Nikki Mc Coomb Jan 5-Feb 9
2018-01-05 18:00 - 20:00

Sheryl Reily Show
2018-01-04
Member Events Past
