Art to Change the World

10-12:00 PM Barb Kobe Endangered Feelings Adult Workshop $5
2018-10-13 10:00 - 23:30 UTC | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Barb Kobe Project Description – Topic: Emotional Nature – Embodied Knowing – Empathetic Connection
Making art and healing dolls has helped me to express my feelings, trust my body, mind and spirit and develop an intuitive and empathetic connection with myself, nature and others human beings.Published book : The Healing Doll Way
A Guided Process Creating Art Dolls for Self-Discovery, Awareness, and TransformationEight art and healing dolls will express emotion and use metaphors of the natural world, symbol and story to embellish and express feelings. These “dolls” will invite the viewers to reflect on their own emotions and feeling expressions, and perhaps create a dialog with others about how emotional art elicits an empathetic response.Making healing dolls will bring out feelings—often ones you think you’ve hidden or stuffed. When I show one of my dolls that symbolizes a deep healing process about anger, sadness, or fear, the person viewing it will often say “it’s too scary or ugly. Often I hear, “Is that a voodoo doll?” or “Why would you make such an ugly doll?” Despite these first responses, most people are still drawn to dolls made from the creator’s deep emotional regions. They want to hear the stories and meanings of the dolls.It is my continuing quest to find innovative artmaking ways to create change in myself and others—from a state of pain, numbness, and disease, to one of well-being, continuous growth, and healing. My ultimate goal is that the viewer and the maker entertain the possibility that making healing and transformative dolls can create positive change and help in dealing with pain, struggle, uncomfortable feelings, and or life challenges. This process can be an opportunity to learn more about yourself, grow in your wisdom, connect with your intuition and transform an aspect of your life.
Topic Expert– Pat Samples
Our bodies are where our stories live and our aliveness resides, longing to be expressed. I support people in allowing their bodies to reveal these stories by unveiling what’s alive in them. I offer them open-hearted attention, permission to move from their internal impulses, and a non-anxious, witnessing presence. My services included one-on-one sessions, creative movement sessions called Free Motion, and workshops, called Essential Motion, that enrich body awareness and aliveness through mindful attention and movement. I have studied Essential Motion with founder Karen Roeper for 13 years and led weekly Free Motion sessions for 15 years. I have given talks and workshops on body awareness topics across the U.S. and am the author of Body Odyssey: Lessons from the Bones and Belly and The Secret Wisdom of a Woman’s Body: Freeing Yourself to Live Passionately and Age Fearlessly.
I am also an avid champion for creative aging. Research shows that we all have a burst of artistic impulses in our older years and an urgent drive to tell our important stories. From my first job in a nursing home while I was in college to my current work serving senior living communities across the metropolitan area, I’ve seen firsthand how this creative burst, when guided by skilled teaching artists, transforms lives. The stories, resilience and creative capacities of older people come to life! Topic Expert, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Workshop – Feelings Friendly: For all ages

What’s Your Issue
October 4-14, 2018
Squirrel Haus Arts
South Minneapolis
Barb Kobe
Endangered Feelings
October 13, 2018
10:00 am to noon
Library
Come spend 2 hours playing with emotions and feelings.
Meet Barb’s feeling tools: Endangered Feelings puppets
and feeling dolls, “Numbfull and the Fulls”. Participate in group
research of primary emotions. Discuss emotions and feelings
in ways you have never done before. Learn how to express
your feelings in a variety of creative ways.
Here’s link to my Pat Samples expert
http://www.patsamples.com/
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Barb Kobe Biography
Barb Kobe is a Mixed Media Artist, Professional Teaching Artist, Author, Mentor and Creativity Coach. She has a BA in Psychology with an emphasis in expressive arts, as well as, a Practioner Certification in Neuro Linguistic Programming. She is trained as an ARTbundance Creativity Coach and a Licensed Journey Path Facilitator.
Barb Kobe is a Minnesota one-of-a-kind art and healing doll artist. She was a very sensitive child who found great comfort making art and playing with dolls. When she had children of her own she learned about emotional intelligence as she taught her children about their feelings. She developed and manufactured a set of puppets that helped in the expression of feelings. While making them she noticed that as she would think about that feeling, where she felt it in her body and notice where she was expressing it in her life.

She shared her creations with over one thousand children in elementary schools and learned that “when I hold a feeling doll in my hand or lap, in other words, outside of my body, the children would easily share a feeling story”. Barb transferred this awareness to her own personal feeling, and healing dolls and has been making her emotional dolls ever since. Emotions and healing are her primary sources of inspiration and drive her doll and figurative art. She says, “My dolls are figurative sculpture and emotional metaphors that express feelings, beliefs and connections to body, mind and spirit. Sometimes I begin with a feeling, a struggle, or a wish to visualize some internal and invisible energy. I do this to visually speak to it and to develop a relationship with a hidden aspect of myself. At other times I simply delight in the playing with the materials, colors and shapes, seeing what comes from immersing myself in the creative process. All of my dolls mirror some aspect of hidden personal beliefs and stories.”

Oct 12 7-9:00 Craig Harris- SenseAbility Performance (CTSD) $10.00
2018-10-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
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for Oct 12 ________________________________________________________________________Craig Harris Project Description – Topic: Human Senses-CTSDFor the See. Say. DO exhibition/event I will perform my multimedia dramatic work SenseAbility, and I will conduct related discussions with audiences about themes presented in the show. SenseAbility explores how our personal experiences and cultural narratives help us navigate our ongoing struggle to make the world a better place. The show is about individual and community responsibility and accountability.Inspired yet haunted by the voice of Elijah, I invite the Prophet into our time, imagining him on a shared journey of transformation. I weave music and visual textures with memories of Bethlehem and new family connections in the West Bank, probing issues related to Continuous Traumatic Stress Disorder, a multi-generational stress condition experienced by millions of people living under sustained occupation in the Palestinian territories.In SenseAbility an immersive sensory landscape surrounds the audience with the sounds, sights, smells, tastes… even the touch and feeling revealed in the visceral experience that is inescapable in a life under sustained occupation, utilizing a multi-channel sound system, multiple video projectors, music performance and live acting/story telling. The performance space can be configured to suit the situation, but needs sufficient space to move, see projections (approx. 20’ x 16’ performance space plus audience).
https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/craig-harrisAuthentic Voice Murad Owda Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Bethlehem
Discussions are intended to highlight the experience of people living under occupation in the Palestinian territories, and also draw connections with related experiences of multi-generational stress experiences in communities in the United States.
Murad Owda grew up and currently lives in Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, West Bank. He holds a MSW degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and currently works for Badil, an NGO in Bethlehem that focuses on the lives and rights of Palestinians. I hope that Murad will be able to join discussions in person, but we don’t know whether his Visa will be approved in time for October 2018. If he is not here we will do what we can for him to join via Skype or Zoom.
I also am planning to establish a connection with somebody at the Center for Victims of Torture who can inform the discussion and project evolution about CTSD specifically, and hopefully the impact on communities in the US where this is relevant. https://www.cvt.org
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Craig Harris Biography craig@InterferenceArts.com
Craig Harris is Artistic Director of Interference Arts and is a composer, performer and writer. Harris creates multimedia stage works and interactive sculptural environments. He has collaborated with dance theater companies Ballet of the Dolls, Zorongo Flamenco, Off-Leash Area and Katha Dance Theatre, and served as Music Director on many theater projects.
Harris received a 2016 Right Here Showcase Commission, and has received support from McKnight Foundation, American Composers Forum, Hanson Institute for American Music, and Rimon: the MN Jewish Arts Council.
As Executive Director of Ballet of the Dolls and the Ritz Theater Foundation, he led the initiative to renovate the Ritz Theater in Northeast Minneapolis. He was Managing and Interim Director at the Playwrights’ Center, President of the International Computer Music Association, and Executive Director of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. Harris received a Ph.D. in Composition at Eastman School of Music

SenseAbility
http://interferencearts.com/home/?page_id=1983&preview=true
Tzedakah Box – interactive story spaces Project Description: http://interferencearts.com/home/inter-arts/tzedakah-box-ii/

Video walk-through of Tzedakah Box II: http://vimeo.com/66418323

7-9:00 Craig Harris- SenseAbility Performance (CTSD) $10.00
2018-10-11 19:00 - 21:30 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
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Craig Harris Project Description – Topic: Human Senses-CTSD
For the See. Say. DO exhibition/event I will perform my multimedia dramatic work SenseAbility, and I will conduct related discussions with audiences about themes presented in the show. SenseAbility explores how our personal experiences and cultural narratives help us navigate our ongoing struggle to make the world a better place. The show is about individual and community responsibility and accountability.
Inspired yet haunted by the voice of Elijah, I invite the Prophet into our time, imagining him on a shared journey of transformation. I weave music and visual textures with memories of Bethlehem and new family connections in the West Bank, probing issues related to Continuous Traumatic Stress Disorder, a multi-generational stress condition experienced by millions of people living under sustained occupation in the Palestinian territories.
In SenseAbility an immersive sensory landscape surrounds the audience with the sounds, sights, smells, tastes… even the touch and feeling revealed in the visceral experience that is inescapable in a life under sustained occupation, utilizing a multi-channel sound system, multiple video projectors, music performance and live acting/story telling. The performance space can be configured to suit the situation, but needs sufficient space to move, see projections (approx. 20’ x 16’ performance space plus audience).
https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/craig-harris
Authentic Voice Murad Owda Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Bethlehem
Discussions are intended to highlight the experience of people living under occupation in the Palestinian territories, and also draw connections with related experiences of multi-generational stress experiences in communities in the United States.
Murad Owda grew up and currently lives in Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, West Bank. He holds a MSW degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and currently works for Badil, an NGO in Bethlehem that focuses on the lives and rights of Palestinians. I hope that Murad will be able to join discussions in person, but we don’t know whether his Visa will be approved in time for October 2018. If he is not here we will do what we can for him to join via Skype or Zoom.
I also am planning to establish a connection with somebody at the Center for Victims of Torture who can inform the discussion and project evolution about CTSD specifically, and hopefully the impact on communities in the US where this is relevant. https://www.cvt.org
__________________________________________________________________________________________

Craig Harris Biography craig@InterferenceArts.com
Craig Harris is Artistic Director of Interference Arts and is a composer, performer and writer. Harris creates multimedia stage works and interactive sculptural environments. He has collaborated with dance theater companies Ballet of the Dolls, Zorongo Flamenco, Off-Leash Area and Katha Dance Theatre, and served as Music Director on many theater projects.
Harris received a 2016 Right Here Showcase Commission, and has received support from McKnight Foundation, American Composers Forum, Hanson Institute for American Music, and Rimon: the MN Jewish Arts Council.
As Executive Director of Ballet of the Dolls and the Ritz Theater Foundation, he led the initiative to renovate the Ritz Theater in Northeast Minneapolis. He was Managing and Interim Director at the Playwrights’ Center, President of the International Computer Music Association, and Executive Director of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. Harris received a Ph.D. in Composition at Eastman School of Music

SenseAbility
http://interferencearts.com/home/?page_id=1983&preview=true
Tzedakah Box – interactive story spaces Project Description: http://interferencearts.com/home/inter-arts/tzedakah-box-ii/

Video walk-through of Tzedakah Box II: http://vimeo.com/66418323

7-9:00 Shira Richter & Kate Fisher Mother of All Confessions Click for Details and Reservations. Pay What You Can From $0-$25
2018-10-10 19:00 - 21:30 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
The Mother of All Confessions – The Art Installation
The Mother of All Confessions is an open invitation to a crowd-sourced piece that actively investigates the concept of maternity. The artwork and conversations will grow and morph in relation to the participants’ contributions.
This interactive work will take the form of a modular “confessional” booth. Participants will engage in dialogues about the conceptions, struggles, and future of artist/mothers. The confessional structure encourages two beings to occupy a shared space; much like the way maternity requires that women share their spaces, both internally and externally. This piece will also address one of the last conceptual taboos in art: maternity.
The Mother of All Confessions – The Art Installation (Condensed Version)
What’s YOUR story? The Mother of All Confessions is an open confessional booth for discussions surrounding maternity and parenting. Come share your story and contribute to an ongoing and developing conversation about maternity and art.
Shira Richter & Kate Fisher – The Presentation Read More
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IRON MAIDEN by Feminist artivist Shira Richter
(Baby Bottle nipples, or Madonna’s breast plates, whichever you fancy)-
Female gaze photography
Part of large scale installation project INVISIBLE INVALUABLES (link) about the real value of invisible care work.
129X87 Centimeters. Color print, framed.
(Not digitally manipulated).
Price includes frame: 580$
This photograph is part of Richter’s large scale, exquisite installation project; INVISIBLE INVALUABLES about the value of unpaid care work performed by mothers, parents, grandparents & other care-takers.
It is also featured on the front cover of the book COUNTING ON MARILYN WARING-NEW ADVANCES IN FEMINIST ECONOMICS (link)- published by Demeter press. The book features several chapters about the various ways the groundbreaking book “Counting for Nothing” by Feminist Economist Marilyn Waring (88′), affected research, policies and activism in the world.
Richter and her partner, Dr. Scheflan Katsav wrote the only chapter that merges both art and multidisciplinary economic research. It’s title is: IF MOTHERS COUNTED, STATUS SYMBOLS FOR THE INVISIBLE ART OF MOTHERING (link).
The project and her visual talk presentation about the erasure of mothers was also the only artistic project featured in the 8th national Espenet conference; “Who Cares” in 2017. And also participated in The timely Minnesota based Women & Money project.
Alltogether the project includes 26 art works: Photography, Lightboxes, standing lightboxes on iron legs, Photographic prints, Video art, sound and texts.
Richter is an “artivist” meaning, an artist activist, and mamactivist- a mother activist, who calls her art “a language” with which to simplify and visualize complicated academic ideas, in the hope of making them accessible and aesthetically satisfying to the public.
Richter has an award winning record, is interviewed on popular TV and radio shows, is published in several best selling books in Israel, has created several viral facebook posts and gives richly illustrated artistic -story -talks in order to spread the knowledge in a fun and engaging way.
Curious to hear it from the horses mouth?
( a mother horse is called a DAM…who knew?)
SAVE THE DATE!
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER THE 10TH 7pm-9pm :
The Mother of all Confessions (Link to event) –
With two artist mothers: Kate Fisher and Shira Richter
What we hide is actually the key to understanding social and human authentic value.

This will be a sort of “undercover” visual dualog (double dialogue) between two different artist mothers who are located in different continents, cultures, stages of life and career, and between the members of the audience.

Kate fisher, lives in Minnesota, and on top of being a mom of two young ones, a wife, ceramic artist, and… marathon runner (!), also thought up, created and runs (pun intended) the pioneer Both Mother and Artist blog.

Richter is a mother of twin teens (male bodied), a human rights and educational activist who lives in Israel, & prefers relationship over stardom,

SELF BLAME IS TOXIC. I WORK AT CREATING INCLUSIVE SPACES
My authentic voice, Kate Fisher, runs a successful blog titled “Both Mother and Artist” . Kate will be bringing a confessional booth to the project. Confession booths are safe places in which people can unload their burdens. The step to recovery is to acknowledge and accept the burden, with compassion, without that step the next step of rising above the difficulty cannot be performed. As artists, we practice “Learning a material’s nature” Thus, listening to the material is the first part of creating. This step accepts the material as it is,and tries to work with the characteristics of a material. Even if we want to change the characteristics of a material, we need to know it’s natural inclination. The confession booth serves as “learning the material” . Mothers can come to the confession booth and confess a messy house, or having difficulty with a child. Registration required. drb@bridgescreate.com.
Authentic Voice Kate Fisher Calling her work domestic art, Kate Fisher makes objects that are either for or about the home. Fisher received a BA in Art History and a BA in Studio Art from St. Olaf College. She completed her MFA at the University of North Texas. During her graduate studies Fisher spent seven months in China spread over two summers. She worked for Lawrence University and Anderson Ranch Arts Center prior to here present appointment. Kate is currently the Studio Art Technician for the Department of Art and Art History at St. Olaf College where she has, on occasion, taught ceramics and/or 3D foundations. Fisher is also deeply invested in a project examining how women have gracefully tackled the lively experiment that is being both artist and mother. Examining how these dual roles simultaneously impact each other both practically and conceptually. Over the past few years she has been surveying, interviewing and documenting a cross section of ceramic artists who are also mothers. Fisher’s questions have covered studio practice, time management, life balance, home, relationships, childcare, and aesthetics. Her project site also highlights a mother/artist, working in an array of media, each month. Fisher’s project has also manifested in articles, exhibitions, and a group residency. To find out more please visit the project’s website at www.bothartistandmother.com fisherclay@gmail.com
Biography Shira Richter Artist/Performer Topic: Motherhood: Women , Men and Money
A practicing, multidisciplinary Research-thinker-Artist-Speaker who has been ARTiculating Motherhood/Mothering/MotherValue & Worth (care work) in the socio-political-economic and artistic context, for nearly two decades. She is the Director of internationally award winning woman-adventure documentary Film “Two States of Mind” (2002) about women’s voices regarding the Israeli Palestinian conflict and UN resolution 1325.
Seeking more communication with unlikely audiences made her develop traveling Visual Performance Lectures that connect cultures, languages, image, text and context, and are time/place and Shira specific. For instance “Hot Potato called Mama“, about the erasure of mothers- performed at the Dallas Museum of Art with collaborative art project The Motherload. “Our Enemies realize our power before we do” about women’s coveted power- performed for The Mothervoices 1st conference (Holland), “Do we value our Values” about the gap between values and actions, and “Being a woman who loves men and hates War”, about a feminist wife and mother to/of men in war territory Israel- were performed for The Women and Money project in Minniapolis. Richter also curated a Video-text column for The Mothervoices project (The Netherlands).
A long time feminist mothernest activist, Richter is the initiator and creator of the first facebook page in Israel to call for inclusion of Gender studies in the formal Educational system and the first facebook page in Israel to question educational system practices regarding homework. She also curates, organizes and facilitates panels, teaches, motivates and advises.

6-9:30 Jill Waterhouse Bill Doherty Opposite (of) Sex Workshop – Library Invitation Only
2018-10-10 18:00 - 21:30 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Project Description: Jill Waterhouse Topic: Gender/Sexual Equality (Reconciliation)
“We are so much more than this…” is an examination and exploration of the changes and challenges – for both men and women – embedded in the exploding new paradigm around gender equity, sexual equality and healthy boundaries and the subsequent necessity to redefine the roles and relationships between men and women. In addition, it examines the stereotypes that both sexes have about each other – and themselves – and offers up another lens through which to view these deeply held preconceptions. Lastly, my hope is that this piece and the development and workshop(s) around the topic will encourage honest dialogue between the sexes on how men and women can negotiate the delicate and tricky terrain we now find ourselves in, so that we not only do not lose ourselves, but might find ourselves anew.
“We are so much more than this…” will be a mixed media sculptural installation with two life sized figures, one male and one female, set in relation to one another. The female sculpture is complete, created from a vintage mannequin. (70”H x 30”W x 30”D.) The male figure will be created using a vintage mannequin also, though will be somewhat larger than the female piece. But, unlike the female, the male piece will be created in collaboration with my authentic and expert voices over the next few months. I am developing a process by which their experience and imaginations, and those of our audience, help me to sculpt what this piece becomes, both figuratively and literally, over time. I will use my interviews, meetings and discussions with both my official authentic/expert voices – and the voices of everyday men (and women) that are authentic, but not in an official or expert capacity – to craft and/or collect the images, symbols, text, objects and physical shape that the sculpture needs to embody in order to more fully represent the male experience.
Topic Experts:
William J. Doherty, Ph.D., Professor of Family Social Science, U of MN, MN. Phone: 612-625-4752 http://www.cehd.umn.edu/fsos/directory/DohertyB.asp, www.better-angels.org
Workshop:
Waterhouse is working with Dr. Bill Doherty of Better Angels to create an intense workshop dialogue between men and women to examine the challenges and changes embedded in the exploding new paradigm around gender equity, sexual equality and healthy boundaries triggered by the #MeToo movement.
Their work together will be loosely based on Dr. Doherty’s renowned work with Better Angels to bring together people from opposite sides of the American political spectrum for honest and meaningful dialogue to help bridge the gap between their viewpoints and/or beliefs. Using that same model of respect, real listening and openness, Dr. Doherty and Waterhouse will moderate what could be a difficult, but ultimately powerful and meaningful discussion between the sexes to try to talk about what we never seem to talk about: our real expectations, hopes, and fears for our relationships with each other, be they friendships, familial or intimate.
In the spirit of that model, the “Opposite Sex” workshop dialogue will train participants in the protocol of an open dialogue and ask each of them to commit to both listening to the other side and being open to their experience and stories. They will do so in a “fishbowl” model with each side alternately in the fishbowl talking and the other side listening. The point of the workshop is not to try to change participants’ opinions, but to create empathy for the other side’s point of view and experience.
The workshop’s design emphasizes listening and learning rather than declaring and debating. We rarely get the chance to listen in on how people of the opposite sex process issues among themselves – that’s an advantage of this “fishbowl” model.
The process ends with the opportunity to produce something in writing to share with others, which makes this more than a conversation for the participants. With enough groups producing documents in the future – if this model moves forward – perhaps there could be follow up for other action steps.
Jill Waterhouse (the one in the middle) has been a practicing artist for over 35 years, as well as a published author, performance artist, community activist and curator. Her work is primarily sculpture, installations and perfomance/social practice art. She has exhibited extensively in museums, galleries, and alternative spaces in the United States, including the Walker Arts Center and Mia, her home town arts institutions. Her work was also included in the 1995 NGO Forum exhibition in China.
Waterhouse has been heavily involved in a number of large community/social art projects and public performances. She has been a long time member, mentor and former director of WARM (Women’s Art Resources of MN) and a long time member and chapter president/co-president of WCA MN (Women’s Caucus for Art MN). She has also been involved with the Art Car and Art Shanty Projects for years, a member of “What We Need is Here,” an environment and arts group at The Phipps in Hudson, Wisconsin. She has received grants and awards from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Minneapolis Arts Commission. McKnight/Annenberg/Horncrest Foundations. Artist: Minneapolis, Minnesota

8-9:30 Laura Mann Hill – Race/Identity Click for Details and Reservations. Pay What You Can From $0-$25
2018-10-09 20:00 - 21:30 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Project Description Laura Hill Topic: Reclaiming our Narratives: Exploring Race & Identity
Mixed Reality: Reclaiming My Narrative by Laura Mann Hill
The project was developed by Julia Mann at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa in 2008. It was intended to focus on exploring the notion of roots as experienced and lived by a multi-racial student.
Though almost sounding like clichés, questions such as: Who am I?, What am I?, What do I believe?, Why do I believe?, and What will I become? remain part of everyone’s journey.
In some ways this research project is best summarized in a statement made to Laura’s mother about a month after her birth. Her mother was asked “Where did you get her?” Her mother patiently explained that her daughter was hers, but the person asked again, “No, where did you get her?”
A decade late, Julia’s sister Laura Mann Hill inserts her voice into the narrative created by her sister, adding her own journey to the story. Laura, who has children and a family of her own infuses the story with a perspective as both a daughter, mother, and wife navigating race politics in 2018.
The proposed outcome is a one-woman performance Mixed Reality, that Laura has adapted to include enhance her voice and narrative, is suitable for a variety of audiences.
The performance has a two-fold focus: to engage and to promote audience/performer dialogue
Topic Expert Voice Veronica Quillien
Veronica is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction with an emphasis on Culture & Teaching. Her research interests are adult third culture kids of African descent and their reclaim of tribal identity, heritage language, language revitalization and documentation.
She continues her self-ethnographic case study as she re-learns Bàsàa, her native language. Sandjock left her native land at the age 12 and this research is part of her decadal reclaim of her tribal language and identity. Her trinity in language, culture and identity is a self-ethnographic case study that started as a collection of books capturing Bàsàa knowledge.
Pre-During and Post Performance Discussions
This forty-five minute production that uses text, movement, and voice to tell a personal story. It allows an audience to think about the issues presented at hand, such as cultural identity, race, and gender. The performance is followed by a post-show discussion to ask questions, make personal and larger social connections, and discuss the history of multi-racial/cultural families. Participants will have the opportunity to share their responses through several interactive activities.
Biography Email lmann.hill@gmail.com Instagram @lauramannhill84
Laura Mann Hill Laura joined the Children’s Theatre Company staff as a teaching artist in 2015 and now oversees early childhood programming as the Early Childhood Education Manager. She is an active member of the Million Artist Movement and workshops with community partners through Hamline University Making Waves Social Justice Theatre Group. Laura taught theatre and English in New York City public schools for nearly a decade and has performed locally in productions at CTC, Youth Performance Company, and Making Waves. Laura holds a B.A. in English from Hamline University and a Masters in teaching from PACE.

Assistant Director, Making Waves Social Justice Theatre Troupe Rehearsal with Hamline University students and community members, St. Paul, MN – October 2017
Book Mixed Reality:https://juliaperforms.weebly.com/contact.html
More info: https://juliaperforms.weebly.com/press.html

6:30-7:30 Grace Bianchi Danielle Ricci –Body Image Perform w/Teen Talk Back Click for Details and Reservations. Pay What You Can From $0-$25
2018-10-09 18:30 - 19:30 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Project Description Grace Bianchi Topic: Body ImageUsing my violin as my messenger, I am partnering with veteran dancer, Danielle Ricci, to create an intriguing combination of choreography, spoken word and violin performance. Two classically trained artists explore body confidence issues.The work is inspired by a high school documentary that captures the voices of Teens and the domino effect when insults about people’s images are posted on social media. We will consider the way culture; structure and personal narratives shape our identity and influences our experience. Let this performance ignite the change maker in you because we all need to consider ways to cultivate a culture that values and appreciates diversity. https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/grace-bianchi/Authentic Voice: Danielle Ricci is the founder of Borealis Dance Company, one of the first dance companies actively partnering with artists to create choreographed works of social justice.
https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/danielle-ricci/

Post-Performance Conversations: After their performance, Grace and Danielle will lead a conversation focused on Body Image. Grace shares “ I noticed in high school a lot of girls struggle with body image and loving themselves. This issue has been prevalent for many generations but what makes my generation different is social media. Although social media can be a positive way to connect with people, it can be very destructive to young women who are trying to formulate their identify. For example, a photo could go viral and leave a lasting impression on that person. I have captured a lot of stories from my peers about their own perspectives regarding social media and body image. These recordings will be incorporated into our work and respondents will be on hand for our interactive discussion with the audience. Practical strategies for coping will be discussed.
Biography gracekbianchi@gmail.com Board Member, Intern, Musician Grace Bianchi is a senior at Roseville Area High School. Currently she is working on her senior service project focused on double standards and girl bashing. Through her video, she is hoping to make some changes in the school culture by raising awareness. Grace is an active member of AWE inc. changemaker course/group, and has been a member since 2015.
Her responsibilities for AWE include, co-facilitating International Day of the Girl 2017, leading empowerment exercises, and facilitating small group discussions. She is excited about supporting other girls in their empowerment, self-discovery, and leadership. Grace is a student at MacPhail Center for Music. She has played the violin for 15 years and received several music awards. She is active in the community outreach programs and was selected to perform with Black Violin 2017, a sold out show, at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. She mentors younger musicians in both high school and the Suzuki program. She draws on her own experiences to encourage young girls in their own musicianship and self –discovery.

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Open in a large group panel discussion with Lead Experts and Compassionate Facilitators and (Q&A from audience)–approximately 60-90 mins.
Groups (8-10) will createtwo (8-foot) Collaborative Painted Posts. Tables of participants work in 1hr. sessions, designed with “KNOW YOUR RIGHTS” information on the top/plus a quote of inspiration and pertinent websites (for time constraints, some of this can be done prior to workshop)
While a group (8-10) of participants work on the post, other groups discuss issue in depth. ART can be organized and created using Templates or Free Hand drawings, on 5-inch index cards: depicting ideas that each person feels should be written or drawn onto the collaborative Post. Final decisions are made by group with facilitators.
Artists assist participants andare positioned at the Posts to help with drawing, using templates of flags and scrolls (like the bill of rights, small flags the youth can uniquely design, other symbols for rights and country.)
Lead Artists finishPosts after event, unless the artists can work onsite and present posts at the end of the event. Artists can finish the Posts with paint, outlines, 3D embellishments after the workshop.
Additional Posts are available to exhibit at the siteand as part of larger public exhibitions of the Posts for Peace and Justice Project.
Posts are posted onlineas selfies and as video and photos with stories. With participants permission

Participants: 30-50 each day (youth, family ages 10+)
Lead Skilled Facilitators for 2 Collaborative Posts
Lead Skilled Visual Artists for 2 Collaborative Posts,
all artists from ACW are also invited to participate.
Invite Lead Expert(s): ACLU representative (1) / Compassionate Cop (1) optional expert
Duration of Workshop: 3 hour workshop
And include an additional Compassionate ART workspace. (2-3 days)
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Safety and Justice and DACA

Opening in a large group panel discussion with Lead Experts and Compassionate Facilitators and (Q&A from audience)–approximately 60-90 mins.
Quotes at the top, quotes on paper can be glued to the mini posts.
Templatesand KNOW YOUR RIGHTS INFO and INSPIRATIONAL imagery stickers, markers, glitter pens
Mini Posts go homeas a way of continuing to inspire, educate and sustain involvement to compassion, P4PJ goals.
Posts are posted online as selfies and as Video and photos with stories.

With participants permission
Participants: 30-50 each day (youth, family ages 10+)
1 Lead Skilled Facilitator to lead conversation Mini Posts Workshop
5 Lead Skilled Visual Artists: Mini Posts
all artists from ACW are also invited to participate
Invite Lead Expert(s): 1 ACLU representative
1 Compassionate Cop, 1 optional expert or opposing view
Duration of Workshops: 3 hours

Felecia Lenee, better know as Fe Love to her fans is the host and creator of the Artist Eclectic pLAygROUND, a “pop-up” event space that supports new as well as established artists and innovative entrepreneurs primarily in the Pasadena and Greater Los Angeles area. She is on the Leadership Team for CompassionateCalifornia.org and co- founder of the Compassionate ARTS IN ACTION. She works as the Youth Program Director and Creative Strategist for the national project, Posts for Peace and Justice. Felecia has a B.F.A. from CALARTS where she trained as an actress. Her goals are to support youth, with a focus on health, public safety and social justice. Felecia’s recent public appearances highlighting youth include: March for Our Lives, Los Angeles, CA; Youth Action Summit, Memphis, TN, the U.S. Human Rights Network National Conference, Atlanta, GA. and the 26th Anniversary of the American Disabilities Act, at the White House. Felecia Lenee is a healer and a certified massage therapist with a concentration on energy balancing. She has been in 16 films, has over 25 years of performing live on stage as a host and entertainer, and in several podcasts promoting racial, gender equality and justice Read More
In the spirit of community and compassion!
Felecia Lenee aka Fe LOVE, Creative Strategist and Youth Program Director, Sacramento, California

6:30-8:00 Erik Helgeson/Tim Benjamin/ Madelynne Engle – Film The Real Story & Satin of Knowingness - Power Wheelchair Giveaway
2018-10-07 18:30 - 20:00 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Project Description Topic Truth and Resilience
“SATIN OF KNOWINGNESS” INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
Power Wheelchair Giveaway
The “Satin of Knowingness” explores verities from the perspective of each person’s uniqueness. Are there veiled truths? Is truth larger than any one life? Are there universal truths, families of truths, layers of truths? Male/female, adult/child truths? Are there temporary truths? (Was the imaginary friend or the Tooth Fairy or the monster under the bed any less a truth for you when you personally believed in them and your older sibling no longer did?) Do truths come in different colors? In different places? (Is truth experienced differently in Nature” than in the Board room? In America than in India? In the kitchen rather than in the bedroom?) Does the same truth arrive wrapped in a variety of names? This is not my coming up with the answers, but rather your connecting with the jostling crowd of inner truths that are uniquely yours. It has been said that the world we believe in is a far greater reality than the one that exists. “The Satin of Knowingness” explores the alchemy that makes truth such a personal experience.

“THE MIRROR OF FRAGMENTED PRECONCEPTIONS”
FROM THE SERIES: SATIN OF KNOWINGNESS
The “Cloakroom” and the “Mirror of Fractured Preconceptions” in this installation are participatory. Feel free to try on any ideas hanging on these hooks. Which aspects of life fuel your own resilience? Layer the satins if you feel like it- life is like that. Is your “Integrity” showing beneath your “Power?” Does your “Spirituality” layer over your “Sexuality?” Does “Education” fit the same way “Wisdom” or “Street Smarts” does? Look into the mirror and fracture your preconceptions. What does “Power” look like, feel like on you, unencumbered by other people’s assumptions and biases? Do you see your unique “Beauty”, and “Optimism” and “Resilience” reflected in this mirror? Are these aspects of life affected by what rubs up against them? (Is “Security” impacted by coming in contact with “Power” or “Beauty” or “Wealth” or “Wisdom?” ) I expect that, over theyears, The Satin of Knowingness will take on a patina from the many hands that touch it, as truth does.
Topic Expert: Madelynne’s topic expert, Erik Helgeson: Executive producer: Tuscaloosa. Feature film featuring Natalia Dyer, Devon Bostick and YG, 2019 release. Read More
Disability advocate discussing ways to make communities more accessible to more people.

Workshop: Madelynne’s project will also include the participation of Access Press leader’s Tim Benjamin. Tim will be showing his film , “The Real Story” with a post showing discussion lead by Erik, Tim and Madelynne with the purpose of providing tools to implement actual CHANGE! . in Madelynne’s “Truth and Resilience” project to the person who writes the most compelling need-based essay. Awardee will be selected by Erik and Tim. _________________________________________________________________________________________

Madelynne Engle is a philosopher and storyteller whose chosen medium is visual arts in its many manifestations. With a lifetime of awards and commissions, she is known best for her conceptual sculpture and allegorical life portraits. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections from France to New Zealand, from New York to Italy. Her sculptures and paintings are also found in corporate collections including the Hilton Collection, Bank of America, E.F. Hutton, Monsanto, and the U.S. Embassy in Rome. Engle was recognized in 2008 by NAEA as an artist-in-residence at the Distinguished Fellows Institute in Sandy Point, ME; and was a master teacher in Liquid Metals and Patinas for CAEA in Los Angeles, CA (2009). Engle is also an art educator and served as an art administrator for over 10 years in secondary and post-secondary high schools and colleges in Missouri and California. She is eclectic in her media—using whatever is appropriate to tie message to meaning. She has produced art, large and small, in media ranging from bronze, cement, fiberglass, resin, watercolor, acrylic, oil, sand, salt, paper, canvas, automotive parts, and found objects — always informed and inspired by personal life experience. She has found that the more personal she is in her expression, the more universal is the response

1-5:00 FE Love – Compassionate Conversations Peace Posts- $5
2018-10-07 13:00 - 17:00 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
October 7 Collaborative Painted 8-ft Post. Open to the Public. Need to Register
Know Your Rights— All inclusive

Open in a large group panel discussion with Lead Experts and Compassionate Facilitators and (Q&A from audience)–approximately 60-90 mins.
Groups (up to 15) will create two (8-foot) Collaborative Painted Post. Tables of participants work in 1hr. sessions, designed with “KNOW YOUR RIGHTS” information on the top/plus a quote of inspiration and pertinent websites (for time constraints, some of this can be done prior to workshop)
While a group (up to 15 ) of participants work on the post, other groups discuss issue in depth. ART can be organized and created using Templates or Free Hand drawings, on 5-inch index cards: depicting ideas that each person feels should be written or drawn onto the collaborative Post. Final decisions are made by group with facilitators.
Artists assist participants andare positioned at the Posts to help with drawing, using templates of flags and scrolls (like the bill of rights, small flags the youth can uniquely design, other symbols for rights and country.)
Lead Artists finish Posts after event, unless the artists can work onsite and present posts at the end of the event. Artists can finish the Posts with paint, outlines, 3D embellishments after the workshop.
Posts are posted online as selfies and as video and photos with stories. With participants permission

Participants: 15 (youth, family ages 10+)
Lead Skilled Facilitators for Collaborative Post
Lead Skilled Visual Artists for Collaborative Post,
all artists from ACW are also invited to participate.
Invite Lead Expert(s): ACLU representative (1) / Compassionate Cop (1) optional expert
Duration of Workshop: 3 hour workshop

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Safety and Justice and DACA

Opening in a large group panel discussion with Lead Experts and Compassionate Facilitators and (Q&A from audience)–approximately 60-90 mins.
Quotes at the top, quotes on paper can be glued to the mini posts.
Templatesand KNOW YOUR RIGHTS INFO and INSPIRATIONAL imagery stickers, markers, glitter pens
Mini Posts go homeas a way of continuing to inspire, educate and sustain involvement to compassion, P4PJ goals.
Posts are posted online as selfies and as Video and photos with stories.

With participants permission
Participants: 30-50 each day (youth, family ages 10+)
1 Lead Skilled Facilitator to lead conversation Mini Posts Workshop
5 Lead Skilled Visual Artists: Mini Posts
all artists from ACW are also invited to participate
Invite Lead Expert(s): 1 ACLU representative
1 Compassionate Cop, 1 optional expert or opposing view
Duration of Workshops: 3 hours

Felecia Lenee, better know as Fe Love to her fans is the host and creator of the Artist Eclectic pLAygROUND, a “pop-up” event space that supports new as well as established artists and innovative entrepreneurs primarily in the Pasadena and Greater Los Angeles area. She is on the Leadership Team for CompassionateCalifornia.org and co- founder of the Compassionate ARTS IN ACTION. She works as the Youth Program Director and Creative Strategist for the national project, Posts for Peace and Justice. Felecia has a B.F.A. from CALARTS where she trained as an actress. Her goals are to support youth, with a focus on health, public safety and social justice. Felecia’s recent public appearances highlighting youth include: March for Our Lives, Los Angeles, CA; Youth Action Summit, Memphis, TN, the U.S. Human Rights Network National Conference, Atlanta, GA. and the 26th Anniversary of the American Disabilities Act, at the White House. Felecia Lenee is a healer and a certified massage therapist with a concentration on energy balancing. She has been in 16 films, has over 25 years of performing live on stage as a host and entertainer, and in several podcasts promoting racial, gender equality and justice Read More
In the spirit of community and compassion!
Felecia Lenee aka Fe LOVE, Creative Strategist and Youth Program Director, Sacramento, California

11-1:00 Candy Kuehn –The Wind Did It. !!! The Physics of Turbulence HAT workshop (Brain Neurology) -Library $5
2018-10-07 11:00 - 13:00 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Project Description Candy Kuehn Topic: Dark Energy/Brain Neurology

Dark Energy and Dark Matter. I want to make the invisible – visible. In another life, I imagine I would have been a physicist, because the field of physics has the ability to explain my synesthetic, multi-dimensional existence. Physics reveals a world in which our universe exists simultaneously manifested through a web of our five senses, and outside of the limits of a singular space and time. Join me IN my work for the See. Say. DO. event. I will be an attempt to physically communicate “slices” of my experience of the world.
I am creating a series of four to six, twelve foot ovoids, to be hung, worn, and/or manipulated. Materials will include digitally printed fabric, paints and dyes, hand made paper, and arduino circuits with lights and sensors. The larger space allows the audience to walk through the installation and experience a multi-dimensional existence.
Authentic Voice J. Woods Halley, of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities School of Physics and Astronomy. Professor Halley’s group studies transport and non-equilibrium processes in solids and fluids using theoretical, simulation and experimental methods. Specific studies include: Studies of electrode-electrolyte interfaces, including electron transfer and the electronic structure of oxides and metals with applications to electrolysis and catalysis in nanophase as well as macroscopic systems. https://www.physics.umn.edu/people/woods.html
Workshop: Candy is a well know fiber artist practicing in the twin cities. Her workshop will use principals of art and identify a personal, social or biological topic. Using 3-5 yards of brown paper, tape, scissors, staplers and string, the workshop participants will create a body sculpture or hat. For example: global warming, water or recovery issues or another topic to be determined by the group. Following the creation, the group may decide to create a performance.
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Biography Candy Kuehn 718 6th St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55414 candy.kuehn@gmail.com 612-272-1626
I am a hyper-inventive geek, predominantly occupied with the exploration of the fiber arts media and “I-Phonography.” While endeavoring to fuse color and texture into meaning, I play with imagery and motion using a vast array of physical materials and digital space. I am curious and cross-sensed … others define my experience of the world as synesthesia. I see music’s patterns and shapes; I “touch” between spaces and time; I smell emotion. For me, “order” is less of a linear delineation, than it is a multi-sensed, overlap of pattern and motion. Where others see “dis”-order … I find meaning. I want everybody to smell what I see, and taste what I know.

7-10:00 Public Opening: See.Say.DO. FREE Donations Welcome.
2018-10-06 19:00 - 22:00 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Please join us to celebrate the Opening of See. Say. DO. All Artists and their Expert Topic Voices will be present to discuss their topics with visitors. Many of the art works are interactive. Refreshments will be provided.
Read More About the Topics
Grace Bianchi – Body Image SUPPORTED Read About Project
Barbara Bridges -Recovery Become a team mate Learn More

Kira Corser – Climate Change /Human Rights Become a team mate Learn More
Madelynne Engle – Truth and Resilience SUPPORTED Read About Project Power Wheelchair Giveaway
Maris Gilbert – Water Quality Become a team mate Learn More
Craig Harris – Human Senses-CTSD Become a team mate Learn More

Laura Hill -Reclaiming our Narratives: Exploring Race & IdentitySUPPORTED Read About Project
Anne Kleinhenz – Heart Listening Become a team mate Learn More
Barb Kobe – Emotional Nature – Embodied Knowing – Empathetic Connection Become a team mate
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Candy Kuehn -Dark Energy/Brain Neurology Become a team mate Learn More
Felicia Lenee -FE -Compassionate Arts in Action SUPPORTED Read About Project
Wesley May – Identity SUPPORTED Read about the project

Nikki McComb – Art is my Weapon Become a team mate Learn More

Layl McDill – Persuasive Technologies Become a team mate Learn More
Rebecca Ratzlaff – Labor/Unions Become a Team Member Learn More
Kate Renee – Seven Deadly Sins-Glutthoney Become a team mate Learn More
Danielle Ricci – Ongoing Refugee Crisis Become a team mate Learn More
Shira Richter – Motherhood: Women, Men and Money SUPPORTED Read About the Project
Barry Scanlan Environmental Corporate Abuse Become a team mate Learn More
Jill Waterhouse -Gender/Sexual Equality Become a Team mateLearn More

1-4:00 Kira Corser – Fish Tales & Climate Concerns workshop $5
2018-10-06 13:00 - 16:00 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Project Description KIRA CARRILLO CORSER – Topic: Climate Change & Human RightsWhy Are We Here? Sea Changes ACT: This project addresses critical ocean changes, collaboratively with scientists and artists working with communities to create innovative motivators for civic action; while addressing the causes of climate change, plastic pollution, fishing and these impacts on human rights.Purpose: The destruction of our oceans is largely hidden under water, so not visible to the average citizen. Our goal is to (enticingly) make these destructive changes visible, more understandable and more emotionally connected to encourage action.Virtual Undersea Experience: 18-foot-wide and 8-foot-tall, the eyes of fish, whales, sharks fall around people as videos light up 3-layered-billowing-walls of white-suspended-silks. Viewers walk between these as they see and hear facts, music, sounds. Shifting perspectives, shift the experience to make it more magical: Think tiny sea horse vs a whale’s point of view vs shark and kid. This work has been evolving since 2012, with participation in the U.S. Human Rights Network’s conference connecting climate change and it’s impact on human rights.Authentic Voice: Dr. Tim Lueker, Researcher in Climate Change at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla CA and from the Sierra Club/Human Rights and Climate Change affecting Trade/ U.S. Human Rights Network. http://www.drtimfineart.com/Dr._Tim_Fine_ART/Artists_Statement.html

Workshop Help the Planet, and Have fun too!
This workshop includes ART MAKING, with video recordings, so the participants can continue to enjoy and sustain commitment. This workshop encourages artistic expression, interactive collaborative art making, and story telling.
This workshop has 2 options for participants:

To promote understanding of climate, pollution and how human rights areconnected with ocean and water issues, we will draw and paint on “Fish Masks” based on real life images of fish.
To create Ocean Avatar Videos to encourage caring about planet issues we willpaint our hands and/or faces with body paint, AND then record family stories about fishing, concerns about climate, connections to human rights, solutions to plastic pollution, etc.

Biography Kira Carrillo Corser has designed and produced art throughout California, and the USA for 22 years, in addition to working as staff photographer at KPBS (10 yrs.) and later at California State University Monterey Bay (8 yrs.) Based in San Diego County, she works in partnership with other artists, musicians, nonprofits, community and civic leaders. Art projects have been awarded: The National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, Encinitas Rotary Peace Maker of the Year 2017, San Diego Foundation Creative Catalyst 2014 with Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater and the DNA of Creativity Grant from the San Diego Visual Arts Network.
She is a co-founder and co-directs the POSTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE NATIONAL PROJECT, Art is the Next Peace: Connecting Communities (Ca Silk Paintings) andSea Changes ACT with local scientists and artists. These projects are collaborations with intergenerational communities and promote peace and nonviolence.
Exhibitions and participants include: The Carter Center with President Carter and International Human Rights Defenders; Inter-Dependence Day Celebration, a Compassionate California Partnership, Sacramento (2017); Semi-permanent installations include the Atlanta BeltLine, as Installation Artists, (a collaborative multi-year fellowship) where 25,000 people see the work weekly, Atlanta Georgia (2015 – 2017.) and 12 California schools, including El Cajon, San Diego, and Fallbrook

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10-12:00 Maris Gilbert – Water: Beauty in Peril workshop –Studio $5
2018-10-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Maris Gilbert Project Description – Topic: Water Quality. Title: Water: the beauty and peril of our waters (working title) My work is exploring connections of our waters from the northern parts of our state (Itasca) downstream along the Mississippi river through the Twin cities to our beautiful Lake Pepin, in peril due to sediment rise, agricultural runoff, and invasive species, . Then moving all the way down to the southern part of our country to the coast of Florida which is affected by all the water which empties into the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi river. There are problems such as red tides, sea rise, plastics, mangrove and marsh changes, and control of water flow all along the Gulf Coast, to the Everglades and Key West.
I create paintings, collage and treasure boxes to address the beauty and peril of two ecosystems along this pathway from the north to the south: Lake Pepin’s sediment issues and the Mangroves of the Everglades and Gulf Coast. I have chosen these two locations because of a love I have for both areas. Lake Pepin is my favorite Minnesota Lake, and South Florida which is my home of my childhood and my home in my heart.
For this exhibit I will be linking the waters of Itasca on through Lake Pepin and then the waters of south Florida. I am creating an installation/environment that leads the viewer from the familiar gallery area to the unfamiliar upstairs area of my studio where they will become immersed in the imagery of mangroves, ocean life, shorelines and waters of the ocean.
I believe that linking our waters in this heart-felt way and this urgent climate change time ,is important for raising and awaking our consciousness, bring acute awareness and immediate actions (SEE, SAY, DO)regarding our connections on this planet earth: we are connected by water, made 70% of water, and depend on water for life, as does most life.
Authentic Voices: Rylee Main, Executive Director, Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance. Rylee received her Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, with a focus on water resources in Minnesota. In 2017 Rylee was appointed by Governor Mark Dayton to represent environmental organizations on Minnesota’s Clean Water Council. Rylee currently serves as chair of the Minnesota Environmental Fund’s Board of Directors and formerly served as Treasurer for the Minnesota Conservation Federation. email: rylee.main@lakepepinlegacyalliance.com phone: (630) 806-9909
Workshop: An hour and half workshop where participants will engage in a guided imagery about water/body/ocean/rivers. They will be given small bottles of water collected from the shores of the Mississippi directly east of the studio, and asked to create a treasure box/shrine/prayer for the water using a variety of collage materials., setting an intention for one action they will take for the waters beyond their prayers/thoughts and awareness. They will also be given an empty bottle and encouraged to visit shorelines and collect water, perhaps creating their own shrines for these waters too. By experiencing the water and building awareness of going to the water and caring for it, it is my hope that awareness and actions will spread.
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Maris Gilbert Biography jmarisgilbert@gmail.com
“My art evokes positive healing emotions, inspiring hope and peace, while also addressing the beauty and peril of life.”
I am passionate about the waters in Florida where I grew up, and about the waters in Minnesota where I now live.
FLORIDA Seeing beauty and peril by exploring and learning about its waters, mangrove ecosystems, the Everglades, and coastal shorelines.
MINNESOTA Seeing beauty and peril by exploring and learning about fresh water mussels, trees, plants, sediment, erosion and the history/future of our rivers, lakes and wetlands.
My passion is finding beauty in the juxtapositions and connections of these very different yet equally vital natural environments. As an artist in the healing profession, it is my call to share a lifetime of looking and seeing into our natural environment, to use my passion to help people to live healthy, fulfilling lives, and to influence the care of our planet. I am fascinated by shorelines. Shorelines are where a multitude of elements interface, overlap and intersect. I will often stand at the shore just to watch and truly see the lines formed by the rhythm of the tides, the wind and the changing light. I share these timeless moments in my art, where life and beauty overlap, ever-changing and yet constant. It is my hope that my images spark awareness of the beauty in peril.

* 8-9:30 Danielle Ricci -Borealis Dance Co. –Hmong Story - Threads of My Cloth
2018-10-05 20:00 - 21:30 | Art to Change the World, 2323 Monroe St. NE, Minneapolis, MN, 55418, United States
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Project Description Danielle Ricci Topic: Ongoing Hmong Refuge Crisis https://vimeo.com/275504471
My research examines dance with a social conscience through practice based research methodologies, and how it develops a thematic practice which reflects events and issues that shape our society. This way of thinking brings focus to issues of “human rights and freedom”(Sethi, 2012), with the body, through research of the body and intuitive response to stimuli and events to develop a choreographic process towards artistic activism work.
For years, people have been displaced from their homes and sought asylum from natural disasters, famine, war, and political oppression. America as well as other countries in Europe, the Middle East and Australia have provided opportunities for people to find safety, freedom from oppression, and promise for a better tomorrow as many refugees cannot return to their home countries. For America, this has created the melting pot of race and religion that it is known for. With our current president on a mission to roll back immigration policies that have been helping populations plagued by war, Donald Trump created an uproar by taking away the hope of thousands of people who were relying on the aid of the United States.
This made me reflect and examine who makes up our social fabric of the Twin Cities and how these developments in our government could affect our neighborhoods and the economy. From my own personal connection to the St. Paul community, I discovered that I wanted to learn more about a story specific to a peoples: The Twin Cities is home to the second largest settlement of Hmong people in the nation. But why? Who are the Hmong people and how did they end up here? Their story is not commonly known by the greater community, yet the impact they have on the community influences the social fabric of the Twin Cities and beyond.
Through research of who the Hmong people are and how they came to live in the Twin Cities, I have discovered a story of hardship, pain, and sorrow, woven into a strong sense of hope and love. This is not taught in schools, it is unknown to the community, and has not been expressed through movement told from an outside eye before. I began to reflect on how many refugees have experienced these same stories within their own unique journey to America. This inspired me to know more and tell the refugee’s story through the lens of the Hmong people as we come together as a multi-cultural community of dancers exploring the human condition through movement.
Threads of My Cloth is a retelling of the Hmong refugee experience in Asia before seeking asylum in other countries. This piece is deeply rooted in historical research and the body creating an honest, moving story of the Hmong. This dance concert premiered in March of 2018 and will be reset for See. Say. Do.
Community Response:
The following responses where from members of the Hmong community that attended the performance:

“The dance is very sad and it is a true story of Hmong people because I have gone through that in my life. Besides that, it is great way to show others why we are there.”
“We enjoyed it very much and was very powerful.”
“This was an incredible, memorable and needed story to be told of our Hmong struggle. My honor and gratitude always.”
“I loved the performance, and it was heartwarming to see someone who looks like me be in this dance. I cried so much in the beginning part where the dancers held onto the ‘babies’.”
“I believe seeing that performance was about the closest I have ever come to feeling the emotions our parents had during the war. I am deeply grateful toward you for sharing this experience with me!!”
“We were greatly touched by this event.”
“This piece evoked a lot of emotions: sadness, anger, frustration and even a little fear. The performance was powerful in that it validated stories of the Hmong people and their struggle and sacrifice. I thought that the immersive promenade style was great and hoped that this will continue with the next showing.”

Link to Sun Post cover story:
https://www.hometownsource.com/sun_post/community/brooklynpark/north-hennepin-community-college-to-host-premier-of-threads-of/article_92b5d85e-26ca-11e8-ab91-0334bdb7671c.html
Biography Danielle Ricci Dancer
Danielle Ricci is an educator, choreographer, director, and dancer. She received her BFA in Dance Performance from University of California, Irvine in 2006 under direction of Donald McKayle. In 2014 she graduated with an MA in Arts and Cultural Management from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. She currently an ‘MFA in Choreography’ candidate at Jacksonville University (2018). She has studied at The Ailey School in New York City as part of their Certificate in Dance Program. Danielle has danced professionally in California, Texas, and Minnesota and has also performed on stage with members of Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, James Sewell Ballet, and Minnesota Dance Theatre. Danielle is the Founding Artistic Director of Borealis Dance– a professional modern dance company based in Minneapolis. Her choreography has been recognized as “Best of the Festival” at the Frontera Fringe Festival in Austin, TX in 2010.

5:30-7:30 Friends of ACW Fundraiser Includes ticket to Borealis Dance $75
2018-10-05 17:30 - 19:30 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Friends of Art to Change the World Fundraiser
You are invited. Join us for an unusual VIP experience before the See. Say. DO opening night. Our event will be a lively, fun, interactive night, filled with open conversations about society’s pressing issues. Attendees will have the first opportunity to view and purchase the art, bid on ACW artist art from the silent auction, discuss the issues featured in the art show with the 20 artists and their topic experts, and share the issues they are most passionate about. Nametags will be small signed artworks from ACW members. Tickets are $75 each, and, in support of ACW values of inclusion, all patron-level attendees are encouraged to donate a ticket to a youth/artists/first time attender. ($50 of ticket price is tax deductible)
See sample silent auction art, precious objects and experiences: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/silent-action-acw-art-and-precious-objects/

Creative nibbles from Holy Land, locally brewed beers and distilled bourbon from The Second Street and fine wines will be served.
Silent auction including ACW artist work, Maine Chowda Feed event, historical artifacts, Artist workshop and studio tours and more.
ACW poetry reading by Nick Cocchiarella and Spoken Word Performance by Jill Waterhouse.
Your ticket will also include entrance to the 8-9:30 Danielle Ricci -Borealis Dance Co. –Hmong Refugee Story Threads of My Cloth and an ALL EVENT ticket to all performances and workshops(still need to register). ACW is committed to joyful change. This event will be a night of both fun and rich and meaningful dialog! Learn More about Threads of My Cloth Ongoing Hmong Refuge Crisis Click Here and here https://vimeo.com/275504471

Buy Tickets Here! https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3591980
Read about us: https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/mission/
Read about the See. Say. DO event: 20 Artists and 20 Topic Expert voices, 10 Pre/During and Post-Performance Discussions, 8 Workshops, Non-Profit Networking Night, Take Action Pop-Up Performance Night, Dodging Bullets Discussion and Filming. https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/events-b/
3450 Snelling Ave S, Squirrel Haus Arts in South Minneapolis.
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Each person to attend a See. Say Do. event will receive a hand made token created by ACW artists when they write on the back… what will they DO when they leave the inspirational See. Say. DO call to action.

One of a kind name tags designed by ACW Artists for all attendees of the Friends of ACW Fundraiser.
Barry Scanlan (acrylic painting), Susan Huhn-Bowles (beading), Barbara Bridges (watercolor), Remo Campopiano (3-D printing), Jill Waterhouse (collage) Layl McDill (polymer clay).

7-8:30 PM Danielle Ricci -Borealis Dance Co. -Hmong Story w/Talk Back $10.00 Click for Details and Reservations
2018-10-04 08:00 - 21:30 | Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55406
Project Description Danielle Ricci Topic: Ongoing Hmong Refuge Crisis https://vimeo.com/275504471
My research examines dance with a social conscience through practice based research methodologies, and how it develops a thematic practice which reflects events and issues that shape our society. This way of thinking brings focus to issues of “human rights and freedom”(Sethi, 2012), with the body, through research of the body and intuitive response to stimuli and events to develop a choreographic process towards artistic activism work.
For years, people have been displaced from their homes and sought asylum from natural disasters, famine, war, and political oppression. America as well as other countries in Europe, the Middle East and Australia have provided opportunities for people to find safety, freedom from oppression, and promise for a better tomorrow as many refugees cannot return to their home countries. For America, this has created the melting pot of race and religion that it is known for. With our current president on a mission to roll back immigration policies that have been helping populations plagued by war, Donald Trump created an uproar by taking away the hope of thousands of people who were relying on the aid of the United States.
This made me reflect and examine who makes up our social fabric of the Twin Cities and how these developments in our government could affect our neighborhoods and the economy. From my own personal connection to the St. Paul community, I discovered that I wanted to learn more about a story specific to a peoples: The Twin Cities is home to the second largest settlement of Hmong people in the nation. But why? Who are the Hmong people and how did they end up here? Their story is not commonly known by the greater community, yet the impact they have on the community influences the social fabric of the Twin Cities and beyond.
Through research of who the Hmong people are and how they came to live in the Twin Cities, I have discovered a story of hardship, pain, and sorrow, woven into a strong sense of hope and love. This is not taught in schools, it is unknown to the community, and has not been expressed through movement told from an outside eye before. I began to reflect on how many refugees have experienced these same stories within their own unique journey to America. This inspired me to know more and tell the refugee’s story through the lens of the Hmong people as we come together as a multi-cultural community of dancers exploring the human condition through movement.
Threads of My Cloth is a retelling of the Hmong refugee experience in Asia before seeking asylum in other countries. This piece is deeply rooted in historical research and the body creating an honest, moving story of the Hmong. This dance concert premiered in March of 2018 and will be reset for See. Say. Do.
Community Response:
The following responses where from members of the Hmong community that attended the performance:

“The dance is very sad and it is a true story of Hmong people because I have gone through that in my life. Besides that, it is great way to show others why we are there.”
“We enjoyed it very much and was very powerful.”
“This was an incredible, memorable and needed story to be told of our Hmong struggle. My honor and gratitude always.”
“I loved the performance, and it was heartwarming to see someone who looks like me be in this dance. I cried so much in the beginning part where the dancers held onto the ‘babies’.”
“I believe seeing that performance was about the closest I have ever come to feeling the emotions our parents had during the war. I am deeply grateful toward you for sharing this experience with me!!”
“We were greatly touched by this event.”
“This piece evoked a lot of emotions: sadness, anger, frustration and even a little fear. The performance was powerful in that it validated stories of the Hmong people and their struggle and sacrifice. I thought that the immersive promenade style was great and hoped that this will continue with the next showing.”

Link to Sun Post cover story:
https://www.hometownsource.com/sun_post/community/brooklynpark/north-hennepin-community-college-to-host-premier-of-threads-of/article_92b5d85e-26ca-11e8-ab91-0334bdb7671c.html
Biography Danielle Ricci Dancer
Danielle Ricci is an educator, choreographer, director, and dancer. She received her BFA in Dance Performance from University of California, Irvine in 2006 under direction of Donald McKayle. In 2014 she graduated with an MA in Arts and Cultural Management from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. She currently an ‘MFA in Choreography’ candidate at Jacksonville University (2018). She has studied at The Ailey School in New York City as part of their Certificate in Dance Program. Danielle has danced professionally in California, Texas, and Minnesota and has also performed on stage with members of Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, James Sewell Ballet, and Minnesota Dance Theatre. Danielle is the Founding Artistic Director of Borealis Dance– a professional modern dance company based in Minneapolis. Her choreography has been recognized as “Best of the Festival” at the Frontera Fringe Festival in Austin, TX in 2010.
The Path (2013)
The Path was created to speak about Mexican Immigration into America exploring the dangers and the determination it takes to get across the border safely; Researching why people leave Mexico in search of a better life for themselves and their family and what can happen during the journey to America.

All Member Meeting
2018-08-22 14:00 - 18:00 | 2323 Monroe St NE
Join the Event Committee at 2:00- 6:00 to help create our survey tokens. Bring a hot dish to share and your beverage of choice. 2323 Monroe St. NE, Minneapolis

Event Committee meeting
2018-08-22 12:00 - 14:00 | 2323 Monroe St NE
Meet at Barbara’s House.

ACW Board Meeting
2018-08-18 11:00 - 13:00
Meet at Joan Vaughn’s Office.

All Member Meeting
2018-07-14 12:30 - 14:30
ALL MEMBER MEETING. Our October Event is closer than you think.
Please attend on July 14, 2018 at 12:30 at the Eastside Food Coop.

2551 Central Ave NE
MPLS, MN 55418
(612) 788-0950
http://www.eastsidefood.coop/

Pecha Kucha HATCH
2018-06-24 18:00 - 20:00

Event Committee
2018-06-04 13:00 - 15:00
Squirrel Haus 1:00-3:00
3450 Snelling Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55406

PR Committee
2018-05-21 14:00 - 16:00
Meet at Clay Squared 2:00 PM

Clay Squared To Infinity

Hours: 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Neighborhood:
Northeast

34 13th Ave NEMinneapolis, MN 55413
(612) 781-6409

Art-A-Whirl Barbara Bridges Studio - Make art May 20
2018-05-18 - 2018-05-20
What is Social Practice Art?
Barbara has been a teacher for over 40 years and creates social practice art from fabricated components in a variety of media and rescued “power objects.” She manipulates the objects to create meaning and provoke discussions and reflection on a wide variety of social topics. See her 10 foot Recovery themed fountain Reflecting Pool when you visit her studio. http://bridgescreate.com/installation/reflection-pool
Visit her studio on Sunday May 20th and make art with her and other members of Art to Change the World. https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/mission Bring a memory object of your own (optional) or make a Wranklet (can be both an ankle bracelet or a wrist bracelet). All ages. $10.00. Registration is appreciated but not required.: drb@bridgescreate.com
Easy Parking! 2323 Monroe St. NE

Art-A-Whirl Studio Open Friday, May 18th – 5:00-8:00 p.m., Saturday, May 19th – Noon-8:00 p.m. AND make art on Sunday, May 20th – Noon-5:00 pm.
Sunday hot dish after party for all starting at 5:00. I will be serving my famous Elote Mexican corn in the firepit. RSVP , please. drb@bridgescreate.com
Read More about Barbara’s Studio Experience
Reflecting Pool is an installation on my property in the Minneapolis Northeast Arts District. It was created as a monument to recovery of true consciousness through self-exploration. Flowing mosaic tile and intricate ceramic decoration within the grotto provide an experience both peaceful and complex by the juxtaposition of repetitive patterns and assemblage compilation. The technique is “precious” as the viewer sits in the pool, the tile lines draw the eyes from object to object, encouraging transient contemplation- noticing the various ideas without extended rumination, as is encouraged by Zen meditation. A meditation on the subject of acceptance and flexibility was written by Morgan Bridges and is installed on the back surface to aid in the experiencer’s self-discovery. The outside shell of the grotto will explore the more organic images and materials used to create spiritual edifices from all spiritual world views.
The purpose of this social practice work, Reflecting Pool, is to encourage recovery from trauma and/or addiction.
Read More About Reflecting Pool

John Capecci
2018-05-14 18:00 - 19:00
Dear ACW Members,
I am excited to announce that we will have an ALL member meeting with John Capecci on May 14th at 6:00 CENTRAL STANDARD TIME. Our meeting will be held at the Mill City Museum. IMPORTANT. Enter at 710 South Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 55401. The doors to the right of the main museum doors. Follow the signs that say “Art to Change the World with John Capecci” to the 6th floor ADM room. ACW was gifted a really special price for a really special space. PARKING: The street meters around here are $1.00 per hour with a 2 hour maximum. Otherwise parking is available across the street at the Mill Quarter ramp for $7.00 for the day.
I would really appreciate it if you would please confirm on the Doodle so we can track the head count. https://doodle.com/poll/tgwq7b39u7d24bgs If you are planning on being in the October event- you need to try and be at this ALL important ALL member meeting. This meeting is for artists, authentic voices and supporters.
ACW members from away: You will be happy to hear I just purchased a fancy surround sound -all directional microphone so you will be able to hear and be heard. Zoom: Topic: ACW and John Capecci Time: May 14, 2018 6:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/103712450 Meeting ID: 103 712 450

Prompt from John:
Please spend a little time alone to consider the following question, and jot down any responses that come to mind. Do not share results until we meet. There are no wrong answers. There is no expectation as to how many responses you generate. Enjoy.
If someone were to ask you …
“How do you know art can change the world?”
… how would you answer them, in six words?
Six words. Not five. Not seven. It may be a six-word phrase or two three-word phrases. Or a two- and a four-word phrase. Or six words. You get the picture. Contractions come in handy. So do hyphens and slashes. No grading on punctuation or grammar. Enjoy.
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John Capecci is the author of Living Proof: Telling Your Story to Make a Difference.
John is a coach, consultant and writer who has helped hundreds of nonprofits and corporations do award-winning work that touches hearts and turns heads. A frequent speaker on the power of personal storytelling, John excels at helping mission-driven organizations hone their messaging and create powerful advocates to support those messages with their stories.

Social Media Workshop with Shira Richter
2018-04-07 - 2018-04-30
Coordinate membership twitter, FB and Instagram efforts.

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/
