Powderhorn Park

3437 Garden: Powderhorn Park neighbors find it's easy being green

By Stephanie Fox, Global Groceries

Kamia Waddell brings her son to help with the planting.

Friday, June 14 was a busy day for the gardeners at 3437 Garden in the heart of South Minneapolis’s Powderhorn Park Neighborhood. The city-owned lot is one of 13 neighborhood gardens available to not-for-profit organizations willing to jump through a few bureaucratic hoops and pay some relatively small fees to grow their own food. The lots chosen are too small to develop and should remain gardens well into the future.

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Minneapolis photographer uses his camera to bring diverse community together

By Cynthia Boyd, MinnPost

Wing Young Huie shown in a Chicago Avenue business with some of his photographs. (MinnPost photo by Bill Kelley)

Take the concept of “other.’’

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Got your MayDay cape flowing?

By Alan Wilfahrt, The Public Recluse

So far this month, there have been three weeks worth of MayDay Public Workshops. The first Sunday in May is this coming weekend.

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Are the golden years of socially engaged art behind us?

By Sheila Regan, Behind the Story

A 1970 drawing by University of Minnesota faculty member Herman Somberg (from the collection of the Minnesota Historical Society).

It is simply amazing to me that in the most hippie neighborhood in Minneapolis—nay, Minnesota—there is not one single cooperative grocery store. I’m speaking, of course, of the Powderhorn neighborhood, home of In the Heart of the Beast’s MayDay Parade, the May Day Café, rain gardens galore, and impromptu backyard music festivals and puppet shows. While the Seward Co-Op isn’t too far away, it just feels wrong that there isn’t a co-op in the neighborhood proper.

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Creative placemaking: Logic models and love

By Laura Zabel, MinnesotaPlaylist

The day of the annual MayDay Parade and Festival is, quite literally, my favorite day of the year. Full of joy and giant puppets and thousands of people (it’s one of the largest May Day parades in the world!) It makes me proud to live here, connects me deeply to my community, and gives me hope for humanity—it’s that special.

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MayDay 2012 will try for the Second Sunday of May

By Alan Wilfahrt, The Public Recluse

The tradition is established that In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre MayDay celebration of spring happens on the First Sunday in May. You might be aware of the heavy rain fall of last Saturday night and the threatening skies of Sunday.

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MayDay 2012 In motion

By Alan Wilfahrt, The Public Recluse

an experiment in media file format; a ShockWaveFile of images taken during some of the MayDay public workshops. Click on the link at the begining of this paragraph or the image below

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MayDay 2012, still time to lend a hand

By Alan Wilfahrt, The Public Recluse

It is getting near show time for the 2012 MayDay Parade and Ceremony. The activity level at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre is charged with vibrancy. The deadline of the May 6th  MayDay has every parade section buzzing in many directions.

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MayDay magic in Minneapolis — it's happening again!

By Alan Wilfahrt, The Public Recluse

MayDay Parade, Ceremony, and Festival, is a celebration coordinated by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre of Minneapolis. Held on the fist Sunday in May since 1975, HOBT (Heart of the Beast Theatre) presents a parade of puppetry and imagination traveling approximately 11 blocks into Powderhorn Park in south Minneapolis.

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NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Learn How to Guard Your Home Against Burglaries

By Cynthia Frost, Neighborhood Notes

Burglaries have been up in several Minneapolis neighborhoods, and a community gathering this week offers tips on how to reduce the chances that your home will be targeted.  Learn how to assess

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