Macalester-Groveland
Laura Jeffrey Academy nurtures strong, growing women in St. Paul
It’s not very common for a middle school grade student to talk about vulnerability as an asset. But that’s exactly the word that Rabiya Sehgal-LaRocque used when talking about the value of attending Laura Jeffrey Academy (LJA), an all-girl charter school in St. Paul. At Laura Jeffrey, students are encouraged to express themselves.MORE »
Luke Marcott's "Filmpocalypse," a.k.a. "Filmzilla: The Novella"
I recently received a lovely thing in the mail—the first book from Cloud City Press. As the editorial director of Paper Darts I get to read a whole lot of work from young, up-and-coming writers. Generally, though pleasurable, this type of reading is not for pleasure; I’m reading it to decide whether or not it should be published with Paper Darts. It was nice, for a change, to sit back and read the early work of a writer just for kicks, and not have to make any decisions about it’s merit in terms of whether or not I believe it to be “ready” for publication, because the author made that decision already and published it himself. Boom.MORE »
Dave Enyeart of Common Good Books: "The experience of reading is always enriched by being shared"
To celebrate the reopening of Common Good Books at its new location right on the doorstep of Macalester College, Dave Enyeart and crew have planned a three-day-long series of events to kick off the many successful, page-turning, book-loving, reading aloud to a captivated audience years ahead.MORE »
Living at Home program celebrates 25 years in Mac-Groveland and Summit Hill neighborhoods in St. Paul
Macalester-Summit Hill Living at Home Program (MSHLAH) is excited to be celebrating its 25th year providing services to the community. Started in 1987, for Macalester-Groveland seniors it expanded to include the Summit Hill neighborhood in June 2011.MORE »
Macalester College slam poetry team enhance the Capital City's national name
Lit up in an otherwise dark Macalester dorm basement, Neil Hilborn serves as tonight’s slam emcee. His frame taut beneath his signature suspenders and his slicked golden hair restless beneath his agitated hand, he knows how to rile up a sometimes reluctant room. As the Macalester slam poetry team’s assistant coach, Hilborn regularly rallies a crowd of roughly 90 college students. Not too long ago, he was on that stage as a member of the team. And even a college nationals-winning poet like himself has had to deal with the arbitrary justice of slam’s randomly selected judges.
Cloud City Press: You don't need a deal with the Empire to become a literary publisher
In the world of literature, there is inevitably always something new happening. The newest new in Minneapolis is a project called Cloud City Press, co-founded by Macalester students Oliver St. John and Luke Marcott, and run with the help of a small (mostly Macalester) staff along with three faculty advisors. Though Cloud City only came into being about five weeks ago, its first chapbook will launch into this word-friendly world of ours on Friday, April 13 at the new Common Good Books, which is now located adjacent to Macalester’s campus.MORE »
Jefferson Avenue bikeway plan amended in St. Paul city council vote
“I’m beginning to know what Charlie Brown feels like,” lamented Dave Pasik. “I keep running to kick that football, and the last minute, Lucy pulls it away.”
At Wednesday night’s St. Paul City Council meeting, Pasik's football was the Jefferson Avenue Bikeway, or at least parts of it. Charlie Brown was the cyclists, Jefferson Avenue residents, disability advocates, and pedestrians. Lucy was Council Member Chris Tolbert and the rest of the City Council. On April 4, in the latest move in a series of meetings, plans, revisions, and amendments, the council voted unanimously to approve an amended resolution for a Jefferson Avenue bikeway that removes several of the traffic circles that had been approved previously.
THEATER | Giving voice to African women: Playwright Danai Gurira, Macalester College grad, returns to alma mater
This week, Macalester College graduate Danai Gurira returns to her alma mater for a residency in conjunction with a staged reading of her play Eclipsed. Gurira, a playwright who won an Obie Award in 2006 for co-writing In the Continuum, has received rave reviews for Eclipsed, which has performed at the Woolly Mammoth in Washington DC, the Kirk Douglass in Los Angeles, and Yale Rep. The play centers on women caught up in the Liberian Civil War. MORE »
Staged reading of the play "Eclipsed"
SPECIAL EVENT
STAGED READING OF THE PLAY "ECLIPSED"
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 2010, 7PM
WEYERHAEUSER CHAPEL,
MACALESTER COLLEGE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
World Affairs Challenge
On March 6, 2010, global education non-profit World Savvy will host Minnesota's Second Annual World Affairs Challenge in partnership with Macalester College's Institute for Global Citizenship.
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