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Wednesday, September 17 2008
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Speaking of Home - Public Art Project
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Fantastically enlarged snapshot portrait images of Twin Cities immigrants are part of a temporary public art installation this summer in Minneapolis.
The UnConventional Gathering Place
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The UnConventional Gathering Place
August 31st – November 7th, 2008
Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55408
Intermedia Arts presents
The UnConventional Gathering Place!
Intermedia Arts Becomes Hangout for Artists, Educators, Alternative Journalists During the 2008 Republican National Convention
Gallery hours: Monday- Friday 12pm-7pm, Saturday 12pm-5pm
Suggested $5 donation
Main Gallery
Landing In America
By John Obrien
A multi-media installation reflecting on the compelling experiences with or related challenges to our basic liberties.
Hands On: People at Work Art Exhibit
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Beginning on Labor Day, Water and Oil Art Gallery will host the exhibit “Hands On: People at Work.” Selected works will offer tribute to the sweat equity earned through hard work, artisanship and craftsmanship. Featured artist Judy Westergard will be displaying her series “A Show of Hands—Hands as Portraiture.” Evocative of their owners’ personal narratives, Westergard describes the inspiration that led to these works:
“I grew up in historic northeast Minneapolis in a blue-collar environment. I studied my mom’s hands as she hung clothes and rolled dough for pierogi.
"Minneatures" by Plasticgod
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Two Chairs Telling
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September 16th: Two Chairs Telling, at Open Eye Figure Theatre
7:30 PM, 506 E. 24th St
Nationally recognized as a teller of Appalachian and Texas women’s stories, Elizabeth Ellis, combines the personal, the humorous and a razor sharp sense of justice in her stories. She joins the Grande Dame of the Twin Cities’ African American storytelling community, Nothando Zulu, for an evening of “truth telling women getting down to it.”
Discovery Toastmasters Club (Oakdale) Weekly Meeting
Toastmasters is the world’s largest organization devoted to developing communication skills. It now has some 200,000 members in 10,000 Toastmasters clubs in about 80 countries. In the Twin Cities and surrounding metro area, there are over 200 clubs!
Discovery Toastmasters Club meets every Wednesday at the Imation World Headquarters (Discovery) Building in Oakdale. For directions and more information about the club, please visit the club’s website at http://www.orgsites.com/mn/discoverytm. Meetings are open to the general public and there is never a cost to check out a meeting.
Sustainable Homeownership and Anti-Foreclosure Response Center (SHARC)
This one-stop housing crisis center is offering mortgage loan counseling and foreclosure prevention services to individuals and families who have fallen behind on mortgage payments, or are facing possible foreclosure. Center hours: Tuesdays from 6-8 pm; Saturdays from 10 am – noon. Walk ins are welcome.
The center is located at the Minneapolis Urban League’s Glover Sudduth-Center, 2100 Plymouth Avenue N., Minneapolis, 55411. To make an appointment, call (612) 827-9299. (The center is a joint venture between the Minneapolis Urban League and Minnesota ACORN).
