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Jens Pinther

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Pride festivals may be more corporate, but they’re also more exploitative

By Jens Pinther | July 7, 2016

When queer communities complain about the “corporatizing of Pride,” they often mean they don’t want to see businesses like Target and Car2Go having large displays at the festival and floats in the parade, when department stores and car sharing have nothing to do with queer pride or resilience within heteronormative patriarchy. Continue Reading

Best of Neighborhood News 6/23/16: Dispute could close Cedar-Riverside mainstay

By Jens Pinther | June 23, 2016

This week: Afro Deli dispute, Northside air quality and more reactions to the Orlando massacre. Continue Reading

Best of Neighborhood News 6/16/16: America’s check for black education keeps bouncing

By Jens Pinther | June 15, 2016

This week: the state of black education, retail janitors reach landmark agreement with Best Buy and emerging artist Princeton Brown. Continue Reading

REAL ID

REAL ID poses deeper problems for the undocumented

By Jens Pinther | June 13, 2016

“So many human rights are attached to this piece of plastic,” Iris Altamirano said of something many people take for granted: driver’s licenses. “Everyone should have access to it.” Continue Reading

Best of Neighborhood News 6/9/16: Housing for minimum wage workers

By Jens Pinther | June 9, 2016

This week: housing crisis for minimum wage workers, Allina nurses call a strike, remembering Muhammad Ali and discriminatory mud-slinging in the Minnesota Legislature’s District 57A race. Continue Reading

Care about minimum wage, fair housing, immigration? Go caucus.

By Cristeta Boarini, Jens Pinther and Kayla Steinberg | February 29, 2016

This Tuesday, March 1, is Super Tuesday. That means that Minnesota, along with 11 other states and American Samoa, will hold presidential primaries or caucuses. However, the number of delegates Bernie, Hillary, Trump, Rubio, or whoever else, receive is not the only thing that will be decided on Tuesday. Continue Reading

Black Twitter

Best of Neighborhood News 2/17: Black Twitter moves culture, conversation

By Jens Pinther | February 17, 2016

This week we look at the cultural impact of Black Twitter, Afro-centric curriculum at a Minneapolis charter school, and SPNN’s new home. Continue Reading

MEI

LGBT friendliness: How a perfect score harms more than it helps

By Jens Pinther | February 10, 2016

Among the ways we choose to evaluate where we live, few reports are more respected than that of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI), an annual, comprehensive examination of cities’ laws, policies and services with regard to LGBT people and LGBT issues. Continue Reading

Best of Neighborhood News 2/10: Workers of color to testify on union biases

By Jens Pinther | February 10, 2016

This week: workers of color to testify on union biases, street preachers harassing “sodomites” in downtown Minneapolis and arguing for open meetings on heated topics in St. Cloud.
Continue Reading

Best of Neighborhood News 2/3: Mpls studies need for paid sick leave law

By Jens Pinther | February 3, 2016

“Everybody gets sick, but not everyone can afford to get sick.” Continue Reading

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Saint Paul Farmers' Market Outdoor Market The Saint Paul Farmers’ Market 290 5th Street East

27apr(apr 27)7:00 am24nov(nov 24)1:00 pmSaint Paul Farmers' Market Outdoor Market

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The award-winning Saint Paul Farmers’ Market will open its outdoor Lowertown location for the season on Saturday, April 27 and will be open weekends through November 24. Hours will be 7 a.m.

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The award-winning Saint Paul Farmers’ Market will open its outdoor Lowertown location for the season on Saturday, April 27 and will be open weekends through November 24. Hours will be 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday. In addition to an abundance of fresh, local, seasonal produce, shoppers will find healthful dairy and meat products, eggs, baked goods, honey from local hives, small-batch packaged foods and beverages, plant-based apothecary goods, and an array of flowers and plants from Minnesota growers. On opening day, April 27, free coffee will be offered to visitors from 7:00-8:00 a.m.

The Market will also host chef pairings at a monthly pop-up kitchen organized by restauranteur and Market collaborator Tim McKee at which two chefs who don’t work together will team up to prepare foods using the Market vendors’ produce and foods to create dishes to sell. There will also be art and educational activities for kids, demos on topics such as food preservation and native gardening, and many other community events celebrating the Minnesota growers and makers that add beauty and bounty to the Twin Cities. Visitors will also be able to nosh on an array of foods cooked onsite by vendors including Golden’s Bagel Stand, operated by the family that owned the beloved Golden’s Deli.

“We stand in strong support of Minnesota small-ag and the farm families who comprise it,” said David Kotsonas, executive director of the Saint Paul Farmers’ Market. “Farmers Markets increase both the community’s access to the freshest and most nutritious foods, and the opportunities for local, independent food producers to succeed. We are committed to our growers and only offer locally grown produce and locally made foods and we are proud of the wide variety of quality foods available at our Markets, and are always looking to expand upon that variety.”

The Saint Paul Farmers’ Market opened more than 150 years ago and has become one of the most respected farmers’ markets in the Upper Midwest. The Saint Paul Growers’ Association, Inc., which operates the Market, allows only fresh, locally grown produce to be sold, directly from the grower to the consumer, making it unique among many farmers’ markets. The baked goods, artisan foods, confections and other products offered are produced locally or regionally as well.

Some of the Market’s vendors have sold there for many generations, such as the Gerten family that’s been involved since the late 1800s. Hmong immigrants Phoua Thao and Wang Ger Hang began selling their produce at the Market in 1991 and now their children and grandchildren are also involved in the family business. Daughter Pakou Hang is the co-founder of the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA)and her parents grow 40 different kinds of produce on 10 acres on the HAFA Farm, which they helped found in 2011 in Dakota County. The Market also features newer growers such as Nick Robinson of R & R Cultivation who began growing mushrooms last year in a 3’x3’ canvas closet and now offers many varieties including shiitake, oyster, lion’s mane and others, and whose business has grown exponentially in one year’s time. Rachael KraMer of My Goodness! Kombucha creates beverages and apothecary goods using unpasteurized kombucha made of local ingredients including herbs from her garden and she offers those and kombucha starter (SCOBY) at the Market.

In addition to the weekend downtown Saint Paul location, the Saint Paul Farmers’ Market operates neighborhood Markets in Roseville, Rosemount, Andover, Maplewood, Lakeville, South Saint Paul, West Saint Paul, Vadnais Heights, Burnsville, Apple Valley, Woodbury, Savage, and Inver Grove Heights. There are also weekday markets at Securian, 7th Place and St. Thomas More in Saint Paul. The neighborhood markets will open in May and June and will operate into the fall. A Union Depot location will open in the fall. For a complete schedule and locations, visit http://www.stpaulfarmersmarket.com/index.php/locations.

Another unique aspect of the Saint Paul Farmers’ Market is a deep commitment to giving back to the community. Each Sunday during the growing season, the downtown outdoor Market donates unsold produce from the growers to the Neighborhood House food bank, averaging 8,000 pounds of produce each month. That location also offers nonprofits the opportunity to be at the Market to promote the work they do, and the neighborhood markets support nonprofits in their communities, too. The Market’s philanthropic focus is an area that Kotsonas and his team are growing, with new programs that foster greater community engagement and ways of giving back in each of the neighborhoods where the Markets are located.

The Market still has a few spaces for makers of locally sourced and produced food products. Visit http://www.stpaulfarmersmarket.com/index.php/membership to download a vendor application. The Saint Paul Farmers’ Market is located at 290 5th Street East in downtown Saint Paul. For more information, visit www.stpaulfarmersmarket.com.

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April 27 (Saturday) 7:00 am - November 24 (Sunday) 1:00 pm CST

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The Saint Paul Farmers’ Market

290 5th Street East

Organizer

Saint Paul Farmers’ Market

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Saint Paul Farmers' Market Outdoor Market The Saint Paul Farmers’ Market 290 5th Street East

28apr(apr 28)7:00 am25nov(nov 25)1:00 pmSaint Paul Farmers' Market Outdoor Market

Event Details

The award-winning Saint Paul Farmers’ Market will open its outdoor Lowertown location for the season on Saturday, April 27 and will be open weekends through November 24. Hours will be 7 a.m.

more

Event Details

The award-winning Saint Paul Farmers’ Market will open its outdoor Lowertown location for the season on Saturday, April 27 and will be open weekends through November 24. Hours will be 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday. In addition to an abundance of fresh, local, seasonal produce, shoppers will find healthful dairy and meat products, eggs, baked goods, honey from local hives, small-batch packaged foods and beverages, plant-based apothecary goods, and an array of flowers and plants from Minnesota growers. On opening day, April 27, free coffee will be offered to visitors from 7:00-8:00 a.m.

The Market will also host chef pairings at a monthly pop-up kitchen organized by restauranteur and Market collaborator Tim McKee at which two chefs who don’t work together will team up to prepare foods using the Market vendors’ produce and foods to create dishes to sell. There will also be art and educational activities for kids, demos on topics such as food preservation and native gardening, and many other community events celebrating the Minnesota growers and makers that add beauty and bounty to the Twin Cities. Visitors will also be able to nosh on an array of foods cooked onsite by vendors including Golden’s Bagel Stand, operated by the family that owned the beloved Golden’s Deli.

“We stand in strong support of Minnesota small-ag and the farm families who comprise it,” said David Kotsonas, executive director of the Saint Paul Farmers’ Market. “Farmers Markets increase both the community’s access to the freshest and most nutritious foods, and the opportunities for local, independent food producers to succeed. We are committed to our growers and only offer locally grown produce and locally made foods and we are proud of the wide variety of quality foods available at our Markets, and are always looking to expand upon that variety.”

The Saint Paul Farmers’ Market opened more than 150 years ago and has become one of the most respected farmers’ markets in the Upper Midwest. The Saint Paul Growers’ Association, Inc., which operates the Market, allows only fresh, locally grown produce to be sold, directly from the grower to the consumer, making it unique among many farmers’ markets. The baked goods, artisan foods, confections and other products offered are produced locally or regionally as well.

Some of the Market’s vendors have sold there for many generations, such as the Gerten family that’s been involved since the late 1800s. Hmong immigrants Phoua Thao and Wang Ger Hang began selling their produce at the Market in 1991 and now their children and grandchildren are also involved in the family business. Daughter Pakou Hang is the co-founder of the Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA)and her parents grow 40 different kinds of produce on 10 acres on the HAFA Farm, which they helped found in 2011 in Dakota County. The Market also features newer growers such as Nick Robinson of R & R Cultivation who began growing mushrooms last year in a 3’x3’ canvas closet and now offers many varieties including shiitake, oyster, lion’s mane and others, and whose business has grown exponentially in one year’s time. Rachael KraMer of My Goodness! Kombucha creates beverages and apothecary goods using unpasteurized kombucha made of local ingredients including herbs from her garden and she offers those and kombucha starter (SCOBY) at the Market.

In addition to the weekend downtown Saint Paul location, the Saint Paul Farmers’ Market operates neighborhood Markets in Roseville, Rosemount, Andover, Maplewood, Lakeville, South Saint Paul, West Saint Paul, Vadnais Heights, Burnsville, Apple Valley, Woodbury, Savage, and Inver Grove Heights. There are also weekday markets at Securian, 7th Place and St. Thomas More in Saint Paul. The neighborhood markets will open in May and June and will operate into the fall. A Union Depot location will open in the fall. For a complete schedule and locations, visit http://www.stpaulfarmersmarket.com/index.php/locations.

Another unique aspect of the Saint Paul Farmers’ Market is a deep commitment to giving back to the community. Each Sunday during the growing season, the downtown outdoor Market donates unsold produce from the growers to the Neighborhood House food bank, averaging 8,000 pounds of produce each month. That location also offers nonprofits the opportunity to be at the Market to promote the work they do, and the neighborhood markets support nonprofits in their communities, too. The Market’s philanthropic focus is an area that Kotsonas and his team are growing, with new programs that foster greater community engagement and ways of giving back in each of the neighborhoods where the Markets are located.

The Market still has a few spaces for makers of locally sourced and produced food products. Visit http://www.stpaulfarmersmarket.com/index.php/membership to download a vendor application. The Saint Paul Farmers’ Market is located at 290 5th Street East in downtown Saint Paul. For more information, visit www.stpaulfarmersmarket.com.

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April 28 (Sunday) 7:00 am - November 25 (Monday) 1:00 pm CST

Location

The Saint Paul Farmers’ Market

290 5th Street East

Organizer

Saint Paul Farmers’ Market

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Rose and Melvin Smith: Remembering Rondo Weisman Art Museum 333 E River Pkwy Minneapolis, MN 55455

07jun(jun 7)1:00 am08sep(sep 8)1:00 amRose and Melvin Smith: Remembering Rondo

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Currently living in Eagan, MN, Melvin R. and Rose J. Smith were residents of St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood for many years—Rose for most of her life and Melvin from 1963

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Currently living in Eagan, MN, Melvin R. and Rose J. Smith were residents of St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood for many years—Rose for most of her life and Melvin from 1963 to 1968. The Smiths’ artwork consists of urban scenes and portraits that present realist, expressionist, and at times allegorical takes on Black life in America. The works in this exhibition are drawn from their Rondo series—a sprawling body of work that stands as an elegiac anthem for that lost neighborhood and the enduring community that lives on in its wake.

From Melvin’s witty, unflinching collaged portraits and three-dimensional models of Rondo buildings to Rose’s touching portraits of family and joyful images of musicians, the work in the exhibition speaks to the complex gamut of life in Rondo and, by extension, the African American community writ large. Deeply committed to sharing the role of the Twin Cities in the larger history of civil rights, the Smiths insist this is more than a local story and that all of America needs to remember Rondo.

The Smiths have shown their work nationally for the past thirty-five years. Their artwork currently focuses on Minnesota and its largely unknown role in the American Civil Rights Movement and beyond. Focusing on their own lived experiences, the Smiths’ art offers an intimate view of everyday Black life in Rondo, and the rich histories embedded in those experiences. Their desire to preserve and trumpet the travails and triumphs of their community is testimony of their devotion to it. The Weisman is honored to present Remembering Rondo, illuminating and celebrating two of our state and region’s most important and prolific artists.

 

Time

June 7 (Friday) 1:00 am - September 8 (Sunday) 1:00 am CST

Location

Weisman Art Museum

333 E River Pkwy Minneapolis, MN 55455

Organizer

Weisman Art Museum

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Rose and Melvin Smith: Remembering Rondo Weisman Art Museum 333 E River Pkwy Minneapolis, MN 55455

08jun(jun 8)1:00 am09sep(sep 9)1:00 amRose and Melvin Smith: Remembering Rondo

Event Details

Currently living in Eagan, MN, Melvin R. and Rose J. Smith were residents of St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood for many years—Rose for most of her life and Melvin from 1963

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Event Details

Currently living in Eagan, MN, Melvin R. and Rose J. Smith were residents of St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood for many years—Rose for most of her life and Melvin from 1963 to 1968. The Smiths’ artwork consists of urban scenes and portraits that present realist, expressionist, and at times allegorical takes on Black life in America. The works in this exhibition are drawn from their Rondo series—a sprawling body of work that stands as an elegiac anthem for that lost neighborhood and the enduring community that lives on in its wake.

From Melvin’s witty, unflinching collaged portraits and three-dimensional models of Rondo buildings to Rose’s touching portraits of family and joyful images of musicians, the work in the exhibition speaks to the complex gamut of life in Rondo and, by extension, the African American community writ large. Deeply committed to sharing the role of the Twin Cities in the larger history of civil rights, the Smiths insist this is more than a local story and that all of America needs to remember Rondo.

The Smiths have shown their work nationally for the past thirty-five years. Their artwork currently focuses on Minnesota and its largely unknown role in the American Civil Rights Movement and beyond. Focusing on their own lived experiences, the Smiths’ art offers an intimate view of everyday Black life in Rondo, and the rich histories embedded in those experiences. Their desire to preserve and trumpet the travails and triumphs of their community is testimony of their devotion to it. The Weisman is honored to present Remembering Rondo, illuminating and celebrating two of our state and region’s most important and prolific artists.

 

Time

June 8 (Saturday) 1:00 am - September 9 (Monday) 1:00 am CST

Location

Weisman Art Museum

333 E River Pkwy Minneapolis, MN 55455

Organizer

Weisman Art Museum

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Twin Cities Black Pride Weekend Festival 2019 MN POC Pride Festival 2517 GoldenValley Rd. Unit B, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55411

16aug(aug 16)4:00 pm18(aug 18)9:00 pmTwin Cities Black Pride Weekend Festival 2019

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The Minnesota People of Color Pride Organization & BLACK TABLE ARTS Collaborations Present Friday - 16th: Illusion Theater Trust Welcome & Open Night of fun and festivities Saturday - 17th: Black Table Arts

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The Minnesota People of Color Pride Organization & BLACK TABLE ARTS Collaborations Present

Friday – 16th: Illusion Theater Trust
Welcome & Open Night of fun and festivities

Saturday – 17th: Black Table Arts – Presents
“The Because Black Life Conference”
10 am to 6 pm / Rarig Center
330 21st Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55455

Saturday – 17th: River Boat, Safe Spaces
Afternoon of fun activities, evening of partying, hill boat ride on the Mississippi, city adventures

Sunday – 18th: Powder horn Park, Minneapolis
Family in the Park, Free Day of Celebration, Food, Fellowship & Fun

Time

16 (Friday) 4:00 pm - 18 (Sunday) 9:00 pm CST

Location

MN POC Pride Festival

2517 GoldenValley Rd. Unit B, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55411

Organizer

MN POC Pride Festival

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The Because Black Life Conference - 2019 Rarig Center 330 21st Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55455

17aug10:00 am6:00 pmThe Because Black Life Conference - 2019

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Cultivated by https://www.blacktablearts.com/ The Because Black Life Conference 10am-6pm | Address: 330 21st Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55455 University Of Minnesota - AUG 17TH 2019

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Cultivated by https://www.blacktablearts.com/
The Because Black Life Conference
10am-6pm | Address: 330 21st Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

University Of Minnesota – AUG 17TH 2019
http://tiny.cc/s0695y
LINK TO REGISTRATION

WE WILL ALSO ACCEPT DAY OF REGISTRATION $20

Join us at the University Of Minnesota Rarig Center for a gathering of Black joy as we work to raise volume in Black life for 2019 and beyond.
Email: BecauseBlackLifeConference@gmail.com

10am -6pm
The Because Black Life Conference will be an amplifier for folks to lean in on strategies we are developing in Minnesota using our art, dreams, predictions, imaginations and black blueprints to cultivate the world we want to live in.

The Because Black Life Conference sees itself as an hub and incubator in organizing the next year of black life in Minnesota. The Because Black life Conference is where critical organizing meets education meets arts festival meets black joy. Through workshops we will hear from leading organizers, artists, dreamers, and healers in Minnesota serving as fellow architects in the work of building other black worlds. T-shirts will be available for purchase the day of.

Though this is a public conference some workshops may be Black and or P.O.C exclusive we ask white activist/artists respect and support this.

This conference will consist of workshops ranging on the spectrum of black joy – from the utilizing of trap music and Zines to get us more free to the ways we may interact with the earth to abolish borders in the rising police state – we gon talk about it. Come kick it. Why does this gathering exist? Because black life – matters.

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm CST

Location

Rarig Center

330 21st Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55455

Organizer

Black Table Arts

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