Mujeres en Liderazgo - Night in the Spotlight

Pillsbury United Communities Waite House cordially invites you to our first annual, Mujeres en Liderazgo - Night in the Spotlight. Please join us for a spectacular night. Learn about the Mujeres en Liderazgo program, meeting the program members and learn about their plans for 2011.

Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be provided. There is no charge for this event, but bring your checkbook! Please come as our guest, and bring a friend.

RSVP by contacting Alicia Ranney at ranneya@puc-mn.org.

Can't attend but would still like to donate? Contact Alicia Ranney at ranneya@puc-mn.org.

Annual Cedar-Riverside Multi-Cultural Dinner

Mark your calendars! The Annual Cedar-Riverside Multi-Cultural Dinner is happening Thursday November 18, 2010 at 5pm at the Brian Coyle Center Gym.

We will have Somali, Ethiopian, Vietnamese, and traditional Thanksgiving food and more! All who live, work, study, or play in the neighborhood are welcome to come and enjoy!

Special thank you to our sponsors: Augsburg College, WellShare International, City of Minneapolis State Health Improvement Plan, African Development Center, Confederation of Somali Community in MN, EMERGE, Arts Neighborhood Cedar-Riverside—Mixed Blood, University of Minnesota, CHANCE, Cedar-Riverside NRP

Thanksgiving Meal at Waite House

Please Come One Come All To This Community Event; Waite House is hosting their Annual Thanksgiving meal on November 17, 2010!

Waite House
2529 13th Ave So
Mpls, MN 55404

For more information, please call 612-721-1681.
*Please note, this event replaces the normal noon meal at Waite House on November 17th 2010

PUC Launches Public Allies Program

Pillsbury United Communities is honored to bring to Minneapolis the Public Allies Program. Public Allies is a nationwide AmeriCorps program that mentors young adults with the ambition to make positive changes in their communities through leadership in the nonprofit sector.

PUC will partner will Public Allies to deploy 25 young people in 10-month apprenticeships at local nonprofits. Allies will have the opportunity to make a difference in the areas of poverty, public health, at-risk youth, housing education, the arts, and many others.

PUC is the only Public Allies provider in Minnesota and is committed to inspiring long-lasting change with our Allies.

Public Allies is ready to support this community. To learn more, click here to watch a short YouTube video about Public Allies.

Oak Park Center's KaBOOM! Playground

Oak Park Center, one of Pillsbury United Communities' neighborhood centers based in North Minneapolis, has been given the amazing opportunity to build a brand new KaBOOM! Playground with the generous support of United Health Care.

But we need YOU to make it happen. On September 7th and 9th, over 200 volunteers will descend on Oak Park Center to build our playground. Do you want to swing hammers with us? How about pour some cement? There are so many jobs, we have on that's perfect for you.

To learn more about volunteer opportunities for our KaBOOM! Build, click here!

Shadows with No Capital: Is This Home?

“Shadows with No Capital: Is This Home?” will be a nighttime public art event held to conclude the Twin Cities’ visit of two luminous, travelling puppet explorers from across the world! Art work created by a group of Pillsbury House youth during a three-month collaboration with Minneapolis Arts on Wheels (MAW) will welcome them to the Powderhorn and Central neighborhoods.

This event will begin at the Pillsbury House with a community barbeque. This will be the start point of a giant puppet procession to the projection site-where the youth’s creative art work about their community and their ideas of “home” will be shared. The art work will integrate shadow puppetry, poetry, and stop motion video. All community members are invited to participate!

This FREE community art event will be held on Sat. May 8th, 2010 rain or shine.

Times & Locations:

7:30pm -Community Barbeque at the Pillsbury House

8:30pm -Begin puppet procession to Projection Site

9:00pm -Presentation by the Youth P.A.C. (Projection Art Crew) at 34th St and Elliot Ave. S.

MAW Ambassadors: Andrea Steudel, Sinan Goknur.

MAW Artists in Residence: Bart Buch and Kyle Loven

Guest Artists: Anton Jones, Peter Haakon Thompson, Pramila Vasudevan, Katrina Dikkers.

Visit our blog! http://youthwonderpac.blogspot.com/

This project is made possible by funds from the Central Area Neighborhood Development Organization (CANDO) and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA).

Pillsbury House

3501 Chicago Avenue South

Minneapolis, MN 55407

612.824.0708

www.puc-mn.org

MLK Day of Service Projects

Over 120 youth ages 12-18 gathered on January 16th to create large scale, city wide, community based, art and social justice projects.


Activities included:

• Portable murals let by local aerosol artist Daniel "Chen" Bowman. These murals will be displayed at each of the PUC neighborhood centers as well as partner organizations and Elder Care Centers.

• Stenciled yard signs displaying words and phrases of MLK's messages of hope and equality. Youth will distribute these signs to the neighborhoods surround PUC centers.

• An intergenerational dialogue and lunch joined youth with community elders to discuss issues surrounding poverty and racism to expand the collective understanding of past generations.