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.
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
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.
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.
“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.
This project is made possible by funds from the Central Area Neighborhood Development Organization (CANDO) and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA).
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.
Youth participating in MLK Day of Servicehad the opportunity to be a part of I Have a Dream - ReMix. Youth staged a collaborative poem using spoken word and digital beat-making. What resulted is a powerful and inspirational piece weaving together MLK's "I Have a Dream" and the voices of PUC Youth. Take a few moments to read these beautiful words. (Italicized portions taken from Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech.)
We Have a Dream……
(An interweaving of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” and the voices of PUC Youth)
We have a dream, that one day we’ll be –
United as one –
In PEACE and EQUALITY….
No longer will we live on a lonely island of poverty….
Where we endure hurt, pain and endless misery….
Searing in the flames of withering injustice; one hundred years later we still are not there….
We have to come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of NOW
NOW is the time to make real the promise of democracy….
NOW is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice…
NOW is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand’s of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood….
NOW is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children….
NOW is the time to come from the shadow of evil and show as a nation, as a people [that] we can make a change….
We, not only as Blacks but as Americans shall be granted the right of, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness….”
And if America is to be a great nation, this must be true.
In America, we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt – let’s be equal and not corrupt…
America seeks my eye
America seeks my mind
Fight for what you believe in
This is your time…
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal and will one day stand as one….
We are standing here today because we got something to say…now is the timeto risefrom the dark – put some light in this room; find ways to be smart…come together as one; open up your heart…..
Let freedom ring from every part of the world….
We all seek our own “Emancipation Proclamation,” but it comes with a price, a price that’s gone unpaid – leaving America putting the blame – on insufficient funds…
Insufficient funds….yeah, that’s what they label us – streets that have guns, drugs, thugs and poor people on the bus….
A check from our employer – the epitome of freedom…it would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment, the urgency of the time, the urgency of the movementand we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. This is the proof that Martin Luther King had a dream.
