
Can't attend but would still like to donate? Contact Alicia Ranney at ranneya@puc-mn.org.
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
“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
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….
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….
We, not only as Blacks but as Americans shall be granted the right of, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness….”
And if
In
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 time to rise from 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
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 movement and 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.
This is what we the youth of P-U-C believe…..