Minnehaha Free Space

Note: This workshop will be held at Longfellow Park, followed by a social at the Free Space.

CROSS-POLLINATING THE GRASSROOTS
Movement Storytelling with the Beehive Design Collective
Pictures, Stories and Strategies for Social Change from 10 Years of Collaborative Image Making

The Beehive Design Collective has spent 10 years developing an innovative and story-based education strategy that it will share in this interactive, kid-friendly workshop.  The Bees believe art is a tool for popular analysis, education and organizing – and that the complex and overwhelming issues that face our world can be broken down and understood through pictures and stories. Read more…

Got Boundaries? The skills to build the relationships you want?

Boundary Setting Workshop
Tuesday April 24th 6-9 pm
Space is limited!  Save your spot: register@bbtcoaching.com
$15-$35 sliding scale; No one turned away for lack of funds.

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Workshop: Thursday, April 19th, 4-6pm at the Free Space

Insurgent Theatre and RedBird Prison Abolition (based in Columbus, OH) are coming to Minneapolis on April 18th and 19th, performing a play called IN THE BELLY and presenting a workshop on the Lucasville Uprising. IN THE BELLY depicts long term solitary confinement inorder to begin a critique of the entire US prison system. This collaboratively developed workshop piece draws from many prisoner accounts, audience feedback and close study of history, including ideas from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. 

Come enjoy FREE MOVIES at the Free Space every Monday in April!

Featuring: Born in Flames (4/2), Sankofa (4/9), Elmo in Grouchland (4/16), Attack the Block (4/23), and Life and Debt (4/30). Movies start at 7pm. See descriptions below. Read more…

Cold Nights, Hot Issues! Presents:
Resistance Against & Across Borders
*A Minnehaha Free Space Panel Series Discussion*

Friday, March 30th
Dinner at 6:30pm
Panel Discussion at 7pm
FREE with Donations Welcome

Join us for a conversation about immigration rights, migrants’ struggles, movements of solidarity with Palestine, decolonization struggles, and how local organizers are bringing these issues home.  Panelists will discuss such topics as: experiences of borders, how their activist work deals with resisting borders and enacting solidarity across borders, ways movements can support each other, how strategies of controlling borders and policing migrants are changing with globalization and the ‘war on terror,’ ways that migration struggles interrelate with movements for de-colonization, among other pressing issues.

Guests Include:

Elisabeth Geschiere – MN Break the Bonds
Christian Villaroel – Academia Comunitaria and Occupy May 1st
another speaker TBA – Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAc)
another speaker TBA – on Dakota Decolonization

Come to learn from local activists, ask questions and share your experience!

(note: organizations listed for identification only)

Invite your friends on the facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/210454765720836/

*Cold Nights, Hot Issues! is an event series exploring hot topics with a radical lens, learning from the wisdom of local activists, and building local and global struggles towards a world free from oppression and domination. Each event starts with food at 6:30, followed by a moderated discussion at 7pm at the Minnehaha Free Space.

Good news for those who want to support the Free Space!  We are now able to accept tax-deductible donations.  Read on to find out how. Read more…

Border Politics From Above & Below:

Organizing For Justice in Spite of Elections

with Macrina Cárdenas de Alarcon of Tijuana’s Casa del Migrante
and Mexico Solidarity Network representative Tony Nelson

TWO EVENTS
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

2:30-4pm at University of Minnesota
Peik Hall, Room 225 (East Bank – map)

7pm at the Minnehaha Free Space
3458 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis MN
(on the #7 bus line; directions/info at minnehahafreespace.org)

In what is sure to be a multibillion dollar run-up to the 2012 elections in the US and Mexico, it’s important to reflect on alternative ways of framing social problems and doing politics. In response to the failing US economy, many community groups are demonstrating another way of doing politics by constructing local, collective power from below. In Mexico, social actors and large mass movements are also organizing from below to challenge the power structures that have implemented a ruthless drug war on an increasingly impoverished population. Read more…

Wednesday, March 14
7-9pm at the Free Space
3458 Minnehaha Avenue
$5 suggested donation

This workshop will be a chance for artists of all skill levels to sketch the human form while sharing drawing tips. Feel free to bring whatever materials you would like to use! We will have a nude model, so this workshop is only open to adults 18 and over.

For additional info, please email: deletedzine@gmail.com.

Submit your Artwork to the First Art Group Art Show!

This upcoming Sunday (March 4th) you are invited to bring artwork to hang on the walls during our normal art group time of 6-9pm. We will be hopefully hanging the entire show that day, so come early and pick out a good spot. You can bring old work, new work, and/or work you made during the art groups. Please stay and help hang or work on more artwork. Then take a stack of art show fliers ( we have two great designs) and pass them out to friends, family and at places you visit around town.

Not an artist? Come to the art show opening!

Sunday, March 11th
6-9pm
At the Minnehaha Free Space
3458 Minnehaha Ave S
Minneapolis, MN
612-729-3733

Looking forward to seeing you and your artwork this Sunday! Let’s make this show a great one.

Check out our Facebook event here!