Midtown Phillips News - Filed under 'events'

Nov 18 / 6:26am

Green Gifts Fair - 11/19

From the Midtown Global Market's newsletter:

Kick off the holiday season with Do It Green! Minnesota's 6th Annual Green Gifts Fair on Saturday, November 19th from 10am0in at Midtown Global Market on Lake Street and 10th Avenue in Minneapolis. Shop among 70+ local, eco-friendly artists and businesses, catch the eco fashion show, cooking demonstrations, kids activities, and learn how to entertain green this holiday season. At the fair, pick up the new 2012 edition of Do It Green! Magazine. This is a free, fun family event with an estimated attendance of over 5,000. Visit www.doitgreen.org for more details.

2012 Do It Green! Magazine Launch

The Green Gifts Fair event launches the new 2012 Do It Green! Magazine titled the "Ultimate Sustainable Living Toolbox". This issue combines over 100 of our most popular articles over the past eleven years in updated versions, and many new articles. From A to Z you will learn about sustainable living for home, business, and community life in Minnesota. This guide is the perfect holiday gift for the ecologically-minded. Do It Green! Magazine will be available for $8 at the Green Gifts Fair and then at sold at over 75 local businesses.

Activities at the Green Gifts Fair

NEW This year:

* Test your toys for lead brought to you by the City of Minneapolis

* Holiday demos including; soy candle making, ice lantern making and other eco gift ideas

* Recycle your holiday lights through the Recycling Association of Minnesota

Other Activities:

* 70 + local green retailers and vendors selling green, recycled, fair trade and local gifts

* Launch of the 2012 Do It Green! Magazine themed "The Ultimate Toolbox for Sustainable Living"

* Eco fashion show

* Holiday cooking demos with local chefs and taste testing with Kitchen in the Market

* Sew your own cloth gift bag or tote bag with the American Sewing Guild

* Learn out how to host green holiday gatherings

* Eco holiday tree options display

* Make a non-toxic cleaner to take home and learn about reducing toxins with Preventing Harm Minnesota

About Do It Green! Minnesota

Do It Green! Minnesota is the publisher of Do It Green! Magazine, the host of the Do It Green! Gifts Fair and the Do It Green! Resource Center inside Midtown Global Market. Visit us at www.doitgreen.org.

Green Gifts Fair Sponsors include: Midtown Global Market, KFAI Radio, City Pages, Metro Transit, and Yelp.

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Sep 27 / 6:47am

MPRB CSA 6 Fall and Winter Field Trips

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Be the first to sign-up for the CSA 6 Fall and Winter field trips! Participation is limited to 20; first come first served. For more information, call the park nearest you.

Who: Youth ages 7-15

When: See specific dates below; 1-4 p.m.

Cost: $5 per person/trip (includes transportation and entry fees)

Oct. 20, 2011 - Corn Maze

Enjoy this 'out of this world' maze at Sever's Corn Maze in Shakopee. Take the maze challenge, experience fun, soothing and therapeutic corn pool and meet and feed exotic animals such as camels, kangaroos, lemurs and others!

November 4, 2011 - Roller Skating

Always a perennial favorite by people of all ages; it is fun, fit and healthy!

December 29, 2011 - Snow Tubing

Winter break is not complete without snow tubing! Don't be left out by friends. Call a CSA 6 park nearest you. We are taking only 20 youth on this trip!

January 5, 2012 - Science Museum of Minnesota

The Science Museum of Minnesota is the most popular museum in the upper midwest. Featured are dinosaurs, Omnitheater and hands-on exhibits. Make the Science Musem of Minnesota your first field trip of 2012!

View the flyer attached below for more information.

http://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MNPARKREC/2011/09/19/file_attachme..." target="_blank">CSA 6 Fall - Winter Field Trip Flyer.doc

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Sep 19 / 2:34pm

Andersen Hosts MPS Area B Council Thursday, 5:30-7:30pm 9/22

Find out more about the Minneapolis Public School's Area B Parent & Community Council at their website. Kristin sends out regular announcements for the Area B community, I don't often post them, but since this month's meeting is actually at Andersen in our neighborhood I thought I would. All of the Phillips Community East of Chicago is in Area B/Zone 2. Residents living West of Chicago are part of Area C/Zone 3.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: kristin berg thompson <kbergthompson@gmail.com>

Dear Area B Community, The first Area B Parent & Community Council of the 2011/12 school year will be held at Andersen United Community School, 2727 10th Avenue South, on Thursday, September 22 from 5:30- 7:30m. All 2011/12 B Council sites are also attached.

Please share the Andersen flier attached translations for Sept.22 in English, Somali & Spanish. Dinner and family resources begin at 5:30pm. Childcare for ages 3 and up is available, as well as Spanish and Somali interpreters. The possibility of changing to Go To metro transit cards for High School student transportation, and increasing student enrollment plans for Area B will be discussed.

Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson will welcome the Council, and I hope to see you there!
Thank you. Kristin

Kristin Berg Thompson
Community Liaison, Area B
kbergthompson@gmail.com
612-990-1397

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Aug 17 / 11:25am

The Bridging Minneapolis Festival (videos)

The Bridging Minneapolis Festival started on August 13th at the northeast corner of Cedar Ave and 24th St. Haven Herrin and Ian McNamara gathered water at dawn (from Mississippi River and Lake of the Isles) and met to begin the 2011 Bridging Festival. Sandy Spieler of In the Heart of the Beast Theatre, hosted as the group poured the water together, whispered blessings to each other and sang quietly in unison.

The group paraded or marched West down 24th Street from Cedar stopping next at the East Phillips Park Community and Cultural Center, where participants heard Brad Pass tell the history of the center, toured the building, and participated in a dance class!

The next stop on the festival route was the Phillips Community Center, where participants had lunch and participated in a circle facilitated by Louis Alemayehu. See the video below:

After creating festival regalia (which can be seen below) we got a quick synopsis about the Village Market/Somali Mall (aka the 24 Mall) from Mohamed (see below).

The climax of the event was the unveiling of 6 murals designed and painted by residents of the Phillips West and Whittier neighborhoods. These mural panels were hung on the sound walls on either side of 35W. Residents from Kateri House, St. Stephens Shelter, and Jefferson Middle School worked with artists from MCAD to design and paint the circular murals. You can watch the unveiling and commentary in this video below:

Additional commentary can be found here.

After unveiling the 6 murals the group proceeded to a vacant lot behind Open Eyes Theater for a short performance with neighborhood actors of all ages. The performance highlighted the idea of working together and helping each other out. At this point in the day my Flip Cam was full and my cell phone dead, so no more videos!

The last part of the festival included Live African music (Siama Matuzungidi, Joe Shalita & Bingo), snow cones and kids’ games, storytelling (hosted by The Alley Newspaper), neighborhood history, perennial seed balls, arts activities, and more. It was a festive end to a festive day!

I have one more video of Dallas Johnson talking about the Festival and how it came to be, but I ran out of free upload space! So it will get posted next week. Here is Dallas:

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Aug 16 / 10:05am

Pictures from the Minneapolis Bridging Project

Here are a few pictures that I took during the Minneapolis Bridging Project. I have some videos that need editing and I'll get those up soon.

The opening cirlce group which brought together the water from Lake of the Isles and the Mississppi River.

Brad Pass talking about the story of the East Phillips Park Community and Cultural Center

Shirley Heyer, Joseph Spangler, and Sandy Spieler posing for a picture during lunch at the Phillips Community Center. The catered lunch was excellent and was provided by Amalia Moreno-Damgaard.

After a circle of singing and community building In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater had a make and take art activity which was creating umbrellas and banners or "festival regalia" which would be used later in the day!

This sweet bike joined the festival parade!

After leaving the Phillips Community Center we "toured" the Village Market Somali Mall (aka the 24 mall).

What parade would be complete without a musical leader? Drums and accordians were a perfect complement to our march down 24th Street.

Here is one of the murals that was unveiled as the climax of the event. Six total murals were unveiled, 3 on each side of 35W and two each from Jefferson Middle School students, St. Stephen's, and Kateri House. They looked beautiful (you'll see the rest in the videos).

The next to last event of the festival was a play performed by local children and In the Heart of the Beast.

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Posted from Minneapolis, MN

Aug 14 / 10:49am

IATP's Bike and Bite Recap

On Saturday the Institue for Agriculutre and Trade Policy (IATP) celebrated their 25th Anniversary by having a Bike and Bite event. Bike and Bite is a great concept - ride around Minneapolis and visit event sponsors who also have sample tables of their locally sourced menus!! Restaurants like the Birchwood Cafe and Common Roots and stops like the Midtown Farmers Market hosted 150 riders throughout the morning. The riders appeared to be having a good time. I spoke with a few at the beginning of the day, but couldn't attend the after-party to follow-up with them.

Registration

Group using Nice Ride bikes to complete the event (see the below video)

A picture of the map. Most of the spots were in South Minneapolis (a lot were in Uptown), and one stop at a Community Garden in North Minneapolis.

Here are a few riders heading out of IATP's parking lot. Each rider or group of riders was able to determine their own route, trying to hit all the delicious stops along the way!

Meet Chuck, he was a rider looking to have fun with friends and even rode a Nice Ride bike while doing so!

This is the tent at the Midtown Farmers Market. A lot of market goers stopped by to see what was happening.

Here is the bike rack at the Midtown Farmers Market.

Meet JoAnne who works with IATP as the Program Director of Local Foods. She shared a little bit about IATP, Bike and Bite, and the Midtown Farmers Market.

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Posted from Minneapolis, MN

Jul 29 / 4:51am

Money Available for Block Clubs in Midtown for NNO

The Midtown Phillips Events Task Force in conjunction with the Midtown Phillips NRP Phase II Steering Committee, is offering up to $50.00 per National Night Out event (August 2nd ) for Midtown Phillips block clubs that were unable to participate in Phase II survey taking, during the May Spring Reunion. If your block will gather NRP survey forms at your event – Additionally if your block did participate in the survey process at a May reunion event and could use the $50.00 to cover expenses for your August 2nd event helping to flyer a neighboring block also can make your event eligible. This is available to the first 10 Midtown Phillips block clubs requesting)

If you have questions or need additional information, please contact Joseph Spangler at: jspangler99@aol.com

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Jun 14 / 11:47am

Compostadores workshop at Shalom Community Garden- June 14th at 5:30 p.m.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Julia Eagles

Hi Phillips neighbors!

I wanted to send a rather last-minute (sorry!) invitation to folks in the neighborhood about a compost bin building workshop we're hosting tomorrow evening, June 14th, at Shalom Community Garden. The workshop will be put on
by the Compostadores (http://thecompostadores.wordpress.com/), a group of compost enthusiasts dedicated to building a neighborhood-based compost infrastructure in the Twin Cities*. * We'll be building bins for the Shalom
Garden, but hope that they can be used by some of our neighbors, and the workshop will be an opportunity to learn the Growing Power (http://growingpower.org/) bin-building method, using salvaged materials to build simple, static, "no-turn" 4'x4' compost bins. Feel free to invite friends and/or neighbors, the more the merrier!

The details:

*WHAT: Compostadores Workshop <http://thecompostadores.wordpress.com/>*
*WHEN: *Tuesday, June 14th from 5:30-8ish
*WHERE: *Shalom Community Garden, 2819-2823 15th Ave S, Minneapolis

Hope to see you there!

Take care,
Julia Eagles

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May 25 / 8:25am

Food Justice for Phillips - Saber Comer Justicia

~ Esta invitacion esta en Espanol abajo ~

We cordially invite you to attend our Latino food justice presentation, hosted by immigrant and Latino youth working with Tamales y Bicicletas. The youth will be presenting on the food systems and food movements in our Phillips neighborhood. These students have been researching this issue in South Minneapolis for the past few months and would like to share their findings with the broader community. The main issue students looked at was - is the food in the hood killing us? The presenters will cover issues of community health, challenges to organic food access, and solutions.

Please feel free to share this invitation with others and we hope to see you there!

When: Tuesday, May 24th

Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Where: East Phillips Community Center, 2307 14th Ave. S., Minneapolis

Questions? Call Jose Luis at 612-986-0832

This event is supported by the Minnesota Department of Health, through the Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative grant.

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Estan cordialmente invitados a nuestra presentacion sobre nuestra salud en relacion a la comida que comemos. Esta presentacion sera compartida por los jovenes inmigrantes y Latinos que han estado trabajando con Tamales y Bicicletas. Estos estudiantes han estado investigando este tema en el vecindario de Phillips por los ultimos meses y ahora les gustaria compartir sus ideas y resultados con la comunidad. Los jovenes se preguntaron - ?nos estara matando la comida de nuestro barrio? Por medio de sus estudios ellos hablaran de la salud comunitaria, los retos al acceso a la comida sin pesticidas, y las soluciones que ellos ven.

Favor de compartir esta invitacion con personas que esten interesadas en este tema. !Los esperamos ver ahi!

Cuando: Martes, 24 de Mayo

Hora: 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Donde: East Phillips Community Center, 2307 14th Ave. S., Minneapolis

Preguntas? Favor de llamar a Jose Luis al 612-986-0832

Este evento esta apoyado por el Departamento de Salud del estado de Minnesota, por medio de la Iniciativa para Eliminar la Inequidad de Salud.

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May 19 / 5:06am

Stewart Park Soccer Field Grand Opening May 19

Hello,

I would like to invite you to the Stewart Park Soccer Field Grand Opening Celebration on Thursday May 19^th, at 4:45pm. I want to make sure we didn’t miss you after looking through the emails going out in the last week. Just know you were not forgotten and we really would love to see you at the event. Without your involvement this would not be possibleJ Please call or email if you have any questions. I look forward to seeing you on Thursday. AL.

Please see the attached contact list for the Stewart Park Soccer Field Grand Opening.

3:30 Jackie Lee Stone on-site
4:00 AV set-up (Al, team at Stewart)
4:45 Grill out set-up for guests and music going (Al, team at Stewart)
5:00 Balloon artists and face painters arrive
5:30 Commissioners arrive
5:45 Scott Vreeland welcome and comments
5:50 Peter McLaughlin comments
5:55 Al Bangoura comments
When finished, Al will bring out a few players from the youth soccer team to block a ceremonial first kick from Com. McLaughlin and do a small presentation
6:00 Soccer camps begin, interactive entertainment done, clean-up grill-out

Alfred K. Bangoura

Community Service Area Team Lead #6

East Phillips Park Cultural and Community Center, Phillips Community Center, Stewart, Elliot, Peavey

612-370-4888 (p)

612-724-2317 (f)

612-328-6285 (c)

abangoura@minneapolisparks.org (email)

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Green Gifts Fair - 11/19

MPRB CSA 6 Fall and Winter Field Trips

Andersen Hosts MPS Area B Council Thursday, 5:30-7:30pm 9/22

The Bridging Minneapolis Festival (videos)

Pictures from the Minneapolis Bridging Project

IATP's Bike and Bite Recap

Money Available for Block Clubs in Midtown for NNO

Compostadores workshop at Shalom Community Garden- June 14th at 5:30 p.m.

Food Justice for Phillips - Saber Comer Justicia

Stewart Park Soccer Field Grand Opening May 19

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