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HEALING THROUGH THE ARTS: A FREE Experiential Session!
www.ArtsOfPassage.com
Saturday, April 12th: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
2601 2nd Ave. S., Suite 3B, Mpls, MN. (Please RSVP to: 612-360-0833)
Are you interested in therapy that isn’t all talk? With expressive arts therapy, you will use all the arts — theater, music, movement, drawing, poetry and more — to reclaim your creativity, express your feelings, confront life’s challenges, and nurture your innate potential for healing and growth. You can change your life. Experience first-hand the depth and power the arts bring to psychotherapy.
POETRY CONTEST:
Every Day Poems for City Sidewalks
20 winners could win a $150 prize!
Public Art of St. Paul and St. Paul Public Works invite St. Paul residents to submit poetry to this contest. Winners will win $$ and have their poety etched into various sidewalks throughout the city. Go to their website for more information. www.everydaysidewalk.org
AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR SERIES
A series of conversations with notable African American authors. All events held at the Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center and begin at 7:30. Each event is $10.00
APRIL 24TH, LUCILLE CLIFTON
Lucille Clifton is among the most beloved and respected figures in American poetry today, widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, spirituality, and mortality. She is also an acclaimed children’s author. Her poetry collections includeMercy, Blessing the Boats, An Ordinary Woman, and Good Times, which was listed as one of the New York Times 10 best books in 1969. She is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the National Book Award, and two Pulitzer Prize nominations.
APRIL 30TH AMIRI BARAKA
Amiri Baraka is a revolutionary political activist, founder of the Black Arts Movement in Harlem in the 1960s and the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music criticism. His creative/critical work is ground-breaking in its exploration of racism, notional oppression, colonialism, neo-colonialism, self-determination, and national and human liberation. He is the recipient of an American Book Award and the Langston Hughes Award.
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April: National Poetry Month
Is it trite to say that poetry has saved my life? Or maybe, it is completely grandiose. Either way, it is true for me. It was 12 years ago, at the age of 30, when I first dipped my toe into the waters of poetry. Immediately, my heart was soothed, my emotional internal world felt at ease, understood.
Among the first poets I learned of were Mary Oliver and Sekou Sundiata. Markedly different poets, markedly different lives. I have had the great pleasure of seeing and hearing both Sekou Sundiata and Mary Oliver speak and read their poetry live, in person. Before he died, I saw Sekou’s performance called “Blessing The Boats”. It was an amazing solo performance that recounted his experience with the life-threatening illness of kidney failure and recovery. Sekou affirmed for me the value of using poetry as self-reflection, healing, growth.
Mary Oliver, on the other hand, is most known for her ability to observe the natural world, outside of herself. I had the great pleasure of seeing her speak/read at the State Theater last Sunday night. Such an amazing poet, person. She and her poetry, honor and offer witness to all life in the natural landscapes. She notices and writes beautifully about trees, dogs, flowers, birds, insects and moose, all creatures, large and small, capturing their immense ability to teach us, if we will only slow down enough to truly see.
Although, of course, I never met them, these two ‘first poets’, were mentors to me, as were their poems. This “mentorship” through life is what we hope to offer through The Lab. April is National Poetry Month. I encourage you to reach for poetry this month, for inspiration, for solace, for your own private mentor. Consider, too, sharing a poem you love with someone you care about. It might just save a life. ~ In poetry & Peace. Mary T.
Mask Making at Murray & Hazel!
Nancy, a Visual Lab Mentor, worked with students at Murray Jr. High and Hazel Park to make artistic masks and to reflect on and consider notions of emotions, identity, and self. Click the following link to see more in our Photo Showcase on the Web. http://www.thelabspps.com/?cat=4
LAB Americorps*VISTA Positions
The Lab will be hosting 2 Americorps*VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) workers next school year. You can learn about the Americorps *VISTA program and opportunities by visiting this website found at: www.mlc.org/VISTA . To see the specific VISTA position posting for The Lab, visit this link:
www.themlc.org/The_Poetry_Lab-Saint_Paul_Public_Schools.html
If you would like more information about this opportunity, please call or email Mallory Haar, (current VISTA) at 651-523-6335, or mallory.haar@spps.org.
Congratulations Mary!
Congratulations to Mary Tinucci, Program Coordinator of The Lab for being named one of 44 finalists for a national award called Leaders in Learning/Cable in the Classroom. In mid-April, 12 award winners will be announced.
Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards recognizes outstanding educators, administrators, policymakers and other community leaders at the forefront of innovation in education. This prestigious awards program, in its 4th year of operation, is administered by the cable industry and its national education foundation, Cable in the Classroom.
Read More at the following link: http://www.leadersinlearningawards.org/
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