On the backdrop of suffering, we're moving through with art and the honest reflections it reveals to us, participating in a huge art event in the Northeast Minneapolis Art District the second weekend in November. Here are the details, and more reflections on the world at large and the micro world we inhabit here, too, and how to reconcile the two. Join us if you can.
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' EVENT:
- Saturday, November 11th and Sunday, November 12th from
- 12pm-4pm
- Kelly Rae Kerwin, a healer based in the Twin Cities will offer mini healings
- walk-ins and appointments for Permanent Jewelry by the Locket Sisters
- six floors of art across the California Building
- and the best espresso in town from Mojo's Coffee Cafe, and I'm willing to fight about that statement.
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I've wondered a lot lately what role art plays on the backdrop of suffering and destruction. What right do I have, do any of us have, to be in the presence of beauty, even the kind that stirs and inspires us to be honest and better, when there is an equal presence of pain.
Last weekend I danced at a wedding with people I love until my knees hurt (and I have good knees!). This, after spending the morning helping someone we love put their home back together while we also waited on life-changing news about someone else we love. It was the most freely I've danced, ever. I shimmied with my brother, learned new moves from my brother-in-law, watched my Dad hop across a dance circle while everyone chanted his name. It was fun, joyful, celebratory. It felt so good. So maybe the question isn’t about whether or not I have a right to art, but if we'll give ourselves to feel good even when so many cannot.
- Saturday, November 11th and Sunday, November 12th from
- 12pm-4pm
- Kelly Rae Kerwin, a healer based in the Twin Cities will offer mini healings
- walk-ins and appointments for Permanent Jewelry by the Locket Sisters
- six floors of art across the California Building,
- and the best espresso in town from Mojo's Coffee Cafe, and I'm willing to fight about that statement.