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2021

Event Grants

Peoples Movement Assembly

October 24, 2021

Presented by Confluence Studios

Group of people gathered outdoors in a parking lot, some sitting on wooden benches and others standing, attending a meeting or event under overcast skies, with power lines and a rusted industrial building in the background.
Five people holding large banners with symbols stand in front of a graffiti-covered wall with a chain-link fence above it, on an urban sidewalk.
People wearing gloves serve taco shells onto plates at an outdoor cookout or barbecue.

A community gathering in the parking lot of the former Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct, organized by Confluence Studios - with food, music, furniture building, and discussion, to allow community members to discuss and plan for the future of our neighborhood and city. This assembly was organized by Studio members and a large group of friends in support of the efforts of Reclaim the Block, Black Visions, and Yes4MPLS, as well as countless neighbors who have been communing and cooperating for generations towards place-based caring futures for us all. There was plenty of art, music, and food produced by fellow neighbors, and discussion between us all facilitated towards collectively imagining future agreements. To be more vibrant, more humane, more understanding and compassionate towards the complexities of living in diverse community.

The Transition Stage

2021-2022

Presented by Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and Pangea World Theater

A group of six people standing outdoors in front of a brick wall with a colorful mural, with a large green mask-shaped sculpture made of paper or cardboard strips in the foreground to the left.

Artist Angela Two Stars built an enormous cocoon structure, wich was wrapped in ribbons upon which community members wrote their laments and their hopes for the future of the neighborhood. The cocoon was later disassembled and the lament/hope ribbons were made into the background of a mobile stage upon which community members affixed butterflies, and the ribbons will ultimately make up the wings of a butterfly sculpture that will live in Downtown Longfellow