COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:
GALA HELD BY RACIAL JUSTICE NETWORK
Saturday, November 17
You’re invited to the first annual Community Reparations Gala: Laying the Foundation on Saturday, November 17.
This is the first large event held by the Racial Justice Network, led by activist, attorney and 2017 mayoral candidate, Nekima Levy-Pounds. Grace’s Racial Equity team has talked about all three of their major focus areas: Racial Justice in the criminal system, economics, and education.
Internationally-known (and local) healer, author, speaker, and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem (My Grandmother’s Hands) is the keynote speaker.
Please join us, if you can, and help to spread the word! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-reparations-gala-laying-the-foundation-tickets-50511608581
PERFORMANCES:
NOT ABOUT HEROES by Stephen MacDonald
November 15-17, all at 7 pm at Off-Leash Area Art Box (4200 East 54th Street, Minneapolis)
Hero Now Theatre presents a play chosen to mark the 100th anniversary of the World War I armistice, about two actual WWI British officers who met by chance but developed a deep relationship as they discussed duty, friendship, and the art they both practiced: the writing of poetry.
Wilfred Owen, a shell-shocked soldier recovering in an Edinburgh hospital, meets the poet he idolizes, Siegfried Sassoon. Both have witnessed the horrors of trench warfare, and both write poems about it. As they discuss how they can tell the truth about war, a channel of communication opens, allowing them to talk honestly: Is the war justified? Should they return to the battle lines? At first intended to be therapeutic, their writing resulted in some of the finest English-language war poems ever written. But one thing they struggle to confront honestly is their strong feelings about each other.
Learn more about this production and purchase tickets at HeroNowTheatre.org. U.S. millitary veterans will be admitted free to all performances of this production.
“CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL: MYSTERIOUS BIRTH” WITH THE NATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR
Drawing for Free Tickets for National Lutheran Choir’s Christmas Festival!
Two pairs of free tickets will be awarded during coffee hour on November 18th for the NLC’s annual Christmas Festival. A family-favorite celebration of the Holidays for more than three decades, the Festival is the Choir’s signature program of poetry, communal singing, and exquisite music at the awe-inspiring Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis. Enter the drawing by putting your name in the NLC Christmas box today.
Friday, December 7, 4:30 pm and 8:00 pm
Saturday, December 8, 8:00 pm
Basilica of Saint Mary (88 N. 17thSt., Minneapolis, MN 55403)
Tickets:Adult $33 | Senior $31 | Students and Children FREE
For tickets and more information, please visit NLCA.com/18-19season or call (612) 722-2301 — or speak with Grace’s Ambassador for the NLC, Tom von Fischer (tomvonfischer@yahoo.com).
