2010 Monarch Festival
Join us in celebration of the official butterfly of Minnesota as it begins its amazing 2300 mile migration!
The festival is September 11, 2010, at the Naturescape Garden in Lake Nokomis. Activities will be going on from 8:30am to 2:00pm.
Community Celebration of Place has partnered with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and the Nokomis East Neighborhood Association to host this yearly festival honoring our state’s official butterfly. There will be music, food, art and activities for the whole family. And our Executive Director Larry Long is among the musicians scheduled to perform!
For more on the monarch butterfly:
Teaching Tolerance
This month the magazine Teaching Tolerance is featuring an interview Larry Long did with Helen Tsuchiya from the 2004 Prairie View celebration. You can read the article online: Beyond the Barbed Wire. You can listen to the seven part interview on our website.
Part ONE:
Homeless Veterans Benefit Concert
Join us for a benefit concert featuring Abracadabra, a Steve Miller Tribute Band with current and former Steve Miller members, including Billy, Ricky, and Paul Peterson, and Kenny Lee Lewis. Opening: Larry Long, America's Troubadour, Smithsonian Folkways Recording Artist.
Proceeds for this event will go to The Salvation Army – Minneapolis Harbor Light Center who provide transitional housing with supportive services to formerly homeless veterans of the US military. Co-sponsored by Community Celebration of Place, ITOW Veterans Museum in Perham and the History Museum of East Otter Tail County.
For more information, contact: Diana 612-499-1271 or dianapoehler@yahoo.com
WHERE: Playtime Sports Bar, 43974 390th Street Perham, MN 56573
WHEN: Saturday, September 4 Labor Day Weekend 8:00pm
WHY: HELP HOMELESS VETERANS - $10 COVER CHARGE
For more information or to donate online:
America.gov
Learn more about the elders featured in the article:
In the Spotlight
Teacher Resources
We've compiled all the songs and stories from the celebrations for the 2006-2007 school year into two songbooks, and are excited to offer them free to download from our site:
In the News
Larry Long is a Twin Cities singer and songwriter, who uses his work to inspire others. He is executive director of the Minneapolis-based nonprofit Community Sense of Place and recently started the program Elders’ Wisdom. Larry Long started the Elders’ Wisdom Children’s Song program with the belief that people are never too old—or too young—to learn tolerance and understanding. www. America.gov’s profile on Elders’ Wisdom, Children’s Song asked “Can Tolerance Be Taught?” which takes a closer look at how our program is exploring that question through our work in schools and communities.
Arlington resident Arlene Fischer recently sat on a chair in her old classroom at the Green Isle Community School.
