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Welcome to Marcy-Holmes' Items of Interest for December 2015
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ITEMS OF INTEREST | DECEMBER 2015
Fall 2015 Marcy-Holmes Postcard: Chris Lautenschlager
Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association
500 8th Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
612.623.7633

Melissa Bean
Executive Director
office@marcy-holmes.org

Chris Lautenschlager
Communications
chris@marcy-holmes.org
UPCOMING MHNA MEETINGS
Board of Directors
Tues Jan 19, 6 pm
Minneapolis Event Center
212 2nd St SE

Creative Places
Mon Dec 7, 6:30 pm
Telephone Building
201 6th St SE #220
(entrance on Brasa side of bldg)

General Membership
Tues Jan 19, 7:30 pm
Minneapolis Event Center
212 2nd St SE

Land Use
Tues Jan 5, 6 pm
Univ Lutheran Church of Hope
601 13th Ave SE

Transportation
Tues Dec 8, 6 pm
Andrew Riverside Church
403 8th Ave SE
Website
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram

NEED A GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT? TWO GIFTS?
Stop by our office to purchase a copy of Hiding in Plain Sight: Minneapolis' First Neighborhood, by local historian Penny Petersen, for $19.95. We are also selling Marcy-Holmes t-shirts for $18!

MAKE YOUR DONATION BY YEAR'S END!
To launch and complete projects that help fulfill our mission to "improve and enhance the quality of life for the residents of Marcy-Holmes," we rely on committed volunteers, staff, and contributions from neighbors like you. In 2015, member support has enabled us to:
  • make our streets safe and more welcoming to bikes and pedestrian through traffic calming
  • beautify our neighborhood and make it ecologically sound by caring for our shade trees and planting bee-friendly shrubs and flowers
  • review more than 20 land use proposals from developers and residents
  • welcome hundreds of new neighbors to the A-Mill Artist Lofts
Your contribution will help us fund projects, programs and events that continue our work toward important priorities in 2016, like helping create a safe and beautiful 5th Street SE pedestrian/bike bridge, and finding new ways to connect the diverse people living, working and playing here.

Working together we can accomplish great things for this great place. You can donate online: www.marcy-holmes.org/donate, or via a check sent to our office: 

MHNA
500 8th Avenue SE 
Minneapolis, MN 55414

All donations are tax-deductible. Thank you for your support, and many thanks to those who have already given over the past month!

UPCOMING TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE MEETING
The next Transportation Committee will be held on Tuesday December 8, 2015, 6 pm at Andrew Riverside Church. A significant portion of the meeting will center on the final planting design for the two traffic circles installed on 6th Avenue SE a couple of months ago. MHNA has received some pro-bono assistance from HGA, a consultant firm specializing in innovative, sustainable design practices, and has invited them to present some of their concepts at this meeting. Representatives from the City of Minneapolis will also be at the meeting, to assist in ensuring that MHNA's potential planting plan is consistent with the city's recently adopted pollinator-friendly policy .

ALATUS BUILDING HEARING: POSTPONED
The Heritage Preservation Commission's Public Hearing on the potential Alatus building, slated for the corner of Central Avenue and 2nd Street SE has been postponed. While it is possible for the hearing to be scheduled for January 2016, but it might take place in February 2016 instead.

We promise to keep you informed of new details as they arrive.

THE FOLLOWING IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY OUR CREATIVE PLACES COMMITTEE
MHNA Creative Places Committee's purpose is to support and enhance the arts, culture, and creative economy to make Marcy-Holmes a more welcoming and desirable place to live. We strive to be a model for other neighborhood associations in fulfilling the goals of the City of Minneapolis and being an arts conduit among our neighborhood associations. 
Art by Susan Warner, Elwell Park, 6th Street SE
Join the Creative Places Committee

Next Meeting Date and Location:
Monday, December 7, 2015, 6:30 - 8 pm
Click HERE for the agenda

***PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION***
Location: Historic Telephone Building
201 6th Street SE #220
(side entrance on the Brasa Rotisserie side of the building)
 
WINTER CLAYGROUND: A Ceramic Sculpture Art Exhibit
University Baptist Church
1219 University Ave SE (Dinkytown)
opens Friday December 4, 2015, 5 pm 

From whimsical to practical, and everything in between - you can find just the right thing for somebody on your gift list at the WINTER CLAYGROUND: A Ceramic Sculpture Exhibit featuring the amazing works of local clay artists Mark Miernicki, Tricia Schmidt, and Mary Otremba-Olson! 

Adding to the festivities, the music of the incomparable Billy Franze, accompanied by keyboardist, Bill Brown. And it wouldn't be a winter event without comfort food from Vescio's Italian Restaurant! Join us for fun, food, art, and music at Imagine Art, in a cool 100 year old church building in Dinkytown!
 
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY with the MARCY ARTS PARTNERSHIP
Do you like planning events and making connections to the arts community in Minneapolis? Would you like to help bring the arts to all Marcy students? The Marcy Arts Partnership is seeking a coordinator(s) for the 2016-2017 schoolyear. This is a part-time, paid position and ideally we are seeking a parent or parents to take on this role but are open to community members as well. A job description and salary information can be requested at marcyarts@gmail.com. 
Pop Wagner: Rolling on a Winter's Night
Elmer L. Andersen Library, UMN, 222 21st Avenue South, Room 120
Wednesday, December 9, 2015, 7 pm

The Friends of the Libraries invite you to come on in to the warmth of a folk music evening with Pop Wagner, a mainstay of the Minnesota music community. As his fans know, Pop Wagner is a storyteller, songwriter, poet and fingerstyle guitarist extraordinaire. In addition to sharing a wonderful evening, we'll celebrate our new and growing Minnesota folk music archives -- already a treasured part of the Performing Arts Archives. Free and open to the public.

Reservations were requested by December 2, but you can still try at http://www.continuum.umn.edu/reg/reservation-to-dec-9-pop-wagner/.
THE ROOTS CELLAR @ University Baptist Church
Bob Bovee
University Baptist Church
1219 University Ave SE (Dinkytown)
Saturday, December 12, 2015, 7 pm

Bob Bovee: authentic cowboy songs, ballads, blues,& ragtime, square dance tunes, sentimental songs, novelty numbers, yodels, and tin pan alley favorites. Bob is a Nebraskan native whose family sang and played the old-time songs. Many of the western and railroad songs he does were learned from his grandmother. He plays banjo and autoharp, sings and yodels, and can drive a dance band with his guitar and harmonica. Bob is well-known for his dry and witty stage humor.

Tickets available at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2465129
https://www.facebook.com/events/1020341848017391/
 
Check out the A-Mill Makers Market Facebook Event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/904641396287835/

Pillsbury A-Mill welcomes you to A-MILL MAKERS MARKET Saturday, December 12, 10 am-2 pm. Paintings, jewelry, CDs, ceramics, books, fiber art and more, ranging from stocking stuffers to ‘you shouldn’t have’. Enjoy live music and refreshments as you mingle and meet the makers. Patisserie goods for the peckish and a warm welcome for all to help celebrate our beautiful new home.
Support the library at Midway Contemporary Art Gallery
Founded in 2007, Midway Contemporary Art's library is one of the most focused public library collections devoted to contemporary art in our region. Open to the public, the collection continues to grow by 1,000 volumes per year and is searchable online at midwayart.org/librarysearch.

Help keep this resource current by making a donation to their library acquisition fund. Contact the gallery for more information: info@midwayart.org or 612.605.4504
CONFLUENCE DANCE PROJECT (Dance Film Panel Disucssion)
A project by Global Site Performance / Marylee Harenbergh
First Floor Gallery Room at the A-Mill Artist Loft
315 Main Street SE
Monday, December 14, 2015, 7 - 8:30 pm

Come to the unveiling of “Confluence”, a dance film and website project involving six dancers in six locations at the Mississippi-Minnesota and Mississippi-St. Croix confluences. This dance film project involves two points of view: the traditional “outside-eye” camera footage, plus the added twist of a small  camera strapped to one hand of each dancer, thus providing a “first person” perspective. 

The evening will include an introduction to the website in progress, and the art film showing the myriad camera angles. In addition, a panel comprised of the dancers, videographer, webmeister, and artistic director will discuss this special project. Light refreshments served. 

More Information:
www.globalsiteperformance.org
www.facebook.com/events/120269911671583
Still . . . Life
Weisman Art Museum | 333 East River Road
Saturday, December 19, 2015 - Sunday, July 10, 2016

Still … Life is a collaborative installation that is a mediation on memory, survival, and rebirth in the face of horrific intolerance. Neil Anderson a professor in horticultural science at the University of Minnesota, Lynn Silverman a professor of photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the late Mark Gilquist a K-12 professor and mathematician, have each contributed to this convergence of art and science. The exhibition will include photographs, text, and live cuttings from the actual sympathy plants that still thrive in situ, seventy years after the violence of World War II and the Holocaust.
Image: Lynn Silverman, Radice (detail), 2010, digital print
Art Exhibit by Marcy-Holmes resident, Candy Kuehn: "Iphonography: Dreams in Open Space, Growing Deeper..."
Southeast Library, 1222 4th Street SE
thru December 29th, 2015

Artist Statement: "I do photo sketch on my phone and/or iPad with apps. They are my new art tools. I post these to Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr and put up favorites as portfolios on Behance. I share with close and not so close friends, neighbors, and family across the world. I see their posts..Colorado afternoon, morning in Florida, Brazil sunsets, Alabama magical reality, Norway waters, Istanbul alleys, or Brunei. I follow these artists; artists follow me. It's thrilling. It's a museum that changes on my phone...I refine the most meaningful ones on the computer."

MINNEAPOLIS PARKS
New Downtown park designs go on display in December
Please visit one of three open houses scheduled December 8 and 10 to view and comment on designs

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) invites the public to examine and comment on designs for parks and open spaces in downtown Minneapolis at one of the three open houses scheduled in December. These concepts were created after months of listening, careful planning and creative design work.

Stop by any time 6-8 pm to view the concepts created and chat with project staff. The designs for every downtown park will be available at every meeting.

East Area Open House
Tuesday, Dec. 8, 6 - 8 pm
Elliot Recreation Center—1000 E 14th St.

South Area Open House
Thursday, December 10, 6 - 8 pm
Loring Community Arts Center—1382 Willow St.

About this project
The MPRB's Downtown Service Area Master Plan will set the vision for future park and recreation development and improvements in the downtown area. It will establish a new, urban model for service delivery, maintenance, funding and operation of parks in downtown Minneapolis.

This project is part of a joint effort between the MPRB and City of Minneapolis to improve parks and public spaces downtown. The cooperative work done on the MPRB's Downtown Service Area Master Plan and the City of Minneapolis' Downtown Public Realm Framework is known collectively as Pathways To Places: Shaping Downtown Together.
EARTH DAY VOLUNTEER SITE COORDINATOR NEEDED
The 2016 Minneapolis Earth Day Clean-Up will take place Saturday, April 23, 2016 from 9:30 am – Noon. MHNA sponsors the Clean-Up in our neighborhood from 35W to Nicollet Island, east bank of the Mississippi. We are looking for a volunteer site coordinator for the event. A site coordinator job description is att’d. Please contact MHNA office if you would like to take this on. We’ve been doing this for over 15 years, so we can show you how.

If you are interested in coordinating a clean-up site in your neighborhood, please contact Erica Chua at (612) 230-6479 or echua@minneapolisparks.org. 

VOLUNTEER SITE COORDINATOR JOB DESCRIPTION
The total time commitment for site coordinators is roughly 6-8 hours.

Responsibilities:
1. Pick up Earth Day supplies (gloves, bags, first aid kits, maps, environmental education materials) from MPRB Headquarters prior to the event.

2. Set-up and oversee the volunteer registration table, pass out supplies, answer questions from volunteers and communicate any concerns or issues to MPRB staff throughout the event. 

3. Return all left over supplies to MPRB Headquarters following the event. The Minneapolis Earth Day Clean Up is a collaborative effort between the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and the City of Minneapolis Department of Public Works. For more information about the event, contact Erica Chua at echua@minneapolisparks.org or (612) 230-6479.
West River Parkway to reopen by January 1 for winter season
The continued warm and relatively dry weather has benefited construction progress to repair the mudslide which occurred along West River Parkway on June 19, 2014.

Veit & Company is on track to re-open the parkway and trails at the end of December 2015. Some construction items will remain for the 2016 construction season and will require an additional four to eight weeks of parkway closure in late spring and early summer.

West River Parkway is also affected by the reconstruction of the Franklin Avenue Bridge by Hennepin County. The parkway under the west pier of the bridge will be closed from April-October of 2016 for the bridge deck replacement. Parkway and trail traffic will be detoured.

SOUTHEAST LIBRARY NEWS
Family Storytime
Saturdays: December 5,12, 19 and 28 at 10:30 am
For children of all ages and their parents or caregivers. Talk, sing, read, write, draw, and play together in a format appropriate for young children. Share books, stories, rhymes, music and movement.
The Philosophical Discussion Group Meeting
Thursday December 10, 2015 5:30 - 7:30 pm
The Philosophical Discussion Group meets at SE Library once or twice monthly for free-form talks about philosophical subjects.
Art Workshop: "Smartphone Apps (Android and iPhone): Fun, Beauty, and Utility
Thursday December 10, 2015 6 - 7:30 pm
Exhibiting Artist Candy Kuehn gives pointers on how to create artwork and fix your photos in your phone or tablet.
Rivendell Group Discussion: "Readings from Rivendell"
Saturday, December 12, 2015 1 - 4:30 pm
The Rivendell Group, a group discussion group centered about the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other fantasy authors, meets monthly, often at SE Library. The December topic is our annual readings from Rivendell. Expected readers include Joan Marie Verba reading from a work-in-progress, Modern Surprises.; Ruth Berman, poet, critic, and novelist; Eleanor Arnason, Minnesota Book Award novelist, Sean Ree, Dean Goodman, David Lenander, and Eric Heideman.
Show your support for Southeast Library by filling out the annual HCL membership form on line and marking "Southeast" as the library you want to join. $10 of your $25 contribution will then go to support Friends activities at SE Library.  Donations are tax deductible.
 
https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/HennepinCountyLibraryFounda/OnlineMembership.html

Or you can pick up a copy of the membership form the next time you are at the library, just be sure to mark Southeast as the library you would like to join.
Southeast Library
1222 4th Street SE Mpls, MN 55414
www.supporthclib.org/southeast
Tuesdays 9 am - 5 pm | Thursdays Noon - 8 pm | Saturdays 9 am - 5 pm

OTHER NEWS & EVENTS
First Congregational Church
500 8th Avenue SE
Sunday, December 6, 2015, 11:30 am - 1 pm

Annual Christmas Bazaar in First Congregational Church's Pilgrim Hall this Sunday. They will be showcasing the skills or our talented community crafters offering locally made and fair-trade items. A portion of all proceeds will be donated to charity.
A SIP OF SCIENCE
If we found rock evidence for life on Mars, what might it look like? Microbialites from ancient lakes
Tom Hickson, Professor, University of St. Thomas
Wednesday, December 9th, 2015, 5:30 pm 
Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE, St. Anthony Main

A SIP OF SCIENCE bridges the gap between science and culture in a setting that bridges the gap between brain and belly. Food, beer, and learning are on the menu in a happy hour forum that puts science in context through storytelling. A SIP OF SCIENCE is a science happy hour sponsored by the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED). 

Get more information at: http://www.nced.umn.edu/content/sip-of-science  No cover, Please RSVP!
Study Space at First Congregational Church
First Congregational Church is again hosting a study space for local college students during finals week (December 17 - 19) from noon-10pm. The church offers a quiet place where students can study, read, get a free snack, hot drink, and wi-fi—and generally get a change of scenery during a stressful time. No need to rsvp, just show up (and perhaps bring an extension cord). First Church is located at 500 8th Ave. SE. For more information email the church: office@firstchurchmn.org or call: (612) 331-3816.
Register for Next Year’s “Heart Bomb”
Heart Bombing is a week-long national event happening February 2016 that leads and inspires people to connect with old and historic buildings in their communities. You can register to Heart Bomb your favorite house, brewery, post office, grocery store or theater--really ANY building--and give it a splash of color and love this winter. Think of it as grassroots preservation advocacy for ALL ages using valentines as our tools of expression. 
Once you register, the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota will send you a how-to packet covering every part of the process so you can rally volunteers, create preservation-positive slogans for your valentines, receive ideas for installing the hearts on your building, hold preservation-positive events, reach the press and connect with nationwide network of heart bombers! Heart Bombing raises awareness about the buildings you care about across the state. It can be used to rally local support for a building in need of a little TLC and/or a reuse plan, or one that has already been lovingly restored and deserves more public attention. You also will learn more about the Preservation Alliance's services and resources to assist your efforts to support your beloved place.

To register: http://www.mnpreservation.org/heart-bombing-2016-site-registration
Volunteers needed for 2PAC’s annual Christmas Eve dinner for first responders

This will be the 32nd dinner for the First Responders who are scheduled to work on December 24, keeping all of us safe 365 days a year, including on this major family day.  Last year we served about 150 people and sent along many carryout containers of wonderful food for those officers to carry back to their units.  All in all, well over 200 people shared this dinner.  
We need your help with phoning; picking  up donated items; working a two-hour shift on the 24th.

Interested in a much shorter shift on the 25th when we do the final clean up? 
Contact Emilie Quast: e-quas@tc.umn.edu at 2PAC (2nd Precinct Advisory Committee)
Free Sand for Sidewalks
After shoveling and clearing your sidewalks, spreading sand or ice-melting material is helpful. The City offers several sites where residents can pick-up FREE SAND for their residential sidewalks. Locations are open 24-hours-a-day. Please bring your own pail and shovel. 
  • 6036 Harriet Ave S, on West 60th St between Lyndale and Harriet
  • 1809 Washington St NE, at 18th and Jefferson
  • E 27th St, just east of Longfellow Avenue near the Public Works gate
  • 2710 Pacific St, outside main Public Works gate between 27th and 28th Ave North
For more information, call 311
The City of Minneapolis is hiring.
For temporary and appointed positions, see their current job openings by visiting www.minneapolismn.gov/jobs/ and scroll down to “Featured Jobs.”

The City of Minneapolis offers a diverse, inclusive and rewarding work environment, where employees can take pride knowing they’re helping make the city a great place to live and do business. Please share this opportunity to work for the City of Minneapolis with interested members and clients in your organization and community.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, FROM THE STAFF AND BOARD OF THE MARCY-HOLMES NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION!
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500 8th Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414

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