Talk of the Streets - Fall 2019
Echo: A series spoken word workshops celebrating urban storytelling.
Rising Artists: program teaching music recording/production skills.
Film showing: Film Screening of "Milwaukee 53206," a film about a segregated community in Milwaukee that has an extreme level of mass incarceration, followed by a discussion of the culture of mass incarceration and the community that is trying to support those leaving a facility in Minneapolis 55411 (North Minneapolis). The parallels of Milwaukee and Minneapolis were discussed
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Echo: Patrons will receive encouragement in their own writing. Patrons will interact with performers and writers from the Minneapolis community.
Rising Artists: Participants will create audio projects. Participants will work in the music studio with a professional engineer. Participants will have opportunity to interact with another music performer or creator from the Minneapolis community.
Film showing: Patrons will have an opportunity to interact with guest authors and film makers.
Echo: 100% of participants felt encouraged in their writing and interacted with other performers and writers from Minneapolis.
Rising Artists: Participants created audio projects and worked with a professional music artist. Participants interacted with another music performer or music creator from Minneapolis.
Film showing: 84% of participants interacted with guest authors and film/filmmakers. Comments included: "I learned about new perspectives" and "Makes me want to learn more about my community"
Erick Anderson; Jamie Meltzer and Christopher Scott; Kevin Reese; Shanice Mason