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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Each July, The Edge Center for the Arts in Bigfork hosts the Stages Theater Company from Hopkins, MN . Stages Theater Company’s content always focuses on children’s stories, fables or novels. This weekend, Shrek The Musical takes the Edge Center stage. We spoke with Stages Theater CEO and Artistic Director Sandy Boren-Barrett about the theater company, thirty years of working with children’s theater and why Bigfork is a community Stages Theater Company continues to return to.
The American Indian Cancer Foundation honors Breast Cancer Awareness Month with Indigenous Pink.
And, legislation has been re-introduced that seeks healing for stolen Native children and their communities by establishing a commission to investigate the federal government’s Indian Boarding School Policies.
Britt Aamodt is traveling along the route of the proposed Sandpiper pipeline that would bring North Dakota crude oil across northern MN to refineries in Superior, Wisconsin and beyond. In the fourth of Pipeline Stories: A Series on MN’s Natural Resource Economy from Northern Community Radio reporter Britt Aamodt goes to Aitkin County to talk with members of the Sandy Lake and East Lake bands of Ojibwe, whose treaty lands are crossed by the proposed route.
The 1920 lynching of three young black men in Duluth is a tragic part of Minnesota’s history. On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, in the Atwood Memorial Center Theatre a preview of the docudrama and community discussion was held.
“Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings” is a first-time production of a Michael Fedo script, based on Fedo’s 2000 Minnesota Historical Society Press book “The Lynchings in Duluth.”
Michael Fedo, producer Jo McMullen-Boyer, docudrama director Carol Cooley, lead anti-racism educator at SCSU Debra Leigh and criminal justice professor Barry Schreiber previewed segments of the hour-long drama and shared their insights on making the docudrama as well as what can be learned today from this part of Minnesota’s history that is widely unknown.