Archive for April, 2007
Solutions Twin Cities
A forum for world changing ideas.
MINN members from Give Us Wings and Need Magazine are presenting at this event. As its website explains, “Local designers, artists, & activists are on the forefront of a tidal wave of change; yet they have no place to gather, socialize, or share their ideas. Solutions is the space for presenting these new ideas & drawing awareness to existing solutions. The core event is a rapid-fire exchange of ideas consisting of short presentations called “Solution Sets.” Each presenter is allowed: 20 images x 20 seconds (each) = 6 minutes, 40 seconds. This short format keeps presentations concise, generates high levels of interest, & gives many people a chance to present at each event. While the event is local, the conversation will be global; Solutions will broadcast the event through the web in easily digestible idea packages.”
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
The Southern Theater (at Seven Corners)
1420 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454
612-340-1725
7:00pm - Doors open
8:00 to 10:00 - Presentations
10:00 to 12:00 - Reception with music by Cadillac Kolstad
Tickets are $6 online/ with student I.D., $8 at the door.
April 12th, 2007
Midwest International NGO Network (MINN)
Invites you to
Power Presentations
International NGO leaders sharing the newest initiatives that their organizations are undertaking, the challenges they are encountering…and the ways that they are achieving success.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
5:30-7:30 PM (program starts at 6:00 PM)
Minnesota Council of Churches
122 Franklin Avenue West
Assembly Rooms 1 and 2
Minneapolis, MN
651-789-2500
Join us as we hear from:
Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome. Please circulate this invitation to your colleagues.
RSVP to Therese Gales at ThereseG@archq.org or 612-607-6494
April 10th, 2007
April 15th
Plymouth Congregational Church
1900 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis
1 - 5 PM
MINN Member Bharat Parekh of the United Nations Association invites people to attend this event, dubbed “an afternoon of music, information, and inspiration celebrating the power of love and generosity as our nation’s best pathway to peace”. Listen to representatives from the United Nations, US Congress, local and international development organizations such as American Refugee Committee, Habitat for Humanity, Peace Coffee and a Microlending program in Nepal.
For more information contact Dick Kroeger at Dickemail@aol.com or 952-476-6126
April 3rd, 2007
MINN President Paul Hanscom recommended this event being hosted by the Marquette (University) Club of Minnesota.
An Odyssey in Human Rights:
Is There Anything More Heartbreaking Than Hope?
April 10, 2007
5:30 p.m.
The Hyatt Regency
1300 Nicollet Mall
Downtown Minneapolis
$10 per person
Includes hors d’oeuvres and cash bar
Presented by Kathleen Graham, Attorney and international development consultant
In 1995, as her son prepared to leave for college, Kathleen Graham left behind twenty-plus years as a Minneapolis trial lawyer and set out to explore working in the international development community. Her unique vision of applying her legal skills to “useful” work in that community has taken her around the world, from Kathmandu to Kampala, Kabul and Khujand.
She has consulted with and coached judges, lawyers, government officials, small business owners, and women’s and human rights’ activists.
Graham will discuss developments in international human rights in the context of her varied assignments throughout the world.
Please respond by Friday, April 6 to Marquette University Alumni Relations at 800-344-7544, Kimberly.kluge@marquette.edu, or REGISTER ONLINE.
April 3rd, 2007
Eight Head with Ancestor Energy: Somali Library Benefit
The Cedar Cultural Center
416 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis
Start: 04/19/2007 - 7:30pm
Tickets $20
This concert is in support of the Puntland Resource and Service Center in Garowe, Puntland (Somalia), which began construction in January. The project (initiated by Somali Family Services here in the Twin Cities) is envisioned to improve the collaboration of civil society organizations and Puntland government for good governance. This event is sponsored by Metropolitan State Global Development Project and Somali Family Services.
www.ussfs.org
Restlessly peripatetic, incessantly improvisational and always brilliant - that ain’t no forehead, that’s an eight head! Eight Head is percussionist Marc Anderson, bassist Jim Anton, drummer J.T. Bates, and guitarist Dean Magraw; purveyors of a remarkably fresh, jaw droppingly sophisticated and infectiously groovy vibe.
They bring vast experience and variety onto the stage, making effortless transitions from soft textures and thoughtful improvisation to infectious polyrhythms and driving funk. Eight Head will be joined by Louis Alemayehu, one of the founders of the award-winning poetry/jazz ensemble Ancestor Energy. Alemayehu is a writer, educator, poet, father, grandfather, performer and activist of African and Native American heritage.
April 2nd, 2007