A COMMUNITY DIALOGUE ABOUT WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL SAFE, NOVEMBER 5
Intermedia Arts Brings The Community Together For A Discussion
Monday, November 5, 2001 at 6:00 pm, Intermedia Arts hosts a public discussion entitled Building Understanding: A Community Dialogue About What Makes You Feel Safe. This free public event investigates the many layers of individual and community safety in our daily interactions and in response to the September 11 national tragedy. How do you respond when your safety is threatened? How do you build alliances with neighbors to ensure safe communities? What are the creative options? Join artists, community activists, neighbors, and friends in this civic dialogue that responds to local and national concerns of safety.
Building Understanding: A Community Dialogue About What Makes You Feel
Safe
November 5
Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis
6:00 to 9:00 pm
The evening will begin with a facilitated public dialogue and include hands-on creative activities and post dialogue open-mic performances. From 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, bring your visual or written artwork about safety to be pinned up in the Café gallery of Intermedia Arts.
Moderated by:
- Jean Greenwood, artist, professional mediator, consultant, and trainer in the field of restorative justice and victim offender mediation
Panelists include:
- Gretchen Nicholls, Director of the Center for Neighborhoods
- Mary Keefe, Director of Education of Hope Community with resident Mercedes Sigana
- Stephanie Walter, Families in Transition Housing Coordinator at the Harriet Tubman Center
- Daniel Pebbles, Arts High School student and member of Intermedia Arts' youth coordinated Arts and Activism program
- Nici, representative of Kulture Klub, and a representative from Family and Children's Services
For more information, call Intermedia Arts at (612) 871-4444 or visit www.intermediaarts.org.
Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people
through art.
