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The fourth annual Bread N’ Bowls fundraising event is scheduled from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at the Morris Area Elementary School cafeteria. A meal of soups, homemade breads, beverages, and desserts donated by area businesses, organizations, and individuals will be served. Ceramic bowls made by UMM ceramics and Morris Area High School Art Club members are included with the meal purchase. The event supports three local community organizations: the Stevens County Food Shelf, Someplace Safe, and Prairie Renaissance Cultural Alliance (PRCA) children’s programs.
“Our first Bread N’ Bowls was four years ago as a service-learning project in Kevin Flicker’s ceramics classes,” says Argie Manolis, Office of Community Engagement coordinator. “The goal of the event is to raise awareness about, and attempt to stamp out, violence and poverty in our community.”
All money from the fundraiser will go to help the Stevens County Food Shelf, Someplace Safe of Stevens County, and the Prairie Renaissance Cultural Alliance (PRCA). The money donated to PRCA will be used to provide scholarships to children in need to attend the annual Prairie Camp, an arts day camp for children in kindergarten through sixth grade.
“Right now, especially with the economic crisis, these places are serving more people with no change in resources,” says Manolis. “It is an important time to support these organizations.”
Nearly a dozen organizations and businesses contributed to this year’s event. Sponsors include Amoco Food Shop, Bello Cucina, Casey’s, Common Cup, Dairy Queen, Don’s Cafe, Morris Evangelical Free Church, Federated Church, McDonald’s, Met Lounge, Old #1, Pomme de Terre Food Co-op, Pizza Ranch, St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Subway, and Willie’s Super Valu will provide soup, bread, desserts, and supplies. In addition, individuals have also offered to bring soup, homemade bread, and bars.
“There will be food available for people who have vegan, gluten-free, and vegetarian diets,” Manolis noted.
The event will include entertainment for people of all ages provided by student and community musicians. The PRCA will provide free children’s activities.
Tickets are $10. Students and senior citizens are $5. Kids five and under eat free. If you bring one of the Martin Luther King Day of Service freedom bells, which can be found in many locations around the community, you will receive $1 off.
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630 Atlantic Avenue, prca@prairierenaissance.org
Morris, MN 56267 (320) 585-5037 www.prairierenaissance.org
If someone is interested in purchasing artwork hanging in the Stevens County
Courthouse from the PRCA, send an email or call the PRCA and arrangements
will be made. A PRCA Representative will follow-through with the transaction.
Stevens County Courthouse Artwork Pricing – 2011
1. White Front Geese Photo $130.00
Richard Walker, Hancock, MN
2. Old Nathan Mill Watercolor, by John Inman, Morris, MN $100.00
3. Wool Woven Wall Hanging, by Carol Berg, Chokio, MN $ 96.00
4. Gathering Print $ 90.00
5. First Love Song Print $ 90.00
6. Random Currents Print, $ 90.00
Phyllis Joos, Hancock, MN
7. Non-Objective Objects Watercolor—018, by Steve Larson, Cyrus, MN $250.00
8. Golden Harvest—Watercolor Giclee print, by Joan Herzog, Owatonna, MN $ 50.00
9. Red Barn Photo, by Jay Gustavson $ 80.00
10. Morris Grain Elevator Print, by Victor Perlbachs, Minneapolis, MN NFS
11. Monoprint Gray #1 $ 30.00
12. Monoprint Pink #1 $ 30.00
13. Monoprint Blue #1 $ 30.00
14. Monoprint Gray #2 $ 30.00
15 Monoprint Pink #2 $ 30.00
16. Monoprint Blue #2 $ 30.00
Michael Weatherly,
17. Trees & Path Giclee print LS 109, by Lois Schmidgall, Alexandria, MN $125.00
18. Church Window $ 36.00
19. Crucified Christ in the Clouds #46 $ 40.00
20. Buddha #14 $ 35.00
21. Buddha in stone circle #16 $ 25.00
Dan Allenspach, Hancock, MN
22. Black Angus Giclee print LS-135, by Lois Schmidgall, Alexandria, MN $185.00
Share on FacebookNow on exhibit at the PRCA Art Gallery is a collection of knitted and crocheted historic costumes on Barbie dolls. Doris Wersinger of Cyrus has been knitting and crocheting for years. She learned to knit from her bookkeeping teacher in high school and taught herself crocheting from books. She first started to crochet outfits for her daughter’s Barbie dolls and then discovered a book on knitting and crocheting historic figures. Instead of knitting the bodies, she used Barbie dolls. On display is a collection of 17 dolls in historic costumes including George and Martha Washington, Harriet Tubman, Florence Nightingale, and a Gibson Girl. Also on display are four wedding gowns and an assortment of Barbie doll outfits. This exhibit will be on display through the end of April 2011 and a reception will be held at the gallery, 630 Atlantic Ave, Saturday, April 9 from 1 until 4 p.m.
Share on FacebookAthena Kildegaard, poet and University of Minnesota, Morris lecturer, will celebrate the release of her new book, Bodies of Light, at two readings in Morris on Monday, April 11, and Thursday, April 14, 2011. Both are free and open to the public.
The April 11 reading in the Briggs Library McGinnis Room on campus will also feature UMM creative writing students reading work written during the annual All Night Write scheduled for Friday, April 8.
On April 14, Kildegaard will be joined by musician William Pelowski at the Common Cup Coffee House. The reading is in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Prairie Renaissance Cultural Alliance. The meeting opens at 6:30 p.m. and the reading/performance will begin at 7 p.m.
Kildegaard will be available to sign books at both events.
Bodies of Light is Kildegaard’s second book published by the independent Minnesota press Red Dragonfly Press. The cover features a painting by Michael Eble, UMM associate professor of studio art. Poems from Bodies of Light have appeared widely in such journals as Mid-American Review, Tar River Poetry, The Malahat Review, Cream City Review, and elsewhere.
Kildegaard is a recipient of grants from the Lake Region Arts Council and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She has lived in Morris for a decade, and before that in Mexico, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Poems in Bodies of Light are set in all these locations, as well as Denmark, where she recently spent a year with her family.
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