Panel talks to explore visions for revitalizing Shoreham Yards buffers

A pair of events this week will explore visions for revitalizing areas around Shoreham Yards.

The panel discussions will take place Wednesday, April 20, at the Weisman Art Museum and Friday, April 22, at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

MCAD faculty member Gudrun Lock and a group of poets, researchers, activists, and other artists will explore what revitalization means to them.

Lock’s exhibition, the Nature of Shoreham Yards at the Weisman Art Museum, features the in-process work, research, and explorations of a motley collective of thinkers and makers. The focus of these efforts are the buffers of Shoreham Yards, an active, 230-acre train and trucking facility in Northeast Minneapolis. Both polluted and full of life, the buffers interface in dynamic ways with the neighborhoods surrounding them, and are potent sites of potential transformation, revitalization, and repair.

What is Revitalization? Panel Discussions
Pecha Kucha Panel: April 20, 3:00 p.m. at the WAM
Revitalization Panel: April 22, 1:00 p.m. at MCAD

Learn More

• Nature of Shoreham Yards

• Pecha Kucha Panel (at WAM)

• Revitalization Panel (at MCAD)

Community listening sessions scheduled to inform new police chief search

Community listening sessions held in each of the City’s five police precincts will help inform the search process for the next Minneapolis police chief. City Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw, chair of the City Council’s Public Health & Safety Committee and member of the Mayor’s Police Chief Search Committee, is working with the Mayor and the search committee on the series of sessions.

The community feedback, guidance and perspective received during these sessions will be an integral piece in the creation of the position profile and will inform the entire search process for the new police chief.

Council Member Elliott Payne will attend the session on Wednesday, April 27 from 6-7:30 PM at the Logan Park building, 690 13th Ave. NE.

Other Community Listening Sessions

• 6-7:30 p.m. Monday, April 18 Folwell Park building, 1615 Dowling Ave. N.

• 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21 Elliot Park building, 1000 E. 14th St.

• 6-7:30 p.m. Monday, April 25 Powderhorn Park building, 3400 15th Ave. S.

• 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 27 Logan Park building, 690 13th Ave. NE.

• 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 3 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park building, 4055 Nicollet

Item via Council Member Elliott Payne’s Ward 1 Newsletter

Celebrate Earth Day at Waite Park!

Join the Waite Park Community Council and Waite Park PTA for an Earth Day Clean-Up at Waite Park on Saturday, April 23, from 9:30-noon. No registration required. Trash bags and gloves will be provided.