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SUMMARY:Still Moving Sound Bath Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a guided sound bath experience that invites you to connect with the mind and the river\, beginning with a pause that invites stillness and listening. The human body is made of nearly 60% water\, mirroring the river’s own flowing nature. In this session\, you’ll be guided into stillness\, turning your attention inward to notice subtle movement\, breath\, and rhythm. \nThe river’s flow creates sound as water meets rock. The crystal singing bowls\, formed from earth\, stone\, and crystal\, carry these same elemental origins. As their tones fill the space\, gentle vibrations move through the body\, bringing inner and outer waters into into confluence\, resonating through the body. In this shared sound and stillness\, we return to a natural rhythm\, remembering a sense of presence that has always been there. \nThis immersive workshop offers a moment of rest\, reflection\, and sensory connection that encourages you to slow down\, listen deeply\, and reconnect with both yourself and the river. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required.
URL:https://www.mwmo.org/events/still-moving-sound-bath-workshop-2/
LOCATION:MWMO Stormwater Park and Learning Center\, 2522 Marshall Street NE\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55418-3329\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mississippi Watershed Management Organization":MAILTO:contacts@mwmo.org
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SUMMARY:Still Moving Sound Bath Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a guided sound bath experience that invites you to connect with the mind and the river\, beginning with a pause that invites stillness and listening. The human body is made of nearly 60% water\, mirroring the river’s own flowing nature. In this session\, you’ll be guided into stillness\, turning your attention inward to notice subtle movement\, breath\, and rhythm. \nThe river’s flow creates sound as water meets rock. The crystal singing bowls\, formed from earth\, stone\, and crystal\, carry these same elemental origins. As their tones fill the space\, gentle vibrations move through the body\, bringing inner and outer waters into into confluence\, resonating through the body. In this shared sound and stillness\, we return to a natural rhythm\, remembering a sense of presence that has always been there. \nThis immersive workshop offers a moment of rest\, reflection\, and sensory connection that encourages you to slow down\, listen deeply\, and reconnect with both yourself and the river. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required.
URL:https://www.mwmo.org/events/still-moving-sound-bath-workshop/
LOCATION:MWMO Stormwater Park and Learning Center\, 2522 Marshall Street NE\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55418-3329\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mississippi Watershed Management Organization":MAILTO:contacts@mwmo.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260226T193000
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SUMMARY:Still Moving Exhibit Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening of Still Moving and meet artist Tracy Walsh while you explore her photographs and enjoy light refreshments. \nStill Moving is a photography-based exhibition that explores the relationship between mental health\, water\, and seasonal cycles through imagery rooted in the natural world. Drawing parallels between the movement of the Mississippi River and the inner landscapes of the human mind\, the project invites viewers to slow down\, reflect\, and recognize that stillness is not an absence of motion but an active and necessary state of rest. \nThe exhibition unfolds in four sections — Pause\, Within\, Confluence\, and Return — inviting visitors to move through the work in a way that echoes the flow of a river and the rhythm of seasonal change. Through frozen botanicals\, macro studies\, double exposures\, and layered interior and exterior compositions\, the photographs reflect both watershed processes and lived emotional experience\, especially during winter months in northern climates. \nBy encouraging reflection\, creative engagement\, and sensory awareness\, Still Moving offers a gentle way to navigate the winter blues and reconnect with the quiet resilience present in both our rivers and ourselves. \nThis event is free\, but registration is required.
URL:https://www.mwmo.org/events/still-moving-exhibit-open-house/
LOCATION:MWMO Stormwater Park and Learning Center\, 2522 Marshall Street NE\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55418-3329\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Salts and Sweets
DESCRIPTION:Salt keeps sidewalks safe in winter\, but it doesn’t stop at the curb. Once the snow melts\, that salt moves into our rivers and lakes\, where it can quietly cause real harm. Salts & Sweets is a low-pressure\, drop-in event where you can learn how winter salt affects water quality and what actually works to reduce excess salt without sacrificing safety. \nStop by to explore MWMO’s smart salting exhibit\, ask curious questions\, and pick up practical tips you can use right away. There will be conversations with staff\, simple take-home ideas\, and a few limited Salt Smart mugs and traction grit available while supplies last. Come for a few minutes or stay awhile—either way\, you’ll leave knowing more than you did when you arrived (and maybe a little less salty). \nRegister Here
URL:https://www.mwmo.org/events/salts-and-sweets/
LOCATION:MWMO Stormwater Park and Learning Center\, 2522 Marshall Street NE\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55418-3329\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Net-Making Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:Come explore net-making as both fiber art and performance practice. Learn the methods and materials used in commercial and recreational fishing along the Gulf Coast\, and explore ways to expand on the counting\, handwork\, postures\, rhythms\, and gestures of tying knots and weaving that go into this disappearing practice. \nUsing tools from her performance practice\, artist Victoria Bradford Styrbicki will lead participants through improvisation and iteration\, learning basic tasks like loading the net needle and tying the cinch knot to experimenting with mesh sizes and dip techniques. The workshop will be a laboratory\, or a site that together we should approach with a spirit of experimentation\, with a spirit of trial and error\, even of play\, and\, insistently\, of humor—that is\, the ability to laugh at ourselves and find joy in what we come upon even as we begin to take ourselves too seriously. \nParticipants will go away with the net they create during the workshop as well as a spool of twine and a net needle for future experimentation and practice. \nRegistration is required. Register here. \nLearn More: Network: A River Connected
URL:https://www.mwmo.org/events/net-making-laboratory/
LOCATION:MWMO Stormwater Park and Learning Center\, 2522 Marshall Street NE\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55418-3329\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Seeing Salt | New Artwork by Annie Irene Hejny
DESCRIPTION:During her training as a Minnesota Water Steward\, which took place during Minnesota’s third-snowiest winter season on record\, Annie Irene Hejny became aware of the immense role that chloride plays in polluting freshwater. When she learned that only 1 teaspoon of road salt permanently pollutes 5 gallons of water\, she began to envision artwork that could call attention to this concern and offer solutions for communities. Once she began to notice excess salt on our sidewalks and roadways\, she couldn’t stop seeing it. In April\, she swept up 4 gallons of residual salt from a parking lot and began working with it in her studio. Integrating the salt with materials such as cement\, indigo and watercolor\, this series is an invitation into conversations about how to pay attention to salt\, reduce our usage\, and protect the future health of our waterways. \nSeeing Salt | New Artwork by Annie Irene Hejny\nFriday\, Nov. 10\, from 5–10 p.m.\, and Saturday\, Nov. 11\, from 12–5 p.m.\nCasket Arts Building\, Studio #213\, 681 17th Avenue NE\, Minneapolis\, MN 55413 (map) \n‘Prep for Winter with a Minnesota Water Steward’\nSaturday\, Nov. 11\, at 2 p.m.\nA panel discussion with Q&A about best practices to reduce salt usage.
URL:https://www.mwmo.org/events/seeing-salt/
LOCATION:Casket Arts Building\, 681 17th Avenue NE\, Studio #213\,\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55413\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Watershed Moment\, Part of the WAKPA Triennial Art Festival
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Public Art Saint Paul and the MWMO\, MWMO Artist-in-Residence Sarah Nassif invites you to Watershed Moment\, part of the WAKPA Triennial Art Festival\, on July 25 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization. Participants of all ages will have the opportunity to learn indigo fiber art techniques and work together to craft a map of the MWMO watershed using indigo-dyed wool roving and fleece. \nThe event\, part of Nassif’s ongoing Weaving Water project\, will also feature tours of the MWMO’s Stormwater Park and Learning Center. Enjoy an evening by the Mississippi River and learn how the MWMO works with local partners to protect and improve water quality and habitat. \nLearn more about Weaving Water > \nBonus: Check Out the artARK!\nWhile you’re at the MWMO\, be sure to check out the artARK. Artist Seitu Jones’ floating platform for artistic and scientific exploration on the Mississippi River will be on display during the event. Jones and a naturalist will be on hand to engage people with the boat and share more about their vision for getting people out on the river to experience it in new ways. \nLearn more about Seitu Jones > \nAbout the WAKPA Triennial\nWAKPA\, which means “river” in the Dakota language\, is a 12-week art festival featuring a variety of local artists and exhibitions across the Twin Cities Metro Area. \nLearn more about WAKPA >
URL:https://www.mwmo.org/events/watershed-moment/
LOCATION:MWMO Stormwater Park and Learning Center\, 2522 Marshall Street NE\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55418-3329\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230128T100000
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SUMMARY:Fibersheds and Watersheds: A Weaving Water Free Indigo and Fiber Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Spin your own yarn as we twist our minds around fibersheds and watersheds\, and figure out how you play a role in these invisible systems. \nWorkshop Details\n\nLearn the basics of spinning\, or yarn-making\, one of the oldest human technologies. The twisting of short fibers to create lengths of usable yarn is a necessary step before making any kind of woven or knit cloth. Imagine where we’d be without cloth!\nMaddy Bartsch of Three Rivers Fibershed will lead us in a spinning circle as she helps us visualize a regional soil-to-soil fiber system. Spin your own length of yarn to dye in the organic indigo vat. See and try different types of spinning tools and sample techniques. This is just an intro to spinning\, but we’ll point you toward more resources if you fall in love with it. No fiber or textile experience needed whatsoever!\nWorkshops are guided by artists and intended to open up channels of communication that help us reconnect to natural systems we depend on. Come with an open mind to learn and share what you know.\nPersonal Watersheds will also be open\, with the SAORI loom available and other fiber activities in addition to spinning.\n\nReserve a Spot\nFeatured Artist\nThree Rivers Fibershed is an affiliate branch of Fibershed\, an international movement which “develops regional fiber systems that build soil and protect the health of our biospheres.” Co-President and Three Rivers Fibershed co-founder Maddy Bartsch (they/she) is a farmer\, educator and organizer who helps folks navigate local textile economies. Maddy speaks and teaches on the topic of local fiber systems and sustainable textiles to learners of all ages throughout the Midwest. \nAbout\nWeaving Water Workshops connect people to our local wonder\, the Mississippi River\, through free community indigo and fiber art workshops. Mississippi Watershed Management Organization’s (MWMO) Artist in Residence Sarah Nassif facilitates hands-on creative experiences that encourage us to see ourselves as vital parts of our urban watershed system. Workshops explore different aspects of fiber and indigo dye techniques and invite participants to converse about their personal relationships to water. \nAccompanying Exhibit Personal Watersheds is installed as an interactive exhibit at MWMO for the community to come together and play with fiber\, natural indigo dye and cloth traditions from many cultures. This exhibit is open to the public during open building hours. See mwmo.org for current hours. \nVolunteer for Weaving Water\nI always need help setting up and cleaning up workshops. If you are interested\, add on “volunteer” to your ticket or email sarah@sarahnassif.com to learn more about opportunities beyond the free fiber workshops. \nLocation\nAll workshops are scheduled to be in person at MWMO (2522 Marshall St NE) unless otherwise noted. Workshops may be held via Zoom and project kits will be mailed out in case it is not possible to gather in person for any reason. \nAttire / COVID Safety / Intergenerational Info / Accessibility\nDress in clothes that may be stained. Masks and aprons welcome. Please stay home if you are experiencing any COVID-19 or flu-like symptoms. Thank you for helping us stay healthy! There may be activities indoors and outdoors depending on weather. \nWe encourage intergenerational learning! We offer a guided “open studio” format. Those under the age of 16 need to be accompanied by an adult\, and adults will need to guide their youngsters as needed in different activities. There are many ways to engage for all ages and abilities. If you need any accessibility accommodations\, please email amoore@mwmo.org.
URL:https://www.mwmo.org/events/fibersheds-and-watersheds-a-weaving-water-free-indigo-and-fiber-workshop/
LOCATION:MWMO Stormwater Park and Learning Center\, 2522 Marshall Street NE\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55418-3329\, United States
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