Kingfield Neighborhood Association

MN Peacebuilding Presents ‘I Am’

MN Peacebuilding’s free, family-friendly online film screening of “I Am”.  Register for the event here.
“I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better?   The filmmaker behind the inquiry is Tom Shadyac, one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners and the creative force behind such blockbusters as “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” “The Nutty Professor,” and “Bruce Almighty.”   However, in I AM, Shadyac steps in front of the camera to recount what happened to him after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged with a new sense of purpose, determined to share his own awakening to his prior life of excess and greed, and to investigate how he as an individual, and we as a race, could improve the way we live and walk in the world.” — http://www.iamthedoc.com/thefilm/

City of Minneapolis’ Transforming Community Safety Information Meeting

Tuesday evening, City of Minneapolis staff will host a virtual meeting to share more about our work to transform community safety and upcoming engagement opportunities. This year, will be an important year for community engagement on the future of public safety in our city. You can learn more about the status of those efforts at the newly launched project web page on the city’s website.

You can register to attend at this link, and you are invited to submit a question in advance on the registration form.

Waves of Thankfulness for Healthcare Workers

Continuing through January 26 at Butter Bakery, Royal Grounds Coffee, and Dunn Brothers, Linden Hills!

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‘Waves of Thankfulness’ is a FREE postcard campaign to close out 2020 and bring in 2021 with a flood of thank you cards to local hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics…simply to thank each worker for their part in keeping our community healthy this year. You can send your own postcard to any clinic or healthcare worker you know, or pick up one of ours from a local coffee shop, attach a message of hope and care, and leave it in the drop box, and we will deliver them to local sites for you! If sending your own cards please include the words: “‘Waves of Thankfulness’, a project of the Kingfield Neighborhood Association. www.kingfield.org”

Pick up a postcard at one coffee shop and return to another!  Cards are available at three local sites:

Butter Bakery (37th& Nicollet)

Royal Grounds (42nd & Grand)

Dunn Brothers, Linden Hills (2814 W 43rd Street)

All 8 artist-designed cards will be available. Take a few of your favorite designs and let’s show the nurses, lab techs, ER staff, home healthcare workers, hospital custodians, and all their colleagues know that we appreciate the long hours and hard work they have put in this year to help keep us all safe and healthy.

Featuring the artwork of 8 local artists : thanks to Rachel Breen, Angela Erdrich, Willa Flink/Saheli Patel, Camille Gage, Katie Heit Gardner, Brenda Johnson, Bridget Meyers, and Steven Mosborg.

KFNA January 2021 Board Meeting

 

The KFNA Board will meet following the Mapping Prejudice Workshop described here, Board members will reconvene on Zoom to discuss what they learned in the presentation and also to seat two new board members! Feel free to join the post workshop conversation by using this meeting link.

Mapping Prejudice Virtual Workshop

On Zoom, register here

Share the Facebook event with friends, link here!

Contemporary white residents of Minneapolis like to think their city never had formal segregation. But racial covenants did the work of Jim Crow in northern cities like Minneapolis. Mapping Prejudice is an initiative created to shed new light on these historic practices in the Twin Cities. We cannot address the inequities of the present without an understanding of the past.

This free event will be hosted on Zoom, please register here: https://forms.gle/wEHfAQCmrJQSyXU38 to receive the meeting link in advance of the event.  [Read more…]