2010/05/25
Labels: minnesota_historical_society, minnesota's_greatest_generation, mgg, mhs
As you consider how to fill your calendar for the upcoming month - don't forget about MGG in the Libraries programming. This programming is designed for ease of use and is free to your library! Below, we've highlighted key dates and holidays in June, and offered suggestions for tie-in programs.
June
Programming Ideas:
Sunday, June 6th: D-Day
Wartime in Minnesota Kit
Offer a family-friendly day honoring our WWII soldiers by offering educational activities, story times, and films about Minnesota's experience in the war. Consider collecting items or creating cards for current members of the armed forces as well.
Monday, June 14thth: Flag Day
This is a special day to honor the meaning of the flag to everyone, especially those who have been a part of the armed forces.
Sunday, June 20thth: Father's Day
Father's Day Activities for the Whole Family
Offer a family-friendly day celebrating fathers. Check out the Wartime in Minnesota Family Day and create code-breaking wheel ciphers or get a Boom! Family Day Kit to make dad a vinyl tie he'd be proud to wear.
Book the One-Man Show: The Accidental Hero
Patrick Dewane tells his story of discovering the amazing hidden story of his own grandfather, a resistance fighter in the forests of Czechoslovakia during the war.
2010/05/13
This week, the SELCO Legacy Review Committee allocated a total of $63,986 for 4 Library Legacy projects affecting 14 communities. Congratulations to this month's grant recipients!
| Recipient(s) | Project Title | Description |
Date |
Amount Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LaCrescent Public Library, with Community Education and Appleseed Community Theatre |
Summer of the Arts | The Guthrie Theatre Group will visit LaCrescent and provide two seperate three-day workshops. A Shakespeare Workshop will be offered for students aged 11-17 and includes three days of acting, voice and movement training by experienced Gutherie actors. The Storytelling Workshop is for children aged 4-10 and helps build acting, voice and movement skills using fairy tales, myths, legends and stories of their own creation. The culmination of both workshops will be a public performance in the Fine Arts Center at the LaCrescent High School. |
August 2-27, 2010 |
$10,600 |
| Austin Public Library, with the Paramount Theater |
Rose Ensemble Community Concert | The Rose Ensemble will perform a 50-minute evening concert at the Paramount Theater, in conjunction with an educational workshop at the library that same the afternoon (a SELCO Vetted Program). This performance hopes to encourage first-time concert-goers, particularly families with children. The workshop is titled "Music from the Land of 3 Faiths," featuring music from Medieval Spain, where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in an intertwined society. This program will reflect the growing diversity in the Austin community, drawing on local interests and existing strong faith traditions. This Rose Ensemble program will be free to the public and give Austin area residents an unparalleled opportunity to experience music that they would otherwise not hear in a concert venue that is normally beyond the financial means of many families in the community. The Rose Ensemble program is an excellent way to tap into the community's long standing interest in music as a way to enhance the ongoing dialogues on race, culture, and tolerance. |
October 19, 2010 |
$5,245 |
| Houston Community Garden, with Houston Nature Center and the Houston Public Library |
Friday Night Food Films: Fresh the movie | The Houston Community Garden, a project of the Friends of the Houston Nature Center, will sponsor a monthly "Friday Night Food Film" to be shown in the band shell at the nature center. Films will be open to residents of Houston and surrounding communities. This grant will enable the Houston Public Library to purchase the public viewing rights for the film Fresh, one of four movies to be shown during this ongoing series. "Food films" can be used to educate people about current issues with our food supply and encourage discussion of food choices and possible lifestyle changes. It is hoped that the films will encourage greater participation in the Houston community garden. Participants will encouraged to discuss ways in chich we can make changes locally and personally to improve our food supply and food choices. The film will then be made available to borrow from the Houston Public Library for continued viewing and future discussions. |
June 11, 2010 |
$145 |
| Great River Shakespeare Festival, with Winona Public Library, Rushford Public Library, Northfield Public Library, St. Charles Public Library, Caledonia Public Library, Austin Public Library, Houston Public Library, LaCrescent Public Library, Lake City Public Library, LeRoy Public Library, Rochester Public Schools, Rochester Public Library, Spring Grove Public Library, Zumbrota Public Library |
GRSF Library Ticket Program | The Great River Shakespeare Festival (GRSF) is a professional, 501(c)3 organization with a core company of professional actors, directors, and designers that performs in the summer months in Winona, Minnesota. GRSF is committed to developing a sense of ownership between the Festival and its host community, as well as to expanding the Festival's regional and national audience. The goal of the GRSF Library Ticket Program is to reduce or eliminate barriers to the Festival experience, thereby increasing access to the Festival's work for all Minnesotans and help fulfill the Festival's goal of increased participation in education and community outreach programs. The GRSF Library Ticket Program will bring quality arts programming to traditionally underserved audiences in 14 Minnesota communities. The Library Ticket Program removes financial barriers by offering either free tickets available for daily "checkout" through partnering libraries, or blocks of tickets and transportation to the Festival for those libraries that identify distance and ability to drive as barriers to access. The GRSF Library Ticket Program will expand participation in three SELCO libraries that have implemented successful library ticket programs in previous seasons (Winona, Rushford and St. Charles), and extend the ticket program to eleven new libraries, serving a wide geographic area in the SELCO system (Austin, Caledonia, Houston, La Crescent, Lake City, LeRoy, Northfield, Rochester, the Rochester Public School Library, Spring Grove and Zumbrota). The Festival also intends to enhance the play going experience for Library Ticket Program participants by encouraging partnering libraries to schedule one or more GRSF workshops currently available through SELCO's Vetted Programs Catalog  . By offering tickets through participating libraries, the Festival makes it possible for library patrons and specifically targeted, underserved populations to attend the productions for free, providing arts access to the citizens of Minnesota in the spirit of the Legacy Amendment. |
|
$47,996 |
2010/05/12
Check out this fantastic upcoming music program offered by the Viking Library System:
To see the full size PDF, CLICK HERE.