Category Archives: Past Programs and Art Exhibits

Hedgerow Initiative: Wounds and Words: Body, Race, and Being

Our bodies are us. Race, sex and gender, sexuality, and culture make each human individual, particular, different. Our bodies make us visible to some and invisible to others. Our bodies make us insiders and outsiders, citizens and immigrants, privileged and profiled, straight and queer. Beginning with our bodies, the Hedgerow Seminar aims to translate wounds into theological reflection and suffering into the compassionate practice of solidarity.

Writing the Sacred Journey: Monthly Sessions

Monthly drop-in sessions led by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew focus on different aspects of writing spiritual memoir: themes that commonly arise, craft techniques, challenges and joys of the writing process, and practices for opening our work to the spirit’s movement.

The Women in Mark’s Gospel

Join a weekly conversation paying close attention to the women in Mark’s gospel. Each hour will feature one of the 11 women in Joan Mitchell’s Holy Women, Full of Grace: Praying the Stories of the Women in Mark’s Gospel. As we invite these women into our lives and prayer, we will also create a women’s litany.

Men’s Spirituality: From Wild to Wise: The Spiritual Language of Men

Together we will seek to explore how men are hard wired for meaning, purpose and to experience the sacred in life. Included among the topics we will discuss are: the landscape of the masculine soul, strong masculine role models and lessons for men found in nature.

Marie Olofsdotter: Love Medicine

Join Marie Olofsdotter for a session of poetry and bookmaking for writers and artists at all levels, no previous experience required. Come and create a unique book arts piece, a hardcover accordion book that will hold a poem, your secret song. Through a playful approach to writing, participants will be guided in the creation of poetry straight from the heart, where the most potent love medicine resides.

Marie Olofsdotter: Heartsongs of Poetry

Through a playful approach to writing, participants will be guided in the creation of poems straight from the heart. We’ll use tools such as metaphor and anaphora (pattern) to create vivid and compelling pieces of writing. In the process we might discover, like famed poet Maya Angelou, that “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

CrosSing Borders: Puentes

Come enjoy a spring concert with Border CrosSing, which integrates historically segregated audiences and musicians by creating a landscape where singers and audiences more closely reflect the racial and cultural composition of the Twin Cities. This concert will feature songs and poetry of love and nature by Latin American authors such as Neruda, Benedetti, and Paz, whose multiple layers of meaning have changed through history.

World Labyrinth Day Bus Tour

Home to over 100 public labyrinths, the Twin Cities is a mecca. Spend a delightful day experiencing a variety of labyrinth designs and settings, including cathedral, park and school locations. Join labyrinth enthusiasts around the world in walking and celebrating World Labyrinth Day.