Cook County residents are invited to participate in one of three community listening sessions that will be held on January 30 and 31 at various sites in Grand Marais.
Poet Julia Klatt Singer and composer Craig Carnahan will lead these sessions, which are free and open to the public. They are designed to provide an opportunity for residents to describe what makes Grand Marais such a unique place to live: its beauty and its tempests, its history and its present, its challenges and its rewards. In other words, what makes it sing.
Your stories will provide the inspiration for poems and music that the creative team of Singer and Carnahan will write for the Borealis Chorale to perform at their Christmas concerts in December 2019.
In many ways, the success of this project depends on the residents of Cook County—to share your stories, your words, your memories and experiences of living on the shore of Lake Superior.
These sessions will be informal and “user friendly.” If you’d like to participate but your schedule won’t allow you to attend for the entire time, feel free to come and go as necessary. The important thing is to gather stories from as many residents as possible, so please consider attending.
An Artist Initiative Grant makes this project possible from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The community listening sessions are:
. Wednesday, January 30
7:00-8:30 p.m.
North House Folk School.
. Thursday, January 31
11 a.m-12:30 p.m.
Grand Marais Public Library
. Thursday, January 31
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Cook County Community Center
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