Cook County residents are invited to participate in one of three community listening sessions that will be held on February 20 and 21 at various sites in Grand Marais.
Poet Julia Klatt Singer and composer Craig Carnahan will lead the sessions, which are free and open to the public. They are designed to provide an opportunity for residents to describe what makes Grand Marais and Cook County 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—and the creative team is eager to hear from you.
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.
This project is made possible by an Artist Initiative Grant 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, February 20,
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Cook County Community Center
. Wednesday, February 20,
7:00-8:30 p.m.,
North House Folk School’s
Green Building
. Thursday, February 21,
10:30 a.m.-noon
Grand Marais Public Library
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