The 2011 Minnesota Film and Video Grant Program will once again award grants to emerging film and videomakers in the disciplines of experimental, narrative, documentary and animated film and video making. The deadline for applications is July 15. The Film Grant Program places emphasis on projects in their early stages or in the postproduction phase. The program does not fund... READ MORE >
The Grand Marais Playhouse presents Macbeth, the last of Shakespeare’s great tragedies. Combining swift action and soaring poetry, we follow one man’s rash powerplay for the crown. Ambition infects Macbeth’s brain like a virus upon hearing three witches predict that he will one day be king. Spurred on by his equally ambitious wife, he murders the good King Duncan. One... READ MORE >
Kick up your heels Scandinavian-style to welcome spring! The North Shore Music Association is pleased to announce its annual spring dance, featuring Ole Olsson’s Oldtime Orkestra, a fun-loving group of musicians who know how to get even the most winterstiffened northern Minnesotan thawed out and rollicking with friends and neighbors. The band, who first met each other at Sunday evening... READ MORE >
Cook County Higher Education will collaborate with Mesabi Range Community and Technical College to offer a low pressure boiler/special license preparation course on May 6 and 7 in Grand Marais. The class is designed for maintenance personnel in plants, facilities and commercial buildings. Participants will understand safe operation and maintenance of all low pressure boilers and become familiar with Minnesota... READ MORE >
Cook County Higher Education will present The New Media Landscape and What it Means for Your Business on Thursday, May 5 at the North Shore Campus. 2010 came and went and left a whole new media landscape in its wake. With 2011 now here, how can your business take advantage of all the different media opportunities out there? During this... READ MORE >
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar has announced that the Department of Interior has taken the first step in the process to delist the Great Lakes gray wolf. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a draft rule on April 15 to delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act list in Minnesota and the western Great Lakes states. Publication of... READ MORE >
Thanks to a $25,000 Innovation Grant from the Lloyd K. Johnson Foundation, Cook County Higher Education (CCHE) has a large part of the funding needed to offer training workshops for the broadband initiative. “It was touch and go for a while,” stated Paula Sundet Wolf, executive director at CCHE. “There has been more demand for the broadband trainings than we... READ MORE >
If you tune in to WTIP, you will frequently hear the tagline, “It’s all about the listener.” That was not the case last week—it was all about the folks on-air. Congratulations to WTIP staff and volunteers on earning recognition at the 2010 Minnesota AP Broadcasters Awards. Station staff and volunteers regularly produce features that bring forward a variety of voices... READ MORE >
The Artist Fund (formerly the Artist Relief Fund) is pleased to announce a new, revised medical reimbursement program, Artists’ Access to Healthcare – North (AAH – North). “Health care is a major concern for the artists we serve. Many are self-employed and have little or no insurance,” says Margaret Holmes, president of the Artist Fund. “We know that this program... READ MORE >
On the Thursday, April 21 edition of Native Report on WDSE-WRPT PBS 8, Grand Portage photographer Travis Novitsky will be featured. Tune in at 8:30 p.m. to learn more about this talented North Shore photographer. Novitsky is familiar to most of Cook County. A life-long resident of the North Shore of Lake Superior, he was born in Grand Marais and... READ MORE >
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