Festival

“Leaking (The Wolves Are Everywhere)” How do we write an ending to a story that isn’t finished? Vianna Isbister’s show Leaking weaves together fractured fairy tales and crafted personal stories to explore how trauma leaks into our interactions, perceptions, and futures. “As she ran her finger down the gold thread holding together her cloak, Little […]

“Oz-America” During the past thirty years, I have lived for three years in Minneapolis’ Phillips neighborhood; twenty in Whittier; seven in Eau Claire, Wisconsin; and, most recently, several months in the Saint Anthony Park neighborhood in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Having been born August 19,1973 in Denver, Colorado, the only official citizenship I have ever held […]

“Oz-America” During the past thirty years, I have lived for three years in Minneapolis’ Phillips neighborhood; twenty in Whittier; seven in Eau Claire, Wisconsin; and, most recently, several months in the Saint Anthony Park neighborhood in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Having been born August 19,1973 in Denver, Colorado, the only official citizenship I have ever held […]

“Tell Me Again” Annie Wiborg is retired after working several decades in the telecommunications industry. She is an empty nester with two grown children and five grandchildren. She loves to get up in the dark, drink coffee, read, journal and meditate while the sky gradually gets lighter. Her days are full of reading, friends, family, […]

“The Exact Moment I Became Someone Else” Kory May tells stories to make sense of the world—and since the world refuses to make sense, he keeps telling them. A Moth Mainstage performer and two-time Moth GrandSlam winner, he’s shared more than 2,700 consecutive nights of Thoughts Too Big for My Head on Facebook Live. Through […]

“War & Peace in My 20th Century Life – What is Worth Fighting For?” Bernadine Joselyn is the Minnesota-born descendant of white Protestant farmers and their settler forbearers. Imagination and longing led her from her childhood home in a first-ring Minneapolis suburb to India, the Soviet Union-later Russia, New York City and rural Itasca County, […]