Lake Street Story Circles Projects 2020 - Looking Back/Looking Forward Film Screening

Diver Van Avery, Masanari Kawahara, aegor ray, Sequoia Hauck, Mollie Lacy, Sandra Agustin, Miré, Johanna Keller Flores, Baki Z Porter, and Ellis Pérez, Juma B. Essie, Rebecca Nichloson, featuring Music from The Muatas and ASL from Sign Crawford.

Lake Street Story Circles Project brought together a cohort of ten artists to hold Story Circles and create new performance work about life, spirit, resistance, politics, vision, relationships, history, business, survival and joy.

Grounded on Lake Street, grounded in Minneapolis, grounded in story, in place and each other. Just as we gathered the 10 artists to begin working on projects the Covid-19 pandemic hit and we went into lock down.

We began meeting with the cohort on Zoom and then in May, George Floyd was murdered by the MPD and the Uprising took place.  It was a raw, intense time to make work and the artists all found ways to hold Story…