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Hands, earth, water, light, and a burst of gold. ✨🙌

@kparentart | Kat Parent's three paintings hold the sacred in the smallest places: hands pressed in prayer around a thread of gold, cupped hands cradling a seedling as water runs through them, and open hands framing a sky full of stars.

Kat painted them while reading the medieval mystics Hildegard of Bingen and Julian of Norwich, the visionary fiction of Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin, and the protest songs of Malvina Reynolds. She wanted to capture moments that feel "both enormous and very small, like a bit of running water or a leaf held between two hands." A self-taught queer artist and teaching artist, Kat draws on illustration, protest printmaking, church art and folk art to share "wonder and delight" in a world that abounds "with absurd beauty and strangeness." 🌱

@jsonkehrer | Jason Kehrer's abstract painting glows with ochre, gold and sunlit yellow. Painted outdoors, his work grew out of years of plein air painting from direct observation and has turned intuitive and improvised, yet it still carries a strong sense of place. Trained as a printmaker, Jason has painted for nearly 20 years and has exhibited in Minnesota, New Mexico, Chicago and England.

And the setting couldn't be better: @zierratattoo | Zierra Tattoo, the newest shop on Payne Ave! 🎉 Born in Medellín, Colombia, Gersson specializes in Neotraditional, Black and Grey Realism and Geometric designs, and has been recognized at tattoo conventions across the country. His signature is yellow, a symbol of his Latin roots and a nod to gold. Jason's golden canvas feels right at home.

Welcome to the neighborhood, Zierra! Stop by, see the art, and say hello. 💛

📍 Zierra Tattoo, 991 Payne Ave, St. Paul
🗓️ Solidarity Street Gallery: Common Ground, Oct 16–18
Opening Fri, Oct 16, 5–9 pm · Sat, Oct 17, 12–8 pm · Sun, Oct 18, 12–5 pm
Free and open to all

#SolidarityStreetGallery #CommonGround #ZierraTattoo #AbstractPainting #QueerArtist

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This dream team is doing it again! Minneapolis’ Ardaa band together with Red Thread, co-presenting our “Across the Water.” Recommended if you like excellent live Oud playing, vocal harmonies, love ballads in Somali, harvest songs in Yiddish, and more. Sunday 8/30 at Mixed Blood theater in Minneapolis! @mixedbloodtheatre @ayusuf009 @jagoda_larsson

Ardaa band’s Ahmed Ismail Yusuf, Magan, and Mick LaBriola at Mixed Blood theater.

Oud improv w Magan

Red Thread’s Sarah Larsson, Kat Parent, Carlisle Evans Peck
📷: @rebbe.mac

Ardaa’s Ifrah, Magan, Mick, and Ahmed

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Wowee this is today!! Special fun concert-salon combining Red Thread (Yiddish & Balkan folk songs) and Ardaa (Somali acoustic blues) with friends and snacks. Sadly not featuring @chaialeh and jack on a paddleboat, but similar vibes.

Friday and Sunday in Minneapolis. info from @mixedbloodtheatre and @culturalfluencyllc

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Death defying loops, beatbox, melody, and rap! Thank you @belwinconservancy and everyone who came out to Music in the Trees!

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Text from the song “Di Arbuzn” aka “S’iz der Step”, a song in Yiddish from the days of collective farming in the midcentury Soviet Union. At the time of folks being moved from population centers to new farm colonies in the far countryside, for better or for worse these Jewish farmers sang about their loves and their fruits 🍒🍓🍑

Do you have a juicy summer love? Share this vid with them so you can remember these nice folk-verified pickup lines 💋

We learn this from a classic version by the Pennywhistlers and our teacher Ethel Raim, via @yaleslavicchorus and @klezkanada

We’ll sing this and other bangers at Red Thread’s next concerts, Aug 28 and 30 in Mpls at Mixed Blood theater w Ardaa band and Cultural Fluency Initiative.

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Rehearsing with our asses 16’ in the air. Just look at this venue! ✨💚✨Saturday morning. Arrive to get a good spot at 10:30am and let us treat you to a bonus instrumental set as you arrive before our 11am start!

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SkySpiders will be performing to kick off Music in the Trees at Belwin Conservancy Saturday!

Pack a lunch, bring a blanket or camp chair, and settle in beneath the trees for an afternoon of live music in a beautiful outdoor setting. Rain or shine, so plan accordingly!

📅 August 16–17, 11am – 3pm (we’ll be on right at 11)
📍 Belwin Conservancy Education Site, Afton, MN
🎟️ Tickets are per car (pay what you can: $10, $20, or $35). Carpooling encouraged. Bicycles get in free.

We would love to see you there! Learn more about Belwin and all of the cool work they’re doing (😍) and get tickets at belwin.org/music.

📸: by Susan Haugh (top rehearsal pic), @stein_ographer (last years performance) - the one of us in the hammock is from after our set at last year’s event. Green and white flyer with pictures of See More and Kat being cuties and playing music 16’ up in the trees from last year’s set and a pic from our rehearsal a few weeks back, with another pic of the two smiling under the sun in a hammock after their set last year. Over the green part at the top there is a transparent photo of a web in a tree in the woods.

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More 🎥 from our night at @metronomebrewery !

If folk songs written in the 2020’s is your thing, you’re invited also to a lil house show/gallery show by our friend Jordan Wax @jordanwax.dzhordnvaks - stopping by to play a show while he passes through Minneapolis! link in bio for RSVP info
#yiddish #livemusic #concert #minneapolis

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Practicing. Droning. Deep Listening.

I was inspired by @kparentart's zine & the beautiful conclusion to Drone Not Drones to start learning Bella Ciao.

Deep Listening and Pauline were a big part of me picking up the accordion. 🪗

🧡🧡🧡

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We LOVED having polinashepherd here in Minnesota- many thanks to Bill and @metronomebrewery for the space and the evening, and great singing-unter everyone

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Tonight! These cuties are playing in Fingal’s Cave at @metronomebrewery Wednesday 4/8. Sharing the evening with Polina Shepherd polinashepherd; she’s amazing.
info in bio. We want to try to sell the space out!

Photos of Red Thread by @no_aesthetic_stills
Photos of Polina Shepherd by @shendlcopitman

🌞🍓🌿(except swap @rada.kmusic for @dcupery)🥲

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