Activate Rural Virtual Workshop: Creative Gathering Places for Youth
Location: Virtual - Zoom
Date + Time: Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 12PM - 1:30PM CDT
Join Department of Public Transformation (DoPT) for our 3rd Activate Rural Virtual Workshop, Creative Gathering Places for Youth, to hear from two rural artists and activators building youth-focused spaces for their communities. Participants will learn how each building space is navigating community engagement, funding resources, and structures for stewardship and operations.
Be inspired by the activation of the two building spaces during a panel discussion moderated by Sarina Otaibi, Activate Rural Program Director, DoPT, with the following guest speakers:
Mackenzie Hamm is the Executive Director at the CornerStone Community and Youth Center in Frazee, MN (pop. 1,316). CornerStone is a non-profit organization dedicated to engaging their community and nurturing the potential of their youth in a former church building with a community makerspace, youth center, bistro, arts and retail space.
Ann Thompson is the Co-founder and Coordinator of the Greater Milan Initiative (GMI) in Milan, MN (pop. 418). GMI owns and operates an old school building as a nonprofit organization focused on nurturing a strong sense of community by providing a common gathering place for people of all ages and backgrounds, creating opportunities for children and families to learn and play together, and enabling educational, artistic, and entrepreneurial talents to flourish.
This virtual workshop is free, but registration is required. For workshop and registration questions, please contact Benjamin Domask-Ruh, Activate Rural Program Coordinator, at benjamin@publictransformation.org.
This workshop is a part of the Activate Rural Public Workshop Series, workshops and sessions designed to offer support, peer learning, and resources to creative entrepreneurs, artists, organizations and small business owners with creative physical places of connection based in rural Minnesota communities and the Native nations that share this geography, with a population of 20,000 or less. This program is supported, in part, by the State of Minnesota through a grant from The Office of Small Business Development, Department of Employment and Economic Development.