A big future for Wy Historic Arboretum depends

Legislators may save plans to restore Wyoming’s historical arboretum after the legislature reduced the initial funding from the additional state budget. His future now depends on the bills in the Commission.

The accompanying bills introduced at the home of Wyoming and the Senate will recognize the Cheyenne-High Plains and Arboretum research station as an official state historical site. The center was used a century ago for the study and cultivation of trees that can handle the rough climate of the area.

Jessica Friedz, a gardener of Botanic Gardens Cheyenne, helps the management site.

“Many of these trees still stand,” Fris said. “We would like to go back to that initial mission where we can grow these difficult plants in this greenhouse and make them accessible.”

Fris pointed today, trees raised there can be used for afforestation after fires and other modern needs. The bills are now located with the committees of agriculture and budget loans.

Megan Stanfil, CEO of the Alliance for Historical Wyoming, said the site is over 2000 decares and includes an active research station for lawns, historic buildings, the national cemetery in Cheen and the scout girl camp.

“You have all these different aspects where this is outdoor relaxation, it is historical sites, it is a cultural heritage and then it is also a place of solitude,” Stanfil outlines.

If the area becomes an official state historical site, it will be managed jointly by the city of Cheen, the Wyoming State Parks and the US Ministry of Agriculture.

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By Brian Sanchez for the Midwest Arts.
Mark Moran’s broadcasting version of Iowa News Information Services for Midwest-Public News Service Cooperation

Stories are shortcuts, presenting people and places we may not otherwise meet. They help us find meaningful relationships, even against the background of isolation circumstances. Curious people often turn to books because novels and memoirs open on request, but everyone has a story to tell.

In Iowa, the Culturreall Open Book program makes a conversation with a stranger, as simple as a visit to the local library. Their catalog of personal stories introduces the main real-life characters, whose sole struggles touch broader topics such as immigration, identity, grief, faith and more.

Since 2018, the Social Impact Organization based on Des Moines has gained more than 50 Iowans of various origin to serve as human “books”. They share brief conversations about a decisive head of their lives with an intimate audience of “readers”.

From Charlie’s excruciating story to the survival of traumatic childhood abduction to Sylvia’s tale to refute society’s expectations as a blind woman to win a doctoral degree in soil chemistry, human “books” prove why people should not be tried on their cover.

“The open book can be a catalyst to accelerate a connection and introduce a conversation that may not happen naturally,” says Karen Downing, a retired English teacher who brought the concept in Cultureall.

Cultureall supports human “books” through the process of telling stories. He offset them for visits to pension communities, libraries, companies and other places.

The format for sharing the history of Open Book is inspired by the human library, a movement that began in Denmark in 2000 to deal with prejudice through personal relationships.

The Cultureall version is reciprocal.

“We realized that yes, people want to hear other stories,” Downing says. “They also really wanted to share their own and gain an idea of ​​their experience in talking to someone else.”

She and the former member of the Cultureall American Office JJ Kapur have cooperated to locate the concept of the human library and to measure their impact on empathy.

Humanization of complex problems

Initiatives such as Uplift: Pilot Central Iowa Basic income have participated in an open book to bring local votes to questions such as poverty and homelessness. Congregations also used the program to build relationships in racial sections. Iowa Humanitarian Funding also helps the Cultureall program also connect the rural population and the rural population.

“Hearing a personal story can change the lens on a matter or a big, thorny topic that people may not have a nuanced understanding,” Downing says.

The open book about vulnerability encourages can be validated for participants such as Yerliana Reina, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, who moved to Iowa through the Bronx, New York.

Reina is an adviser at high school, who contacted an open book after participating in the Ambassador of Iow Latin’s Ambassador. She shared her story at a senior center in Pela, a community known for its deep Dutch heritage.

“I remember one of the ladies looking at me and when I finished [speaking]She said, “You know you are more mourned than you think,” Reina says. “Your story can be a promotion to someone else.”

Brian Sanchez wrote this story about Arts Midwest.

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Wayoming’s art hub is exploring organizations throughout the country to check that a potential new American program can help fill the gaps in arts and humanities programming.

The Rural Mediators program will provide additional support for art organizations and humanitarian organizations in Wyoming, which are often rural and can work with enough staff to work.

Alison Maluknik, CEO of the Nicholasen Art Museum in Casper, said it could provide several advantages to the museum.

“We could use American members to help our art education, Autic,” Maluchnik explained. “There is a potential for building capacity in different art organizations, volunteer programs. There are many different ways in which members of American American can serve different organizations in the country.”

Maluchnik noted that the first step towards the implementation of the program was an assessment of interest. Wyoming art organizations can take a study on the topic until January 20. They can contact the Nikolasen Museum for more information.

According to a report from the University of Wyoming, the arts and culture add more than $ 540 million to the country’s economy in 2022, but it varies significantly in the county. Tetan County saw nearly $ 230 million in arts-based economic production, while 11 counties scored less than $ 5 million.

Maluchnik stressed that rural arts organizations can particularly use support.

“We hope that this will give those organizations that do not have the bigger community a sense of support,” Maluchnik stressed. “And also, a means of building programming and volunteer capacity.”

The program would have been mastered by the country hand of the National American Service Program, which offers money to resume and scholarships to members who serve.

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From Amy Fellegs to the Midwest.
Broadcast version from Kathleen Shannon for a larger Dakota News Services Report on Midwest-Public News Service Arts Cooperation

Ask every six years and they will only tell you how to play the classic Go Fish game: Get a handful of cards. Try to get four this match. Repeat as the discrepancy allows.

But exchange owl fish and say “gookooko’oo” instead of “Go Fish”, and you have Bineshiiyag: one of a few new entertainment in the Nashke Games awarded line.

Starting a year and a half ago, a three-people business is trying to strengthen Ojibwe’s language and culture in the Midwest-more fun, affordable (not to mention, effective) way.

“Our mission is to increase the awareness and power of learning through gameplay. And a boy, we just see that he is realized every day, “says founder and CEO Tony Drew” Chi-Noodin “(Big Wind).

Students of languages, teachers, families and curious on board-gummies can buy games ranging from modern absorption (such as Bagese: The Bowl Game) to fast simulation simulations with puzzles and challenges to match tiles (such as the MII Gwech).

Games are the way to open; They can be played in Ojibwe or English (Dakota Expansion Packs Expect soon!) Here the words are deliberate no Forgotten.

Drew says there are less than 700 speakers in the US OJIBWE

“And if we don’t do something, we will become known as the people who were Ojibwe,” he says. “Native story is the story of Minnesota. And without a spark, our youth will not teach it. ”

Drew’s great -grandmother only speaks ojibwe. Her daughter was sent to Pipestone Indian Training School and now Drew’s father doesn’t know more than four words in Ojibwe.

“It takes a generation to undress my family from his culture, language and millennium of our culture,” says Drew. “We cannot speak of language and culture separately. They are intertwined. ”

Take the word Mindimooyenh. Someone who holds the family together. A term with great respect for an elderly woman.

“If you call someone old woman In English, this is digging, right? So, if we lose this word, we lose the cultural perspective on how we really look at older women, “says Drew. “And the same with the elders. We call our elders Gichi -aya’aa: “Great beings.”

Second -grade students Lisa Shusman played Ginebig: The Snake Game, Makizinataegewin: The Moccasin Game and Bineshiiyag in their Lincoln opening room.

It occupies home -making kits in Bemidji, Minnesota, a school where many local students attend; The area is surrounded by Lake Lake (Ojibwe), Red Lake (Chippewa) and reservations for white ground.

“It’s just such a valuable way to get excited … Excited by language and their culture and respect,” says Shusman, eavesdropping on students using words learned in games.

“I think many times we are upset to try or do not want to do something wrong, so then we don’t. But I found that through the games you are much more smaller when in a fun, laughing atmosphere, just try. ”

Goji’wizi: just tryS

Amy Fellegie wrote this story about Arts Midwest.

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