Event

Illuminate the Lock: Returning the River

• Multiple Days: 09/20/2018, 09/21/2018, 09/22/2018 Location: Upper St. Anthony Lock and Dam Visitor Center, 1 Portland Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, | Map Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Fee Information: Free
  A night of poetry, projection, and music will illuminate a future where both rivers and people are liberated, where we celebrate wildness, and where we practice reciprocal reationships between all bodies of water, including one another's.
  
  Returning the River tells the story of a daughter born into a time of walls whose life is intrinsically inked the life of a paddlefish. Participants will take in visual projections on the water by Mike Hoyt, a soundscape composed by Dameun Strange and a story written and narrated by Molly Van Avery, sung by Ritika Ganguly above and below the lock chamber. Come listen and sing along. Hold water drawn up from below, imbue it wtih blessings for descendants, and then pour it back into teh river to maits way towards iberation.
  
  You can learn more about this project at the Mississippi Park Connection website.
  
  Sponsored by the Mississippi Park Connection, the National Park Service, and northernlights.mn.