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OPENING EVENTS
Avalon's Enchanted Journey
RED WING, Minn. -- The public is invited May 6-8 to the grand opening of Avalon's
Enchanted Journey, a holistic healing center, which has relocated from Lake City
to River Centre, 314 Main St., in Red Wing.
The special grand opening celebration of Beltane (May Day) will take place just south
of Red Wing in the Villa Maria Center, 29847 County Blvd., Frontenac, Minn. A variety
of activities are planned during the open house, including tours of Avalon's Enchanted
Journey, tarot readings, aura photographs, and free angel readings. The event will
be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, May 6, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 7,
and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 8.
"Beltane, or May Day, is a celebration -- a time for projects you'd like to
complete, goals you need to reach for, dreams you'd like to see realized," says
Nan Vaught, proprietor of Avalon's Enchanted Journey. She is a certified teacher,
holistic practitioner and transformation facilitator.
"My workshops and retreats are designed to heal your inner child, erase limiting
beliefs, raise self-esteem, release the past, and help people love themselves and
others more fully," she says. "We offer a holistic approach to health and
wellness by providing customized programs that help people map their way to a healthier
and more peaceful life."
For more information, call Avalon's Enchanted Journey at 1 (888) 472-7662 or visit
www.aejourney.com.
Center for Media Arts
ST. PAUL -- IFP Minneapolis/St. Paul, a non-profit media arts organization whose
mission is to support and promote the work of artists who create screenplays, film,
video and photography in the Upper Midwest, will host a daylong open house from 2
to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 7, to celebrate the grand opening of its new facility, the
Center for Media Arts.
The public is invited to join local artists and community leaders at this free event
to learn more about the programs IFP Minneapolis/St. Paul has to offer. In addition
to offering tours of the new Center for Media Arts, the open house will feature live
music, free sampling of delicious fare provided by local restaurants, screenings
of local films and interactive art-making activities for children and adults.
The opening of the center will consolidate IFP Minneapolis/St. Paul's three offices
and facilities into a convenient and accessible "one-stop-shop" for their
growing constituency of media artists, students and community members. The site features:
state-of-the-art editing suites; expanded darkrooms and classroom facilities; updated
film and photography equipment for member and student use; an office to house the
Minnesota Film and TV Board; and new meeting spaces for outreach programs and community
groups.
From 2-6 p.m., local artist Mike Hazard will teach families how to make three-minute
videos, local photographer Tom Miller will teach families how to shoot a photograph
with a homemade pinhole camera and then watch it develop in an IFP darkroom, and
kids and adults will learn tricks of the trade and volunteer to be "made over"
by local effects makeup artists.
Thirty-minute seminars (check www.ifpmsp.org for times) will include: "Breaking
into Screenwriting," by Mike Maupin; "Final Cut Pro Overview," by
Paul Bernhardt; "Basics of Digital Photography," by Megan Boesen; and "The
Minnesota Film and TV Board Update" with Board chair Craig Rice. Three classrooms
and editing suites will be dedicated to ongoing screenings of films by local filmmakers
around the themes "Action Sports", "Animation" and "Documentary."
Free raffle and door prizes, including a Nikon digital camera from West Photo and
memberships to IFP Minneapolis/St. Paul, will take place, and a special exhibit of
work by IFP's photography members will be on display in the new gallery. The exhibit
runs through June.
Lower Town Academy of Studio Art
ST. PAUL -- The Lower Town Academy of Studio Art, in Park Square Court at 400 Sibley
St., will open its doors on Monday, June 13, to offer students a new twist on an
old philosophy about studio art. Many people have come to believe that the many objects
of art -- paintings, drawings, sculpture and ceramics -- are about objects to be
sold for profit as you might buy any object from a retail store. How this thought
came into being is somewhat of a mystery. But that thought is precisely what art
is not.
Robert Henri, a famous American painter, said, "Art is the inevitable consequence
of growth and is the manifestation of the principles of its origin. (Life) The work
of art is a result; it is the output of a person's progress in development. It is
not an end in itself, but the work indicates the course taken and the progress made."
The work of art, then, is a means through which one grows spiritually by seeking
out the mystery of one's relationship to the natural environment. Studio art is not
a representation of objects. Objects in art become the mystery in the search for
truth. The exploration itself becomes the truth. Art is philosophy. It is a way and
a means of life. Beauty in the objects of art is a by-product of the search and of
the growth of the seeker.
Lower Town Academy will offer Master Classes in Painting, Figure Drawing and Sculpture,
based on the principals related to the personal and artistic growth of its students,
rather than the production of art as retail objects.
The Lower Town Academy of Studio Art will be open Monday through Saturday. Studio
classes are three contact hours long and meet once a week for eight weeks. Tuition
per class is $240. Park Square Court is a part of the downtown skyway system and
parking is available on the street and in several parking ramps in the immediate
vicinity.
Contact Douglas House at (651) 686-7318 or e-mail doughouse@comcast.net for a registration
package and comprehensive school information.
Thai Yoga Massage Therapy
PRIOR LAKE, Minn. -- Councilman G. Bryan Fleming cut the ribbon for the grand opening
of Thai Yoga Massage Therapy on Saturday, April 9, at the new healing center at 15815
Franklin Trail SE., in Prior Lake. The center is led by Parpriorn (Orn) Chakkapark,
a certified massage therapist, a former Buddhist nun who came to the United States
from Thailand five years ago. She was introduced to the techniques in Thailand before
studying at Wat Po, The Original Thai Traditional Massage School.
Thai Yoga Massage originated in India more than a thousand years ago as a sacred
method of healing in the Buddhist faith. Thai Yoga Massage is a complex sequence
of soft tissue pressing, stretching, twisting and joint manipulations.
"Yoga is generally accepted as being an effective way of remaining healthy and
flexible," Chakkapark said. "Thai Yoga Massage takes massage one step further.
My mission is for the people of Minnesota to know and understand that Thai Massage
is a form of natural, sacred medicine. It is not only for relaxation. It can also
improve your overall health and flexibility. Thai Yoga Massage pushes toxins through
the energy lines in your body, and these toxins are broken up and eliminated through
the body's natural processes of elimination."
Members of the Prior Lake Chamber of Commerce, including director Sandi Fleck, attended
the grand opening, toured the facility, and watched two traditional Thai dance exhibitions.
Eleven different types of herbal and Asian fruit teas were available for tasting.
Many guests received complimentary 10-minute massages.
For more information, visit www.thaiyogamassagetherapy.com, call (952) 226-2411 or
e-mail info@thaiyogamassagetherapy.com |
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