Activate Rural Virtual Workshop: Creative Gathering Places for Youth
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. 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.
-Ashley Stelten is the Artist and Business Owner at Enchanted Arts and Crafts Studio in Olivia, MN. Enchanted Arts Studio provides arts and crafts kits, events, and workshops to area residents. Their mission is spreading mental health awareness using the significant benefits of creative expression by providing a vibrant and safe space in their community where all are welcome and all ages, especially youth, can feel empowered to create.
This virtual workshop is free, but registration is required! Register here.
This workshop is part of the Activate Rural Public Workshop Series, workshops and sessions designed to offer support, peer learning, and resources to creative entrepeneurs, artists, organizations and small business owners with creative physical places of connection based in rural Minnesota communities and the Native nations that share with 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.