Over the years, BareBones has also produced five annual Winter Pageants<\/em> on ice and snow, five summertime Dumpster Duels<\/a><\/em> performance competitions based on scavenged garbage, and various other outdoor puppet shows including The Little Match Girl<\/em> and Raven Steals the Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n Our venues have been public parks and other public spaces around the Twin Cities. These include Minnehaha Falls Park and Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis, Dunning Fields and Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul, the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, and the parking lots at Bedlam Theatre and the Midtown Public Market in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n BareBones has performed in parades and escapades throughout the Twin Cities metro area including the Independence Day parades in Edina and Marine-on-St. Croix, the Minneapolis Aquatennial Torchlight Parade, the Midtown Greenway Parade Of Arts, the annual Labor Day Picnic at Harriet Island in St. Paul, the Bike-In at the Bell Museum, the St. Paul Classic Bike Tour, the Minneapolis Peace Games, and the Minnesota State Fair Mall Parade.<\/p>\n In addition, BareBones has, for many summers, provided visual and performing arts residencies for youth<\/a> under contract with the Twin Cities Housing Development Corporation.\u00a0 Our TCHDC residencies have included Calibre Ridge in Roseville in collaboration with Campfire USA and Liberty Plaza in St. Paul in collaboration with Concordia University.\u00a0 More recently, BareBones partnered for a Spring Break residency with Opportunity Neighborhood at Garden View Apartments\u00a0 in Brooklyn Center.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t BareBones exists to present the Halloween Extravaganza. It is a vehicle for naming, mourning and honoring the dead, both the known and unknown, including the victims of neglect, police brutality and genocide. It is an event for collective grieving through community art as we enter the cold and dark time of the year. These things are desperately needed in 2022. As artists our tools are vision, manifestation, transformation.<\/p>\n Barebones, and each of us in the United States, exist within a history of theft, genocide, slavery and white-body supremacy. We live and work and make art in the context of systems which intentionally build inequity and division, and a context of massive brutality by those in power at every level which rips from us our humanity and our connection to our bodies and the earth. In recent years we have taken steps towards undoing white-body supremacy within BareBones, with an eye on Minneapolis and the larger culture. We promise to do more. Here, we continue the following action promises to be accountable to.<\/p>\n Removing barriers to participation:<\/strong> We will consider this as we make every decision about governance, hiring, location, cost, content and messaging.<\/p>\n More about hiring:<\/strong> This year, as we have for multiple years, we commit to hiring – especially to leadership positions – at least 50% people who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, transgender, queer, people with disabilities and women.<\/p>\n Learning\/unlearning:<\/strong> This year we will again offer the following.<\/p>\n Safety:<\/strong> We will again work with a community based security organization as a police-free alternative to keeping BareBones events safe. We have a “safer spaces” committee devoted to helping the BareBones community be welcoming to all who feel called to join and to helping with conflicts as they arise.<\/p>\n Permissions: <\/strong>We recognize that Hidden Falls is close to B’Dote, the confluence of the rivers and the Dakota holy site. We will not yet return to Hidden Falls Park, as we continue learning more about that long history and deepening and healing our relationships with the land and people. To this end, we encourage you to volunteer your time alongside other Barebones people with the Dakota Land Recovery Project.<\/p>\n We hope you will join us to make BareBones 2022 what this community needs it to be.<\/p>\n About Hidden Falls<\/strong><\/p>\n Hidden Falls Regional Park is magical. We love it. We could feel the power and magic of being in that place. The beauty. The proximity to river. The height of the trees. That general area has been recognized as powerful and magical for thousands of years. It is very close to the B’Dote, the meeting of the rivers, often called the most sacred place of the Dakota people.<\/p>\n Over the years of being at that site, we began to learn about the significance of the B’Dote to Indigenous people. The more we learned, the less comfortable we became locating our rituals and performances there. We began to investigate our relationship with the Dakota people and the B’Dote and ask ourselves: What do we know and can we learn about the significance of the B’Dote? Are the Dakota people able to freely live their lives, and locate their own art and rituals in this space? What actions can we make to be in a harmonious relationship with the Dakota people and land that would make them want our performances and rituals to be located there? So, the BareBones board, in conversation with our larger community, chose to locate the show not at Hidden Falls Regional Park for now as we explore these questions.<\/p>\n To that end, we hope you will join us. We hope you will learn more about the significance of that place. One great way to do that is to take the day-long B’Dote tour put on by the Minnesota Humanities Center<\/a>. We hope you will take time to learn about contemporary arts and culture happening in that area initiated by the Dakota\/Mendota<\/a>. We hope you will join Barebones community members in supporting the Dakota Land Recovery Project<\/a> either financially or with your time. We hope you will participate in other “land back” initiatives. We hope that we can be in a better relationship to Dakota people and to that particular land. Then we can have a conversation about whether we should return to that site.<\/p>\n Why do a show on the greenway at 10th and 11th Avenue?<\/strong><\/p>\n If some essential elements of Barebones are accessible community art, collective grieving, transformation, beauty, magic, and wildness in the turning of the seasons then what an opportunity our current site is. Many of us live and work in this neighborhood. We watched it burn in 2020, we mourned the loss, and we celebrated the reckonings and new possibilities. We chose to stay and recommit to this area as our home. Lake Street is the belt-line and through-way of the city. This site is close to where May Day Parade and festival was for years. Placing ourselves here reminds us that May Day celebrated the coming of the sun and rebirth while Barebones offers the other side, and helps us to mourn our losses and transition to the cold and darkness of winter.<\/p>\n The Greenway site is also easy to get to, with good views and enough space for the audience, plus a large playing space. The bridges and back walls afford some interesting possibilities for shadows and suspending things. It is a snatch of wild green in the middle of the city. 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