Hope is alive in our bodies!
That’s the secret we all know, but in tough times it’s easy to forget…
That’s why we’re so proud of this genre-defying work. It reminds us: art and healing and changing the world can be in one practice. We can take care of ourselves and our communities, transforming inside and out, with creativity. And it starts in the body. Hope and freedom are always there. Don’t You Feel It Too?
In a tough year, we’ve increased our programming to meet our community’s needs, reaching more and more people:
Since April, we have offered more than 100 free public sessions
We adapted to include racially caucused spaces to provide Embodied Practice for Racial Healing
We support a Cohort of emerging and established leaders
in art, healing, and activism.
In 2021, we look forward to:
Growing our leadership with new Artistic Associates:
Laura Levinson, Asher Edes, and Demetrius ImagineJoy McClendonSupporting 13-year practitioners Aki Shibata and Theresa Madaus in their co-creating with the Rondo neighborhood and the residents and caregivers at Episcopal Church Home
Collaborating with BIPOC mindfulness groups to sustain embodied healing spaces
Please consider giving. And more importantly please come and join us in our movement practice. Everyone is welcome! You will feel it: hope is alive in all our bodies.
Checks can be made out to our fiscal sponsor, Springboard for the Arts, with “Grace Minnesota” in the memo line, and mailed to:
Grace Minnesota
℅ Marcus Young
787 Hampden Ave Unit 359
St. Paul, MN 55114
Grace Minnesota (dba Don’t You Feel It Too?) is a sponsored project of Springboard for the Arts, a nonprofit arts service organization. Contributions on behalf of Grace Minnesota may be made payable to Springboard for the Arts and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
WHAT IS DON’T YOU FEEL IT TOO?
Anyone can do it. Don’t You Feel It Too? is a simple and beautiful form of movement meditation that transforms the self while taking action in the world. Developed since 2008, it brings together healing, art, and activism. Don’t You Feel It Too? benefits communities by introducing embodied healing and courageous art-making into social change work, and offers belonging, safety, joy, and liberation.
WORDS FROM OUR PARTICIPANTS
“When I saw everyone dancing, I cried. It felt like the day after the revolution when everyone’s needs had somehow been met.”
–Karin San Juan, Macalaster College Professor, and Clouds in Water Member
“No activity up to this moment in life has been more refreshing, more uplifting, or more liberating than what I experienced today.”
–Hannah, University of Minnesota Student
“Don’t You Feel It Too? is a living, breathing form of activism rooted in the affirmation of humanity. Moving my body I was celebrating my existence in this world, that my body and my life matter. That felt to me like liberation.”
–Signe Harriday, theater artist and co-organizer, Million Artist Movement
“We talk about joy in church, but I don't often see it. Don't You Feel It Too? is joyful art that adds to the grace of our city."
–Nan Zosel, Former Chaplain of Minneapolis Police Department, 1st Precinct
“I was reminded that happiness is always right there.”
–First time participant
“Even a couple days after the practice, I've been able to retain the confidence Don’t You Feel It Too? gave me and the powerful action of using dance as counter-protest.”
–Allison Rubin Forester, participant