NEMAA WELCOMES OPERATIONS MANAGER
The Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association is excited to welcome its new Operations Manager, Morgen Ru. He joins NEMAA from the film world, having produced a number of film festivals across the U.S. over the last 12 years. Ru has a passion for supporting artists and helping create and maintain thriving arts ecosystems, is a designer, textile weaver, and avid reader in his free time, and is also currently pursuing a master’s degree in design at MCAD. Reach out to him at morgen@nemaa.org.
HUGE IMPROV TO CLOSE
After moving and expanding to 2728 Lyndale Ave. S last year, the board of HUGE Improv Theater has made the decision to close HUGE permanently at the end of October. “The reasons are complex, but they ultimately boil down to money. The board has concluded that, after a series of expected and unexpected challenges, cash flow just cannot sustain the work HUGE was set out to accomplish,” they wrote in an email newsletter.”We want to be emphatically clear: the open letter raising concerns about diversity on HUGE’s stage is not the reason for this closure. HUGE was already in a precarious financial situation, and there simply isn’t a viable way forward.”
IRIDESCENT CARE COLLABORATIVE MOVES
Iridescent Care Collaborative, a partnership of mental health and allied private practice owners, owned and led by therapist Sherry Merriam, MA, LPCC, expanded this September and moved into a new office suite at the Center for Performing Arts (CFPA) at 3754 Pleasant Ave #205. “The move to a new office space at CFPA will provide both clients and clinicians with a safe neighborhood, increased access to public transportation, free and ample street parking, ADA-compliant and gender-neutral restrooms, larger office spaces, and, of course, new opportunity to create community with other healers and providers on site,” say representatives. According to their website, “CFPA supports a range of artists and practitioners to teach, practice, and learn in our community.”
“Sherry has created a truly special community of practitioners who really support one another not only as professionals, but as people, too,” says current member, Haley Bagley, MA, LMFT.
Merriam sees CFPA as “the ideal partner in our separate organizations’ shared missions of bringing communities together in a web of interdependence and support.”
There will be an open house to celebrate the move and connect with the community on Nov. 15, 5-8 p.m. in the chapel of the Center for Performing Arts.
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