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<h2><a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/rituals-of-resilience" style="color:black">Rituals of Resilience</a></h2>
<p><a style="color:black" href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/rituals-of-resilience">“Rituals of Resilience” is an audio-visual experience, co-curated by the Twin Cities-based musician and community organizer Chaka Mkali (aka I Self Devine).</a></p>


Two visitors smiling with Mia’s “Egypt's Sunken Cities” brochure and photos from photo booth.

Third Thursday: Egypt?s Sunken Cities

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<h2>Pride at Mia</h2>
<p>Celebrate the exceptional historical and creative cultural contributions made by the 2SLGBTQIA+ community with art, stories, virtual events, and more.</a></p>


<div style="display: none";><strong>General admission is free.</strong> Special exhibitions, classes, and some talks and special events do require <a href="http://tickets.artsmia.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tickets</a>: reservations are recommended.</div>
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<li>Monday: Closed</li>
<li>Tuesday: Closed</li>
<li>Wednesday: Closed</li>
<li>Thursday:  10am-5pm</li>
<li>Friday:  10am-5pm</li>
<li>Saturday:  10am-5pm</li>
<li>Sunday:  10am-5pm</li>
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<p><i>The museum is closed July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.</i></p>
<p>Timed tickets are required for museum entry and special exhibitions. </p>
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Plan Your Visit

Dance Workshop: DANCEFLOOR DANCEFLOOR with Scott Stafford

Virtual Family Day: Express Your Love with Pride

Movies in the Park: Wig + Other Voices

Virtual Event: Star Gay-zing: An Astrology Poetry Reading for the Queers with Junauda Petrus-Nasah

Virtual Event: Transcripts: a podcast from the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project

<p><span style="font-size:x-large;">Mia&#8217;s 2SLGBTQIA+ Staff Resource Group is teaming up with Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board for their summer Movie in the Park series. On Thursday, June 17th starting at 8pm, meet in Washburn Fair Oaks park for a screening of Wig (dir. Moukarbel, 2019), accompanied by the short film &#8220;Other Voices&#8221; (dir. S. Brown).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-large;">Movies will start at dusk. Please bring your own seating. Porta Potties will be available, as the museum will be closed. </span></p>
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<h3 class="Mia-bold">Other Voices (dir. Sweatmother)</h3>
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<span style="font-size:large;">Through a series of Other Voices, trans and gender non-conforming people express their experiences through art and conversation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;">Sweatmother is a latinx trans artist and filmmaker based in London. They use experimental techniques and hybrid documentary filmmaking in collaboration with non-professional actors to create counter-narratives from within their own communities and subcultures.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;">Their work reclaims the often misplaced voice, body and gaze by repurposing femme and gender non-conforming identities in spaces where objectification is removed, and the agency and difference in the otherness is celebrated. </span>
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<h3 class="Mia-bold">Wig (dir. Moukarbel)</h3>
<p>Runtime: 1h 29m</p>
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<h3 class="Mia-bold">Watch the trailer </h3>
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<span style="font-size:large;">Spotlighting the art of drag, and centered on the New York staple Wigstock, Wig showcases the personalities and performances that inform the ways we understand queerness, art and identity today.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;">For almost 20 years, Wigstock was the annual drag festival that glamorously signaled the end of summer for the New York’s gay community Late one night in 1984, Lady Bunny and a few friends drunkenly wandered from the Pyramid Club in the East Village to Tompkins Square Park and staged an impromptu drag show in the bandshell. This would soon become an annual drag bacchanal, which lasted until 2001. In 2018, Lady Bunny resurrected the festival, bringing together legendary queens with some of the new children of drag, creating one of the largest drag performances ever staged.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;">Wig explores the origins and the influence of the historic festival through rich archival footage, and provides a look into the contemporary drag movement for which the festival served as a foundation. It’s a celebration of New York drag culture, and the personalities and performances that contribute to the ways we understand queerness, art, and identity, today. Wig features Lady Bunny, Charlene Incarnate, Flotilla DeBarge, Kevin Aviance, Neil Patrick Harris, Willam, Linda Simpson, Naomi Smalls, Tabboo!</span>
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<p><span style="font-size:large">In 2020, Mia welcomed Transcripts: a podcast from the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project with the launch of the podcast&#8217;s first episode, which focused on the political history of Black trans activism. This year, join a panel discussion around Transcripts&#8217; Episode 2: &#8220;“The South deserves people like me”, a deep dive into how trans Southerners find their place in the South, even if it means literally building the houses themselves. Learn how housing justice intersects with queer and trans rights issues and make local Twin Cities connections with housing justice artist-activists. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:large">To learn more about the Tretter Trans Oral History Project, please visit <a href="http://ttohp.umn.edu/">website</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large"><a href=" https://www.lib.umn.edu/tretter/transgender-oral-history-project">The Tretter Trans Oral History Project</a> is part of The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies at the University of Minnesota.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:large"><a href=" http://ttohp.umn.edu/podcast/">Transcripts podcast</a>: A podcast of the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries is generously funded by TAWANI Foundation and the Minnesota Humanities Innovation Lab.<br />
Event Host: Ameriprise Financial</span>
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<p>DANCEFLOOR DANCEFLOOR is a guided dancefloor movement practice focused on moving the physical body to engage and release in the energetic body &#8211; informed by qigong, 5Rhythms Technique, and the magic of club spaces. After a gentle warm up, we&#8217;ll ride a curated sonic landscape to encourage release, reconnection, and some dancefloor magic. All bodies are welcome &#8211; no experience necessary.</p>
<p>This is a FREE, in-person event that will take place in Mia&#8217;s Reception Hall on the Third Floor of the museum. Please wear something you feel comfortable moving in. In alignment with the CDC guidance and with the lifting of the State of Minnesota and City of Minneapolis mask mandates, Mia will no longer require vaccinated visitors and staff to wear masks inside the museum. However, following CDC guidance, we strongly recommend face masks for visitors and staff who are not fully vaccinated. If you are planning to visit the museum galleries, please reserve your ticket in advance at artsmia.org/tickets or call 612-870-3000.</p>
<p>About the artist:<br />
Scott Stafford is a Minneapolis-based dancer, movement director, and teaching artist. He views expression as vital &#8211; accessible to every individual, and necessary to every lifestyle. He is currently producing a new dance work titled, &#8220;Honey&#8221; : a dance landscape of individuals in pursuit of expression, inspired by the bodies, movement and music of club spaces &#8211; featuring an original sonic score by Grammy Award winning producer, David Morales. &#8220;Honey&#8221; will premiere July 1st at The Walker Art Center. For more information on Scott Stafford, visit scottestafford.com.</p>


<p>Friday, June 18th<br />
5:30-6:30pm<br />
Why do queers love astrology so much? Join author, poet, and astrology nerd Juanada Petrus-Nasah for an evening of astrology, poetry, Black queer love, and aligning ourselves with the stars.</p>
<p>Registration not required, Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89098463604 </p>
<p>About the author:<br />
Junauda Petrus-Nasah is a writer, a soul sweetener, runaway witch, and performance artist of Black-Caribbean descent, born and working on Dakota land in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work centers around wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, shimmer and liberation. Her first YA novel, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award. And she really, really loves to eat and write about delicious food. She is the co-founder with Erin Sharkey of Free Black DIrt a Black, experimental healing art collective. She is currently working on her second novel Black Circus,  set in the 90s about a young, Black woman studying circus with a mysterious Black elder former circus performer.  </p>


<p>Celebrate Pride month learning about visionary and courageous artists from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Make a friendship bracelet for yourself and a friend, and take time to appreciate the many kinds of relationships in your life. You can also lend a hand to the collective chalk activity organized by <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/programs/teen/art-team/">Art Team</a> (Mia&#8217;s teen program), outdoors in the museum’s Target Plaza.</p>
<h2>Free Family Day Artist Totes</h2>
<p>During Junes Family Day weekend (June 12–13, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.), you can pick up a free Family Day Artist Tote at Mia’s Third Avenue entrance. In it you’ll find materials like embroidery floss, chalk, and coloring pages.</p>
<p>Materials in the kit complement the Virtual Family Day program’s activities but are not essential to enjoying the activities. Totes are available while supplies last.</p>
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We’re always here for you.

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Rituals of Resilience

My Mia Membership

Pride at Mia

Plan Your Visit

Upcoming Virtual Events

Dance Workshop: DANCEFLOOR DANCEFLOOR with Scott Stafford

Virtual Family Day: Express Your Love with Pride

Movies in the Park: Wig + Other Voices

Virtual Event: Star Gay-zing: An Astrology Poetry Reading for the Queers with Junauda Petrus-Nasah

Virtual Event: Transcripts: a podcast from the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project

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Making contact: “Supernatural America” explores our long fascination with the unexplained

The first gay art star supposedly succumbed to scandal—the truth is more complicated

Pride at Mia: Ollie Easter on museums, inclusion, and the art of fanny packs

Art and empathy: Four thought leaders explain the connection

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Plan Your Visit

Upcoming Virtual Events

Dance Workshop: DANCEFLOOR DANCEFLOOR with Scott Stafford

Virtual Family Day: Express Your Love with Pride

Movies in the Park: Wig + Other Voices

Virtual Event: Star Gay-zing: An Astrology Poetry Reading for the Queers with Junauda Petrus-Nasah

Virtual Event: Transcripts: a podcast from the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project

Blog

Making contact: “Supernatural America” explores our long fascination with the unexplained

The first gay art star supposedly succumbed to scandal—the truth is more complicated

Pride at Mia: Ollie Easter on museums, inclusion, and the art of fanny packs

Art and empathy: Four thought leaders explain the connection