A six-day Kwanzaa celebration will bring art, meditation and communal gatherings to the Midtown Global Market this weekend. At the Hook and Ladder Theater, Nur-D kicks off an early New Year’s countdown and Twin Cities musicians perform experimental jazz live at Berlin.
The launch of an elder collective
If you spend an hour with elder Atum Azzahir, the founder of Minneapolis’ Cultural Wellness Center, you start to see modern America through a different lens.
You notice the way people rigidly stand in line at the grocery store, the distance we keep from one another on the sidewalk and the digital silos we retreat into behind our phone screens. For Azzahir, these aren’t just social habits. They are symptoms of a deeper disconnection.
Born in Mississippi in 1943, Azzahir’s worldview was forged in the segregated South, where community was a requirement for survival. A recent trip to Kenya reinforced her belief that human beings are meant to be close…