Leadership Center for Social Justice and Partners Host Spirit of Water Celebration
August 10 at 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm CDT
Join us August 10, 2024, for a celebration with Mississippi River! Gather with us to connect, learn, pray, engage, play, celebrate, and honor the spirit of water. This year, we will meet at Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul from 5:00–8:00 PM for a community celebration featuring speakers, music, booths, food, art, and play areas for children.
These partners are co-presenting the event:
- Resilient Indigenous Sisters Engaging (R.I.S.E. Coalition)
- Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light
- Friends of the Mississippi River
The event is designed to highlight the care and responsibility involved in protecting and sharing valuable water resources—like Mississippi River—that in today’s world are often hidden by infrastructure and institutions. We will focus upon themes of gratitude, celebration, unity, coming together, the commonality of water as a presence in our life, reverence, respect, and honor for our water and all that is sacred.
Want to get involved? Fill out an interest form today!
Schedule
| 5:00 PM | Opening Ceremony |
| 5:30 PM | Music—Eóin Small with Nukewatch |
| 6:15 PM | Speaker—R.I.S.E. Coalition |
| 6:30 PM | Music—SUNNI Leilani |
| 7:15 PM | Speaker—Friends of the Mississippi Teach In |
| 7:30 PM |
Closing Ceremony and Water Walk with By and For Trans and Non-binary Community Song Circle |
Special Thanks
We owe an extra special thanks to these individuals and organizations who are supporting and providing learning opportunities for Spirit of Water!
Axis Mundi Catering
By and For Trans and Non-Binary Community Song Circle
Minnehaha United Methodist Church
Minnesota Conservation Federation
Studio To Go
Temple of the Living Waters