The Performance
Families gathered to watch the 30 minute performance that opened the evening.
Student Projects – The Festival
Kindergarteners
Kindergarteners spent time learning a few different dances. On the night of the event they danced with their family members.
Grade 1/2 Students
Grade 3/4 Students
Middle School Students
The middle schools students in this group also created a Google Maps list of BIPOC owned restaurants in our neighborhood. They handed out the list during the event.
Middle School Students
Middle School Students
Middle School Students
What is Peace: A Friends School of Minnesota Documentary
Students created a video about what peace means to the people in our community. We interviewed parents, teachers, staff, students, and other community members. They edited the video and showed it at the FGRJ Celebration!
Middle School Students
The Philando Castile Peace Garden Informational Table
The Philando Castile Peace Garden Informational Table presented information about Philando and the organizations made in his honor. We researched his life, his murder, the Peace Garden, and Central Honors Philando by reading a variety of sources, interviewing a member of the Garden’s board and a friend of Philando’s, and finally visiting the garden itself. We compiled this information into two posters to present to our community during the Friends Gathering.
Middle School Students
When students met with the Hamline-Midway Coalition they learned more about the gravel bed tree nursery on our playground. The coalition gives out the trees to neighborhood residents for free. Areas that have lower tree equity and higher temperatures get the free trees first. Since the FGRJ event, the trees have been planted in the nursery and 5th and 6th grade students have been helping water the trees daily while the irrigation system is being updated.
Middle School Students
Raising Money for Mutual Aid
Middle school students hosted a carnival to fundraise for Frogtown Rondo Mutual Aid. There was a spin the wheel, guess the number of jolly ranchers, and a ball toss game. They also sold scoops of ice cream. During the project they learned about the difference between giving to a mutual aid organization and non-profit organization. They raised over 400 dollars!
Spiritual Life Committee
The FSMN Spiritual Life Committee invited our community to contemplate peace and racial justice.
What are three things you can do for racial justice?
Who is one of the most peaceful people you know?
How does peace sound to you?
How does your body feel when you are at peace?
If racial justice was a color, what might it look like?
What does peace feel like?
Then community members were invited to decorate our “peace” tree.
