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2010 Explore Your Roots Outdoor Discovery/Poetry with Marge Barrett

2010 Explore Your Roots Outdoor Discovery/Poetry with Marge Barrett

Exlore Your Roots: Outdoor Discovery & Writing at the Arboretum with poet Marge Barrett

Walking Series at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum June 2010

Saturday June 26- 8:30AM to 9:30AM

20.00 members, 25.00 non-members

www.arboretum.umn.edu

(952) 443-1400

Marge Barrett has published prose and poetry in numerous magazines, most recently in Plains Song Review, SN Review, The Broome Review, Dust and Fire, and online with hotmetalbridge.org and hotmetalbridge.net. A lyrical essay was included in The Best of the Web Anthology 2009 by Dzanc books. A memoir story, “The Flood,” will be included in the Minnesota Historical Press anthology, The State We’re In, coming out in spring 2010. Marge was the former editor of River Images for the St. Croix ArtBarn and faculty advisor of Ivory Tower for the University of Minnesota. She has taught in various high schools and colleges. Earning an MFA from the University of Minnesota, she won the Marcella DeBourg Fellowship and Honorable Mention in the Gesell Award for Excellence in Poetry. She has received creative work awards from St. Catherine University and grants to writing programs in Prague and St. Petersburg. Currently she teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2010 Hiking at the Arb with Kate Havelin: Essay Submission

Hiking Near Home: Learn about the Arboretum with Metro trail expert Kate Havelin

Saturday July 17th 8:30AM – 9:30AM

25.00 non members

20.00 members

www.arboretum.umn.edu

(952) 443-1400

Hike with trail expert, Kate Havelin, author The Best Hikes of the Twin Cities, Midwest Book Award Finalist. Be inspired along the way to create your submission to the Writers Rising Up essay contest (http://www.writersrisingup.org/) Registration includes essay contest entry fee.

Book Signing with Kate 11:00 to 12:00 noon at the Arboretum Store.

Free with Admission

Saturday, July 17th, 10AM – 11AM

2010 Explore Your Roots Outdoor Discovery/Poetry with Marge Barrett

Exlore Your Roots: Outdoor Discovery & Writing at the Arboretum with poet Marge Barrett

Walking Series at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum June 2010

Saturday June 26- 8:30AM to 9:30AM

$20.00 members, $25.00 non-members

www.arboretum.umn.edu

(952) 443-1400

Explore your roots and express yourself. Thoreau wrote those who are successful at sauntering are equally at home everywhere. Whether your walking style is ambling, meandering or sauntering, explore your roots and write about our home away from home with a local poet as your guide. Registration includes submission fee for Writers Rising Up poetry contest ((http://www.writersrisingup.org/)

Marge Barrett has published prose and poetry in numerous magazines, most recently in Plains Song Review, SN Review, The Broome Review, Dust and Fire, and online with hotmetalbridge.org and hotmetalbridge.net. A lyrical essay was included in The Best of the Web Anthology 2009 by Dzanc books. A memoir story, “The Flood,” will be included in the Minnesota Historical Press anthology, The State We’re In, coming out in spring 2010. Marge was the former editor of River Images for the St. Croix ArtBarn and faculty advisor of Ivory Tower for the University of Minnesota. She has taught in various high schools and colleges. Earning an MFA from the University of Minnesota, she won the Marcella DeBourg Fellowship and Honorable Mention in the Gesell Award for Excellence in Poetry. She has received creative work awards from St. Catherine University and grants to writing programs in Prague and St. Petersburg. Currently she teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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The Best Hikes of the Twin Cities 2010 Hiking at the Arb with Kate Havelin: Essay Submission

Hiking Near Home: Learn about the Arboretum with Metro trail expert Kate Havelin

Saturday July 17th 8:30AM – 9:30AM
$25.00 non members $20.00 members

www.arboretum.umn.edu

(952) 443-1400

Book Signing with Kate 11:00 to 12:00 noon at the Arboretum Store.

Free with Admission

Saturday, July 17th, 10AM – 11AM

Minnesota Children's Museum

Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice Roars Into Minnesota Children’s Museum Exhibit Runs Through May 31, 2010

Exhibit Utilizes New Research to Create Distinct Dinosaur Environments

Children will go face-to-face with the prehistoric world and meet dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes. The exhibit, created for children ages 3 – 10, will feature two distinct environments and a variety of activities. A Field Research Station allows children to step into the role of paleontologist by uncovering fossils with brushes and creating drawings of the dinosaur environment using fossil rubbings and tracings.

The steamy “Land of Fire” connects visitors with prehistoric home of the Triceratops and T-Rex. Children can circle the land in insect costumes and buzz through a volcano with oozing lava. Work through a swampy bog and climb into a Troodon’s nest and play with dinosaur eggs. No coats are needed for a trip across the “Land of Ice” where visitors meet two dinosaurs, a Pachycephalosaurus and Edmontosaurus, who made their homes in the cold climate of Alaska. Activities include: climbing rocky steps, breezing down an icy slide, and hoping across stepping stones in an icy river.

Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice utilizes new research about climates in which dinosaurs were able to survive and thrive. The discovery of numerous species of dinosaurs in the arctic is causing scientists to reconsider old theories about dinosaurs only living in tropical climates. It is now known that many dinosaurs, including Edmontosaurus and Troodon, lived in cold weather climates for at least part of the year.

Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice is the first child-centered exhibit in the country dedicated to expanding the understanding on dinosaur habitat and range. The exhibit will run through May 31, 2010.

More information:

MINNESOTA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

Minnesota Children’s Museum is a non-profit community educational organization committed to smart play: sparking children’s learning through play. Infants ages six months through children age 10 discover their world through hands-on exhibits in five permanent galleries: Our World connects children to people and places in their community as they role play “grown–ups” in a child-size environment; World Works encourages creativity and problem-solving through investigation and experimentation; Earth World immerses children in lifelike Minnesota habitats to nurture an understanding of the natural world; Habitot® enables infants and toddlers to safely explore four developmentally designed learning landscapes; and Rooftop ArtPark brings nature and art together in an outdoor gallery on the Museum’s fourth floor. Two special galleries offer exciting traveling exhibits from around the world. Fun drop-in programs such as Story Time and Big Fun! take place daily. Kid Spark, the Museum store, is located in the first floor lobby. Minnesota Children’s Museum has been providing children and adults with a fun, educational environment since 1981.

The Museum is located at Seventh and Wabasha streets in downtown St. Paul. For 24-hour information, visit www.MCM.org or call 651-225-6000.

Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice Roars Into Minnesota Children’s Museum Exhibit Runs Through May 31, 2010

Exhibit Utilizes New Research to Create Distinct Dinosaur Environments

Long before the Midwest was populated by corn fields and cows, dinosaurs roamed the land. A brand-new exhibit created by Minnesota Children’s Museum will allow children and adults to explore dinosaur habitats to better understand how these mysterious animals lived and use inquiry skills to examine what they left behind. Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice, opening, December 19, transports families back to the Cretaceous Period (145 – 65 million years ago), the time when dinosaurs last lived on earth. Children will go face-to-face with the prehistoric world and meet dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes. The exhibit, created for children ages 3 – 10, will feature two distinct environments and a variety of activities. A Field Research Station allows children to step into the role of paleontologist by uncovering fossils with brushes and creating drawings of the dinosaur environment using fossil rubbings and tracings. The steamy “Land of Fire” connects visitors with prehistoric home of the Triceratops and T-Rex. Children can circle the land in insect costumes and buzz through a volcano with oozing lava. Work through a swampy bog and climb into a Troodon’s nest and play with dinosaur eggs. No coats are needed for a trip across the “Land of Ice” where visitors meet two dinosaurs, a Pachycephalosaurus and Edmontosaurus, who made their homes in the cold climate of Alaska. Activities include: climbing rocky steps, breezing down an icy slide, and hoping across stepping stones in an icy river. Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice utilizes new research about climates in which dinosaurs were able to survive and thrive. The discovery of numerous species of dinosaurs in the arctic is causing scientists to reconsider old theories about dinosaurs only living in tropical climates. It is now known that many dinosaurs, including Edmontosaurus and Troodon, lived in cold weather climates for at least part of the year. Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice is the first child-centered exhibit in the country dedicated to expanding the understanding on dinosaur habitat and range. The exhibit will run through May 31, 2010. More information:

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