Plus, this week marks a year since first COVID vaccine rollout
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| The Chanhassen Dinner Theater sits empty after having its doors closed for a year and a half. The theater recently canceled their upcoming production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, saying given the show's largely white cast, choosing a new show would allow the theater to continue towards equity and inclusivity. Courtesy of Kris Howland with Chanhassen Dinner Theater |
After having their doors closed and their seats empty for much of the past two years, theaters across the Twin Cities have found ways to help those affected by the pandemic and increase efforts to build a more diverse and equitable future for their stages.
“We changed our mindset to be: ‘We want to be a part of your stories,’” said Jack Reuler, the artistic director and founder of the Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis. “Listening became a really active ingredient.”
And after George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, the theater made space for local artists to share their responses to the incident. As protesting took to the Twin Cities streets, Mixed Blood became a food shelter feeding 300 families daily, held the “University Rebuild” movement in their parking lot and established a community watch program for the block surrounding the theater.
“We decided we were going to try to have that theater drive the change, be a part of the change, affect the change rather than just reveal the change that needs to be made,” Reuler said.
At another venue, Chanhassen Dinner Theater recently canceled their upcoming production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Their Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity statement describes the show as having a 98 percent white cast, and in the midst of the national cry for civil justice, choosing a new show would allow the theater to continue towards equity and inclusivity.
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Medical examiner testifies in Kimberly Potter's trial that Daunte Wright's gunshot wound wasn't survivable. Assistant Hennepin County Medical Examiner. Dr. Lorren Jackson said Wright's injuries to the heart and lungs would not have been survivable for more than seconds or minutes, but that he could have been conscious long enough to drive his car away, even after being shot. The car did drive off and hit a passing vehicle after Potter shot Wright.
A year ago this week, the first COVID-19 vaccine shots went into arms in the U.S. Trucks loaded with freezer-packed vials of a COVID-19 vaccine fanned out across the land, bringing shots that many hoped would spell the end of the crisis.
That hasn’t happened. A year later, too many Americans remain unvaccinated and too many are dying.
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