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Thursday will be our warmest day this week but it won’t be sunny. We’ll have a few showers and a mix of clouds and sun. More showers develop later into Thursday night and Friday with cooler weather setting in for the weekend. Get the latest on Updraft.
🎧 Coming up at 9 a.m. Thursday, MPR News host Angela Davis speaks with two Minnesotans who support families and play a role in teaching communities how to create healthy, thriving families. We’ll talk about different parenting strategies.

We want to hear from you, too. How did you learn how to parent? Is there an approach you know now that you wish you had known earlier? What questions do you have for our guests? Call us at (651) 227-6000 or (800) 242-2828 or message Angela on Facebook.
 
Art Hounds: Palestinian couple revisits Haifa in US premiere play

South Minneapolis playwright and poet William Nour recommends “Returning to Haifa” by Pangea World Theater. This is a U.S. premiere of a play based on a novella by Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani.

Eric Heukeshoven is the director of Worship, Music and Arts for Central Lutheran Church in Winona, Minn. He says he’s “really excited” to attend “Portraits,” the spring concert for the Winona Symphony.

Holly Harrison is a freelance writer and a creative located in south Minneapolis, and she recently attended a performance of “Othello: The Remix” by Minneapolis Musical Theatre.
 
What else we're watching:
Fashion show from international Hmong Thai designers premieres in St. Paul. The Hmong Thai Fashion Show is the first international show St. Paul’s Center for Hmong Arts and Talent is hosting. Six brands will be featured in the show, which is expected to draw about 400 people. 

'Earth is our mother': Minnesota farm addresses climate change by reintroducing bison, Ojibwe horses. It’s a waterlogged spring after a snowy winter, but the growing season is almost upon us. It’s a busy time of year for farmers like David Wise, who is juggling quite a few projects, including reintroducing bison and Ojibwe horses to his farm in Northern Minnesota.

A play written more than 2,000 years ago gets a modern, Minnesota twist. Author Anne Burt's novel “The Dig” wrestles with the age-old issues of power and control underlying very modern realities of immigration and urban development in a small fictional Minnesota town named Thebes.

Rod Adams endured years of hardships because of a marijuana conviction. Now, Minnesota could legalize the drug. Adams’ felony, which he received at age 17 as a juvenile, prevented him from renting an apartment until he was 26. He also had trouble finding work, and often took thankless jobs like washing dishes.

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Minnesota Public Radio and the Star Tribune are taking Talking Volumes on the road with two special events in Greater Minnesota this May. These special Talking Volumes pop-up events will be hosted by award-winning journalist Kerri Miller.
 
Join us on May 6 at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester as Kerri sits down with author and illustrator of the "CatStronauts" series and "Waffles and Pancake" series, Drew Brockington. 
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We will head north to Duluth for our second spring Talking Volumes event where Kerri will interview William Kent Krueger at Mitchell Auditorium at the College of St. Scholastica on May 18. 
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