Leadership Center for social Justice and partners Host Spirit of water celebration


Afternoon Registration Form Below

Join us July 15, 2023 for a celebration with Mississippi River! Come gather to connect, learn, pray, engage, play, celebrate, and honor the spirit of water. This is event is co-presented with our partners:

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 of 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!

afternoon session | Hidden falls Regional Park

 
At 2:00 p.m., meet us at Saint Paul’s Hidden Falls Regional Park—just five miles (mostly south) from United. There, on the bank of Mississippi River, we will have a community celebration. There will be speakers, music, information booths, food, art, and plays areas for children. 
 
Here is the complete schedule for the afternoon:

Afternoon Session Schedule

Available throughout the day: Community Art Projects, Informational Booths, Face Painting, Trash Clean Up, Food

2:00 PM: Opening of the Space at Hidden Falls!

Attendees arriving at Hidden Falls. Check in at the welcome table to receive a free meal ticket for VBJ’s food truck.

2:30 PM: Words of Welcome

2:40 PM: Opening Ritual

2:50 PM: Water Ceremony

3:15 PM: Friends of Mississippi River Teach In

3:45 PM: Speaker

4:00 PM: Sunni Leilani

4:15 PM: Friends of Mississippi River Walk to the Locks and Dams

4:45 PM: Speaker

5:00 PM: Jayanthi Kyle

5:15 PM: Friends of Mississippi River Teach In

5:45 PM: Speaker

6:00 PM: Eóin Small

7:30 PM: Closing Circle led by RISE Coalition