Tending Home: A Book Project
Sunday Picnic Concert
at Agate Acres Farm
1109 Two Harbors Rd, Two Harbors, MN
Sunday, June 12
Doors Open @ 11:30 am
Concert @ 12-1 PM
Join us at Agate Acres farm in Two Harbors, MN on Sunday, June 12th for a free picnic concert with music by Kyle Ollah, a multi-faceted strings player from Duluth, Minnesota!
Bring your own lunch and picnic blanket. We’ll provide music on the lawn with the Little Knife River as your backdrop.
Farm tours will be available following the concert. This is a great chance to see a working CSA vegetable and flower farm up close!
This event is free and open to the public, and made possible by a 2021 grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council for the book project Tending Home by Jolene Brink, which asks North Shore residents to consider: what does it means to remain connected to a place, and tend to it, even as it changes?
During the event attendees will be asked to fill out a brief survey about how climate change has impacted or influenced their relationship with the Duluth region.
In case of rain, this event will be moved to Zoom.
About Kyle Ollah
Kyle Ollah is a multi-faceted strings player from Duluth, Minnesota. Equally versed as a solo artist as he is as a music collaborator, his fingerstyle guitar work and folk fiddling have become well-lit fixtures in clubs and dance halls across the upper-midwest. In late 2018 Kyle was awarded a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council to record and release Used To Wear That Old Straw Hat, but Now You Wear the Crown, his first full-length solo album of American folksongs. He and Charlie Parr collaborated on the title track of Ollah’s 2016 EP, Wouldn’t Mind Working From Sun to Sun, as well as Parr’s Red House Records EP, I Ain’t Dead Yet.
About Agate Acres
Agates Acres strives to build a deep community that cultivates and strengthens the connection between land, people, and food. Established in 2020 by Emily Richey and Kyle Cook, Agate Acres offers a vegetable and flower CSA that delivers to Two Harbors, Beaver Bay, and Tofte. In the Fall of 2022, they will begin hosting weddings, dinners, parties of all sorts, concerts, and more!
About Jolene Brink
Jolene Brink is the author of Peregrine (Red Bird Chapbooks), winner of the 2014 Merriam-Frontier Award. Her work has appeared in Orion, the Carolina Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana and currently lives with her partner and son in Two Harbors, MN where she works for Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center.
This activity is made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, thanks to appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature's general and arts and cultural heritage funds
Climate Change Is Here. Where is Home?
In 2019, the New York Times published an article calling Duluth, MN a climate refuge based on geographic factors making it, "one of the few places in America where the effects of climate change may be more easily managed." But how does a city prepare for a predicted climate migration? How does a prediction impact residents who already call that place home? But more importantly, what does it means to remain connected to a place, and tend to it, even as it changes?
Please help me answer these questions by taking this short survey.
As part of a grant I received in 2021 from Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, I need to collect 50 responses from this survey below before May 1, 2022. I’ll be drawing names from survey participants in early May. If I pick your name and you live in the Duluth area, I’ll bring you a dozen homemade doughnuts! If you live in the Twin Cities or beyond, you’ll receive a gift certificate from a bakery close to your home.
Your responses will help expand into a book project I’m currently working on funded with generous support by the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council.