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Open House for Students to Visit HECUA's Twin Cities Programs in Action

Submitted by Romine on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 3:49pm

You’re invited to visit a HECUA program in session! HECUA is pleased to announce the following days that our Twin Cities-based programs are open and available to visiting prospective students this spring semester. We want students to get a glimpse of a never-typical day on a HECUA program.

Be one of the first to participate in HECUA's new New Zealand program!

Submitted by Mary on Wed, 12/28/2011 - 4:44pm

A Shared Future, Culture, and Environment is now accepting applications for its premier offering in fall 2012. Please consider joining this incredible semester based in Auckland, New Zealand, with travel and study planned all throughout the North Island. This program explores how social and environmental factors are shaping political and ecological dimensions of identity and culture, and how New Zealanders from many different backgrounds are envisioning--and creating--a shared future for their country.

March 15 and April 15 mark HECUA's program application deadlines, often schools have earlier deadlines

Submitted by Mary on Wed, 12/28/2011 - 4:09pm

March and April may seem a long way off as we just begin to welcome the New Year, but once the spring term/semester begins, time goes by much too quickly. Many students take advantage of the opportunity to work on their off-campus study applications over winter break. This is encouraged as many HECUA programs (even for spring 2013) fill up quickly due to the fact that so many schools now have year-out deadlines. Be sure to check with your home institution to know the policies and deadlines for applying to an off-campus study program.

Central Corridor Light Rail Construction: A New Season Awaits

Submitted by Romine on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 12:55pm

Last year, construction began on the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit (CCLRT) project that will connect the two downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Area businesses and community organizations lobbied elected officials and organized to ensure that the CCLRT project would minimize the negative impacts to the many communities that depend on the Corridor's current transit line of University Avenue for their livelihood.

Art Shanties Back on Medicine Lake in Plymouth, MN through February 5, 2012!

Submitted by Romine on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 11:26am

After a year-long hiatus, the Art Shanty Project (ASP) is back on Medicine Lake in Plymouth, Minnesota (west of downtown Minneapolis). According to their website, "Art Shanty Projects is a four-week exhibition that is part sculpture park, part artist residency and part social experiment, inspired by traditional ice fishing houses that dot the state's lakes in winter.

Special Guest, New Zealand Program Director, Peter Horsley, Visits Minnesota and Ohio

Submitted by Mary on Mon, 11/28/2011 - 2:33pm

HECUA and colleagues in New Zealand have developed an interdisciplinary program devoted to the interconnections of society and the environment in New Zealand, to be first offered in the fall semester 2012, and because of this new program November 28th through December 7th, 2011, HECUA will be hosting a very special guest. HECUA's New Zealand program director, Peter Horsley, has just flown to Minnesota for a whirlwind tour through HECUA consortium schools. He'll be in the Minneapolis/St.

ALERT: Application Deadline for Spring Domestic Programs is December 1st

Submitted by Mary on Mon, 11/28/2011 - 2:12pm

The deadline is fast approaching for students who are interested in participating in spring 2012 United States semester-long programs. Online applications must be received by December 1st, additional application elements (i.e., the signature page and an academic transcript) can be received after the deadline, but only if students are in touch with a HECUA recruitment representative or an on-campus off-campus studies advisor.

American Tensions, a reading hosted by Bill Reichard at Birchbark Book Store, November 10th

Submitted by Mary on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 4:53pm
American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice, a recently published anthology of collected writings that features selected fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction challenging the myth of a classless democracy, redefining the family, deconstructing American notions of race and patriotism, and tracking the growth of environmental awareness within the American psyche. HECUA's own, William Reichard, is the editor for the anthology and has organized some of the contributors to do a reading at Birchbark Books, a locally owned and operated bookstore in Minneapolis. Thursday, November 10th @ 7pm Birchbark Books and Kenwood Cafe 2115 West 21st Street Minneapolis, MN 55405

The Learning Fairy, now showing until November 12th at the Open Eye Figure Theater, co-directed by Molly Van Avery

Submitted by Mary on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 4:40pm
"If you want to see Peewee Herman and Courtney Love have a child, then you have to go to The Learning Fairy, because it does all that and more!" says Tim Carroll, a Minneapolis performance and installation artist. He featured The Learning Fairy as an Art Hound recently on Minnesota Public Radio. The Learning Fairy is the most recent productive of the Open Eye Figure Theater and preformances have been extended to November 12th because of popular demand. Molly Van Avery, an Instructor for both Writing for Social Change and City Arts at HECUA, worked closely to produce and direct this piece with Michael Soomers. This is for all aged children, from 5 to 95 years!

HECUA Participating in Give To the Max, November 16th

Submitted by Mary on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 4:28pm
GiveMN.org is once again hosting a Give to the Max day coming up on November 16th. Please mark your calendars for the "Great Minnesota Give!" and consider HECUA's scholarship fund as one of the few (or many!) projects that receives your attention and financial gift. We're asking that folks choose to donate $40 for our 40th anniversary, but any and all amounts are helpful. We appreciate your support and generosity.

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