Maja Beckstrom
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- Canadian AIDS play debuts in Rochester
MPR’s Maja Beckstrom profiles Warm Wind in China, a Canadian AIDS play debuting in Rochester. Report includes interview with playwright Kent Stetson.
- Energy tax and farmers
- Barn poems, rural verse
On this segment of First Friday, MPR’s Maja Beckstrom profiles barn poetry. An inspiration of New York poet Mark Mendel back in 1982, the poetry resides on the side of Goodhue County Road 6, outside of Red Wing, Minnesota.
- A Minneapolis Foundation art show of Clementine Hunter
MPR’s Maja Beckstrom reports on a Clementine Hunter exhibition at Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis. Segment includes commentary from an anonymous Minnesota collector friend of Clementine Hunter, along with Todd Bockley of Bockley Gallery.
- With Next Steps classes, Hmong women learn how to live daily life in U.S.
MPR’s Maja Beckstrom profiles Next Step classes, where Hmong women learn basic living skills for living in the United States. Reading a map or a clock are new experiences, skills not needed in their pre-literate farming communities in Laos.
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