Semilla Center will host May Day Community Builds!
Join us at Semilla Center to build puppets for the 2024 May Day Parade! Everybody is welcome. No experience required. Mondays, April 8, 15, 22 & 29: 6-8pmAddress: 2742 15th Ave S (Inside St. Paul’s Church / Iglesia San Pablo) El Centro Semilla abrirá sus puertas para Talleres Comunitarios de May Day!! ¡Únete a Semilla […]
Beauty in Our Streets – Peace Procession and Poetry
Las Posadas: A Community Peace Procession Semilla Center and St. Paul’s Church co-hosted a traditional Posada and Peace Procession on December 16. Neighbors and friends created colorful lanterns at our workshops at the Midtown Global Market and Semilla Center, which we carried through the neighborhood while singing songs of peace and belonging in both Spanish […]
Give to the MAX! Post-Barebones reflection and Upcoming Lantern FREE Workshops
Barebones Annual Halloween Extravaganza, “Decomposed/Recomposed,” shows were a magical community experience, even with the performance site at the Greenway covered with snow for the last show on Halloween! More than 5000 people saw the show and 220 staff and volunteers were involved. The Semilla Studio and St. Paul’s Church were vibrant and pulsing with all […]
New Co-Directors and Giant Puppets: An Exciting New Chapter for Semilla!
Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts is very excited to announce our new Executive Co-Directors, Sofía Padilla and Heather Hinrichsen. Sofía is a Mexican theater artist, director, puppet designer, teaching artist and puppeteer. Heather is a Spanish-speaking bilingual educator, teaching artist and stained glass artist from Minnesota, who first learned to make mosaics with […]
Southside Semilla Celebration!
Sunday, June 25, 4-7 pm Kick off summer 2023 with a BANG! It was a long winter, and a long time of isolation during the pandemic. The Semilla Center is holding a celebration of life in our Southside neighborhood, and a chance to plant beauty in the community. Come and make art that can become […]
A New Year Full of Light
The pictures in this message are from the “Be the Light” Solstice event that Semilla put on at the Westwood Nature Westwood Hills Nature Center. It was in the middle of our bitter cold spell, but look at these wonderful creations of light, shape and color made by artists Alison Heimstead, Duane Tougas, Mary Jo […]
Seeding a New Community
When I inserted the picture above, Google stated that it was “a close up of some art work”! Of course, that depends how you look at it. We see the beautiful handiwork of Mya, one of our Young Leaders this summer. Mya is 14 years old, quiet, maybe a bit shy. But her artwork shows […]
Blooming Together!
This summer, Semilla has been focusing on creating peace through beauty on and around Bloomington Avenue South in Midtown Phillips neighborhood, our home. Last summer, our theme was “Together/Juntos,” as coming together again after being separated from the pandemic was thrilling. This year, we take that theme a step further with “Blooming Together” and hope […]
Peace Lantern Procession
Dear Phillips Neighbors, All Who Came to Semilla’s Art Parties last Summer, and Everyone Else Who Digs Lanterns, Music and Peace! Please join us! Join Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts in partnership with St. Paul’s Lutheran Church for a lantern procession, community singing, live musical performances and dreamy video projection on Friday, Dec. […]
Back to normal?
No, better than that! You’re probably tired of hearing “Will we ever get back to normal?” We are too! The last 20 months have been challenging to all of us. But it’s also given us at the Semilla Center a chance to rethink our role in the community, and re-imagine new ways of transforming through […]