Mark your calendars for our upcoming Artist Residency at MPUC on Sunday, November 12, 2023! The renowned Twin Cities artist Amiee Bryant will lead us in song and spirit with her expertise connecting music with mind, body, and soul. We are excited to present these wonderful opportunities to meet and collaborate with Amiee. This is an extraordinary adventure for our congregation as we continue our racial justice work and explore how we ground ourselves in body, mind, and music. In addition to her appearance on November 12, please consider joining her for these opportunities.
Saturday, November 4
8:30-12:00 pm in the Plymouth Room
Grab a cup of coffee and a pastry with Chancel Choir! Join us for a moving workshop with Amiee as she leads us in grounding, singing, and spirit. All are welcome to attend.
Wednesday, November 8
7:00-9:00 pm in the Rex Knowles Room
Sing together with Amiee and the Chancel Choir. All are welcome to join us in learning new music for our worship services.
Sunday, November 12
8:00-9:30 am in the Sanctuary
Join our joyful rehearsal as we prepare to sing for our worship service. Amiee will lead us in song as we prepare to sing for the 10 am worship service. All are welcome.
Sunday, November 12
11:15-12:15 pm in the Social Hall
Meet, greet, and learn from Amiee as she continues her residency of song and connection.
An artist of many trades, a professional actor, singer, songwriter, poet, dancer, and choreographer, she approaches creativity from an organic aesthetic. In the classroom, this begins with nurturing the voices of the students by using community-building activities to create a safe space in which they can be free to experiment with creative expression, take artistic risks, and explore and share their personal connection to the material. Aimee uses theater games, performance, movement, songwriting, spoken word, creative writing, and rhythm to help students find an alternate entrance into an academic curriculum. She wants to empower students to use collaboration as a problem-solving tool.
Often, students who are poor academic achievers are discovered to be brilliant artists. Aimee enjoys watching the transformation in their self-esteem when they find that they can be successful in class and the elevation of the value of that student to the class because of his/her artistic acumen.
Aimee has been performing in the Twin Cities for the last 20 years. Some of her professional highlights include Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun, Ensemble Member in For Colored Girls and Black Nativity, Sarah in Ragtime, and Marian the Librarian in The Music Man. City Pages named Aimee the Best Actress of 2015. Her original music can be heard on her debut CD “Becoming.”
Learn more about Amiee in her February 2018 Artist Spotlight interview, found at https://www.compas.org/news/2018/2/22/february-artist-spotlight-theatre-aficionado-aimee-bryant.