Speakers

Jack Zipes is a retired U of M professor who had done scholarly work on fairy tales. He has authored more than 40 books on the subject, most recently a re-telling of the Russian tale of Fearless Ivan and His Faithful Horse. His other works include: Tales of Wonder: Retelling Fairy Tales through Picture Postcards (Minnesota, 2017); The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World; Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales; and Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry.

Sophie Martin spent her junior year of high school doing something bold: living in Indonesia as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student. Hear her account of her experience.

Herbs for  Autumn Health & Herb Walk

Free experiential class & herb walk by local Herbalist Angela Campbell

Snacks (including vegan and gluten-free options) and refreshments provided

Jonah Traaseth is the executive director of Spero. Spero works to prevent sex trafficking through community and economic development. Spero is based out of Minneapolis but does work primarily in South Asia. Spero works toward a self-sustaining model of human trafficking prevention. It works to empower local people to take on the problem of human trafficking by partnering girls homes, safe houses, and other programs with small start-up businesses. These start-up businesses provide economic opportunity for those who have been rescued out of trafficking, and they donate all of their profits to the programs dealing with the problems that trafficking creates. This creates a self-sustainable model that hits at the root causes of human trafficking.

https://www.spero-nonprofit.org

Angela Hinkley, the founder of the Ladies Rock Offroad Club, will give a Offroading 101 lesson to us City Slickers. Hint: offroading probably isn't what you're thinking!

Our exchange student, Alex, will talk about holidays in his native Mexico.

Please plan to arrive at Open Arms 10 minutes prior to your shift to get checked-in and put your personal items in lockers.

You MUST wear flat, CLOSED-TOE, stable shoes to be allowed in our kitchen(tennis shoes are preferable). Please wear comfortable clothing and leave your jewelry at home. We also request that volunteers wear shirts with sleeves, volunteers wearing tank tops may be asked to wear a chef’s coat.

Open Arms has a parking lot adjacent to our building.  If the lot is full, there is ample free parking on the street on Bloomington Avenue and 25^thStreet.

Individuals who are sick OR have someone in their home who is sick with a stomach bug in the last 72 hours will be unable to volunteer in the kitchen.

Finally, as you plan for your volunteer shift, please keep in mind that all ingredients are paid for by donations and no donation is too small.  We rely on your generosity so we can continue serve more clients in the Twin Cities!  http://www.openarmsmn.org/donate/ 

WHAT TO EXPECT:

The Open Arms of Minnesota building is located at 2500 Bloomington Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404. The staff host and chefs will break the group into smaller teams to work on various meal prep and packaging tasks. Kitchen tasks may include, but aren’t limited to, chopping vegetables, packaging savory soups, scooping cookie dough and assembling meals in our state-of-the-art kitchen. 

Interested in learning more about us before your volunteer experience? Read up on thework of Open Arms, learn about our clients, see the impact of our volunteersor just check outwhat’s newwith us!