*Granite Falls: Tracings- A Creative Walk

This will be an easy walk on a paved path suitable for adult walkers of all levels, and handicapped accessible as well. We will make frequent stops along the way to engage with nature and explore our senses and take about one hour total. Please wear suitable clothing and shoes, and bring a bottle of water. Other supplies will be provided. This will be a small group experience so advanced registration will be required and can be done with the below link:

(Event rain date of Thursday, August 3rd 5:30-6:30 PM)

(Cover photo courtesy of “tracings” video still credit: Sydney
Swanson)

Artist Bio:
Sharon Mansur is an Arab/SWANA (Southwest Asian/North African) American experimental dance and interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and community mover and shaker based in the Mississippi river town of Winona, MN, Dakota land. Mansur’s creative practice integrates improvisation, somatics, site responsive actions, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Ongoing research includes her Lebanese heritage, in betweenness, subtle dialogues between private and public layers of self and environment, and collaborative play as a potent energy of connection and transformation. Mansur’s performances, visual installations and screendance projects have been presented throughout the U.S, and internationally. Current collaborations include “Wayfinding”, with Lebanese American dance/film artist Meryl Murman, “Motion State” with film curator Michelle Baroody, and tracings: a creative walking project. Sharon curates The Cedar Tree Project, amplifying art and artists from the Arab /SWANA diaspora, and SHIFT~ experimental performance salons. She has taught and facilitated creative group experiences for over thirty years in a variety of settings for youth and adults, ranging from universities, community centers, yoga studios, outdoors in nature and the built environment.

This event series is supported in part by grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council made possible by the voters of Minnesota, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.