Healthy Community Initiative

This project was a proposal made by three students who are currently in English as a Second Language (ESL) at Northfield High School. Race: Are We So Different?, an exhibit currently at the Science Museum of Minnesota, helps visitors understand what race is and what it is not.  The youth leading this project had been looking at race throughout the fall semester and put forward this project idea in the hopes of involving more students in the conversation. YouthBank grant funds will cover the costs for 90 students to attend the exhibit and work with representatives from the Penumbra Theater to use theater as a way to reflect, spark dialogue, problem-solve, model solutions, and take action around the issues presented in the exhibit. The YouthBank team was excited by this project because it is a new way to broach the subject of race in our community and fits well into their grant theme of “creating community connections.”

Fiscal Agent:

Northfield Public School District