Gather
Join us at Room 203, our FITV home room & gathering space. We’re on the second floor of Old Central School in downtown Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Regular visiting hours will start soon.
Miigwech to our supporters for making this new space a reality!
First Friday Art Walk with Fire in the Village
Zine and Printmaking
Room 203 will be open 4pm-7pm for First Friday Art Walk!
We will have supplies out to make zines and our print table set up so you can make & take a print!
Come relax and enjoy some time hanging out with a creative community.
F.A.F.O Fireside Cinema | Rez Ball
The Chuska Warriors, a Native American high school basketball team from New Mexico, must band together after losing their star player if they want to keep their quest for a state championship alive.
Directed and co-written by Navajo filmmaker Sydney Freeland along with "Reservation Dogs" creator Sterlin Harjo. The film, produced by NBA star LeBron James' SpringHill Company, is inspired by Michael Powell’s non-fiction book Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation. It focuses on a Navajo high school team, the Chuska Warriors, aiming for a state championship.
Free to attend
Free will donations for popcorn & beverages!
Livingroom Concert- Keith Secola & Gary Farmer
Keith Secola and Gary Farmer make a surprise stop in Room 203!
Secola is a Native American Music Award winner; Keith Secola is an icon and ambassador of Native music. He is one of the most influential artists in the field today. Rising from the grassroots of North America, he is a songwriter of the people. Critics have dubbed him as the Native versions of both Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen. NDN Kars (Indian cars), his most popular song is considered the contemporary Native American anthem, achieving legendary status and earning him a well deserved cult following. It has been the number one requested song on tribal radio since the 1992. In 2011, he joined the ranks of Jimmy Hendrix, Hank Williams, Crystal Gale, and Richie Valens, and was inducted into the Native Music Hall of Fame.
Keith Secola
Gary Farmer
Gary Farmer is an actor, musician and producer. A prominent and respected figure in Indigenous film, having received three Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male in films Powwow Highway (1989), Dead Man (1995), and Smoke Signals (1998). Recent credits include series regular on Resident Alien for NBC Universal/SyFy Network, Reservation Dogs for FX/Hulu, The English for BBC/Amazon (September 2022). As a musician, he leads Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers, winning Best Americana Album at the 2023 New Mexico Music Awards.
6pm- Doors (Indian tacos with Keith and Gary before the show!)
7pm- Show
Free & kid-friendly event.
RSVP required, as space is limited!
Please email contact@fireinthevillage.org if you are unable to attend after RSVPing.
F.A.F.O- People Powered Print Potluck
Flock Around and Find Out with Fire in the Village on the third Wednesday of the month for People Powered Print Potluck!
Bring a dish to share if you like, a piece of fabric or clothing to print on, or just come as you are! We'll share a meal and will try fun and easy printmaking projects.
F.A.F.O- Paper in Fire | Community Writing Circle
Paper in Fire- Community Writing Circle
If you are reading this, you are invited to join our community writing circle!
Everyone welcome!
All you need to join is a notebook and an open heart!
Village artists will suggest a prompt, we will have some quiet time to write, then we will gather around and share over a soup supper.
F.A.F.O | Yoga & Uni-TEA
WE HAVE REACHED CAPACITY FOR THIS GATHERING!
Yoga and tea can seem sissy, but THIS yoga and THIS tea is for badass women, you see. Women need to rejuvinate, cuz they tire from carryin the weight. Men, don't feel left out, tend to the homefire while your partner is out.
This is a free gathering, registration is required to ensure a comfortable amount of space for everyone attending.
As space is limited, please let us know via email contact@fireinthevillage.org if you are unable to make it after registering so we may offer the opening to others.
Livingroom Music & Poetry Show: Rosetta Peters and JG Everest
Rosetta “Rosie” Peters and JG Everest performing
Paper in Fire Community Writing Circle in Room 203
Rosetta “Rosie” Peters and JG Everest performing
This is a suggested donation. We will offer sliding scale tickets at the door. No one will be turned away!
Join us for a livingroom music & poetry show!
Poet / storyteller Rosetta "Rosie" Peters and composer / musician JG Everest return to Grand Rapids for a special performance of their live poetry + music storytelling collaboration, featuring brand new material, as well as pieces from their acclaimed 2022 chapbook album, The Hummingbirds Dance. The combination of Peter's heartfelt and powerful stories and poetry, combined with Everest's cinematic and ethereal musical accompaniment is a transportive, transcendent alchemy that inspires and connects us all more deeply to our human experience.
Local writers from our 'Paper in Fire' community writing circle will open the show, sharing poetry, spoken word, and more! To sign-up to read, email shanai@fireinthevillage.org
Soup, bread, and other potluck goodies will be served - bring something to share if you like!
PERFORMER BIOS
Rosetta “Rosie” Peters is a Minnesota-based poet, author, public speaker, storyteller, and activist. She is excited to be a part of the revitalization of her ancestral language, Dakota, which is currently being taught at the University of Minnesota. She is of Yankton, Crow Creek, and Oglala descent. Rosetta hopes to learn the language and pass it on to future generations. She is a single mother of six beautiful children, four daughters and two sons. You can learn more about her on her website and hear poetry from her chapbook album with JG Everest, The Hummingbird's Dance on Bandcamp.
Composer / Musician / transdisciplinary artist JG Everest was born and raised in Imnížaska, Mni Sota Makoče (St Paul, MN) and is currently based in Minneapolis. He has been collaborating closely with poet / storyteller Rosetta Peters since 2017, releasing their debut "chapbook album", The Hummingbird's Dance, in 2022. He is a founding member of musical ensembles Lateduster, BLACKFISH, Roma di Luna, Sans Le Systeme, and Gold Minefield, and was music director and lead collaborator with acclaimed dance company Emily Johnson / Catalyst for over a decade, awarded a NY “Bessie” award for The Thank-you Bar in 2012. In 2016 he founded Wavelets Creative, a community arts organization focused on bringing transformative and collaborative arts experiences to our communities. He is a 2019 McKnight Composers Fellow. Learn more on his website jgeverest.com.
Creative Writing Workshop with Rosetta Peters
Rosetta “Rosie” Peters is a Minnesota-based poet, author, public speaker, storyteller, and activist. She is excited to be a part of the revitalization of her ancestral language, Dakota, which is currently being taught at the University of Minnesota. She is of Yankton, Crow Creek, and Oglala descent. Rosetta hopes to learn the language and pass it on to future generations.
Creative Writing Workshop
This workshop will take place at MacRostie Art Center in the Giinawind Creative Space!
Join us for a free creative writing and zine workshop in collaboration with MacRostie Art Center.
Visiting poet Rosetta ‘Rosie’ Peters will share poetry and prompts that focus on the heart and what it needs to heal. Writers of all ages and backgrounds are welcome.
-Free
-Feb. 24th
-5pm-8pm
Participants from this workshop have an opportunity to share their writing on February 25th and open a livingroom concert for Rosetta ‘Rosie’ Peters and JG Everest in Room 203 at the Old Central School.
https://www.fireinthevillage.org/events/rosetta-rosie-peters-jg-everest
Miletići: New Music From The Old Country at Sampaguita (Aitkin)
This is a suggested donation. We will offer sliding scale tickets at the door. No one will be turned away!
Miletići: New Music From The Old Country
Tickets $20 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds!
Miletići: New Music From The Old Country is Sam Miltich's newest musical project. The name Miletići is the plural of Sam and Matthew Miltich's traditional Croatian last name Miletic' and the name of the village where Matthew's father was raised as a child.
This new ensemble focuses on music from Dalmatia, The Balkans, and the broader Eastern and Central European region. The band draws their repertoire from traditional Tamburica (Tamburitza) and Romani Cocek music from the Balkans, Klapa music from Dalmatia, and Jewish Klezmer and traditional Slavic folk songs from Central and Eastern Europe.
The band is composed of Sam Miltich as the leader playing both guitar, tambura, and singing vocals, Matthew Miltich on upright bass and vocals, Mark Kreitzer on mandolin and guitar, and Tony Balluff on clarinet. What sets this ensemble apart from other traditional folk ensembles is that all of the band members are full time jazz musicians. Miletici puts new twists on old music by infusing the band's love of improvisation into traditional music. You might hear traditional Dalmatian Klapa music played with a latin-jazz groove, Klezmer songs played in an American-swing rhythm, or open improvised solo sections on a Romani Cocek from Macedonia. It is this spirit of improvisational exploration that truly sets this ensemble apart.
We hope you will join us and enjoy a new modern take on traditional classics from the eastern half of Europe.
Sam Miltich is a self-taught jazz guitarist born and raised in the woods of northern Minnesota. Sam burst on to the hot club jazz scene in his teens, joining Paul Mehling's Hot Club of San Francisco and touring internationally with the world-renowned Robin Nolan Trio. Sam's fluid and instinctive sound has graced hundreds of stages, from small towns on the Iron Range to New York's Lincoln Center. In addition to fronting his own band, the Clearwater Hot Club, Sam frequently performs solo and has recorded and performed with many of the Twin Cities' top jazz artists. His website is sammiltichmusic.com
F.A.F.O People Power Print Potluck
Flock Around and Find Out with Fire in the Village on the third Wednesday of the month for People Power Print Potluck!
Bring a dish to share if you like, a piece of fabric or clothing to print on, or just come as you are! We'll share a meal and will try fun and easy printmaking projects.
F.A.F.O Fireside Cinema- Last of the Dogmen | PG (1995)
A Montana bounty hunter and an anthropologist discover a tribe of Native Americans living in a settlement isolated from the rest of the world.
Free to attend!
Free will donations for popcorn & beverages!
Bring a camp chair or pillow to get cozy on our big rug.
We’ll have comfy chairs for elders & others who require seating.
Creative Writing Workshop with Rosetta 'Rosie' Peters
Join visiting poet Rosetta “Rosie” Peters for this free Saturday morning writing workshop! Rosie will share poetry and prompts that focus on the heart and what it needs to heal. Writers of all ages and backgrounds are welcome. After the workshop, stick around for a potluck lunch and sharing space with Fire in the Village and friends.
Rosetta “Rosie” Peters
is a Minnesota-based poet, author, public speaker, storyteller, and activist. She is excited to be a part of the revitalization of her ancestral language, Dakota, which is currently being taught at the University of Minnesota. She is of Yankton, Crow Creek, and Oglala descent. Rosetta hopes to learn the language and pass it on to future generations. She is a single mother of six beautiful children, four daughters and two sons. You can learn more about her on her website and hear poetry from her chapbook album with JG Everest, The Hummingbird's Dance, on Bandcamp.
Yoga and Uni-TEA
We have reached capacity for this gathering!
Yoga and tea can seem sissy, but THIS yoga and THIS tea is for badass women, you see. Women need to rejuvinate, cuz they tire from carryin the weight. Men, don't feel left out, tend to the homefire while your partner is out.
Free to attend
Bring a yoga mat
Save the Boundary Waters Benefit Concert at KBC (Grand Rapids)
We are throwing a pop up benefit concert for Save the Boundary Waters! Free will donations, all ages welcome!
We have an epic lineup of musicians supporting the cause:
12:30-1:30 Ditty Wish
2:00-3:00 Annie Humphrey
3:30-4:30 Austin Lunn of Panopticon featuring Andy Klockow
5:00-6:00 McKeon Hugh Roberts featuring Jed LaPlant
7:00-9:00 Tattletale
Twisted Sisters Pretzel Co will be serving freshly baked pretzels all day.
Fire in the Village will bring their mobile printmaking station from 12pm-2pm- bring items you'd like to have printed on!
Klockow Brewing Company will donate a portion of the day's proceeds to Save the Boundary Waters.
See how you can help here if you can't make it: https://www.savetheboundarywaters.org/action-center
F.A.F.O- Paper in Fire
Paper in Fire- Community Writing Circle
If you are reading this, you are invited to join our community writing circle!
Everyone welcome!
All you need to join is a notebook and an open heart!
Village artists will suggest a prompt, we will have some quiet time to write, then we will gather around and share over a soup supper.
Remember Who We Are- Talking Circle
“Sometimes in this life, in this tech-no-logic reality, we forget who we are and we forget we are power. We will gather, center, eat, laugh and be coherent together." -Annie Humphrey
On the final Sunday of each month we invite you to gather with Fire in the Village and artist Annie Humphrey to remember who we are.
Gatherings happen in our new Fire in the Village home space in #203 on the second floor of Old Central School in downtown Grand Rapids, MN. All are welcome.
Sit among friends and reconnect with your spirit. Everyone is welcome!
F.A.F.O- People Powered Print Potluck
Flock Around and Find Out with Fire in the Village on the third Wednesday of the month for People Powered Print Potluck!
Bring a dish to share if you like, a piece of fabric or clothing to print on, or just come as you are! We'll share a meal and will try fun and easy printmaking projects.
F.A.F.O Fireside Cinema- School of Rock
Bring a camp chair or pillow to get cozy on our big rug.
We’ll have comfy chairs for elders & others who require seating.
Fire in the VIllage Winter Break
Fire in the Village is taking a winter solstice break ! We’ll resume regular open hours and community space at Room 203 the week of January 7th.
Always be brave!
F.A.F.O- People Powered Print Potluck
Flock Around and Find Out with Fire in the Village on the third Wednesday of the month for People Powered Print Potluck!
Bring a dish to share if you like, a piece of fabric or clothing to print on, or just come as you are! We'll share a meal and will try fun and easy printmaking projects.
Flock Around & Find Out- Fireside Cinema
Get into the holiday spirit with a Christmas classic! Fireside Cinema will will be showing How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
The Jim Carrey movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a hilarious, live-action adaptation of the Dr. Seuss story about a cynical, green creature who lives in a cave overlooking the cheerful town of Whoville. The humor comes from Carrey's over-the-top performance as the Grinch, whose anti-Christmas plan involves stealing everything related to the holiday, and the absurdity of his interactions with the relentlessly optimistic Whos. The film's comedy also stems from his reluctant interactions with the sweet Cindy Lou Who, his begrudging attendance at the Whoville holiday ceremony, and his general grumpiness throughout the chaos he causes.
First Friday with Fire in the Village! $20 Below Sale! (Panel Discussion Rescheduled to Feb. 6th!)
Join Fire in the Village for First Friday Art Walk in Room 203!
This month ... We'll have a '20 Below Art Sale' ... Art and other handcrafted and upcycled gifts for $20 bucks or less!
Always be brave!
Livingroom Show with P.O.S. of Doomtree and Justice Humphrey
We’re transforming Room 203 into Grand Rapid’s only listening room, bringing together established and emerging artists with relevant and powerful voices.
Expect the Unexpected!
NOVEMBER 29th @ Room 203 :
Stefon Alexander, aka P.O.S. >>>
Doomtree co-founder, punk philosopher and lyrical bomb-thrower Stefon Alexander, aka P.O.S, makes tight, declamatory music that builds on the Minneapolis-bred rapper and producer’s penchant for grinding beats and radical lyrics.
Justice Humphrey >>>
Justice Humphrey is a poet from the Leech Lake Reservation whose voice reflects an honesty and raw emotion born of his life experience and the power of artisitic expression.
Flock Around & Find Out- Paper in Fire
Paper in Fire- Village Writing Circle
On the 4th Wednesday of the month we invite writers of all ages and abilities to join us for Paper in Fire, a new monthly creative writing circle!
No need to RSVP, just bring your notebook and an open heart! Village artists will suggest writing prompts - we'll have time to write quietly inside Old Central School - and we'll come back together at 7:30PM to share what we're ready to share over a simple soup supper. Young writers (under age 16) will join a seperate circle for youth in a nearby classroom, giving their adults some time to focus!
If you have any questions shanai@fireinthevillage.org
Flock Around and Find Out- People Powered Print Potluck
Flock Around and Find Out with Fire in the Village on the third Wednesday of the month for People Powered Print Potluck!
There will be hot frybread. Bring a dish to share if you like, a piece of fabric or clothing to print on, or just come as you are! We'll share a meal and will try fun and easy printmaking projects.
Fire in the Village presents Remembering John Trudell
GET TICKETS HERE
John Trudell has been physically gone for ten years now. His life and words continue to matter. John reminds us that if we use our intelligence and stay coherent, we will outlast them. This evening will not only celebrate his memories, wisdom, heart and love, but will revive his voice to make his words part of our own truth. This will help the powerless realize that they are anything but.
REMEMBERING JOHN TRUDELL will feature:
Annie Humphrey and Keith Secola will give performances with guitarist Jeremy Ylvisaker and drummer Sean Carey. Video performance with Mark Shark & Quiltman. Art making with Fire in the Village.
Fire in The Village is a collective of artists and cultural organizers who build & sustain spiritual fires of connection where we live – in Anishinaabe territory, or rural northern Minnesota – and in arts and music communities across the region.
Flock Around & Find Out- Fireside Cinema
November is National Native American Heritage Month! November’s film is Thunderheart.
Free to attend
Free will donations for popcorn and beverages!
Bring a camp chair or pillow to get cozy on our big rug.
We’ll have comfy chairs for elders & others who require seating.
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105585/
Fire in the Village presents: Warriors & The Powerless
Saturday, November 8th
Headwaters Music & Arts
519 Minnesota Ave NW, Bemidji
Convert Tickets $5-20 Suggested— get them online here.
Join arts and culture collective Fire in the Village for a creative community gathering to feed our fires of inspiration, build our power, and remember who we are. This event is co-hosted by Headwaters Music & Arts and is a benefit for Voyageurs Expeditionary School students to support music and art education!
12-2PM
Remember Who We Are
Gather together for art-making and storytelling around a shared community meal. We will tell our stories and dreams and feed the fire we each carry within.
Social Hour 6PM; Music 7PM
Music for Warriors & The Powerless
An evening of music and stories with Annie Humphrey and friends. Before the show begins, join us for a spirited social hour – always be brave!
Learn more and get tickets: fireinthevillage.org/tour
TONIGHT’S SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS:
Corey Medina: https://coreymedina.com
Corey Medina was born and raised in the small town of Shiprock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Reservation. In 2012 he relocated to another small town called Bemidji in Northern Minnesota. His early musical influences came out of what his mom and uncles listened to: blues, classic country, soul, classic rock and metal. Growing up with a single mom and a rebellious heart, Corey quickly learned what the “blues” was and meant.
Even though Corey loves to just write and play music, his mission is to spread a message of hope and encouragement to every tribe and tongue that has felt hopeless and held back in life by fear, shame and hurt.
Lakota John | https://www.musicmaker.org/artist/john-lakota-john-locklear
John Lakota Locklear, born in 1997, grew up listening to his dad’s music collection. At 7 years old, he picked up the harmonica and, at 7, his first guitar. Intrigued by the sound of the slide guitar, by 10 he had bought himself a glass slide, placed it on his pinky finger and has been sliding ever since. Today, Mama Tonya, Papa John and Sister Layla join him to form a proud Lumbee Nation family of talented musicians.
The Lumbee Nation includes 50,000 members who call the enchanting area around Lumberton, North Carolina, with its swamps and cypress trees, home. The tribe has resided along the banks of the Lumbee River, from which they take their name, since the mid-1700s. It is the largest tribe east of the Mississippi but has yet to gain federal recognition.
Fire in the Village presents: Warriors & The Powerless
Friday, November 8th, 2025
Room 203 at Old Central School
10 NW 5th Street, Grand Rapids, MN
Tickets $5-20 Suggested — no one turned away!
Join arts and culture collective Fire in the Village for a creative community gathering to feed our fires of inspiration, build our power, and remember who we are. This event is also part of our Give a Sh*t! Mini Gala and fundraiser.
Silent Art Auction 4-7PM
Social Hour 6PM; Music 7PM
Music for Warriors & The Powerless
An evening of music and stories from Annie Humphrey and friends. Tonight’s special guest musician is John “Lakota John” Locklear, who combines the blues with the Indigenous music of his Lumbee ancestors.
Before the show begins, join us for a spirited social hour – always be brave!
Learn more and get tickets: fireinthevillage.org/tour
About Our Guest Artist:
John Lakota Locklear, born in 1997, grew up listening to his dad’s music collection. At 7 years old, he picked up the harmonica and, at 7, his first guitar. Intrigued by the sound of the slide guitar, by 10 he had bought himself a glass slide, placed it on his pinky finger and has been sliding ever since. Today, Mama Tonya, Papa John and Sister Layla join him to form a proud Lumbee Nation family of talented musicians.
The Lumbee Nation includes 50,000 members who call the enchanting area around Lumberton, North Carolina, with its swamps and cypress trees, home. The tribe has resided along the banks of the Lumbee River, from which they take their name, since the mid-1700s. It is the largest tribe east of the Mississippi but has yet to gain federal recognition.
CANCELED: Fire in the Village presents Warriors & The Powerless in Duluth
We’re sorry, but tonight’s show at Zeitgeist has been canceled due to illness ~ we will try our best to reschedule a Duluth concert soon!
Thursday, October 6th
Zeitgeist Duluth
Ticket $5 - $20 Suggested (No one turned away!)
Join arts and culture collective Fire in the Village for a creative community gathering to feed our fires of inspiration, build our power, and remember who we are. This event is co-hosted by Macalester College and Long Lake Conservation Center.
Social Hour 6PM; Music 7PM
Music for Warriors & The Powerless
An evening of music and stories with Annie Humphrey and friends. Before the show begins, join us for a spirited social hour – always be brave!
Learn more and get tickets: fireinthevillage.org/tour
Flock Around And Find Out- Creative Crow Club
The first Wednesday of the month is for the youth!
Join Fire in the Village for Creative Crow Club, a youth-centered art space where everyone can explore their artistic gifts, find their voice, and build a caring creative community! Join us from 6-8PM for a shared meal and fun creative projects to make and take home.
Fire in the Village presents: Warriors & The Powerless
Saturday, November 1st
Sampaguita
204 Minnesota Ave N in Aitkin, MN
Tickets $5-20 Suggested
(No one turned away)
Join arts and culture collective Fire in the Village for a creative community gathering to feed our fires of inspiration, build our power, and remember who we are.
12-2PM
Remember Who We Are
Gather together for art-making and storytelling around a shared community meal. We will tell our stories and dreams and feed the fire we each carry within.
Social Hour 6PM; Music 7PM
Music for Warriors & The Powerless
An evening of music and stories with Annie Humphrey and friends. Before the show begins, join us for a spirited social hour – make art, not war!
Learn more and get tickets: fireinthevillage.org/tour