Love Letters for the Midway

04/22/2024

Tuesday night is the night for "On Blackness, History, & Writing for the Stage." Join Antonio Duke, Carolyn Holbrook, and I Hawona Sullivan Janzen for this online reading and conversation, on. Register at: https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/65f85287ad1be248855ac190

Hope to see you there!

09/01/2023

Happy Birthday to Love Letters for the Midway poet, Hawona Sullivan Janzen. Many happy returns.

08/23/2023

Catch Love Letters for the Midway poet, Hawona Sullivan Janzen, reading her poetry onstage at the Great Minnesota Get Together! Hope to see you there!

07/18/2023

Come see the staged reading of "Freeway Stories," Love Letters for the Midway founder Hawona Sullivan Janzen's itty bitty play, written in collaboration with the people of the Rondo Community. This is a Free/Pay what you can event and open to the public.
Reserve your in-person tickets: https://mixedblood.com/product/12x12-rondo/
Reserve virtual viewing tickets:
https://mixedblood.com/product/12x12-rondo-virtual/
If you can't come this weekend, don't fret. It will also be part of Mixed Blood Theatre's 12 x 12 festival happening August 19 and 20th.
https://mixedblood.com/plays-events/12x12/

07/11/2023

Catch me and my Sonoglyph Collective band mates performing on the Nicollet Mall from noon to 1:00 on July 12th and 19th

Events Date City Venue 07/12/23 Minneapolis, MN Xcel Energy Plaza Time: 12:00pm. Age restrictions: All Ages. Address: Nicollet Mall & 5th Street. presented as part of Fringe Festival’s “Beyond the Box” series 07/19/23 Minneapolis, MN Xcel Energy Plaza Time: 12:00pm. Age restrictions: All Ages....

03/29/2023

Good Things Happen in the World even during tough times. I hope you'll come see Hawona Sullivan Janzen (Love Letters for the Midway founder)'s work, "Murmurations." It is part of "lineage: the 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition at the University of Minnesota UMN Department of Art & Katherine E. Nash Gallery March 28th through April 15th. The installation features photography, poetry, sound art and sculpture.
The Opening Reception is this Saturday April 1st from 6:00 to 8:30 but you can see the show any time the gallery is open
Tuesday and Friday, 11 am – 5 pm
Wednesday and Thursday, 11 am – 7 pm
Saturday, 11 am – 3 pm

05/14/2022

Thank you Midway! We asked. For 6 months you've said, "Yes!" over and over again to love. We hope this project has served as a bright spot, given you faith in your fellow humans and helped you to see the potential of art, community, and love coming together as one.
We've posted all 100 of the lines from the poem in numerical order!

What is "Love Letters for the Midway?" It's a crowdsourced public art project that features a 100 line love poem to the Hamline Midway Neighborhood of St. Paul written by Hawona Sullivan Janzen . Through a collaboration with the Hamline Midway Coalition each line is printed onto its own lawn sign and hosted in an area front yard or storefront window to show some love to the community.

05/13/2022

We're at 99!


We asked. You said, "I want you to say it back to me so we can both be sure."
We're posting all 100 of the lines from the poem in numerical order!
What is "Love Letters for the Midway?" It's a crowdsourced public art project that features a 100 line love poem to the Hamline Midway Neighborhood of St. Paul written by Hawona Sullivan Janzen . Through a collaboration with the Hamline Midway Coalition each line is printed onto its own lawn sign and hosted in an area front yard or storefront window to show some love to the community.

05/12/2022

You asked. We said, "Let's build a community and comfort each other."

We're posting all 100 of the lines from the poem in numerical order!
What is "Love Letters for the Midway?" It's a crowdsourced public art project that features a 100 line love poem to the Hamline Midway Neighborhood of St. Paul written by Hawona Sullivan Janzen . Through a collaboration with the Hamline Midway Coalition each line is printed onto its own lawn sign and hosted in an area front yard or storefront window to show some love to the community.

05/11/2022

I mean you've seen one duvet you've seen them all, right? But comforters.... You can never have too many comforters. (See what I did there?)

You asked. We said, "We will always be your comforter. "
We're posting all 100 of the lines from the poem in numerical order!
What is "Love Letters for the Midway?" It's a crowdsourced public art project that features a 100 line love poem to the Hamline Midway Neighborhood of St. Paul written by Hawona Sullivan Janzen . Through a collaboration with the Hamline Midway Coalition each line is printed onto its own lawn sign and hosted in an area front yard or storefront window to show some love to the community.

05/09/2022

You asked. We said, "We'd love to!"

We're posting all 100 of the lines from the poem in numerical order!
What is "Love Letters for the Midway?" It's a crowdsourced public art project that features a 100 line love poem to the Hamline Midway Neighborhood of St. Paul written by Hawona Sullivan Janzen . Through a collaboration with the Hamline Midway Coalition each line is printed onto its own lawn sign and hosted in an area front yard or storefront window to show some love to the community.

05/09/2022

You asked. We're making it happen.
We're posting all 100 of the lines from the poem in numerical order!
What is "Love Letters for the Midway?" It's a crowdsourced public art project that features a 100 line love poem to the Hamline Midway Neighborhood of St. Paul written by Hawona Sullivan Janzen . Through a collaboration with the Hamline Midway Coalition each line is printed onto its own lawn sign and hosted in an area front yard or storefront window to show some love to the community.