Tesla Mitchell News Today

From: Tesla Mitchell, WSU Communications

By CHRIS ROGERS and ALEXANDRA RETTER

WSU’s Dancescape production goes digital (2/12/2021)   Winona area audiences may not be able to gather under one roof, but thats not taking the pep out of the Department of Theatre and Dances step. The Winona renowned production of "Dancescape" by Winona State Universitys Department of Theatre and Dance will live on despite the pandemic. It will just be, for now, in a virtual setting. The WSU department will present “Dancescape 2021: A Dance Film Festival. ” The...

WAPS equity group’s frustrations (1/13/2021)   Winona Area Public Schools’ (WAPS) Diversity and Equity Committee (DEC) is charged with making sure minority students have equitable access to education and helping the district fulfill its mission: “welcoming all learners.” Over the course of last year, several DEC members expressed frustration at how little progress they felt was being made. “It’s like we can’t move,” DEC member, Black parent, and former W...

One of the biggest supporters of reconciliation between the Dakota people and residents of Winona has passed. Danny Seaboy of the Sisseton Wahpeton tribe was an integral part of the Winona Dakota Unity Alliance, which for the last 16 years has organized Winona’s Great Dakota Gathering — an annual event for Indigenous and Winona communities to learn and celebrate Dakota ways while healing relations caused by historical trauma. Seaboy died on Dec. 8 from COVID-19 related complications. ...