Union of Youth

Thanks to the combine brain power and brilliance of Mairin Emery and Amy Merritt, Family Game Night will be hosting the first ever TETRIS TOURNAMENT.  Next Tuesday at the Key, we’ll have multiple Wii game systems going at once as people battle it out with their best Tetris moves. The final two competitors will fight each other in front of all on the big screen projector. Can you handle it?! 

All are welcome. There will be prizes and Tetris themed food. Please invite everyone you know!

Where: The Key

When: Tuesday, July 5th, 7pm

What: Epic Tetris Battle

The Key’s newest club is Music Listening Club. Check it out Thursdays at 5:00pm. Even if you can’t make it to the program,you can still get music recommendations and read music reviews at key-music-club.blogspot.com.

Out newest Book Club book is The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. We’re reading to page 75 for next Monday, July 4th!

Book Club is currently reading a delightful book called I Capture the Castle, a coming of age story about an eccentric British family in the 1930′s who live in a ruined castle. So far we’ve had great fun discussing the characters’ romantic prospects, debating whether or not Stephen will lose an arm in a tragic farming accident (Josh Wood says Yes, the rest say No), and whether Simon’s beard is more Elizabethan or lumberjack in nature. Oh, the philosophical debates inspired by great literature! So provocative! So controversial!

Once we’ve finished the book, we will be watching the movie.

Here is a picture of the actor who plays Stephen, a “godlike youth” :

Stay tuned for Book Club’s next pick, and contact Rachel Woldum at woldumr@gmail.com if you would like to join and get a free book!

A handful o’ kids made Chinese food with Danny Dobrow yesterday. Using the fabulous Emmaus kitchen, we made Vegetable “Dumplings”, Kung Pao Chicken, and Tofu Fried Rice. It was… SO MUCH work.

Today, Danny Dobrow taught another delicious class based around the absolutely groovy (as I like to call it) chickens donated to us by one of our adult board members, Derek Haars (thanks buddy). Along with the fried chicken, we made gravy and dumplings, corn bread and some of the largest apple pies I have ever encountered.

On Thursday, Danny Dobrow taught the gang some more fantastic recipes to stash under our belt. The Pad Thai was great and the wontons were gone before you could say “Luang Phibunsongkhram.”

Art Project is back after a teeny, tiny hiatus, and an itty, bitty switch-a-roo.

Join Kellen and Marie on Monday at 5:00 to decorate antique skeleton keys! We will be sending these to kind humans that have donated to the Key.

Then, on Thursday, come on down to make a birdhouse. Hopefully Kellen and I will have all of the lumber cut, all you need to do is come down, assemble the house, and paint! Everything will be provided and (as always) will be free.

I think they'll look like this... we'll see what Kellen has to say about that.

Cooking class on Thursday, April 29 was a success!

We made curry and it was delicious.
Danny Dobrow is head of cooking class, which takes place about once a month at Emmaus.

The Northfield Union of Youth teamed up with Twin Cities rapper and spoken word artist Kristoff Krane for a special educational workshop for participants of the Summer Plus program. Summer PLUS is a summer-long academic and recreational program for elementary and middle school students and part of the PRIMEtime Collaborative. Kristoff Krane led two one hour sessions, loosely titled “So you Wanna be a Rapper,” but was more focused on finding the passion to write for oneself and how to do so. About 10 members of the The Key came along to assist Kristoff in his endeavors. Many youth spoke and rapped their final piece (or their work in progress) in front of the others or had staff and members of the Key perform their pieces for them. A huge thanks to Jenny Kramm and Tim Hollinger for being such a big help in making this happen. For more photos click here.