ArtWalk celebrates album, record art by local artists
SIOUX CITY — Experience Siouxland artists’ creations made of vinyl records and album covers, during a “Got Ya Covered” rendition of the ArtWalk by the Sioux City Arts Center (SCAC) Thursday. Refreshments will be provided along the way, and you’ll also have a chance to vote for your favorite artist. This is the second ArtWalk of the year in Sioux City, with the first happening in April and a third coming in October. The ArtWalk is free and starts at 5 p.m. the SCAC, 225 Nebraska St, and continues through Gallery 103, 3Rivers Art Gallery, ArtSUX, and Vangarde Arts.
Three day Pow-Wow to honor lost indigenous people
SIOUX CITY — Missing and murdered indigenous people will be honored by the Red Sky Nation at their fifth annual Inter-Tribal Pow-Wow Friday through Sunday. Nationwide, indigenous people experience violence 10 times more often than the general population (Eighth Generation). , and 95 percent of missing person cases involving indigenous people are not publicized by traditional media., reports the U.S. Department of hte Interior. The Pow-Wow is intended to raise awareness of these statistics and to “create community” for those victimized. The event will also feature gourd dancing, a Southern Plains indigenous musical ceremony, indigenous vendors, arts and crafts, information and resource tables, dance contests and communal meals. On-site camping is available, and attendees can use the code “Red Sky PowWow” to receive discounted hotel rooms. Find helpful information here about the PowWow. to be held at Riverside Park, 1301 Riverside Blvd.
Protest Saturday against Kroger caged-hen eggs
OMAHA, NE — Join the Humane League to protest Kroger Supermarkets’ use of battery cages for egg-laying hens, at the “Consumers Against Broken Promises” rally Saturday. The 3 to 4:30 p.m. rally will include holding signs, chanting, announcements, and taking pictures and video. It follows the kick-off in May of the Humane League’s “Kroger Doesn’t Care” campaign. The advocacy group is pressing Kroger to honor its original commitment made in 2017 to sell only cage-free eggs by 2025. Kroger’s changed it goal in 2022, after promoting its cage-free promise for six years, and now aims to have 70 percent of its eggs produced by cage-free hens by 2030. Hens in battery cages have only restricted movement, experience lifelong stress, suffer weakened immune systems, and often lose their feathers. This weekend’s protest is at Baker’s, a subsidiary of Kroger’s, at 7312 N. 30th St. Register to participate on Mobilize here.
