Thanks for making the 2012 Art Sled Rally a whopping success!

photos: Nick Lethert

Please join South Sixteenth High Jinks for the 5th Annual Art Sled Rally, Today, in beautiful Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis at 2pm.

The Rally will be held on the western slopes of the park, close to 33rd Street and 10th Avenue South

Dress warm, consider bringing a helmet and prepare for a fast ride!

Registration Information

To secure a slot in the line up, just show up at the sledding hill by 1:30pm with your sled-contraption. A volunteer facilitator wearing a stupid hat will help you find a place in line and take the name of your project for the moderators on the slope to announce when it is your turn to show off.

You will need to sign a waiver

saying that you take complete responsibility for your silly actions that day. You may sign a waiver at the Rally, but it is much easier for us if you download a copy of the waiver linked below, sign it and bring it with you to hand in.

Parents of minors must also sign & bring a copy of the Parental Consent Form linked below, or sign one at the Rally site.

• Download the Liability Waiver Form
• Download the Parental Consent Form

Everyone riding in your sled must sign a separate waiver.

The earlier you come the earlier you will slide.

• Anything you bring with you must be brought back out with you when you leave. Yes, this is true even if the sled you brought in breaks into 30 pieces. We have contractors bags available at the top of the hill.
• Dress warm, we are running parallel sled runs this year, but it may take an hour for everyone to slide.
• Kids under 7 must wear helmets.
• You may choose to slide with your project solo or in tandem (think racing possibilities) with a sled on a parallel track separated by a berm. The hill is about 170 long with the first three quarters easy and the last drop a steep 30 degrees into the soccer fields.

The Rally will happen at 2pm, as planned. Dress warm, plan for a fast ride on the slopes, consider wearing a helmet!

To kick off this years Art Sled Rally, Project Park, choreographed for Young Dance by Miriam Colvin and Megan Flood, will be performed. Project Park was created for Matthews Park, in the Seward neighborhood, and performed there on January 21. It is being “transposed” to Powderhorn Park for the Art Sled Rally, and will be performed at the beginning of the sled rally, at 2 pm, on the main sledding hill. The Artistic Director of Young Dance is Gretchen Pick.

• There will be music, both live and recorded · There will be dance, both improvised and choreographed · And there will be sleds…

A documentary about the 2011 Art Sled Rally in Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis, by Fintan Lethert. Music by the Brass Messengers, with vocals by JB McLain.

The 4th Annual Art Sled Rally tee shirts, designed by Shelley Chinander and hand-printed on donated shirts, are now available!

The shirts can be purchased for $10, at May Day Cafe on Bloomington Avenue and 35th St. in South Minneapolis.

All proceeds help fund the Art Sled Rally.

Video from the 3rd Annual Art Sled Rally of an entrance by the Pac Man Team… the balloons represent the dots that Pac Man has to eat to score points… a really great entry in this years sled rally!

by ee cummings

all ignorance toboggans into know
and trudges up to ignorance again:
but winter’s not forever, even snow
melts; and if spring should spoil the game, what then?

all history’s a winter sport or three:
but were it five, i’d still insist that all
history is too small for even me;
for me and you, exceedingly too small.

Swoop (shrill collective myth) into thy grave
merely to toil the scale to shrillerness
per every madge and mabel dick and dave
–tomorrow is our permanent address

and there they’ll scarcely find us (if they do,
we’ll move away still further into now