Archive for the ‘Star Studio’ Category

Sweet Dreams for Kids brings pajamas, smiles to Children’s

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Wendy Berezovsky, founder of Sweet Dreams for Kids, and her family threw a pajama party at Star Studio on May 31.

Kids don’t always understand that sometimes it hurts to feel better. At Children’s, we believe that the small things can make a big difference to our patients and families.

Wendy Berezovsky knows firsthand from the time she spent at Children’s with her daughter, Dalya, who was born with cancer and spent much of her first year here, that a cozy pair of pajamas can bring a smile to the face of a young patient.

Wendy started Sweet Dreams for Kids, an organization that has donated more than 3,000 pajamas to patients in Minnesota hospitals and beyond and brought new pajamas to our patients for a super fun PJ Party-themed show in the Star Studio on Thursday, May 31. Kids tuned in from their hospital beds or came to the first-floor studio to join the slumber party games, stories and songs!

Thank you Sweet Dreams for Kids!

Check out the news coverage from WCCO and KSTP.

How Star Studio got its start in 1978 thanks to one employee’s creativity

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Larry Johnson, a Children’s security guard, started Star Studio in 1978 using a security camera, a puppet and a lot of creativity.

Read the full story on WCCO.

KetzelCoatlicue members visit Children’s

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

We were happy to have some very cool guests on Star Studio today! Members of KetzelCoatlicue, a learning community joined by the desire to learn, share and live the tradition of Aztec dance, were on Kids Clubhouse with The Dude.

KetzelCoatlicue, which means Precious Mother Earth, pursues this spiritual, mental, and physical vocation with music from the sacred drum, seeds and other instruments gifted by the natural  environment.  KetzelCoatlicueis a member of the Dance Board of the Fifth Sun located in Axochiapan, Morelos.  A majority of the members are youth from south Minneapolis, but participating members range from toddlers to elders.  The group’s learning center is located in south Minneapolis.

Through the Arts & Healing and Urban Renewal initiative at Children’s, we are integrating the arts with medicine to create inspirational healing journeys for the communities we serve.