The Fallout Urban Art Center serves as a hub for outreach that includes staff offices, gallery, community meals, music shows, artist studios, and future shower/laundry facilities.

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What is the Fallout?

What's the Fallout? It's the outreach mothership of Source. Located in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the Midwest - the Arts Institute neighborhood near downtown Minneapolis - the Fallout is ideally positioned to reach area artists, internationals, urban activists, the poor and homeless. It's a huge facility with a community kitchen, art gallery, music-venue space, interactive art lounge, back garage skate ramp, outreach office, and more basement space than any packrat should be allowed to have.

According to former Fallout Coordinator Amanda Bunyard, the church has a reputation for being irrelevant and not embracing creativity. "What it needs to be doing," she says, "is to interact with subcultures and youth culture."

"For Christians to impact the world," she says, "they need to not just 'know' and 'be in' culture, but they also need to 'be' culture by facilitating creativity and interacting with individuals."

At the Fallout, Amanda has seen many people fed. She's watched relationships develop across various boundaries, such as race, class and background. "I've seen lots of conversations with young people who are skeptical of the faith, and young artists and musicians served by providing a venue for their expression," she says. "The Fallout also provides a place where new Christians can seek out relationships to grow, and ask for support, advice and prayer. It's where God's love and forgiveness, the Gospel, and many aspects of faith have been shared."

The beauty of the Fallout is that anyone is welcome, so you never know who is going to walk through the door or why they're coming. A musician comes to play with his band and ends up washing the dinner dishes with a Source staff member. A neighbor pops in to find out what's going on and ends up hanging out all afternoon. Homeless kids and adults, artists, musicians, neighbors, college students, prostitutes, traveling kids, drug users, activists… it doesn't matter. Everyone is invited to whatever is going on: a community meal, Bible study, concert or discussion group. And people come. They know the Fallout is different and hosted by a peculiar group of Christians. The Fallout is a safe haven with many points of entry. Although most don't claim to know who God is, they recognize the presence of the Holy Spirit...

What Happens at the Fallout?

• Weekly Music/Art Events
• Hosting team gathers to pray & blesses bands by making dinner (40-200 in attendance)
• Interactive Theme Party/Art Openings
  - Gloria Dei Gatherings
  - Blocking Party "What's Blocking you from becoming who you want to be"
  - Dis-Grace (Good Friday event): Jesus, the vehicle of grace, disgraced by crucifixion
• Bible Studies Incorporating interactive & creative forms
  24 hour prayer
  
• Spiritual Discussion Dinners
• - Environment to be heard & seek truth
• 2-3 Community Meals Each Week
• - Invitation for food & building relationships
• Bi-Monthly Workday Saturdays
• - Projects that build relationships & give ownership
• Regular Small Group Meetings
• - Nurture growth & community with our staff & volunteers
• Outreach Team Prayer
• Monthly Info Meeting
• - Encourage & inform how to be involved
• Branches Weekly Prayer Group Meets on Mpls. College of Art & Design campus across the street from the Fallout
• Staff Mentoring & Growth Groups
• Gallery Open
• - Drop in to view art, utilize the space, connect with staff, or if in need

Fallout Renovation Continues

Our vision is to have a facility that can be an effective tool for outreach and be able to meet young people's needs. Thanks to all the volunteers for the hours of demolition, building, painting, trench digging, cement work, electrical and plumbing work, and cleaning up. In the summer of 2003 we were able to meet our goal of digging and installing plumbing drainage. Now we are hoping to put in bathrooms, showers, and laundry rooms soon. Contact Source if interested in current Saturday workdays, have material contacts, or would like to be a part of a Summer Crew.

Saturday Workdays with Young Adults and Neighbors

The next phase is to install bathrooms, showers, laundry rooms, heating, darkroom, and finish the kitchen.

Fallout Art Fest

Over 60 individuals joined Source summer staff and interns including 20 individuals coming from all over the country for the Drums & Easels To The Streets prep week. Teaching, prayer, setup, and outreach, which included hand drums and art on the streets, were all part of the prep week.

Along with inviting hundreds of young people, many relationships were formed with young musicians and artists by having them participate in the fest. We also built important relationships with many of the business owners and neighbors.

The fruit included establishing the Fallout in the art community, Christian artists being able to engage many who would not come into a church, bringing an inner city neighborhood together, letting young people know about Source, bringing churches together for an outreach event, showing young people their worth and value by letting them express themselves, and giving the youth culture a creative drug-free event.

Young people are more open to listen after they have attended an event they can relate to. "I remember you guys from Redemption two years ago. Wow, I really need something like this" claimed one young man who received an Art Fest flyer. He had attended an art/rave event we held in 2001 where over 1,000 attended. The fruit of voicing God's love and forgiveness to those that attend a summer art fest will be harvested for years.

-Indoor and Outdoor event: we blocked off a city block and used the Fallout
-30+ Bands, Dancers and DJs, performing on indoor & outdoor stages
-50+ Artists creating (painters, sculptors, blacksmith, mosaic, screen printing, didgeridoo and jugglers)
-Gallery space displaying art from individuals from the neighborhood and more
-Community Mural: creating and relating together
-Kids Activities: neighborhood fun
-Independent Film by local film makers
-Over 2000 Attended

"This is exactly what the neighborhood needs." Fallout Neighbor