Saturday January 11th, Season 21 – Bout 3: Wheels Like the First Time, @Roy Wilkins Join On Facebook
MAKE HISTORY WITH US!
In January of 2005, we hit the track for our first game. Twenty years later, we’re still rolling strong, and we want YOU to help us celebrate!
Join us at Roy Wilkins Auditorium on January 11th for Wheels Like the First Time, our third bout of the season.
Witness history in the making, feel the adrenaline, and cheer on your favorite teams as we honor TWO DECADES of hard hits, fast laps, and fierce competition.
This is more than a bout—it’s a milestone, and what better way to spend it than to party with our fans?! We’ll be waiting on the track to usher in the next 20 years together!
Doors open at 5:00 p.m.
Action starts at 6:00 p.m
MNRD and the Roller Vortex are proud to highlight the following community partner for the month:
Nenookaasi Healing Camp
Nenookaasi is a community based healing camp rooted in Native practices & inclusive of all unsheltered relatives. Nenookaasi Ozhige was born with the purpose of keeping our relatives safe from violence in relationships, in community, and systemically. We want to create an epidemic of healing and recovery. We believe healing is a sacred gift not just to ourselves, but to our elders, to our community, to our ancestors. It is a personal and collective journey. We walk alongside our unsheltered relatives as they navigate their journeys, working to:
- Affirm the humanity of every member of our community with dignity, care, and respect
- Break generational cycles of violence, poverty, trauma, and substance use using native practices and cultural education, utilizing anti-oppressive and life affirming frameworks
- Embolden policymakers to develop the political courage to invest in our community and hold their colleagues accountable to be stewards of our resources
At Nenookaasi we work to build stability and safety that make healing possible. This is accomplished through the work of collective care, consistency, and relationship building.
We have three distinct teams doing this work:
- Peer Recovery Support Specialists (support with systems navigation for relatives to access detox, treatment, shelter, case management, housing, therapy, healthcare, etc)
- Southside Kwe’s outreach (food and supply distribution, Harm Reduction, MMIR prevention)
- Sobriety Warriors (native community peer led recovery support – attending wellbriety meetings, ceremony, family friendly social activities)
The stability we have created has led to over 200 people being housed, over 100 people choosing treatment, and countless saved lives through access to medical care. People are getting sober despite not yet having housing or access to basic needs. It is our hope to continue this good work by creating housing, a safe space to prevent experiencing the trauma of yet another destabilizing eviction, a place with access to plumbing, heat, and a roof overhead, and most importantly a place of recovery, housing, and cultural teaching. Our people are not only worthy of care, but of the opportunity to thrive. Nenookaasi residents and organizers worked together to identify ways to address and close existing barriers to healing. Our unhoused relatives came up with the idea for a Healing Center with lodging, and the Land Back campaign was born. Our goal is to buy land and to build housing for our relatives while providing wraparound services and safe community space. We are presently 56% of the way to our goal.