From Minneapolis to Melbourne: Dearly Beloved screening + Museum Updates
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A world of never-ending happiness
You can always see the sun, day or night
- Prince, Let's Go Crazy, 1984.
In this newsflash blog edition - Dearly Beloved Screening in Melbourne & brief updates on Museum. Note: we'll drop back towards monthly blog updates now the June museum season is done. Thanks for your support!
From Minneapolis to Melbourne..
Dearly Beloved is screening in Melbourne!
Writing in the afterglow of the People's Museum for Prince June edition, presented in Minneapolis across 3 venues — 70 participants from 7 countries, a full month of joyful programming and welcoming visitors from all over the world.
We are delighted to announce the Australian premiere at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Sunday July 12 at Cinema Nova.
Dearly Beloved tells a personal story of grief, love and transformation, in the form of pilgrimage to Minneapolis in the wake of Prince's passing. Filmed over 9 years, it traces a journey to all Prince's houses in Minnesota, as the narrator searches for Prince Rogers Nelson after he is gone, and finds something unexpected.
It's special to bring this film back to my home town and to a city where there is so much love for Prince.
Dearly Beloved screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival — Sunday, July 12, Cinema Nova, in the Music Shorts program alongside Jimmy Somerville: Smalltown Boy at 3:45pm. Q&A with filmmakers.
JOIN THE FILMMAKER for coffee Sunday July 12, 2:30pm. A casual Prince-inspired gathering! Everyone is welcome to a pre-film coffee meet up at Brunetti's cafe, Carlton. Just show up, or drop us a note if you can make it and we can share more. exhibition@peoplesmuseumforprince.org
July 11: Catch the interview with director E.C.Balázs on ABC Radio 774's Saturday Breakfast with Brian Nankervis. Following the 7am news.
To learn more about the film and the story behind it, see Press Notes and Cultural Awakening story in The Guardian UK.
MINNEAPOLIS SEASON- WRAP-UP & UPDATES
The People's Museum just wrapped our June 2026 season across 3 venues in Minneapolis. Thank you to everyone who participated and visited! It was a dream to welcome so many people from all around the world to share love of Prince through the exhibitions and the many program offerings.
Our programs included Prince's community birthday party on opening day, walking tours of Prince's North Minneapolis, a community Memory Day which served as a Prince school friends' reunion, and a day of family art activities. Closing day included a special gathering on Prince and Spirituality with theologian Pamela Ayo Yetunde sharing from the teachings in her book Dearly Beloved and an afternoon of Prince music (thank you, Manny and Terry!) to see us home.
Press
If you missed the June edition, or want to re-live it, we were honored to receive some great press coverage -articles, tv stories, podcast- which captures the spirit of our season.
Update: we are delighted to announce NHK Japan will broadcast an English language version of their story on the museum on July 14. Links in our next edition.
Next steps- we are working to gather and present all the the documentation and will be putting together an online publication. Then planning for the next edition- where and when?!? More soon.
Participate and support the museum. If you feel moved to help support the museum and our upcoming editions, we are grateful for your participation in whatever way you can help. Two ways you can help right now- You can share your experience of visiting the museum in our guest book. You can also provide direct support through a donation. Soon, we will also welcome your stories and art submissions for the next edition.
Finally:
An updated Photo story from the closing day is here for your enjoyment.
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Thanks for reading!
Till next month,
Emma Balázs, Curator.
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