BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//More Than A Single Story - ECPv6.18.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for More Than A Single Story REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230318T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230318T160000 DTSTAMP:20230301T223008Z CREATED:20221230T182937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230301T223008Z UID:17963-1679148000-1679155200@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Building MN's Powerful Arts Community: How We Got Here DESCRIPTION:OUR STORIES\, OURSELVES: CONVERSATIONS WITH COMMUNITY  \nHow does community start? And how does it germinate in order to empower people and authentic voices? How do you build on the movements that came before you? Join the Loft and More Than a Single Story for a panel of seasoned BIPOC writers and arts activists who will share the trials and triumphs they faced while building the powerful arts community we are all benefitting from today. \nPanelists: Daniel Pierce Bergin\, Juanita Corbine Espinosa\, Kathryn Haddad\, Alberto Justiniano\, and David Mura.\nModerator: Vickie Benson.\nOpening Poem: Louis Alemayehu. \nPrice: $10 for the public\, $5 for Loft members \nA More Than a Single Story Panel Conversation in partnership with The Loft Literary Center  \nRegister here.\n  \nPANELISTS \n      Daniel Pierce Bergin creates media that explores people\, places\, and the past through restorative storytelling. The Twin Cities PBS Executive Producer has won 20 regional Emmy for productions including Jim Crow of the North\, Lost Twin Cities V\, and Make it OK: Mental Illness & Stigma. His documentary With Impunity: Men & Gender Violence was named ‘Best Documentary of 2012’ by Mpls/St. Paul Magazine. The Minneapolis native and University of Minnesota graduate has served as a director on the boards of several community media organizations. Daniel has been an adjunct instructor and lectured and presented in countless schools\, colleges\, and community settings.  He has been recognized as a MN State Arts Board Fellow\, a City Pages Artist of the Year\, and was awarded a Bush Leadership Fellowship for his work in community media. \nJuanita G. Corbine Espinosa is an enrolled member of the Spirit Lake Nation in North Dakota with blood lines that connect to the Ojibwe of Lac Courte Oreilles in Wisconsin and Turtle Mountain Ojibwe in North Dakota. Since the mid-1970’s\, she has been leading and participating in activities that build community and understanding in tribal communities in South Dakota and in the Twin Cities. As an artist\, model and media artist\, her work supports the cultural ways of her people. In 2019\, she was invited to greet all at the opening of Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. Currently\, Juanita is continuing her work as a dedicated community organizer at the University of Minnesota-Department of Medicine Northern Range Satellite Center. She coordinates with 10 institutions across the US focused on American Indian research.  \nKathryn Haddad (she/her) is a writer\, teacher\, speaker\, and community organizer whose work explores contemporary Southwest Asian/North African (SWANA) experiences. She has worked extensively with Pangea World Theater and she cofounded Mizna where she served as artistic/executive director for 12 years. Currently\, she is artistic/executive director of New Arab American Theater Works. Her awards include a Bush Leadership Fellowship\, Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Fellowships\, and MN State Arts Board awards. She won the 2018 MN Book Awards Kay Sexton award\, a 2022 McKnight Culture Bearer Fellowship\, and was a 2022 50 over 50 honoree. Her last full production\, Zafira and the Resistance was at the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio in 2019. Her play Zafira the Olive Oil Warrior appears in the 2018 anthology\, Contemporary Plays by Women of Color\, edited by Roberta Uno.   \nAlberto Justiniano is the founder and Artistic Director of Teatro del Pueblo. He curates Teatro’s Political Theater series and the Latino/Asian Fusion series with Pangea World Theater. He has been active as a director\, playwright\, screenwriter and independent producer for both film and theater. His community-based work has integrated the creation of art by community members in ways that engage participants in social justice issues. He has led and participated in a number of cross cultural artistic and social projects to engage diverse communities building bridges of understanding.  His honors include the 1993 Many Voices Residency Award\, St Paul Companies 1994 Leadership and Arts Award\, 2009 Francisco Rosales community award\, the 2012 Target Community Award and the 2013 Pangea social Justice award.  He is a proud member of the Twin Cities Theaters of Color Coalition and the National Latinx commons. \nDavid Mura’s latest book is The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths & Our American Narratives. He’s the author of two memoirs\, Turning Japanese\, and Where the Body Meets Memory\, and a book on creative writing\, A Stranger’s Journey: Race\, Identity and Narrative Craft in Writing. He’s also co-editor with Carolyn Holbrook of We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice From Minneapolis to the World. He co-produced\, wrote and narrated the Emmy winning TPT documentary\, Armed With Language\,  about Japanese American Military Intelligence Service soldiers during WWII. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, and won the MN Book Awards Kay Sexton award in 2019. \n  \nCarolyn Holbrook has nurtured writers and readers for over 40 years; as founder of Whittier Writers Workshop (1981-1989)\, as the first person of color to serve in a leadership position as Program Director at The Loft (1989-1993)\, founder of SASE: The Write Place (1993-2006)\, and now at More Than A Single Story which she launched in 2015 as a space that engages BIPOC writers and arts activists in public conversations that explore issues their work addresses. Her essay collection\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify (Minn2020)\, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is co-author with Arleta Little of Dr. Josie R. Johnson’s memoir\, Hope In the Struggle (Minn 2019) and co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\,  We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Minnesota Book Awards Kay Sexton Award in 2010 and she was a 2017 50 over 50 honoree. \nMODERATOR \nAfter spending the last 30 years in arts grantmaking\, Vickie Benson is now a certified professional coach (www.vickiebenson.com). During her time at the McKnight Foundation\, she was instrumental in co-creating coalitions and practices that center on racial equity in grantmaking. She is a past president of Grantmakers in the Arts board of directors and was a leader in the ArtPlace America initiative\, a collaboration of 14 national and regional foundations focused on creative placemaking. Before joining McKnight\, she was vice president of the Jerome Foundation in St. Paul\, program director at Chamber Music America in New York City\, and senior program specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington\, D.C. She holds a BA in arts administration from Metropolitan State University\, and an MA in nonprofit management from the Hamline University Graduate School of Management. She studied music at the University of Minnesota as an undergrad. She also holds professional certification with the International Coach Federation and as an Intercultural Development Inventory administrator. She has a background as a folk singer and guitar player. \nOPENING POET \nLouis Alemayehu is a writer\, educator\, administrator\, poet\, father\, grandfather\, great grandfather\, performer\, and activist of African and Native American heritage. He emerged as a poet during the Black Arts Movement in the early 1970s with mentoring from poet & essayist Haki Mahdubuti and his spiritual mother\, the Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer winning poet\, Gwendolyn Brooks. He is a cofounder of the Minneapolis-based Native Arts Circle and also of the award-winning poetry/jazz ensemble Ancestor Energy\, which connects music with spoken word for healing. He is the recipient of many honors and awards including an award from the Process Work Institute of  Portland Oregon & Zurich Switzerland which recognized him as its first World Work Elder. Today Alemayehu is founding Elder of the BIPOC majority Wild Path Collective that recently received the 90-acre Lily Springs Farm in Osceola Wisconsin from the Nina Utne. This intergenerational multicultural collective is guided by Indigenous values and practices\, the challenge of the 21st century. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/building-mns-powerful-arts-community-how-we-got-here/ LOCATION:Loft Literary Center\, 1101 Washington Ave.\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55415\, United States CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions,Our Story Ourselves ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LOFT-SQUARE-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221206T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221206T200000 DTSTAMP:20221103T013507Z CREATED:20221024T165212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221103T013507Z UID:17870-1670351400-1670356800@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Our Stories\, Ourselves: Food in Cultural Celebrations DESCRIPTION:|  VIRTUAL EVENT  | \n  \nDespite the challenges of the last few years\, our communities have always found reasons to celebrate. Join notable chefs and food writers Sean Sherman\, Yia Vang\, Mecca Bos and Natalia Mendez in a conversation about their communities and the historical and contemporary ways food serves as a backdrop for cultural celebrations. \nModerator: Tess Montgomery.\nOpening poem: Zenobia L. Silas Carson.\nFunded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nRegister here!\n  \nPANELIST BIOS \nSEAN SHERMAN\, Oglala Lakota\, born in Pine Ridge\, SD\, has been cooking across the US and\nthe world for the last 30 years. His main culinary focus has been on the revitalization and\nawareness of indigenous foods systems in a modern culinary context. In 2014\, he opened The\nSioux Chef as a caterer and food educator to the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area. In 2015\, in\npartnership with the Little Earth Community of United Tribes in Minneapolis\, he helped design\nand open the Tatanka Truck food truck. In 2021\, Chef Sean and Dana Thompson opened\nOwamni by The Sioux Chef\, a modern Indigenous full service kitchen located in North Loop\nMinneapolis\, featuring the true foods of North America through an Indigenous perspective.\nSean’s vision of modern indigenous foods has garnered many awards including a number of\nawards for his cookbook\, The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen (Minn2017)\, and the prestigious\nJames Beard award which named Owamni the best new restaurant in the United States in 2022. Learn more at sioux-chef.com \nYIA VANG is a trained chef and Beard Foundation award finalist who worked at many top\nrestaurants in the Twin Cities before opening Union Hmong Kitchen. He has been featured in\nThe New York Times\, National Geographic and Bon Appetit\, as well as showcased on PBS\,\nCNN\, The Food Network\, Netflix’s Iron Chef: The Quest for an Iron Legend\, and more. In\n2022\, he was a semi-finalist for the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef Midwest award. His\nnew Minneapolis restaurant concept\, Vinai\, is named after the refugee camp in Thailand where\nhe was born. His restaurants create a home for his Hmong cuisine\, celebrate his parents’ legacy\,\nand share the story of his family through food. Union Hmong Kitchen\, located in Graze Food\nHall in North Loop Minneapolis\, features Hmong culture\, stories\, rituals\, foods and flavors. Vang marries local traditions with those from back home in South and Eastern Asia to bring\nHmong flavors to American palates. Learn more at unionkitchenmn.com \nMECCA BOS has been a Twin Cities based journalist and chef for more than 20 years. In these\ndual roles\, she has become known as one of the leading local voices for marginalized voices in\nthe food community and has championed and uplifted the stories of people of color\, women\,\nelders\, and immigrant communities\, putting focus and spotlight on stories that the mainstream\nmedia may have traditionally overlooked or ignored. Mecca has been the dining critic of Twin\nCities Metro and City Pages. Her work has also been published in The New York Times\, Taste\,\nVICE\, Paste\, Travel + Leisure\, Midwest Living\, and many other publications. She is a regular\ncontributor to Minnesota Public Radio\, and is producing her own audio documentary work\,\n“Hidden Black Foodways.” Through the BIPOC Foodways Alliance\, Mecca\, Sean Sherman\, and\ntheir community of allies plan to dismantle white supremacy using food as a tool. Based in the\nTwin Cities and around the world\, BIPOC Foodways Alliance is dedicated to the documentation\,\nexamination\, and promotion of the foodways of all BIPOC communities in the United States.\nLearn more at meccaboswrites.com \nNATALIA MENDEZ (they/them) is a queer\, Chicanx writer and photographer living in\nMinneapolis. Finding connections to their roots and with others through food has been a habit\nthroughout their life. They can also be found around the Twin Cities on two wheels (bicycle or\nmotorcycle) when they're not writing about food\, entertainment\, the outdoors\, or experiences on\nthe margins. Their work is published regularly on their blog with The Current. You can also find\ntheir work on Racketmn.com\, Eater Twin Cities\, Seward Coop’s website and more. You can find\ntheir work at bynataliamendez.com. \nModerator\nTESS MONTGOMERY is a young communicator\, a visionary and an avid foodie who lives in\nMinneapolis. She has been a Digital Marketing Specialist at TPT-Twin Cities PBS and\nMarketing and Communications Manager for More Than a Single Story. She was a 2018 Fellow\nwith the Josie R. Johnson Leadership Academy\, a 2017 Fellow with New Sector Academy\, and\nserved as Programming Chair of Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of the Twin Cities.\nTess is passionate about the power of grassroots\, community-led organizing. She holds a degree\nin Journalism & Mass Communications from Drake University. In 2019\, she was named one of\n15 up and coming PR and Social Media Marketers to Watch. Her essay\, “Financial Trauma in\nCommunities of Color” was published in MN Women’s Press in 2020 and in We Are Meant to\nRise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis To the World (Minn2021). \nOpening Poet\nZENOBIA L. SILAS-CARSON a writer/teacher/speaker/Minister and senior life coach.\nShe is a retired teacher who has worked with Special Needs children at Odyssey Charter School\nin Brooklyn Park MN. She has also worked as an advocate at Harriet Tubman Women's Center\nand Incarnation House in Minneapolis Minnesota. Most recently she held positions at Lang Nelson Associates as an office assistant\, activities director and exercise coach for senior women.\nand leader of several food programs at Creekside Gables which is a 55+ Senior community in\nBrooklyn Park Minnesota. She encourages people as a minister and is involved in sharing\nresources for food services through Good in the Hood and CEAP within the NW suburbs of\nHennepin County. A native Chicagoan\, Ms. Carson remains involved in writing workshops and\nenjoys activities with her children\, grands and great grandchildren. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/our-stories-ourselves-celebrating-food/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions,Our Story Ourselves ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/OSO-Food-in-Cultural-Celebrations-banner-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221020T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221020T130000 DTSTAMP:20220919T174457Z CREATED:20220912T181859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T174457Z UID:17798-1666267200-1666270800@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:We Are Meant to Rise Event (Private) DESCRIPTION:| Private Event | \nIn this private class\, writers will talk about We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice From Minneapolis to the World at the Minnesota Transform Project. \n  \nABOUT \nCarolyn Holbrook is a writer\, educator\, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is founder and director of the Twin Cities-based conversation series\, More Than a Single Story\, and is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. Her essays have appeared in many anthologies\, including A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota. She won the Minnesota Book Awards Kay Sexton Award in 2010 and was a 50 over 50 honoree in 2016.  \n  URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/we-are-meant-to-rise-event-4/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions,We Are Meant to Rise END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221019T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221019T113000 DTSTAMP:20220919T174450Z CREATED:20220912T181431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T174450Z UID:17794-1666175400-1666179000@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:We Are Meant to Rise Event (Private) DESCRIPTION:| Private Event | \nIn this private class\, writers will talk about We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice From Minneapolis to the World at Concordia College Fargo-Moorhead. \n  \nPanelists: \nCarolyn Holbrook is a writer\, educator\, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify (Minnesota 2020)\, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is founder and director of the Twin Cities-based conversation series\, More Than a Single Story\, and is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World published by University of MN Press with More Than a Single Story (Minnesota 2021). She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. She teaches at the Loft Literary Center and other community venues\, and at Hamline University\, where she won the exemplary teacher award in 2014. \nAlexs Pate is president and CEO of Innocent Technologies and the creator of the Innocent Classroom. He has written five novels\, a children’s book\, and a work of nonfiction\, and he has curated several literary anthologies. His latest book is The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias for Children of Color.  He won the Kay Sexton Award from the Minnesota Book Awards and the Friends of the St. Paul Public Libraries in 2021. \nMona Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux nation. She is the author of four books of fiction: The Grass Dancer (winner of the 1995 PEN/Hemingway award)\, Roofwalker\, Sacred Wilderness\, and the forthcoming novel\, A Council of Dolls. Her fellowships include an Iowa Arts Fellowship\, James Michener Fellowship\, Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellowship\, Princeton Hodder Fellowship\, USA Artists Fellowship\, McKnight Fellowship\, and Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship. Her short stories and essays have been widely published in journals\, magazines\, and anthologies. She lives in Saint Paul where she is currently working on a new novel titled\, The Year of Fury. Her short stories and essays have been widely published in journals\, magazines and anthologies. Her fellowships include an Iowa Arts Fellowship\, James Michener Fellowship\, Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellowship\, Princeton Hodder Fellowship\, USA Artists Fellowship\, Loft McKnight Fellowship for 2015-16\, and Native Arts and Cultures Fellowship for 2016-17. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has made her home in Saint Paul\, Minnesota. \nKevin Yang is a Hmong American multidisciplinary artist from the Twin Cities\, Minnesota with a focus on spoken word poetry and documentary filmmaking. He currently works at Twin Cities PBS and is a board member with Street Stops and Mountain Tops. He finds most of his artistic inspiration unraveling his Hmong American experience with others. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/we-are-meant-to-rise-event-3/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions,We Are Meant to Rise END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221015T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221015T150000 DTSTAMP:20220912T183359Z CREATED:20220905T153455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T183359Z UID:17761-1665838800-1665846000@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:African Americans Rooted and Rising: Nothando & Vusumusi Zulu and Joshua Gillespie DESCRIPTION:Embracing Our Roots: African American Rooted and Rising\nA Conversation with Nothando and Vusumusi Zulu and their grandson\, Joshua Gillespie (Brotha\nAse’).\n| Virtual: Zoom | \nOn Saturday\, October 15\, 2022\, up and coming drummer and storyteller\, Joshua Gillespie (Brotha Ase’) will join his grandparents\, the master storytellers\, Nothando and Vusumusi Zulu\, in a conversation about the power of storytelling to lift our people up\, and about the Black Storytellers Alliance in Minnesota\, of which Nothando and Vusi are co-founding members. \n           Embracing Our Roots is a conversation series that reaches back into the history of Minnesota’s African American arts community. The purpose is to pass this knowledge along to the new generation that is now ascending as leaders in our African American arts community. The series features Elders and Culture Bearers who engage with young leaders to discuss significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black arts history\, and the impact that the artists and movements have had on our present day capacity to survive the storms and keep creating.  Embracing our Roots: African Americans Rooted and Rising is a collaboration with More Than a Single Story and In Black Ink. \n  \nREGISTER HERE\n  \nABOUT THE PANELISTS: \nNothando and Vusumuzi Zulu have been stalwart proponents of Kujichagulia\, the Swahili\nword for self-determination for over four decades. They revel in opportunities to transmit the\nvalues of our African ancestors through story. Both are transplants from the south: Nothando\nfrom the sharecropping farms of Nat Turner’s county in Virginia and Vusi from the often\ntumultuous city of St Louis\, Missouri. As co-founding members of the Black Storytellers\nAlliance in Minnesota they began producing the popular ““Signifyin’ & Testifyin’” three-day\nstorytelling festival in 1991 after returning from the National Association of Black Storytellers\,\nInc. (NABS) festival and Conference in Myrtle Beach\, South Carolina. It was such a moving\nexperience that they knew they had to bring something like that back to inspire the people in\nMinnesota. “Signifyin' and Testifyin’” has entertained\, enthralled and educated thousands since\nits inception. Nothando and Vusi have brought Tellers from across the country to weave\nstorytelling magic\, and audiences continue coming back year after year to glean more nuggets of\ntruth about our people through the art of oral storytelling. Through storytelling\, the Zulu family\ndemonstrates the Joy of being Black. \nJoshua Gillespie (Brotha Ase’)  was brought up within the storytelling culture. Witnessing his grandparents\, the master Storytellers Vusumuzi and Nothando Zulu on and off the stage\, sparked a flame in him to carry on the torch. He uses his artistic abilities: digital art\, music\, dance\, djembe drumming & oral expertise – to captivate audiences.  Brotha Ase believes our stories are like seeds from the divine tree of life\, helping to guide us and grow us into divine trees of our own. The goal of Joshua’s storytelling is to highlight current history (history currently in the making)\, life lessons \, and to inspire his people and all people to aspire to be who they truly are in spite of the trials and tribulations that life throws at them. \nEmbracing our Roots: African Americans Rooted and Rising is a collaboration with More\nThan a Single Story and In Black Ink. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/african-american-rooted-and-rising/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions,Embracing Our Roots ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09.24.22-African-Americans-Rooted-Rising-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221012T193000 DTSTAMP:20221003T231539Z CREATED:20220912T180800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T231539Z UID:17792-1665597600-1665603000@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:We Are Meant to Rise Event DESCRIPTION:Carolyn is visiting Dayton’s Bluff Book Club to speak about We Are Meant to Rise. This event is open to those living in the Dayton’s Bluff area. \n  \nABOUT \nCarolyn Holbrook is a writer\, educator\, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is founder and director of the Twin Cities-based conversation series\, More Than a Single Story\, and is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. Her essays have appeared in many anthologies\, including A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota. She won the Minnesota Book Awards Kay Sexton Award in 2010 and was a 50 over 50 honoree in 2016. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/we-are-meant-to-rise-event-2/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community,We Are Meant to Rise ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-10-03-at-5.44.22-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221007T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221007T110000 DTSTAMP:20220919T174404Z CREATED:20220912T180553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T174404Z UID:17789-1665136800-1665140400@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:We Are Meant to Rise Event (Private) DESCRIPTION:| Private Event | \nA panel discussion about anthology We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World for the British American Partnership. \n  \nPANELISTS \nCarolyn Holbrook is a writer\, educator\, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is founder and director of the Twin Cities-based conversation series\, More Than a Single Story\, and is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. Her essays have appeared in many anthologies\, including A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota. She won the Minnesota Book Awards Kay Sexton Award in 2010 and was a 50 over 50 honoree in 2016.  \nDavid Mura is a poet\, writer of creative nonfiction and fiction\, critic\, and playwright. He is author of The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself (forthcoming November 2022)\, A Stranger’s Journey: Race\, Identity\, and Narrative Craft in Writing and the memoirs Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei and Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race\, Sexuality\, and Identity. He is coeditor\, with Carolyn Holbrook\, of We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (Minnesota\, 2021). He lives in Minneapolis. \nDiane Wilson (Dakota) is a writer\, speaker\, and educator\, who has published two award-winning books\, a middle-grade biography\, as well as essays in numerous publications. Her new novel\, The Seed Keeper won the MN Book Award in novel and short story. Her memoir\, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past won a 2006 Minnesota Book Award and was selected for the 2012 One Minneapolis One Read program. Her 2011 nonfiction book\, Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life was awarded the 2012 Barbara Sudler Award from History Colorado. Her essays have appeared in many anthologies. Wilson received numerous fellowships and awards. In 2018\, she was awarded a 50 Over 50 Award. She is the former Executive Director for the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. Wilson is a Mdewakanton descendent\, enrolled on the Rosebud Reservation. \n  URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/we-are-meant-to-rise-event/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions,We Are Meant to Rise END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220913T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220913T200000 DTSTAMP:20220905T164243Z CREATED:20220905T164006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220905T164243Z UID:17764-1663093800-1663099200@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Writer to Writer: Marcie Rendon & Leya Hale DESCRIPTION:Writer to Writer is a series featuring conversations between BIPOC (Black\, Indigenous and people of color) writers.\nJoin author and playwright\, Marcie Rendon (White Earth Nation) and documentary producer Leya Hale (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné Nations) in a conversation on their writing and their lives. They will also discuss issues that affect their Indigenous communities such as generational trauma\, reclaiming Indigenous cultures and languages\, murdered and missing Native people and more. Collaborator: More Than a Single Story. This program is funded by money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \n  \nREGISTER HERE\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nMarcie Rendon\, a citizen of the White Earth Nation\, is an author\, playwright\, poet and freelance writer. Also a community arts activist\, Rendon supports other native artists/writers/creators to pursue their art\, and is a speaker for colleges and community groups on Native issues\, leadership and writing. \nLeya Hale comes from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné Nations. She makes her home in Saint Paul\, Minnesota with her companion and children. She is a producer for Twin Cities PBS and is best known for her first feature documentary “The People’s Protectors\,” a Vision Maker Media grant production and winner of the 2019 Upper Midwest Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural Documentary. \nThe Zoom link to the live online discussion will be emailed to registrants in advance. If you’re new to Zoom\, check Getting Started with Zoom. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/writer-to-writer-marcie-rendon-leya-hale/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions,Writer to Writer ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09.13.22-W2W-banner-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220911T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220911T160000 DTSTAMP:20220905T172804Z CREATED:20220905T172441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220905T172804Z UID:17777-1662904800-1662912000@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:We Are Meant to Rise Reading & Panel DESCRIPTION:Jewish Family Service of St. Paul (JFS) invites the public to join the unveiling and\ndedication of The Bruce Goodman Read in Color Little Free Library at on Sunday\, September 11\nat 2:00 p.m. The library\, built by Highland Park residents Mike and Mary Link\, brings diverse\nbooks to Little Free Library book-sharing boxes that provide perspectives on racism and social\njustice; celebrate BIPOC\, LGBTQ+\, and other marginalized voices; and incorporate experiences\nfrom all identities for all readers. \nAfter the structure is unveiled\, writers Carolyn Holbrook\, Tess Montgomery and Kevin Yang\nwill read selections from We Are Meant to Rise\, followed by a question-and-answer session. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/we-are-meant-to-rise-reading-panel/ LOCATION:Jewish Family Services\, 1633 West 7th Street\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions,We Are Meant to Rise ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09.11.22-WAMTR-banner-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220730T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220730T120000 DTSTAMP:20220714T160001Z CREATED:20220502T210500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220714T160001Z UID:17678-1659175200-1659182400@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Writing Workshop | Home & Exile: Novels Without Fiction DESCRIPTION:| In-person Writing Workshop | \nNovels without Fiction is how Spanish writer\, Javier Cercas\, describes his stories; books in which reporting and narrative go hand in hand. It is a style that includes dialogue and character development\, and makes literary non-fiction come alive for many readers. Please bring your chosen topic to share. It can be drawn from a historical event\, your personal or family history\, or a combination of both. We will examine how to develop the topic with your readers in ways that help them understand and care along with you. \nThis writing workshop is part of our Our Stories\, Ourselves: Home & Exile series. Check the calendar to see what else we have coming up. \nHennepin County Libraries is our partner for this event. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \n  \nCLICK TO REGISTER\n  \nTessa Bridal was born and raised in Uruguay\, a third generation descendent of a resilient and courageous Irish woman who boarded a ship she had been informed was sailing for Boston. Her ancestor’s story is told in Bridal’s second novel\, River of Painted Birds\, published in English and Spanish (Río de los pajaros pintados). Her first novel\, The Tree of Red Stars won the Milkweed National Prize for Fiction and the Friends of American Writers annual award. Bridal has also authored two works of nonfiction on the use of live theatre in museums\, and is the recipient of the American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums) Educators Award for Excellence. Her latest book is The Dark Side of Memory: Uruguay’s Disappeared Children and the Families that Never Stopped Searching.  \n  URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/home-exile-novels-without-fiction/ LOCATION:Ridgedale Library\, 12601 Ridgedale Dr\, Minnetonka\, 55305\, United States CATEGORIES:Community,Our Story Ourselves,Writing Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/home-exile-banner-1-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220524T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220524T200000 DTSTAMP:20220516T195831Z CREATED:20220502T205742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T195831Z UID:17671-1653415200-1653422400@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Writing Workshop | Home & Exile: Mastering Your Memoir DESCRIPTION:| Virtual Writing Workshop | \n  \nEveryone has a story to tell. But how can we tell captivating stories about real people? Whether you’re writing your own memoir or want to document a family history\, you need to know what idea or message you want to convey to a reader. Once you’ve tackled the big picture\, you can focus on the journey of writing. We will draw on the works of a diverse group of writers to help inform us on how to craft and layer our stories. In this workshop\, writers can expect to learn how to find their ‘big picture’ ideas\, organize story details\, and sculpt drafts to manuscript-ready. Our objective is to arm writers with the tools required to write compelling creative non-fiction stories. \nThis writing workshop is part of our Our Stories\, Ourselves: Home & Exile series. Check the calendar to see what else we have coming up. \nHennepin County Libraries is our partner for this event. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \n  \nCLICK TO REGISTER\n  \nAbout the Facilitator\nAyaan Adan is an author\, award-winning user experience designer\, and community organizer. Her newest book\, Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women was released by MN Historical Society Press in February 2022. She has been featured in Teen Vogue\, Minneapolis Star Tribune\, and Twin Cities Daily Planet. Ayaan is an advocate for privacy\, civil liberties\, and accessibility. She is committed to making a positive impact in the lives of others through storytelling\, design thinking\, and community organizing. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/home-exile/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Community,Our Story Ourselves,Writing Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/home-exile-banner-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220522T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220522T153000 DTSTAMP:20220516T195819Z CREATED:20220502T160059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T195819Z UID:17652-1653228000-1653233400@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Our Stories\, Ourselves: Home & Exile DESCRIPTION:| Virtual event | \n  \nImmigrants and refugees often come to the United States because they were traumatized in their homeland and many end up in Minnesota. Sometimes they were uprooted overnight and find themselves in a land that is strange to them. How do they make new lives for themselves in this new land? Though they are able to make homes out of necessity\, do they ever really find home?  \nIn this More Than a Single Story conversation\, Carolyn Holbrook will engage with Somali author\, Ayaan Adan\, Uruguayan author Tessa Bridal\, genderqueer Afghani writer and professor of Global Studies\, Ahmad Qais Munhazim\, and Hmong community leader\, Terri Thao in a discussion on what home and exile means to them. \nCheck the calendar to see what else we have coming up. This discussion is part of our Our Story\, Ourselves series. It is followed by two writing workshops. Check our calendar for more info. \nHennepin County Libraries is our partner for this event. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \n  \nCLICK TO REGISTER\n  \n— \nPanelist Bios\n  \nAyaan Adan is an author\, award-winning user experience designer\, and community organizer. Her newest book\, Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women was released by MN Historical Society Press in February 2022. She has been featured in Teen Vogue\, Minneapolis Star Tribune\, and Twin Cities Daily Planet. Ayaan is an advocate for privacy\, civil liberties\, and accessibility. She is committed to making a positive impact in the lives of others through storytelling\, design thinking\, and community organizing. \nTessa Bridal was born and raised in Uruguay\, a third generation descendent of a resilient and courageous Irish woman who boarded a ship she had been informed was sailing for Boston. Her ancestor’s story is told in Bridal’s second novel\, River of Painted Birds\, published in English and Spanish (Río de los pajaros pintados). Her first novel\, The Tree of Red Stars won the Milkweed National Prize for Fiction and the Friends of American Writers annual award. Bridal has also authored two works of nonfiction on the use of live theatre in museums\, and is the recipient of the American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums) Educators Award for Excellence. Her newest book is The Dark Side of Memory: Uruguay’s Disappeared Children and the Families that Never Stopped Searching.   \nAhmad Qais Munhazim\, a genderqueer Afghan\, Muslim and perpetually displaced\, is an assistant professor of global studies at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. As an interdisciplinary scholar\, de/colonial ethnographer and community activist\, Munhazim’s work troubles borders of academia\, activism and art while exploring everyday experiences of migration and war in the lives of queer and trans Afghans. Currently\, Munhazim is preparing their book manuscript based on a de/colonial ethnography of queer and trans Afghans in Afghanistan and Afghan refugees\, immigrants and asylum seekers in the United States. Munhazim has published articles\, poetry and non-fictions in the Journal of Narrative Politics\, Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research\, The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics\, Antipode\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World\, Queer Voices: Poetry\, Prose and Pride and the Conversation. Munhazim\, born and raised in Afghanistan and exiled currently in Philadelphia\, holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota. \nTerri Thao is passionate about building power with community. She is currently a program director of the local giving and opportunities program at the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies.  Terri has spent her professional career in the fields of community economic development\, community building\, leadership development\, and philanthropy. She also teaches classes on leadership and advocacy at Metropolitan State University. She serves on the boards of the F.R. Bigelow Foundation and Minnesota Housing. She obtained her Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees from the University of Minnesota. She loves to read in her spare time. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/our-story-ourselves-home-exile/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions,Our Story Ourselves ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/home-exile-banner-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220504T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220504T203000 DTSTAMP:20220420T233510Z CREATED:20220328T195709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T233510Z UID:17450-1651690800-1651696200@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Writer to Writer: Ed Bok Lee & Kevin Yang DESCRIPTION:Join writers Ed Bok Lee and Kevin Yang in a conversation about their writing\, lives and mutual admiration. Lee and Yang will reflect on their identities as Asian American artists living in Minnesota and creating art for themselves vs. creating art for their communities and explore writing in different languages. \nREGISTER HERE\n  \nABOUT THE WRITERS\nEd Bok Lee is the author of three books of poetry\, which have received the American Book Award\, Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice)\, Minnesota Book Award\, and PEN/Open Book Award. He is also the co-translator of Smiling in an Old Photograph: poems by Kim Ki-taek (OHM Editions\, 2022). Lee attended kindergarten in Seoul\, South Korea and is part-time faculty in Fine Arts at Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis/St. Paul\, MN. www.edboklee.com \nKevin Yang is a Hmong American multidisciplinary artist from the Twin Cities\, Minnesota with a focus on spoken word poetry and documentary filmmaking. He currently works at Twin Cities PBS and is a board member with Street Stops and Mountain Tops. He finds most of his artistic inspiration unraveling his Hmong American experience with others. \n  \nWriter to Writer is a collaboration with More Than a Single Story and Hennepin County Library. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/writer-to-writer-virtual-conversations-with-bipoc-writers/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/WriterToWriter_05-04-22_CompositeImage-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220430T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220430T140000 DTSTAMP:20220502T212551Z CREATED:20220329T162054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T212551Z UID:17543-1651320000-1651327200@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Reading and Panel: We Are Meant to Rise (TruArtSpeaks) DESCRIPTION:TruArtSpeaks will co-host this We Are Meant to Rise reading and panel with writers Douglas Kearney\, Arleta Little\, Sun Yung Shin\, Michael Torres and Kevin Yang. \n  \nREGISTER HERE URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/reading-and-panel-we-are-meant-to-rise/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Apr30-WAMTR-TruArtSpeaks-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220424T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220424T163000 DTSTAMP:20220408T213534Z CREATED:20220329T165048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220408T213534Z UID:17552-1650810600-1650817800@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Reading & Panel: We Are Meant to Rise (Common Ground) DESCRIPTION:Common Ground Meditation Center co-hosts this reading and panel discussion of We Are Meant to Rise. \nIn this significant collection\, Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in the history of the United States. Essays and poems vividly reflect and comment on the traumas we endured in 2020\, beginning with the arrival of the COVID-19pandemic crisis\, deepened by the blatant murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the uprisings that immersed our city into the epicenter of passionate\, worldwide demands for justice. We Are Meant to Rise lifts up the astonishing variety of BIPOC writers in Minnesota. In inspired and incisive writing these contributors speak unvarnished truths not only to the original and pernicious racism threaded through the American experience but also to the deeply personal\, in essays about family\, loss\, food culture\, economic security\, and mental health.Their call and response is united here to rise and be heard. \n  \nREGISTER HERE\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nHere are the readers for this book event:\n \nArleta M. Little is the current Board Chair of Common Ground. Arleta joined the Loft Literary Center as executive director in late 2021. Prior\, Arleta spent eight years directing the McKnight Artist Fellowships\, a nearly $3M program providing unrestricted support for artists and culture bearers across 15 creative disciplines in Minnesota; before that\, she served as the executive director of the Givens Foundation for African American Literature\, working for more than 15 years as an organizational development consultant providing strategic planning\, program evaluation\, and grant writing services to Minnesota organizations. Her essay “Life and Death in the North Star State\,” published in Water-Stone Review Vol. 24\, was nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize. Her work is included in We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World; This Was 2020: Minnesotans Write About Pandemics and Social Justice in a Historic Year; and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota. She also collaborated on writing and publishing Josie R. Johnson’s memoir\, Hope in the Struggle. \nShannon Gibney is a writer\, educator\, activist\, and the author of See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab\, 2015)\, and Dream Country (Dutton\, 2018) young adult novels that won Minnesota Book Awards in 2016 and 2019. Gibney is faculty in English at Minneapolis College\, where she teaches writing. A Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow\, her new novel\, Botched\, explores themes of transracial adoption through speculative memoir (Dutton\, 2023). \nRicardo Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality of oppression. \nMona Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux nation\, and the author of four books of fiction: The Grass Dancer (winner of a PEN/Hemingway award)\, Roofwalker\, Sacred Wilderness\, and the forthcoming novel\, A Council of Dolls.  Her fellowships include a James Michener Fellowship\, Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellowship\, Princeton Hodder Fellowship\, USA Artists Fellowship\, McKnight Fellowship\, and Native Arts and Cultures Fellowship. She lives in Saint Paul\, MN\, where she’s currently at work on a new novel titled\, The Year of Fury. \n신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin (she/they) is a Korean-born writer and is author of four books of poems: The Wet Hex (forthcoming in June 2022); Unbearable Splendor (Minnesota Book Award winner); Rough\, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black (Asian American Literary Award). They are the editor of three prose anthologies: What We Hunger For: Refugee & Immigrant Stories about Food & Family; A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota; (co-editor of) Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. And they are also the author of two illustrated books for children: Cooper’s Lesson (bilingual Korean/English) and the (co-author of) forthcoming Where We Come From co-written by Diane Wilson\, Shannon Gibney\, and John Coy and illustrated by Dion MBD. They are a 2022 MacDowell Fellow. Please find their author self sunyungshin.com. @sunyungshin on FB\, IG\, and Twitter. \n  URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/reading-panel-we-are-meant-to-rise-common-ground/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Reading-Panel-We-Are-Meant-to-Rise-Common-Ground-2-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220414T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220414T133000 DTSTAMP:20220408T213605Z CREATED:20220329T164226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220408T213605Z UID:17548-1649937600-1649943000@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Reading & Panel: We Are Meant to Rise (MCTC) DESCRIPTION:The MCTC School of Liberal Arts and Cultures and Student Life invites you to attend a virtual reading and panel discussion featuring editors and writers from the book We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. The event is free and open to the public. \nThe virtual event will highlight the compelling work We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World\, a significant collection featuring Indigenous writers and writers of color who bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in the history of the United States. Essays and poems vividly reflect and comment on the traumas we endured in 2020\, beginning with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis\, deepened by the blatant murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the uprisings that immersed our city into the epicenter of passionate\, worldwide demands for justice. \n  \nJoin by zoom here.\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speakers:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator David Mura\, editor\, is the author of a new book A Stranger’s Journey: Race\, Identity and Narrative Craft in Writing. He is the author of two memoirs\, Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei\, which won the Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and Where the Body Meets Memory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPamela Fletcher Bush\, contributor\, is CEO and publisher of Arcata Press | Saint Paul Almanac and professor emerita of English (Saint Catherine University\, St. Paul\, Minnesota). She is a widely published writer in various genres and has won literary awards and fellowships for creative nonfiction\, arts criticism and poetry. Fletcher Bush has lectured in Oxford\, England; Accra\, Ghana; Toronto\, Canada and Mexico. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Gibney\, contributor\, is a writer\, educator\, activist and the author of See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab\, 2015)\, and Dream Country (Dutton\, 2018) young adult novels that won Minnesota Book Awards in 2016 and 2019. Gibney is faculty in English at Minneapolis College\, where she teaches writing. She is a Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow. She is co-editor of What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color (Minnesota\, 2019)\, and her new novel\, Botched\, explores themes of transracial adoption through speculative memoir (Dutton\, 2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRicardo Levins Morales\, contributor\, is a Puerto Rican artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality of oppression. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa Olson\, contributor\, is an Indigenous person of mixed Anishinaabe and Euro-American heritage\, a tribal citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. For several years\, Melissa has worked as a writer and producer of Independent Public Media having served as the co-managing editor of the MinneCulture program at KFAI Fresh Air Radio. In the spring of 2022\, Melissa will contribute to Minnesota Public Radio’s North Star Journey project. Melissa lives in Minneapolis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiane Wilson\, contributor\, is an award-winning Dakota author of a recently published novel\, The Seed Keeper; a memoir\, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past; a non-fiction collection\, Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life; and a middle-grade biography Ella Cara Deloria: Dakota Language Protector.  Her essays have been featured in many publications\, including We Are Meant to Rise; Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations; and A Good Time for the Truth. She has received numerous grants\, including a 2013 Bush Fellowship\, and the 2018 AARP/Pollen 50 Over 50 Community Leadership award. Wilson is enrolled on the Rosebud Reservation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/reading-panel-we-are-meant-to-rise-mctc/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Reading-Panel-We-Are-Meant-to-Rise-MCTC-2-1-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220409T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220409T170000 DTSTAMP:20220405T145843Z CREATED:20220309T222408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T145843Z UID:17431-1649507400-1649523600@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:TEDx Concordia College: Carolyn Holbrook DESCRIPTION:GET A TICKET\nMore Than A Single Story’s founder Carolyn Holbrook will be giving a TEDxConcordia talk! \nAround the theme LEGACY – Generational impact portraying the influence of human potential. Since the pandemic started\, we have realized tomorrow is not promised. What would be our legacy right now\, if there was no tomorrow? Does everyone have equal opportunities and access to resources to establish their legacy? What is the definition of legacy\, and is it the same for everybody? Has the definition of legacy evolved as everything else in our daily lives is changing? What do you think? \nSpeakers include: Carolyn Holbrook\, Dr. William J. Craft\, Kumba N. Glay\, Tracy Lysne\, Francis Martinson\, Chelsea Masikati\, Elham Nasratullah\, Amanda Pieters and Mukai Selekwa. \nThis TEDxConcordia event will take place at Concordia College in Moorhead\, Minnesota. \n— \nTickets are $35 for the general public and $15 for students. \nGET A TICKET\n— \nSCHEDULE: \n12:30 p.m. – Registration and Social\n1-1:15 p.m. – Opening Address\n1:15-1:45 p.m. – 2 Speakers\n1:45-2 p.m. – TED Video\n2-2:30 p.m. – 2 Speakers\n2:30-3 p.m. – Refreshments\n3-3:10 p.m. – Performance\n3:10-3:40 p.m. – 2 Speakers\n3:40-3:50 p.m. – TED Video\n3:50-4:20 p.m. – 2 Speakers\n4:20-4:30 p.m. – Closing Address\n4:30-5 p.m. – Closing Social \nABOUT TED: \n\nTED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. TED Conferences invite the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Many of these talks are then made available\, free\, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates\, Jane Goodall\, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala\, and more.  TEDx\, supports individuals or groups in hosting local\, self-organized TED-style events around the world\, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. \n\n\nTEDxConcordiaCollege is an independently organized TED half-day event with an audience of a hundred guests. We want to bring the spirit of TED to Concordia and the Fargo-Moorhead area through our theme\, LEGACY. Our goal is to bring together bright minds to give talks that are idea-focused and speak on legacy from different perspectives\, to foster learning\, inspiration\, and wonder\, and provoke conversations that matter in our community. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/tedx-concordia-college-carolyn-holbrook/ LOCATION:Barry Auditorium\, 901 8th Street S\, Moorhead\, Minnesota\, 56562 CATEGORIES:Community ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/TEDx-Carolyn-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220407T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220407T120000 DTSTAMP:20220329T165009Z CREATED:20220329T164009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220329T165009Z UID:17546-1649327400-1649332800@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:MnWE Plenary: We Are Meant to Rise DESCRIPTION:Do you believe stories frame identities\, infuse the texts we explore\, and inspire our students’ and our own writing? Join Kevin Lindsey as he hosts a conversation with Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura about their new anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. This brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond\, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota\, not only provides valued witness to our present but also speaks to our collective future. This collection of stories is an ideal lens to focus pressing themes central to this year’s conference. Their conversation will include how dominant cultural narratives about race\, gender\, or class impact teaching and relationships with students\, how educators navigate these dominant narratives\, and how educators may question and resist persistent cultural narratives that reproduce inequality in the classroom. \n“For readers\, this anthology of Minnesota writers of color and Indigenous writers will serve many things. A presentation of the growing diversity of Minnesota and of the many voices great within us. A series of lens on the American experience. A bouquet of wordsmiths and thinkers\, memorialists and novelists\, poets and activists.” ~ David Mura \n  \nREGISTER HERE\n  \nAbout the speakers:\nKevin Lindsey\, who joined the Minnesota Humanities Center as CEO in June of 2019\, is a widely-respected advocate and lawyer with a wealth of experience in public policy and education reform. A proven change-maker\, Kevin’s career has focused on finding solutions to complex issues for institutions\, both internally and externally. He has a passion for inclusion for all\, building a stronger democracy\, and leveraging the power of personal stories. Kevin has held numerous governmental and nonprofit positions such as board chair and interim executive director of Walker West Music Academy and\, most recently\, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights from 2011 to 2019. He also was honored by his alma mater in 2017 with the Iowa Law Review Distinguished Alumni Award and recognized as a “50 Over 50 disruptor honoree” by AARP Minnesota and Pollen 2018.\n\n\n\n\n\nCarolyn Holbrook is a writer\, educator\, and longtime advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir in essays\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify (U of M Press\, 2020)\, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for memoir and nonfiction\, and was an honoree for the 2021 Society of Midland Authors Literary Award in Biography & Memoir. She is a co-author\, with Arleta Little\, of Minnesota civil rights icon Dr. Josie R. Johnson’s memoir\, Hope in the Struggle. She is co-editor with David Mura of an anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (U of M Press\, forthcoming this November). Her personal essays have been published widely\, most recently in A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (both from MN Historical Society Press). Her work is supported by the MN State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. She was a “50 Over 50” honoree (AARP/Pollen Midwest). She was the first person of color to serve in a leadership capacity at the Loft Literary Center\, and the first person of color to win the Minnesota Book Awards Kay Sexton Award for significant contributions to and leadership in Minnesota’s literary community. She teaches at the Loft Literary Center and other community venues\, and at Hamline University\, where she won the Exemplary Teacher award in 2014. She is the Director of More Than a Single Story\, which she founded in 2015. She is the mother of five\, grandmother of eight\, and great grandmother of two. \n“Art and writing have kept me alive. When a student leaves my class\, I want them to know and believe that their voice is important. I want them to learn not only from me and the pieces we read; I also want them to learn from other writers. To do this\, I bring writers into the classroom to talk with them about their writing and their writing practices.” ~ Carolyn Holbrook \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Mura is a writer\, memoirist\, poet\, and performance artist who brings a unique perspective to our multi-racial and multi-cultural society. A third-generation Japanese-American\, he has written intimately about his life as a man of color and the connections between race\, sexuality\, and history. In public appearances interweaving poetry\, performance\, and personal testament\, he provides powerful insights into the racial issues facing America today. \nMura’s memoirs\, poems\, essays\, plays\, and performances have won wide critical praise and numerous awards. Their topics range from contemporary Japan to the legacy of the internment camps and the history of Japanese Americans to critical explorations of an increasingly diverse America. He gives presentations at educational institutions\, businesses\, and other organizations throughout the country. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/mnwe-plenary-we-are-meant-to-rise/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/WAMTR-banner-Apr7-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220406T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220406T210000 DTSTAMP:20220329T165656Z CREATED:20220328T174503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220329T165656Z UID:17446-1649271600-1649278800@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:'We Are Meant to Rise' Panel Reading and Discussion (Hamline) DESCRIPTION:Please join Hamline faculty Carolyn Holbrook\, Sun Yung Shin and Erin Sharkey\, and Hamline graduate Kevin Yang as they share their writing from the powerful new anthology\, “We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World” (University of Minnesota Press)\, a brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond\, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota. Their essays and poems vividly reflect the traumas we endured in 2020\, beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic\, deepened by the murder of George Floyd. This work bears witness to one of the most unsettling years in U.S. history. \nJoin by Facebook Live\nEvent hosted by Hamline University English Department\, the Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University and “More Than a Single Story.” URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/we-are-meant-to-rise-panel-reading-and-discussion/ LOCATION:Facebook Live CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/275174564_2790633157747108_6938491508992388489_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220222T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220222T203000 DTSTAMP:20211229T221930Z CREATED:20211227T204717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211229T221930Z UID:16908-1645554600-1645561800@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Winter Reads: We Are Meant to Rise Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Holbrook\, Ed Bok Lee\, and Alexs Pate will read from and discuss their writing in the powerful new book\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (University of Minnesota Press\, 2021). This collection features Indigenous writers and writers of color discussing racism in Minnesota\, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and after the murder of George Floyd.Join us virtually as we hear from these powerful voices about their writing and experiences. \n  \nCo-Hosted by Ramsey County Library \n\n\nRegister here.\n\nBuy the book here.\n\n\n  \n—\nAbout the panelists:\n\n\n  \n\nALEXS PATE is a writer\, novelist\, Founder of Constructing the Innocent Classroom\, and the President and CEO of Innocent Technologies\, LLC\, a company he founded to end educational disparities by closing the relationship gap between educators and students of color. Alexs is the author of five novels\, including Amistad which was commissioned by Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks/SKG and based on the screenplay by David Franzoni\, which became a New York Times Bestseller. His other novels are Losing Absalom\, Finding Makeba\, The Multicultiboho Sideshow\, and West of Rehoboth.\n\n  \n\nED BOK LEE is the author of three books of poetry\, most recently\, Mitochondrial Night (Coffee House Press\, 2019). Lee is the son of North and South Korean emigrants—his mother originally a refugee from what is now North Korea; his father was raised during the Japanese colonial period and Korean War in what is now South Korea. Honors include an American Book Award\, a Minnesota Book Award\, an Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice)\, and a PEN/Open Book Award.\n\n  \n\nCAROLYN HOLBROOK is a writer\, educator\, and longtime advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir in essays\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify (U of M Press\, 2020) won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for memoir and nonfiction\, and was an honoree for the 2021 Society of Midland Authors Literary Award in Biography & Memoir. She is a co-author with Arleta Little of MN civil rights icon\, Dr. Josie R. Johnson’s memoir\, Hope In the Struggle. Her personal essays have been published widely\, most recently in A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (both from MNHS Press). She is the Director of More Than a Single Story\, which she founded in 2015. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/we-are-meant-to-rise-panel-discussion-with-carolyn-holbrook-alexs-pate-and-ed-bok-lee/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WAMTR-Feb-Banner-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220220T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220220T153000 DTSTAMP:20220119T221916Z CREATED:20211227T205809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T221916Z UID:16914-1645365600-1645371000@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:More Than A Single Story: Place DESCRIPTION:The Loft continues its collaboration with More Than A Single Story with a discussion centered around place. What does location—the block\, the protest site\, and so forth—have to do with art? And what can art do in those spaces? This panel brings together a diverse panel of artist activists who engage with art making in community space: Mark Tilsen\, Tou Saiko Lee\, Seitu Jones\, and Angela Two Stars. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Loft Literary Center. \nTickets: \n$10.00 Regular\n$5.00 Loft Member\n$0.00 Pay What You Can \nRegister here.\n— \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nTou SaiK Lee is a rhyme writer who flows over drum loops\, a poet loralette appointed by O.G.s of community organizing in St. Paul. Lee was the Multicultural Movement Builder for the Frogtown Neighborhood Association connecting underrepresented communities to resources and leadership opportunities. He collaborated with Karen and Karenni refugees to create a gang and substance abuse prevention program for Southeast Asian youth called AYO (Asian Youth Outreach). \nAngela Two Stars is a public artist and curator. She is the director of All My Relations Arts\, a project of the Native American Community Development Institute in Minneapolis\, MN. Angela is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and received her BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design. Angela’s public art commissions include; Zaniya Yutokce at Bde Maka Ska\, and Okciyapi at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden\, as well as additional works within the Twin Cities. \nSeitu K Jones is a multidisciplinary artist\, advocate and maker based in St. Paul\, Minnesota. Working between the arts and public spheres\, Jones channels the spirit of radical social movements into experiences that foster critical conversations and nurture more just and vibrant communities from the soil up. He is recognized as a dynamic collaborator and a creative force for civic engagement. \nMark K. Tilsen is an Oglala Lakota Poet Educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He comes from activist families long steeped in the struggle for liberation for all people and the long term survival of the Lakota Nation. At Standing Rock he stepped into the role of a direct action trainer and police liaison. Those stories have been compiled into a book of poems titled It Ain’t Over Until We’re Smoking Cigars on the Drillpad. During the pandemic Tilsen has worked with Camp Mniluzahan providing shelter for unhoused relatives in on Lakota land near Rapid City SD. \n  \n  URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/more-than-a-single-story-place/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MTASS-Feb20-1-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220217T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220217T200000 DTSTAMP:20220118T022840Z CREATED:20211229T215934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220118T022840Z UID:16941-1645120800-1645128000@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Embracing Our Roots: John Wright and Brittany Delaney DESCRIPTION:After the uprisings for George Floyd and Daunte Wright\, sharing knowledge inter-generationally is more important than ever. Join us for monthly conversations where young arts leaders will join our elders and culture bearers in conversation about their histories of significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history\, \nOn Thursday\, February 17\, 2022\, Spoken Word Artist/Arts Educator\, Brittany Delaney will join Distinguished Professor Emeritus John S. Wright in a conversation about Dr. Wright’s storied career at the U of M beginning with his leadership of the Morrill Hall takeover in 1969 when he was an undergrad – the event that led to the founding of the African American Studies program. They will also discuss his role in the acquisition of The Givens Collection of African Literature which holds over 10\,000 books\, magazines\, and pamphlets by or about African Americans\, and the performative history of the traveling multimedia “Langston Hughes Project — Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz” that he created and toured the country with beginning in the 1990s. \n\n  \nRegister Here.\n  \nABOUT THE FEATURED WRITERS: \n\nJohn S. Wright is Morse-Amoco Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of African American & African Studies and English at the University of Minnesota. When he was a graduating senior and member of the Afro-American Action Committee at the U of M\, he wrote the Seven Demands that led to the 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover\, the founding of the University’s Department of Afro-American & African Studies and its Martin Luther King Program\, which he subsequently administered from 1971-73. He was twice appointed a Research Associate at Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute (1982 & 1991); and joined its Working Group on Black Intellectual History from 1991-93.  In 1991 he served as Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Research Center in Harlem. Wright spearheaded the acquisition of the Archie Givens\, Sr. Collection of African American Literature and Life in 1985\, and served as its Faculty Scholar while leading Givens Collection teacher training seminars and community outreach projects for two decades. His artistic work includes the multimedia “Langston Hughes Project — Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz” that he created and began touring in the 1990s. \nBrittany Delaney is a Spoken Word Artist/Arts Educator born and raised in Minnesota. She has been performing on the scene for 18 years after getting her start in Slam Poetry. Brittany has participated in Spoken Word groups such as The Minnesota Spoken Word Association\, Quest for the Voice\, Brave New Voices (HBO)\,Teens Rock the Mic and various Slam organizations. She’s facilitated poetry workshops in university-based establishments across the country and is currently contracting as a Curriculum Consultant for various school districts across the United States. She continues doing residencies\, diversity training\, and tours. Her focus is promoting literacy\, inclusion\, and safe space learning environments through culturally responsive (and responsible) curriculum and practices. \nEmbracing our Roots is a partnership with More Than a Single Story\, Black Table Arts and In Black Ink. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots-john-wright-and-brittany-delaney/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/EOR02-22-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220119T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220119T180000 DTSTAMP:20211227T224455Z CREATED:20211227T211153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211227T224455Z UID:16923-1642615200-1642615200@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Embracing Our Roots DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled for the month of January. Please stay tuned for more information about February’s Embracing Our Roots conversation with two Black writers. \n  \nEmbracing Our Roots is a conversation with Black writers. In the Spirit of Sankofa\, this speaker series reaches back into the history of the Black literary arts in Minnesota in order to pass this knowledge on to the new generation of ascending as leaders in our Black literary arts. The series features Black Literary Elders and Culture Bearers who will discuss significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history\, and will engage audience members in conversation around the impact that both the writers and the movements have had on our present day capacity to survive the storms and keep creating. \nThe series will run from September 2021-February 22. Speakers will include Louis Alemayehu\, Pamela Fletcher Bush\, Carolyn Holbrook\, Arleta Little and Ellena Schoop\, Alexs Pate\, and John Wright. The program will culminate with a tour of the Givens Collection of African American Literature based at the University of Minnesota. \n  \nThis series is made possible with the partnership with Black Table Arts and In Black Ink. \n  URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots-2/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211129T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211129T193000 DTSTAMP:20211120T175221Z CREATED:20211108T232150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211120T175221Z UID:16829-1638208800-1638214200@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Book Launch Event: We Are Meant to Rise DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura\, editors\, will be at Next Chapter Booksellers on Monday\, November 29 at 6:00 p.m. for the launch of We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. They will be joined for this hybrid event by contributors Kao Kalia Yang\, Said Shaiye\, Douglas Kearney\, and Melissa Olson. To register for in-person attendance ($5)\, visit the Next Chapter Booksellers website here. To attend virtually (free)\, register here. \nHere Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in U.S. history. Essays and poems vividly reflect the traumas we endured in 2020\, beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic\, deepened by the blatant murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the uprisings that immersed our city into the epicenter of worldwide demands for justice.  URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/book-launch-event-we-are-meant-to-rise/ LOCATION:Next Chapter Booksellers\, 38 Snelling Ave S.\, St. Paul\, MN\, United States CATEGORIES:Community,Featured ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/flyer-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211029T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211029T200000 DTSTAMP:20211001T185148Z CREATED:20211001T185148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T185148Z UID:16792-1635530400-1635537600@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Exploring Home\, Exile and What We Carry: Writing Memoirs DESCRIPTION:How can writing help you reclaim life\, forge new languages and build a brighter future after experiencing exile or separation from one’s home? How can self-awareness expand our writing and self in increasingly stressful sociopolitical contexts? In this workshop\, we will answer these questions and examine the ordinary events of our lives – our location\, language\, movements\, dreams\, memories\, desires and more – and purposefully use writing as a tool to resist being a passive onlooker in our life and the world. Led by Beaudelaine Pierre. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nRegister for this event on the Hennepin County Library website here. \nThe link to the live online event will be emailed to registrants in advance. Learn more about participating in virtual library events. \nBeaudelaine Pierre is a journalist\, scholar and novelist who writes about her native Haiti and her adopted Youwès (U.S.). She is the author of the award-winning collection of essays and stories “You May Have the Suitcase Now” (New Rivers Press\, 2021)\, the co-editor of the trilingual anthology “How to Write an Earthquake / Comment écrire et quoi écrire / Mou pou 12 Janvye” (AHB\, 2011) and author of the debut novel “Testaman” (Bon Nouvèl\, 2002). Pierre is currently researching and exploring the ethical\, scientific and humanist representations of the situation of Temporary Protected Status holders in the Youwès. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/exploring-home-exile-and-what-we-carry-writing-memoirs/ LOCATION:Virtual Event CATEGORIES:Community,Writing Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BeaudelainePierre2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211021T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211021T203000 DTSTAMP:20211001T185228Z CREATED:20211001T184752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T185228Z UID:16788-1634841000-1634848200@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:Exploring Home and Exile: Writing Cento Poems DESCRIPTION:In the Cento form\, lines from different sources stand next to each other to create new narratives. This exercise encourages participants to focus closely on their favorite lines from various poems and helps them understand how the individual parts relate to the whole. In this workshop\, we will work with multiple poems to create our own Cento poems on the themes of home and exile\, and all that we carry with us in our physical and psychological “suitcases.” Led by Valerie Deus. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nRegister for this event on the HCLIB website here. \nThe link to the live online event will be emailed to registrants in advance. Learn more about participating in virtual library events. \nValerie Deus is a poet\, film programmer and radio show host of Haitian descent. Her work has been featured in Minnesota Women’s Press\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Midway\, the St. Paul Almanac\, and more. Her most recent essay is featured in “What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories About Food and Family.” When she’s not writing\, she is the host of Project 35\, a local low-fi radio show on KRSM radio. \n  URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/exploring-home-and-exile-writing-cento-poems/ LOCATION:Virtual Event CATEGORIES:Community,Writing Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Valerie-Deus2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211020T200000 DTSTAMP:20211029T191449Z CREATED:20211001T182610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T191449Z UID:16777-1634752800-1634760000@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:EMBRACING OUR ROOTS: Alanna Morris-Van Tassel in conversation with Arleta Little & Ellena Schoop DESCRIPTION:After the uprisings for George Floyd and Daunte Wright\, sharing knowledge inter-generationally is more important than ever. Join us for monthly conversations where young arts leaders will join our elders in conversation about their histories of significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history. On Wednesday\, Oct. 20\, Alanna Morris-Van Tassel will join Arleta Little and Ellena Schoop in a conversation about the Givens Foundation for African American Literature and the collaborative retreat they founded which brought in nationally and internationally renowned poets and writers such as Amiri Baraka and Sonja Sanchez to mentor emerging Minnesota Black writers.\n\nEmbracing Our Roots is a partnership with More Than a Single Story\, Black Table Arts\, and In Black Ink. Photo Credit: Canaan Mattson\, courtesy of the McKnight Choreography Fellowship\n\nAlanna Morris-Van Tassel is a dancer-choreographer\, educator\, and artist organizer whose work excavates cultural retention and fragmentation within their Caribbean diasporic identity. They were a featured performer with TU Dance from 2007-2017\, and served as the company’s Artistic Associate in 2020. In 2015 they were awarded a McKnight Dance Fellowship\, They were named Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch!”in 2018 and were selected as City Pages’ Artist of the Year in and Best Choreographer in 2019. Morris-Van Tassel is the Artistic Director of AMVTP\, founded in 2017 to produce dance\, education and community-building initiatives. Learn more about Alanna at www.alannamvt.com.\n\nArleta Little is a writer and culture worker living in Minneapolis’s Longfellow neighborhood. Her literary work has appeared in Blues Vision: African American Writing From Minnesota and in The Saint Paul Almanac. She is a co-author along with Josie Johnson and Carolyn Holbrook of Hope in the Struggle: A Memoir about the life of Josie R. Johnson. Formerly the Executive Director of the Givens Foundation of African American Literature\, she currently works as an Arts Program Officer and the Director of Artist Fellowships at the McKnight Foundation.\n\nEllena (Tina) Schoop\, east coast native\, IT Professional by day\, is a founding member of Uhuru Dancers\, 1989. She is a West African dancer\, choreographer\, poet\, and playwright who writes dramatic works of social\, economic and historical subjects. She was the visionary and co-founder of the Givens Foundation Black Writers Collaborative Retreat Program. Raised by parents who were members of the Black Panther Party\, she believes in not only sharing these stories through dance and writing\, but through fighting for equity. She has performed\, written and shared stories throughout the Twiin Cities for the past 2 decades. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots-arleta-little-and-ellena-schoop/ LOCATION:Virtual Event CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/embracing-roots-pic.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211010T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211010T153000 DTSTAMP:20211001T184250Z CREATED:20211001T184250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T184250Z UID:16784-1633874400-1633879800@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:The Suitcases We Carry: An Afternoon With Haitian Women Writers DESCRIPTION:In this More Than a Single Story conversation\, we will engage with Haitian authors Beaudelaine Pierre\, Gabrielle Civil\, Valerie Deus\, Marie Cerat and Jaira Placide on the themes in Pierre’s new book “You May Have the Suitcase Now\,” a collection of essays that explores home and exile\, and all that we carry with us in our physical and psychological “suitcases.” Moderated by Professor Zenzele Isoke. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nThis program hosted by More Than a Single Story via Zoom. Register at the HCLIB website here. \nThe link to the online discussion will be emailed to registrants in advance. If you’re new to Zoom\, check Getting Started with Zoom. \n  \nBeaudelaine Pierre is a journalist\, scholar\, and novelist who writes about her native Haiti and her adopted Youwès (US). \nMarie Lily Cerat is Associate Director of the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute at Brooklyn College and teaches with the Africana Studies Department. \nGabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist\, poet and writer\, originally from Detroit\, MI. \nJaira Placide is a Ph.D. student in City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. \nZenzele Isoke is Associate Professor and Chair of Gender\, Women\, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/the-suitcases-we-carry-an-afternoon-with-haitian-women-writers/ LOCATION:Virtual Event CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/thesuitcaseswecarry-event-photo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200402T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200402T194500 DTSTAMP:20200316T185351Z CREATED:20200224T001402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200316T185351Z UID:16382-1585850400-1585856700@morethanasinglestory.com SUMMARY:CANCELLED | INTRODUCTION TO FIELD RECORDING AND INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES DESCRIPTION:Due to COVID-19\, the library has cancelled all events through April 30th.  We are hoping to reschedule this event for fall if things calm down. \nInstructors: Melissa Olson and Ryan Dawes \nDescription: Melissa and Ryan will walk through the interview process with students interviewing each other. We will explore how to use recording gear\, including recorder settings\, microphone setup and setting\, as well as creative interview techniques such as scheduling\, preparation\, planning questions\, and follow-up questioning. We’ll also briefly explore ethical issues that come up during interviews. URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/introduction-to-field-recording-and-interviewing-techniques/ LOCATION:MN CATEGORIES:Community ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://morethanasinglestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Custom-Event-Pattern-7.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR