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  • Exploring Home and Exile: Writing Cento Poems

    Virtual Event

    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...

  • Exploring Home, Exile and What We Carry: Writing Memoirs

    Virtual Event

    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...

  • Book Launch Event: We Are Meant to Rise

    Next Chapter Booksellers 38 Snelling Ave S., St. Paul, MN, United States

    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...

  • Embracing Our Roots

    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.   Embracing 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...

  • Embracing Our Roots: John Wright and Brittany Delaney

    Zoom

    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, On Thursday, February 17, 2022, Spoken Word Artist/Arts Educator,...

  • More Than A Single Story: Place

    Zoom

    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...

    $10

  • Winter Reads: We Are Meant to Rise Panel Discussion

    Zoom

    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...

    Free

  • MnWE Plenary: We Are Meant to Rise

    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...

  • TEDx Concordia College: Carolyn Holbrook

    Barry Auditorium 901 8th Street S, Moorhead, Minnesota

    GET A TICKET More Than A Single Story's founder Carolyn Holbrook will be giving a TEDxConcordia talk! Around the theme LEGACY – Generational impact portraying the influence of human potential....

    $35