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. Instructors: Melissa Olson and Ryan Dawes Description: Melissa and Ryan will walk through the interview process with students interviewing each other. We will explore how to use recording gear, including...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
