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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.
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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/
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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.
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