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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.”
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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.
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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 
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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 
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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
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