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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
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SUMMARY:Finding the Story Within the Story
DESCRIPTION:|  Virtual Writing Workshop  | \n  \nIn storytelling\, the heart of the story may emerge unexpectedly during the writing process. Learn how to find the heart of your story through the examination of three different pieces of work by food writer Mecca Bos: a podcast\, blog post and a longer form article. \nFunded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nRegister here!\n  \nAbout the Instructor \nMECCA BOS has been a Twin Cities based journalist and chef for more than 20 years. In these dual roles\, she has become known as one of the leading local voices for marginalized voices in the food community and has championed and uplifted the stories of people of color\, women\, elders\, and immigrant communities\, putting focus and spotlight on stories that the mainstream media may have traditionally overlooked or ignored. Mecca has been the dining critic of Twin Cities Metro and City Pages. Her work has also been published in The New York Times\, Taste\, VICE\, Paste\, Travel + Leisure\, Midwest Living\, and many other publications. She is a regular contributor to Minnesota Public Radio\, and is producing her own audio documentary work\, Hidden Black Foodways. Through the BIPOC Foodways Alliance\, Mecca\, Sean Sherman\, and their community of allies plan to dismantle white supremacy using food as a tool. Based in the Twin Cities and around the world\, BIPOC Foodways Alliance is dedicated to the documentation\, examination\, and promotion of the foodways of all BIPOC communities in the United States. Visit her website at www.meccaboswrites.com
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LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Our Story Ourselves,Writing Workshop
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SUMMARY:Writing Personal Food Narratives
DESCRIPTION:|  Virtual Writing Workshop  | \nLearn how to use all your senses to write compelling stories about experiences with food. Draw from personal experiences to write expressively and paint a picture for your readers that place them at the table with you. \nFunded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nRegister here!\n  \nAbout the Instructor \nNATALIA MENDEZ (they/them) is a queer\, Chicanx writer and photographer living in Minneapolis. Finding connections to their roots and with others through food has been a habit throughout their life. They can also be found around the Twin Cities on two wheels (bicycle or motorcycle) when they're not writing about food\, entertainment\, the outdoors\, or experiences on the margins. Their work is published regularly on their blog with The Current. You can also find their work on Racketmn.com\, Eater Twin Cities\, Seward Coop’s website and more. You can find their work at www.bynataliamendez.com.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/writing-personal-food-narratives/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:Our Story Ourselves,Writing Workshop
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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.
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LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions,Our Story Ourselves
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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
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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
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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.
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LOCATION:Zoom
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