Songs for Our Fathers: Writing Workshops

Highland Park Library 1974 Ford Parkway, Saint Paul, MN, United States

Please RSVP by email to: wendy@thefriends.org (please specify which workshop you will be attending)

EMBRACING OUR ROOTS: ROOTED AND RISING- A conversation with Dr. Yolanda Williams & PaviElle French

2106 S 4th St Minneapolis, MN 55455 2106 S 4th St, Minneapolis, MN, United States

*This is an in-person event* Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/embracing-our-roots-rooted-and-rising-a-conversation-with-dr-yolanda-will-tickets-958655222577?aff=oddtdtcreator Panelist bios: Rev. Yolanda Y. Williams, Ph.D., is a performer, educator, scholar, and pastor. Yolanda performed soprano and mezzo-soprano repertoire with Vocalessence, the Rochester Symphony, La Choeur Symphonique de Fribourg, Lundi Sept Heures, Ensemble de Cuivres Jurassien, the Montreux Symphony, and the Israel Philharmonic. Her worldwide performances...

Writer to Writer: A conversation between May Lee-Yang and Anisa Hagi-Mohamed

*This is a virtual event* Register here: https://tinyurl.com/2mz4hwys Panelist Bios: May Lee-Yang is a Hmong American writer, performer, and educator. Her debut poetry collection, How I Lost My Name, will be published in Spring 2025 through Sundress Press. She teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota and is in the process of launching Mayhem Games, a...

Writer to Writer: A conversation between Mary Moore Easter and Christopher P. Lehman

*This is a virtual event* Register Here Panelist Bios: Mary Moore Easter is the author of a memoir The Way She Wants to Get There and four books of poetry including Free Papers, inspired by the testimony of Eliza Winston. She was the Founder and Director of Carleton College's dance program. In 2022, Carleton College named their new studios in...

Embracing Our Roots: Rooted and Rising with Dr. Haki Madhubuti and Chaun Webber

Elmer L. Andersen Library 222 21st Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Join Dr. Haki Madhubuti and Chaun Webster in a conversation about self-determination in Black writing, publishing and distribution. Elder Madhubuti a widely published author and poet, and is the founder of Third World Press, the oldest Black Publishing house in the world. Chaun Webster is also a widely published poet and graphic artist. This event...