CANCELLED-Our stories Ourselves Writing Workshop: Melissa Olson

Franklin Library 1314 E. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis, MN

  UNFORTUNATELY THESE EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Anishinaabe poet Gerald Vizenor writes, “Survivance is an act of presence, the continuance of Native stories, not a mere reaction, or a survivable name. Native survivance stories are a renunciation of dominance, tragedy, and victimry.” In keeping with Vizenor’s survivance, we will conceptualize nurturance as a creative exercise...

National Novel Writing Month series with Anika Fajardo: Plot, Characters and Arc

Plymouth Library 15700 36th Ave. N., Plymouth, MN, United States

Write a novel in a month? Yes! That’s the goal of National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo, as it’s called, comes around every November, and the challenge is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Prepare to take on the challenge by participating in this 3-session workshop. In session 2, brainstorm and outline plot ideas, create characters, and consider...

Our Stories Ourselves Writing Workshop: Sherrie Fernandez-Williams

North Regional Library 1315 Lowry Ave N., Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Throughout our lives, we grieve many sorrows – a world in crisis, a chronic illness, a loss of a job, a dream, a loved one – and search for the words to tell our stories and find meaning, understanding and healing. In this two-session writing workshop, we will be brave and gentle with ourselves as...

National Novel Writing Month series with Anika Fajardo: Writing Life

Plymouth Library 15700 36th Ave. N., Plymouth, MN, United States

Write a novel in a month? Yes! That’s the goal of National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo, as it’s called, comes around every November, and the challenge is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Prepare to take on the challenge by participating in this 3-session workshop. In session 2, brainstorm and outline plot ideas, create characters, and consider...

Our Stories Ourselves Writing Workshop: Sherrie Fernandez-Williams

North Regional Library 1315 Lowry Ave N., Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Description: Throughout our lives, we grieve many sorrows – a world in crisis, a chronic illness, a loss of a job, a dream, a loved one – and search for the words to tell our stories and find meaning, understanding and healing. In this two-session writing workshop, we will be brave and gentle with ourselves...

Writer to Writer with Mélina Mangal and Sarah Warren

  Join children's authors Mélina Mangal and Sarah Warren in an online conversation about why they write for children, how their biracial backgrounds influence their work, and the challenges and joys of writing fiction and nonfiction. Q&A session to follow. Register Here:https://bit.ly/w2wjan2024 Writer to Writer is a series featuring conversations between Black, Indigenous writers and...

EMBRACING OUR ROOTS: ROOTED AND RISING A conversation with Elder Amoke Kubat and Elder-in-the-Making, Wisdom Young (Mawusi)

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

    Join artists, educators, activists, and mothers, elder Amoke Kubat and elder-in-the-making, Wisdom Young (Mawusi) as they share, build, and heal about their journeys as Black girls, women, and mothers in America. They will discuss how time, place, family, and historic/current events have shaped their identities and their work. They will reflect on the...

EMBRACING OUR ROOTS: ROOTED AND RISING Seitu Ken Jones & Soyini Vinelle Guyton in conversation with Anura & Rekhet Si-Asar

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

  An African proverb says “if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This Embracing our Roots event will focus on two couples: Arts giants Seitu Ken Jones & Soyini Vinelle Guyton with next generation couple, Anura & Rekhet Si-Asar. They will engage in a wide ranging...

Writer to Writer: Conversations Between BIPOC Writers- Hawona Sullivan Janzen and Antonio Duke

      Join award-winning writers Hawona Sullivan Janzen and Antonio Duke in a conversation on Blackness, history and writing for the stage. As writers, historians, playwrights, actors and scholars, Janzen and Duke believe writing is the only thing that can save us from ourselves. They will discuss their inspirations from the Black spiritual canon...