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...
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...
GET A TICKET More Than A Single Story's founder Carolyn Holbrook will be giving a TEDxConcordia talk! Around the theme LEGACY – Generational impact portraying the influence of human potential. Since the pandemic started, we have realized tomorrow is not promised. What would be our legacy right now, if there was no tomorrow? Does everyone...
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. The virtual event will highlight...
Common Ground Meditation Center co-hosts this reading and panel discussion of We Are Meant to Rise. In 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...
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. REGISTER HERE
Join writers Ed Bok Lee and Kevin Yang in a conversation about their writing, lives and mutual admiration. Lee and Yang will reflect on their identities as Asian American artists living in Minnesota and creating art for themselves vs. creating art for their communities and explore writing in different languages. REGISTER HERE ABOUT THE...
We are excited to announce a new strand in our Embracing Our Roots series: Asian Americans Rooted & Rising! For our first event in this sub-series, we have Asian Rennaissance: On Thursday, May 19th More Than a Single Story and the Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) invite you to join us for a virtual...
| Virtual event | Immigrants 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?...
| Virtual Writing Workshop | Everyone 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...
