Reading & Panel: We Are Meant to Rise (Common Ground)

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...

Writer to Writer: Ed Bok Lee & Kevin Yang

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...

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Embracing Our Roots: Asian Rennaissance

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...

Our Stories, Ourselves: Home & Exile

Zoom

| 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?...

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Writing Workshop | Home & Exile: Mastering Your Memoir

Zoom

| 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...

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African Americans Rooted & Rising: T. Mychael Rambo & Jasmine McBride

Zoom

| Virtual Event |   Embracing Our Roots is a conversation series that reaches back into the history of Minnesota’s African American arts community. The purpose is to pass this knowledge along to the new generation that is now ascending as leaders in our African American arts community. The series features Elders and Culture Bearers who...

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We Are Meant to Rise (Minnesota Writers Series)

Minnesota Humanities Center 987 Ivy Avenue East, Saint Paul, MN, United States

Join the Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) for readings and an interactive round table discussion around the book, “We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World,” which was published by University of Minnesota Press with More Than a Single Story. The book’s editors, Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, will be joined...

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Writing Workshop | Home & Exile: Novels Without Fiction

Ridgedale Library 12601 Ridgedale Dr, Minnetonka, United States

| In-person Writing Workshop | Novels 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...

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Anthology Reading: We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World

Soul Bone Literary Festival 2022 will host a reading of the anthology We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura. Our readers tonight are Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Diane Wilson, and Sun Yung Shin. Carolyn Holbrook will introduce and curated this evening...