| Virtual Writing Workshop | In 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. Funded by Minnesota’s...
Join poets, writers and creative writing teachers, Michael Kleber Diggs and Heid E. Erdrich in a wide ranging conversation on assumptions that are often made about their childhoods and cultural experiences. They will talk about how they write around audience expectations of what their upbringings must have been like, how they live as adults and...
Register here to attend virtually. Please join writers and storytellers of East African descent in this engaging conversation about the struggles of young professionals who are children of immigrants: how they grapple with managing ongoing financial problems, relating to parents who have not experienced class movement, and having to provide for relatives back in their...
In this workshop, participants will learn more about Arabic poetry compared to western poetry, and how writing poems is viewed in both cultures. We will use comparative works to illustrate and illuminate the fundamental basic differences between Arabic and English poetry. Recommendations for Arabic poets, and the possibilities of ‘translation’ and translating poetry between the...
| Virtual Event | What would you wish for if money was no object? What would your world look like if money was no object? Whether you write in poetry, prose, or not at all, we invite you to this workshop. Using prompts for inspiration, we will blend fiction with non fiction as we bend...
OUR STORIES, OURSELVES: CONVERSATIONS WITH COMMUNITY How 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...
| Virtual Event | Writer to Writer is a series featuring conversations between BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) writers. Join playwrights and screenwriters Carlyle Brown and David Grant in a conversation about how they see Black artists in theater and film doing powerful and necessary work that responds to our current socio-political moment –...
We are collaborating with Theater Mu to host this Embracing Our Roots conversation with multidisciplinary artist Meghan Kreidler (actor, singer of Kiss the Tiger) will chat with trailblazers Lily Tung Crystal (Theater Mu), Ananya Chatterjee (Ananya Dance Theatre), and Lana Barkawi (MIZNA) about their experiences being Asian American women leaders in the arts. This will...
It is no secret that the historic and continuing violence on Black bodies has left many feeling hopelessness, fatigue, fear, and uncertainty. After eight years of engaging Minnesota BIPOC writers and arts activists in public conversations to explore issues their work addresses through readings, panels, open conversations, and community-based writing workshops to explore issues of...
In this two-day workshop, experiment with sound, writing and movement to get in touch with the feelings and sensations that arise within our bodies when we listen to and connect with other people and their stories. Individual and shared exercises will be inspired by text from “Solito” by Javier Zamora. This program is funded by...
