Our Stories, Ourselves: Food in Cultural Celebrations
| VIRTUAL EVENT | Despite the challenges of the last few years, our communities have always found reasons to celebrate. Join notable chefs and food writers Sean Sherman, Yia...
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One Book | One Minnesota: We Are Meant to Rise
| Virtual Event | One Book | One Minnesota is a statewide book club that invites Minnesotans of all ages to read a common title and come together virtually to enjoy, reflect and discuss. For Fall 2022, the book featured is our anthology We Are Meant to Rise! Through their local libraries, Minnesotans will...
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Writing Personal Food Narratives
Microsoft Teams| Virtual Writing Workshop | Learn how to use all your senses to write compelling stories about experiences with food. Draw from personal experiences to write expressively and paint a picture for your readers that place them at the table with you. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Register here! About the...
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Finding the Story Within the Story
| 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...
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Writer to Writer: Michael Kleber Diggs & Heid Erdrich
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...
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Conversations with Community | The Responsible Children of Immigrants
Rondo Community Library 461 Dale St N, St. Paul, MN, United StatesRegister 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...
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Writing Workshop: Comparing Arabic and English Poetry
Rondo Community Library 461 Dale St N, St. Paul, MN, United StatesIn 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...
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Writing Workshop: If Money Was No Object
Zoom| 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...
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Building MN’s Powerful Arts Community: How We Got Here
Loft Literary Center 1101 Washington Ave., Minneapolis, MN, United StatesOUR 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...
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Writer to Writer: Carlyle Brown and David Grant
| 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 –...
