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SUMMARY:Our Stories\, Ourselves: Home & Exile
DESCRIPTION:| Virtual event | \n  \nImmigrants 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? Though they are able to make homes out of necessity\, do they ever really find home?  \nIn this More Than a Single Story conversation\, Carolyn Holbrook will engage with Somali author\, Ayaan Adan\, Uruguayan author Tessa Bridal\, genderqueer Afghani writer and professor of Global Studies\, Ahmad Qais Munhazim\, and Hmong community leader\, Terri Thao in a discussion on what home and exile means to them.  \nCheck the calendar to see what else we have coming up. This discussion is part of our Our Story\, Ourselves series. It is followed by two writing workshops. Check our calendar for more info. \nHennepin County Libraries is our partner for this event. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \n  \nCLICK TO REGISTER\n  \n— \nPanelist Bios\n  \nAyaan Adan is an author\, award-winning user experience designer\, and community organizer. Her newest book\, Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women was released by MN Historical Society Press in February 2022. She has been featured in Teen Vogue\, Minneapolis Star Tribune\, and Twin Cities Daily Planet. Ayaan is an advocate for privacy\, civil liberties\, and accessibility. She is committed to making a positive impact in the lives of others through storytelling\, design thinking\, and community organizing. \nTessa Bridal was born and raised in Uruguay\, a third generation descendent of a resilient and courageous Irish woman who boarded a ship she had been informed was sailing for Boston. Her ancestor’s story is told in Bridal’s second novel\, River of Painted Birds\, published in English and Spanish (Río de los pajaros pintados). Her first novel\, The Tree of Red Stars won the Milkweed National Prize for Fiction and the Friends of American Writers annual award. Bridal has also authored two works of nonfiction on the use of live theatre in museums\, and is the recipient of the American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums) Educators Award for Excellence. Her newest book is The Dark Side of Memory: Uruguay’s Disappeared Children and the Families that Never Stopped Searching.   \nAhmad Qais Munhazim\, a genderqueer Afghan\, Muslim and perpetually displaced\, is an assistant professor of global studies at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. As an interdisciplinary scholar\, de/colonial ethnographer and community activist\, Munhazim’s work troubles borders of academia\, activism and art while exploring everyday experiences of migration and war in the lives of queer and trans Afghans. Currently\, Munhazim is preparing their book manuscript based on a de/colonial ethnography of queer and trans Afghans in Afghanistan and Afghan refugees\, immigrants and asylum seekers in the United States. Munhazim has published articles\, poetry and non-fictions in the Journal of Narrative Politics\, Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research\, The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics\, Antipode\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World\, Queer Voices: Poetry\, Prose and Pride and the Conversation. Munhazim\, born and raised in Afghanistan and exiled currently in Philadelphia\, holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota. \nTerri Thao is passionate about building power with community. She is currently a program director of the local giving and opportunities program at the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies.  Terri has spent her professional career in the fields of community economic development\, community building\, leadership development\, and philanthropy. She also teaches classes on leadership and advocacy at Metropolitan State University. She serves on the boards of the F.R. Bigelow Foundation and Minnesota Housing. She obtained her Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees from the University of Minnesota. She loves to read in her spare time.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/our-story-ourselves-home-exile/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions,Our Story Ourselves
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SUMMARY:Embracing Our Roots: Asian Rennaissance
DESCRIPTION: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: \nOn Thursday\, May 19th More Than a Single Story and the Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) invite you to join us for a virtual intergenerational conversation between Asian Minnesotan artists David Mura\, Katie Hae Leo and Julia Gay as they honor the 30th anniversary of the Asian American Renaissance and discuss how our history of arts organizing has shaped the current landscape of AAPI movement in Minnesota. Why was the Asian American Renaissance so significant for our community and what should we be dreaming up next? \nWith the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans\, sharing knowledge intergenerationally is more important than ever. Embracing our Roots: Asian Americans Rooted and Rising reaches back into the rich history of Asian American social justice movements in Minnesota in order to pass this knowledge on to the new generation ascending as leaders. The series features Asian elders in conversation with young leaders to discuss significant milestones in Minnesota’s Asian history and the impact that the artists and the movements have had on our present day capacity to survive the storms and keep creating. \nThis event in Embracing Our Roots: Asian Americans Rooted and Rising is a partnership between More Than a Single Story and the Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) \n  \nREGISTER HERE!\n  \n— \nABOUT THE PANELISTS:\n  \nDavid Mura’s latest book is on creative writing and race\, A Stranger’s Journey: Race\, Identity & Narrative Craft in Writing. With essayist Carolyn Holbrook\, Mura is co-editor of an anthology of Minnesota BIPOC writers\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. His next book is The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself\, a collection of essays contrasting historical and fiction narratives by white Americans and African Americans\, appearing fall 2022. \nIn 2021\, for Twin Cities Public Television\, Mura co-produced\, wrote and narrated the documentary\, Armed With Language\, about the Japanese American linguists who served in the Military Intelligence Service during WWII. Armed With Language won a 2021 Upper Midwest Emmy. \nA Sansei or third generation Japanese American\, Mura has written two memoirs: Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei \, which won a 1991 Josephine Miles Book Award from the Oakland PEN and was listed in the New York Times Notable Books of Year\, and Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race\, Sexuality and Identity . His novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award\, the John Gardner Fiction Prize and Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award. \nMura’s latest collection of poetry is The Last Incantations. His second\, The Colors of Desire\, won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library\, and his first After We Lost Our Way was a National Poetry Contest winner. \n  \nKatie Hae Leo (she/her) was born in Bucheon\, South Korea and raised in Indiana. Her creative work explores the multiple intersections between the adopted body and notions of race\, gender\, place\, home\, and (dis)ability. Her poetry and essays have appeared in journals such as Asian American Literary Review\, Kartika Review\, and Water~Stone Review. She has performed in venues such as Theater Mu\, Dreamland Arts\, Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia)\, Phoenix Art Museum\, and University of Regina (Canada). Her awards include the James Wright Prize for Poetry\, a Gesell Award for nonfiction\, and a Spark Leadership Award from the Coalition of Asian American Leaders. Katie is currently working on a young adult novel\, initially supported by a Mirrors and Windows Fellowship for Indigenous writers and writers of color working in youth genres\, from The Loft Literary Center. She is honored to be part of this conversation.  \nwww.katiehaeleo.com \n  \nJulia Gay (she/they) is an artist and community organizer committed to uplifting the intersections of justice\, healing and the arts. She is currently the Communications & Marketing Manager for the Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) and the host of their newly released MinneAsianStories Podcast. \nOutside of the office\, Julia is a dancer\, playwright and stand-up comedian. She was a dancer with professional company Ananya Dance Theatre from 2016-2021 and is currently a steering committee member for the Network of Politicized Adoptees. In October 2019\, Julia produced her one-woman show\, Motherlanded\, exploring her personal narrative as a Chinese adoptee. Learn more about her artistic work at www.juliagay.com.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots-asian-rennaissance/
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SUMMARY:Writer to Writer: Ed Bok Lee & Kevin Yang
DESCRIPTION: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. \nREGISTER HERE\n  \nABOUT THE WRITERS\nEd Bok Lee is the author of three books of poetry\, which have received the American Book Award\, Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice)\, Minnesota Book Award\, and PEN/Open Book Award. He is also the co-translator of Smiling in an Old Photograph: poems by Kim Ki-taek (OHM Editions\, 2022). Lee attended kindergarten in Seoul\, South Korea and is part-time faculty in Fine Arts at Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis/St. Paul\, MN. www.edboklee.com \nKevin Yang is a Hmong American multidisciplinary artist from the Twin Cities\, Minnesota with a focus on spoken word poetry and documentary filmmaking. He currently works at Twin Cities PBS and is a board member with Street Stops and Mountain Tops. He finds most of his artistic inspiration unraveling his Hmong American experience with others. \n  \nWriter to Writer is a collaboration with More Than a Single Story and Hennepin County Library. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/writer-to-writer-virtual-conversations-with-bipoc-writers/
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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SUMMARY:Reading and Panel: We Are Meant to Rise (TruArtSpeaks)
DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nREGISTER HERE
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CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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SUMMARY:Reading & Panel: We Are Meant to Rise (Common Ground)
DESCRIPTION:Common Ground Meditation Center co-hosts this reading and panel discussion of We Are Meant to Rise. \nIn 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 2020\, beginning with the arrival of the COVID-19pandemic crisis\, deepened by the blatant murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the uprisings that immersed our city into the epicenter of passionate\, worldwide demands for justice. We Are Meant to Rise lifts up the astonishing variety of BIPOC writers in Minnesota. In inspired and incisive writing these contributors speak unvarnished truths not only to the original and pernicious racism threaded through the American experience but also to the deeply personal\, in essays about family\, loss\, food culture\, economic security\, and mental health.Their call and response is united here to rise and be heard. \n  \nREGISTER HERE\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nHere are the readers for this book event:\n \nArleta M. Little is the current Board Chair of Common Ground. Arleta joined the Loft Literary Center as executive director in late 2021. Prior\, Arleta spent eight years directing the McKnight Artist Fellowships\, a nearly $3M program providing unrestricted support for artists and culture bearers across 15 creative disciplines in Minnesota; before that\, she served as the executive director of the Givens Foundation for African American Literature\, working for more than 15 years as an organizational development consultant providing strategic planning\, program evaluation\, and grant writing services to Minnesota organizations. Her essay “Life and Death in the North Star State\,” published in Water-Stone Review Vol. 24\, was nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize. Her work is included in We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World; This Was 2020: Minnesotans Write About Pandemics and Social Justice in a Historic Year; and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota. She also collaborated on writing and publishing Josie R. Johnson’s memoir\, Hope in the Struggle. \nShannon Gibney is a writer\, educator\, activist\, and the author of See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab\, 2015)\, and Dream Country (Dutton\, 2018) young adult novels that won Minnesota Book Awards in 2016 and 2019. Gibney is faculty in English at Minneapolis College\, where she teaches writing. A Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow\, her new novel\, Botched\, explores themes of transracial adoption through speculative memoir (Dutton\, 2023). \nRicardo Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality of oppression. \nMona Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux nation\, and the author of four books of fiction: The Grass Dancer (winner of a PEN/Hemingway award)\, Roofwalker\, Sacred Wilderness\, and the forthcoming novel\, A Council of Dolls.  Her fellowships include a James Michener Fellowship\, Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellowship\, Princeton Hodder Fellowship\, USA Artists Fellowship\, McKnight Fellowship\, and Native Arts and Cultures Fellowship. She lives in Saint Paul\, MN\, where she’s currently at work on a new novel titled\, The Year of Fury. \n신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin (she/they) is a Korean-born writer and is author of four books of poems: The Wet Hex (forthcoming in June 2022); Unbearable Splendor (Minnesota Book Award winner); Rough\, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black (Asian American Literary Award). They are the editor of three prose anthologies: What We Hunger For: Refugee & Immigrant Stories about Food & Family; A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota; (co-editor of) Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. And they are also the author of two illustrated books for children: Cooper’s Lesson (bilingual Korean/English) and the (co-author of) forthcoming Where We Come From co-written by Diane Wilson\, Shannon Gibney\, and John Coy and illustrated by Dion MBD. They are a 2022 MacDowell Fellow. Please find their author self sunyungshin.com. @sunyungshin on FB\, IG\, and Twitter. \n 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/reading-panel-we-are-meant-to-rise-common-ground/
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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SUMMARY:Reading & Panel: We Are Meant to Rise (MCTC)
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe virtual event will highlight the compelling work We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World\, a significant collection featuring Indigenous writers and writers of color who 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 2020\, beginning with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis\, deepened by the blatant murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the uprisings that immersed our city into the epicenter of passionate\, worldwide demands for justice. \n  \nJoin by zoom here.\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speakers:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator David Mura\, editor\, is the author of a new book A Stranger’s Journey: Race\, Identity and Narrative Craft in Writing. He is the author of two memoirs\, Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei\, which won the Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and Where the Body Meets Memory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPamela Fletcher Bush\, contributor\, is CEO and publisher of Arcata Press | Saint Paul Almanac and professor emerita of English (Saint Catherine University\, St. Paul\, Minnesota). She is a widely published writer in various genres and has won literary awards and fellowships for creative nonfiction\, arts criticism and poetry. Fletcher Bush has lectured in Oxford\, England; Accra\, Ghana; Toronto\, Canada and Mexico. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Gibney\, contributor\, is a writer\, educator\, activist and the author of See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab\, 2015)\, and Dream Country (Dutton\, 2018) young adult novels that won Minnesota Book Awards in 2016 and 2019. Gibney is faculty in English at Minneapolis College\, where she teaches writing. She is a Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow. She is co-editor of What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color (Minnesota\, 2019)\, and her new novel\, Botched\, explores themes of transracial adoption through speculative memoir (Dutton\, 2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRicardo Levins Morales\, contributor\, is a Puerto Rican artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality of oppression. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa Olson\, contributor\, is an Indigenous person of mixed Anishinaabe and Euro-American heritage\, a tribal citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. For several years\, Melissa has worked as a writer and producer of Independent Public Media having served as the co-managing editor of the MinneCulture program at KFAI Fresh Air Radio. In the spring of 2022\, Melissa will contribute to Minnesota Public Radio’s North Star Journey project. Melissa lives in Minneapolis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiane Wilson\, contributor\, is an award-winning Dakota author of a recently published novel\, The Seed Keeper; a memoir\, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past; a non-fiction collection\, Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life; and a middle-grade biography Ella Cara Deloria: Dakota Language Protector.  Her essays have been featured in many publications\, including We Are Meant to Rise; Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations; and A Good Time for the Truth. She has received numerous grants\, including a 2013 Bush Fellowship\, and the 2018 AARP/Pollen 50 Over 50 Community Leadership award. Wilson is enrolled on the Rosebud Reservation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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SUMMARY:TEDx Concordia College: Carolyn Holbrook
DESCRIPTION:GET A TICKET\nMore Than A Single Story’s founder Carolyn Holbrook will be giving a TEDxConcordia talk! \nAround 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 have equal opportunities and access to resources to establish their legacy? What is the definition of legacy\, and is it the same for everybody? Has the definition of legacy evolved as everything else in our daily lives is changing? What do you think? \nSpeakers include: Carolyn Holbrook\, Dr. William J. Craft\, Kumba N. Glay\, Tracy Lysne\, Francis Martinson\, Chelsea Masikati\, Elham Nasratullah\, Amanda Pieters and Mukai Selekwa. \nThis TEDxConcordia event will take place at Concordia College in Moorhead\, Minnesota. \n— \nTickets are $35 for the general public and $15 for students. \nGET A TICKET\n— \nSCHEDULE: \n12:30 p.m. – Registration and Social\n1-1:15 p.m. – Opening Address\n1:15-1:45 p.m. – 2 Speakers\n1:45-2 p.m. – TED Video\n2-2:30 p.m. – 2 Speakers\n2:30-3 p.m. – Refreshments\n3-3:10 p.m. – Performance\n3:10-3:40 p.m. – 2 Speakers\n3:40-3:50 p.m. – TED Video\n3:50-4:20 p.m. – 2 Speakers\n4:20-4:30 p.m. – Closing Address\n4:30-5 p.m. – Closing Social \nABOUT TED: \n\nTED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. TED Conferences invite the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Many of these talks are then made available\, free\, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates\, Jane Goodall\, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala\, and more.  TEDx\, supports individuals or groups in hosting local\, self-organized TED-style events around the world\, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities. \n\n\nTEDxConcordiaCollege is an independently organized TED half-day event with an audience of a hundred guests. We want to bring the spirit of TED to Concordia and the Fargo-Moorhead area through our theme\, LEGACY. Our goal is to bring together bright minds to give talks that are idea-focused and speak on legacy from different perspectives\, to foster learning\, inspiration\, and wonder\, and provoke conversations that matter in our community.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/tedx-concordia-college-carolyn-holbrook/
LOCATION:Barry Auditorium\, 901 8th Street S\, Moorhead\, Minnesota\, 56562
CATEGORIES:Community
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SUMMARY:MnWE Plenary: We Are Meant to Rise
DESCRIPTION: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 voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond\, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota\, not only provides valued witness to our present but also speaks to our collective future. This collection of stories is an ideal lens to focus pressing themes central to this year’s conference. Their conversation will include how dominant cultural narratives about race\, gender\, or class impact teaching and relationships with students\, how educators navigate these dominant narratives\, and how educators may question and resist persistent cultural narratives that reproduce inequality in the classroom. \n“For readers\, this anthology of Minnesota writers of color and Indigenous writers will serve many things. A presentation of the growing diversity of Minnesota and of the many voices great within us. A series of lens on the American experience. A bouquet of wordsmiths and thinkers\, memorialists and novelists\, poets and activists.” ~ David Mura \n  \nREGISTER HERE\n  \nAbout the speakers:\nKevin Lindsey\, who joined the Minnesota Humanities Center as CEO in June of 2019\, is a widely-respected advocate and lawyer with a wealth of experience in public policy and education reform. A proven change-maker\, Kevin’s career has focused on finding solutions to complex issues for institutions\, both internally and externally. He has a passion for inclusion for all\, building a stronger democracy\, and leveraging the power of personal stories. Kevin has held numerous governmental and nonprofit positions such as board chair and interim executive director of Walker West Music Academy and\, most recently\, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights from 2011 to 2019. He also was honored by his alma mater in 2017 with the Iowa Law Review Distinguished Alumni Award and recognized as a “50 Over 50 disruptor honoree” by AARP Minnesota and Pollen 2018.\n\n\n\n\n\nCarolyn Holbrook is a writer\, educator\, and longtime advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir in essays\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify (U of M Press\, 2020)\, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for memoir and nonfiction\, and was an honoree for the 2021 Society of Midland Authors Literary Award in Biography & Memoir. She is a co-author\, with Arleta Little\, of Minnesota civil rights icon Dr. Josie R. Johnson’s memoir\, Hope in the Struggle. She is co-editor with David Mura of an anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (U of M Press\, forthcoming this November). Her personal essays have been published widely\, most recently in A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (both from MN Historical Society Press). Her work is supported by the MN State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. She was a “50 Over 50” honoree (AARP/Pollen Midwest). She was the first person of color to serve in a leadership capacity at the Loft Literary Center\, and the first person of color to win the Minnesota Book Awards Kay Sexton Award for significant contributions to and leadership in Minnesota’s literary community. She teaches at the Loft Literary Center and other community venues\, and at Hamline University\, where she won the Exemplary Teacher award in 2014. She is the Director of More Than a Single Story\, which she founded in 2015. She is the mother of five\, grandmother of eight\, and great grandmother of two. \n“Art and writing have kept me alive. When a student leaves my class\, I want them to know and believe that their voice is important. I want them to learn not only from me and the pieces we read; I also want them to learn from other writers. To do this\, I bring writers into the classroom to talk with them about their writing and their writing practices.” ~ Carolyn Holbrook \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Mura is a writer\, memoirist\, poet\, and performance artist who brings a unique perspective to our multi-racial and multi-cultural society. A third-generation Japanese-American\, he has written intimately about his life as a man of color and the connections between race\, sexuality\, and history. In public appearances interweaving poetry\, performance\, and personal testament\, he provides powerful insights into the racial issues facing America today. \nMura’s memoirs\, poems\, essays\, plays\, and performances have won wide critical praise and numerous awards. Their topics range from contemporary Japan to the legacy of the internment camps and the history of Japanese Americans to critical explorations of an increasingly diverse America. He gives presentations at educational institutions\, businesses\, and other organizations throughout the country.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/mnwe-plenary-we-are-meant-to-rise/
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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SUMMARY:'We Are Meant to Rise' Panel Reading and Discussion (Hamline)
DESCRIPTION: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 of this past year and beyond\, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota. Their essays and poems vividly reflect the traumas we endured in 2020\, beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic\, deepened by the murder of George Floyd. This work bears witness to one of the most unsettling years in U.S. history. \nJoin by Facebook Live\nEvent hosted by Hamline University English Department\, the Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University and “More Than a Single Story.”
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/we-are-meant-to-rise-panel-reading-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T003052
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SUMMARY:Embracing Our Roots: Genesia Williams in conversation with  Mary Moore Easter
DESCRIPTION:After the uprisings for George Floyd and Daunte Wright\, sharing knowledge inter-generationally is more important than ever. Join us for monthly conversations where young arts leaders will join our elders and culture bearers in conversation about their histories of significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history. \nOn Thursday\, March 17\, 2022\, poet\, graphic designer and social change leader\, Genesia Williams will join poet and dancer/choreographer\, Mary Moore Easter in a conversation about Mary Moore Easter’s long career – first as the founder of Carleton College’s dance program\, and about her transition to poetry\, the four books of poetry she has published\, and much more.   \n  \nREGISTER HERE\n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS: \nMary Moore Easter\, a 2020 recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board\, and Cave Canem Alumni Fellow\, is the author of four poetry books:  Free Papers: poems inspired by the testimony of Eliza Winston\, a Mississippi slave freed in Minnesota in 1860 ( 2021); The Body of the World (Minnesota Book Award in Poetry Finalist\, (2019)\, Walking from Origins\, and  From the Flutes of Our Bones (2020).   Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, she was also Founder and Director of Carleton College’s dance program. Easter remembers a long dance career in Minnesota as a much-honored independent dancer/choreographer. Her poems have been individually published in Poetry\, Water~Stone and Prairie Schooner and many others. \nGenesia Williams is a creative social change leader. She is the owner and principal of Genesia Doing Things – a design and strategy firm focused on solutions for nonprofits\, small businesses\, artists and individuals. She hails the South Side of Chicago and is a grandchild of the Great Migration. Firmly rooted in the history\, culture\, and Black-centered identity given to her from her hometown\, she carries this perspective forward in her Twin Cities based communications work. \nGenesia is a writer\, designer\, village member\, auntie and aspiring elder who uses her work to help people on the journey to own their narratives and claim their power.  \n  \n  \nEmbracing our Roots is a partnership with More Than a Single Story\, Black Table Arts and In Black Ink.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots-genesia-williams-in-conversation-with-mary-moore-easter/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220222T203000
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SUMMARY:Winter Reads: We Are Meant to Rise Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Holbrook\, Ed Bok Lee\, and Alexs Pate will read from and discuss their writing in the powerful new book\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (University of Minnesota Press\, 2021). This collection features Indigenous writers and writers of color discussing racism in Minnesota\, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and after the murder of George Floyd.Join us virtually as we hear from these powerful voices about their writing and experiences. \n  \nCo-Hosted by Ramsey County Library \n\n\nRegister here.\n\nBuy the book here.\n\n\n  \n—\nAbout the panelists:\n\n\n  \n\nALEXS PATE is a writer\, novelist\, Founder of Constructing the Innocent Classroom\, and the President and CEO of Innocent Technologies\, LLC\, a company he founded to end educational disparities by closing the relationship gap between educators and students of color. Alexs is the author of five novels\, including Amistad which was commissioned by Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks/SKG and based on the screenplay by David Franzoni\, which became a New York Times Bestseller. His other novels are Losing Absalom\, Finding Makeba\, The Multicultiboho Sideshow\, and West of Rehoboth.\n\n  \n\nED BOK LEE is the author of three books of poetry\, most recently\, Mitochondrial Night (Coffee House Press\, 2019). Lee is the son of North and South Korean emigrants—his mother originally a refugee from what is now North Korea; his father was raised during the Japanese colonial period and Korean War in what is now South Korea. Honors include an American Book Award\, a Minnesota Book Award\, an Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice)\, and a PEN/Open Book Award.\n\n  \n\nCAROLYN HOLBROOK is a writer\, educator\, and longtime advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir in essays\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify (U of M Press\, 2020) won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for memoir and nonfiction\, and was an honoree for the 2021 Society of Midland Authors Literary Award in Biography & Memoir. She is a co-author with Arleta Little of MN civil rights icon\, Dr. Josie R. Johnson’s memoir\, Hope In the Struggle. Her personal essays have been published widely\, most recently in A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (both from MNHS Press). She is the Director of More Than a Single Story\, which she founded in 2015.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/we-are-meant-to-rise-panel-discussion-with-carolyn-holbrook-alexs-pate-and-ed-bok-lee/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220220T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220220T153000
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SUMMARY:More Than A Single Story: Place
DESCRIPTION:The Loft continues its collaboration with More Than A Single Story with a discussion centered around place. What does location—the block\, the protest site\, and so forth—have to do with art? And what can art do in those spaces? This panel brings together a diverse panel of artist activists who engage with art making in community space: Mark Tilsen\, Tou Saiko Lee\, Seitu Jones\, and Angela Two Stars. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Loft Literary Center. \nTickets: \n$10.00 Regular\n$5.00 Loft Member\n$0.00 Pay What You Can \nRegister here.\n— \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nTou SaiK Lee is a rhyme writer who flows over drum loops\, a poet loralette appointed by O.G.s of community organizing in St. Paul. Lee was the Multicultural Movement Builder for the Frogtown Neighborhood Association connecting underrepresented communities to resources and leadership opportunities. He collaborated with Karen and Karenni refugees to create a gang and substance abuse prevention program for Southeast Asian youth called AYO (Asian Youth Outreach). \nAngela Two Stars is a public artist and curator. She is the director of All My Relations Arts\, a project of the Native American Community Development Institute in Minneapolis\, MN. Angela is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and received her BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design. Angela’s public art commissions include; Zaniya Yutokce at Bde Maka Ska\, and Okciyapi at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden\, as well as additional works within the Twin Cities. \nSeitu K Jones is a multidisciplinary artist\, advocate and maker based in St. Paul\, Minnesota. Working between the arts and public spheres\, Jones channels the spirit of radical social movements into experiences that foster critical conversations and nurture more just and vibrant communities from the soil up. He is recognized as a dynamic collaborator and a creative force for civic engagement. \nMark K. Tilsen is an Oglala Lakota Poet Educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He comes from activist families long steeped in the struggle for liberation for all people and the long term survival of the Lakota Nation. At Standing Rock he stepped into the role of a direct action trainer and police liaison. Those stories have been compiled into a book of poems titled It Ain’t Over Until We’re Smoking Cigars on the Drillpad. During the pandemic Tilsen has worked with Camp Mniluzahan providing shelter for unhoused relatives in on Lakota land near Rapid City SD. \n  \n 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/more-than-a-single-story-place/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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SUMMARY:Embracing Our Roots: John Wright and Brittany Delaney
DESCRIPTION:After the uprisings for George Floyd and Daunte Wright\, sharing knowledge inter-generationally is more important than ever. Join us for monthly conversations where young arts leaders will join our elders and culture bearers in conversation about their histories of significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history\, \nOn Thursday\, February 17\, 2022\, Spoken Word Artist/Arts Educator\, Brittany Delaney will join Distinguished Professor Emeritus John S. Wright in a conversation about Dr. Wright’s storied career at the U of M beginning with his leadership of the Morrill Hall takeover in 1969 when he was an undergrad – the event that led to the founding of the African American Studies program. They will also discuss his role in the acquisition of The Givens Collection of African Literature which holds over 10\,000 books\, magazines\, and pamphlets by or about African Americans\, and the performative history of the traveling multimedia “Langston Hughes Project — Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz” that he created and toured the country with beginning in the 1990s. \n\n  \nRegister Here.\n  \nABOUT THE FEATURED WRITERS: \n\nJohn S. Wright is Morse-Amoco Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of African American & African Studies and English at the University of Minnesota. When he was a graduating senior and member of the Afro-American Action Committee at the U of M\, he wrote the Seven Demands that led to the 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover\, the founding of the University’s Department of Afro-American & African Studies and its Martin Luther King Program\, which he subsequently administered from 1971-73. He was twice appointed a Research Associate at Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute (1982 & 1991); and joined its Working Group on Black Intellectual History from 1991-93.  In 1991 he served as Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Research Center in Harlem. Wright spearheaded the acquisition of the Archie Givens\, Sr. Collection of African American Literature and Life in 1985\, and served as its Faculty Scholar while leading Givens Collection teacher training seminars and community outreach projects for two decades. His artistic work includes the multimedia “Langston Hughes Project — Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz” that he created and began touring in the 1990s. \nBrittany Delaney is a Spoken Word Artist/Arts Educator born and raised in Minnesota. She has been performing on the scene for 18 years after getting her start in Slam Poetry. Brittany has participated in Spoken Word groups such as The Minnesota Spoken Word Association\, Quest for the Voice\, Brave New Voices (HBO)\,Teens Rock the Mic and various Slam organizations. She’s facilitated poetry workshops in university-based establishments across the country and is currently contracting as a Curriculum Consultant for various school districts across the United States. She continues doing residencies\, diversity training\, and tours. Her focus is promoting literacy\, inclusion\, and safe space learning environments through culturally responsive (and responsible) curriculum and practices. \nEmbracing our Roots is a partnership with More Than a Single Story\, Black Table Arts and In Black Ink.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots-john-wright-and-brittany-delaney/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220215T213000
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SUMMARY:Anthology Reading: We Are Meant to Rise
DESCRIPTION:The Soul Bone Literary Festival is hosting  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. This reading will feature Anika Fajardo\, Ezekiel Joubert III\, Mary Moore Easter\, and Mona Susan Power. Carolyn Holbrook will introduce. \nREGISTER HERE.\nThe anthology We Are Meant to Rise is a brilliant and rich gathering of diverse Minnesota voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond. In this book\, Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in U.S. history. Essays and poems vividly reflect the traumas we endured in 2020\, beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic\, deepened by the blatant murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the uprisings that immersed our city into the epicenter of worldwide demands for justice. \n“A powerful and passionate take on a fraught moment.” —Publishers Weekly \n  \nCo-hosted by Maharishi International University.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/anthology-reading-we-are-meant-to-rise/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220121T200000
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SUMMARY:In the Eye of the Beholder: Writing Love Letters to Ourselves
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is about writing love letters to ourselves. We need healing. We invite people to acknowledge and show love and understanding to themselves.\n  \n\nSaymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay is a Lao writer. CNN’s “United Shades of America” host W. Kamau Bell called her work “revolutionary.” She’s the author of the children’s book WHEN EVERYTHING WAS EVERYTHING and is best known for her award-winning play KUNG FU ZOMBIES VS CANNIBALS. Her plays have been presented by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (NY)\, Theater Mu (MN)\, Lower Depth Theater (LA)\, Asian Improv Arts (IL)\, and elsewhere. Saymoukda is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Theater Mu\, a McKnight Foundation Fellow in Community-Engaged Practice Art\, a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in playwriting\, and serves on the City of Saint Paul’s Cultural STAR Board. www.refugenius.net\n\n  \n\nThis writing workshop is a part of the In the Eye of the Beholder series which includes an intergenerational conversation about American beauty standards and how they impact women of color. It also includes another writing workshop. Check the More Than A Single Story page for updates.\n\n\n\n\nThis event is a collaboration between More than a Single Story and St. Paul Library.\n  \n\nREGISTER here.\n 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-writing-love-letters-to-ourselve/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220119T180000
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SUMMARY:Embracing Our Roots
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled for the month of January. Please stay tuned for more information about February’s Embracing Our Roots conversation with two Black writers. \n  \nEmbracing Our Roots is a conversation with Black writers. In the Spirit of Sankofa\, this speaker series reaches back into the history of the Black literary arts in Minnesota in order to pass this knowledge on to the new generation of ascending as leaders in our Black literary arts. The series features Black Literary Elders and Culture Bearers who will discuss significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history\, and will engage audience members in conversation around the impact that both the writers and the movements have had on our present day capacity to survive the storms and keep creating. \nThe series will run from September 2021-February 22. Speakers will include Louis Alemayehu\, Pamela Fletcher Bush\, Carolyn Holbrook\, Arleta Little and Ellena Schoop\, Alexs Pate\, and John Wright. The program will culminate with a tour of the Givens Collection of African American Literature based at the University of Minnesota. \n  \nThis series is made possible with the partnership with Black Table Arts and In Black Ink. \n 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots-2/
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T210000
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SUMMARY:History Revealed: We Are Meant to Rise
DESCRIPTION:History Revealed is a panel discussion of We Are Meant to Rise in the East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society’s new series “Making Minnesota” which will explore the often untold stories\, histories and experiences of the immigrant\, African American and Indigenous communities that make up our most diverse county. \nEditors Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura will be joined by authors Suleiman Adan\, Marcie Rendon and Kevin Yang\, who will share their perspectives on the events of the past year\, from the Covid pandemic to the murder of George Floyd\, to the world-wide demands for racial justice\, and how those recent experiences tie into past histories. \nRegister here! \nLearn more about the book.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/history-revealed-we-are-meant-to-rise/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220113T200000
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SUMMARY:Exploring Beauty with Cento Poems
DESCRIPTION:In the Cento form\, lines from different sources stand next to each other to create new narratives. Because this exercise forces participants to focus closely on their favorite lines from various poems\, it helps them understand how the individual parts relate to the whole. In this workshop\, we will work with multiple poems to create our own Cento poems on the themes of loving our beautiful selves.\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE.\n\n\nABOUT THE FACILITATOR\n\nValerie Deus is a poet\, film programmer and radio show host of Haitian descent. Her work has been featured in Minnesota Women’s Press\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Midway\, the St. Paul Almanac\, The BeZine\, A Garden of Black Joy anthology and Under Purple Skies: A Minneapolis Anthology her most recent essay is featured in What We Hunger For- Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family edited by Sun Yung Shin published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. When she’s not writing\, she is the host of Project 35\, a local low-fi radio show on KRSM radio. She curates FilmNorth’s Cinema Lounge and is the Shorts Programmer for the Provincetown International Film Festival.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/exploring-beauty-with-cento-poems/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211212T160000
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SUMMARY:In the Eye of the Beholder: An Intergenerational Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an In the Eye of the Beholder event at Sun Ray Library in St. Paul\, on December 12\, 2021. This event features Carolyn Holbrook\, Najah Davis\, Saymoukda Vongsay\, Buranh Johnson\, Nubia Esparza\, and Isa Sanchez-Esparza. \nRegister for this event at: https://forms.gle/4rYbFpY41T3ucJxB7 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/in-the-eye-of-the-beholder-an-intergenerational-conversation/
LOCATION:Sun Ray Library\, 2105 Wilson Ave\, St. Paul\, MN\, MN\, United States
CATEGORIES:Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211208T200000
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SUMMARY:Embracing Our Roots: Adebisi Wilson in conversation with Alexs D. Pate
DESCRIPTION:After the uprisings for George Floyd and Daunte Wright\, sharing knowledge inter-generationally is more important than ever. Join us for monthly conversations where young arts leaders will join our elders and culture bearers in conversation about their histories of significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history. \nOn Wednesday\, December 8\, 2021\, attorney Adebisi Wilson will join author\, businessman and arts leader\, Alexs Pate in a conversation about the seven books Alexs has published including West of Rehoboth which was selected as “Honor Fiction Book” for 2002 by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. They will also discuss the Givens Foundation for African American Literature’s Nommo Series in which Alexs hosted nationally and internationally renowned poets and writers such as Lucille Clifton\, Amiri Baraka Sonja Sanchez\, Ntozake Shange and John Edgar Wideman\, to name a few. In addition\, they will discuss Alexs’s business\, Innocent Technologies and his Innocent Classroom program\, where Adebisi served as Vice President. \nZoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88499237353?pwd=cXlCUUZLaGxIb1BnSXkxdDJEM3Bxdz09 \nAlexs D. Pate is the author of five novels including the New York Times Bestseller Amistad\, commissioned by Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks/SKG and based on the screenplay by David Franzoni. Other novels include Losing Absalom\, Finding Makeba\, The Multicultiboho Sideshow\, and West of Rehoboth\, and a nonfiction book\, In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap\, and poetry collection\, Innocent. Alexs is the editor of Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota. His novel\, West of Rehoboth was selected as “Honor Fiction Book” for 2002 by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. His program\, The Innocent Classroom\, trains K-12 teachers to improve their relationship with students of color and is now in cities all across the country\, including the Twin Cities\, Omaha\, Racine\, San Jose\, Chicago and Houston. His book\, The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias to Support Students of Color was published in September 2020. He hosted the Givens Foundation for African American Literature’s Nommo series which brought nationally and internationally known Black authors to the Twin Cities. In 2021\, Alexs won the Mn Book Awards Kay Sexton Award for his significant contributions to and leadership in Minnesota’s literary community. \nAdebisi Wilson is a dedicated advocate whose legal practice specializes in family law\, investigations\, and diversity and inclusion consulting. Adebisi is from North Minneapolis and holds a law degree from New York Law School. She began her career in HR consulting\, supporting companies in their affirmative action reporting and designing and executing diversity training. As a young lawyer\, Adebisi guided her clients through complex litigation and investigated complaints of harassment and discrimination. She also has experience in the space of innovation\, helping a company more than double in size by growing locally\, expanding nationally\, and becoming more effective and efficient\, both internally and as a service provider. Adebisi is a visionary leader\, who has a passion for education and her community. She is a 2020 Minnesota Young American Leaders Fellow. Adebisi sits on the Board of Trustees for Blake School as well as the Board of Directors of the Children’s Theatre Company where she chairs the Diversity\, Inclusion\, and Human Capital Committee. \nEmbracing Our Roots is a partnership with More Than a Single Story\, Black Table Arts\, and In Black Ink.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots-adebisi-wilson-in-conversation-with-alexs-d-pate/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211129T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211129T193000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Event: We Are Meant to Rise
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura\, editors\, will be at Next Chapter Booksellers on Monday\, November 29 at 6:00 p.m. for the launch of We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. They will be joined for this hybrid event by contributors Kao Kalia Yang\, Said Shaiye\, Douglas Kearney\, and Melissa Olson. To register for in-person attendance ($5)\, visit the Next Chapter Booksellers website here. To attend virtually (free)\, register here. \nHere Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in U.S. history. Essays and poems vividly reflect the traumas we endured in 2020\, beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic\, deepened by the blatant murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the uprisings that immersed our city into the epicenter of worldwide demands for justice. 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/book-launch-event-we-are-meant-to-rise/
LOCATION:Next Chapter Booksellers\, 38 Snelling Ave S.\, St. Paul\, MN\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211123
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211124
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SUMMARY:Book Release: We Are Meant to Rise
DESCRIPTION:November 23\, 2021 is the official release date for More Than a Single Story’s long-awaited anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise. Edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura\, the collection features works written by More Than a Single Story panelists and participants. Reserve your copy at a local bookstore and plan to pick it up on the 23rd! \nThis is the release date\, but the official book  event will be held on November 29th at Next Chapter Booksellers. See the separate event post for info on that hybrid in-person/virtual event.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/book-release-we-are-meant-to-rise/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211029T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211029T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T003052
CREATED:20211001T185148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T185148Z
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SUMMARY:Exploring Home\, Exile and What We Carry: Writing Memoirs
DESCRIPTION:How can writing help you reclaim life\, forge new languages and build a brighter future after experiencing exile or separation from one’s home? How can self-awareness expand our writing and self in increasingly stressful sociopolitical contexts? In this workshop\, we will answer these questions and examine the ordinary events of our lives – our location\, language\, movements\, dreams\, memories\, desires and more – and purposefully use writing as a tool to resist being a passive onlooker in our life and the world. Led by Beaudelaine Pierre. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nRegister for this event on the Hennepin County Library website here. \nThe link to the live online event will be emailed to registrants in advance. Learn more about participating in virtual library events. \nBeaudelaine Pierre is a journalist\, scholar and novelist who writes about her native Haiti and her adopted Youwès (U.S.). She is the author of the award-winning collection of essays and stories “You May Have the Suitcase Now” (New Rivers Press\, 2021)\, the co-editor of the trilingual anthology “How to Write an Earthquake / Comment écrire et quoi écrire / Mou pou 12 Janvye” (AHB\, 2011) and author of the debut novel “Testaman” (Bon Nouvèl\, 2002). Pierre is currently researching and exploring the ethical\, scientific and humanist representations of the situation of Temporary Protected Status holders in the Youwès.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/exploring-home-exile-and-what-we-carry-writing-memoirs/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Community,Writing Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211021T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211021T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T003052
CREATED:20211001T184752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T185228Z
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SUMMARY:Exploring Home and Exile: Writing Cento Poems
DESCRIPTION:In the Cento form\, lines from different sources stand next to each other to create new narratives. This exercise encourages participants to focus closely on their favorite lines from various poems and helps them understand how the individual parts relate to the whole. In this workshop\, we will work with multiple poems to create our own Cento poems on the themes of home and exile\, and all that we carry with us in our physical and psychological “suitcases.” Led by Valerie Deus. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nRegister for this event on the HCLIB website here. \nThe link to the live online event will be emailed to registrants in advance. Learn more about participating in virtual library events. \nValerie Deus is a poet\, film programmer and radio show host of Haitian descent. Her work has been featured in Minnesota Women’s Press\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Midway\, the St. Paul Almanac\, and more. Her most recent essay is featured in “What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories About Food and Family.” When she’s not writing\, she is the host of Project 35\, a local low-fi radio show on KRSM radio. \n 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/exploring-home-and-exile-writing-cento-poems/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Community,Writing Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211020T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211020T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T003052
CREATED:20211001T182610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T191449Z
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SUMMARY:EMBRACING OUR ROOTS: Alanna Morris-Van Tassel in conversation with Arleta Little & Ellena Schoop
DESCRIPTION:After the uprisings for George Floyd and Daunte Wright\, sharing knowledge inter-generationally is more important than ever. Join us for monthly conversations where young arts leaders will join our elders in conversation about their histories of significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history. On Wednesday\, Oct. 20\, Alanna Morris-Van Tassel will join Arleta Little and Ellena Schoop in a conversation about the Givens Foundation for African American Literature and the collaborative retreat they founded which brought in nationally and internationally renowned poets and writers such as Amiri Baraka and Sonja Sanchez to mentor emerging Minnesota Black writers.\n\nEmbracing Our Roots is a partnership with More Than a Single Story\, Black Table Arts\, and In Black Ink. Photo Credit: Canaan Mattson\, courtesy of the McKnight Choreography Fellowship\n\nAlanna Morris-Van Tassel is a dancer-choreographer\, educator\, and artist organizer whose work excavates cultural retention and fragmentation within their Caribbean diasporic identity. They were a featured performer with TU Dance from 2007-2017\, and served as the company’s Artistic Associate in 2020. In 2015 they were awarded a McKnight Dance Fellowship\, They were named Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch!”in 2018 and were selected as City Pages’ Artist of the Year in and Best Choreographer in 2019. Morris-Van Tassel is the Artistic Director of AMVTP\, founded in 2017 to produce dance\, education and community-building initiatives. Learn more about Alanna at www.alannamvt.com.\n\nArleta Little is a writer and culture worker living in Minneapolis’s Longfellow neighborhood. Her literary work has appeared in Blues Vision: African American Writing From Minnesota and in The Saint Paul Almanac. She is a co-author along with Josie Johnson and Carolyn Holbrook of Hope in the Struggle: A Memoir about the life of Josie R. Johnson. Formerly the Executive Director of the Givens Foundation of African American Literature\, she currently works as an Arts Program Officer and the Director of Artist Fellowships at the McKnight Foundation.\n\nEllena (Tina) Schoop\, east coast native\, IT Professional by day\, is a founding member of Uhuru Dancers\, 1989. She is a West African dancer\, choreographer\, poet\, and playwright who writes dramatic works of social\, economic and historical subjects. She was the visionary and co-founder of the Givens Foundation Black Writers Collaborative Retreat Program. Raised by parents who were members of the Black Panther Party\, she believes in not only sharing these stories through dance and writing\, but through fighting for equity. She has performed\, written and shared stories throughout the Twiin Cities for the past 2 decades.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots-arleta-little-and-ellena-schoop/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211010T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211010T153000
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SUMMARY:The Suitcases We Carry: An Afternoon With Haitian Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:In this More Than a Single Story conversation\, we will engage with Haitian authors Beaudelaine Pierre\, Gabrielle Civil\, Valerie Deus\, Marie Cerat and Jaira Placide on the themes in Pierre’s new book “You May Have the Suitcase Now\,” a collection of essays that explores home and exile\, and all that we carry with us in our physical and psychological “suitcases.” Moderated by Professor Zenzele Isoke. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nThis program hosted by More Than a Single Story via Zoom. Register at the HCLIB website here. \nThe link to the online discussion will be emailed to registrants in advance. If you’re new to Zoom\, check Getting Started with Zoom. \n  \nBeaudelaine Pierre is a journalist\, scholar\, and novelist who writes about her native Haiti and her adopted Youwès (US). \nMarie Lily Cerat is Associate Director of the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute at Brooklyn College and teaches with the Africana Studies Department. \nGabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist\, poet and writer\, originally from Detroit\, MI. \nJaira Placide is a Ph.D. student in City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. \nZenzele Isoke is Associate Professor and Chair of Gender\, Women\, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/the-suitcases-we-carry-an-afternoon-with-haitian-women-writers/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210910T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210910T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T003052
CREATED:20210811T173509Z
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SUMMARY:Embracing Our Roots
DESCRIPTION:A Partnership with More Than a Single Story\, Black Table Arts\, and In Black Ink\nSecond Friday of the month from Sept. 21-Feb. 22 unless otherwise stated. \n6:00-7:30 p.m. \nThe program will be hybrid – you can join in person at Black Table Arts or if you prefer\, you can participate virtually on Zoom or FB Live. \nAdmission: Free \nDescription: After the uprisings for George Floyd and Daunte Wright\, sharing knowledge inter-generationally is more important than ever. Join us for monthly Friday evening conversations where our elders will be gifting their insights into their histories of organizing\, and also taking questions from our young people on how to move forward and stay fortified in the movement. \nIn the Spirit of Sankofa\, this speaker series reaches back into the history of the Black literary arts in Minnesota in order to pass this knowledge on to the new generation of ascending as leaders in our Black literary arts. The series features Black Literary Elders and Culture Bearers who will discuss significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black literary history and will engage audience members in conversation around the impact that both the writers and the movements have had on our present-day capacity to survive the storms and keep creating. \nThe series will run from September 2021-February 22. Speakers will include Louis Alemayehu\, Pamela Fletcher Bush\, Carolyn Holbrook\, Arleta Little and Ellena Schoop\, Alexs Pate\, and John S. Wright. The program will culminate with a tour of the Givens Collection of African American Literature based at the University of Minnesota. \nSept. 10\, 2021: Louis Alemayehu \nElder Alemayehu moved to the Twin Cities from Chicago in the late l960s. There was a lot going on in the arts community back then. Elder Louis will share some of his vast knowledge\, including the first African American bookstore\, radio programs about politics and arts\, The Way Unlimited\, and the African American Cultural Arts Center. \nOct. 8\, 2021: Arleta Little and Ellena Schoop \nThe women will talk about the Givens Foundation with special emphasis on the Givens Black Writers Collaborative Retreat Program which engaged ten emerging African American writers from diverse genres in an eight-month program providing mentoring and peer support\, building literary community\, honing literary craft\, and producing new works. \nNov. 19\, 2021: Pamela Fletcher Bush \nMs. Fletcher Bush will give her recollections of the 80s Twin Cities Black literary scene which includes Wonders of the Wind (WOW)\, Guild Press\, and The Butterfly Tree\, among other points of convergence. We served as a necessary literary movement\, sustaining hope and joy in the word. \nDec. 10\, 2021: Alexs Pate \nAlexs will talk about the Givens Foundation with special emphasis on the Givens Foundation’s Nommo African American Author Series which he hosted\, interviewing nationally and internationally renowned African American authors including Lucille Clifton\, Ntozake Shange\, John Edgar Wideman and many more. \nJan.  14\, 2022: Carolyn Holbrook \nCarolyn will discuss her work from the 1980s when she founded the Whittier Writers’ Workshop through her tenure as the first BIPOC program director at the Loft Literary Center. She will also discuss SASE: The Write Place (1993-2006) and her current position of founder/director of More Than a Single Story. \nFeb. 11\, 2022: John S. Wright \nDr. Wright will give a performative history of the traveling multimedia “Langston Hughes Project — Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz” that he created and toured the country with beginning in the 1990s. He will also discuss the Archie Givens\, Sr. Collection of African American Literature which he spearheaded in 1995. The Givens Collection\, located at the U of M\, consists of over 10\,000 books\, magazines\, and pamphlets by or about African Americans. \nSometime between mid-Feb & mid-March. Tour of Givens Collection of African American Literature.  The Givens Collection\, located at the U of M\, consists of over 10\,000 books\, magazines\, and pamphlets by or about African Americans.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/embracing-our-roots/
LOCATION:Black Table Arts\, 3737 Minnehaha Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210524T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210524T140000
DTSTAMP:20260419T003052
CREATED:20210408T002034Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop: Writing Life "Recipes"
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, we will use guided creative writing exercises to invent life “recipes” such as “How to Live a Life Worth Telling” or “How to Forgive Your Haters.” The workshop is part conversation\, part writing and part sharing. All levels of writing and life experience welcomed. Bring a notebook and pencil or laptop and a good sense of humor (because the facilitator has a wacky sense of humor). Participants are encouraged to create recipes in any language(s).\nLed by Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay\, an award-winning Lao writer and author of the children’s book “When Everything was Everything” who is best known for her award-winning play\, “Kung Fu Zombies vs. Cannibals.”\n\nIn collaboration with Hennepin County Libraries. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.\n\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/writing-workshop-writing-lifes-recipes/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210515T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210515T160000
DTSTAMP:20260419T003052
CREATED:20210407T234351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210408T000015Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop: Noticing the Field of Purple: Examining Beauty Through Black American Writing and Music
DESCRIPTION:In this guided poetry writing session\, we will question the power dynamics of beauty while exploring our own personal relationship to it. We will anchor our critical exploration of beauty in Black American literary traditions and music. From this framework\, we will generate original poems that intentionally reflect on how we can assert and affirm a radical recovery of beauty that nourishes with its strength\, healing properties and reminds us to love ourselves and the overlooked splendors of environments that make up who we are. Attend this workshop to receive\, reflect\, write and (if you feel so inclined) recite. \nLed by Sagirah Shahid\, an award-winning African American Muslim poet\, arts educator and performance artist. Her debut collection of poetry “Surveillance of Joy” is forthcoming from Half Mystic Press. \nREGISTER HERE \nIn collaboration with the Hennepin County Libraries. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/writing-workshop-noticing-the-field-of-purple-examining-beauty-through-black-american-writing-and-music/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210513T210000
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SUMMARY:In the Eye of the Beholder
DESCRIPTION:In Toni Morrison’s first novel “The Bluest Eye\,” her character Pecola Breedlove faces unspeakable troubles in her young life and believes her problems will go away if only she had blue eyes. For years\, women of color have been writing about how American beauty standards affect them\, and for years\, the beauty industry has been working to make them buy into those standards rather than helping them love and respect their own beauty. \nIn this More Than a Single Story conversation\, artists/activists/hairstylists Ebony J. Davis and Mahogany Plautz will lead a conversation with poets Mary Moore Easter and Saymoukda Vongsay\, fashion designer Bris Carbajal\, Northern Arapaho and Kickapoo Emmy-nominated multimedia artist Missy Whiteman and salon owner/hairstylist Fiona Buff on the issues of women of color and beauty. \nIn collaboration with Hennepin County Libraries. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nREGISTER HERE \nThis program hosted by More Than a Single Story via Zoom. The link to the online discussion will be emailed to registrants in advance.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Discussions
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