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, On Thursday, February 17, 2022, Spoken Word Artist/Arts Educator,...
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...
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...
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. On Thursday, March 17, 2022, poet, graphic designer and...
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
