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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220215T193000
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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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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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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
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
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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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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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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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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
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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:20260419T022023
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:20260419T022023
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
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
CREATED:20211001T184250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T184250Z
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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:20260419T022023
CREATED:20210811T173509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210812T120445Z
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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:20260419T022023
CREATED:20210408T002034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210413T164437Z
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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:20260419T022023
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
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
CREATED:20210407T231846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T233142Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210512T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210512T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
CREATED:20210407T224859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T231144Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop: Won't You Celebrate With Me?
DESCRIPTION:This workshop invites you to come celebrate our creativity\, goodness and resistance to the ways our class system has tried to kill us-and failed. Through reading and writing\, we will center the stories of Indigenous people and people of color who are and have been poor and working class. Because all of us have been hurt by the roles our society has pushed us into\, this workshop is for everyone. This workshop is led by Jna Shelomith\, who found poetry at the intersection of Arabic (a language was created to write down sacred poetry) and Riot Grrrrl (created for punk rock feminist expression). \nThis is an online program offered remotely using Zoom communication software. You must register in advance for this program. After registering\, you will receive an automated confirmation email. A week before the program\, you will receive another email with information about joining the meeting. \nSponsored by More Than a Single Story. \nREGISTER HERE \nThis program is funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/writing-workshop-wont-you-celebrate-with-me/
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210505T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
CREATED:20210407T224207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T230941Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop: The Cost of Living
DESCRIPTION:Whether you write in poetry\, prose\, or not at all\, we invite you to this workshop to process the literal and metaphorical costs of living as a Black Indigenous Person of Color. Using prompts and reading samples from other BIPOC writers for inspiration\, we’ll explore the things our bodies and psyches have inherited as well as the things we wish to pass on. This workshop is led by May Lee-Yang\, a writer\, performance artist\, and teacher who often uses pop culture and humor to interrogate race\, gender\, and identity. \nThis is an online program offered remotely using Zoom communication software. You must register in advance for this program. After registering\, you will receive an automated confirmation email. A week before the program\, you will receive another email with information about joining the meeting. \nSponsored by More Than a Single Story. \nREGISTER HERE \nThis program is funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/writing-workshop-the-cost-of-living/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210428T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210428T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
CREATED:20210403T205430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210413T161507Z
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SUMMARY:Financial Trauma in Communities of Color
DESCRIPTION:In this More Than a Single Story conversation\, arts activist Tess Montgomery will explore the intersections between financial independence and historical trauma on people of color and how it affects them in their daily lives as parents\, as children of parents who have struggled financially\, and as workers and artists today during the pandemic. Featuring Suleiman Adan\, Anthony Ceballos\, May Lee-Yang\, Sagirah Shahid and Jna Shelomith. \nvia Zoom Wednesday\, April 28 at 6:00 pm \nREGISTER HERE \nSponsored by Ramsey County Library \nPanelists: \nSuleiman Adan is a writer and educator in the Twin Cities. He is a graduate of The University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). Suleiman is also an organizer and community leader. Suleiman is currently a Program Manager at Reading and Math inc where he oversees early Math and Reading literacy programs in over 40 schools across the Twin Cities metro area. \nAnthony Ceballos’s poetry has been featured in Yellow Medicine Review\, Midway Journal\, Sleet\, Writers Resist\, Great River Review and Queer Voices: Poetry\, Prose\, and Pride. In 2016 he was selected to be a Loft Literary Center Mentor Series mentee. He is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Randolph University in Virginia. He lives\, breathes and writes in Minneapolis\, Minnesota. He can be found penning staff recommendations at Birchbark Books and Native Arts. \nMay Lee-Yang is a writer\, performance artist\, and teacher who often uses pop culture and humor to interrogate race\, gender\, and identity. Her theater-based works include The Korean Drama Addict’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity and Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman. She has been featured on CNN’s United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell and has spoken at TEDx Minneapolis. She is a founding member of F.A.W.K. (Funny Asian Women Kollective)\, a group that uses comedy to combat the invisibility and dehumanization of Asian women’s stories.  She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota. \nSagirah Shahid is an African American Muslim poet\, arts educator\, and performance artist. She is a recipient of a Loft Literary Center mentor series award in poetry and a Twin Cities Media Alliance performance and public art fellowship. She is a Tedx Minneapolis 2020 speaker. Her debut collection of poetry Surveillance of Joy is forthcoming from Half Mystic Press. \nJna Shelomith grew up in a family that spoke six different languages\, with Jewish roots in Morocco and Russia. Jna found poetry at the intersection of Arabic\, which was created to write down sacred poetry- and Riot Grrrrl\, which was created for punk rock feminist expression. She is a Board member of Mizna\, and a member of two writing groups: Women From the Center and Mizna Writing Collective. Growing up without housing on and off for 25 years\, she now co-owns her first house. For pay\, Jna’s work focuses on community engagement\, collaboration and systems change addressing complex challenges impacting the communities of Ramsey County. \nModerator: \nTess Montgomery is a young communicator and visionary living in Minneapolis. She is a Digital Marketing Specialist at TPT-Twin Cities PBS and Marketing and Communications Manager for More Than a Single Story. She is a 2018 Fellow with the Josie R. Johnson Leadership Academy\, a 2017 Fellow with New Sector Academy\, and serves on the board of Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of the Twin Cities. Tess is passionate about the power of grassroots\, community-led organizing. She holds a degree in Journalism & Mass Communications from Drake University.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/financial-trauma-in-communities-of-color/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210408T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210408T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
CREATED:20210408T160359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210412T212258Z
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SUMMARY:Crossing Generational Lines
DESCRIPTION:Watch Here: Crossing Generational & Racial Lines \nThis panel presents two generations of collaborations between African American and Asian American male literary artists. The intersections between these four artists explore how poetry and literary culture can form new relationships and understandings and new forms of dialogue between their respective communities. This panel will discuss what their collaborations can tell us about race in America—in the past\, in the present and the future.\n\nFeaturing: David Mura\, Alexs Pate\, Bao Phi & Douglas Kearney\n\nIn collaboration with the Loft Literary Center
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/crossing-generational-lines/
CATEGORIES:Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210225T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210225T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
CREATED:20201230T203937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210105T223249Z
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SUMMARY:Healing Through Poetry
DESCRIPTION:In this supportive poetry workshop\, learn how poetry can be used as a tool for  healing through the use of language\, symbols\, moments\, and visions. Poems by Native American writers and writers of color will be shared to examine our contemporary struggles\, wounds and ways of connecting with the wholeness of ourself and others. Writing prompts will be offered as well as time for voluntary sharing of poems. Led by Sun Yung Shin. Collaborator: More Than a Single Story. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nInstructor Bio: Sun Yung Shin is the author of three books of poetry\, including the Minnesota Book Award-winner Unbearable Splendor; the editor/co-editor of two anthologies including A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota\, Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption\, and the author/co-author of two books for children. With fellow Korean immigrant poet Su Hwang\, she co-directs Poetry Asylum. She is a full-time artist\, cultural worker\, and educator\, and lives in Minneapolis with her family; her forthcoming books include What We Hunger For: Refugee & Immigrant Writers on Food & Family\, and Where We Come From\, a children’s book co-authored with John Coy\, Shannon Gibney\, and Diane Wilson. She is a biodynamic craniosacral therapist and Reiki Level III practitioner at United Bodyworkers & Artists Studio in St. Paul www.unitedbodyworkersandartists.com. More at www.sunyungshin.com. \nREGISTER HERE: https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/5fdcc50304332e45003ddbf8
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/healing-through-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210216T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210216T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
CREATED:20201230T202156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210105T222456Z
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SUMMARY:Writing From a Place of Deep Listening: A Path to Healing
DESCRIPTION:Description: We often view healing as an external\, outside remedy that is given to us.   However\, in this workshop we will explore writing as a tool for listening deeply to ourselves and others. Deep listening can serve as a way of seeing more fully\, leading to a path of healing. We’ll start with examining Healing and all its varied external meanings and perceptions. Then we will hold the space of quietness and meditate to clear our minds and see what emerges from our stillness. What is the story that the quiet tells us? We’ll write from this space as well as generate lists and prompts that can be used later for writing and creative exploration.  In the middle we’ll hear from other BiPOC writers who have delved into their truths and shed light on their healing and that of our collective healing in general. Led by Didi Koka. Collaborator: More Than a Single Story. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nInstructor bio: Didi Koka is a poet\, physician and practitioner. She has been a family physician in community medicine in the Twin Cities for 20 years\, serving as Medical Director of Hennepin Healthcare East Lake clinic for 10 of those years.  She holds a MFA in poetry from Hamline University and has participated in many readings about town including Heal the Earth Poetry Collective\, Cracked Walnut festivals and Literary Peace Series. She is part of the Red Bird Chapbook board and community.  She is a buddhist practitioner. She was a children’s practice teacher of mindfulness and meditation for many years and currently helps facilitate BiPOC meditation sitting groups.  She has published poems in the redbird broadside series and Minnesota Medicine Magazine. \nREGISTER HERE: https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/5fdcc47541505d3a00ed4d7b
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/writing-from-a-place-of-deep-listening-a-path-to-healing/
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210127T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210127T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
CREATED:20201230T173700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210120T034715Z
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SUMMARY:Healing the Pain of 2020
DESCRIPTION:In this More Than a Single Story event\, BIPOC healers discuss the traumas of 2020 and the role their healing methods play in communities of color – from the changing needs of clients due to COVID-19 to the murder of George Floyd. \nFeaturing Ihotu Ali\, a founding member of the Minnesota Healing Justice Network; Janice Bad Mocassin\, traditionally and spiritually based healer from Dakota Lakota grassroots; Didi Koka\, MD\, poet and Medical Director of HCMC East Lake Clinic; Houa Lor\, Hmong Shaman; Resmaa Menakem\, author of My Grandmother’s Hands; and Sun Yung Shin\, poet and biodynamic craniosacral therapist and Reiki practitioner. \nThis event is sponsored by Wisdom Ways Center for Spirituality and Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nREGISTER HERE: https://wisdomwayscenter.org/programs-art-exhibits/current-programs/healing-the-pain/
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/healing-the-pain-of-2020/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Discussions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201118T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201118T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
CREATED:20200909T222944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T223000Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Field Recording and Interviewing Techniques
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the radio interview process with hands-on practice with KFAI Radio’s Melissa Olson and Ryan Dawes. Explore how to use recording gear and learn about creative interview techniques such as scheduling\, preparation\, planning questions and follow-up questioning. Ethical issues that come up during interviews will also be explored. Collaborator: More Than a Single Story. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nThe link to the live online discussion will be emailed to registrants in advance. \nREGISTER HERE: https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/5f2c9be18c81ad450050acf2
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/introduction-to-field-recording-and-interviewing-techniques-2/
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201117T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201117T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
CREATED:20200909T222239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T222239Z
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SUMMARY:Writing for Radio
DESCRIPTION:Listen to and read examples of radio writing and discuss how to begin to organize a script with KFAI Radio’s Melissa Olson and Ryan Dawes. Discover different types of audio storytelling\, including interviews\, two-ways\, narrated stories\, non-narrated stories\, audio postcards and audio essays. Collaborator: More Than a Single Story. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nThe link to the live online discussion will be emailed to registrants in advance. \nREGISTER HERE: https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/5f2c9b701622433a0050f456
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/writing-for-radio/
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201017T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201017T120000
DTSTAMP:20260419T022023
CREATED:20200909T215857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T220116Z
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SUMMARY:Healing Through Writing
DESCRIPTION:Learn tools and techniques for using the journal to tap into our innate abilities to help ourselves heal and restore wellness\, and to begin to believe that we are not the problem\, the problem is the problem. This workshop is not intended to replace therapy or other healing work you’re doing. Rather\, it is intended to enhance other methods of healing that we are engaged in. Collaborator: More Than a Single Story. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nThe link to the live online discussion will be emailed to registrants in advance. \nREGISTER HERE: https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/events/5f2c9a748c81ad450050ace7
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/healing-through-writing/
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
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