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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.
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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.
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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.
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop  |  Home & Exile: Mastering Your Memoir
DESCRIPTION:| Virtual Writing Workshop | \n  \nEveryone has a story to tell. But how can we tell captivating stories about real people? Whether you’re writing your own memoir or want to document a family history\, you need to know what idea or message you want to convey to a reader. Once you’ve tackled the big picture\, you can focus on the journey of writing. We will draw on the works of a diverse group of writers to help inform us on how to craft and layer our stories. In this workshop\, writers can expect to learn how to find their ‘big picture’ ideas\, organize story details\, and sculpt drafts to manuscript-ready. Our objective is to arm writers with the tools required to write compelling creative non-fiction stories. \nThis writing workshop is part of our Our Stories\, Ourselves: Home & Exile series. Check the calendar to see what else we have coming up. \nHennepin County Libraries is our partner for this event. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \n  \nCLICK TO REGISTER\n  \nAbout the Facilitator\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.
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