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SUMMARY:We Are Meant to Rise Event (Private)
DESCRIPTION:| Private Event | \nA panel discussion about anthology We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World for the British American Partnership. \n  \nPANELISTS \nCarolyn Holbrook is a writer\, educator\, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is founder and director of the Twin Cities-based conversation series\, More Than a Single Story\, and is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. Her essays have appeared in many anthologies\, including A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota. She won the Minnesota Book Awards Kay Sexton Award in 2010 and was a 50 over 50 honoree in 2016.  \nDavid Mura is a poet\, writer of creative nonfiction and fiction\, critic\, and playwright. He is author of The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself (forthcoming November 2022)\, A Stranger’s Journey: Race\, Identity\, and Narrative Craft in Writing and the memoirs Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei and Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race\, Sexuality\, and Identity. He is coeditor\, with Carolyn Holbrook\, of We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (Minnesota\, 2021). He lives in Minneapolis. \nDiane Wilson (Dakota) is a writer\, speaker\, and educator\, who has published two award-winning books\, a middle-grade biography\, as well as essays in numerous publications. Her new novel\, The Seed Keeper won the MN Book Award in novel and short story. Her memoir\, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past won a 2006 Minnesota Book Award and was selected for the 2012 One Minneapolis One Read program. Her 2011 nonfiction book\, Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life was awarded the 2012 Barbara Sudler Award from History Colorado. Her essays have appeared in many anthologies. Wilson received numerous fellowships and awards. In 2018\, she was awarded a 50 Over 50 Award. She is the former Executive Director for the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. Wilson is a Mdewakanton descendent\, enrolled on the Rosebud Reservation. \n 
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LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Community,Discussions,We Are Meant to Rise
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SUMMARY:We Are Meant to Rise Event
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn is visiting Dayton’s Bluff Book Club to speak about We Are Meant to Rise. This event is open to those living in the Dayton’s Bluff area. \n  \nABOUT \nCarolyn Holbrook is a writer\, educator\, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is founder and director of the Twin Cities-based conversation series\, More Than a Single Story\, and is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. Her essays have appeared in many anthologies\, including A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota. She won the Minnesota Book Awards Kay Sexton Award in 2010 and was a 50 over 50 honoree in 2016.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/we-are-meant-to-rise-event-2/
LOCATION:MN
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SUMMARY:African Americans Rooted and Rising: Nothando & Vusumusi Zulu and Joshua Gillespie
DESCRIPTION:Embracing Our Roots: African American Rooted and Rising\nA Conversation with Nothando and Vusumusi Zulu and their grandson\, Joshua Gillespie (Brotha\nAse’).\n| Virtual: Zoom | \nOn Saturday\, October 15\, 2022\, up and coming drummer and storyteller\, Joshua Gillespie (Brotha Ase’) will join his grandparents\, the master storytellers\, Nothando and Vusumusi Zulu\, in a conversation about the power of storytelling to lift our people up\, and about the Black Storytellers Alliance in Minnesota\, of which Nothando and Vusi are co-founding members. \n           Embracing Our Roots is a conversation series that reaches back into the history of Minnesota’s African American arts community. The purpose is to pass this knowledge along to the new generation that is now ascending as leaders in our African American arts community. The series features Elders and Culture Bearers who engage with young leaders to discuss significant milestones in Minnesota’s Black arts history\, and the impact that the artists and movements have had on our present day capacity to survive the storms and keep creating.  Embracing our Roots: African Americans Rooted and Rising is a collaboration with More Than a Single Story and In Black Ink. \n  \nREGISTER HERE\n  \nABOUT THE PANELISTS: \nNothando and Vusumuzi Zulu have been stalwart proponents of Kujichagulia\, the Swahili\nword for self-determination for over four decades. They revel in opportunities to transmit the\nvalues of our African ancestors through story. Both are transplants from the south: Nothando\nfrom the sharecropping farms of Nat Turner’s county in Virginia and Vusi from the often\ntumultuous city of St Louis\, Missouri. As co-founding members of the Black Storytellers\nAlliance in Minnesota they began producing the popular ““Signifyin’ & Testifyin’” three-day\nstorytelling festival in 1991 after returning from the National Association of Black Storytellers\,\nInc. (NABS) festival and Conference in Myrtle Beach\, South Carolina. It was such a moving\nexperience that they knew they had to bring something like that back to inspire the people in\nMinnesota. “Signifyin' and Testifyin’” has entertained\, enthralled and educated thousands since\nits inception. Nothando and Vusi have brought Tellers from across the country to weave\nstorytelling magic\, and audiences continue coming back year after year to glean more nuggets of\ntruth about our people through the art of oral storytelling. Through storytelling\, the Zulu family\ndemonstrates the Joy of being Black. \nJoshua Gillespie (Brotha Ase’)  was brought up within the storytelling culture. Witnessing his grandparents\, the master Storytellers Vusumuzi and Nothando Zulu on and off the stage\, sparked a flame in him to carry on the torch. He uses his artistic abilities: digital art\, music\, dance\, djembe drumming & oral expertise – to captivate audiences.  Brotha Ase believes our stories are like seeds from the divine tree of life\, helping to guide us and grow us into divine trees of our own. The goal of Joshua’s storytelling is to highlight current history (history currently in the making)\, life lessons \, and to inspire his people and all people to aspire to be who they truly are in spite of the trials and tribulations that life throws at them. \nEmbracing our Roots: African Americans Rooted and Rising is a collaboration with More\nThan a Single Story and In Black Ink.
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SUMMARY:We Are Meant to Rise Event (Private)
DESCRIPTION:| Private Event | \nIn this private class\, writers will talk about We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice From Minneapolis to the World at Concordia College Fargo-Moorhead. \n  \nPanelists: \nCarolyn Holbrook is a writer\, educator\, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify (Minnesota 2020)\, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is founder and director of the Twin Cities-based conversation series\, More Than a Single Story\, and is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World published by University of MN Press with More Than a Single Story (Minnesota 2021). She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. She teaches at the Loft Literary Center and other community venues\, and at Hamline University\, where she won the exemplary teacher award in 2014. \nAlexs Pate is president and CEO of Innocent Technologies and the creator of the Innocent Classroom. He has written five novels\, a children’s book\, and a work of nonfiction\, and he has curated several literary anthologies. His latest book is The Innocent Classroom: Dismantling Racial Bias for Children of Color.  He won the Kay Sexton Award from the Minnesota Book Awards and the Friends of the St. Paul Public Libraries in 2021. \nMona Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux nation. She is the author of four books of fiction: The Grass Dancer (winner of the 1995 PEN/Hemingway award)\, Roofwalker\, Sacred Wilderness\, and the forthcoming novel\, A Council of Dolls. Her fellowships include an Iowa Arts Fellowship\, James Michener Fellowship\, Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellowship\, Princeton Hodder Fellowship\, USA Artists Fellowship\, McKnight Fellowship\, and Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship. Her short stories and essays have been widely published in journals\, magazines\, and anthologies. She lives in Saint Paul where she is currently working on a new novel titled\, The Year of Fury. Her short stories and essays have been widely published in journals\, magazines and anthologies. Her fellowships include an Iowa Arts Fellowship\, James Michener Fellowship\, Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellowship\, Princeton Hodder Fellowship\, USA Artists Fellowship\, Loft McKnight Fellowship for 2015-16\, and Native Arts and Cultures Fellowship for 2016-17. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has made her home in Saint Paul\, Minnesota. \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.
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LOCATION:MN
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SUMMARY:We Are Meant to Rise Event (Private)
DESCRIPTION:| Private Event | \nIn this private class\, writers will talk about We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice From Minneapolis to the World at the Minnesota Transform Project. \n  \nABOUT \nCarolyn Holbrook is a writer\, educator\, and an advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is founder and director of the Twin Cities-based conversation series\, More Than a Single Story\, and is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. Her essays have appeared in many anthologies\, including A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota. She won the Minnesota Book Awards Kay Sexton Award in 2010 and was a 50 over 50 honoree in 2016.   \n 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/we-are-meant-to-rise-event-4/
LOCATION:MN
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SUMMARY:Afrofuturism: The Search for Black Genius
DESCRIPTION:  \n| In-person writing workshop | \nAs mainstream media’s interest in sci-fi\, fantasy\, and post-apocalyptic narratives and stories grows\, so does the scrutiny of the lack of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals. The question I always ask when I encounter these pieces of media is: What happened to us? In this interactive workshop\, we will examine the role of Afrofuturism in contemporary media in dismantling problematic tropes about Black people. We will discuss Afrofuturist thought and theory and the role of Afrofuturist ideology as integral in our search for Black\, Brown\, and Indigenous Genius. We will use writing prompts that will help us create worlds in which Black people exist. This program is funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nThis workshop is part of the Mary Ann Key Book Club. Registration is required. \nREGISTER HERE!\n  \nAbout the Instructor: \nSTEPHANIE CHRISMON is a Black/biracial\, Fat\, Queer\, Afrofuturist\, writer and educator. She presents and writes on topics related to race\, sexuality\, family karma\, social justice\, as well as generational theory using pop culture\, literature\, and art as critical tools in exploring social justice and dismantling oppression. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and a BA in political science from U of M\, Morris. Stephanie was a participant in the 2016-2017 Loft Mentor Series and in the 2015 Givens Foundation for African American Literature’s Emerging Writers’ Mentor Program. Her writing has appeared in Water~Stone Review\, MN Artists\, The Root\, Black Girl Nerds\, Medium and Queer Voices: Poetry\, Prose\, and Pride. Her debut novel (under her pen name dc edwards)\, Bright City\, was published in 2017. She is the Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion Consultant for the UW MESA state office via AmeriCorps\, and is an independent DEI consultant with Avant Consulting Group and Strategic Diversity Initiatives working with health systems and higher education. She is a proud member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. She lives in Saint Paul\, MN.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/afrofuturism-the-search-for-black-genius/
LOCATION:Webber Park Library\, 4440 N Humboldt Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55412\, United States
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