“Feeding Our Souls: The Essence of Black Joy” will focus on the uplifting beat that spreads across generations despite the struggles of systemic racism. What is the root of self-determination and faith that Black people proclaim? Through the art and culture of food, music, publishing, family legacies, and more, participants will examine the actualization of “hope.”
Kumbayah The Juneteenth Story written by Rose McGee is a 90-minute fictitious, two-act play that addresses a factual and traumatic time in our history – when news was deliberately withheld that Black people were no longer to be kept as slaves in this country. Storytelling and music weave together mesmerizing scenes.
Kumbayah The Juneteenth Story written by Rose McGee is a 90-minute fictitious, two-act play that addresses a factual and traumatic time in our history – when news was deliberately withheld that Black people were no longer to be kept as slaves in this country. Storytelling and music weave together mesmerizing scenes.
K-12 educators will receive 3 clock hours. Build your cultural understanding and awareness of Minnesota's African cultures as you immerse yourself within St. Paul's Little Africa cultural corridor.
K-12 educators will receive 4 clock hours. Build your cultural understanding and awareness as you immerse yourself within St. Paul's vibrant Hmong community through an interactive, in-person experience.
K-12 educators will receive 4 clock hours. Build your cultural understanding and awareness of the African American community in North Minneapolis through this interactive, in-person experience.
Grow your understanding of this history with an interactive, in-person walking tour of downtown/central Minneapolis, an area deeply entangled with LGBTQ+ people’s stories, movements, and place in the world.
K-12 educators will receive 4 clock hours. Build your cultural understanding and awareness as you immerse yourself within St. Paul's vibrant Hmong community through an interactive, in-person experience.
Chefs Mateo Mackbee and Lachelle Cunningham engage participants in the cultural richness of food, music, and stories that define the essence of Black joy.
Headscarf Story Circle, the first of a series of offerings that recognizes the strength and resiliency of women. Join us as we gather together through the shared connection of the headscarf and its complexity.
Remembering - A Black Writers' Retreat centers around remembering as an act of joy that provides opportunities for healing and recovery in ways that forgetting does not.
Join us as we commemorate Asian Cultural Heritage Month in May through food with award-winning Chef Ann Ahmed, owner of Lat14 and Khâluna Restaurants, and Ánh-Hoa Thị Nguyễn, cultural food artist, poet, community activist, and educator.