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SUMMARY:Duluth - Objects of War: A Storytelling Circle of Service\, Memory\, & Community
DESCRIPTION:The Minnesota Humanities Center invites you to join us for an engaging evening focused on conversation\, reflection\, and storytelling. For Objects of War\, participants are asked to bring an item connected to military service or the experience of war and conflict — which could be dog tags\, a service member’s good luck charm\, or a family heirloom — and share the story of this item during the evening. Moderated by trained facilitators\, the conversation will help participants understand why we hold on to certain objects\, and how these objects help us better understand the human impacts of war. Come prepared to share a story\, listen to others\, and enjoy a light meal together. \nThis program is part of MHC’s Many Fronts initiative\, which supports Humanities programming that explores the human impact of war and conflict\, its historical\, social\, and political underpinnings\, and the voices and narratives that help us to increase our understanding about one another and war. \nAs the Minnesota Humanities Center commemorates 250 years since the founding of the United States\, Objects of War invites us to reflect on the experiences of those whose lives have been shaped by military service\, war\, and conflict. Through personal objects and stories\, participants will consider how service and sacrifice are remembered across generations and how these experiences have shaped our communities and our shared history. \nObjects of War is presented in partnership with the St. Louis County Historical Society who for more than 100 years has preserved a collection of 14\,000 artifacts reflecting the vastness and cultural depth of our Northland servicemembers. \nRegistration\nThis event is free\, however registration is required. \nRegistration Questions: registrations@mnhum.org  \nRegister Now
URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/duluth-objects-of-war-a-storytelling-circle-of-service-memory-community/
LOCATION:American Legion Post 71\, 5814 Grand Ave\, Duluth\, MN\, 55807\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Free,Greater Minnesota,Many Fronts,Public Programming
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SUMMARY:St. Paul - In Our Words: MN BIPOC Writers Series Launch with David Mura\, Carolyn Holbrook\, Danez Smith\, & Anthony Ceballos
DESCRIPTION:Image by SpiritFolk \nJoin us for an engaging evening with Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura\, celebrating their new radio series\, In Our Words: MN BIPOC Writers\, with guests Danez Smith and Anthony Ceballos. \nFollowing the panel discussion between the authors\, audience members are invited to participate in a Q&A session with the featured speakers. Light refreshments will be provided\, copies of books from all authors featured in the In Our Words: MN BIPOC Writers series will be available for purchase\, and the evening will finish with book signings. \nThis event is presented in partnership with AMPERS and the University of Minnesota Press. SubText Bookstore will be on site selling books from all featured authors in this series. \nIn Our Words: MN BIPOC Writers is a new radio series highlighting Minnesota’s Black\, Indigenous and people of color authors\, thinkers and activists\, hosted by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura. In conversations with authors across genre\, region\, and career\, Carolyn and David explore these writers’ lasting legacy and emerging work\, and how they’ve bent the arc of justice in Minnesota and across the country. In Our Words is produced by AMPERS\, with support from the Minnesota Humanities Center and the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund. \nAuthors featured in the first season of In Our Words: MN BIPOC Writers are: Alexs Pate\, Anthony Ceballos\, Bao Phi\, Carl Gawboy\, Crown Sheperd\, Heid Erdrich\, Danez Smith\, Jokeda “JoJo” Bell\, Kennedy Gisege\, Marcie Rendon\, Marian Hassan\, Rebecca Nichloson\, Sarah Warren\, Sun Yung Shin\, and Swati Avasthi. \nThe Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations (AMPERS) is the largest statewide association of community radio stations in the United States. AMPERS supports 17 stations through revenue generation\, training\, member convenings\, and original news\, arts\, and culture programming\, such as In Our Words. \n\nView Carolyn Holbrook’s Bio\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nCarolyn Holbrook is founder and Director of More Than a Single Story. 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 Creative Nonfiction. She is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (U of M Press & More Than a Single Story 2021)\, and is co-author with Arleta Little of Minnesota civil rights icon\, Dr. Josie R. Johnson’s memoir\, Hope In the Struggle (University of Minnesota Press\, 2019). She was a Contributing Editor for Water~Stone Review (Vol. 24\, 2021-2022 Hamline University). She has taught at Hamline University\, Minneapolis College\, The Loft Literary Center and other community venues. Her awards include the Minnesota Book Awards Kay Sexton Award\, 2010; Hamline University Exemplary Teacher\, 2014; 50 over 50\, 2017; Celebrate the Sistas\, 2020; Flowers Now!\, 2024. She was the 2025 McKnight Distinguished Artist. \n\n\n\n  \n\nView David Mura’s Bio\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Mura was well into his twenties before he began to explore his Asian American identity. His Japanese American parents had been incarcerated in internment camps during World War II\, and in response to their traumatic experience\, they abandoned their Japanese roots to try to assimilate into white\, middle-class America. When the Ordway Theater in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, staged a presentation of Miss Saigon in 1992\, Mura published “Secrets and Anger” in Mother Jones\, a scathing critique of the play’s racist undertones. In response\, Mura was ostracized from the local\, dominantly white writing community\, yet in its place he found a deeper connection with other BIPOC writers and eventually started an Asian American arts organization in the Twin Cities. Mura’s upcoming book\, Exit\, Miss Saigon\, is a clear-eyed examination of a variety of issues affecting Asian Americans: anti-Asian hate crimes during the pandemic\, affirmative action\, racial and sexual stereotypes in the media\, interracial relationships and raising mixed-race children\, the legacy of Japanese American internment\, and the shortfalls of therapy in addressing race. It will be released on October 6\, 2026. \n\n\n\n  \n\nView Danez Smith’s Bio\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDanez Smith is the author of four collections including Don’t Call Us Dead\, Homie\, and most recently Bluff\, a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. They are also the curator of Blues In Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes. For their work\, Danez won the Forward Prize for Best Collection\, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry\, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry\, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the National Book Award. Danez lives in the Twin Cities and teaches at the Randolph College MFA program Their fifth collection of poems\, Love Time\, will be published in September 2027. \n\n\n\n  \n\nView Anthony Ceballos’ Bio\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthony Ceballos lives and writes in Minneapolis\, where he can be found penning staff recommendations at Birchbark Books & Native Arts\, a small\, independent\, Native owned bookstore in the Kenwood Neighborhood. In 2022 he was selected to be a participant in the inaugural Indigenous Nations Poets retreat in Washington DC\, as well as their 2024 retreat in the Twin Cities and their 2026 retreat in Arizona. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative writing from Hamline University in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, and his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Randolph College in Virginia. He is a first-generation descendant of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Glassful of Prayer is his first poetry collection. \n\n\n\n  \nRegistration\nThis event is free\, however registration is required. \nQuestions: programs@mnhum.org \nRegister Now
URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/st-paul-in-our-words-mn-bipoc-writers-series-launch/
LOCATION:Minnesota Humanities Event Center\, 987 Ivy Avenue East\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books, Poetry, & Literature,Free,Public Programming,Twin Cities Metro
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SUMMARY:Prior Lake - The Making of America Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the film The Making of America from OMG Studios. This event includes the screening\, panel discussion\, and art showcase: Reconstruction 2.0: Allegories of a Better World. \nThis documentary film explores how Enlightenment-era systems of knowledge shaped what became the United States of America. Directed by Monique Linder\, and produced by OMG Studios in partnership with Minnesota Humanities Center\, the film explores how Enlightenment-era systems of knowledge—art\, science\, architecture\, and cartography—produced enduring frameworks for racial slavery\, territorial extraction\, and Indigenous dispossession in what became the United States of America. \nThe showcase features works submitted by artists nationwide\, which examine themes such as virtue and moral courage; nobility beyond class or status; truth\, justice\, and liberation; reconstruction and unlearning; memory\, history\, and inherited systems; cultural healing and collective imagination; and more. \nThis film is part of an ongoing partnership between MHC and OMG Studios and a continuation of our 2026 Juneteenth commemorative series. \nRegistration\nThis event is free\, however registration is required. \nRegistration Questions: registrations@mnhum.org  \nRegister Now
URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/prior-lake-the-making-of-america-film-screening/
LOCATION:Mystic Lake Center\, 2400 Mystic Lake Boulevard NW\, Prior Lake\, MN\, 55372\, United States
CATEGORIES:America 250,Films, Plays, & Performances,Juneteenth,Public Programming,Twin Cities Metro
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