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SUMMARY:Minneapolis – Feeding Our Souls the Essence of Unity
DESCRIPTION:Feeding Our Souls the Essence of Unity explores the themes of connecting and joy through food and community. Our host and feature partner is BIPOC Foodways Alliance (BFA) – a nonprofit organization that seeks to break down barriers between cultural communities using food as a tool. Through its program Immigrant Kitchen\, BFA provides a platform for women of color and women of lived immigration and refugee experience to tell their stories through the lens of home cooking. They seek to uplift\, share\, and archive important cultural legacy stories and histories that mainstream food media may have a tendency to overlook or ignore. The evening’s host is Mecca Bos\, Founder of BIPOC Foodways Alliance. Featured “home cook” chefs are Vivian Mims\, Phonn Sann\, Safa Abualreesh\, and Christina Arias Acosta. \nMecca Bos is a Culinary Storyteller who has been working as a food writer and chef for more than 20 years. She worked as a staff writer for Insight News\, food editor of the former publications Metro Magazine and City Pages\, and has written for many local and national publications including Taste\, Civil Eats\, and The New York Times. She is a regular contributor to Minnesota Public Radio and is about to embark on a book that will be published by the University of Minnesota Press\, Finding Our Tribe\, exploring the biracial experience in America through the lens of food. She has worked as a chef\, sous chef\, and cook in many professional kitchens from casual to fine\, including dinners at Platform by the James Beard Foundation in New York City.  \nVivian Mims is a lifelong Rondo Community resident who learned to cook from her 94-year-old matriarch Juanell Mims. Vivian remembers extended\, fried chicken dinners served by her mother every single Sunday. Vivian picked up the family tradition from her mother and is a skilled Soul Food cook. Vivian and her brother Davvie are currently working on a sprawling teleplay script that follows the trajectory of their family since they arrived in St. Paul during The Great Migration.  \nPhonn Sann is a Cambodian refugee who survived starvation in Thai Refugee camps during Cambodia’s devastating and brutal Civil War. She and her husband\, Soreth Phann\, were forced into an arranged marriage in that camp\, and went on to have a large family who feel their family’s love through her mother’s cooking prowess. Phonn cooks Cambodian cuisine like a pro and keeps her family connected to their culture through this practice. \nSafa Abulareesh moved to Minneapolis more than 30 years ago to join her husband who had business here. Like many Palestinians\, she was born in Jordan after her grandparents were forced out of their home in Palestine during the 1948 “Nakba\,” the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during and after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Like many of those Palestinians\, Safa is still deeply rooted to her culture and cooks her traditional food as both a way to stay tethered to that culture\, as well as an act of resistance. \nChristina Arias Acosta is from Mexico City and was Sean Sherman’s first hire at the Indigenous Food Lab in Minneapolis. She helps with everything\, including making staff meals for the entire team. She learned to cook from her grandparents and plans to make a green mole that her grandmother learned from her grandmother. Sean says Christina is the “resident elder” at IFL. Christina’s daughter and granddaughter also work for the organization\, carrying on the tradition of mothers learning to cook from their mothers.  \nRegistration\nRegistration for this event has SOLD OUT. \nJoin the Waitlist
URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/minneapolis-feeding-our-souls-the-essence-of-unity/
LOCATION:Lynette\, 3753 42nd Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406\, United States
CATEGORIES:Feeding Our Souls,Free,Immersive Experiences
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose McGee":MAILTO:rose@mnhum.org
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SUMMARY:Red Wing - Art and War: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join the Minnesota Humanities Center and Anderson Center for a moderated conversation with artists who either focus on the representation of war and armed conflict in their art\, or who have created art that addressed these subjects. Artists will discuss their creative output\, what it means to interpret experiences of warfare\, what happens in the act of interpretation and artistic creation\, and what the viewing public can learn from interaction with and communal discussion of these works. \nAbout the Artists\nMary Horgan is an artist and retired Staff Sergeant (U.S. Army). Among multiple activations\, she served in the Iraq War in 2006. Horgan’s art confronts the harsh realities of war and the honorable pursuit of peace for all. Since retiring\, art has become her tool for healing\, peace\, and resistance. Horgan’s work includes the memorial to women Veterans\, “You Will Not Erase Us\,” commissioned by the City of Ramsey in Minnesota. She also creates a range of two and three-dimensional art pieces that explore themes of conflict\, survival\, resistance\, nature\, beauty\, and truth-telling. \nBesides her artistic work\, Horgan is a mother and grandmother\, and caretaker of animals and gardens. She is passionate about our nation’s democracy and creates work rooted in justice\, resilience\, and deep personal truth and recovery. \nJustin Newhall is an American artist currently based in Minneapolis. His work has been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago)\, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)\, Royal Academy of Arts (London)\, Galerie Lichtblick (Cologne)\, Museum of Art at Rhode Island School of Design (Providence)\, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art\, and Jen Bekman Gallery (New York)\, among others. \nNewhall is the recipient of artist fellowships from the McKnight Foundation\, Minnesota State Arts Board\, and Jerome Foundation. His work is represented in public and private collections\, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography\, Walker Art Center\, and George Eastman House (New York). \nMegan Rye is a visual artist and teacher. She was born in Seoul\, South Korea in 1975\, and currently lives in Minneapolis. Through paintings\, drawings\, photography\, and artists books\, Rye uses visual storytelling to explore themes of migration\, citizenship\, remembrance\, war\, and democracy. Rye’s first significant body of work\, “I Will Follow You Into the Dark\,” was a series of paintings based on photographs Rye’s brother took while serving in Iraq. This project debuted at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (2007)\, and was Rye’s first solo exhibit in New York City at Forum Gallery (2011). The aftermath of the Iraq War continues to reverberate\, and the paintings have been studied and exhibited widely\, including a recent exhibition at the Kunsthalle Emden (Germany). \nRye’s work has been sustained by significant support from the Bush Foundation\, McKnight Foundation\, Jerome Foundation\, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. \nAbout the Moderator\nMonica Moses Haller is an artist whose work spans photography\, writing\, sound\, and focuses on personal details that explore violence and possibilities within social and environmental systems. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, McKnight Foundation\, Jerome Foundation\, and the National Endowment for the Arts\, among others. Moses Haller has exhibited and lectured at locations including Centre Pompidou\, Paris; the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei\, Leipzig; and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Her artist books are collected by intuitions ranging from the Tate Modern\, London\, to MOMA\, New York. Moses Haller works internationally and is based in her hometown of Minneapolis\, where she is an associate professor at the University of Minnesota\, Department of Art. \nThis program is presented in partnership with Anderson Center at Tower View\, a Red Wing-based arts and humanities organization that celebrates the imagination and support the development of new arts and ideas through residencies\, studios\, and public engagement. \nRegistration\nThis event is free to attend. Registration is encouraged. Light refreshments will be served at the event. \nRegistration Questions: registrations@mnhum.org  \nRegister Now
URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/red-wing-art-and-war-a-conversation/
LOCATION:Anderson Center at Tower View\, 163 Tower View Drive\, Red Wing\, MN\, 55066\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,Many Fronts,Public Programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Colin Nelson-Dusek":MAILTO:colin@mnhum.org
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SUMMARY:Online Content Session - Era Five: Slavery\, Civil War\, and Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:Explore the causes\, course\, and consequences of the Civil War\, and evaluate the transformative potential and limitations of Reconstruction. Led by Dr. Rebecca Brückmann and moderated by Dr. Katharine Gerbner\, this session will provide deep historical context\, source analysis\, and thematic framing. \n\n\nView Dr. Rebecca Brückmann’s Bio\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Rebecca Brückmann (pronounced “Brookman”) is an associate professor of History at Carleton College\, who specializes in African American History. She completed her Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary History at Free University Berlin\, Germany\, in 2014. She is the author of the monograph “Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women\, Class\, and Segregation” (University of Georgia Press\, 2021)\, which analyzes whites supremacist women’s resistance against Black Freedom activism in Arkansas\, Louisiana\, and South Carolina from the 1940s to the 1960s. Her research on the Black Freedom Movement\, the history of the Black Diaspora\, Southern history\, and the history of white supremacy has been published\, e.g.\, in the Southern Quarterly\, the South Carolina Historical Magazine\, the European Journal of American Studies\, and “Picturing Black History.” She is currently an Academic Leadership Fellow of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. At Carleton\, she teaches courses on Black and African American history from the 14th through the 21st centuries\, including “Black Perspectives on the Civil War and Reconstruction\,” “Slavery in the Atlantic World\,” and “Freedom Then\, Freedom Now: Reconstruction to #BlackLivesMatter.” \n\n\n\n\n \n\nAll Content Sessions will be conducted via Zoom and a Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)-hosted Canvas learning community. Each session’s lectures and discussions will be recorded and registered participants will receive access to the Canvas course with session recordings\, curated resources\, and collaborative planning tools. High school U.S. History teachers and 5th and 7th grade educators are invited to participate in companion Pedagogy Sessions. \nRegistration\nContent Sessions are open to all K–12 educators interested in historical content and source-based instruction. Educators are welcome to register for individual sessions that align with their interests and schedules. Join us for one or more sessions throughout the year.  \n\nThis event is free but registration is required. Separate registration is required for each offering.  \n\nRegistration Questions: Brittany.Rawson-Haeg@state.mn.us  \n\nRegister Now  \n\nThis offering is part of Navigating the U.S. History Eras: Content\, Pedagogy\, and Inquiry in the Classroom is a yearlong professional learning opportunity supporting implementation of Minnesota’s 2021 K–12 Academic Standards in Social Studies presented by MHC and MDE.
URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/online-content-session-era-five/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Academic Standards,Content Sessions,Free,K-12 Education,Online,Professional Development,Social Studies Standards,US History Eras
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sung Ja Shin":MAILTO:sungja@mnhum.org
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