BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Minnesota Humanities Center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Minnesota Humanities Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mnhum.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Minnesota Humanities Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220317T203000 DTSTAMP:20260429T154644 CREATED:20220608T170235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250620T135020Z UID:10000303-1647538200-1647549000@www.mnhum.org SUMMARY:St. Cloud – Write on Race DESCRIPTION:*$57 is the fee for all six sessions. Teams of four or more people: $45 each\, please contact Jennifer Tonko at jennifer@mnhum.org. \nMHC\, Love & Struggle\, and St. Cloud organizations are partnering to help communities develop action plans to combat racism. Participants will learn about impacts of race in our communities\, reflect through journal writing\, and share their learning with others. They’ll then develop action plans to move from passive non-racism to active anti-racism. \nSchedule\nNovember 4\, 2021 – 5:30-7:30 p.m. – Session One: WRITE on RACE\nDecember 2\, 2021 – 6:00-7:30 p.m. – Session Two: Past\, present\, future of race and social impacts of race\nJanuary 6\, 2022 – 6:00-7:30 p.m. – Session Three: Race and criminal justice\nFebruary 3\, 2022 – 6:00-7:30 p.m. – Session Four: Race and education\nMarch 17\, 2022 – 5:30-8:30 p.m. – Session Five: Race and income\nApril 21\, 2022 – 5:30-8:30 p.m. – Session Six: Closing session RIGHT on RACE (In-person in St. Cloud) \nRegistration\nRegistration Questions: registrations@mnhum.org | MHC Cancellation Policy \n \nREGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS CLOSED\n  URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/st-cloud-write-on-race/2022-03-17/ LOCATION:Stearns History Museum\, 235 South 33rd Avenue South\, St. Cloud\, MN\, 56301\, United States CATEGORIES:Greater Minnesota,Public Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mnhum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/event_stcloud_write_race.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Casey DeMarais":MAILTO:casey@mnhum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220331T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220331T200000 DTSTAMP:20260429T154644 CREATED:20220608T155311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220928T192450Z UID:10000288-1648749600-1648756800@www.mnhum.org SUMMARY:Minneapolis – Dialogues of War Listening Session: Somali Community (women focused) DESCRIPTION:Join Marian Hassan for a Community Listening Session\, part of Minnesota Humanities Center’s program\, Dialogues of War. In this facilitated discussion\, participants will be led in meaningful dialogue to connect with others and share their perspectives as relates to their experiences with war and conflict. The Minnesota Humanities Center is committed to engaging audiences in new and deeper understandings of histories\, cultures\, borders\, boundaries\, and identities. We are expanding our understanding of war and conflict to hear how community members and families have been impacted by war whether integenerationally\, through immigration\, or refugee resettlement. \nThis Community Listening Session is being held for women of the Somali community. \nDinner will be provided; spaces are limited and there is no cost to attend this event. Attendees must be able to attend the full 2 hour session. \nRegistration\nRegistration Questions: registrations@mnhum.org \n \nREGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS CLOSED URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/dialogues-of-war-somali-women/ LOCATION:Franklin Library\, 1314 East Franklin Avenue\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55404\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,Public Programs,Refugees ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mnhum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/event_dialogues_war_somali_community.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Corey China":MAILTO:corey@mnhum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220402T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220402T150000 DTSTAMP:20260429T154644 CREATED:20220608T154145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220928T192409Z UID:10000286-1648890000-1648911600@www.mnhum.org SUMMARY:St. Paul – Reflection and Renewal through Poetry with Sun Yung Shin and Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen DESCRIPTION:National Poetry Month is a time to celebrate poetry and the human spirit. April in Minnesota offers an annual opportunity to contemplate renewal and rebirth. Join poets Sun Yung Shin and Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen in a daylong retreat designed to support participants’ rest\, reflection\, renewal\, and creativity. Facilitators will lead participants through somatic exercises to support mind\, body\, and spirit\, and poetry readings and creative writing prompts to provide time and space to connect with inner and collective wholeness\, spaciousness\, and possibility. Participants need not have any formal creative writing training whatsoever. This is an experience not focused on writing as a profession\, but as an ancient\, musical\, and deeply human practice available to everyone. \nContinental breakfast and lunch are included. \nSun Yung Shin is a poet\, writer\, educator\, and bodyworker. She approaches poetry as a human right and a space of moral imagination. \nAnh-Hoa Thi Nguyen is a poet\, community artist\, activist\, and educator. As a creator and healer\, she is committed to cultivating shared humanity through food\, storytelling\, and authentic connection. \nRegistration\nIf cost is a barrier\, please contact Jessica Rust at jessica@mnhum.org before registering. \nRegistration Questions: registrations@mnhum.org | MHC Cancellation Policy \nRegistration Deadline Date: Monday\, March 28\, 2022 \n \nREGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS CLOSED URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/reflection-renewal-poetry/ LOCATION:Minnesota Humanities Event Center\, 987 Ivy Avenue East\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States CATEGORIES:Books, Poetry, and Literature,Public Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mnhum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/event_reflection_renewal_poetry.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Eden Bart":MAILTO:eden@mnhum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220404 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220409 DTSTAMP:20260429T154644 CREATED:20220608T153714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250620T133612Z UID:10000284-1649030400-1649462399@www.mnhum.org SUMMARY:Nevis – Why Treaties Matter DESCRIPTION:“Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations”—a traveling exhibit made in partnership with the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian—explores relationships between Dakota and Ojibwe Indian Nations and the U.S. government in this place we now call Minnesota. \nWant to know more about Why Treaties Matter?\nLearn more about the Why Treaties Matter exhibit and partnership. \nLearn More URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/nevis-why-treaties-matter/ LOCATION:Nevis Public Schools\, 210 Pleasant Street\, Nevis\, MN\, 56467\, United States CATEGORIES:Civic Renewal,Exhibit,Free,Greater Minnesota,Why Treaties Matter ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mnhum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/event_why_treaties_matter.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Trygve Throntveit":MAILTO:trygve@mnhum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220407T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220408T190000 DTSTAMP:20260429T154644 CREATED:20220608T153355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220928T192343Z UID:10000281-1649325600-1649444400@www.mnhum.org SUMMARY:Saint Paul – MnWE 2022: “Changing the Narrative: Empowering Stories” DESCRIPTION:The Minnesota Humanities Center is excited to host the 2022 Minnesota Writing & English Conference and collaborate with MnWE in exploring the theme\, “Changing the Narrative: Empowering Stories.” This year’s conference will open with a Thursday morning Plenary Session sponsored by the Minnesota Humanities Center. \nDo you believe stories frame identities\, infuse the texts we explore\, and inspire our students’ and our own writing? Join our CEO\, Kevin Lindsey\, as he hosts a conversation with Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura about their new anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. This brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond\, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota\, not only provides valued witness to our present but also speaks to our collective future. This collection of stories is an ideal lens to focus pressing themes central to this year’s conference. Their conversation will include how dominant cultural narratives about race\, gender\, or class impact teaching and relationships with students\, how educators navigate these dominant narratives\, and how educators may question and resist persistent cultural narratives that reproduce inequality in the classroom. \nParticipate in-person at the Minnesota Humanities Center or virtually via ZOOM. \nRegistration\nREGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS CLOSED \nLEARN MORE URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/mnwe-2022/ LOCATION:Minnesota Humanities Event Center\, 987 Ivy Avenue East\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States CATEGORIES:Books, Poetry, and Literature,Professional Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mnhum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/event_mn_we.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Casey DeMarais":MAILTO:casey@mnhum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220407T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220407T200000 DTSTAMP:20260429T154644 CREATED:20220608T153103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220928T192243Z UID:10000279-1649354400-1649361600@www.mnhum.org SUMMARY:Minneapolis – Dialogues of War Listening Session: Somali Community DESCRIPTION:Join Marian Hassan for a Community Listening Session\, part of Minnesota Humanities Center’s program\, Dialogues of War. In this facilitated discussion\, participants will be led in meaningful dialogue to connect with others and share their perspectives as relates to their experiences with war and conflict. The Minnesota Humanities Center is committed to engaging audiences in new and deeper understandings of histories\, cultures\, borders\, boundaries\, and identities. We are expanding our understanding of war and conflict to hear how community members and families have been impacted by war whether integenerationally\, through immigration\, or refugee resettlement. \nThis Community Listening Session is open to the Somali community. \nDinner will be provided; spaces are limited and there is no cost to attend this event. Attendees must be able to attend the full 2 hour session. \nRegistration\nRegistration Questions: registrations@mnhum.org \n  \nREGISTRATION FOR THIS OFFERING HAS CLOSED URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/minneapolis-dialogues-of-war-listening-session-somali-community/ LOCATION:Franklin Library\, 1314 East Franklin Avenue\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55404\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mnhum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/event_dialogues_war_somali_community.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Corey China":MAILTO:corey@mnhum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220412 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220416 DTSTAMP:20260429T154644 CREATED:20220608T152330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250620T133621Z UID:10000278-1649721600-1650067199@www.mnhum.org SUMMARY:Minnesota Indian Education Association – Why Treaties Matter DESCRIPTION:“Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations”—a traveling exhibit made in partnership with the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian—explores relationships between Dakota and Ojibwe Indian Nations and the U.S. government in this place we now call Minnesota. \nWant to know more about Why Treaties Matter?\nLearn more about the Why Treaties Matter exhibit and partnership. \nLearn More URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/minnesota-indian-education-association-why-treaties-matter/ LOCATION:Mystic Lake Center\, 2400 Mystic Lake Boulevard NW\, Prior Lake\, MN\, 55372\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibit,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mnhum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/event_why_treaties_matter.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Trygve Throntveit":MAILTO:trygve@mnhum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220421T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220421T203000 DTSTAMP:20260429T154644 CREATED:20220608T170235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250620T135020Z UID:10000304-1650562200-1650573000@www.mnhum.org SUMMARY:St. Cloud – Write on Race DESCRIPTION:*$57 is the fee for all six sessions. Teams of four or more people: $45 each\, please contact Jennifer Tonko at jennifer@mnhum.org. \nMHC\, Love & Struggle\, and St. Cloud organizations are partnering to help communities develop action plans to combat racism. Participants will learn about impacts of race in our communities\, reflect through journal writing\, and share their learning with others. They’ll then develop action plans to move from passive non-racism to active anti-racism. \nSchedule\nNovember 4\, 2021 – 5:30-7:30 p.m. – Session One: WRITE on RACE\nDecember 2\, 2021 – 6:00-7:30 p.m. – Session Two: Past\, present\, future of race and social impacts of race\nJanuary 6\, 2022 – 6:00-7:30 p.m. – Session Three: Race and criminal justice\nFebruary 3\, 2022 – 6:00-7:30 p.m. – Session Four: Race and education\nMarch 17\, 2022 – 5:30-8:30 p.m. – Session Five: Race and income\nApril 21\, 2022 – 5:30-8:30 p.m. – Session Six: Closing session RIGHT on RACE (In-person in St. Cloud) \nRegistration\nRegistration Questions: registrations@mnhum.org | MHC Cancellation Policy \n \nREGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS CLOSED\n  URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/st-cloud-write-on-race/2022-04-21/ LOCATION:Stearns History Museum\, 235 South 33rd Avenue South\, St. Cloud\, MN\, 56301\, United States CATEGORIES:Greater Minnesota,Public Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mnhum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/event_stcloud_write_race.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Casey DeMarais":MAILTO:casey@mnhum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220423T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220423T150000 DTSTAMP:20260429T154644 CREATED:20220608T151341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220928T192224Z UID:10000275-1650704400-1650726000@www.mnhum.org SUMMARY:St. Paul – Telling My Story! DESCRIPTION:This full day writing retreat is open to all members of the Black community\, writers at all levels and nonwriters alike. After a year and a half of conversations with 16 local writers from our Minnesota literary community\, including African Caribbean\, African American\, and those from multiethnic parentage as well as from the continent of Africa\, the Minnesota Black Publishing Arts Collaborative would like to engage the Black community in the process of naming strength and finding healing through writing. This opportunity will help provide a safe and comfortable space to start the writing process\, remove some of the barriers of confidence\, and provide a roadmap on where or how to start. \nTo make the writing process accessible and enjoyable\, Ebony Adedayo (founder of the Aya Collective\, a space that centers the expertise and experience of Black women\, and program manager at the Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching at Macalester College) and Pamela Fletcher Bush (executive director of Saint Paul Almanac) will gently lead workshop participants in guided writing exercises and discussion that will demonstrate the love for writing and how it can be used as a tool. \nBecause we know that stories humanize us\, the workshop will feature writers T. Aaron Cisco and Junauda Petrus-Nasah\, who will read their works to illustrate how using one’s unique voice to tell personal stories brings necessary healing. They have used the pen to help them process and heal from significant events that have interrupted and or impacted their lives. \nThis writing retreat is being offered by the Minnesota Black Publishing Arts Collaborative in collaboration with the Minnesota Humanities Center. \nContinental breakfast and lunch are included. A journal will be provided. Registration will be limited to 40 participants. \nRegistration\nYou are welcome to register using promo code COMMUNITY to waive the fee if you wish. \nRegistration Questions: registrations@mnhum.org | MHC Cancellation Policy \nRegistration Deadline Date: Saturday\, April 16\, 2022 \n  \nREGISTRATION FOR THIS OFFERING HAS CLOSED URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/st-paul-telling-my-story/ LOCATION:Minnesota Humanities Event Center\, 987 Ivy Avenue East\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States CATEGORIES:Books, Poetry, and Literature,Public Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mnhum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/event_telling_my_story.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Eden Bart":MAILTO:eden@mnhum.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220425T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220425T203000 DTSTAMP:20260429T154644 CREATED:20220608T150110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250620T131711Z UID:10000273-1650913200-1650918600@www.mnhum.org SUMMARY:ONLINE – Minnesota Writers Series: What We Hunger For DESCRIPTION:Join the Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) for readings and a discussion around the book\, “What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family.” This book is the first text featured in MHC’s new Minnesota Writers Series\, which amplifies recent publications from Minnesota authors. \nThe book’s editor\, Sun Yung Shin\, and contributors V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan\, May Lee-Yang\, and Ifrah Mansour will read excerpts from the book and participate in a discussion around food\, community\, and the immigrant and refugee experience in Minnesota. Panelists and audience members will also be invited to take part in an object-based storytelling circle. Please bring an object\, or have one in mind\, that helps tell the story of the role of food in your culture. It could be a kitchen tool\, spice\, photograph\, or anything else that connects to your story of food\, family\, or community. \nAlthough this event was designed with members of immigrant and refugee communities in mind\, all are welcome. This event is held in partnership with the Saint Paul Public Library’s Read Brave program. A limited number of free books are also available. Contact karen@mnhum.org to reserve a copy. \nThis event is free but registration is required. \n신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul\, Korea\, during 박 정 희 Park Chung-hee’s military dictatorship\, and grew up in the Chicago area. She is the editor of the new collection: What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories About Food and Family and the best-selling anthology A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota. She is the author of poetry collections The Wet Hex (2022)\, Unbearable Splendor (finalist for the 2017 PEN USA Literary Award for Poetry\, winner of the 2016 Minnesota Book Award for poetry); Rough\, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black (winner of the 2007 Asian American Literary Award for poetry)\, co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption\, and author of bilingual illustrated book for children Cooper’s Lesson and the coauthor with John Coy\, Shannon Gibney\, and Diane Wilson of Where We Come From\, an illustrated book for children (2022). \nV.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan\, a fiction writer and journalist\, is the author of Love Marriage\, a novel set in Sri Lanka and its diaspora communities. The book was longlisted for the Orange Prize and named one of Washington Post Book World’s Best of 2008. She is the cohost of Literary Hub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast\, which is about the intersection of literature and the news. Excerpts from her second novel\, forthcoming from Random House\, have appeared in Granta\, Ploughshares\, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. \nMay Lee-Yang is a Minnesota-based Hmong American writer\, performance artist\, and teacher. Her theater works include The Korean Drama Addict’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity\, Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman\, and Ten Reasons Why I’d Be a Bad Porn Star. Her artmaking has been supported by the Playwrights’ Center McKnight Fellowship\, the Jerome Foundation\, the National Performance Network\, the Bush Foundation\, the Minnesota State Arts Board\, and the Loft Literary Center. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. \nIfrah Mansour is a Somali\, refugee\, Muslim\, multimedia artist and an educator based in Minnesota. Her artwork explores trauma through the eyes of children to uncover the resiliencies of blacks\, Muslims\, and refugees by interweaving poetry\, puppetry\, films\, and installations. Her work includes the play How to Have Fun in a Civil War\, the exhibition Can I Touch It\, the visual poem I Am a Refugee\, and the mixed-media installation My Aqal\, Banned and Blessed. \nRegistration\nRegistration Questions: registrations@mnhum.org \n  \nREGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS CLOSED URL:https://www.mnhum.org/event/online-what-we-hunger-for-minnesota-writers-series/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Books, Poetry, and Literature,Free,Minnesota Writers Series,Online,Public Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mnhum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/event_what_we_hunger_for.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Corey China":MAILTO:corey@mnhum.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR