Join Mapping Prejudice and Our Streets MPLS at Sumner Library for a gallery talk on the current Old 6th Ave North exhibit. Attendees will learn about the history of the neighborhood as it relates to racial covenants and transportation and the lingering effects today.

About the Speakers:

Kirsten Delegard is one of the co-founders of the Mapping Prejudice Project. A third-generation Minneapolitan, she trained originally as a women's historian and explored the history of women and politics in her early research. More recently she has devoted her energy to public history and unearthing the complex past of her hometown. This focus led to Mapping Prejudice and the Historyapolis Project, which Delegard also founded.

José Antonio Zayas Cabán is the Advocacy Director for Our Streets Minneapolis, where he has worked on developing reparative justice campaigns across the Twin Cities. He is also a 2023 board member at Streets.mn and finished serving as co-convener and Advisory Board member in a climate and mobility justice campaign that aims to increase multimodal transportation and reduce vehicle miles traveled and improve equitable access to transportation infrastructure across the state of Minnesota. In addition, as a 2022—2023 Mapping Prejudice Project Community Fellow, José will also be conducting research into the intersections between racial covenants, transportation, housing and land use, and developing a workbook on how to address these issues through an integrated approach to advocacy. José is also a resident at the University of Minnesota Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, where he will be working on an essay for the upcoming book Human Tolls: Public Histories and Community Responses to Twin Cities’ Freeways in collaboration with Associate Professor Greg Donofrio and Dr. Ernest Lloyd from the Heritage Studies and Public History program.

TFA Twin Cities is excited to bring Isabel Wilkerson - Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of the critically-acclaimed bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste - to Northrop Auditorium on April 28th, 2023.

Moderated by Chanda Smith Baker and Emceed by Angela Davis, Keynote talk from 7-8 and book signing with meet & greet 8-9.

Wilkerson's work has been featured on NPR, The New York Times, the Guardian, The New Yorker, The Oprah Magazine, and most recently, on the cover of TIME Magazine. In this powerful conversation Wilkerson will spotlight the insidious undertow of caste and its effects on our culture, politics, and everyday lives, and offer a transformative new framework through which to understand identity and injustice.

Learn more about her here: https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/isabel-wilkerson

Ask An Advocate: The Healing Power of Art

Hosted by: Renée

Learn about the healing power of art through a brief history of artistic storytelling, the evidence behind art and healing, and how to use art in every day advocacy.

Registration is free. Reserve your spot now at SVC Events

The Facilitating Racial Equity Collaborative and the East Side Freedom Library invite you to participate in March’s Shared Learning Community Circle, Intergenerational Alliances to Counter Silo Mindset, which Leads to Division, Confusion, Paralysis and Violence facilitated by Hector Garcia, former Executive Director, Minnesota Council on Latino Affair

Click Here to Join Zoom, Thursday, March 16, 2023, 4:30-6pm

Hector Garcia’s presentation is intended to add a broader and deeper perspective to the currently predominant one. Millions of citizens and residents of the U.S. and other nations have been increasingly influenced by the forces of Reductionism and Positivism. Since the mid 19th century, these forces have eclipsed The Age of Reflection and created the illusion that reality is only that which can be measured and has a monetary and popularity value during one’s lifetime. 

What future are some acclaimed international thought leaders proposing we live for and bequeath to our children?

“Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible… This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges.” “… humankind will turn itself into God…” Yuval Noah Harari adopts a staunchly materialistic outlook. As he assumes, “There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.”

Hector Garcia has published essays and articles in English and Spanish in American, Mexican, and Canadian journals.  In 2017, Rowman and Littlefield published his book, Clash or Complement of Cultures?: Peace & Productivity in the New Global Reality. He has founded nonprofit organizations and served on a wide range of boards, including AHANA (African, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American Public Policy Dialogues), TPT’s Community Advisory Board, and the Minnesota Latin American Initiative. Mr. Garcia invites you to read this essay in preparation for our conversation: “Optimizing Globalization will become Possible through a New Paradigm”

Abundant Cities is a series of three talks co-presented by the Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Foundation. Moderated by Adair Mosley CEO of the African American Leadership Forum, this series was established to generate meaningful conversation around how we can pour resources, energy and community into our civic life.

We’ll hear from longtime Rondo residents and community activists Nieeta Pressley, Russell Balinger, and Nathaniel Khaliq, along with City Councilperson Jane Prince. This conversation will be facilitated by Trahern Crews.

The St. Paul conversation about reparations has reached a new stage. The City Council has invited applications for appointment to the Saint Paul Recovery Act Permanent Commission
(applications close on March 24). The city’s reparations website is at https://rb.gy/6oewei.

In preparation for the conversation, we encourage you to read:
https://rb.gy/zbycr7n
and
https://rb.gy/czuro5
and watch this video:
https://rb.gy/xxou73

contact info@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org and 651-207-4926 with any questions

free and open to all

This event will be held on zoom. To register and receive a link to attend, please follow this link: https://rb.gy/qcpbff

Tangletown’s Equity Committee hosts

Beyond Land Acknowledgement, with a presentation and discussion led by the Native Governance Center

Register here: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSeaOux9ZIUmyH.../viewform

Event web page: https://tangletown.org/beyond-land-acknowledgement/

At this event, we will consider how organizations primarily focus on land acknowledgment verbiage, rather than the all-important action steps for supporting Indigenous communities. Attendees will learn about actions they can take to give meaning to the words in a land acknowledgment. This event will be held online via zoom and we will have time at the end for attendees to ask questions.

Registration is required to attend. We will email a zoom link to you prior to the event. Please consider a donation of $10. Donations go to support the Native Governance Center and help cover event costs.

Accommodations: If you would like to attend and need an accommodation to make this online event accessible, please let us know at least 10 business days in advance how we can support your access to this important learning opportunity. Contact us at 612-564-3445 or info@tangleotwn.org. You may also use the Minnesota Relay Services at 1-800-627-3529 or by dialing 7-1-1. We have limited resources, but will do our best to accommodate requests when budget allows.

In partnership with Emerging Curators Institute and FD13 residency for the arts

Inuit have always engaged in and responded to contemporary dialogues, media, and technologies. Stereotypical conventions around Inuit art since contact—i.e. works depicting traditional Inuit activities and scenes of northern animals—have created a false canon of Inuit art that does not take into account or represent the contemporaneity, breadth, or depth of Inuit culture, nor their art forms. This curatorial talk will speak to Inuit art histories, presents and futures through the exhibition Atautchikun | wâhkôtamowin (Remai Modern, Saskatchewan, 2021-2022), co-curated by Kablusiak and Missy LeBlanc. Initially sparked by large collections of Inuit art across the Prairie, the exhibition began with a selection of works from the Remai Modern’s permanent collection that push against the notion of a culture frozen in time. These works were put in relation to new commissions by artists connected to Inuk artists represented in the museum’s collection, as well as artists with ancestral connections to the lands the host museum occupies. Like the exhibition, Kablusiak’s talk aims to continue generative discussion on the threads that tie Inuit to Indigenous communities of the South.

About Kablusiak:

As a multidisciplinary Inuvialuk artist and curator, Kablusiak seeks to demystify Inuit art and create space for diverse Inuit-led representation. Their artistic practice uses humor and Inuk ingenuity to engage materials such as lingerie, Sharpies, bed sheets, felt, acrylic paint, and words to invite empathy and solidarity to explore diasporic cultural displacement, family and community ties, and impacts of colonization on Inuit gender and sexuality expressions, health and wellbeing, and the everyday. Kablusiak’s recent and upcoming exhibitions include Qiniqtuaq, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis (2023), Up Front, Onsite Gallery, OCAD, Toronto (2022), After Care, Mitchell Gallery, Alberta University of the Arts, Edmonton (2022), and Ublaak tikiyuak, artspeak, Vancouver, BC (2020). Along with Atautchikun | wâhkôtamowin, Remai Modern, Saskatchewan (2021-22), their recent co-curatorial work includes INUA, the inaugural exhibition of 90 artists working across Inuit Nanangot and beyond at Qaumajuq, the Inuit art center, Winnepeg Art Gallery (2021). Kablusiak is based in Mohkinstsis.

The East Side Freedom Library, Ramsey County Historical Society, and the Roseville Public Library invite you to History Revealed: The Activist Roots of the Everyday: Histories of African American Activism in the Twin Cities, a presentation by Adam Bledsoe, Assistant Prof of Geography, U of M.

Register here to join this event on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZYlc-6hpjgiHtZRXqHdhk6VmH5....

This presentation looks at how our everyday spaces are created from the political efforts of everyday people. Dr. Adam Bledsoe will examine the activism of different African American organizations and individuals throughout the 20th century and how their actions have led to the establishment of institutions we encounter on a daily basis. The presentation argues that by studying the analyses and political struggles of those who came before us, we can better understand ourselves and the places in which we find ourselves.

Adam Bledsoe was born and raised in the Twin Cities and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment & Society at the University of Minnesota. His intellectual interests are concerned with Black Diasporic political struggles.

Living Well With Pain: Managing Your Pain So It Doesn't Manage You—4 p.m., Thursday, November 17 via Zoom

Living Well With Pain: Managing Your Pain So It Doesn't Manage You
A UROC Critical Conversation

Eighty percent of Americans experience back pain at some point in their lives.  Common back pain treatments, including opioids, often fail to meet pain sufferers’ needs, and may lead to more serious problems such as overdose and addiction.

Emerging research shows that non-drug options can empower people to take charge of their pain, yet such treatment is often inaccessible to populations that suffer most from back pain. Individuals who suffer most from back pain—people of color, and those with less education and income—face additional barriers and have the least access to these promising pain management approaches that support health and wellbeing. 

Join University of Minnesota researchers and community experts specializing in the treatment of chronic pain in a public discussion of strategies to empower individuals in managing chronic pain, navigate health systems, and build stronger relationships between patients and their care providers.  

The conversation will feature a curated chat session for public input. 

Panelists will include: 
    •    Ronda Marie Chakolis (PharmD, MPH) Clinical pharmacist and medication therapy management specialist; 
    •    Roni Evans (DC, MS, PhD), Director, Integrative Health and Wellbeing Research Program; Research Associate Professor, Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing, University of Minnesota; and

    •    Sam Simmons (LADC), behavioral consultant in chemical dependency and culturally sensitive trauma-informed strategies with Samuel Simmons Consulting; co-host of the "Voices” radio show on KMOJ FM.


Living Well With Pain: Managing Your Pain So It Doesn't Manage You is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing's Integrative Health and Wellbeing Research Program.

The event is free; registration is required.  

Register now.
 

Join us for an evening with Sarah Augustine, Executive Director of the national Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition and Pueblo author of The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery, and her colleague Katerina Gea, an organizer with the Coalition and coordinator of the Repair Network of congregations.The event is free, but please pre-register if you'd like to reserve a signed copy of the book, make a donation to Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition, attend virtually, or find out more information: https://sarahaugustinedddnov1622.eventbrite.com. The event is open to the public, so please invite your friends and encourage them to register! Sponsored by Calvary Baptist Church, Faith Mennonite Church, Showing Up for Racial Justice - Faith, and Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute.

This event will also be available to watch virtually. Tune in here: https://youtu.be/gxfxrnUDLH0

Join us in the Sanctuary at First Universalist Church on Wednesday, Nov. 16 to celebrate the launch of Susan Raffo's book, "Liberated to the Bone"!

Set for release in mid-November in the Emergent Strategy series from AK Press, "Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures." addresses the intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our social relations which are shaped by violence.

Bodyworker and cultural worker Susan Raffo addresses intergenerational trauma, social justice, organizing, and how all of these things are relevant to our bodies. The book illuminates three different approaches to healing: ending violence, the significance of being rooted in the present, and creating the conditions to address unfinished histories and generational trauma. By showing how these approaches are intricately connected—physically and emotionally—Raffo interrupts the traumatic binaries of the political and spiritual, the physical and intellectual, and healing and organizing.

Join Rev. Arif Mamdani, Associate Minister at First Universalist, in conversation with author Susan Raffo on the book and how it speaks to the social, political, and theological moment we’re in.

In partnership with Hennepin Healthcare, the Heals on Wheels project will be at the Sexual Violence Center next week!

Friday, August 5th
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
2021 East Hennepin Ave, Suite 418
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Get a small “taste” of holistic pain management strategies for mind, body, and spirit, including massage, yoga, meditation, stress management, sleep, nutrition, and acupuncture.

Each participant will receive a Holistic Pain Management Kit with tools to help them continue to better manage pain on their own.

This event is free to attend, but registration is required.