Events

The Sanneh Foundation along with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is offering free soccer clinics this summer.  Clinics are for youth ages 5-12 years old. Topics covered include basic skill training, speed and agility development, attacking, defending, small-sided games, and tactics. Participants receive daily soccer instruction, a FREE t-shirt, water bottle, cinch sack, and a Delta Dental oral hygiene kit. Meals and/or snacks may be provided at the camp.

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The East Side Freedom Library invites you to join us in commemorating:

JUNETEENTH: THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF SLAVERY IN THE U.S. by considering the present reality of​ PRISON LABOR IN MINNESOTA

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez is an investigative journalist and Editor of Workday Minnesota. His work focuses on workers and their experiences throughout the state with a particular focus on the immigration, trade union and inmate laborers. Filiberto has published a two part series in Workday Minnesota revealing the extent, conditions, and experiencers of prison labor in our state. He has found that mostly men of color make common products while in prison for less than 50 cents an hour. Come and discuss how prison labor schemes and practices are the everyday legacies of slavery.​

Free and open to all
East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier St.
info@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org and 651-230-3294

Join us for a reading with Leni Zumas, author of the novel Red Clocks.

Five women. One question. What is a woman for? In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom.

“Hilarious, terrifying, and masterful–this pitch-perfect, timely novel reflects the horror and absurdity of our political landscape with a brilliance that ensures the book’s timelessness. It’s as riotously fun as it is chilling. Zumas has produced a poignant, wickedly sharp classic.” –Alissa Nutting, author of Made for Love and Tampa

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The way our neighborhoods look and feel today are a product of our shared history; one shaped by racist policies that barred households of color from homeownership and wealth accumulation for many years. In spite of intentional barriers, communities of color created and continue to build vibrant neighborhoods, rich with gathering places and family legacies that are often lost to the general public.

Join us for the first gathering of the “Racism, Rent and Real Estate: Fair Housing Reframed” event series to learn more about the history and impetus of fair housing laws, and share your knowledge about the history of your family and neighborhood. Galvanizing the community conversation, speakers will include 8th Ward Minneapolis City Councilmember and Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins; lifelong neighborhood resident and community leader, Greg McMoore; and Kirsten Delegard, Director of Mapping Prejudice.

We need a grassroots movement for Housing Justice in Minneapolis! The city is rapidly gentrifying and for many residents, housing is becoming harder and harder to secure. With capital investment coming to core neighborhoods in North, South and NE Minneapolis in the form of improved roads and parks, the pressure for displacement is only going to increase if we don’t come together to organize.

All are welcome to join us Thursday, June 21st as we build momentum around a broad platform including a Tenants Bill of Rights, Rent Control, Support for Public Housing, Major Investment in and Democratic Control of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and more.

We’re on a journey to tell real stories from real people.

Join us for a community screening and discussion of Northside Storyville! A first of its kind video series featuring North Minneapolis residents, entrepreneurs, youth and change makers. On Thursday, June 21st at the Capri Theater we’ll screen the first 6 episodes of Northside Storyville, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A with our filmmakers and episode features.

Tickets are FREE but you must REGISTER to ensure a seat!

OUR PANEL INCLUDES:
Moderator: Repa Mekha, President & CEO, Nexus Community Partners
Filmmakers: Adja Gildersleve, Ryan Stopera, and D.A. Bullock
Episode Features: Chris Webley, La’Taijah Powell, Jessie McDaniel, Houston White, Rebecca Polston, Charles Adams, Jr., and Ange Hwang

You don’t want to miss this unique opportunity. Join us at the Capri Theater in North Minneapolis on June 21st from 7:00-8:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Beautiful QTIPOC of the Twin Cities and beyond, this year’s Pride party is ’bout to be LIT! We are focusing on bringing you the hottest music so you can focus on gettin’ your DANCE on all-night-long.
Nothin’ but the dance…

On the turntables will be:
DJ Keezy
DJ Lady L
and Special guests:
DJ Queen Duin
DJ AriAtari

Get your tickets ASAP – they sell out!
Stay tuned for more info…

Friday June 22 / 9PM-2AM
Icehouse Mpls / 2528 Nicollet Ave South
$12/advance ~ $15/door
Food served until 12AM
21+

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TO KNOW:
Soul Friday is a semi-monthly dance party created for QUEER WOMEN of COLOR and friends.

Spinning the best in old school, R&B, old and new hip-hop and more….
With our stellar resident DJs in the main room:
DJ Keezy & DJ Lady L
And special guests DJ Enigma in the front room!

Soul Friday is proud to be an event that celebrates Black & Brown folks living the LGBTQ life… Lesbian/Bi/Trans/GNC/Queer Sisters of Color and friends. Looking forward to seeing all shades of brown on that dance floor. ALL are welcome. If you identify as White, please have a conversation with your QWOC friends about how to keep the space safe and special for QPOC. Or feel free to ask us!

[[If you are someone who identifies as straight, please recognize that this is a QUEER party and take that into consideration in respect for creating a space that is very important for the QTLGB community. If you have questions about this statement, please send us a private message and we’d be happy to have a conversation.]]

ROSEVILLE, MN, June 7–The Minnesota State Horticultural Society (MSHS), a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization, is co-hosting the educational event Bees: For the Love of Affinis with the University of Minnesota Department of Entomology Bee and Pollinator Research Lab on June 23, 2018, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The event will take place during National Pollinator Week on the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus at the Cargill Building, 1500 Gortner Ave., St Paul, MN. The registration deadline is Saturday, June 16, 2018. Tickets to this full day of education are $100 per person and include parking, Korean taco bar lunch buffet catered by 1851 Heritage Catering and additional refreshments. The event will be zero waste.

MSHS and the Bee Lab are bringing together scientists, artists and nature conservationists to talk about the future of bee research, make bee art and learn to create healthy habitats for pollinators like our endangered native pollinator, the rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis). Participants will get updates on the latest research from the UMN Department of Entomology Bee Lab and learn about the endangered rusty-patched bumble bee, bee nesting habitat, creating bee lawns and more.

Gardening expert Heidi Heiland of Heidi’s Lifestyle Gardens and Heidi’s GrowHaus, will talk about pollinator gardens, how important they are for the environment and what home gardeners can do to create habitat and provide food for pollinators.

The event will include a tour of the newly built UMN Bee and Pollinator Research Facility—including their pollinator garden—and the UMN Insect Collection. At the Heimpel Lab in the UMN Dept of Entomology, participants will learn about beneficial insects and biological control of pest insects. A panel discussion and Ask the Experts tables will give event participants multiple opportunities to have their specific pollinator questions answered.

Environmental artist Sarah Nassif, who works to connect people, plants and bees, will talk about the role of art in bee conservation. She will also create a print design for the event that participants can make and take home with them.

“What Sarah brings to this event is the connection between art and policy, and the notion that community engaged art making can be a great tool for activating the public,” says MSHS Community Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator Lara Lau-Schommer, who is leading MSHS’ efforts in coordinating the event. “Art influences culture, and culture influences public policy.  So art is a great place to start to inspire positive social change.”

MSHS’ mission is to serve northern gardeners through education, encouragement and community. It was founded in 1866 as an association of fruit growers who took on the challenge of growing apples in a northern climate. Today, MSHS serves northern gardeners of all experience levels through community outreach and educational programs, membership, Northern Gardener magazine and classes. The organization addresses current issues in horticulture, such as helping gardeners provide habitat and food for pollinators and helping low-income families and at-risk youth learn to vegetable garden, and continues to cultivate communities and connect plants and people.

Minnesota is home to the largest population of Somalis in the United States. A relatively recent immigrant group, arriving in large numbers following the outbreak of civil war in Somalia in 1991, they have made significant advances in a short amount of time. This February, Rep. Ilhan Omar joined the Minnesota Legislature as the highest-ranking Somali American elected to office in the United States; in just a few years Abdirahman Kahin, owner of Afro Deli, has created one of the most successful restaurants in the Twin Cities with two locations, soon to be three; and in 2014 Kadra Mohamed became St. Paul’s first female Somali police officer, saying “When people ask, ‘Why me,’ I ask, ‘Why not me?’ Covering my hair doesn’t mean I can’t do this job.” These are only a few of the community’s success stories.

“Somalis + Minnesota” opens June 23, 2018 at the Minnesota History Center.

Created in partnership with the Somali Museum of Minnesota and told through immersive settings, artifacts, photos and first-hand accounts, the exhibit tells the story of Somali immigrants, their arrival in their newly adopted home of Minnesota, and the successes and struggles they have faced.

“We are delighted to partner with the Somali Museum of Minnesota to bring this important exhibit to the History Center,” said Steve Elliott, MNHS director and CEO. “With Somali people in almost every sector of Minnesota’s workforce, now is the time to celebrate the strength and resilience of the Somali people and to help build bridges in understanding what it means to be an immigrant.”

“Many Somali people, especially youth, don’t know about their past because of the hardships they have faced fleeing the civil war,” said Osman Ali, director of the Somali Museum of Minnesota. “Seeing themselves in this exhibit will help them learn about their past, but also help them know that they belong here in Minnesota, a place they consider their second home.”

The 2,400 square foot exhibit features a reconstructed nomadic hut imported from Somalia; a collection of photographs and objects brought to life through commentary by Somali historians now living in Minnesota; and videos and interactive photo panels that introduce Somali Minnesotans from across the state. For exhibit-goers of all ages, a hands-on activity will show visitors how to load a camel for travel across the desert.

Exhibit Opening and Related Programs

The exhibit opens June 23, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., with a family celebration and free admission provided by the Knight Foundation and 3M. Activities are offered through 3 p.m. and include dance, poetry and storytelling performances; an art project; weaving demonstration; and samples of sambusas and Somali tea. Plus, meet the Somali teens who authored the new MNHS Press cookbook, “Soo Fariista/Come Sit Down: A Somali American Cookbook.”

START YOUR SUMMER OFF WITH A FRESH PERSPECTIVE

Few things in life create radical change like meditation. Come refresh and regroup with the Black Zen team!

Join us at the peaceful Greenway Yoga studio where you’ll be guided through a beginning meditation class. There will be an open opportunity for questions and a Q&A will be provided after the session to debunk common misconceptions about the practice. Come try something new and enjoy an opportunity to talk with others who are just starting out.

This event is open to all people and POC’s strongly encouraged to attend. Space is limited, be sure to RSVP.

Suggested donation is ​​$10, however, no one is turned away for lack of funds.

We’re here to be your partners in progress and look forward to seeing you there!
For any questions, reach out to info@blackzen.co.

See what Minnesota private colleges and universities have to offer have to offer June 25-29 during the annual campus visit event. These free campus visits — beginning at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. each day — run only two-and-a-half hours and include tours and information sessions. It’s an easy, no-pressure way to get started on a college search for high school students who will be a sophomores, juniors or seniors in the fall. These introductory visits can serve as a first step to help students discover just what they’re looking for in a college. Participating campuses include:

-Augsburg University
-Bethany Lutheran College
-Bethel University
-Carleton College
-College of Saint Benedict
-The College of St. Scholastica
-Concordia College, Moorhead
-Concordia University, St. Paul
-Gustavus Adolphus College
-Hamline University
-Macalester College
-Minneapolis College of Art and Design
-Saint John’s University
-Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
-St. Catherine University
-St. Olaf College
-University of St. Thomas

Learn more and register for campus visits at https://www.mnprivatecolleges.org/mpcw.

Protect​ ​Your​ ​Privacy:​ ​Staying​ ​Safe​ ​Online.​ ​From social media to email to search engines, modern life leaves digital footprints everywhere we go. How can you ensure that your internet browsing, purchases, email, and other online activity is safe and secure? This class will offer an overview of online security basics, anonymous browsing, phishing, and encryption. Discover the tools and techniques you need to protect your online information. Presented by Twin Cities Media Alliance and funded by MELSA.

Protect​ ​Your​ ​Privacy:​ ​Staying​ ​Safe​ ​Online,​ ​Part​ ​I​. From email to social media and e-commerce, modern life leaves digital footprints everywhere we go. How can you ensure that your internet browsing, purchases, email, and other online activity is safe and secure? This class will offer an overview of online security basics, anonymous browsing, maintaining devices, reading URLs, better passwords, and avoiding phishing. Discover the tools and techniques you need to protect your online information. Presented by Twin Cities Media Alliance and funded by MELSA.

FLOW Northside Arts Crawl is a three-day celebration of the arts in North Minneapolis, July 26-28 2018. Since 2006, FLOW Northside Arts Crawl has become both a community celebration and premier art event in North Minneapolis. FLOW is a non-juried, self-guided tour of studios, galleries, theaters, commercial and vacant spaces over a mile and half of the West Broadway corridor. From b-boys to ballet, graffiti to graphite, rap to rhapsody, fine artist to artisan, practicing to professional, FLOW showcases the great art being made every day on the Northside. FLOW is a program of the West Broadway Coalition that showcase over 300 artists of all ages and experiences at 35 different locations with an exciting day of indoor and outdoor activities. Join us as we come together to create in community and continue to shine a light on the Northside through the arts.

​From social media to email to search engines, modern life leaves digital footprints everywhere we go. How can you ensure that your internet browsing, purchases, email, and other online activity is safe and secure? This class will offer an overview of online security basics, anonymous browsing, phishing, and encryption. Discover the tools and techniques you need to protect your online information. Presented by Twin Cities Media Alliance and funded by MELSA.

Protect​ ​Your​ ​Privacy:​ ​Staying​ ​Safe​ ​Online,​ ​Part​ ​II​. This class follows Part I by discussing malvertising and safe searching, using ad blockers, setting up a secure home wireless network, using standard vs administrative accounts, encryption and VPNs. Learn to better protect your digital life. Presented by Twin Cities Media Alliance and funded by MELSA.

SAINT PAUL (May 18, 2018) The Saint Paul Almanac will hold its first ever Alum Party Bash to celebrate its rich and esteemed community of writers and artists as well as to listen to the hopes, ideas, and plans of the Almanac community as the book and organization move forward. The bash will happen on Wednesday, June 27, at Summit Brewing Company, 910 Montreal Circle, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

“It’s a reunion,” says founder and executive director Kimberly Nightingale. “We’d like to gather with our Saint Paul Almanac community. Hang out.”

The program boasts music, light summer fare, $2 Summit beers, and nonalcoholic beverages. The evening will be accented with a short reading by three Almanac authors and feature our trademark Storymobile. Attendees will create a community poem with poet Nimo Farah and a community art piece led by Ta-coumba Aiken. The community poem and art will be featured in our next book. Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay will MC the event, and DJ Kool Akiem will grace us with music.

“We’ve been a community-driven launch pad for so many writers and artists who have developed craft and creativity outside of dominant publishing regimes,” says Clarence White. “We’ve published some of the Twin Cities’ most respected authors. We’ve told the story of Saint Paul through many voices. This night will be a shout-out to all those voices as well as a listen back where folks can speak to what Almanac will be over the next half decade.”

The Almanac will extend a wide reach as it invites writers and artists who have been published in the Almanac, those who have submitted and never been published, those who have thought about submitting but never did. Included will be Lowertown Reading Jam participants, Storymobile participants, IMPRESSIONS writers and artists, past community editors, past board members, fiscal sponsorees, past audience members, readers, and anyone connected to the Saint Paul Almanac in some way. Storymobile will wander the party and ask what partygoers want to see in our future. More books? More opportunities to get published? More art and poetry on trains? Different processes? More films? More readings? On what should the next five years of the Saint Paul Almanac be focused?

What: The first Saint Paul Almanac Alum Party Bash!
When: Wednesday, June 27, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Where: Summit Brewing Company, 910 Montreal Circle, Saint Paul, MN 55102

Get Tickets Here: http://bit.ly/blackandandro
Date: Wednesday June 27, Doors 8:30 PM | Show 9:00 PM
Price: $12 advance | $15 day of show
Location: Icehouse MPLS | 2528 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404

Black + Andro: Fashion Show and Dance Party discusses the action of decolonizing the queer especially in a climate where homophobia runs rampant in the black community; in church and in home. This event will be an artistic showcase and positive representation of the pride and power of the Twin Cities Afro-Genderqueer scene. Featuring a photo exhibit highlighting models Charity Stevson, Ayo Moon, Annakay Wright, Tierra Anderson, Talief Bennett, Symone Johnson-Hawkins, and Kankemwa Green.

Let’s decolonize fashion that falls within the gender binary and decolonize black queer identity.

This event will feature musical acts by Kaoz, Asia Divine, MLNCHLY and a DJ set during the fashion showcase by Taye Drina. There will be tabling from Black Table Arts.

Partial proceeds will go to the family of the late political activist Tyrone Rashad Williams and Keno Evol’s The Because Black Life Conference – 2018.

The East Side Freedom Library invites you to a special reading curated by Green Card Voices

The Voices of St. Paul’s Immigrant Youth
Thursday, June 28th, 2018, 7:00pm

​In 2017 Green Card Voices met with 30 immigrant students from St. Paul’s LEAP High School and began a process which would turn them into published authors. They were supported by their English Language Learning teacher and Hamline University graduate students. These 30 students, from 13 different countries, created online video narratives and written published essays which were included in a book published in the summer of 2017. Come, meet, and listen to three of these authors:​

Jae Nay Htoo– (Thailand-Karen) “When I was in the refugee camps, there were no surprises in my life. It was just a simple life. But when I here, many surprises happened to me, and there were many challenges that I had to face

Nima Ahmed– (Djibouti) “When I was sixteen, my parents kicked me out because they found out that I was gay. After I moved out, I lived in a shelter for several months. I felt lonely and isolated because I have never experienced life alone.”

Anta Thosaengsiri- (Thailand-Hmong) “I remember meeting family members who were like strangers to me because I’d never met them before”

Free and open to all
​East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street
info@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org and 651-230-3294​

TruArtSpeaks is excited to announce that internationally-renowned poet Amir Sulaiman will be performing as part of the organization’s annual Sendoff show this June.

Each year, the six highest scoring poets from the Be Heard MN Youth Poetry Slam Series form a team that represents the state at the Brave New Voices international youth poetry slam festival. They write and practice together all spring, and the Sendoff is a chance for the whole community to hear their work one last time before BNV.

This year, the Sendoff will feature performances from the team, their coaches (Michael Lee and Hieu Minh Nguyen) and a very special guest, poet Amir Sulaiman: Amir Sulaiman is a poet, recording artist, Harvard Fellow, actor, screen writer and producer born in Rochester, New York. His poems cross subjects of love, tragedy as well as what it means to reconcile humanity with the unprecedented trials of modernity. He has performed his works across the US as well as many other countries including England, Belgium, Senegal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Australia, Iran and the Netherlands, and continues to tour world-wide. Amir was first introduced to a National audience in 2005 when he was featured for two seasons on Russell Simmons’ groundbreaking series Def Poetry Jam on HBO.

The Deaf Artist Residency at the Anderson Center presents a discussion panel with Deaf resident artists past and present who will share their residency experiences. The Deaf artist residency program, which supports a severely underserved population in terms of the Arts, is currently in its third incarnation. Deaf people are frequently not encouraged to enter the arts field because ongoing arts training and education is rarely accessible and Deaf people are often not in supportive communities where they can live, learn, earn and grow with each other in the field. This program was the brainchild of Cynthia Weitzel and is made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Anderson Center Deaf Artist June Residency is the perfect example of a supportive community because it is difficult for Deaf people to join in the hearing world of water cooler conversations, networking, lectures, workshops, and so forth because of the spoken vs. visual language differences and the need for interpreters. So this interdisciplinary residency program with native or adoptive American Sign Language and Deaf Culture in common is a rare and unique opportunity for Deaf artists (visual, literary, performing…) to talk every day about their work, their processes, and their knowledge in person in a way that is not found or accessible in their home areas. The Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota has created a “sense of place” for Deaf artists to grow and share freely. Even if only temporary, one month every two years, the transformative nature of the experience is forever lasting.

Join us as Deaf resident artists, past and present, share their residency experiences, what they’ve learned or accomplished and what they plan to do from here on! Normally this community event, open to the public, takes place at month’s end on the grounds of the Anderson Center in Red Wing. However, this year we’re hosting the event in the heart of Minnesota’s Deaf Community—the historic Charles Thompson Memorial Hall (Deaf Club), 1824 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul from 7:00 to 8:30pm in the auditorium. Free and open to the public.

Event presented in American Sign Language.
Interpreters provided for those who do not sign.

Jordan Area Community Council and Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity are hosting our 3rd Annual Jordan Week of Kindness! This event is free and open to to the public. We encourage those of all ages to come to Irving Ave N between 30th and Lowry on June 30th from 12pm – 3pm to enjoy food, entertainment, local vendors and resources, and fun! Mark your calendars, this is an event you don’t want to miss! If you’re Interested in Volunteering with us at the event please check out this link: http://jacc.tchabitat.volunteerhub.com/

In the spirit of Juneteenth, emancipation and creating a free landscape, join us for a poetry reading and conversation with Keno Evol and Lisa Marie Brimmer. Evol and Brimmer will present new work and discuss what it means to be in community – holding, creating and critiquing artistic spaces and society so all black life can thrive. Conjure other worlds through black art and cultivate volume in black life.

Collaborator: Black Table Arts. Funded by Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

More about Juneteenth at your library: https://www.hclib.org/about/news/2018/may/juneteenth