Giving Voice to the Korean American Community
The work of Minnesota Korean adoptee artist Megan Rye will be featured in an exhibit entitled Foundling, to open at the Weissman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, on January 16, 2022. More than 70 families participated in sharing referral photos of themselves or adoptee loved ones, who are adopted from many countries to Minnesota. She collected […]
A class for youth of color (age 18 and older) will be held March 31 through May 1, Monday and Thursday evenings. Playwright and Theater Mu actor Eric Sharp will instruct. Participants will memorize and rehearse a single two- to four-minute monologue, with additional material if time allows. The class will be held via Zoom […]
The first Adoptee Literary Festival will be held virtually on Saturday, April 9, 8 a.m. through 10 p.m. (CDT). The purpose of the festival is to highlight writing by adoptees from the perspective of their own experience. It will feature numerous Korean adoptee writers such as Nicole Chung, author of the memoir All You Could […]
Minnesota writers of the essay and poetry collection We Are Meant to Rise will speak in a virtual panel Thursday, April 14, noon to 1:30. We Are Meant to Rise tells the story, from the point of view of Minnesotan writers of color, of the racial reckoning that began in Minnesota with the murder of […]
The National Korean American Service and Educational Consortium (NAKASEC) and the advocacy group @UndocuGW will hold a virtual conversation on immigration status, migration, and organizing within Asian American communities. Both groups have been lobbying on immigration reform issues. This free event will take place on Zoom (link below) at 5 p.m. CDT (6 p.m. EDT). […]
Democracy in the Time of COVID is the theme of a free virtual rally event for API Day at the Capitol, to be held April 20, The virtual rally will include state government leaders and community leaders. Details such as times for various events, speakers and registration will be announced on the Council’s Facebook page […]
Minnesota writers of the essay and poetry collection We Are Meant to Rise will speak in an in-person panel Sunday, April 24, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Common Ground Meditation Center, located at 2700 E. 26th St., Minneapolis. Panelists will include Minnesota Korean American poet and writer Sun Yung Shin, with co-contributors Arleta M. […]
Asian American films and films about Midwestern people and topics are some of the selection of offerings for the 2022 North by North International Film Festival, to be held April 27 through May 1, in Duluth. Badges for $75 are on sale through the month of April for the festival on its website (see link). […]
Minnesota poets who contributed to the essay and poetry collection We Are Meant to Rise will speak in a virtual panel Saturday, April 30, noon to 3 p.m.(CDT). Entitled We Are Meant to Rise: The Poetry of Social Movements, the poets will be asked to discuss how poetry contributes to how social movements form, mature, […]
