Lecture/discussion
Challenges and Prospects of the Democratization Process in Ethiopia
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesSunday, November 10th, 11am-1pm The Twin Cities is home to many communities—Oromo, Eritrean, Amharic, Somali—whose roots lay in the Horn of Africa. For decades, this region has been a site of political upheaval. Ethnic and religious minorities have faced particular challenges, as have political activists who have sought to create progressive change. One consequence of […]
United in U.S. Immigrant and Refugee Family Programming
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesFear None Conquer All presents United in U.S. Immigrant and Refugee Family Programming FNCA takes pride in empowering diversified communities to accomplish goals through leadership, education, training, and legalization. To register for programming, contact FNCA at 651-508-6762 Click "Going" and share on Facebook!
A Clan of Our Own: Coming Out Experiences of Gay Hmong Men
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesWednesday, November 20, 2019, 7pm Growing up as a gay Hmong, Brian Xiong couldn’t find any gay books written about gay Hmong coming out experiences, or just gay Hmong representation in general. He remembers checking out gay resource books from Minneapolis Public Library, City Pages newspaper, or gay lifestyle stories online during his high school […]
United in U.S. Immigrant and Refugee Family Programming
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesFear None Conquer All presents United in U.S. Immigrant and Refugee Family Programming FNCA takes pride in empowering diversified communities to accomplish goals through leadership, education, training, and legalization. To register for programming, contact FNCA at 651-508-6762 Click "Going" and share on Facebook!
United in U.S. Immigrant and Refugee Family Programming
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesFear None Conquer All presents United in U.S. Immigrant and Refugee Family Programming FNCA takes pride in empowering diversified communities to accomplish goals through leadership, education, training, and legalization. To register for programming, contact FNCA at 651-508-6762 Click "Going" and share on Facebook!
United in U.S. Immigrant and Refugee Family Programming
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesFear None Conquer All presents United in U.S. Immigrant and Refugee Family Programming FNCA takes pride in empowering diversified communities to accomplish goals through leadership, education, training, and legalization. To register for programming, contact FNCA at 651-508-6762 Click "Going" and share on Facebook!
History Revealed: Slavery’s Reach
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to a presentation and discussion of Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State, featuring historian Christopher Lehman in the ongoing series, “History Revealed." Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 7pm From the 1840s through the end of the Civil War, leading Minnesotans invited slaveholders and […]
Saving Ethiopia from Potential Civil War, Ethnic Cleansing, or Genocide: A Conversation
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesSunday, December 15th, 2019, 11am - 1pm Please join members of diverse Ethiopian communities as they discuss recent developments in Ethiopia which threaten growing internal conflicts. What can people in the diaspora do to encourage peace? What can we all do to bring about peace and justice in the Horn of Africa and throughout the […]
United in U.S. Immigrant and Refugee Family Programming
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesFear None Conquer All presents United in U.S. Immigrant and Refugee Family Programming FNCA takes pride in empowering diversified communities to accomplish goals through leadership, education, training, and legalization. To register for programming, contact FNCA at 651-508-6762 Click "Going" and share on Facebook!
Courthouse Art Project: Update & Input
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesMonday, December 16, 2019, 7pm We are in the midst of a period in which historical monuments, markers, and murals have become focal points of community discussions across the country. These conversations have come to the fore in Saint Paul, and the City and County governments requested that RCHS lead an effort to add new […]
Who Decides Who is Hmong?: A Conversation
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesSunday, December 28th, 1-3pm Join the artists of the "Being Hmong" exhibit in a conversation about the complexities and tensions of "being Hmong" in the United States. Who decides who is Hmong? Who decides what it means to be Hmong? What roles do racism and the power structure of the dominant society play? What are […]
United in U.S. Immigrant and Refugee Family Programming
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesFear None Conquer All presents United in U.S. Immigrant and Refugee Family Programming FNCA takes pride in empowering diversified communities to accomplish goals through leadership, education, training, and legalization. To register for programming, contact FNCA at 651-508-6762 Click "Going" and share on Facebook!
“America’s Secret War” Screening and Introduction to the Hmong Archives
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesJoin the Minnesota Humanities Center, Twin Cities PBS (TPT), and the East Side Freedom Library (ESFL) on January 7 for a screening of the TPT documentary “Minnesota Remembers Vietnam: America’s Secret War,” followed by an introduction to the Hmong Archives housed at the ESFL. All are welcome to join us for either the documentary screening, […]
History Revealed: “Moving Up, Moving Out” with Historian Will Cooley
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThursday, January 9, 2020, 7:00-8:30pm Our first "History Revealed" program of the year! In Moving Up, Moving Out (published 2018) Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the twentieth century, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly-mobile African Americans. Cooley examines how class differences created fissures in the black […]
Initiating Dialogue Among Members of East African Diasporas: What Roles Can People in the Diasporas Play in Promoting Peace and Justice in the Horn of Africa?
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to the next in a series of conversations among members of the East African diasporic community here in the Twin Cities. Sunday, January 12th, 2020, 11am-1pm Over the past thirty years, the Twin Cities has become the new home for thousands of East African immigrants. While they have […]
A Live Oral History Interview with Dr. Gene Young Conducted by ESFL’s Peter Rachleff
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesDr. Gene Young is a first generation son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who settled in New York City where they were active as labor organizers, coming to Minnesota during the Great Depression. His mother helped organize the largely women workforce at the Munsingwear plant in Minneapolis while his father was an organizer for the Farmer Labor […]
From the Monkey Mountains: Listening Parties with The Bakken Trio and Z Puppets Rosenschnoz
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe Bakken Trio is teaming up with the highly-acclaimed puppetry ensemble Z Puppets Rosenschnoz to invite you to experience live classical music through new ears and eyes. At each of these free events at the East Side Freedom Library, the artists will lead "visual listening" drawing activities for audiences to explore one movement of From the Monkey Mountains by Czech composer and […]
Screening and Discussion: I Am
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThursday, January 16, 2020, 7pm I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? The filmmaker behind the inquiry is Tom Shadyac, one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners and the creative force behind […]
Screening and Discussion of “A Huey P. Newton Story”
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr., Day with a screening and discussion of A Huey P. Newton Story. Monday, January 20th, 2020, 7pm From a stage play in 1996 to a film in 2002, A Huey P. Newton Story has been a monument to Roger Guenveur Smith's brilliance and […]
The Past is Present: The Legacy of Incarcerated Girls
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to a conversation revolving around the new book, Evidence of V, by Sheila O’Connor. Thursday, January 23, 2020, 7pm In 1911, Minnesota opened a state reformatory for girls in Sauk Centre. From the beginning, the incarcerated girls were largely committed for minor status offenses, most notably immorality and incorrigibility, and […]