Collaborating with ESFL in Events, Media, & Community Engagement
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesAre you interested in collaborating with us on events and community activities? Please join us in deepening our programming through participating and taking leadership in any of the following projects: Event Promotion & Evaluation 1. Greeting event attendees 2. Assisting with sign-ins 3. Collecting event surveys 4. Recording Library events 5. Editing podcasts Media and […]
A Six Session Course: Immigration and the Making of St. Paul
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library and the Community and Adult Education Program of the St. Paul Public Schools invite you to participate in this learning opportunity. Explore the role of immigrants in the making and remaking of St. Paul. We will begin in the 1840s and conclude with the present: including Irish and German immigrants' […]
Collaborating with ESFL in Events, Media, & Community Engagement
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesAre you interested in collaborating with us on events and community activities? Please join us in deepening our programming through participating and taking leadership in any of the following projects: Event Promotion & Evaluation 1. Greeting event attendees 2. Assisting with sign-ins 3. Collecting event surveys 4. Recording Library events 5. Editing podcasts Media and […]
History Revealed: Relentless Business of Treaties with Author Martin Case
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesNovember 7th, 2019, 7:00pm - 8:30pm The story of “western expansion” is a familiar one: US government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting […]
Contempt
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe Contempt Project is a continuation of American Studies: Specific Voices/Public Domain, begun as an exhibition in 1992, and continuing through a series of performances based on authentic recordings of significant historical, political, and cultural value. Contempt uses transcripts and recording of courtroom confrontations surrounding the 1969-70 trial of the Chicago 8/7 for conspiracy to […]
School’s No Place for Kids
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesSaturday, November 9th, 2019, 10am-12pm Join Speaking Out for a performance and workshop at ESFL. School’s No Place for Kids is a short play about how a spirited child and a by-the-book teacher find their way to the classroom from different places. The show will be followed by time to imagine what education should look […]
Breaking Barriers: History Day Learning Center Workshops
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesHistory Day is a priority for us at the East Side Freedom Library. Our rich collections are organized around labor, immigration, African American, and social justice movement history and include not just historical studies but also poetry, fiction, visual art, drama, music, film, and autobiographies in these areas. We have more than 20,000 books in […]
Community Journalism: Training & Discussion
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesJoin us for a Journalism of Color training, learning how to use journalism as a tool for building community power and to report on social change work. Journalism of Color emphasizes: Disrupting traditional narratives about historically-marginalized communities and systems of oppression Elevating the voices and experiences of historically-marginalized communities Writing for and by historically-marginalized communities […]
The Work of the Karen Weavers’ Circle
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesSaturday, November 9, 2019, 3 - 6PM The Karen Weavers' Circle was created by women who wanted to revive, maintain, and pass on traditional weaving. They weave together weekly and teach their folk art to youth in St. Paul and Roseville public schools. This exhibition will showcase traditional pieces and demonstrate the weaving process. Pieces […]
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 […]
East Side’s First Housing Summit
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesTuesday, November 12, 2019, 7pm Since March, many of us have been meeting, discussing, listening, and learning about housing inequality here on the East Side. The inequality stems from systemic racism, low wages, an aging population and the need for more education. As we’ve learned more, we have become more motivated to work on these […]
Mohamed’s Dream: A Book and a Look at a Difficult but Hopeful Piece of St. Paul History
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesMohamed Fofana was one of two 10-year-olds killed in a landslide May 22, 2013 during a fossil-hunting trip to Saint Paul's Lilydale Park. His family and other community members are working to complete a West African school and medical clinic that honors his wishes to help others expressed in drawings and a school report done […]
Sing to the Max
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesCoined the “Great Minnesota Give Together,” Give to the Max Day (GTMD) is an annual day of fundraising across the state of Minnesota. Although traditionally an online giving event, for our 5th GTMD, we invite you to come to the Library in person to sing along with musicians who have performed at ESFL over the […]
Breaking Barriers: History Day Learning Center Workshops
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesHistory Day is a priority for us at the East Side Freedom Library. Our rich collections are organized around labor, immigration, African American, and social justice movement history and include not just historical studies but also poetry, fiction, visual art, drama, music, film, and autobiographies in these areas. We have more than 20,000 books in […]
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!
Roseville History Book Club: Slavery’s Reach
Ramsey County Library - Roseville 2180 North Hamline Avenue, Roseville, MNRoseville History Book Club: Slavery's Reach Wednesday, November 20, 1 p.m. Roseville Library, 2180 North Hamline Avenue (upstairs Boardroom) Join the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the Ramsey County Library and the East Side Freedom Library for this month's installment of the History Book Club as we read and discuss Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the […]
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 […]
Breaking Barriers: History Day Learning Center Workshops
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesHistory Day is a priority for us at the East Side Freedom Library. Our rich collections are organized around labor, immigration, African American, and social justice movement history and include not just historical studies but also poetry, fiction, visual art, drama, music, film, and autobiographies in these areas. We have more than 20,000 books in […]
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 Conversation with Jay Weiner: “Professor Berman: The Last Lecture of Minnesota’s Greatest Public Historian”
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library, the University of Minnesota Press, and the University of Minnesota History Department invite you to a special book event, honoring our mentor and friend, the late Professor Hy Berman Professor Berman: The Last Lecture of Minnesota's Greatest Public Historian A Conversation with Jay Weiner Monday, November 25, 2019, 7pm Hy Berman (1925–2015) […]