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SUMMARY:MN Book Award Series: Novel & Short Story Winner Mubanga Kalimamukwento
DESCRIPTION:MN Book Award Series: Fiction Winner Mubanga Kalimamukwento \nThursday\, June 5\, 2025\, 7 p.m.\nEast Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier Street\, Saint Paul\, MN 55106 \nREGISTRATION IS REQUESTED \nJoin the East Side Freedom Library as we welcome the 2025 winner of the Minnesota Book Award in the Novel & Short Story category\, Mubanga Kalimamukwento. Acclaimed by many critics for her the brilliant poetics of her astonishing prose\, Mubanga has spun her words into a litany of awards and recognition. She will be at ESFL on June 5 to read from her Minnesota top honors work Obligations to the Wounded and other works. \nMubanga Kalimamukwento was born in Lusaka\, Zambia. Her creative work has appeared or is forthcoming in adda\, Aster(ix)\, Contemporary Verse 2\, Kweli\, Overland\, The Ex-Puritan\, Menelique\, on Netflix\, and elsewhere\, and her editorial work can be found or is forthcoming in Shenandoah\, the Water~Stone Review\, Doek! Literary Magazine and Safundi. She founded Ubwali Literary Magazine and co-founded the Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop. When she’s not writing or editing\, Mubanga serves as a Mentor at the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. She is a PhD student in the Department of Gender\, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota (Twin-Cities)\, where she is also an Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) Scholar. Mubanga lives in Minnesota with her husband and their two children. \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN FOR THE CAUSE OF SOLIDARITY!\nREGISTRATION IS REQUESTED \n 
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/mn-book-award-series-novel-short-story-winner-mubanga-kalimamukwento/
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SUMMARY:9th Annual Union Job & Resource Fair
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our 9th Annual Union Job and Resource Fair\, held at the Electrical Industry Building\, 1330 Conway Street\, Thursday\, June 12 from 1:00 to 6:00 PM on Saint Paul’s East Side. \nOur goal is to connect individuals in our community with potential employers and local resources to create pathways towards a union career. We will have onsite interviewing\, hiring\, assistance with resume writing\, apprenticeship program information\, community resources – including expungement services. \nOur unions\, training programs and employers have career opportunities throughout the entire metro area! Whether you are just starting out\, looking for your first job or a seasoned worker looking to land into a new career with thriving pay and benefits\, we have opportunities for all. \n  \nParticipating Employers & Organizations: \n\nAnchor Glass Container Corporation\nBoilermakers Local #647\nCity of Saint Paul Department of Human Rights and Equal Economic Opportunity (HREEO)\nCity of Saint Paul Public Works\nFinishing Trades Institute of the Upper Midwest\nIATSE Local 13 \nIBEW Local Union 23\nIBEW Local Union 110\nJewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis\nLabor Education Service\, UMN\nLaborers Local 563 LiUNA\nMinnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development / CareerForce\nMinnesota Department of Transportation\nMinnesota RETAIN\nMinnesota Training Partnership\nMonarch Healthcare Management\nNorth Central States Regional Council of Carpenters (NCSRCC)\nRamsey/Washington Recycling & Energy\nRoofers & Waterproofers Union Local 96\nSouthern Minnesota Regional Legal Services\nSt Paul Pipefitters JATC\nSt. Paul Plumbers 34\nUnited State Postal Service\nWright Tree Service\n\n  \nSponsored by: \n\nAFL-CIO Community Services\nCity of Saint Paul\nEast Side Freedom Library\nInternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBEW Local 110\nSaint Paul Regional Labor Federation\nSt. Paul Building Trades\nSt. Paul Federal Credit Union\nUFCW Local 1189
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/9th-annual-union-job-resource-fair/
LOCATION:The Electrical Industry Building\, 1330 Conway Street\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106\, United States
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SUMMARY:ART LAB FINAL SHOWCASE: MAPPING OUR HOUSING FAMILY TREES
DESCRIPTION:ART LAB FINAL SHOWCASE: MAPPING OUR HOUSING FAMILY TREES \nSunday\, June 22\, 1 p.m.\nEast Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier Street\, Saint Paul\, MN 55106 \nPaint. Draw. Type. Map. Sing. Act. Glam. Listen. Share. \nJoin us for an interactive\, community empowered art lab showcase. The East Side Freedom Library Art Lab artists will bring their installations showcasing their work and inviting everyone in the community\, your community\, to join in artmaking\, storytelling\, story mapping and more.\n\nArtists Sophie Wang\, Sterling Miller\, Marcia Rowe and Lis Sundberg will engage you in art\, stories and history. Paint\, print\, draw\, type\, zine\, and write with our story map of Saint Paul and beyond!\n\n\nSophie Wang: My primary artistic practice is the creation of comic zines that take a critical power-informed lens to dominant science and technology. I began making these comics when I co-founded an activist collective at the intersection of science and social justice called Free Radicals and wanted to use my ability to draw in service of the work. I came to this work originally out of a deep sense of responsibility to make conversations critiquing the imperialist\, objectivist\, universalist nature of dominant western science more accessible\, and to engage more people in envisioning what more liberatory forms of science\, knowledge-making\, and epistemology have\, do\, and could look like. \nSterling Miller: Social Justice is informing my art by pressuring me create work that speaks to the needs of Black folks. I\, like many others\, know that to identify as Black is grounds for political warfare. I know that highlighting Black revolutionaries in performance art acts as a catalyst to inspire Artists and Audiences alike. When we get to see the Assata Shakur’s story on stage we are enthralled by her iconic nature and her ability to achieve the unthinkable. In works that took place after this I have always tried to center Black/African-American narratives and cultural practices. \nLis Sundberg: I have been interested in the intersections between art and social justice for a long time because art is a powerful and accessible way to engage people in social justice. Art extends topics of social justice to a wider audience and allows representation through a range of mediums. I am interested in participatory art because it creates opportunities for people to have a meaningful experience while contributing their stories to the piece. The art I create is informed by my history of participation in social justice movements. \nMarcia Rowe: Social justice informs my art through my lived\, academic\, and professional experiences. It creates innovation\, niche experiences\, cultural knowledge\, and growth of connection between myself and a diverse audience. My academic background centers intersecting visual arts with sociology practices\, visual and qualitative research\, design studies\, and community engagement experiences. \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND VERY OPEN TO EVERYONE!
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/art-lab-final-showcase-mapping-our-housing-family-trees/
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SUMMARY:BOOK RELEASE! Said Shaiye for ARE YOU BORG NOW? with Douglas Kearney
DESCRIPTION:BOOK RELEASE! Said Shaiye for ARE YOU BORG NOW? in conversation with Douglas Kearney \nMonday\, June 30\, 2025\, 7:00 p.m.\nEast Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier Street\, Saint Paul\, MN 55106 \nREGISTRATION IS REQUESTED \nJoin us at the East Side Freedom Library for a book release reading and conversation with noted author Said Shaiye and award-winning poet Douglas Kearney. \nAre You Borg Now? by Said Shaiye (NOEMI Press) is an Afrofuturist memoir returns in a second edition with a new introduction by Douglas Kearney. Said Shaiye’s cross-genre work blends nonfiction and poetry in an experimental interview the author conducts with his younger self\, rejecting the conventions of memoir and what \nis expected of who writes them\, specifically when that writer is an immigrant. Are You Borg Now? ciphers with trauma through a poetics of refusal via hard and beautiful language. Finding vigor in Islam and mirrors in Star Trek: Voyager\, Shaiye shifts achingly between memory and improvisation. \nSaid Shaiye is an Autistic + ADHD Somali Writer\, Photographer & Filmmaker. He was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow & won a Minnesota State Arts Grant to lead a BIPOC Neurodivergent Writing Workshop. He was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize by Indiana Review for his essay “Sneak a Uzi on the Island in my Army Jacket lining.” His first edition of Are You Borg Now?\, was a 2022 Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction & Memoir. \nHe has published poetry & prose in Indiana Review\, Texas Review\, Obsidian\, Brittle Paper\, Pithead Chapel\, 580 Split\, and elsewhere. \nHe is a writing professor in Minneapolis. \n“Why should one write? This is the question that pervades Said Shaiye’s experimental approach to memoir in Are You Borg Now? This book offers many different kinds of answers to such a question\, answers that involve facing the effects of trauma and violence with courage\, honesty\, and a willingness to risk vulnerability. One reason to write is to call forth a voice in solidarity with others who suffer. Shaiye is a writer who transforms the pain of alienation into beautifully lyric writing and from that writing springs a profound faith that one is never really alone.” -Kathryn Nuernberger\, author of The Witch of Eye \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDouglas Kearney has published nine books ranging from poetry to essays. In 2023\, Optic Subwoof\, a collection of his Bagley Wright lectures\, won the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Prize for Poetry Criticism and the CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction. His seventh\, Sho\, (Wave Books) is a Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award winner and a National Book Award\, Pen America\, and Kingsley Tufts Award finalist. Kearney teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities where he is a McKnight Presidential Fellow. \n\n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE FOR THE CAUSE OF SOLIDARITY \n 
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/book-release-said-shaiye-for-are-you-borg-now-with-douglas-kearney/
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