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  • Flowers Now! flyer with a photo compilation featuring Ancestor Faye Washington, Mahmoud El-Kati, Mary Moore Easter, Titilayo Bediako, James Samuel "Cornbread" Harris Jr., Serena Wright, Ancestor Toni Pierce-Sands, Walter Griffin, Bill Jeter, Josie Johnson, Vusi Zulu, and John Devine

    Flowers Now!: A Celebration of Black Elders of the Arts Community

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    The Cedar Cultural Center 416 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis, United States

    The Givens Collection of African American Literature and Life is proud to present its next iteration of Flowers Now!, a performance and awards ceremony honoring the contributions of artists and arts leaders who have left indelible and sustained crucial contributions to the artistic culture of the Twin Cities. Hosted by poet Tish Jones with performances by Cornbread Harris, Libby Turner, Queen Drea, and Lela Pierce.

    $18 – $23

  • Cover art of Jonathan Thunder Bow Wow Pow Wow in which a pack of dogs are chasing behind a turquoise pick up truck.

    First Fridays June 2026

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    Elmer L. Andersen Library, Room 120 222 21st Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN, United States

    Join us for the final event in the 2025-2026 season of First Fridays as we explore the things you can see, hear, touch, taste or smell in Archives and Special Collections. The program features presentations from the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies and the Children's Literature Research Collections.

    Free
  • Shelf of print journals.

    ONLINE: Library search strategies for Literature Reviews and beyond

    Virtual Event

    This free workshop will break down how to effectively search for articles, books, and other scholarly works. We’ll cover tracing citations, creating optimal keyword searches, using built-in database functions to improve your searches, and other strategies to make you a more efficient researcher.

    Free
  • Researcher working on computer with data.

    ONLINE: Introduction to Generative AI tools for research and writing

    Virtual Event

    Get an introduction to generative AI tools like Chat GPT or the UMN licensed tools like Gemini or Co-Pilot including how these tools work, the pros and cons of using and tips for potentially incorporating them into your research and writing practice. Open to students, staff, instructors, and faculty in all disciplines.

    Free

  • ONLINE: Introduction to Zotero

    Virtual Event

    Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your own database of citations, PDFs, images, webpages, video and audio files and more. Zotero can then be used to create citations in a large number of citation styles which can be added to Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office. We will send a zoom link to students who are registered the day before the workshop.

    Free

  • ONLINE: Introduction to Zotero

    Virtual Event

    Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your own database of citations, PDFs, images, webpages, video and audio files and more. Zotero can then be used to create citations in a large number of citation styles which can be added to Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office. We will send a zoom link to students who are registered the day before the workshop.

    Free

  • ONLINE: Introduction to Zotero

    Virtual Event

    Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your own database of citations, PDFs, images, webpages, video and audio files and more. Zotero can then be used to create citations in a large number of citation styles which can be added to Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office. We will send a zoom link to students who are registered the day before the workshop.

    Free