Join us on May 3 for the concluding event in the 2023-24 First Fridays season, featuring a presentations from the Upper Midwest Jewish Archives and the Sherlock Holmes Collections. Please register to attend in person or online. ASL interpreters will be present for all First Fridays events.
This Embracing our Roots event will focus on two couples: Arts giants Seitu Ken Jones & Soyini Vinelle Guyton with next generation couple, Anura & Rekhet Si-Asar. They will engage in a wide-ranging conversation on family, community, and the ways they work and walk together. Embracing Our Roots is a collaboration with More Than a Single Story, In Black Ink, and the Givens Collection of African American Literature and Life.
Join the Department of Art History for the Catherine B. Asher Lecture in South Asian...
Please join us on the afternoon of April 14 for a Friends Forum event. Expect the unexpected as we feature a free-wheeling conversation about the children’s books and their creators with award-winning authors Andrea Davis Pinkney and Jon Sciezka, and Kerlan Curator Lisa Von Drasek.
Letters That Link Us: Histories and Mysteries of Hebrew Type An Interdisciplinary Symposium Join the...
Join the Tretter Collection and Curator Aiden M. Bettine on April 9 to celebrate the exhibit, “Dear Community: Mail, Correspondence, and Postal Activism in LGBTQ History.” By incorporating love letters, personal ads, mail order catalogs, and reader written periodicals from the 1950s through today, this exhibit shows how sending mail has been a vehicle for queer and trans people to find themselves, find each other, and build community.
Join us on April 5 for an event in the 2023-24 First Fridays season, featuring presentations from the Children’s Literature Research Collections and the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies. Please register to attend in person or online. ASL interpreters will be present for all First Fridays events.
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Gwen Westerman at the 15th annual Pankake Poetry event in Elmer L. Andersen Library on April 3, 2024.
Join artists, educators, activists, and mothers, elder Amoke Kubat, and elder-in-the-making, Wisdom Young (Mawusi) as they share, build, and heal about their journeys as Black girls, women, and mothers in America. They will discuss how time, place, family, and historic/current events have shaped their identities and their work. They will reflect on the seeds they were given through generations, the seeds they are currently tending, and most importantly, the seeds they are sowing.
Join us on Tuesday, March 19 at noon for Treasures of the IHRCA's Ukrainian American collections and the making of a documentary. The event includes a documentary film screening and panel discussion with the director. “Holodomor: Minnesota Memories of Genocide in Ukraine” by first-time director Zina Gutmanis explores how traumatic memories of genocide are preserved and transmitted.
Join us on March 1 for an event in the 2023-24 First Fridays season, featuring presentations from the Social Welfare History Archives and the James Ford Bell Library. Please register to attend in person or online. ASL interpreters will be present for all First Fridays events.
Join us on Feb. 29 to celebrate 50 years of independent publishing at Graywolf Press. This event features a brief program with Carmen Giménez, Director and Publisher at Graywolf; Jeff Shotts, Executive Editor and Director of Poetry; author Roy G. Guzmán, and poet Jim Moore. Guests will enjoy refreshments and have a chance to explore the exhibit “Graywolf at 50: First Drafts and Next Pages.”
You are invited to join the U of M Special Collections for a pop-up exhibit featuring items related to hearts both physical and metaphorical. We will be showing books, maps, manuscripts, art, and objects from across the collections. The perfect antidote to gray and foggy days!
Join us Feb. 8, 2-7:30 p.m., as we explore Minnesotans' contributions to the global movements to end gender-based violence, racial discrimination, and torture. A call to action offers hope for a better future while acknowledging the unfinished work of protecting human rights in Minnesota and globally.
Join us on Feb. 2 for an event in the 2023-24 First Fridays season, featuring a presentations from the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine. Please register to attend in person or online. ASL interpreters will be present for all First Fridays events.
Choreographer, dancer, and poet Mary Moore Easter will read from her memoir “The Way She Wants To Get There: Telling On Myself” (Nodin, 2022). The memoir traces Moore Easter’s development as a dancer during the decade between 1968 and 1979, a pivotal era in American race relations, women's rights, and the arts. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of the University of Minnesota Bookstores. Please register if you plan to attend the event on Jan. 19, 2024.
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