TRUE Tuesdays Session 8: Arts, Equity and Rural Minnesota
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Mar 02, 2021
from 02:30 PM to 04:00 PM |
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| Where | Zoom |
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Working toward equity begins with embracing differences. The arts can help communities overcome resistance, open imaginations toward creative problem solving, and build empathy among different people in an area. The arts can create a sense of belonging that anchors residents to a place. In this TRUE Tuesday session, we will hear from two Minnesota artists who have experience using arts for transformation and from a leading arts organization on how you can start integrating art into your equity work.
Cicelia Cornejo is a Chilean-born documentary filmmaker, artist, and teacher based in Northfield. Cecilia’s work explores notions of displacement and belonging and is rooted in the experience of living in-between cultures. She uses a range of approaches and production methodologies—from the very personal and essayistic to the expansive and collaborative—to create works that move fluidly from the local to the global and from the intimate to the openly political.
Amoke Kubat is a Yoruba Priestess, teacher, artist, and writer who partners with community artists, activists, and organizations to bridge African/African American culture and historical contributions to transformative actions and socially equitable practices for healing and building sustainable families and communities. She will discuss her play Angry Black Woman & Well-Intentioned White Girl: A Conversation, which toured throughout rural Minnesota in 2018, and the filmed version continues to be shown across Minnesota.
Michele Anderson is Rural Program Director for Springboard for the Arts, based in Fergus Falls, MN. Springboard for the Arts is an economic and community development organization for artists and by artists.
Moderated by Gail Anderson, EmpathyWorks, LLC
References
There is no pre-work for this session. Here are some links to the artwork the artists will be discussing. You may want to view these before the session.
Amoke Kubat
ANGRY BLACK WOMEN AND WELL-INTENTIONED WHITE GIRL
90-minute play performed throughout Minnesota with follow-up community conversations
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/angryblackwoman/410208997
Cecilia Cornejo
WAYS OF BEING HOME ~ BETWEEN NORTHFIELD & MALTRATA
(Documentary Film, Usa/Mexico, 2020, 72 Min.)
Film's trailer: https://vimeo.com/416528943
SAY THEIR NAMES
https://vimeo.com/457498897
https://www.facebook.com/SAY-THEIR-NAMES-Northfield-103029171530748
THE WANDERING HOUSE > THE EMBROIDERY PROJECT
http://thewanderinghouse.com/
https://www.facebook.com/NotionsOfHome
Mai’a Williams
NOTEBOOK – ILLUMINATION
https://mnartists.walkerart.org/notebook-illumination
Michele Anderson, Rural Program Director, Springboard for the Arts
https://springboardforthearts.org/
https://springboardforthearts.org/toolkits/toolkits-overview/
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