BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.6.1//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Native Authors Summer Reading X-WR-CALDESC:All My Relations Arts X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20230312T080000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20230312T080000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Native Authors Summer Reading DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome authors An Garagiola\, Sarah Wheelock\ , Melissa Olson and Kyle Hill to share readings at All My Relations Arts . Hear snippets from the cohort’s new works as well as hear updates on the program's cohort. All are welcome. Food and drink will be provided. \n\nFriday\, August 25th\, 5:30pm snacks and refreshments\, 6pm readings \, Free. All My Relations Arts Gallery. \nAll My Relations Arts’ Nati ve Authors Program supports all aspects of the development of Native aut hors in genres of fiction\, creative nonfiction\, poetry\, children’s fiction\, and young adult fiction. Recipients will participate in an 18- month intensive writing program focusing on professional development top ics including preparing a manuscript\, working with an editor\, approach ing a publisher\, the business of writing\, and more. AMRA’s Authors P rogram creates a much-needed\, brave space for Native authors to learn a nd flourish.\n\nThe Native American Community Development Institute (NAC DI) and All My Relations Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of t he second iteration of the Native Authors Program. Under the program fac ilitator and mentorship of Art Coulson\, authors will expand their pract ice and engage in the development of their focus.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[ caption id="attachment_1712" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Members o f the Native Authors Program 2023 Cohort. From top left to bottom right: An Garagiola\, Sarah Wheelock\, Melissa Olson and Kyle Hill.[/caption]\ n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Garagiola (Bois Fort e Band of Chippewa) is a mother\, graduate student\, researcher\, and wr iter born and raised in the Twin Cities. An works a data sovereignty spe cialist at Little Earth where she supports urban food sovereignty initia tives\, and in the office of Native American Affairs at the University o f Minnesota where she helps to coordinate projects such as TRUTH\, a col laboration with MIAC and the 11 recognized tribal nations to tell the pa st\, present\, and future of University-Tribal relations. \n\nBroadly\, An uses Indigenous research methods/analyses and modes of communication via cultural literary production to interrogate how colonial policies a nd ideologies (re)construct\, control\, marginalize\, and suppress histo ries\, voices\, and knowledges. She seeks to complete and correct narrat ives colonial society has told about Native Americans. As a mixed-race A nishinaabekwe\, her blend of poetry\, research\, and advocacy is a perso nal reflection of her lived experiences. An’s writing spans a breadth of subject matter including poverty\, disability\, addiction\, suicide\, love\, loss\, and Indigenous eroticisms. As she reclaims Anishinaabemow in\, An seeks to incorporate it whenever possible. Trained in creative w riting and policy analysis\, her work is interdisciplinary\, rooted in I ndigenous Feminisms\, and in the belief that healing happens in circles of relationality with ourselves\, others\, and the land.\n\nKyle X. Hill \, Ph. D.\, M.P.H is Ojibwe (Turtle Mountain Band\; Enrolled Citizen)\, Dakota (Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe)\, Lakota (Cheyenne River Sioux Tr ibe). Dr. Hill is a storyteller and poet\, grounding his use of story fr om his comedic\, but all too often tragic\, experiences living on severa l different reservations\, as well as urban areas\, grappling with pover ty and the devastating consequences of settler-colonialism and Christian ity. Dr. Hill was born in Mni Luzahan\, or Rapid City\, SD. Dr. Hill is a licensed psychologist\, currently an assistant professor with the Univ ersity of North Dakota\, school of medicine and health sciences\, depart ment of Indigenous Health. He currently lives on his Dakota and Anishina abe traditional homelands in St. Paul\, MN. Dr. Hill is also a veteran o f the U.S. Army and enjoys traveling in the summer as a grass dancer on the powwow trail.\n\nMelissa Olson (she/hers) is a journalist\, an essay ist and community archivist. Melissa is a recent contributor to Minneso ta Public Radio’s North Star Journey Series—stories about the resili ence of Indigenous\, Black\, and people of color throughout Minnesota.  As an essayist\, she is a recent contributor to an We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World\, an anthology publish ed by the University of Minnesota Press. As an archivist\, Melissa work s with MIGIZI Communications on a long-term project to preserve MIGIZI†™s radio archive\, a digitization project encompassing 15 years of radio programming by Indigenous radio-makers. Melissa holds a master’s deg ree in arts and public policy from NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts. Sh e also earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota†™s college of liberal arts. She is a past recipient of a MacArthur fello wship for her graduate work in American Studies at the University of Min nesota. She is a tribal citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. Meliss a lives in Minneapolis\, Minnesota.\n\n \;\n\nSarah Wheelock (Ponapi kwa) is a writer born in Iowa\, who makes her home in the Twin Cities. A member of the Meskwaki Nation (People of the Red Earth) and bear clan\ , Sarah works in the legal field and serves the people of Minnesota as a judge for the Court of Appeals.\n\nSarah's professional experience invo lves significant writing in the legal realm\, but she also enjoys creat ive writing. Since she was a child\, Sarah has written poems and short s tories\, and dreamed of writing the next great novel of our time. Sarah believes that fiction writing and story-telling are inherently human ac tivities that help us make sense of the world and environments we inhabi t. Sarah is a language learner of Meskwaki (Meshkwahkihaki)\, an Algonq uian language spoken by her ancestors and relatives from The Settlement. A self-identified bibliophile\, Sarah enjoys superheroes\, science fict ion\, memoirs\, historical fiction\, philosophy\, and poetry\, as well a s books about gardening\, brain tanning\, crafting\, and more\, and she owns more books than she has shelf space to store or time to read. In re cent years\, Sarah began submitting work to the University of Iowa's Wri te Now Flash Writing Competitions\, securing an online publication of he r piece Kunsi's Feather in 2020. Sarah's writing focuses on her lived e xperience as a bi-racial Indigenous woman navigating complex systems of identity\, power\, and family\, and her relationality to all of Creation . Sarah strives to be a good relative to all and an amazing mother to h er cubs. URL;VALUE=URI:https://allmyrelationsarts.org/exhibitions-events/events/n ative-authors-summer-readings/ UID:urn:uuid:e9b22e73-8a03-49d5-a3c3-1ac0ca387a0e STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260420T121137Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230825T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230825T190000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR