We began building this practice specifically for peoples whose relationship to ‘home’ is charged, messy, and complex. Where researching movement-making that is rooted in ancestral bodily memories ranging from personal, to collective, to those of our non-human relatives. Like an archeologist who digs to extract artifacts of ‘truth’ from the past, Body Watani uses durational improvisation and reflective questions to dig into our bodies as dense historical archives, not to extract, but r...| LEILA AWADALLAH
Things to do in the Twin Cities this weekend: ConFluence celebrates BIPOC futurisms and fantasy; Twin Cities Film Fest screens 100+ films; Northeast Sculpture Gallery shows prints by Carlos Barberena.| Sahan Journal
Things to do in the Twin Cities: a new MIA exhibit, a dance show at Southern Theater, Rondo Days, and the Dances at the Lake Festival.| Sahan Journal
The Palestine Festival of Literature will come to Minneapolis for the first time on Dec. 9. The event will feature Palestinian writers Mosab Abu Toha, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, and Sarah Aziza.| Sahan Journal
Also this weekend: artsy rugs at the Weisman and a book reading by Kao Kalia Yang in St. Paul. The post ‘Matrilineal Memory’: Hopi artist reckons with grief in solo show in Minneapolis appeared first on Sahan Journal.| Sahan Journal
Since 2011, the Hindu Society of Minnesota has hosted the daylong event, which draws as many as 1,000 people each year. The post Hundreds gather to celebrate culture and community at Diwali event in Woodbury appeared first on Sahan Journal.| Sahan Journal
It is important to call a genocide a genocide, UN experts told the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People today as they called on all States to examine their relationships and avoid being complicit in this crime being committed by Israel on the Palestinian people in Gaza.| press.un.org
