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: 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
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
Upcoming events include a mall at the Capri Theatre on Saturday and an East African Business Resource Fair at the Brian Coyle Center on Monday.| Sahan Journal
Things to do in the Twin Cities this weekend: Pillsbury House and Theatre opens new community arts campus; young Black artists featured in a St. Paul exhibit; West African drumming and dance in Minneapolis; and Nature Fest returns with Latin art and outdoor activities.| Sahan Journal
“We Are Still Queer,” a show featuring 11 artists at the Minneapolis American Indian Center aims to open conversations in the Native community.| Sahan Journal