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Marcie Rendon & Denise SweetDate: Aug 24, 2024
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Location: Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center AICHO is hosting its last chapter of the Indigenous Writer Series, celebrating writers Dennis E. Staples and Jesse Switters on Saturday, November 9, 2024 between 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center, 212 W 2nd St. Duluth, MN.
Staples is an Ojibwe writer from Bemidji, Minnesota and the author of This Town Sleeps. He holds an MFA in fiction from the IAIA and is a graduate of the 2018 Clarion West Writers Workshop and a recipient of the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship. He is a member of the Red Lake Nation. Switters is a comic book writer and illustrator. He has spent the past decade working on freelance art projects in the music industry and creating his own comics. For him, writing and drawing comics has been a meaningful way to connect with his Lakota traditions, specifically the practice of drawing winter counts. He is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. |
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AICHO is excited to host our first ever Indigenous Writer Series. These free and open to the community sessions will span over 13 months. Mark your calendars and join us as we celebrate, lift up, and showcase local and regional Indigenous writers. Events will include writer presentations, book readings, Q & A from the audience, book signings, and refreshments. All events will be in-person at AICHO’s Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center at 212 W. 2nd St in Duluth, MN except for Dr. Michael Sullivan’s which is via Zoom. We are grateful to the McKnight Foundation for sponsoring this series and for their ongoing support.
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