Please join us THIS THURSDAY for a community conversation on anti-racism
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In honor of Ahmaud Aubery, Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, George Floyd and countless others whose lives were taken unjustly, the Waite Park Community Council is grateful to partner with Tru Ruts on a series of neighborhood conversations focused on anti-racism and transformative change.
The discussions will be held over Zoom every 2nd and 4th Thursday from April through September. They will be led by artist activists and Waite Park residents E.G.Bailey and Shá Cage, who will work with neighborhood liaison Michelle Filkins and facilitators trained in diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism work.
Sessions will integrate conversation/discussion, often using books, essays and films as points of departure. Each session will be grounded in basic principles of respect and discipline allowing for the cultivation of honesty, debate, research, action and relationship building.
REGISTER HERE on a first come first serve basis as space is available. Waite Park residents and community members will be given priority, but other participants will be allowed if space permits.
Confirmations will be sent out by March 31st.
Tru Ruts and the Waite Park Community Council hopes this forum can grow to become a city-wide model for other neighborhoods.
E.G. Bailey, recently named one of Filmmaker magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film, and a McKnight Media Artist Fellow, is an Emmy and Ivey award-winning artist, filmmaker, director and producer. He has won several awards nationally and internationally and has contributed over 20 years to community organizing efforts in the Twin Cities using art to influence change.
Shá Cage is a consultant, a film and theater producer, director, writer and actress. She has been named a Changemaker by Women’s Press, Artist of the Year by City Pages and Star Tribune, a leading artist of her generation by Insight and a Mover and Maker by Mpls STP magazine with her co-conspirator E.G. Bailey. Her work and activism has garnered distinguished awards and has taken her across the U.S, to Japan, South Africa, England, France, the Netherlands, Mali, Croatia and more.
