Poetry Asylum creates diverse platforms outside privileged spaces to bring poetry to traditionally marginalized communities through open dialogue, innovation, collaboration & advocacy [& in some cases, bring marginalized voices INTO privileged, white spaces]. In recognition of the urgencies of our political moment, Poetry Asylum aims to provide refuge for underrepresented…
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Chitra Vairavan is an artist, seeker and contemporary indian dancer/choreographer based in Mni Sota Makoce/Minnesota. She is immersed in Tamil/Thamizh culture and progressive politics in the U.S. Her embodied practice and experimental process is rooted in deep listening, spatial observation, freedoms, poetry, vulnerability and ancestral memory. She chooses to gesture…
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Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul, Korea and was raised in the Chicago area. She is a poet, writer, and cultural worker. She is the editor of What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories on Food and Family (2021) and of A Good Time for the Truth: Race…
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May Lee-Yang is a Minnesota-based Hmong American writer, performance artist, and teacher. Her work often uses pop culture and humor to interrogate gender, sex, and race. Her theater-based works include The Korean Drama Addict’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity, Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman, Ten Reasons Why I’d Be…
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Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay is an award-winning Lao American poet, playwright, essayist, children's book author, cultural producer, consultant, and philanthropist. CNN’s “United Shades of America” host W. Kamau Bell called her work “revolutionary.” Governor Mark Dayton recognized her and others with a “Lao Artists Heritage Month” Proclamation. She’s a recipient of…
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MeiLin is Chinese and it means "beautiful forest", by which the artist expresses his wishes for all his students to grow into an elegant, beautiful and lush forest. MeiLin Studio focuses on art education and creation. Classes, custom designed by professional and experienced artist, are age appropriate and devised to…
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NAOMI KO is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian, and cultural producer. Naomi was born and raised in Minnesota to immigrant parents from South Korea, making her at once the most truculent and most passive person in any room. Her independent pilot presentation, Nice, was an official selection at the…
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Roshan Ganu is a multimedia artist originally from Goa, presently based in Minneapolis. Her practice uses iterations of light, darkness, moving image, space and time to explore the poignant states of our human condition. She is interested in the interflow of meaning between the linguistic, visual, experiential and transdisciplinary. Her work…
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Ming Chiao Chapter builds on the mission of the Sumi-e Society of America to promote the education and enjoyment of traditional and contemporary ink-brush art using East- Asian tools and materials. While appreciating classical approaches, Ming Chiao also encourages experimentation and non-traditional techniques. Sumi-e is Japanese for “ink painting,” which…
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