[Mpls] 3 Events featuring Minnie Bruce PrattLesbian, feminist, writer & poet in Minneapolis

[David Strand]

I thought others interested in Minnie Bruce Pratt's
award winning poetry would enjoy some of these
opportunities to hear her speak.

David Strand- Loring Park
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Poetry in Time of War: Art and the Collective
Imagination”
Wednesday, April 13, 7PM – Cowles Auditorium, Hubert
H. Humphrey Center Lesbian, feminist, writer & poet
Minnie Bruce Pratt presents the 2005 Toni McNaron
Lecture in Arts and Culture. Minnie Bruce is the
author of several books including her most recent, The
Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems.
Her worked has earned her numerous awards and
recognition and most recently Pratt served as the Jane
Watson Irwin Chair in Women’s Studies at Hamilton
College. She lives with her partner, transgender
activist and writer Leslie Feinberg in Jersey City,
New Jersey. She is at work on a new book of poems
tentatively titled, The Only Danger. A Q&A and
reception will follow Pratt’s lecture. This event is
free and open to the public.

map to the venue:
http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/HHHCtr/index.html

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[below text copied from flyer]

Please Join Us For An Event With Poet And Feminist
Activist, Minnie Bruce Pratt

In A Fundraiser At
District 202
1601 Nicollet Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55403

Thursday April 14, 2005

Proceeds will benefit District 202’s Transgender Youth
Needs Assessment

Co-sponsored by: SASE: The Write Place, the National
Writers’ Union,
Hamline University
English Department, Hamline University Graduate School
of Liberal Studies,
and Dr. Colleen Bell

District 202 is a nonprofit youth community center
committed to providing social, cultural and
educational opportunities by and for lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender youth and their friends.

Minnie Bruce Pratt is the author of five books of
poetry. Her book of prose stories about gender
boundary crossing, S/HE, now in its second printing,
was one of the five finalists in Non-Fiction for the
1995 American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, and
Bisexual Book Award.

Purchase tickets at: Amazon Book Store, The Queery
Book Store, Rainbow Road, or District 202

$25 - $59 Event
$60 - $1,000 Event & VIP Reception

Free to youth 21 and younger. Donations are welcome.

VIP Reception at 6:00 PM
Event at 7:00PM

Selections by the TransVoices choir
Readings by District 202 Youth
Reading and introduction by Andrea Jenkins
Reading by Minnie Bruce Pratt

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All Gender Health Seminar
Saturday, April 16, 10AM-6PM - 1300 South 2nd Street,
Room 142 All Gender Health brings transgender people
together to learn about sex, gender, and sexuality; to
build community; and to improve our health. Regardless
of where you find yourself within the spectrum of
transgender expression, we welcome your participation.
Featured speakers include: Jamie Feldman, Ph.D.,
Andrea Jenkins, M.S., Randall Ehrbar, Ph.D. and
special guest speaker Minnie Bruce Pratt. There is no
charge for this event. For more information or to sign
up call Andrea Jenkins (612)
625-5508 or Walter Bockting 612 625-1500 or email
ajenkins at ....

map to the venue:
http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/WBOB/index.html




		
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