Tag: arts
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Year in review: Sahan Journal’s best photos of 2025 captured celebration, community and struggle
Sahan Journal’s top 10 photos of 2024 include student protests over Gaza, community protests over the HERC trash burner, and moments of celebration by students and cultural changemakers. Full story: https://sahanjournal.com/arts-culture/top-10-photos-minnesota-2024-2/
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Clapback game empowers Asian Americans to confront microaggressions with humor
Clapback, her first game, created in collaboration with FAWK (the Funny Asian Women Kollective), aims to empower Asian Americans. Full story: https://sahanjournal.com/arts-culture/may-lee-yang-clapback-card-game-asian-american-edition/
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Clapback game empowers Asian Americans to confront microaggressions with humor
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Creator May Lee-Yang launched Mayhem Games to offer Asian Americans relatable game experiences. Full story: https://sahanjournal.com/arts-culture/may-lee-yang-clapback-card-game-asian-american-edition/
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Hmong Story Cloth: Preserving history
Story cloths are one of several types of Hmong needlework and fabric arts known as paj ntaub, or “flower cloth.” It’s an art form that’s been a part of the Hmong culture for centuries. Paj ntaub is … Full story: https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/hmong-story-cloth-preserving-history-135537088.html
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From a sacred temple to Twin Cities stages: four cultural events to catch this weekend
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Three concerts this weekend showcase South Indian traditions, Africa’s musical roots and the Christmas music of Latin America. A film screening spotlights Minnesota’s Hmong leaders. Full story: https://sahanjournal.com/arts-culture/things-to-do-twin-cities-hindu-temple-latin-christmas-hmong-film/
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Kao Kalia Yang gives voice to the Hmong refugee experience at the Ordway
Kao Kalia Yang reads her children’s books at the Ordway; the Guthrie stages a West Side Story-inspired play; and two exhibits put the American dream under a microscope. Full story: https://sahanjournal.com/arts-culture/twin-cities-things-to-do-kao-kalia-yang-guthrie-soo-vac/
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50 years strong: Minnesota’s Hmong community celebrates New Year in St. Paul
Hmong New Year at RiverCentre; a group exhibit at Hair +Nails and a community archiving event in St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood. Full story: https://sahanjournal.com/arts-culture/twin-cities-things-to-do-hmong-new-year-reminiscing-rondo/
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Merced awarded grant for future park named after Hmong general
The City of Merced has received a grant to help fund a monument honoring a respected Hmong leader for whom the park will be named. The California Arts and Parks grant of $77,000 was awarded to the … Full story: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/merced-awarded-grant-future-park-202106764.html
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Tibetan rock and rap, Hmong filmmakers take spotlight in the Twin Cities this weekend
Festival highlights 50 years of Hmong filmmaking; a mural inspired by Indigenous traditions and a concert celebrating Tibetan resistance. Full story: https://sahanjournal.com/arts-culture/twin-cities-things-to-do-hmong-film-fest-tibetan-music-lake-street-mural/
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Commemorating the end of ‘The Secret War’
>From 1959 to 1975, Laos became the site for one of the least known, yet most devastating, conflicts of the 20th century. Though officially neutral, the country was drawn into the Vietnam War as the … Full story: https://theracquet.org/18838/arts-and-entertainment/commemorating-the-end-of-the-secret-war/
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Thousands expected to attend Hmong Arts Celebration at MOA
The Hmong Arts Celebration will be between 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Oct. 25 at the rotunda inside the Mall of America. He said there will be a break between 2:30 p.m.- 3 p.m. Full story: https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/thousands-expected-to-attend-hmong-arts-celebration-at-moa/89-5fe671c4-abdf-4faa-8e4d-f7d82c01d573
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‘Matrilineal Memory’: Hopi artist reckons with grief in solo show in Minneapolis
Hopi artist opens solo show at All My Relations Arts; artsy rugs at the Weisman and a book reading by Kao Kalia Yang in St. Paul. Full story: https://sahanjournal.com/arts-culture/twin-cities-things-to-do-all-my-relations-kao-kalia-yang-weisman-rugs/
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Hmong Arts Celebration happening at the Mall of America
The Mall of America will host its first-ever Hmong Arts Celebration on Oct. 25 … Full story: https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/other/hmong-arts-celebration-happening-at-the-mall-of-america/vi-AA1OVn5b
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How Sacramento Creatives Are Redefining the Arts Economy
A grant from the Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture’s Creative Growth Fellowship Program helped Cardenas and her fellow artists realize this project. Built on recommendations from a recent … Full story: https://www.comstocksmag.com/web-only/how-sacramento-creatives-are-redefining-arts-economy