Community Conversation: A Dialogue about Race, Anti-racism and More
Summit Hill Association’s Racial Dialogue and Equity Committee Presents: Community Conversation: A Dialogue about Race, Anti-racism and More
Facilitated by Shá Cage and E.G Bailey.
November 23 and 30 at 7pm
In the world, which is shifting, our ability and the opportunity to be in in conversation, to dig through the rough, uncomfortable issues around race is not optional. Originally advertised as a book club, we have reorganized this event to be community dialogue and we have invited two local artists, performers and all around brilliant people to facilitate. Shá Cage and E.G. Bailey.
As a point of departure we recommend you engage with Ibram X. Kendi’s HOW TO BE AN ANTI-RACIST. Several free copies of the book are available (courtesy of the City of St Paul) at Red Balloon Bookshop on Grand Ave. Ask for "How to be an Anti-Racist for the Summit Hill Association Book Club." Call ahead to reserve at 651-224-8320 - while supplies last.
Sponsored by the Summit Hill Association and St. Paul Innovation and Equity Grant.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkduGurjkoHtREIN8UM2v2KYjpBwWIw42I
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Shá Cage
Shá Cage is a writer, activist, theater/film performer, and director raised in Mississippi and living in Minnesota who has been called a Change-maker, one of the leading artists of her generation, and a mover and maker. Her work has been featured in several publications including Blues Vision and The St. Paul Almanac and her plays have been produced recently at Stages and Open Eye Theater. She holds both Emmy and Ivey awards and has been using art to elevate Black and Brown narratives through Tru Ruts for 20 years.
E.G. Bailey
E.G. Bailey is an award-winning artist who crosses the disciplines of theater, film, and poetry. He is currently focusing on play-writing, screen-writing, and directing and has been recognized by artists such as Bob Holman, Amiri Baraka and Nikki Giovanni as one of the leading spoken word artists of his generation. Born in Saclepea, Liberia, he is a founder of Tru Ruts Endeavors, Arkology, Speakeasy Records, and the MN Spoken Word Association. A recipient of numerous grants, he recently worked with Amiri Baraka on a stage adaptation of Baraka’s epic cycle of poems, Wise Why’s Y’s. E.G. is also a recipient of an Emmy Award, the winner of the Hughes Knight Diop Poetry Award, and a former nominee for the Independent Music Awards. His writing has been published in Solid Ground, the millennial issue of Drumvoices Revue, and Warpland, a publication by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for creative writing.