Green Roof Poetry brings together some of the Twin Cities’ most dynamic writers for an evening of literary readings.
Bring your blanket and relax for an evening of immersive lit experiences curated by artist and writer Juleana Enright (Lower Brulé, Lakota). Hear readings from Nikolina Lazetic, Lara Mimosa Montes, aegor ray, and katie robinson exploring the thematic threads of “lost fragments and spliced memories,” plus music stylings by DJ Maracuya. Interactive creative writing activities will be available during live readings, inviting you to engage and with tangible prose while you listen. Explore the Walker’s Mediatheque inside for a curated selection of experimental films examining the evening’s themes in a conceptual milieu. Please enjoy curated picnic snacks and libations from Cardamom, available for purchase on the hillside. Menus available upon request.
Local art collective The Alcove will also host drop-in zine making inspired by creative writing prompts. Please ask the welcome tent for more information upon arrival.
Galleries are open late and free on Thursday nights from 5 to 9 pm.
Accessibility
This event will have ASL interpretation.
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Bios
Juleana Enright (they/them) is a queer, Indigenous non-binary writer, independent curator, DJ, and theater artist living in Minneapolis. They are an enrolled member of the Lower Brulé tribe of the Lakota Nation. Enright is the Gallery and Programs Coordinator at All My Relations Arts. They have contributed to local platforms, MnArtists, Pride Magazine, mplsart, Primer, and City Pages. They have curated five art exhibitions as an independent curator. Enright is a recipient of the Emerging Curators Institute 2020–2021 Fellowship program, part of the Writers Residency program at Franconia Sculpture Park in 2021, and an MnArtist Fellow in 2023. Through their practice, they strive to examine the act of daily creation in the midst of great chaos.
Nikolina Lazetic’s art and writing practice emerges as a breathing monument to wartorn roots in the Balkan borderlands and as a reflection on the currents of surviving nomadically and in displacement. She cultivates a palimpsestic approach by combining elements of digital painting, abstract texture exploration, and traditional portrait drawing to honor the processes of memory recollection and continual, sensual, and fragmentary becoming. The process often relies on a piecing-together of folkloric and mythological elements to form contemporary approximations of ancestral relics/love’s memento mori, so as to articulate what it means to exist as a particular brand of queer, displaced entity.
Lara Mimosa Montes is a writer, editor, and teaching artist whose practice and experiences span the fields of alternative publishing and experimental writing. She is the author of THRESHOLES (Coffee House Press, 2020). She currently teaches in XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Master’s program at NYU. Her book The Time of the Novel is forthcoming from Wendy’s Subway.
Ch’aska Quillo (DJ Maracuya) is a queer Peruvian American DJ living on Dakota land in Minneapolis. DJ Maracuya pulls inspiration from their background as an Andean musician and a ’90s baby growing up with the influences of many cultures and music styles. Their favorite childhood memories include dancing in the living room with her siblings to merenhouse, hip-hop, chicha, rock, cumbia, and reggae. She hopes to invoke a similar feeling in her sets of nostalgia and joyful abandon.
aegor ray is a writer, organizer, and freak living in Minneapolis. He was a Loft Mentor Series Fellow in Poetry, a 2021 and 2022 Tin House Summer Workshop participant, and a 2022 Lambda Literary Scholar. He is writing a novel.
katie robinson (any pronouns) is a writer, scholar, and interdisciplinary artist devoted to the exploration of what is present and possible outside of the white supremacist colonial imagination. Their essay “Here’s How I Let Them Come Close,” a meditation on encounters, extraterrestrials, and the creative process, was featured in A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars (Milkweed Editions, 2023). They are currently a PhD candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where they are writing a dissertation at the intersections of depth psychology, decoloniality, and police and prison abolition. During the week, robinson is an educator and facilitator for racial justice and abolitionist movements in Minneapolis.
Before Your Visit
Paid underground parking is available on-site. Enter the ramp on Vineland Place at Bryant Avenue. Biking or taking Metro Transit? Learn more.
Visiting the galleries? Enhance your experience by joining a public tour or with self-guided resources accessible for free on Bloomberg Connects.
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