A Gathering for Social Change + Open Mic
Please join us on Tuesday, September 3rd, at 7:00pm, at Moon Palace Books, for our next gathering, where we will listen to excerpts & discuss another podcast that talks about the experience and obstacles of reentering society from incarceration. We may also spend a few minutes rolling poems for the MPWW poetry gumball machines.
Our conversations & activities will be followed by a period — open to all — to share work. This month’s discussion and open mic will be hosted by Erin Sharkey & Davi Gray.
This month we’ll be listening to the Free World podcast. A brief description from the website:
FREE WORLD is a podcast about women reconstructing their lives after incarceration. In this series we hear stories from women and non-binary individuals about the ways prison tears at the bonds of family, the triumphs of resilient human beings, and what’s it like to put a life back together in freedom. Hosted by Norma Cumpian and Shone Robinson of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC).
We have selected four episodes, which you can find on the website, or on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. (We’ve also created a Spotify playlist with just these four episodes.) The four episodes we’re focusing on are:
- When Are You Coming Home?
On Apple Podcasts
On Spotify - Transitioning to the Free World
On Apple Podcasts
On Spotify - Free World Frustrations
On Apple Podcasts
On Spotify - Inside Scoop with Shone
On Apple Podcasts
On Spotify
You are encouraged to listen to the podcast before we get together, but if you aren’t able to get to it before September 3rd, please show up anyway! We’re here for community, talking, and learning from each other, and we value you and your contributions to the discourse.
Better Things is a series of events sponsored by the ReEntry Lab, in partnership with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (MPWW), the Longfellow Community Council, and Moon Palace Books, with funding from the City of Minneapolis‘s Partnership Engagement Fund.
The ReEntry Lab is an organization working to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration to a community that’s ready to receive them. You can learn more about its mission, volunteer to help, and sign up for the newsletter at reentrylab.org.