APPLY:  https://caalmn.org/capee/?emci=5a65374a-2909-ed11-b47a-281878b83d8a&emdi=7b2df615-3809-ed11-b47a-281878b83d8a&ceid=5775712
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Completed applications must be received by 11:59 PM CST on Sunday, July 31, 2022. Finalists will be notified on Monday, August 8, 2022.

Asian Minnesotan parents, looking for a space to connect with other parents on education issues you care about? CAPEE is a 10-month program where you’ll learn about issues that are impacting Asian Minnesotan students and work with other parents + youth to advocate for system change.

Participants will instead receive a stipend of $1000 for participating in at least seven of the eight sessions.

PLACE: Visitation School 2455 Visitation Dr, Mendota Heights, MN 55120
Tinyurl.com/ChineseEnrichmentCamp
 

The Chinese Culture and Language Enhancement Camp will have below learning objectives:

• Learn Mandarin Chinese language skills and Chinese culture;
• Interact with peers in a diverse setting using Mandarin;
• Enhance academic knowledge, as well as civic engagement skills about racial equity and social justice to mitigate the Anti-Asian Hate impacts on our bicultural learners.
   

Additionally, our campers will examine how global issues impact local communities, exploring topics such as: inequality, and identity formation, etc. Course themes are brought to life through engaging out-of-class learning that connects students to experts and local Mandarin-speaking networks. Campers will share the experience through a story-book project, to use their language and cultural skills to express their daily life experience, along with COVID-19 impacts.

PLACE: SPEAK MPLS SOUTH 2429 Nicollet Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55404

RYSE MPLS (Representing Youth Stories and Experiences in Minneapolis)
Summer Media Camp is a free immersive 2-week program in August for high
school students interested in pursuing careers in media production, news
reporting, and storytelling. Students will work closely with local media and
news professionals and collaborate with peers in small groups to produce
video stories that will premiere on the big screen and on TV!

• All students will receive a $200 stipend at the end of the program
• Daily breakfast, lunch and snacks provided by Café Racer Kitchen
• Students needing bus cards will be provided Metro Transit passes
• All students will receive an annual SPEAK MPLS Storyteller membership (a $200 value) to advance their journey in media with access to production studios, equipment and discounted media production classes

PLACE: The Commons, 425 Portland Avenue South

Live music, food trucks, kid activities, free grilled hamburgers, hot dogs, sides, and beverages

This is a great opportunity to celebrate summer, meet your neighbors, interact with elected officials, and meet many police offers

PLACE: Rarig Center Thrust, 330 21st Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Buy tickets: https://minnesotafringe.org/2022-show-information/desi-heart-crust

Desi Heart Crust is a story of a Blindian (Black x Indian) couple exploring how race, culture & activism shape their relationship. From Afrobeats to Bhangra to powerful acts, come see this Desi dance drama! The script is based on stories of real life Blindian couples and real conversations in South Asian households during the MN Uprising

PLACE: McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 200 SE Oak St, Minneapolis, MN 55455

The Youth Summit will bring together youth from across Minnesota to learn, share, and collaborate to help reduce the dangers of vaping through activism and awareness.

The Summit will consist of full group presentations, a variety of workshops and skill building activities, and furthering education and career building opportunities. Breakfast and lunch are included. More details on the agenda coming soon.

Event Website https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/escape-the-vape-summit/std-landing-page

PLACE: Springboard for the Arts, 262 University Ave. W., St. Paul, MN 55103

Join us for the 2nd annual Cowchella! A disability literary arts festival featuring the release and live reading of 4 new collections of short stories and poems by authors with intellectual/developmental disabilities, live music by DJ Sci Fi and headliner Keep for Cheap, and a disability arts and advocacy org fair! Wheelchair accessible and ASL interpretation provided. More information at www.cowtippingpress.org.

PLACE: Ramsey County Library Roseville, 2180 North Hamline Ave
Roseville Minnesota 55113

Maker equipment is available through a combination of reservations and first-come, first-served.

Use the Library's laptops to design a 3D model, create your own stickers, cards, or other cardstock cutouts, or utilize the video and photo editing software. Access the Library's digitization equipment to convert your physical photos, slides, negatives, cassette tapes, 8mm and Super 8 film, and VHS and VHS-C tapes to digital files. Try the sewing machine or ask questions about the 3D printer.

PLACE:  Online, Register  tolib.org/summercamp
30% off coupon code: Tolib
Limited to 25 students. First come, first serve.

Who: Entering Grades 9~12 in Fall 2022
As a teen, do you feel life sometimes is both confused and adventurous?
Do you wish someone would listen to you or understand how you feel?
Come to join James Y. Shih, the screenwriter and filmmaker, to write short scripts and make short films to explore your favorite themes and translate your thoughts into the visual language of films.
We will explore and learn to do:

PLACE: Outside Moon Palace Books, 3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55406

In a time of pandemics and uprisings, Life Born of Fire arises from the ashes. Complicated, unfinished, unfurling. What insists on blooming forth. What raw, real gifts are we carrying from ancestors — towards descendants and for ourselves, our weary bodies, our lovely hearts.

An ensemble created performance ritual with song, music, poetry and movement. Life Born of Fire is an invitation to be together to hold the grief and the healing, the breaking and mending.

PLACE: HealthEast Sports Center Red Fields, Woodbury, MN 55129, buy tickets here https://donorbox.org/events/343789

Sports tournaments, art shows, twenty community food vendors, and two days worth of power packed musical performances

PLACE: 1250 W. Broadway (Rear Lot/Field), Free Tickets here

Godflow is a Twin Cities outreach utilizing hip hop to communicate the Gospel message to urban youth culture. GodFlow includes a youth prayer rally and a keynote speaker. It’s designed for the whole family to enjoy, with sports stations, bouncy houses, community vendors, a variety of food and more. Godflow hip hop & hope fest offers youth an opportunity to hear the good news while equipping them to with tangible resources and mentor programming that will meet their practical and spiritual needs. The goal is to empowering them to be successful throughout the year. We partner with churches, businesses, non-profits and schools to do our part to reduce violence, while uplifting and inspiring our community.

Event Website https://www.themanupclub.org/godflow.html

PLACE: Hopkins and Woodbury (Oakdale) locations available
Hopkins Dance Center, 821 1/2, Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Legacy Dance Studio, 7153 10th St N, Oakdale, MN 55128
 

Taichi sessions $300
Kungfu sessions $240

Contact email: Nicola.Stockman@gmail.com, 651-528-0816

PLACE: Jaycees Shelter, 2540 Lexington Avenue N., Roseville, MN 55113,   pre-order the Bentos: https://forms.gle/PkbrH7pekZXrKEJR7

We will have our annual charity bazaar to raise funds for those in need. Your participation will bring food and necessity to the homeless and vulnerable families, offer scholarships to the students, and provide relief to the victims of natural disasters. At the event, we'll sell vegetarian food and craft and play games. Enjoy the great outdoors and make this meaningful event a success.

Vegetarian meal boxes are ONLY available with online pre-orders before 7/30. Pick up your orders and make the payment on the PICNIC day.
Two Choices of meal boxes:
         A. Honey Braised Veg Cutlet Bento (Taiwanese style bento)
         B. Bibimbap (Korean mixed rice bowls)

The snacks sold at the bazaar will include sesame balls, sweet clay oven rolls, inari sushi, tofu pudding, winter melon herb tea, etc.

PLACE: Hamline Park 1564 Lafond Avenue St. Paul, MN 55104

 African culture, music, dancing, and art

PLACE: Springboard for the Arts, 262 University Ave. W., St. Paul, MN 55103

John Penny is a multi-genre composer, guitarist, and music technologist. He performs solo, but is accompanied by computer generated virtual musicians that bring Afro-cuban, Latin American, and other textures to the mix. The net result is passionate music with the singular goal of touching the human heart with inspiration and Joy. Learn more at www.johnpennymusic.com.

PLACE: Visitation School 2455 Visitation Dr, Mendota Heights, MN 55120
Register, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEmcY7HOjl4mluXuCZPw_Wz61H24zbS9iKijPo0SC8isqDOw/viewform

CSFA presents a brand new event for 2022, the Teens Camp. Whether your children are graduates of the Children’s Camp, or possibly new to the CSFA Community, you are welcome to apply. You don’t have to be a member to have your teen participate, but we do highly encourage that participant's families to become members to keep these valuable events alive and well for the future. We are so very excited to begin this bright, shiny, and NEW event for our TEENS.

PLACE: Location: Rondo Community Library, 461 N Dale St., Saint Paul, MN 55103
Register: To register, click the red "Register" button below. You will be redirected to the library website. If you have questions, contact Zaraawar Mistry at 651-789-2282 or zaraawar@springboardforthearts.org.

Where do you want to be both artistically and professionally? Learn how to define your values, identify key choices and develop a plan to achieve your career goals. Presented in partnership with Saint Paul Public Library.

PLACE: Online, Register: https://springboardforthearts.org/art-train-training-artists/

The free Art-Train Individual Artist Training is for artists who are interested in building on their existing skills to collaborate in and with their communities through their local agencies, non-profits, and arts councils. Artists will deepen practices around creative problem solving, equitable community engagement, and creating arts-based strategies to address recovery efforts.

The goal of this training is to help artists identify how they can contribute to equitable recovery & rebuilding by a) understanding and advocating for local artists’ role in community and economic development, and b) by building their skills in equitable collaboration.

PLACE: Finnovation Lab 817 5th Ave S. #400 Minneapolis, MN 55404
Register https://business.mplschamber.com/events/details/racial-equity-and-csr-strategies-for-small-and-mid-sized-businesses-14272

Events over the last two years have been a wake-up call about the persistence of racism in our community. In 2020 and 2021 many companies made commitments and investments focused on racial justice. What’s working and what’s not? And what can small and mid-sized companies do to drive change?
 
Join us for a panel discussion about how Minnesota based businesses are integrating racial equity strategies into their CSR programs.

PLACE: Mall of America,  60 E Broadway, Bloomington, MN 55425

This event coincides with Mall of America’s 30th Birthday Celebration, which includes celebrity appearances, concerts, and numerous opportunities for K-12 youth and families to actively engage in hands-on learning experiences, including robotic events, student competitions and more! 

PLACE: Springboard for the Arts, 262 University Ave. W., St. Paul, MN 55103

Celebrate RenegadeEnsemble’s 2022-23 season with an evening of new music and community building featuring local musicians with some musical works involving audience participation. 3-5 local musical acts will prepare 15-30 minute sets of music with structured time in between sets for conversation, networking, and community building. Learn more at www.renegadeensemble.org.

PLACE: 1001 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20036, 
Register, https://registration.socio.events/e/leadershipconvention2022

Asian Pacific Islander professionals strive for Limitless Leadership, leadership in the workplace, family, and community, where leadership traits transcend space, geography, and time. As NAAAP reaches its 40th anniversary, we look forward to the next 40 years when diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are not merely a marginal strategy but a core value in every organization and community. We lean into our principles of Leadership, Education, Accountability, and Diversity to grow and connect with limitless leadership.

August 11 Employee Resource Group Summit & Exploring DC
August 12 Diversity Career Fair and Leadership Workshops, including DEI, Social Identity, Women in NAAAP, PRIDE, and Career Skill Enhancements
August 13 Leadership Workshops, including Advocacy, Leadership, Veterans, and Civic Engagements. Ending the evening with a Gala and Awards Ceremony

Event Website: https://www.leadershipconvention.org/

DATE/TIME: Every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month, 9:30am
August 12 & 26
September 9 & 23
PLACE: Parking Lot at Plymouth & Oliver, 1835 Penn Ave. N., Minneapolis, MN 55411

Our outdoor free food distributions are scheduled at 9:30 a.m. on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month all summer long. Tons of fresh fruits, vegetables, and community resources will be set up on each date until supplies Hosted by Hennepin County Engagement Services, this wellness panel and choice of healing circles are offered as part of an ongoing series to support the health and wellbeing of our community.

PLACE: The Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

On Saturday, August 13th, we’ll have exhibitor’s tabling at The Coffman Memorial Union on the beautiful campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

DATE/TIME: Sunday, August 14, 2022, 1:00pm-6:00pm
PLACE: The Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2501 Stevens Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404
Then, on Sunday, August 14th, we’ll be hosting a day of panels and programing at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis, Minnesota in a hybrid, in-person/remote format.

Event website: https://autoptic.org/?fbclid=IwAR0VcFlGdi0XpwEdc1QNJKNt4sPfRnMc3kki9O3Z1nupFCBTeqfVNPDnn_Y

PLACE: Minnesota State Capitol Grounds, 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard., St Paul, MN 55155

This will be a great opportunity to showcase your organization and the purpose of the organization to the greater Minnesota community. We would love to see you as a participant at IndiaFest again this year. Please request your spot in the individual area of interest now. There are a limited number of spaces available, so act quickly. Like every year we would like your partnership in the following areas.

- Exhibit booths and Parade Participation - Please register to secure your exhibit booth and parade participation. Registration deadline date: July 15th, 2022 - Registration Link
- Cultural events participation - Please register your group. Registration deadline date: July 3rd, 2022 Registration Link
- Volunteers - Please register to be a volunteer at IndiaFest. Registration deadline date: July 31st, 2022. We will be sharing the signup link soon.
- Kids Games & Entertainment
- Bazaar - Small businesses please register if interested in setting up a booth to demonstrate your offering or service to a broader community. Application deadline date: July 15th, 2022 Registration Link
- Scholarship & Award Nomination. High school students are encouraged to apply. Application deadline date: June 24th, 2022 Registration Link

PLACE: Springboard for the Arts, 262 University Ave. W., St. Paul, MN 55103

Come on out and join "Gotta Dance" Soul Line Dance on the dance floor! Have some fun, meet some new friends, and get a nice little workout!

PLACE: 307 E Center St, Rochester (the parking lot across the river from Mayo Field and across the street from the Civic Theatre)

Event website: https://nightmarketmn.com/about

PLACE: History Center of Olmsted County, 1195 W Circle Dr, Rochester, MN 55902

Celebrate wisdom, share unique journeys, and invest in our common future

PLACE: Wat Promwachirayan (Wat Thai of Minnesota) 2544 Highway 100 South, St Louis Park, MN 55416

Thai Street Food
Thai Desserts
Souvenir Vendors
Khon Tok Picnic Tables
Live Music
Family and pet Friendly

Register: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=t5piMQcNikilfZtYTEzdYGqD7xouP-FPrxhl8w0vvghUQUxFOFg4VEFVMUw5NUNUQlY1TVVHQVc4Mi4u

PLACE: Central Park Frank Rog Amphitheatre, 2540 Lexington Ave N, Roseville, MN 55113

PLACE: Springboard for the Arts, 262 University Ave. W., St. Paul, MN 55103

In times of chaos, singing together reminds us we’re not alone! Join SoulSong every other week throughout the summer to learn songs for healing, justice, and joy. Featuring Twin Cities vocal trio Conie Borchardt, Ihotu Jennifer Ali and Liz Digitale Anderson.

PLACE: Boom Island Park, Northeast Minneapolis

The purpose and mission of SLAVIC EXPERIENCE is to create a welcoming space for people of Slavic heritage to commemorate, celebrate, and share the richness and diversity of Eastern European traditions and customs with the greater Twin Cities community.

Event website: https://slavicexperience.com/

PLACE: University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC) 2001 Plymouth Ave N, Room 105, Minneapolis, MN 55411, register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minneapolis-violence-prevention-community-champion-institute-tickets-387169563587

The MVPCC Institute training focuses on promoting understanding of topics and gaining skills around how to be actively engaged in violence prevention in the community. All the material incorporates a lens of racial equity and the social determinants of health.

PLACE:  2126 West Broadway Ave. in North Minneapolis, between Penn Ave. and Logan Ave.

The first-ever health and wellness block party for North Minneapolis designed to empower the community to build trusting relationships with health and wellness experts and make it easier to make healthier decisions. 

Live Your Healthy Lyfe will feature guided community conversations, healthcare screenings and vaccinations, mental health consultations, a variety of Black-owned vendors, art activities and music, all to empower the Black community and help elevate the quality of life for residents through mental, physical and spiritual wellness, education and activity offerings.

PLACE:  Como Zoo, 1225 Estabrook Dr, St Paul, MN 55103, Buy tickets here: https://comozooconservatory.org/como/obon-2022

Bonsai, martial arts, singing, dancing, drumming, delicious food and other aspects of Japanese culture, will be featured at the annual Como Park Japanese Obon Festival, a family-friendly event, reminiscent of Japan’s annual Obon holiday

Obon is an important Japanese cultural and family holiday, at which ancestral spirits are said to revisit their families for three days. Families pay their respects at grave sites and put out offerings of food and drink on a tray before household altars. They also light lanterns or small fires outside the house to symbolically guide the souls to the home. On the last evening of Obon, lanterns again guide the spirits back to their resting places

PLACE:  7051 Brooklyn Boulevard Brooklyn Center, MN 55429

Join CEAP for fresh produce & community connection. 

PLACE: Kingston Park, 9195 75th St S Cottage Grove Minnesota 55016
Register: https://bit.ly/3cAeUfx

Welcome to the 3rd Annual HOT Labor Day Tournament! Ib Tsev Neeg- One Family would like to formally invite EVERYONE to this family-friendly event! 

PLACE: Phalen Regional Park, 1600 Phalen Dr, St Paul, MN 55106
Event website and registration details: https://mn.gov/capm/events/awardsdinner/2022-leadership-awards.jsp

The Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans is excited to present the 2022 Asian Pacific Minnesotans Leadership Awards Dinner!
 
After a hiatus of several years, this year’s elegant and exciting event will recognize and honor those who’ve contributed to the common good. Given the times we are living in, we will also celebrate survival and the leadership that brought us through the worst pandemic in a century. To these ends, we will uplift stories from our communities and of individuals and groups whose examples inspired us to maintain our individual and collective pursuits of lives well lived.

PLACE: Phalen Regional Park, 1600 Phalen Dr, St Paul, MN 55106

2022 Chinese Moon Festival Celebration and China Friendship Garden Benefit Event

PLACE: Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, Register here

AAUC works to build a community that inspires and supports AAPIs to become civically engaged. The purpose of the summit is to bring powerful AAPI leaders together to share, to inspire, and to take bold action towards being more engaged in today’s society.

Who should attend: Those who are or aspire to be

• Community Activists
• Political Appointees
• Elected Officials

PLACE: 5376 Gamble Dr, Minneapolis, MN 55416-1598, United States

Wat Promwachirayan is pleased to present the 3rd Annual MinnesoThai Street Food Festival. This free event will showcase authentic Thai street food and feature cultural performances, live music, art and souvenirs, a papaya eating contest, a drag show, fire dancing and more! This event is family and dog-friendly. Food is available to-go and may also be ordered online.

PLACE: Minneapolis College, 1501 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403, Register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/9th-annual-city-of-minneapolis-trans-equity-summit-building-trans-power-tickets-372140130147

Trans people have always known how to build power out of environments designed to prevent that. As we respond to legislative attacks nationwide, may we remember what our communities are capable of. This year’s Summit creates a space to gather and find power in our communities, our narratives, and ourselves

PLACE: Mall of America Huntington Rotunda,  60 E Broadway, Bloomington, MN 55425
Apply: https://forms.gle/jdBvrPBkUP3mEz227

Whether you’re a huge Kpop fan or if you’ve recently entered the Kpop world, we welcome everyone to come and meet other fans and celebrate their love for Korean pop culture!

PLACE: Washington, DC, Event Website https://www.mbda.gov/medweek-2021

In September, the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) will host its annual National Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week conference. The conference celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of minority-owned companies and presents informational sessions and programming; offering interactive networking sessions to generate new connections and fresh perspectives. MED Week also features an awards ceremony where individuals and organizations are honored for exceptional commitments and contributions to minority business growth. In fact, the MED Week Awards are the highest national recognition an minority-owned firm can receive from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

This year, President Joe Biden will issue a proclamation declaring September 19-25 as 'National Minority Enterprise Week' to coincide with MBDA's 2021 National MED Week. The MED Week Conference. presented again this year in a virtual format, centers around the theme of "Reimagining Opportunity" and the endless possibilities ahead for the minority business community.

PLACE: Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel, 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, Event Website https://www.aapistrong.com/

Together with our corporate and nonprofit partners, we are standing up against the racial bias, discrimination, and fear that has plagued our AAPI communities. National ACE is focused on combating the nationwide rise in AAPI bias, harassment, and violence in our small business communities across the country

PLACE: Mall of America, 60 E Broadway, Bloomington, MN 55425

We are very pleased to inform you that Mall of America, in partnership with the local Minnesota Chinese Community and local Ethnic Communities are planning to host a Moon Festival Celebration event at MOA on September 25, 2022. This will be a grand gala and celebration. We are inviting some well-known folk artists to join us in the celebration, promoting exchanges of our ancient culture, arts and heritage with local ethnic communities and artists, showcasing authentic Asian culture to bigger American communities.

As you may know, China has over 10 million of Hmong people living in several southern autonomous counties, closer to Vietnam, Laos etc. Many of Minnesota Hmong people have visited China in the past 10 years. We are inviting Art Troupes from the local Chinese community to join our Moon Festival celebrations with Hmong, Lao and Vietnam Communities. By bringing these artists from local Chinese and ethnic artists together at the Mall of America, we are hoping to create a cultural performance that would be time-traveling with the ancient Asian community shared heritage, praise the greatness of modern life in Minnesota and America, promote the ancient tradition and heritage in the State, and engage communities with similar cultural and art backgrounds.

PLACE: Historic Fort Snelling new Visitor Center, 200 Tower Avenue St. Paul, Minneapolis, MN

Twin Cities JACL 75th Anniversary Celebration Saturday, October 8, 2022 at the Historic Fort Snelling new Visitor Center Boutique Sale starts at 5 pm Bento Box dinner and program starts at 6 pm Guest speaker – Frank Abe 

Frank Abe is co-author of the new graphic novel on Japanese American resistance to wartime incarceration, We Hereby Refuse (Chin Music Press: A Wing Lake Museum book). He won an American Book Award for John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work [Okada is the author of No-No Boy (University of Washington Press)], and made the award-winning PBS documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, on the largest organized camp resistance. Frank is currently c0-editing an anthology for penguin Classics on The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration. More information about the event will be available in the fall of issue of the newsletter or via an email blast.

PLACE: Union Depot, 240 East Kellogg Blvd, Saint Paul, MN 55101

A full day event held in celebration of Asian food and culture and the vibrant Minnesota AAPI small business community. Enjoy traditional Asian food prepared by local vendors as well as dance performances and cultural activities highlighting the rich heritage of our AAPI community.

Event website: www.tasteofasiamn.org

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