Letters to Ourselves

Letters to Ourselves

October 19, 2014
Rev. Jen Crow
Youth Friendly Sunday

Letters to Ourselves
Rev. Jen Crow

A friend of mine recently received the transcript of an interview his father participated in 30 years ago. His father’s been dead for 10 years now. It’s like a letter from the past, he said, and I’m torn between not wanting to open it at all and wanting to read it immediately. What do we do when letters from our past, or letters from our present show up on our doorstep? How do these letters from ourselves and those we love encourage us – force us – to keep it real?
And how do we make time to write – and read – them?

Musical Guest – Guante
GUANTE is a hip hop artist, two-time National Poetry Slam champion, social justice activist, educator and writer. He and/or his work has appeared on Upworthy, MSNBC, Racialicious, Feministing, MPR, the Progressive, City Pages’ “Artists of the Year” list and URB Magazine’s “Next 1000” list, and he’s shared bills with Talib Kweli, Saul Williams, Brother Ali, Dead Prez, Sage Francis, Andrea Gibson, Doomtree, Zion I and more. Guante’s work explores the intersections of art, media and social justice education; to that end, he facilitates workshops on identity, power and privilege, founded the MN Activist Project and Hip Hop Against Homophobia concert series, writes essays and op-eds, and works with COMPAS, TruArtSpeaks and others to engage in artist residencies around writing and performance for youth.

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