Events

Tuesday, April 30, 2024:

Friday, May 20, 2022:

Dish & Dance: Interracial Friendship with a Vegan Twist and Side of Music

Past Events:

Thursday, January 27, 2022:

“Sweet Burden of Crossing" Book Talk & Discussion with Kate Towle, Nobles County Library, 407 12th Street, #2, Worthington, MN. Click Nobles County Library for more information.

August Reading at the
Maquoketa, Iowa Library

“Kate's presentation and facilitation made for a great library program. It was interesting and informative, but maybe most importantly it provided an opportunity for candid and meaningful conversation.”

Katie Pauls, Maquoketa Public Library Director

Sweet Burden of Crossing is a book about interracial friendship and offers a model for exploring our feelings about race and breaking down barriers of injustice.

I enjoy hosting dialogues about the themes in Sweet Burden of Crossing and have been talking to students and groups through the following events and venues, along with various book clubs:

Breck School’s MLK Day

Dakota County Technical College

deLaSalle High School social justice week

Unitarian universalist fellowship of Northfield

St. Paul Ballet

Loyola spirituality center

edina Community Lutheran church

maquoketa, Iowa public library

Through the revered practice of story circles, I like to spark conversation about the book’s themes, such as:

Nurturing authentic relationships
Detoxing from the blindness to suffering and white supremacy that harm descendants of slavery and weaken the web of human connection
Actively resisting threat perceptions, racial profiling and the sanctioned incarceration of innocent and caring people
Healing together from individual, structural, historical and collective trauma
Piecing together our authentic cultural history as a path to liberation for all

If you would like me to speak to your group or facilitate a dialogue about any of these themes, please send me a message via my Contact Form.

VIRTUAL LAUNCH PARTY

Thank you to all 116 people who joined us on December 15th to celebrate the launch of Sweet Burden of Crossing.

Here are sketchnotes by Rebecca Moss from the event.

Watch for more events to come!