ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Andrea and Michelle aim to engage members of the Minnesota SWANA  and Arab American communities through a work-in-process, animation  film screening and accompanying storyboarding workshop. Both parts o the workshop will focus on migration stories, and after engaging with  Andrea Shaker’s in-progress film project, one that visualizes her ow family’s migration story along with other members of the Twin Cities  SWANA community, we’ll invite participants to tell their/their family’s  stories of national and international migration through storyboarding.

WHERE: Open Book room #308 | 1011 S Washington Ave, Minneapolis, MN

WHEN: Saturday, November 15, from 10 AM to 12 Noon

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS 

ANDREA SHAKER is an Arab American artist living on Dakota and Anishinaable lands in  mní sóta. Her creative work is interdisciplinary, spanning photography, experimental  film, installation, letterpress, artists’ books and writing. Through the use of image an text she reclaims and reconstructs home and homeland within the contexts of  migration, diaspora and assimilation. She earned her BA from Georgetown University  and MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a professor of  art at the College of St. Benedict & St. John’s University and currently serves the vice  president of the board of New Arab American Theater Works.

MICHELLE BAROODY received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University  of Minnesota in 2019. She is currently working on a book project that traces,  constructs, and examines the Arab American archive, paying particular attention to  film, literature, and cultural institutions. She has worked with the Arab/SWANA based arts nonprofit Mizna in various capacities since 2012, serving as curator for  Mizna Film Series and annual Arab Film Festival. Baroody is also a co-director of  Archives on Screen, Twin Cities.