Categories: Lecture & Discussion

The changes being wrought on the earth’s climate system are vast, without precedent, and of such magnitude and scale as to potentially alter life itself.

Nobel Conference 55 asks “What tools are available, what research efforts do we require, and what kind of people do we need to be to conceptualize and address global climate challenges?”

Nobel Conference 55 will bring together seven leading thinkers to address climate change from perspectives including paleoclimate studies, climate justice, climate modeling, and climate adaptation. We invite you to join us to grapple with the causes and consequences of climate change and with our responses to the challenges it presents us, as individuals and as a society.

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The changes being wrought on the earth’s climate system are vast, without precedent, and of such magnitude and scale as to potentially alter life itself.

Nobel Conference 55 asks “What tools are available, what research efforts do we require, and what kind of people do we need to be to conceptualize and address global climate challenges?”

Nobel Conference 55 will bring together seven leading thinkers to address climate change from perspectives including paleoclimate studies, climate justice, climate modeling, and climate adaptation. We invite you to join us to grapple with the causes and consequences of climate change and with our responses to the challenges it presents us, as individuals and as a society.

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Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

The Southern MN Poets Society (SMPS) is a group of poetry-loving and poetry-generating people.

We enjoy hearing poetry read and experiencing it as performance and some of our members write and perform in the Mankato area. We range from non-poets who just enjoy learning to accomplished and nationally-recognized poets. Everyone is welcome!

We meet at the Emy Frentz Guild (523 S. 2nd Street, Mankato, MN).

The Second Saturday of each month is our brown bag lunch meeting at the Emy Frentz Guild  (Twin Rivers Council for the Arts).  Everyone is welcome!

• 12:30 pm lunch
• 1:00 pm program

For more information about SMPS, contact Susan Stevens Chambers, SMPS President, (507) 278-2400 or info@southernmnpoets.org.

About SMPS

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

The Southern MN Poets Society (SMPS) is a group of poetry-loving and poetry-generating people.

We enjoy hearing poetry read and experiencing it as performance and some of our members write and perform in the Mankato area. We range from non-poets who just enjoy learning to accomplished and nationally-recognized poets. Everyone is welcome!

We meet at the Emy Frentz Guild (523 S. 2nd Street, Mankato, MN).

The Second Saturday of each month is our brown bag lunch meeting at the Emy Frentz Guild  (Twin Rivers Council for the Arts).  Everyone is welcome!

• 12:30 pm lunch
• 1:00 pm program

For more information about SMPS, contact Susan Stevens Chambers, SMPS President, (507) 278-2400 or info@southernmnpoets.org.

About SMPS

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

The Southern MN Poets Society (SMPS) is a group of poetry-loving and poetry-generating people.

We enjoy hearing poetry read and experiencing it as performance and some of our members write and perform in the Mankato area. We range from non-poets who just enjoy learning to accomplished and nationally-recognized poets. Everyone is welcome!

We meet at the Emy Frentz Guild (523 S. 2nd Street, Mankato, MN).

The Second Saturday of each month is our brown bag lunch meeting at the Emy Frentz Guild  (Twin Rivers Council for the Arts).  Everyone is welcome!

• 12:30 pm lunch
• 1:00 pm program

For more information about SMPS, contact Susan Stevens Chambers, SMPS President, (507) 278-2400 or info@southernmnpoets.org.

About SMPS

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

The Southern MN Poets Society (SMPS) is a group of poetry-loving and poetry-generating people.

We enjoy hearing poetry read and experiencing it as performance and some of our members write and perform in the Mankato area. We range from non-poets who just enjoy learning to accomplished and nationally-recognized poets. Everyone is welcome!

We meet at the Emy Frentz Guild (523 S. 2nd Street, Mankato, MN).

The Second Saturday of each month is our brown bag lunch meeting at the Emy Frentz Guild  (Twin Rivers Council for the Arts).  Everyone is welcome!

• 12:30 pm lunch
• 1:00 pm program

For more information about SMPS, contact Susan Stevens Chambers, SMPS President, (507) 278-2400 or info@southernmnpoets.org.

About SMPS

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

You are encouraged to attend the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lectures and Discussion which emphasizes the continuing struggle for civil rights.

Growing up with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture by Donzaleigh Abernathy – Christ Chapel at Gustavus – The lecture, is free and open to the public. – The morning lecture will be livestreamed and archived.

These events are sponsored by the Gustavus Diversity Center, Gustavus Office of the Chaplains, Gustavus Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Program, Gustavus Office of the President, Gustavus Office of Marketing and Communication, Mankato MLK Committee, and Minnesota State University, Mankato.

You are encouraged to attend the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lectures and Discussion which emphasizes the continuing struggle for civil rights.

2:30-4 p.m. Heritage Banquet Room, Jackson Campus Center at Gustavus – This will be a facilitated discussion on how to build authentic community across racial, ethnic, national, socio-economic and religious divides. – Free and open to the public.

These events are sponsored by the Gustavus Diversity Center, Gustavus Office of the Chaplains, Gustavus Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Program, Gustavus Office of the President, Gustavus Office of Marketing and Communication, Mankato MLK Committee, and Minnesota State University, Mankato.

You are encouraged to attend the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lectures and Discussion which emphasizes the continuing struggle for civil rights.

5:30-7:30 p.m. – Centennial Student Union Ballroom at Minnesota State University Mankato – Reception, address by Donzaleigh Abernathy, and presentation of the 2020 Pathfinder Award – RSVP at MLK Community Celebration

These events are sponsored by the Gustavus Diversity Center, Gustavus Office of the Chaplains, Gustavus Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies Program, Gustavus Office of the President, Gustavus Office of Marketing and Communication, Mankato MLK Committee, and Minnesota State University, Mankato.