Tuesday, November 13, 2018

5:00 SOCIAL

5:15 LITERATURE – BOOK DISCUSSION

Presidents’ Hall

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

Discussion Leader: Cathy Hovancsak

Lily is a white Muslim woman raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco after her hippie parents are murdered. As a young woman in the 70’s, she goes on a pilgrimage to Ethiopia, where she teaches the Koran to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. Even as a traditional Muslim, Lily can’t escape being marked as a foreigner. Forced to flee to England, she joins the National Health Service and must confront the riddle of who she is and where she belongs.

6:00 DINNER

7:15 ARTS Presidents’ Hall

Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound

Speaker: Andrea Swensson, Author, Music Journalist, and Radio Host, for Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current

Got to Be Something Here author, Swensson, traces the rise of a distinctive sound from 1958, the year of Prince’s birth, through two generations of political upheaval, rebellion, and artistic passion. Funk and soul music become the lens through which she explores three decades of Minneapolis and St. Paul history through the neighborhoods, venues, and the lives and times that produced the Minneapolis Sound.