The Blake School and Milkweed Editions Present: Elizabeth Rush’s RISING

511 Kenwood Parkway,Minneapolis MN 55403

18 January, 2022

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Join the Blake School and Milkweed Editions to celebrate Pulitzer Prize Finalist Elizabeth Rush, author of RISING. “A rigorously reported story about American vulnerability to rising seas, particularly disenfranchised people with limited access to the tools of rebuilding.” —PULITZER PRIZE JURY CITATION, Judges Jane Mayer, Roxane Gay, Vijay Prashad, and Vijah Seshardi Join the Blake School and Milkweed Editions to celebrate Pulitzer Prize Finalist Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, which the Chicago Tribune calls “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing.” Journalist Tom Weber will join Rush onstage for a conversation about empathy, vulnerability, the impacts of climate change, and Rush’s poetic approach to reportage. Visual artist and cultural organizer Shanai Matteson will open the program with a poem about water. A book signing will follow. TICKET DETAILS: This event is free and all are welcome. You can also purchase a copy of Elizabeth Rush’s Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore at an event discount, $15, with registration. Books ordered through Eventbrite will be available for pickup starting at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, January 18. COVID PROTOCALS: Masks are required for all attendees. We also require proof of vaccination or proof of a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours of the event. ABOUT ELIZABETH RUSH Elizabeth Rush is the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, which was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, and Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon, Myanmar. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Washington Post, Harpers, Guernica, Granta, Orion, and the New Republic, among others. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants including the Howard Foundation Fellowship, awarded by Brown University; the Society for Environmental Journalism Grant; the Metcalf Institute Climate Change Adaptation Fellowship; and the Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers. She lives in Rhode Island, where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University. Headshot credit: Stephanie Alvarez Ewens ABOUT TOM WEBER Tom Weber is a longtime journalist, writer, and author. His new history of Minneapolis is called Minneapolis: An Urban Biography and his travel book called 100 Things to do in the Twin Cities Before You Die will be rereleased in an updated version in spring 2022. ABOUT SHANAI MATTESON Shanai Matteson is a visual artist, writer, mother and cultural organizer. She currently lives in the rural community of Palisade, in northeastern Minnesota, where she grew up. In her textile and poetry projects, Matteson explores legacies of resource extraction and their impact on our bodies and spirits, as well as the land and water that sustain us. She is currently working as a community-based researcher with the University of Minnesota's Long Term Ecological Research project, where she co-leads a research team focused on the impacts of community centered ecological research. She is also cultural organizer at the Water Protector Welcome Center, part of Anishinaabe Akiing, an indigenous land trust and community development initiative led by activist Winona Laduke and others with Honor the Earth. As a non-native woman whose family settled in Anishinaabe territory over 100 years ago, and whose ancestors labored in extractive industries, she sees her creative work and environmental justice advocacy as a means of truth-telling and repair. Her website: https://shanai.work/ ABOUT THE BLAKE SCHOOL The Blake School is an independent pre-k-12, private, non-sectarian, coeducational, college preparatory day school with campuses in Minneapolis, Hopkins, and Wayzata. ABOUT MILKWEED EDITIONS Milkweed Editions is one of the nation’s leading independent publishers. A 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, our mission is to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it. We believe that literature has the potential to change the way we see the world, and that bringing new voices to essential conversations is the clearest path to ensuring a vibrant, diverse, and empowered future. The mission of Milkweed Editions is to identify, nurture and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.