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TPT Honors Generations I n the past year, TPT continued Moving Lives Minnesota: Stories of Origin & Immigration (MLMN), a collaboration among the state’s six PBS stations. MLMN brought Minnesotans together to deepen understanding and build empathy across backgrounds and experiences through storytelling. STORIED LESSONS To engage students and educators, MLMN created curricular tools; presented at the 2020Education Minnesota Conference; shared resources on PBSLearningMedia.org; and sponsored 2021 History Day topical prizes related to Minnesota immigration history. The team partnered with Art Reach St. Croix’s Big Read initiative to create and share a “Mealtime Story Exchange” placemat.
66% attended a TPT event for the first time 91% would seek out the featured artists’ work ART IS Presented as part of MLMN, the third season of the multimedia art series paired emerging artists with established artists Witt Siasoco, Roy Guzman, and Chamindika Wanduragala. The cross-genre performances featured puppetry, sound design, music, and poetry – all inspired by the themes of origin and migration.
“Instead of despising the aspects of myself that set me apart, I now see them as assets. I appreciate the multiplicity of my identity and take pride in my ability to understand people beyond stereotypes and appearances. I wear my midwestern roots on my immigrant, Asian body and will carry them with pride wherever I go.” – Dear MN Letter Submission
DEAR MINNESOTA TPT invited Minnesotans to share their own stories of origin and immigration by writing letters, creating a diverse collection of 44 letters across 34 cities and 4 states – from Indigenous to immigrant and first-generation to fourth-generation+ experiences. TPT partnered with a digital storytelling class at St. Catherine University to help students create their own immigration stories as part of the national PBS American Portrait series.
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