Freeing Refrains with Merle Geode:  more Stories, Convos, and Songs

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Freeing Refrains: Stories, Convos, & Songs

A storytelling space where folks gather to reflect on the questions "What binds you?" and "What liberates you?"  Hosted and curated by Points of Light Music, in 2022 we welcome guest storytellers to add layers to the space.

Freeing Refrains is a storytelling space reflecting on the questions of what binds and liberates us. In March we invite Merle Geode, another mixed Asian voice, to share their story.

Image Description: An event announcement with mostly black lettering on yellow. Header says: Freeing (in a handwriting-like font) Refrains (in bold outlined capital letters) with &quot;stories, convos, songs&quot; in smaller font underneath.Under the header and to the left is a selfie of a light-skinned non-binary person with shoulder length dark hair, dark glasses, and a black and white sweater. To the right of the picture is a short bio reading &quot;Merle Geode is a mixed race (Korean and white) disabled genderfluid poet/writer, shamanic practitioner, and multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis living with metastatic breast cancer.&quot;More event information is listed: Thursday, March 24, 2022, 6:30 p.m. With guest storyteller, Merle Geode. All Times Central. Gathering Online. More details at https://plm.tiny.us/FreeingRefrains.Tagline: &quot;What binds you? What liberates you?&quot; in black bold letters. Underneath that in slim white letters &quot;A project of Points of Light Music.&quot;--Full bio for the guest storyteller: Merle Geode is a mixed race (Korean and white) disabled genderfluid poet/writer, shamanic practitioner, and multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis living with metastatic breast cancer. They have a B.S. degree in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where they were a UW-Madison Writing Fellow. They are currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and a mentor in the Write Like Us program for BIPOC writers across five local community colleges.They were a food and features writer for several years for Isthmus and Our Lives Magazine in Madison, but their storytelling is now taking a turn for more experimental and expansive forms. They are currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and a mentor in the Write Like Us program for BIPOC writers across five local community colleges. Their poems and essays appear in Love, Always: Partners of Trans People on Intimacy, Challenge and Resilience; MNArtists; and poetry.onl. Currently, they are working on a picture book about anticipatory grief and death as an author/illustrator.They are a former journalist, fine dining cook, and dog groomer who has discovered, during the pandemic, that they actually like to garden.https://mnartists.walkerart.org/ones-a-crowdhttps://www.poetry.onl/read/merle-geohttps://merlegeode.com/IG: @merlegeode

This gathering is a prototype of the storytelling space imagined for Biracial &amp; Rural (BnR), a community of care and storytelling space. In 2022 Freeing Refrains is experimenting with guest storytellers to complexify our reflections on what is restricting and empowering.The current BnR dream is to come together in arts based retreats over the summer and continue the connection virtually over the winter. Retreats culminate with participants sharing their story at an Open Mic event to foster community dialogue. Read more at http://www.pointsoflightmusic.net/p/biracial-rural.html.

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