Event Calendar

AICHO's Aadazookaan Winter Storytelling Session

Saturday, February 24, 2024
6:00 p.m.
AICHO's Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center at 212 W. 2nd Street, Duluth, MN

AICHO will host its annual Aadizookaan Winter Storytelling event with traditional Ojibwe creation stories told by Michael Migizi Sullivan, Ph.D. (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe tribal member) on February 24, 2024 at 6:00 p.m at AICHO's Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center at 212 W. 2nd Street in Duluth, MN. Stories will be told in Ojibwe and translated into English. Mike will tell stories of Wenaboozhoo, a historical and spiritual icon of the Anishinaabeg. The event is free and open to the public. While this is a public event, AICHO and the storytellers have requested attendees to refrain from recording the event due to the spirituality of the gathering. The event is sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Division through the Waaseyaa Healing Grant.

The Way I See Reception & Black Swallowtail Book Launch

Thursday, February 29, 2024
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Duluth Art Institute, 506 W. Michigan St., Duluth, MN 55802
https://www.duluthartinstitute.org/event-5549690

Hear directly from celebrated Minnesota artist & 2022 Guggenheim Fellow Ta-coumba T. Aiken at this combined reception, artist talk, and poetry book launch. Aiken's energetic, evocative work shines in two formats: exhibited in Morrison Gallery in The Way I See, and sharing the page with nationally acclaimed poet Arleta Little in their joint publication, Black Swallowtail. The poetry book combines Little's poetry series with a selection of Aiken's paintings chosen to reflect the themes of mortality, ancestry, and beauty that swirl between word and image.