The Bureau

06/26/2025

We Outside: Film Fest
2 nights of curated cinema 🎥
Fri 7/11 & Sat 7/12 – 5:30p - 10p
Future Midtown Exchange Park (Cepro Site): 2828 11th Ave S. Minneapolis
FREE RSVP at link in bio ✨

We Outside is two evenings of curated cinema, showing films made by Black, Indigenous, Latino, and Arab filmmakers, highlighting stories of lineage, memory, and liberation. Right in the middle of a corridor that raised so many of us.

There will be food trucks, a live DJ interlude between screenings, live printed merch, and space to stretch out, post up, vibe and exhale.

Bring your cousins, your chosen fam, your blanket, snacks and lawn chair. Or come solo and find your corner of joy. We Outside and you’re invited.

Stay tuned for our lineup announcement!

Funding made possible by the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis as a part of Lake Street Lift 🚀

Cover image from ‘The River’ Directed by Herrana Addisu ( )

10/24/2022

Farah Habad is a poet, artist and advocate based in Minneapolis by way of Oakland who explores the intersection of storytelling and policy. Along with working on a successful Minneapolis City Council campaign following the uprising after the murder of George Floyd—Farah is an alumni of the Melvin B. Tolson/Denzel Washington Forensic Society at Wiley College, as well as, a professional spoken word artist with several Button Poetry showcases. Habad’s commitment to bearing witness for his community translates directly to his approach and ex*****on in his work.

In collaboration with the  and , The Bureau presents our next live BLACK FORUM, featuring a conversation between performer, author, and storyteller and artist & organizer on 10/24.

Space is limited. RSVP at link in bio! 🌍

10/21/2022

Joel Leon, is a writer, author, storyteller, and creative director at the New York Times. Born and raised in the Bronx, Joél writes and tells stories of and for the diaspora. He's been featured in the Columbia Journal, BBC News, Forbes, and others. He has spoken and performed at the Apollo Theater, Joe's Pub, Rockwood Music Hall, Columbia University, NYU and Webster Hall. He lives in the Bronx and is the father to Lilah and West.

We are excited to be hosting in conversation with this Monday. Space is limited. RSVP at link in bio 🌍🤎

10/20/2022

UP NEXT: In collaboration with the  and , The Bureau presents our next live BLACK FORUM, featuring a conversation between performer, author, and storyteller and poet & organizer .

Highlights of the event include a limited edition sweatpants release designed by The Bureau, a soundscape curated by NJP, and to cap off the night, a special screening of The Last Black Man in San Francisco. A film the New York Times calls, “An indelibly beautiful story of love, family and loss in America from two childhood friends turned filmmakers.”

Space is limited. RSVP at link in bio! 🌍

10/19/2022

While our bodies are out on the frontlines our soul still needs to be fed, or else we succumb to dispare and depression. Our art possesses rhythmic communication, coded emotional cues, and improvised feeling of emotional thought. Our social movement should be like jazz, encouraging active participation, listening, and freedom. What people see as a party is actually a movement meeting.

— 🌍🖤

10/17/2022

NJP x BLACK FORUM sweatpants available for purchase and pre-order tonight at our live Black Forum conversation between poet, author, and visionary and our founder & creative director . RSVP at link in bio 🌍

10/14/2022

Y’all know what it is 🌍 In collaboration with the and , The Bureau presents our next live BLACK FORUM, featuring a conversation between poet, author, and visionary and our founder & creative director .

This will be a very special evening. Space is limited. RSVP at link in bio ✨

10/13/2022

Aja Monet is a surrealist blues poet, storyteller, and organizer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Monet follows in the long legacy and tradition of poets participating and assembling in social movements. Her first full collection of poems is titled, My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter. Her poems explore gender, race, migration, and spirituality. In 2018, she was nominated for a NAACP Literary Award for Poetry and in 2019 was awarded the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award for Poetry for her cultural organizing work in South Florida along with many other accolades.

Aja cofounded a political home for artists and organizers called, Smoke Signals Studio. She facilitates “Voices: Poetry for the People,” a workshop and collective in collaboration with Community Justice Project and Dream Defenders. She is currently working on her next full collection of poems entitled, “Florida Water”. Additionally, Monet serves as the new Artistic Creative Director for V-Day, a global movement to end violence against all women and girls.

We are so excited to be hosting Aja Monet in conversation with this Monday. Space is limited. RSVP at link in bio 🌍🕊

10/11/2022

In collaboration with the and , The Bureau presents our next live BLACK FORUM, featuring a conversation between poet, author, and visionary and our founder & creative director .

Highlights of the event include a limited edition sweatpants release designed by The Bureau, a soundscape curated by NJP, and to cap off the night, a special screening of Hale County This Morning This Evening: a film the NY Times calls, “A quietly radical challenge to assumptions about race, class and the aesthetics of filmmaking.”

Space is limited. RSVP at link in bio! 🌍

09/14/2022

Portrait of artist now on view at 🤎

09/02/2022

If you can’t pull up to the show, pull up to the shop. now available 🌺🌿✨

09/01/2022