10 stories you might have missed over the weekend
A look at stories in the Grand Forks Herald and on grandforksherald.com that you might have missed from over the weekend. 9:28 am, Mar. 1, 2021 ×
UND s Otis Weah returned to action for the first time since 2018 on Saturday and gained 91 yards in a victory over Southern Illinois. Forum News Service file photoForum News Service
Herald Sports Editor Wayne Nelson writes that UND is beginning to forge its own identity in its new home the powerful Missouri Valley Football Conference. Saturday, the Fighting Hawks upended No. 3 South Dakota State 28-17 in one of the program s biggest wins in the Alerus Center.
Hamzat Koriko hopes to finish translating Catharsis by March 10:38 am, Feb. 27, 2021 ×
Grand Forks-based artist Hamzat Koriko, who is the executive and artistic director of the African Arts Arena. Submitted photo.
A Grand Forks artist and academic is set to make the first-ever English translation of a play about the African condition.
Hamzat Koriko, the executive director of the African Arts Arena, is in line for a $12,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, which he’ll use to translate Catharsis, a play by Gustave Akakpo in which Mother Africa herself questions other abstract characters about life on the continent, from French to English.
‘I-Tell, I-Diverse, I-Include’ asks what diversity means to Grand Forks
The African Arts Arena is putting together a project that aims to crowdsource Grand Cities residents thoughts about diversity. Artists in Grand Forks and beyond plan to use submitted thoughts to put together poems and spoken word pieces to be performed this summer. 7:00 am, Jan. 1, 2021 ×
Hamzat Koriko, a multidisciplinary art professional and the executive and artistic director of the African Arts Arena, is looking for submissions that can be compiled into an artistic look at diversity in Grand Forks. Submitted photo
A Grand Forks artists collective wants to know what diversity in North Dakota means to you.