Speakers & Appearances

Ada Limón & Robin Wall Kimmerer in conversation for the first time on Oct. 8, 2025 at the Pantages Theatre

Milkweed Editions and Trust for Public Land bring Ada Limón & Robin Wall Kimmerer: All Flourishing Is Mutual to Minneapolis

TICKETS GO ON SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON FRIDAY, JUNE 20 AT 10 A.M.

MINNEAPOLIS (June 17, 2025) — Hennepin Arts has announced that 24th US Poet Laureate Ada Limón and the internationally bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer will appear at the historic Pantages Theatre (710 Hennepin Ave.) for an unforgettable evening at the historic Pantages Theatre on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025 at 7 p.m.

These two visionary writers and thinkers, in conversation for the first time, are both known for their impact in literature and their timely ability to offer critical insights into resiliency, reciprocity, and what it means to be human in the natural world. This connective conversation will be an offering to those looking for ways to navigate through our time.

Tickets go on sale Friday, Jun 20 at 10 a.m. to the general public at the State Theatre Box Office (805 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis) and online at HennepinArts.org.

Robin Wall Kimmerer Kimmerer has become one of the most vital voices of our time regarding environmental stewardship. Her beloved and groundbreaking book Braiding Sweetgrass has sold over 2 million copies and merges scientific research with the ancestral knowledge of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, offering transformative insights into how we can all have better, more reciprocal relationships with the natural world—sustaining it and each other. Since the publication of Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer has been widely celebrated, reviewed frequently in The New York Times, named a Time magazine Most Influential Person of the Year, and received many awards, including a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.

Ada Limón Limón just concluded her second term as US Poet Laureate. In 2023 she received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. And last year, her poem “In Praise of Mystery” was engraved in her own handwriting on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which was launched to the second moon of Jupiter in October 2024 (expected to arrive in 2030). Limón is one of the most decorated poets working today: a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Time magazine Woman of the Year; and a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Accessibility services are available upon request.

Books available for sale before and after the event.

Hennepin Arts drives cultural and economic vitality in Minnesota through leadership of the dynamic Hennepin Theatre District in downtown Minneapolis and educational programming that reaches every area of the state. Its historic theatres — Orpheum, State and Pantages — and the Dudley Riggs Theatre light up Hennepin Avenue with top-tier entertainment, including the best of Broadway and a wide variety of arts programming. Hennepin Arts is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more at HennepinArts.org.

Milkweed Editions is an independent publisher incorporated as a nonprofit in order to fulfill its mission. Milkweed builds engaged communities around the transformative literature they publish through events like this one. To learn more and join Milkweed’s community of sustaining supporters, visit milkweed.org.

Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national nonprofit that works to connect everyone to the benefits and joys of the outdoors. As a leader in equitable access to the outdoors, TPL works with communities to create parks and protect public land where they are needed most. Since 1972, TPL has protected more than 4 million acres of public land, created more than 5,504 parks, trails, schoolyards, and iconic outdoor places, and raised $110 billion in public funding for parks and public lands, and connected nearly 10 million people to the outdoors. To learn more, visit tpl.org.

This activity is made possible by voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.