How can we mobilize responses to governmental failures to address today’s social and environmental catastrophes, including structural racial inequality, environmental conditions associated with the Anthropocene, and the growth of authoritarianism? Where can we discover new models and modes of effective self-governance and autonomy? What can the Twin Cities learn in conversation with organizers from other cities? From Emergency to Emergence is a series of conversations and workshops on mutual aid, solidarity, and municipalism that situate their recent rise in the United States as social and political platforms in response to these crises. The Twin Cities Uprising, Hurricane Katrina, and insurgent municipal movements along the Mississippi River are just a few of the many cases raised in the dialogs.