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Format: 12/01/2008

Monday, September 15 2008

Speaking of Home - Public Art Project

Date: 
Aug 4 2008 8:00am - Oct 31 2008 9:00pm

Location(s)

IDS-Macy's Skyway
171 Nicollet Mall Between 7th and 8th Streets, above Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN, 55402
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Event Description: 

Fantastically enlarged snapshot portrait images of Twin Cities immigrants are part of a temporary public art installation this summer in Minneapolis.

The UnConventional Gathering Place

Date: 
Aug 31 2008 7:00pm - Nov 7 2008 7:00pm

Location(s)

Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN, 55408
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Event Description: 

The UnConventional Gathering Place
August 31st – November 7th, 2008
Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55408

Intermedia Arts presents
The UnConventional Gathering Place!
Intermedia Arts Becomes Hangout for Artists, Educators, Alternative Journalists During the 2008 Republican National Convention

Gallery hours: Monday- Friday 12pm-7pm, Saturday 12pm-5pm
Suggested $5 donation

Main Gallery
Landing In America
By John Obrien
A multi-media installation reflecting on the compelling experiences with or related challenges to our basic liberties.

Hands On: People at Work Art Exhibit

Date: 
Sep 1 2008 12:00pm - Sep 30 2008 12:00pm

Location(s)

Water and Oil Art Gallery
506 Kenny Road
St. Paul, 55130
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Event Description: 

Beginning on Labor Day, Water and Oil Art Gallery will host the exhibit “Hands On: People at Work.” Selected works will offer tribute to the sweat equity earned through hard work, artisanship and craftsmanship. Featured artist Judy Westergard will be displaying her series “A Show of Hands—Hands as Portraiture.” Evocative of their owners’ personal narratives, Westergard describes the inspiration that led to these works:

“I grew up in historic northeast Minneapolis in a blue-collar environment. I studied my mom’s hands as she hung clothes and rolled dough for pierogi.

"Minneatures" by Plasticgod

Date: 
Sep 2 2008 2:00pm - Oct 26 2008 5:00pm

Location(s)

Soo Visual Arts Center
2640 Lyndale Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN, 55408
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Event Description: 

Celebrities portrayed as Lego figures: a show by the wannabe Warhol, Plasticgod. Click here for the official site and here to read Jay Gabler’s blog entry on the show.

Register for ALANA Green Summit Sept 15 Today

Date: 
Sep 15 2008 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Location(s)

Concordia University
275 Syndicate St. N. Buenger Hall
St. Paul, MN, 55104-5494
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Event Description: 

ONEMN.org is a dynamic collaborative,” bolsters Professor Corrie Bruce, PhD of Concordia University in St. Paul, “(the) ALANA (African, Latino, Asian and Native American) communities and friends building the collaborative will host a Green Summit.”

On Monday, September 15 from 2 to 5 p.m. the ALANA collaborative will hold a summit at Concordia’s Buenger Building (http://www.csp.edu/AboutUs/maps/color_campus_map.pdf) to develop strategies to grow green businesses and green collar jobs in Minnesota with a keen eye for the region’s communities of color.

Trash Film Debauchery: Samurai Cop

Date: 
Sep 15 2008 10:30pm - 11:59pm

Location(s)

Turf Club
1601 University Ave. W.
Saint Paul, MN
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Event Description: 

Trash Film Debauchery presents Samurai Cop at the Turf Club. Admission free. Read the Arts Orbit blog entry on this event here.