Friday, October 24 2008

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
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.

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.

Bethel University’s Olson Gallery pleased to present new works by Bethel University Associate Professor of Art Jeff Wetzig.

Jeff Wetzig’s collection of prints transform their traditional roots in Japanese woodblock prints to explore the medium as a means of installation. He investigates the idea of boundaries and borders as they relate to themes such as mass communication, repetition, and fear. The delicate nature of line and color in his woodblock prints are an interesting contrast to their subject matter.

Intermedia Arts
LITERARY READINGS AND EVENTS
October 2008

Don’t Miss This Event!
Beyond the Pure: Readings by Writers of Color
Returns Thursday, October 9 to Intermedia Arts!
7PM—Admission by Donation

Celebrate the re-launch of Beyond the Pure: Readings by Writers of Color as it moves to its new location at Intermedia Arts! Co-curated by Carolyn Holbrook and Julie Bates, and featuring IBé, BAO PHI, and SUN YUNG SHIN, this is guaranteed to be a night to remember!

Music! Food! Corn maze! An apple cannon! For more information, see applejackorchards.com.

“Cream of Wheat; 1913-1925”

Red Wing Framing Gallery exhibits original illustration advertising art from The Cream of Wheat Company.

Milling factories dominated the Minneapolis economy in the early 20th century and the Cream of Wheat company was a major influence in shaping this industry. From its founding in 1897, Cream of Wheat hot cereal achieved worldwide recognition for its full color, fine art illustrated advertising.

Emery Mapes, a demanding and eccentric marketing genius, shaped Cream of Wheat’s iconic campaign, and hired the best talent available to execute his vision.

The Twin Cities’ scariest basement…for real. Click here for details, and here to read about it in l’eotile‘s Weekend What’s What. Read Melissa Slachetka’s Daily Planet report from the basement here.

NIcademus Art and Framing is proud to announce their first art opening. Local artist Booka B, aka Adam Booker, has been around the Twin Cities art scene for years and is excited to show. Paintings on canvas paper canvas and found objects exhibit a tribal feel mixed with an urban flair.Come and discover Saint Paul’‘s newest Art Gallery and meet the artist on opening night.

Through November 2nd: archy and mehitabel, at Open Eye Figure Theatre, 506 E. 24th St.

This humorous poetic romp is created for the stage by two of the Twin Cities’ most comedic and loved performers. Cockroaches…Cleopatra…rubbish…royalty.

Through October 26th: A Life In The Theatre, at Jungle Theater
2951 Lyndale Ave. S.
“David Mamet celebrates the love, admiration, humor, and sadness that accompanies the passing of the artistic torch from one generation to the next.”

October 22nd – 25th: Beakman LIVE, at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre
1500 E. Lake St.
A live stage spectacle, based on the Emmy award winning children’s TV show Beakman’s World. The show features large scale, wacky science demos with plenty of audience participation and trademark goofy humor.

October 24th: Breakfast with Gary Schiff
7:30 – 9:00 AM, 1515 E. Lake St. (Mercado Central)
Breakfast with Gary will explore why 25-50% of Minnesota’s immigrants are refugees, compared to 8% nationally. Guest speakers include Douglas Johnson, executive director of Center for Victims of Torture, Hussein Samatar, director of the African Development Center, and Pham Thi Hoa, executive director of CAPI.

October 24th & 25th: Kinetic Kitchen, at Patrick’s Cabaret
8:00 PM, 3010 Minnehaha Ave.
The Kinetic Kitchen returns. Featuring: Christopher Watson Dance
Company, Denise Armstead, Christopher Yaeger and the C Street Dancers, and Aurora Dance.

Support: Drew Davis Band
Get your tickets from Ticketmaster and Myth Box Office
Price: $23 (GA)
18+ Event
For more info call 651-779-MYTH

Friday, October 24 at 8 pm
Tickets: $15/person, 612-721-2535 or www.hobt.org
Adult subject matter; not recommended for those under age 18.

Paul Zaloom and his cohort, the renowned nightclub puppeteer Lynn Jeffries, bring The Tiny Jumbo Jolly Grim Show, which includes their newest work of jumbo toy theater, The Abecedarium A to Z. Zaloom’s bawdy gender-bending take on the old Punch and Judy shtick rounds out an evening of funny and irreverent adult puppet theater which questions, well, just about everything.

A crazy exciting triple bill at every Minneapolitan’s favorite St. Paul club. For the club’s site, click here.