Thursday, December 11 2008

Illuminous 3 release their new disc at the 7th Street Entry. Click here for details, and here to read Justin Schell’s preview of the show.

The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra perform Mozart, Adés, Bach, and Schubert—with guest soloist Leila Josefowicz. Click here for details.

MacPhail Center for Music’s Jazz Thursdays concert series focuses on the presentation of jazz in a family friendly environment. The series includes professional performances by both faculty and non-faculty artists, as well as a student showcase performance. Each concert begins at 8:00 p.m. and will contain slightly over one hour of music with no intermission. All concerts take place at MacPhail Center for Music’s Antonello Hall. MacPhail Faculty member, presented in partnership with the Twin Cities Jazz Society, $10 and $5 admission at the door.

MacPhail Faculty member Scott Agster along with Shilad Sen, Adam Rossmiller, Graydon Peterson and Reid Kennedy. MacPhail Center for Music’s Jazz Thursdays concert series focuses on the presentation of jazz in a family friendly environment. The series includes professional performances by both faculty and non-faculty artists, as well as a student showcase performance. Each concert begins at 8:00 p.m. and will contain slightly over one hour of music with no intermission. All concerts take place at MacPhail Center for Music’s Antonello Hall. $10 Adult and $5 student admission at door.

Influenced by years of travel, Eero Saarinen envisioned specific light/color qualities when creating ethereal church spaces or sleek furniture designs. In this art lab, participants are invited to make pendant lamps inspired by Saarinen’s techniques of manipulating color for dramatic effect, led by University of Wisconsin design instructor Jada Schumacher. Click here for details.

The Council on Crime and Justice, New Living Way Christian Center, and the MN Department of Corrections have recently conducted a research study on prisoner reentry in the communities of North Minneapolis, Frogtown St. Paul, and Rochester. We will share the findings from this community-based study, and hear from panels of those who work on reentry and those who have been incarcerated and can speak to the experience of reentry.

It will be held DECEMBER 11, 9-3, at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Goodwill has 13 stores metro-wide and they need your help! Proceeds from all stores go to assisting people with barriers to education and employment.

Assist with store production and merchandising by sorting products, helping customers, organizing books and toys and hanging clothes for displays.

Volunteer as an individual or with friends and family! Visit our website, www.handsontwincities.org, to sign up for the project or contact me at jessica@handsontwincities.org.

Tuesday, December 11th 9:00-11:00 am *This project occurs the second Tuesday of every month.

Capital City Partnership, the City of Saint Paul, and Wells Fargo invite you to experience Wells Fargo WinterSkate, downtown Saint Paul’s free, outdoor, artificially-chilled ice skating rink. The 2008/2009 rink season is November 29, 2008 through February 1, 2009.

Skaters are invited to experience the unique urban setting of downtown Saint Paul. Located in the heart of the city, Wells Fargo WinterSkate creates a fun, winter experience for visitors of all ages.

WHAT:
> Celebrating its first holiday season in Minnesota, Holiday Lights in
> the Park is a new community event that focuses on raising funds for
> local charities and providing an impressive and affordable means of
> holiday entertainment for people of all ages. Visitors will enjoy a
> spectacular array of holiday lights and animated displays as they take
> an evening drive through Phalen Park in Saint Paul. The delightful
> tour is approximately 0.6 miles in length along Lake Phalen and Phalen
> Golf course.

Andrea Carlson
EARTH DIVER

EARTH DIVER features new works from Andrea Carlson’s ongoing series that both challenges and champions issues of cultural appropriation, assimilation and consumption. Drawing heavily on contemporary museum studies, Carlson’s new paintings on paper reference cannibalism as a metaphor to describe the commodification of culture and cultural tourism in museums and on film.

Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, noon to 5 pm

With surreal beauty and deliberate ambiguity Megan Rye’s paintings encourage viewers to see the Iraqi War through the eyes of those who’ve witnessed it firsthand. Her works in “Long Night’s Journey into Day” explore her ongoing fascination with images taken primarily by her brother, Ryan Nosek, while stationed in Iraq as a U.S. Marine. Rye has based her work off her brother’s photographs since 2005, the year he returned from duty.

A retrospective exhibit celebrating 15 years of Kulture Klub Collaborative, a non-profit pairing artists with homeless youth. Click here for details, and here to read Sheila Regan’s feature on the exhibit.

An exhibit of Polaroid photography by Sean Tubridy. Click here for details.

Artist Greg Lindquist will unveil a painting of the 35W bridge rebuilding when his exhibit “Remembrance of Things Present” opens at Bethel University’s 9th Street Entry Gallery on November 7. Details of the event are below.

Explore the traditions associated with Saint Lucia, from her origins as a fourth-century martyr to the legends of her appearance in Sweden.

There are many legends associated with Lucia starting in fourth century Sicily. A young woman gave her dowry away to the poor and confessed herself a Christian. For this she was accused of witchcraft and put to death. Another legend tells of a famine in medieval days. A glowing figure dressed in white, Saint Lucia came across a great lake in the province of Värmland, Sweden.
She brought gifts of food to the starving people.

A major exhibit of contemporary art from India, at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

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.

Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale
by Randy Sue Latimer, Music by Gary Rue
July 10-August 2, 2009

For complete dates and times, see www.steppingstonetheatre.org

Box Office: (651) 225-9265 www.steppingstonetheatre.org

Tickets: $11 adults; $9 children ages 2–17 and seniors

Based on the beloved fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. the production was written by Randy Sue Latimer, with music by Gary Rue.

The Nightingale is a story that tells of the power of friendship and loyalty.