Friday, December 26 2008

Dubbed print plays at 4:30 p.m., subtitled print plays at 7 p.m.

Director: Juha Wuolilsoki

This Finnish hit returns to the Twin Cities by popular demand from last year’s limited one-time screening. For those who missed this mythical coming-of-age story about the youth of Santa Claus, this is your chance to bring the family to Oak St for a Scandinavian Christmas.

Those audiences who have been in recent years can attest that despite the wear and tear on our print, the only subtitled in English in the world, this tradition must live on. So it is with great pleasure that we present Astrid Lindgren’s fantasy adventure complete with dark forests, fierce bandits, grumpy dwarves, and brave little girls.

Tickets are $5 for kids and adults alike and children under 6 are admitted free!

The countdown to the holidays is upon us and we at Nicademus Art are proud to announce our new show Home for the Holidays on December 13th 2008 starting at 7:00pm. John Grider (Broken Crow) and Mike Fitzsimmons (Paint Goggles) have been working steadily over the past year and are taking over Nicademus Art to bring you all fresh new art.

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.

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.

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.