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Pi Family Reunion
It's way too late to save Pi's building, but the community lives on. Come celebrate at the Pi Family Reunion. Friday the 13th of November at Barfly in downtown Minneapolis. Doors open at 9. There will be lots of familiar faces. Great DJ's. It's almost been a year. I miss my family. It's time to see each other again.
Piluv,
Tara Yule
Judy Garland: Born in a Trunk
A celebration of the movies music of an American icon
Featuring Alicia Renee
October 23 - November 14, 2009
Book by Greta Grosch
Collaboration and Direction by Kevin Barnard
MiniARTure Open Reception
Burnsville Visual Art Society members are thinking BIG by producing mini artwork! BVAS presents MiniARTure, which will display original miniature 2-D and 3-D artwork by BVAS members. Join us for the free opening reception, mingle with the artists, and enjoy some light refreshments. These mini masterpieces make wonderfully unique holiday gifts and will be for sale for mini prices!
The Global View on Local Food
The Global View on Local Food
Minnesota is experiencing an explosion of interest in local food systems-from new farmers markets, to grocery store aisles to our school lunch programs. Many countries around the world have been using a variety of strategies and policies to support their own local food systems for decades, even centuries.
What can we learn from their experience?
"The Seafarer" at the Jungle Theater
It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, aging brother who has recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. But with the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher.
AIA Minnesota 2009 Convention
Bruce Tapola at Art of This: "Au Naturel"
Art of This is privileged to present a new mixed media installation by St. Paul-based artist Bruce Tapola. This installation, AU NATUREL, combines two distinctive bodies of work recently exhibited separately at Occasional Gallery in St. Paul.
A Path Home: A Story of Thich Nhat Hanh
A Path Home: A Story of Thich Nhat Hanh at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre, November 6-22
IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MASK THEATRE
1500 E. Lake Street, Minneapolis
612.721.2535
www.hobt.org
Hard Boiled Art
An exhibit of eight original pulp magazine cover paintings.
Lucia Hwang: "What's Up?"
Artist reception: Thursday, October 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Artist gallery talk: Thursday, October 29, 6 p.m.
Adeline Johnson Conference Room, Oren Gateway Center
Moonlight and Magnolias by Ron Hutchinson
When legendary producer David O. Selznick decides that the filming of "Gone with the Wind" is not working, he stops production, yanks esteemed director Vic Fleming from the set of "The Wizard of Oz", brings in famed screenwriter Ben Hecht, and locks himself with these two men behind closed doors for five days to rewrite the screenplay on a diet of bananas and peanuts.
To Have It About You
New York art collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel have amassed a broad and important collection featuring minimalist, conceptual, and other work by innovative 20th century American artists.
Elijah's Wake
First created in 2003, Michael Sommers revisits this groundbreaking work to be staged in the Open Eye Theatre. Score by Anthony Gatto
"...a piece of art the stimulates through visual action, this is an extraordinary work." Star Tribune
"Much like the human journey it seeks to illuminate, Elijah's Wake is a beautiful piece of art." Pioneer Press
Ten Thousand Things' Othello
The show begins its tour to prisons, housing projects, and homeless shelters October 8 and ends with four weekends of public performances in Minneapolis October 23-November 8 at Open Book (1011 Washington Ave S, Mipls) and November 13-15 at Minnesota Opera Center (620 N 1st St, Mpls)
2009 Minneapolis Interfaith Forum: Come Pray With Us--An InterFaith Experience in Worship
2009 Minneapolis Interfaith Forum
Faith Healer
Guthrie Director Joe Dowling, known throughout the United States and Ireland as a preeminent director and scholar of Brian Friel's work, will return to his acting roots - making his American acting debut - to play the title role in this powerful play about Frank Hardy, his wife Grace and talent manager Teddy.
American Youth
American Youth features the work of 25 photographers represented by Redux Pictures, documenting the newest generation of 18 to 24-year-olds in unvarnished detail throughout the exhibit's 50 images. Included in the exhibit are NEA Fellow Marc Ashin's unexpected look at life in Lubavtich life in New York City, Guggenheim Fellow Darcy Padilla's grim glimpse at teenage homelessness, and W.
Shadows of Life: X-Ray Images of Plant and Marine Life
Shadows of Life: X-Ray Images of Plant and Marine Life is Macalester College's 2009-2010 "science-related" art exhibit featuring X-ray prints that offer an exciting peek beneath nature's surface. The artist Dr. Andre Bruwer, a Mayo-trained radiologist, was one of the first to use the X-ray machine as an artist's tool. The show opens Thursday, Sept. 24 in the James R.
Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider
Working with non-traditional materials such as customized venetian blinds and sensory devices including lights, infrared heaters, scent emitters, and fans, Haegue Yang (b. 1971; lives and works in Berlin and Seoul) constructs complex and nuanced installations that collapse the space between the concrete and the fleeting.
Spirit of the Southwest
The American Association of Woodturners Gallery of Wood Art is proud to present Spirit of the Southwest, opening to the public on September 15, 2009. Spirit of the Southwest features over 40 beautifully crafted and conceived sculptural pieces inspired by the cultures and landscape of the American Southwest.
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition
