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Brown Bag Lunch with Joel Kramer
Please join us for our Brown Bag Lunch with featured guest Joel Kramer, founder and publisher of MinnPost.
Gala Benefit for the Resource Center of the Americas
With special guest State Senator Patricia Torres Ray. Music, dancing, live & silent auction, door prizes, and more. $30 ticket includes drinks & appetizers. Tickets can be purchased online.
The First Annual Franklin Frolic
On Saturday, Dec. 5th from noon to 5 pm East Franklin Avenue in the Seward Neighborhood will be the site of the first annual Franklin Frolic, hosted by the Seward Civic and Commerce Association (SCCA). This event is an opportunity to engage with Seward's vibrant small business community.
THEATER | Workhaus Collective's "Sense of What Should Be" is close to perfect
Dammit. MORE »
Dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit.
So. close.
Dominic Orlando’s The Sense of What Should Be comes as close as almost any new play I’ve seen in the last ten years to being absolutely perfect. Right up until the end. And then it lost me. But damn, what an amazing ride. Anybody who loves smart, well-written, well-acted, well-directed theater should see Workhaus Collective’s current production of The Sense of What Should Be for the 99.9 percent of the thing that is just so damn good.
Minnesota Modern Module
The National Trust for Historic Preservation welcomes you to a free event to celebrate, discuss, and debate the mid-century and Modern heritage
of the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota.
Dave Bicking will be kicking ...
Quick: What rhymes with Bicking? In South Minneapolis’ city council race, Ward Nine challenger Dave Bicking is rolling out an unconventional campaign tool: the Green Party–endorsed candidate now has a song written about him. And to answer that question, “kicking” is the rhyming word — and it’s followed immediately by the word “ass.” MORE »
Minnesota playwrights gather at the Playwrights' Center
A play of mine is being read at the Playwrights' Center this Sunday, October 18th.
If I'd typed that sentence sometime between 1994 and 2002, it wouldn't seem all that strange.
Typing it in 2009 seems pretty strange.
But I'm happy to be typing it. And a bit hopeful.
I'm not really hopeful for me.MORE »
Trends in Theater
5:00 - Social gathering with hors d'oeuvres and drinks
5:30 - A reading of two short plays:
Dandelion Snow by Matthew Everett
and
How to View The Comet by Anne Bertram
5:55 - Discussion: What the Playwrights' Center and the Dramatists Guild can do for the careers of playwrights, including how the organizations the same, and how they different.
Seward Cafe 35th Birthday Party and Potluck
Bands playing are Breaksea Caravel, DNR, Karen Townsend, Chokecherry, Bouncer fighter, apocalypse Meow, Drunken Boat, and Witchbeat.
Madness
Emerging Playwrights of Color group, the UNIT COLLECTIVE hosts ‘MADNESS' at the Playwrights' Center, 2301 E. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55406. THE UNIT is an INDEPENDENT COLLECTIVE of emerging playwrights of color and theater artists devoted to pushing the development of new work beyond the conventional parameters of play development such as sit down readings and workshops.
