Covering Minnesota’s theater, music, dance, literature and visual arts.
Three key developments fueled the growth of Minnesota’s tourism industry in the early Twentieth Century: increased leisure time for the middle class, the automobile, and a Back to Nature Movement that encouraged city-dwellers to escape into wilderness settings.
Artscape will go on break next week and return on Tuesday, Dec. 1. We’ll leave you with a handful of ways to experience our local arts scene.
ALSO: British Arrows Greatest Hits via the Walker; Jazz Fest Live; and more.
ALSO: A new dance film at the Northrop; a life of John Steinbeck; and more.
ALSO: a conversation with Carolyn Mazloomi and Dorothy Burge; National Book Awards online; Thunder Band at the Cedar; and more.
A slip in the midst of a detour to hide a bag full of coins started a fight that ended with the banker, Lindberg, dead of multiple hatchet wounds.
In March of this year, when COVID hit, Minnesota Opera canceled the rest of its 2019-20 season, then returned in August with a mostly digital Fall 2020. It began with a program at CHS Field and continues this weekend with 2016’s “Das Rheingold.”
Plus: Jeopardy! behind the scenes; finding realness in our digital lives; Eric Utne’s memoir; and more.
Also: catching up with Sheila Smith, executive director of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts.
ALSO: Panel discussion “Art vs. the Artist: Wagner’s Das Rheingold”; celebration of “The Best American Short Stories 2020”; and more.
Polish Americans are an enduring presence in a state popularly known for its Scandinavian and German populations.
Nilsson will launch his latest book, “Fäviken: 4015 Days, Beginning to End,” on Saturday (Nov. 7) at 11 a.m. during a special online talk presented by the American Swedish Institute.
ALSO: On the Children’s Theatre website: “Last Stop on Market Street”; Eddie Glaude Jr. on “James Baldwin’s Lessons on Race in America” at a virtual Westminster Town Hall Forum; and more.
ALSO: Gingerbread Wonderland at Norway House; Ragamala Dance Company and Northrop present “Foods for the Souls: Food Rituals in the Diaspora”; and more.
ALSO: The Moving Company’s “Liberty Falls 2020”; Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra’s “The Mahler Project”; and more.
The image of himself that Nelson cultivated — both fully Norwegian and fully American, a promoter of Norewegians as a desirable immigrant population — is reflected in the history of the Knute Nelson Memorial.
ALSO: Schubert Club moves more events online, postpones others; Amreeka: Election Night Comedy Special online; and more.
ALSO: Theater Mu presents virtual “China Doll” and Mu-tini Hour; National Lutheran Choir’s online “All Saints” program; and more.
ALSO: A virtual SPCO “Postcards Across the Atlantic”; Hennepin History Museum’s Introduction to Crop Art; and more.
ALSO: Black Label Movement and Ragamala Dance Company videos; a virtual “Tempest,” set in a women’s prison; and more.
