deVon Russell Gray: ‘My work is a mirror’
Gray, aka dVRG, is a classically trained composer, multi-instrumentalist and new-music performer who finds himself in a surprisingly good place, like the eye of a storm.
Arts & Culture
Covering Minnesota’s theater, music, dance, literature and visual arts.
State Fair adds more Food Parades; Schubert Club opens 2020-21 season with Pacifica Quartet
ALSO: Theater Mu’s TwentyPho Hour (virtual) Playfest; Tommy Orange’s virtual Pen Pals appearance; and more.
Cowles announces 2020-21 season; Graywolf book is shortlisted for Booker Prize
ALSO: Natalie Diaz and Patricia Smith: 2020 McKnight Judges’ Reading (online); Jazz Fest Live presents Jon Weber; and more.
Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson to return to ASI – virtually
ALSO: UMN English Writers Series includes a MacArthur ‘genius’; photography show opens at Mia; and more.
Moorhead’s Prairie Home Cemetery inspired name for ‘A Prairie Home Companion’
At the time that Prairie Home Cemetery was founded, it was situated well out of town and surrounded by farmland. The first recorded burial there was typhoid victim Bernard Berg on May 19, 1875.
The American Swedish Institute’s Bruce Karstadt: ‘Adaptation, experimentation and creativity’
The American Swedish Institute reopens today. Timed tickets must be purchased in advance.
Talking Volumes finalized; ‘A Breath for George’ to stream online
ALSO: “Behind the March”: A Live Play Reading; the 21st Annual Minnesota Children’s Book Festival; “Designs for Different Futures” at the Walker; and more.
Minnesota Orchestra moves fall concerts to TV, radio and streaming; TPT presents ‘Hippocrates Café’
ALSO: Major shows of quilts by women of color; Delphia Cello Quartet at Icehouse’s courtyard; and more.
Mabeth Hurd Paige was one of the first four women elected to the Minnesota Legislature
Paige won the election for representative of Minnesota’s thirtieth district on November 7, 1922.
The Science Museum’s Alison Rempel Brown: ‘A whole series of things had to get pushed’
As the Science Museum of Minnesota reopens, MinnPost talked with President and CEO Alison Rempel Brown.
Walker Moving Image; a weekend at Franconia Sculpture Park
ALSO: Peter Geye presents “Northernmost” on Zoom; the Met’s “Porgy and Bess,” streamed; and more.
Bach Society of Minnesota, Cantus announce 2020-21 seasons; Davina and the Vagabonds at Crooners
ALSO: “CoroNation: A Film by Ai Weiwei” available online; Pavielle at Icehouse; and more.
Author events go virtual; History Theatre’s ‘Diesel Heart’ on Zoom
ALSO: Northern Clay Center’s virtual American Pottery Festival; a free screening of Justin Stephenson’s film “The Complete Works”; and more.
Working for Peanuts: cartoonist Charles Schulz’s life in the Twin Cities
Born in Minneapolis, Schulz first published Li’l Folks, the predecessor to Peanuts, in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
State Fair fine arts 2020: immediate, urgent, of-the-moment
ALSO: Author/historian Jon Meacham in Conversation With Wes Moore; a Flint Hills Virtual Family Festival; and more.
The SPCO hits the reset button again, with a fall concert series full of surprises – and free
The SPCO has announced a series of six live concert video streams to be broadcast in October and November from the Ordway Concert Hall. For safety reasons, there won’t be an audience.
State Fair fun, without the actual fair; Robert Robinson at Crooners
ALSO: 20% Theatre Company will close permanently; Joan Growe launching new book; Trademark Theater’s fourth season announced; and more.
McKnight Distinguished Artist Marcie Rendon on life as a very busy writer
Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation and a writer for whom the word “prolific” is an understatement.
The short, grand life of St. Paul’s Grand Opera House
Built as a replacement for the original St. Paul Opera House, the Grand Opera House included new interior design features, electric lighting, and safety enhancements.
‘At least it’s something’: walleye cakes and weirdness at the Minnesota State Fair Food Parade
My streak of writing about the Minnesota State Fair for the last 40 years continues. Sort of.
