Knight Foundation invests $2.2 million in St. Paul arts; Minnesota Opera announces spring season
ALSO: Sounds of Blackness: “The Night Before Christmas: In Concert”; the Guthrie’s “Dickens’ Holiday Classic”; and more.
Arts & Culture
Covering Minnesota’s theater, music, dance, literature and visual arts.
SPCO reports balanced budget, growing audience; a light show on the Cathedral of St. Paul
ALSO: Penumbra Theatre’s Celebration of the Soul virtual concert; “A Christmas Carole Peterson” podcast; and more.
Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ mindfully; Kate DiCamillo at the Humphrey School
ALSO: “A Christmas Celebration with the Steeles,” livestreamed from the Dakota; holiday music presented by Minnesota jazz musicians; and more.
Minnesota Orchestra adds four more livestreams; Nachito Herrera’s ‘Cuban Holiday’
ALSO: Commonweal’s “A Driftless Christmas”; Jim Walsh book launch for “Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis”; and more.
The fight against a power line helped launch Alice Tripp’s brief political career
As proposed by two partnering utility companies, the CU Powerline would have stood 150 feet tall and cut across 8,000 acres of farmland in North Dakota and Minnesota. The plan sparked outrage in western Minnesota for its indifference toward small family farms.
Taylor Mac to perform ‘Holiday Sauce … Pandemic!’ live; ‘A Christmas Carol’ radio play from Park Square Theatre
ALSO: Pianist Jim Brickman: “Comfort & Joy at Home Live!”; Minnesota Opera’s “A Holiday Special – Live!”; and more.
The New Standards release a holiday album; Miss Richfield returns
ALSO: A live reading of “The Chanukkah Guest”; The Singers’ “What Sweeter Music”; Border CrosSing’s “El Mesías”; and more.
Illusion Theater will have a new home; ‘A Suitable Boy’ starts streaming in the U.S.
ALSO: Twin Cities Jazz Festival’s “A Copasetic Christmas Carol”; the National Lutheran Choir’s virtual Christmas concert; and more.
‘Operation: Immigration’ explores identity and love; Ijeoma Oluo at ‘Talk of the Stacks’
ALSO: MNspin adds more albums; how to help the arts, right now; John Lennon Tribute featuring Curtiss A streaming from First Avenue; and more.
Cecelia Regina Gonzaga’s brief time in Minnesota ended after she was arrested for impersonating a woman
Gonzaga strenuously defended herself, saying, “I have always earned an honest living, although I have not found life as bright as most people…I have always found it easier making a living doing women’s work than men’s.”
Why I’ve been thinking about 4-decades-old Minneapolis theater production for the last four years
Theatre de la Jeune Lune’s 1980 production of “Ubu For President” premiered in Minneapolis two weeks after Ronald Reagan was elected president.
Christmas concerts coming up; Louise Erdrich at One Book, One Minnesota
ALSO: Arab Film Festival Collab; the Bad Plus streaming; French music from Louis XIV and XV eras; and more.
More COVID-19 relief for Minnesota arts organizations; New Native Theatre Play Festival begins
ALSO: readings from three poets; new dance from Walker and Northrop; The Betty Crocker Musical; and more.
The Great Northern reveals Kate Nordstrum’s original programming; Tane Danger to direct Westminster Town Hall Forum
If you thought COVID would put a stop to the Great Northern, the Twin Cities’ winter celebration, think again.
The SPCO suspends livestreamed concerts; ‘Magical Black History Trees’ at MAAHMG
ALSO: Minnesota author Jonathan Slaght in the national spotlight; Foot in the Door 5 at Mia; a conversation with Charles Baxter; and more.
The Stillwater prison was Minnesota’s first
The newly completed stone prison received its first prisoners in 1854.
How Minnesota marketed itself to tourists in the century before World War II
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.
Music, theater, books and dance for your Thanksgiving week
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.
A few words about Dominick Argento and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; new COVID restrictions will affect the arts
ALSO: British Arrows Greatest Hits via the Walker; Jazz Fest Live; and more.
‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is a perfect distraction; Thursday is Give to the Max Day
ALSO: A new dance film at the Northrop; a life of John Steinbeck; and more.
