Weekend Picks: ‘Diesel Heart’ at the History Theatre; celebrating young artists; a live recording of ‘Island of Discarded Women’
Plus: HER STORY IS; a play about time; and more.
Covering Minnesota’s theater, music, dance, literature and visual arts.
Plus: HER STORY IS; a play about time; and more.
“Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes” runs through May 21 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Both the Northwest Ordinance and the Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in the area, but slavery existed there even so.
Plus: Pipa plus orchestra; Unpredictable Drawings; Jill Bernard in a one-person show.
Many of the pieces in the exhibition have never been on view at the museum, or haven’t been shown in many years. Other pieces were re-framed in order to properly preserve them.
Janet Horvath’s late father George had once played cello in an orchestra at a displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II. He told her the story of when Leonard Bernstein guest conducted.
Francis pressed the limits of what an African American woman was permitted to achieve in early 20th century Minnesota.
A world of Twin Cities art and culture awaits this weekend after the snowstorm.
“Out There: Cécile McLorin Salvant, Ogresse: Envisioned” peforms Friday and Saturday, Feb. 24 and 25, at the Walker Art Center.
Raised in a large Catholic family in north Minneapolis, Simms became a national celebrity for her leading role in the first all-Black performance of the Broadway show “Anna Lucasta.”
Beckman is an anomaly on the Minnesota music landscape: a one-man rhythm section and big-hearted and genial host who has carved out a distinct scene with his regular appearances at Twin Cities bars.
Plus: New music via the Cedar Commissions; U of M apparel design showcase; play takes on the pandemic era; and more.
Composer Mary Ellen Childs’ “North” runs Wednesdays to Saturdays at the Anderson Center in Red Wing through April 22. The piece recognizes the awe and majesty of nature and portrays — through sensory channels — the existential threat of climate change.
On Feb. 13, 1906, William Williams was the last person legally executed by the state of Minnesota.
On Sunday at 4 p.m., Bates and Hanson will celebrate the release of “Weights and Measures” with a performance in the space where it was recorded: Christ Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill.
Plus: “A Soldier’s Play” at the Fitzgerald; the art of Ron Mosman; eclectic sounds and video art curated by Pieta Brown and Liz Draper; and more.
Poet, writer, critic and playwright David Mura takes on systemic racism in America in his new book, “The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives.” The impetus for the book came after Philando Castile was shot by a police officer at a traffic stop in Falcon Heights.
Minnesota enacted its first major human rights law in 1967. That statute made it unlawful to discriminate against people based on race, color, creed, and national origin in unions, employment, education, public services, and public accommodations.
Plus: ‘Cold Air Rises’; a Peyton Scott Russell retrospective; a Minnesota Center for Book Arts open house; and more.
During a three-week residency in the Twin Cities, Kablusiak will give talks and participate in several events. Their art on display at Bockley Gallery in Kenwood.