Minnesota Fringe Virtual Festival is coming; several museums are now open
ALSO: Reopening: The Minnesota Zoo (July 25) and Como Zoo (July 29); both will require reservations.
Arts & Culture
Covering Minnesota’s theater, music, dance, literature and visual arts.
A Fair Food Parade; Minnesota Children’s Museum to open on Aug. 1
ALSO: Jazz Fest Live presents the Laura Caviani Quartet; Talk of the Stacks features Larry Watson via Zoom; and more.
Latté Da streaming part of new musical, ‘Broadbend, Arkansas’
ALSO: All remaining Open Streets events for 2020 canceled; Source Song Festival goes virtual; and more.
Chopin Society announces scaled-back 2020-21 season; Wing Young Huie at the Landmark Center
ALSO: a Rain Taxi Summer Issue Virtual Party; “John Lewis: Good Trouble” is available; and more.
Why the American Indian Movement started the Heart of the Earth Survival School
AIM had identified the urgent need for Indigenous children to be educated within their own communities.
New art on State Theatre façade; Doors Open Minneapolis moves to 2021
ALSO: 16 artists to do a Black Lives Matter Mural painting; a new virtual film lineup from MSP Film Society; and more.
The M ousts its executive director; State Fair’s Fine Arts show will go on
ALSO: “Amadeus” on National Theatre at Home; a Roots, Rock & Deep Blues Virtual Festival; and more.
Down to the wire: Minneapolis Institute of Art to reopen Thursday, after 124 days
You’ll need a timed ticket. Only 250 people will be allowed inside at a time. Masks must be worn, and social distancing is required.
‘One Book One Minnesota’ explores racism close to home; History Theatre Zooms about ‘Glensheen’
ALSO: “A Breath for George” at ASI; “Minnesota’s Black Community in the 21st Century” live virtual book launch; and more.
When the Minneapolis Institute of Art opened it displayed 450 works of art. Today, its collection contains more than 89,000 objects
The Minneapolis Institute of Art opened in 1915, an outgrowth of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts.
Music @ Franconia; Playwrights’ Center’s ‘Summer in Conversation’ series
ALSO: a Karrin Allyson Livestream Performance; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres to launch “Summer Concerts in the Main” series; and more.
Ten Thousand Things’ Marcela Lorca: ‘Uncertainty is the name of the game’
The last live performance we saw pre-COVID was TTT’s “Thunder Knocking on the Door,” a Black musical about the blues. That was March 12. On March 13, nearly everything had closed or was about to.
Park Square to offer online serial Jeffrey Hatcher mystery, ‘Riddle Puzzle Plot’
ALSO: Walker Art Center, Bell Museum to reopen; Minnesota Zoo offering drive-through ‘Beastly Boulevard’ experience; and more.
Minnesota Orchestra cancels 16 full-orchestra concerts, will start phased reopening with smaller concerts outdoors
The chamber concerts are being offered as a complimentary thank you to those who currently hold tickets to the canceled August and early September performances. A small number of tickets will be available to the public through an online lottery system.
CTC postpones reopening until March, reduces staff; 25 MN groups to share $1.25 million in CARES funding
ALSO: Mellon Foundation announces new focus on social justice; Jazz Fest Live events will move to Crooners’ outdoor spaces; and more.
St. Paul’s Charles Thompson Memorial Hall was the first social club for the deaf in the United States
Along with a large assembly hall, the building featured a bowling alley, a social hall, a maplewood dance floor, and a children’s play area.
Mia’s Michael Lapthorn: ‘All of our friends have been waiting for us at the museum this whole time’
The museum will reopen on July 16. Lapthorn is among Mia staff charged with preparing the museum to receive visitors safely during a pandemic.
Lyndel King’s Weisman legacy; Museum of Russian Art reopens
ALSO: Como Conservatory reopens; new dates for Hennepin Theatre Trust’s “Cats” and “Tootsie”; an online anthology of 55+ Black MN voices; and more.
The history of Minnesota’s only national park: Voyageurs
Forty percent of the area of Voyageurs is covered in lakes.
The Trylon Cinema’s Barry Kryshka: ‘Sometimes it’s kind of great to be small’
Like most of Minnesota, the Trylon closed its doors in March. It will reopen next Friday, July 3, with safety protocols in place.
