St. Paul’s Boyd Park commemorates a Black labor leader
Frank Boyd was a celebrated organizer in Minnesota for the country’s most influential African American labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, from 1926 to 1951.
Arts & Culture
Covering Minnesota’s theater, music, dance, literature and visual arts.
North Shore artists Dan and Lee Ross: Untying time
Their latest show, “Untying Time,” opens Saturday, March 13, at Groveland Gallery. Dan and Lee Ross will be there from noon until 3 p.m.
‘Merges in March’ at the Cowles; N. Scott Momaday on ‘Talking Volumes: Talking Race’
ALSO: Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society: “Dreams of Death” from Park Square; Club Book presents Imbolo Mbue; and more.
MacPhail spotlights electronic music; ‘My Rembrandt’ is a journey into highest-end collecting
ALSO: Theater Latté Da’s The Ghostlight Series “Re-Cast”; “Dolly Parton and Friends: 50 Years at the Grand Ol’ Opry”; and more.
All week is Seed Week; Accordo starts its 12th season
ALSO: Talking race with Reginald Dwayne Betts; Club Book features John Moe and “The Hilarious World of Depression”; and more.
Minnesota advocate Anna Arnold Hedgeman worked at the intersection of Black and women’s rights
Hedgeman was the only woman on the planning committee for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Golden Globe winner Chloé Zhao to speak at Walker Dialogue; Wanted: Minnesota’s next poet laureate
ALSO: Minnesota Orchestra: “Soaring Strings” livestream; poet Nikky Finney in livestreamed conversation with U of M poet and professor Douglas Kearney; and more.
Powerful theater for two, by phone; MNspin is open for submissions
ALSO: “Extraordinary Women” to open at the Minnesota History Center; the New Standards to livestream from the Dakota; and more.
Red Eye Theater to have a new home; JazzMN Quintet to perform
ALSO: History Theatre at Home: “Rez Road 2000”; Schubert Club International Artist Series presents David Finckel, Wu Han and Friends; and more.
‘MPLSART Sketchbook Project’ surveys our visual arts community, supports local artists
From July through December 2020, five sketchbooks traveled around the Twin Cities. Whenever one moved on, it carried with it something new: a sketch or two by an artist.
In the 1940s, Edna Larrabee and Beulah Brunelle escaped from the Shakopee Reformatory for Women five times
Their fourth escape, in 1949, led to eight months of freedom and allowed the two women to live together as a couple while traveling around the United States.
After $563 million in funding for the arts, Sheila Smith steps down
In her final week as executive director of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts (MCA), Smith talks about her tenure, the arts scene in Minnesota, and her plans.
SPCO to resume livestreams; remembering Barbara Field
ALSO: The 20th Annual Bicycle Film Festival – Minneapolis; a live reading of “The Fisherman’s Wife”; and more.
Zeitgeist’s COINCIDENT, Ep. 1: Music that autodestructs, with visuals from under a kitchen table
ALSO: A virtual Jearlyn & Jevetta Steele concert from the Dakota; the Science Museum to reopen; and more.
Italian Film Festival to open with ‘The Best Years’; book launch for ‘Funny Thing About Minnesota …’
ALSO: Heid Erdrich in Fireside Reading Series; Eduardo Porter at Club Book; and more.
167 years ago, the first rail link from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River was completed
To celebrate the feat, the Rock Island Railroad took a company of journalists and dignitaries on a rail and steamboat journey from the East Coast all the way to St. Paul.
A song for Michael Osterholm; Minnesota’s two new U.S. Artists Fellows
ALSO: Streaming on demand: “Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities”; the Jake Baldwin Quartet at Crooners; and more.
Minnesota Opera’s MNiatures expand our view of opera; ‘Illuminate the Lock’ returns
ALSO: At the Dakota, Robert Robinson Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month; Zealous Hellions: Nataki Garrett at Mixed Blood; and more.
Austene Van on her new role with Yellow Tree Theatre: ‘Absolutely a dream’
Knowing it’s very early in the game and we’re still in a pandemic, we asked Van to talk about her goals and ambitions for Yellow Tree. She was full of ideas.
An abundance of book and author events, all virtual, most free
And looking ahead to March, the Star Tribune and MPR have announced a special Talking Volumes series, Talking Volumes: Talking Race.
