Walker issues call for indigenous public art; Julian Lage Trio at Turf Club
ALSO: Classical music’s rising stars to perform at Orchestra Hall; The 2019 Governor’s Council MLK Day Celebration at the Ordway; and more.
Artscape
MLK celebrations and concerts; ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’ at Children’s Theatre
ALSO: Fireside Readings Series is announced; Mill City String Quartet at the Baroque Room; and more.
Forecast Public Art awards $86,000 in grants; free tickets for furloughed workers
ALSO: Vänskä Conducts Future Classics at Orchestra Hall; “The Great Leap” at the Guthrie; and more.
Parkland survivor David Hogg to speak at Westminster; ‘Carmina Burana’ at the Cowles
ALSO: Poets, Writers, Musicians Against the War on the Earth at ASI; 38th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute Concert at Ted Mann; and more.
Pillsbury House’s 2019 season to include 5 commissioned short plays
ALSO: JazzMN’s founding artistic director to step down after 20 years; ‘Hope & Fury’ to screen at the Minnesota History Center; and more.
HOBT: Yet another arts group struggles to survive; ‘The Children’ at the Jungle
ALSO: “Calling the Light” at East Side Freedom Library; Rosy Simas Danse: “Weave” at the Ordway; and more.
Everything comes together in Gremlin’s ‘The Father’; Minnesota Orchestra’s American Expressions Festival
ALSO: Raw Stages New Works Festival at the History Theatre; “Beyond Broadway: Not Just a Stage” at Ted Mann; and more.
PBS airs ‘The Dictator’s Playbook’; Out There at the Walker
ALSO: Behind the Curtain with LOFTrecital at the Lab; Two x Deux at Vieux Carré; and more.
Icehouse to begin new Monday Night Jazz program
ALSO: A Soap Factory Town Hall Meeting; The Bakken Trio: “Seven Romances” at MacPhail; Nancy Harms at Crooners; and more.
Science Museum’s Omnifest to screen 5 films; Common Good Books is for sale
ALSO: “The Father” at Gremlin Theatre; Maud Hixson and Rick Carlson: The 1940s Songbook at Crooners; and more.
Warren MacKenzie: a profoundly influential Minnesota potter
ALSO: “Time for Ilhan” at St. Anthony Main; “Somalis + Minnesota” at the Minnesota History Center; “Star Wars: A New Hope” Complete Film with Live Orchestra; and more.
7 memorable arts stories of 2018
These columns are a small window into the changes, challenges and triumphs of our thriving and evolving arts scene.
25 of the best things we saw and heard in 2018: A year in the arts
We can’t go to everything, but we try to hit as many arts events as we can. In 2018, we saw many memorable performances. For various reasons, these rose to the top.
Check out holiday happenings, from Hill House tours to The Bad Plus
ALSO: “Kephra: A Hip Hop Holiday Story”; the Pat Mallinger Quartet at Vieux Carré; and more.
Harrowing ‘Blackbird’ continues Dark & Stormy’s anti-holiday programming tradition
If you’re looking for something that challenges your thinking, treats you like a grownup, stays with you for days after you’ve seen it and fills you with admiration for the actors, “Blackbird” is your ticket.
Playwright Harrison David Rivers wins national award; MN Orchestra and Dessa to do live recording
ALSO: Garth Brooks adds second show in Minneapolis; “Les Miserábles” at the Orpheum; “Nutcracker (not so) Suite” at the Cowles; and more.
Soap Factory faces sheriff’s sale; Roy Hargrove tribute at the Dakota
ALSO: “Snaildartha” at the Turf Club; Readings by Writers at the University Club of St. Paul; and more.
SPCO reports a strong 2017-18; ‘Home for the Holidays’ at Orchestra Hall
ALSO: “Teen Idol: The Bobby Vee Story” at the History Theatre; SPCO to perform Bach’s “Brandenburg” Concertos; and more.
National Gallery lucky to get Kaywin Feldman
ALSO: David Harrower’s “Blackbird” at Grain Belt Warehouse; Yarnado 2018 at Rogue Buddha Gallery; and more.
Violinist Kopatchinskaja’s farewell SPCO concert: What an exit!
The violinist addressed the audience, explaining that while the first part of the concert had been about “joy and youthfulness, drinking songs and fireworks,” the second part would be about “love and farewells.”