GLOW Holiday Festival to light up the fairgrounds
ALSO: 2021 NEA Jazz Masters announced; Gypsy Mania Hot Club Quartet to be livestreamed from the Dakota; Bill McKibben online for Westminster Town Hall Forum; and more.
Artscape
Artscape focuses on Twin Cities arts institutions, personalities, performances, money and politics, encompassing all forms of the arts. It appears on Tuesday through Friday.
Pamela Espeland has written about the arts for MinnPost since our launch in 2007.
2020 Twin Cities Film Fest goes hybrid; Jungle Theater announces fall season
ALSO: “Women of Broadway: Patti Lupone” online; Dodge Poetry Festival Opening Celebration on Zoom; and more.
Bonding bill’s long journey ended well for the arts
ALSO: Virtual Club Book features David Treuer: “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee”; Pen Pals with Colum McCann; musical instruments and aerosols research; and more.
G. Phillip Shoultz III of VocalEssence: ‘Stopping has never been an option for me’
Shoultz leads the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers (32 professional singers), the VocalEssence Chorus (115-120 volunteer singers) and the youth choir VocalEssence Singers of This Age, aka VESOTA.
Two streaming films have Minnesota ties; The Moving Company launches web mini-series
ALSO: Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company: “Operation: Immigration”; The Theater of Public Policy: “What Is the Future of Public Media?”
Mia’s remodeled Asian galleries to open; Twin Cities Book Festival to begin
ALSO: Happening Now — Art Month in St. Paul; American Swedish Institute’s Drive Thru Lutfisk Dinner; “Wuthering Heights” opera; and more.
MSP Film Society’s ‘Cine Latino’ film festival goes virtual and Minnesota-wide
Scheduled for Oct. 15-22, the MSP Film Society’s 2020 showing of the best new U.S. Latino, Latin American and Iberian films has been dubbed “Cine Latino En Casa” – at home.
Rain Taxi’s Eric Lorberer: ‘Writers are thought leaders and maybe heart leaders as well’
Rain Taxi will publish its 100th issue this winter. And next week the 2020 Twin Cities Book Festival will take place virtually over three days: Oct. 15 through Oct. 17.
New MacArthur Fellows have Minnesota ties; ‘Sweet Land’ goes virtual
ALSO: Talk of the Stacks features Julia Alvarez on Zoom; Bloodline with Diane Miller + Big Shoe 4tet in the courtyard at Icehouse; and more.
A big opening weekend for classical music: Minnesota Orchestra, SPCO and Schubert Club’s International Artist Series
What was manifestly clear in all three performances was how much the musicians want to perform for us, stay engaged with us and continue to bring their artistry to us.
Ibram X. Kendi’s Distinguished Carlson Lecture; Arts for Biden-Harris holds virtual Zoom rally
ALSO: Ariana Kim: “How Many Breaths?” Live Mini-Concerts; Talking Volumes: Sarah Broom, on Zoom; and more.
Conductor Sarah Hicks: ‘I can’t wave to silence, or to an empty room’
Hicks will host the first of six livestreamed concerts by the Minnesota Orchestra tonight, Oct. 2. All are free.
New murals in St. Paul’s Creative Enterprise Zone, new Community Supported Art from Springboard
ALSO: Magers & Quinn presents Neal Karlen and “This Thing Called Life: Prince’s Odyssey On + Off the Road” online; on Cantus’ website: “There Lies the Home”; and more.
Minnesota Orchestra musicians sign two-year contract extension; the Weisman to reopen
ALSO: Guthrie to present virtual ‘Christmas Carol’; Illusion Theater presents Carlyle Brown’s ‘Down in Mississippi’; and more.
Penumbra receives $2.5 million Ford Foundation grant; Schubert Club announces 2020-21 Mix season
ALSO: Club Book presents Dahr Jamail; Uptown Brass at Crooners; Minnesota History Center to reopen; and more.
Northrop’s Kari Schloner: ‘My crystal ball is broken’
On Sept. 29, Northrop will host its first live performance in more than six months when Katelyn Emerson plays the refurbished Aeolian-Skinner organ for a limited-capacity audience of 250 or fewer.
Chamber Music Society of Minnesota to premiere new work in memory of George Floyd
ALSO: Homes by Architects Tour goes virtual; Illusion Theater presents “Five Minutes of Heaven” on Zoom; and more.
Artist-led projects promote community healing; Pillsbury House to present ‘Flip the Script: The Great Divide IV’
ALSO: streaming live from the Dakota: Nachito Herrera; a (virtual) evening with Renée Fleming and Vanessa Williams; and more.
National Book Awards longlists include Minneapolis author and publishers; Minnesota Opera at CHS Field
ALSO: Theatre Pro Rata postpones “Top Girls”; fall pottery sales move (mostly) online; and more.
Composer deVon Russell Gray: ‘My work is a mirror’
Gray, aka dVRG, is a classically trained composer, multi-instrumentalist and new-music performer who finds himself in a surprisingly good place, like the eye of a storm.
