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.
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State Fair adds more Food Parades; Schubert Club opens 2020-21 season with Pacifica Quartet
ALSO: Theater Mu’s TwentyPho Hour (virtual) Playfest; Tommy Orange’s virtual Pen Pals appearance; and more.
Cowles announces 2020-21 season; Graywolf book is shortlisted for Booker Prize
ALSO: Natalie Diaz and Patricia Smith: 2020 McKnight Judges’ Reading (online); Jazz Fest Live presents Jon Weber; and more.
Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson to return to ASI – virtually
ALSO: UMN English Writers Series includes a MacArthur ‘genius’; photography show opens at Mia; and more.
The American Swedish Institute’s Bruce Karstadt: ‘Adaptation, experimentation and creativity’
The American Swedish Institute reopens today. Timed tickets must be purchased in advance.
Talking Volumes finalized; ‘A Breath for George’ to stream online
ALSO: “Behind the March”: A Live Play Reading; the 21st Annual Minnesota Children’s Book Festival; “Designs for Different Futures” at the Walker; and more.
Minnesota Orchestra moves fall concerts to TV, radio and streaming; TPT presents ‘Hippocrates Café’
ALSO: Major shows of quilts by women of color; Delphia Cello Quartet at Icehouse’s courtyard; and more.
The Science Museum’s Alison Rempel Brown: ‘A whole series of things had to get pushed’
As the Science Museum of Minnesota reopens, MinnPost talked with President and CEO Alison Rempel Brown.
Walker Moving Image; a weekend at Franconia Sculpture Park
ALSO: Peter Geye presents “Northernmost” on Zoom; the Met’s “Porgy and Bess,” streamed; and more.
Bach Society of Minnesota, Cantus announce 2020-21 seasons; Davina and the Vagabonds at Crooners
ALSO: “CoroNation: A Film by Ai Weiwei” available online; Pavielle at Icehouse; and more.
Author events go virtual; History Theatre’s ‘Diesel Heart’ on Zoom
ALSO: Northern Clay Center’s virtual American Pottery Festival; a free screening of Justin Stephenson’s film “The Complete Works”; and more.
State Fair fine arts 2020: immediate, urgent, of-the-moment
ALSO: Author/historian Jon Meacham in Conversation With Wes Moore; a Flint Hills Virtual Family Festival; and more.
The SPCO hits the reset button again, with a fall concert series full of surprises – and free
The SPCO has announced a series of six live concert video streams to be broadcast in October and November from the Ordway Concert Hall. For safety reasons, there won’t be an audience.
State Fair fun, without the actual fair; Robert Robinson at Crooners
ALSO: 20% Theatre Company will close permanently; Joan Growe launching new book; Trademark Theater’s fourth season announced; and more.
McKnight Distinguished Artist Marcie Rendon on life as a very busy writer
Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation and a writer for whom the word “prolific” is an understatement.
Photographer, writer and projectionist Bill Cottman: ‘You can’t do anything with time except use it’
His latest book of photographs, “Presence,” came out in June.
An actual play, live and in person; ‘Coup 53’ at MSP Film Society’s virtual cinema
ALSO: “Fresh: A Summer Selection” at Burnet Fine Art & Advisory in Wayzata; Cedar Thoms at Icehouse; and more.
New funds for arts organizations; a conversation with Jonatha Brooke
ALSO: More changes for Momentum; outside the Jungle Theater: “Shine a Light”; and more.
Science Museum readies to reopen; a Tchaikovsky celebration in Maple Grove
ALSO: Dan Newton, “Daddy Squeeze,” on the “porch” at Landmark Center; “A Good Time for the Truth” author discussion on Zoom; and more.
MJTC’s Barbara Brooks: ‘I just felt like we should keep doing the work we do’
The first play of the theater’s 26th season, Kate Moira Ryan and Judy Gold’s “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother,” opens Aug. 15 in the backyard of a private home in St. Paul.
