Small Oscar-nominated films tackle big topics; Rick Steves introduces Minnesota Orchestra’s musical journey
ALSO: The SPCO presents Bach’s Saint John Passion; “Hemingway” on TPT 2; and more.
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Pamela Espeland writes the Artscape column for MinnPost. She also writes for the Star Tribune, NPR and mnartists.org, blogs at bebopified.com, and is an Art Hound for Minnesota Public Radio. She can be reached at pespeland@minnpost.com.
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‘Jazz Fest Live’ draws thousands of viewers to music made in Minnesota
The series began with streams from musicians’ homes and apartments. It has since streamed from Crooners, Walker West Music Academy and, starting in September, the stage at the Dakota.
Alexs Pate receives 2021 Kay Sexton Award; Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Chelsea Manning in conversation
ALSO: “Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story” on TPT 2; Schubert Club presents Clara Osowski and Jeffrey Van in a Courtroom Concert; and more.
Wordplay will return for its second virtual year; St. Paul’s Patric Richardson debuts on Discovery+ as ‘The Laundry Guy’
ALSO: Guthrie Theater presents “Dining With the Ancestors”; Nachito Herrera: Tribute to Chick Corea at the Dakota; and more.
Ananya Chatterjea: ‘What a beautiful view it is to imagine a just world’
The 2021 A.P. Anderson Award honoree is dancer and choreographer Ananya Chatterjea, the founder of Ananya Dance Theatre.
When can the arts reopen? Dr. Fauci says, ‘If we are careful … sometime in the fall’
ALSO: VocalEssence’s “Call of the North” features Minnesota composers and poets; Davina and the Vagabonds to livestream from the Dakota; and more.
Statewide book club reading ‘Slider’; Walker presents Danez Smith and Dark Noise Collective
ALSO: Ragamala will dance to a new home in Kingfield; Talking Volumes presents Talking Race with Naima Coster; and more.
Northern Spark to return; a conversation with Claudia Rankine
ALSO: A video walk-through tour of the Gwen Westerman exhibition “From These Hands”; a livestream of The Broadway Cast Reunion series: “Dear Evan Hansen”; and more.
Tech entrepreneur Abraham Piper: ‘We wanted to try something different’
In 2019, Piper and Josh Sowin started a new company called Blue Kazoo. Separate from Brainjolt, Blue Kazoo makes premium jigsaw puzzles.
Theater Latté Da’s ‘Re-Cast’ is beautiful and personal; Rain Taxi presents Timothy Brennan and Nico Muhly
ALSO: Talking Volumes, Talking Race with Chang-rae Lee; pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Minnesota Orchestra in livestream; and more.
The Hook & Ladder announces two months of outdoor concerts; the State Ballet of Georgia on film for Northrop
ALSO: CTC streaming “Seedfolks”; Open Eye @ Home offers “Diary of a Madman”; and more.
Minnesota Orchestra will offer in-person concerts in June; Maria Schneider wins two more Grammys
ALSO: Club Book presents Claire Lombardo: “The Most Fun We Ever Had”; “Before Vaccines: Art and the Plague in Italy” at Mia; and more.
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.
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.
