Weekend picks: ‘Welcome to Indian Country,’ guitars at Como Lake; puppet lab
Indigenous music and storytelling, puppets, comic books and more are on the docket for this week.
Sheila Regan is a Twin Cities-based arts journalist. She writes MinnPost’s twice-weekly Artscape column. She can be reached at sregan@minnpost.com.
Indigenous music and storytelling, puppets, comic books and more are on the docket for this week.
The award-winning musician, cancer survivor and activist is performing at Shooting Star Casino in Mahnomen on Friday, Aug. 12.
Plus: ‘The Morning Dip,’ photography by Peggy Anderson at the Swedish Institute; reggae and more at a new music festival in Bloomington, and “Black Tongue” at Rosalux Gallery.
Agnes Woodward’s aunt instilled pride in her, and taught her to take up space as an Indigenous person.
Plus: The Northside Art Crawl kicks off Thursday, Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat” is on stage at the Guthrie, Pao Houa Her exhibits photographs at the Walker and Margot Bassett Silver has a Silversmith album release show.
“Confetti!” is more a contemporary-style circus: The story and the plot unfold through the narrative and are explained by way of choreography and theater, Betty Butler says.
Plus: “Hot off the Press” at Highpoint, Artepils fest at Utepils Brewing, Opera Under the Stars in Pershing Park and Venus DeMars at the 331 Club.
Cafesjian Baradaran grew up with the art that will be at the museum. “Every once in a while, the light would get in a certain way, and it would look like it was coming to life,” she says.
Plus: exhibits of two emerging Black Minnesota artists, International Day of Music in and around Orchestra Hall, Artaria performs the Razumovsky quartets, Dakota Spirit Walk at Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary and an Asian American ‘Death of a Salesman’ at the Conn.
Even today, the majority of mainstream theaters in the United States continue to be led by white people. That reality leads to inevitable skewed power dynamics within the form.
Plus: new paintings by John Gaunt at Rosalux, Uniquinox’s puppet festival, ‘Warming Show’ outdoor concert and Japanese Breakfast at First Avenue.
Lazarus saw some of the need in the country as the Minnesota Orchestra traveled to different townships in 2018. He also heard a very high level of music.
Plus: a new “Emma” at the Guthrie, the last chance for “Impact Theory of Mass Extinction” at Heart of the Beast, Minnesota Pops at Harriet and She Rock She Rock.
“These captains of trading ships were very much interested in super flamboyant pieces of clothing,” says Mia curator Andrea Marks. “They wanted to look freakin’ cool.”
Plus: the Pride festival and march, Indigo Girls and the Minnesota Orchestra, Jonatha Brooke, Rebecca Arons and Adi Yeshaya at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist, Cornbread Harris at the Icehouse, Film @ Franconia and a taste of SF art in NE Minneapolis.
There’s a strong cohort of young musicians in 2022, Heckler says. For example, Friday’s headliner is 21-year-old Matthew Whitaker, a B3 organ player from New Jersey.
Plus: Violinist and composer Ariana Kim at the Parkway, Hari Kondabolu at the Cedar, “AFROPUNK Live: Minneapolis,” a Midsommar party at the Swedish Institute and Juneteenth performances at the Dakota and at Crooners.
The play’s mix of utopia and dystopia, set in the 1980s, isn’t so dissimilar to today, two years after the murder of George Floyd.
Plus: Lela Pierce at the Bockley Gallery, Davu Seru at Jazz Central Studios, Teatro del Pueblo’s “Real Women Have Curves” and “Take Root Among the Stars: Black Abstraction in the Midwest” at SooVAC.
The story centers around a Khmer Rouge survivor who returns to Cambodia when his daughter is prosecuting a war criminal some 30 years after the genocide.
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By Sheila Regan | Columnist
Aug. 11, 2022