Where the Mountain Meets the MoonMay 17, 2012 - May 20, 2012This event occurs weekly on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Young Minli lives with her parents near Fruitless Mountain, surviving on the meager fare they can produce. Inspired by the rich tales her father tells (and by magical goldfish), Minli determines she will find the Old Man of the Moon who, it is said, knows the secret of good fortune. On her quest she encounters royalty, dragons, and several more stories, from which she learns what true good... |
LIVE LIFE WELLMay 17, 2012Ispíri Design-Build, Warners’ Stellian, and Woodwinds Health Campus are hosting their third “LIVE LIFE WELL” event where homeowners will hear about ways to achieve whole being wellness, as well as learn how to turn their kitchen into an enjoyable living and entertaining space instead of simply a place to cook. The Ispíri Design & Warners’... |
Absentee LandlordMay 17, 2012 - Jul 29, 2012“Who should room together in the world of contemporary art? Can a Russ Meyer photograph go to sleep in the same gallery as an Yves Klein blue chip masterpiece?” Pop culture provocateur John Waters raises a host of questions in Absentee Landlord, his devious and sometimes irreverent curatorial intervention in the exhibition Event Horizon. Imagining the galleries as rental... |
Vasa LisaMay 17, 2012 - May 20, 2012This event occurs daily, every 1 day(s). Based on Russian folk tales, Kira Obolensky's world premiere play traces the journey of a young woman who ventures into a dangerous woods to confront Baba Yaga the witch. Open Book, May 4-6, 11-13, 25-27 MN Opera Center, May 18-20 |
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been...May 17, 2012 - May 20, 2012This event occurs daily, every 1 day(s). The year is 1953 in the Harlem apartment of Negro writer Langston Hughes. He sits to write a poem. Exposed, guilt-ridden and fearful of the coming day, he confesses how he intends to answer McCarthy's accusations on being a communist. As he tells the story of what he's written and why, and of his difficult and wonderful life as a writer, the poem continues to grow and clarify as... |
The Amen CornerMay 17, 2012 - Jun 17, 2012This event occurs daily, every 1 day(s). Sister Margaret Alexander, pastor of her church, has devoted her life to serving the Lord, but when her son unexpectedly reunites her with her estranged husband, she finds herself torn. Featuring live gospel music by the renowned Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, The Amen Corner illuminates the power of love and the price of salvation. |
Ispiri Kitchen Renovation and Lifestyle WorkshopMay 17, 2012"Kitchen envy" getting you down? Are you wanting to live life well? Learn how to eat well, enjoy and appreciate fine wines, and how to design your kitchen so you can start enjoying your home? Join us for fun kitchen design ideas by the best kitchen design team in the Twin Cities, and discover the Joy of Good Food with Kowalski's. Sample, taste and learn about fine wines and... |
Sticks and Stoneware ExhibitionMay 17, 2012 - Jun 29, 2012Raymond Avenue Gallery is pleased to announce its second 2012 exhibition: Sticks and Stoneware. The Fiber Artist, Nancy Stevens MacKenzie, enjoys improvising transformations of mundane materials and aesthetic challenges. She takes great pleasure from experimenting with her stock of scavenged and recycled materials which have included, but have not been limited to, baling twine, barbed... |
Rip, Romp & HowlMay 17, 2012 - May 19, 2012This event occurs daily, every 1 day(s). “Rip, Romp & Howl” is a rowdy evening of short contemporary dance and performance works created by Ivey and Sage Award-winning dance and theatre company Off-Leash Area. With subjects and inspiration ranging from cloned human organs to 80’s art star Jean Michel Basquiat, the Off-Leash artistic directors unleash themselves – and nearly 20 of the area’s best... |
FLO(we){u}RMay 17, 2012 - May 27, 2012FLO(we){u}R highlights a little known detail of American history. Beginning in 1914 terra cotta factories, which produced the decorative facades on buildings in downtowns across the United States, were commissioned to make ceramic test bombs for the military. Historically, the ceramic bombs were filled with baking flour and dropped from airplanes. The white marks made by the broken shells... |