The Mill City Farmers Market boasts the best indoor winter market in town from November to April. Shop from over 40 local farmers, food vendors, and artists from 10:00am to 1:00pm inside the Mill City Museum.
Note - The final 2017 Winter Market will be April 22!
Time: 9:00pm $5 Cover
Location: Day Block Brewing Company, 1103 Washington Avenue South
Tonight: Semi-Pro Comedy Show
Our Monthly comedy showcase returns this month as Semi-Pro Comedy Show. Hosted by Sidney Oxborough and featuring some of the best local comedians on the scene.
Times: Friday, April 7 at 8pm / Saturday, April 8 at 8pm*
Location: Ted Mann Concert Hall, 2128 S 4th Street
"Hand in Hand" with Heartland Men's Chorus
For the first time in many years, the men of the Chorus will invite another GALA Chorus to share the stage at Ted Mann Concert Hall! These two gay men's choruses as they perform a collection of songs including the area premiere of "Tyler's Suite," the new work that is making its mark in the LGBT choral movement. Join us for an evening of outstanding music and great entertainment! Tickets
*Saturday's performance is ASL interpreted.
Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Sheridan Memorial Park, 1300 Water Street NE
Minnesota Environmental Fund presents: Mississippi River Walk - Northeast Minneapolis
Nature, art and history come together at Sheridan Memorial Park, where participants will explore the wild banks of the beloved Mississippi River together. The free River Walk will kick off at the beautiful park at 2:30 pm. After the walk, you’re welcome to join a happy hour at one of the many breweries, bars and restaurants nearby. Come take the opportunity to meet other adventurers. The walk is free (but donations to the event organizer, Minnesota Environmental Fund, are always appreciated). Rain or shine. Walking shoes will be helpful!
Dates/times - see info link below.
Location: The Lab Theater, 700 1st North Street
Inspired by personal narratives and short stories about partition, 5 Weeks brings to stage the stories of Hindus, Muslims, Parsis, Anglo-Indians, and the fate of women and children abducted during the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. Set at this pivotal moment in South Asian history, this play journeys through a complex web of narratives, bringing to life those forced to flee what they once called home, the pressures to choose allegiance, and the desperate search for compassion in a time when humanity hung in the balance.
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Guthrie Theater, Dowling Studio, 818 Second Street S
Big Ideas: Can Literature Make a Damn Bit of Difference?
Imagine a world where everyone read an hour each day. What would that world look like, and would it be better than the one we're living in? Join the Loft as we host Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James and Executive Director of the National Book Foundation Lisa Lucas for a wide-ranging conversation about the importance, issues, and opportunities that books bring to our lives and culture.
Co-presented with the Minnesota Book Publishers' Roundtable, and with generous venue support from the Guthrie Theater.
General tickets are $15 ($10 members).
There is also a special pre-reception at Spoonriver with Lisa Lucas and Marlon James for $160. It includes a reserved ticket to the event, appetizers, and a complimentary drink. Learn more about this special reception through this link.
Lisa Lucas is the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as the Publisher of Guernica, a non-profit online magazine focusing on writing that explores the intersection of art and politics with an international and diverse focus. Lucas also serves on the literary council of the Brooklyn Book Festival.
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His most recent novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also a New York Times Notable Book. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. James is a Loft board member and lives in Minneapolis.
About Big Ideas
"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.” James Baldwin said that. And we agree.
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
There's always something fun happening – games, crafts, shows or a great idea that the group chooses. Join in to discover what we're doing over spring break! Materials provided.
Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: Spoonriver, 750 South 2nd Street
Special Reception with Marlon James and Lisa Lucas More Info
Before Marlon James and Lisa Lucas take the stage for Big Ideas: Can Literature Make a Damn Bit of Difference?, a lively discussion about the importance, issues, and opportunities that books bring to our lives and culture, please join us for an intimate pre-event reception with the featured guests at Spoonriver (next door to the Guthrie).
Your ticket to the reception includes one complimentary drink, delicious appetizers, and admission to the main event at 7 p.m. (as well as seating in the front section of the theater).
All proceeds benefit the programs for readers and writers at the Loft. ($115 of each ticket is tax-deductible.)
If you have any questions about the reception, please contact Katriona Molasky at kmolasky@loft.org or 612-215-2598.
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South
Sheep Theater presents: The Assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary Franz Ferdinand
Sarajevo, June 28, 1914. Gavrilo Princip, with the help of five other members of Young Bosnia, assassinated the Austrian-Hungarian heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.
General admission: $20 in advance ($24 at the door); Student (with ID): $12; ARTshare members free.
Time: 11pm
Location: The Pint Public House, 430 N 1st Avenue
Swing Me Until the Moonlight at The Pint Public House
Time: 7:00pm
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, Antonello Hall, 501 S. 2nd Street
Music and the Brain – A Perfect Orchestration Throughout Our Life Span
LeagueAires Annual Symposium Featuring Keynote Speaker Melissa Wenszell
The LeagueAires Annual Symposium, sponsored by the Suzanne Holmes Hodder Legacy Fund, was established in 2012 to offer public educational events on the joy and healing power of music. Melissa Wenszell is the MacPhail Music Therapy department Co-Founder, Senior Music Therapist. She is a Neurological Music Therapist and is a Fellow through the Center for Biomedical Research in Music at Colorado State University. Melissa will present current research, best practices and experiential opportunities and will utilize brain scans to demonstrate the positive effects music has on the brain. No tickets required. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
For information: http://www.macphail.org/events/leagueaires-annual-symposium-featuring-keynote-speaker-melissa-wenszell/
Time: Doors at 6:30pm | Music at 7:30pm
Location: Aria, 105 North First Street
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music, Walker Art Center and Schubert Club Mix present Roomful of Teeth Featuring the World Premiere of Self_one by Nick Zammuto
Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, and sonic experimentalist Nick Zammuto (The Books) assemble a custom-built evening of sound explorations in a world premiere collaboration commissioned by the SPCO’s Liquid Music, Walker Art Center and Schubert Club Mix. In addition, the vocal ensemble performs the Minnesota premiere of Partita for 8 Voices, group member Caroline Shaw’s mesmerizing Pulitzer Prize-winning composition.
“We’re thrilled to join the line-up of world class, groundbreaking artists this year and are especially honored to be co-presented by Liquid Music, The Schubert Club and Walker Art Center, three of our favorite arts organizations in the country,” says Roomful of Teeth member Brad Wells. “Our collaboration with Nick Zammuto promises to elicit sounds and grooves that could only manifest in such a thoughtfully supported and artfully curated production. Nick’s brilliance – creating intricate, tech-based grooves that seem to levitate – will be on full display in this new work. The piece features magical moments in which individual singers from Teeth are spotlighted as well as vast flowing musical tapestries for the whole group.”
Nick Zammuto explains that Self one, his new piece for Roomful of Teeth, “cycles between solos sung through a pitch/delay unit with an analog synth accompaniment, and highly rhythmic ensemble sections.” Nick elaborates that the the piece is about “finding our identities within a digital house of mirrors.”
“Roomful of Teeth’s Twin Cities’ debut is long overdue,” says Liquid Music curator Kate Nordstrum. “To make up for lost time, The Schubert Club, Walker and Liquid Music are banding together to commission a new work for the ensemble and jointly present the collaboration. We’re all great admirers of Nick Zammuto’s musical mind and so when we heard that Roomful of Teeth were hoping to work with him, we jumped on the opportunity. Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices will also be featured on the program, a special and electric piece that will sound and feel amazing at Aria.”
TICKETS: $30 ($25 for Liquid Music and Schubert Club Mix subscribers and Walker Art Center members)
Time: 9:00am - 2:00pm
Location: Minneapolis Central Library, 2nd Floor, 300 Nicollet Mall
Job-seekers can connect with actively-recruiting companies at a career fair Monday, April 3, sponsored by Hennepin County Work and Economic Resource Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Job-seekers are encouraged to dress professionally and bring copies of their resume.
This career fair is part of a series of events to pair employers looking for workers with employees looking for job opportunities. All participating businesses are aiming to fill multiple openings.
Recruiters from nearly 40 organizations will attend the career fair, including:
• ACR Homes • Augustana Care • Carefree Living • City of Minneapolis • CobornsDelivers • Comcast • Cub Foods • Delta Global Services • Doherty Staffing • Domino’s • DoubleTree by Hilton - Bloomington Minneapolis South • DoubleTree by Hilton - Minneapolis Park Place • DoubleTree by Hilton - Minneapolis North • Ebenezer Society • Family Dollar • FedEx Ground • First Student • First Transit • Goodwill-Easter Seals • HMSHost • Hennepin County • Hilton Minneapolis • Hyatt Regency Minneapolis • Indrotec • Mall of America • Minneapolis Marriott City Center • Monterrey Security • Options Family and Behavior Services • PeopleReady • Select Comfort • Sojos pet food • Super America • SUPERVALU Distribution Center • Swissport North America • Target (downtown) • United States Postal Service • UPS • WIS International
• YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities
This location is served by several bus routes. To find the best one, visit http://www.metrotransit.org/ or call 612-373-3333.
Time: 1 PM - 7 PM
Location: Target Field, 1 Twins Way
Opening Day: Minnesota Twins vs. Kansas City Royals
Watch the Twins on Opening Day take on the Royals at Target FIeld! First pitch is at 3:10 p.m.
Giveaway
The first 30,000 fans will receive a Minnesota Twins Long Sleeve Hooded Tee (Adult M or XL.) Presented By Your Local Northland Ford Dealers.
Time: 7 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South
Dangerous Productions will be holding a staged reading of COLD which will be a part of this year's Twin Cities Horror Festival. We'll follow up the reading with feedback from YOU, the audience.
Admission is $Pay What You Can!
More about the project:
White privilege and white supremacy are woven into nearly every institution, process, and product in the United States. The country was founded on stolen land, built by slave labor, and continues to oppress people of color in overt and invisible ways.
DP has chosen to use the lens of horror to expose the true nature of white privilege, and show the damage it can do not only to people of color, but to the white community as well.
Time: 6:30pm
Location: The Loft Literary Center, at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave
Second Story Reading with Duchess Harris and Caren Stelson
30 Days of Biking: MSP Kickoff Ride 2017!
Celebrate the beginning of 30 Days of Biking with this flagship kickoff ride.
Meet at 11:00am at The Commons, Minneapolis, enjoy artisan-roasted coffees from Bell Lap Coffee, and roll out around 12 Noon after opening remarks, thank-yous, and a big group photo, then hit the streets for a slow-paced bike stroll around the Twin Cities. The ride ends at Surly Brewing Company's Destination Brewery.
#30daysofbiking sign-up opens March 1, 2017, at http://30DOB.com/
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd Street
$16 adults, $14 seniors and college students, $12 ages 5-17, $4 discount MNHS members, includes museum admission
Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555
Take an in-depth look at the historic Washburn A Mill complex and the award-winning Mill City Museum building. A guide will take visitors into the building's many nooks and crannies, highlighting the lives of the men and women who worked there, how the building functioned during its peak flour milling years and the many changes to the building over time. This is the only opportunity for a guided tour through the entire museum building and the only chance to see some of its nonpublic spaces.
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Location: Central Library, Doty Board Room, 300 Nicollet Mall
Secrets of the Gateway: A LGBTQ History Tour of Downtown Minneapolis
Explore the rich queer history of downtown Minneapolis with local author and historian Stewart Van Cleve. Following a presentation at Minneapolis Central Library, Van Cleve will lead a short walking tour of the area surrounding the library. An opportunity for questions and discussion will be held at the final stop on the tour. This project is funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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