March 5, 2011, Saturday - David Holland String Master Class at MacPhail

Times:

2:00pm–4:00pm Viola Master Workshop
($5 General Admission at the door; Free for MacPhail students)

4:30pm-6:30pm Viola Workshop
(Fee Admission)

Location: MacPhail Center for Music, 501 2nd Street South

David Holland, principal viola for the Traverse Symphony Orchestra and the Midland Symphony in Michigan and formerly principal violist for the Duluth Symphony and conductor of the Duluth Youth Orchestra, will be conducting a series of String Master Classes at MacPhail Center for Music March 4 and 5.

For more information call 612-321-0100.

March 4, 2011, Friday - Ten Thousand Things' Doubt, A Parable at Open Book

Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Final weekend:  March 4-6, 2011

Times: 
Friday and Saturday shows start at 8:00pm
Sunday shows at 4:00pm

Doubt, A Parable by John Patrick Shanley

Directed by Peter Rothstein
Featuring Sally Wingert, Kris Nelson, Jane Froiland, and Regina Williams

A fiery battle between a nun and a priest over suspicions of the sexual abuse of a child. Can you get at the truth, when the truth is so colored by our lenses of experience?

Ten Thousand Things explores this central question with John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, A Parable, beginning with a tour to prisons, housing projects, homeless shelters and senior centers starting January 28, and culminating with four weekends of public performances at Open Book February 11 to March 6. Peter Rothstein guest directs Sally Wingert and Kris Nelson in this fiery battle between a nun and a priest over suspicions of sexual abuse of a child. The Doubt cast also includes Jane Froiland and Regina Marie Williams. Peter Vitale provides music, with sets by Dean Holzman and costumes by Amelia Cheever.

Tickets: $25. $15 student tickets on Sundays for current students (valid student ID is required at the door). Use the password DoubtStudent when making reservations.

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March 4, 2011, Friday - Lunch With MacPhail

Time:
Free lunch and program:  Noon – 12:45pm
Private Spotlight Preview:  1:00 – 1:30pm

Location: MacPhail Center for Music, 501 2nd Street South

Grab a friend and join us at noon on Fridays for a free lunch and insight into MacPhail’s programs with President, Paul Babcock.
Following lunch, stay for a private* performance, previewing music from our Spotlight Series.

Dates are as follows:

March 4, 2011
Una Noche en España
Voice, Piano Guitar and Flamenco Dancer
Featuring Andrea Leap, Faculty

April 1, 2011
Musical Folklore
Peter Ostroushko, mandolin and fiddle

June 3, 2011
Technology in Music Education
John Iverson, Disklavier Piano
(note this event begins at 11 am)

*Performances are a part of the Lunch with MacPhail event and are not open to the public

Call 612-767-5343 or email Schroder.amanda@macpahil.org to RSVP, space is limited.

March 4, 2011, Friday - Monthly 1st Precinct Court Watch Meeting at Central Library

Time: 10:00am

Location:  Doty Conference Room (2nd Floor) at the Central Library

The public's participation is welcome and appreciated at the 1st Precinct's monthly Court Watch meetings.

For questions, contact:
Renee Allen, Crime Prevention Specialist
Minneapolis Police Department, First Precinct
renee.allen@ci.minneapolis.mn.us
(612) 673-5163

March 4, 2011, Friday - ARENA Dances at Southern Theater (3 nights)

Times:
Friday, March 4- 8:00pm
Saturday, March 5 - 8:00pm
Sunday, March 6 - 7:00pm

Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

ARENA Dances brings to the stage the world premiere of I hate myself. Will you please love me?

This ironically dark comedy and cautionary tale of The Carpenters explores insecurities through the dancers’s “sly irreverence combined with mellow grace evocative of their easy listening pop style” (Star Tribune). Beautiful and idiosyncratic, Janczewski’s new work has a fresh attention to character and precision and an electrifying range of motion and emotion. With music by The Carpenters, Years, Bright Eyes and Fourtet.

March 4, 2011, Friday - David Holland String Master Class at MacPhail

Times:

4:30pm-6:30pm Viola Workshop
7:30pm-9:00pm Chamber Master Class featuring MacPhail Chamber groups

Location: MacPhail Center for Music, 501 2nd Street South

David Holland, principal viola for the Traverse Symphony Orchestra and the Midland Symphony in Michigan and formerly principal violist for the Duluth Symphony and conductor of the Duluth Youth Orchestra, will be conducting a series of String Master Classes at MacPhail Center for Music March 4 and 5.

Admission to both events is free.  For more information call 612-321-0100.

March 3, 2011, Thursday - Idris Goodwin at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Equilibrium Spoken Word: Idris Goodwin -- These Are The Breaks

Book release performance and celebration with Lisa Brimmer, Guante and Ed Bok Lee. Idris Goodwin is an award-winning playwright, poet and essayist who uses hip hop arts to create original genre-defying performances. His widely produced works have been supported by the The National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation, The National New Plays Network, The Hip Hop Theater Festival and The Illinois Arts Council. “What Is They Feedin’ Our Kids?,” Idris’ most popular spoken word poem, aired on HBO’s Def Poetry and The Discovery Channel's Planet Green. Break Beat Poems, his latest hip-hop album, earned praise from the New York Times and National Public Radio and These Are The Breaks, his debut collection of prose, was nominated for a Pushcart Award. Year round, Idris can be found at colleges, K-12 schools and community organizations across the country promoting cross-cultural literacy and social awareness. ~from Idris’ blog. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Givens Foundation for African American Literature.

March 1, 2011, Tuesday - Reading: An Evening in the Boundary Waters at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South

An evening in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness—at Open Book. Four authors will read from recently published books or works in progress:

Greg Breining writes about travel, science and nature for the New York Times, Audubon and other publications. He will read from his new book of essays (with photographs by Layne Kennedy) Paddle North: Canoeing the Boundary Waters-Quetico Wilderness.

Betty Vos Hemstad, nature photographer, community volunteer and summer resident on the Gunflint Trail for 35 years will present from her book Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters: Hiking Through the Seasons.

Joe Paddock is an award-winning poet and an environmental writer. In midlife he spent much of a six-year period living in a cabin on Minnesota's wild Kettle River. He is the principal author of the Sierra Club book Soil and Survival, and the author of Keeper of the Wild, the biography of Ernest Oberholtzer, the central early figure in the preservation of the boundary lakes region between Minnesota and Ontario. Paddock will read selections from this book that provide insight into that early struggle.

Stephen Wilbers, author of several books on effective writing and a chapbook of poems about wilderness advocate Ernest Oberholtzer, will read from his work in progress, a book based on his nearly 30 years of canoeing with his father, Canoeing Across Time: A Boundary Waters History, to be published this spring by The History Press.

March 1, 2011, Tuesday - Wine Seminar at Sorella

Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm 

Location: Sorella Wine & Spirits, 1010 Washington Avenue South

Reservations Required - 612-339-4040
 
Sonoma Winemaking with a brief historical perspective by Kathy Jones of Heck Estates.

The talk will be illustrated with one dry rose and seven reds highlighting Sonoma's key varietals and distinct growing regions. We'll be tasting some special wines from Kenwood's Jack London Series along with some items from Valley of the Moon and finishing off with one very special surprise.