March 10, 2018, Saturday - Spotlight Series at MacPhail

Time:  8:00pm, Pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m.

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

MacPhail Spotlight Series: Virtuoso Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi was one of history’s most prolific composers, with his best works hitting the classical top-ten charts for centuries.

Enjoy the colorful ingenuity of his Four Seasons, performed by two virtuoso MacPhail violinists and the MacPhail Chamber Orchestra. Highlighting the music’s shifting textures and moods will be projected images by Minnesota photographers Alice Gebura and Layne Kennedy, who capture the four seasons in all their glory.

The Vivaldi is paired with its 20th-century counterpart, The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires by Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla. This 20th-century work borrows themes from Vivaldi and mixes them with the irresistibly sultry harmonies of Tango tunes.

Vivaldi: Concerto for Oboe in F Major
Carrie Vecchione, oboe; Gail Olszewski, harpsichord
Vivaldi: Il Furore
Andrea Leap, soprano; members of the MacPhail Chamber Orchestra
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Stephanie Arado and Marc Levine, solo violin; MacPhail Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Mischa Santora

March 10, 2018, Saturday - Familiar opens at The Guthrie

Time: 7:30p

Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street S

Familiar  March 10 - April 14, 2018

There’s something old, something new and something borrowed in this feisty, heart-warming play about a Zimbabwean-American family preparing for their daughter Tendi’s wedding. Marvelous and Donald have built their American dream in Minnesota, so when Tendi requests a traditional African blessing before marrying her white fiancé from Minnetonka and a surprise guest drops a bombshell, the rehearsal dinner can’t come soon enough. Family fireworks are interwoven with questions of cultural identity in this acclaimed play.

March 10, 2018, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market at the Mill City Museum

Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm

Location: Winter Markets are held inside the Mill City Museum, 704 S 2nd Street

Additional Mill City Farmers Market 2017-2018 Winter Market dates:

March 24 and April 14, 28

March 9, 2018, Friday - MN Book Artist Award Winner Reception & Artist Presentation

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave S

MN Book Artist Award Winner Reception & Artist Presentation

Erica Spitzer Rasmussen is the 2018 Book Artist Award recipient for her piece The Love Affair, a mixed-media sculptural book handcrafted from pieces of old family letters.

View the award-winning piece and hear the artist discuss her work at this special reception, hosted by Minnesota Center for Book Arts. This event is free and open to the public. 

Rasmussen will also be recognized at the 30th annual Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony on Saturday, April 21 at the InterContinental Hotel in Saint Paul. 

Sponsored by Lerner Publishing Group, this annual award is presented as part of the Minnesota Book Awards with the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), and recognizes a Minnesota book artist or book artist collaborative group for excellence of a new artistic work. The Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota, is a statewide, year-round outreach program of The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. 

This event is FREE and open to the public.

Visit www.thefriends.org/MNBA for more information about the Minnesota Book Awards.

March 9, 2018, Friday - Almighty Voice and his Wife opens at Southern Theater (3 nights)

Times: see show link below

Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

Almighty Voice and his Wife presented by Turtle Theater Collective

March 9-11, 2018

Turtle Theater Collective presents the U.S. premiere of Almighty Voice and his Wife, an iconic text of the Native theater canon by Delaware playwright Daniel David Moses. Almighty Voice and his Wife tells the true story of a Cree man arrested for killing a cow. Under threat of hanging he escapes, unleashing a year-long manhunt that gives rise to his status as a martyr and a legend. The work consists of two vividly contrasting acts that explore Almighty Voice as both victim and hero. The first act is a tender and intimate portrait of him and his wife in life; the second is an outlandish white-faced vaudeville routine of the two in the afterlife.

March 9, 2018, Friday - Topshelf Comedy And Spoken Word Competition at The Pourhouse

Time: 7 PM - 10 PM

Location: The Pourhouse, 10 S 5th Street

Topshelf Comedy And Spoken Word Competition

This event is part of the most funniest thing happening in the comedy realm in MN .
You don't want to miss the must see event once a month hosted at the Pour House located downtown mpls .
Comedians have a chance to win $500 !!!!!
The audience has a chance to win a 50" Plasma TV as a door prize!

March 8, 2018, Thursday - Gin & Jazz at Day Block Brewing

Time: 9pm Music | 21+ | No Cover

Location: Day Block Brewing, 1105 Washington Avenue S

Gin & Jazz

Our monthly cocktail and jazz night returns with a new round of gin cocktails for you to enjoy. Local Jazz music paired with gin cocktails from local and regional distilleries. 

March 8, 2018, Thursday - Poetry Out Loud: Minnesota State Competition 2018 at The Loft

Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm

Location: The Loft at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave S

Poetry Out Loud Minnesota State Competition 2018

The Loft Literary Center proudly presents the 2018 Minnesota Poetry Out Loud state finals. Come and watch teens compete for the chance to represent Minnesota at the national finals in Washington, D.C. One teen from Minnesota will advance from this competition to the national finals, where the teen will compete with champions from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

March 8, 2018, Thursday - Alchemy Turns 3! at Aria

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: ARIA Mpls, 105 N 1st Street

Alchemy Turns 3! 

We opened our North Loop flagship location three years ago this March. To celebrate, we’re bringing it back to where it all began. We’ll celebrate where we’ve been and where we’re going this year. Join us for an A10 with live DJ Jonathan Ackerman. Stay after for drinks, bites, giveaways and more! 

Secure your spot by 2/28 for a free drink ticket!

Doors open at 5:45PM, BYOM (Bring Your Own Mat)!

March 7, 2018, Wednesday - Dan Navarro at Aster Cafe

Time: 8:00pm 21+ Tickets $18 Advance / $20 cash at the door

Location: Aster Cafe, Historic River Room, 125 Main Street SE

Tonight:  Dan Navarro

For over thirty years, Dan Navarro has written, sung, played and acted his way through a rich and varied career…

Dan’s started as a songwriter, most often with Eric Lowen, for artists as diverse as Pat Benatar (the Grammy-nominated “We Belong”) , The Bangles, Jackson Browne, Dave Edmunds, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick, The Triplets, Dutch star Marco Borsato,  and Austin outlaw legend Rusty Weir.

In the 1990s and 2000s, he and Eric recorded and toured as the acclaimed acoustic duo Lowen & Navarro until Eric’s retirement in 2009. Dan has transitioned smoothly into a busy solo career over the past decade, touring nationally almost constantly.

He has a parallel career as a voice actor and singer, in films like  Pirates of the Caribbean 5, The Book Of Life, Rio (on the Oscar®-nominated “Real In Rio”), Happy Feet, The Lorax,  Ice Age (2 & 3) ; TV series Turbo Fast, Prison Break, Family Guy and American Dad; records with Neil Young, Andrea Bocelli, Luis Miguel, Jose Feliciano, Janiva Magness, and Jon Anderson of Yes; hit video games Fallout 4 and Uncharted 4, and hundreds of TV ads for Subaru, Shakey’s, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Honda, Nationwide and more.

He has appeared in Washington on artists’ rights and intellectual property issues, on behalf of Nashville Songwriters Assn Int’l, SoundExchange, SAG-AFTRA, musicFIRST Coalition, BMI and NARAS, including testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Copyright Royalty Board. Dan also serves on the boards of SAG-AFTRA and The Levitt Pavilion Pasadena.

In 2009, after 22 years and 12 CDs with Lowen & Navarro, Dan released the spirited “Live at McCabe’s”, backed by his pals, Austin’s now-disbanded Stonehoney. His next album,“Shed My Skin”, releases this year. He is the father of a 20-year-old son and a known abuser of acoustic guitars.

March 7, 2018, Wednesday - EO Entrepreneurs Rally 2018 at Aria Event Center

Time: 5:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Aria Event Center, 105 North First Street

EO Entrepreneurs Rally 2018

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a non-profit global organization with over 10,000 member with the mission to engage leading entrepreneurs to learn and grow. Our local Minnesota chapter comprises 100 members.

In 2011 a member and member of the board, Cem Erdem, created the concept of Entrepreneurs Rally to fulfill EO’s global vision and mission at a local level. The event brings together accomplished entrepreneurs and early-stage entrepreneurs for no holds barred speed mentoring. It has proven to be a dramatic success attracting 70+ mentors and 150+ mentees every year since its inception.

Join us for our 7th Annual evening designed to inject cutting-edge business thought into the Twin Cities entrepreneurial scene. It brings the entrepreneurial community together for an evening of old fashioned neighborliness, giving back to those who may need guidance, connections and some fresh inspiration.

There’s no other event like this in the Twin Cities where so many accomplished entrepreneurs have gotten together to help the next generation of entrepreneurs.

March 7, 2018, Wednesday - Minneapolis Park and Rec Board Meeting

Time: 5:00pm

Location: Minneapolis Park and Rec Board, 2117 West River Road

Click here for a link to tonights agenda. 

Stream Live Meetings Online or watch on TV on Minneapolis 79.

March 6, 2018, Tuesday - Paint Nite at Geno's

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Geno's, 12 4th Street SE 

Cruise Through the Galaxy

Paint Nite is invading bars and restaurants near you with everything you need to create a one-of-a-kind painting. We’ll guide you and your friends through two lively hours of creativity, drinking, and laughing ‘til your cheeks hurt. The best part? You don’t have to be an artist to have an amazing time.

March 6, 2018, Tuesday - Mississippi Park Connections presents: Tour of Minneapolis Drinking Water Plant

Time: 8:30am - 10:00am

Mississippi Park Connections presents: Tour of Minneapolis Drinking Water Plant (registration required)

During these cold winter months, Mississippi Park Connection is exploring the relationship between the river and industry during a series of tours called The Working River, and you’re invited! Learn from the experts who bring you electricity, heat, and water and find out how the river has played a big role in industries past and present. Ever wonder how the water you drink every day gets to your tap? This unique tour of the Minneapolis drinking water plant will help you learn about the process of treating Mississippi River water and turning it into the water you can drink! Free. Tour capacity is limited, so sign up for this tour soon.

March 5, 2018, Monday - Free Psychotronic Mystery Movie at Grumpy's

Time: 8p

Grumpy's, 1111 Washington Avenue S

March Free Psychotronic Mystery Movie!

You never know what to expect at these but they’re some of our favorite showings where we can offer some more unusual films that normally wouldn’t find an audience. It’s free, drinks are half off, and...ITS FREE, bring your friends and have fun. Don’t be a dumb butt.

NOTE: The picture above does not reflect the mystery movie choice.

March 4, 2018, Sunday - Martin Fröst Plays Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto at Ted Mann Concert Hall

Time: 2:00pm

Location: Ted Mann Concert Hall, 2128 Fourth Street S

Martin Fröst Plays Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto

One of Mozart’s finest concertos for any instrument and his last instrumental composition, the Clarinet Concerto, was inspired by the talents of clarinetist Anton Stadler and was actually written for the unusual bassett clarinet, a special clarinet championed by Stadler with an extended range in the lower end. SPCO Artistic Partner Martin Fröst performs the concerto in the original version in the most spectacular fashion and conducts the SPCO in the first of Mozart’s final three Symphonies.

Clarinetist, conductor and Sony Classical recording artist Martin Fröst is known for pushing musical boundaries and has been described by The New York Times as having “a virtuosity and a musicianship unsurpassed by any clarinetist—perhaps any instrumentalist—in my memory.” He has appeared with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Israel Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra and Orchestre National de France. In 2017.18 he notably returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and makes his debut with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. He also appears with the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Residentie Orkest.

Fröst will be Chief Conductor of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra starting in the 2019.20 season. Known for artistic collaborations worldwide, this season he continues as Artistic Partner with both the SPCO and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic orchestras, and will also be Artist in Residence at L’Auditiori, Barcelona appearing with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona I Nacional de Catalunya and performing a number of chamber concerts. These positions follow his success in recent seasons as Artist-in-Residence at the Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Gothenburg Symphony and London’s Wigmore Hall.

In autumn 2017, Fröst is joined by Janine Jansen, Lucas Debargue and Torleif Thedéen to release Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, his second recording for Sony Classics. Together this season, the quartet will give performances of the work worldwide.

March 4, 2018, Sunday - Pillsbury A Mill Tour

Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Location: A-Mill Artist Lofts, 415 Main Street SE

Pillsbury A Mill Tour

Discover the story of the National Historic Landmark Pillsbury A Mill, the largest flour mill in the world for many years, which recently reopened as the A-Mill Artist Lofts. A Mill City Museum guide will lead a tour of the former milling complex including the rooftop deck and the basement waterpower facilities.

Highlights include the largest and best-preserved waterpower system in Minneapolis, with views straight down a 50-foot drop shaft through a glass floor. Guests will discover how the building functioned during the flour milling era, see the architectural highlights of the recently completed A-Mill Artist Lofts built within the historic mill buildings, and learn about the new hydroelectric plant that helps to power the complex. This tour is presented in partnership with A-Mill Artist Lofts.

The tour includes about 1.5 miles of moderately-paced walking indoors and outdoors with some uneven surfaces. Tours begin at the gray door on 3rd Avenue SE at Main Street (around the corner from the main entrance at 315 Main Street SE). 

March 3, 2018, Saturday - University of MN Collaborative Concert: Myths & Hymns at MacPhail

Time:  7:00pm

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

University of MN Collaborative Concert: Myths & Hymns

Based on a hymnal from the 19th century and Greek mythology, this collection of songs poignantly
addresses our connection to each other, yearning for transcendence, and hope for the future. Drawing from
musical languages such as rock, R&B, funk, gospel, and classical, Guettel (The Light in the Piazza, Floyd Collins), one of America’s foremost composers, is able to wave the waters of deep emotion and thoughtfulness while having a whole lot of fun.

Co-curated by Lara Bolton (U of M) and Dennis Petersen (MacPhail)

No tickets required. Free and open to the public.

March 3, 2018, Saturday - Carnaval Brasileiro at Cedar Cultural Center

Via a February 7 Press Release:

Brazilfest MN's Carnaval Brasileiro celebrates its 16th anniversary with an intimate Masquerade Ball on Saturday, March 3rd!

The most attended and longest-running annual Brazilian festival in the Twin Cities teams up with the Cedar Cultural Center for the 16th annual Carnaval Brasileiro on Saturday, March 3rd, at one of the premier live music venues in Minneapolis, internationally respected for top quality world music events. The site brings the focus back to the sound quality of a smaller venue, with hopes for a more enjoyable sonic experience for longtime attendees and newcomers alike. Carnaval will be an all-ages show and will start and end a bit earlier than previous years.

Over 60 singers, musicians, samba dancers, actors and artisans will transform the Cedar Cultural Center into an authentically festive Brazilian cultural experience!

Guitarist/vocalist Robert Everest and his ten-piece group Beira Mar Brasil will host the Carnaval Brasileiro Masquerade Ball from 7pm to 12 midnight. Everest, who also serves as Executive Director, has been joyfully exploring Brazilian music and culture for over 25 years and brings us authentic Brazilian carnival flavor through various musical genres from around the country – Samba, Axé, Frevo, Baião, and other dance-inducing styles. Joining Beira Mar Brasil for the twelfth straight year, direct from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil’s famous party-loving city, will be singer and samba dancer extraordinaire, Dandara Odara, who performs at over 50 carnival celebrations around the world each year in Europe, North America, and of course, Brazil. 

Along with Beira Mar Brasil, Carnaval Brasileiro 2018 will present more performers and performance groups than ever before, including Brazilian percussion ensembles Batucada Do Norte and Drumheart, professional samba dancers/instructors Ginga da Bahia, Leonardo Paixão, Edilson Lima (who has been featured on Ellen DeGeneres) and Vanessa Luiz from São Paulo, Brazil, as well as Brazilian martial arts group Capoeira Floração of Minnesota. 

Carnaval guests can participate in Brazilian dance lessons, purchase authentic carnival masks created by master Brazilian artisan Goretti Aamot, and have their face and body painted just like they do it in Rio! 

The annual Carnaval, celebrated throughout Brazil, lasts nearly a week and has roots dating back to the 1700s. Like Mardi Gras, Carnaval is an all-out party with music, masks, dancing, food and drink – a final blowout before Lenten traditions kick in for the Easter season. This Minneapolis edition of Carnaval takes place after it is celebrated in Brazil, allowing for many of the special guests to come to Minneapolis.

TICKETS:  $22 in advance, $30 at the door. Available now at the Electric Fetus, Depth of Field, and thecedar.org.

March 3, 2018, Saturday - Dogs of DRG (Downtown Resource Group)

Time: 11 AM - 2 PM

Location:Downtown Resource Group, 700 Washington Avenue N

Dogs of DRG

DRG welcomes you and your furry friend to Dogs of DRG! Join us for drinks, giveaways, local dog vendors, and socializing with other Downtown dogs. We will also have a professional photographer taking free pet portraits of you and your pup!

Vendors include:
Finley's Community Crafted Dog Treats - A gourmet, small batch dog treat company 
CuddleMutt - A local, handmade dog collar and accessory company 
DKoch Creations - Photographer 
Spot's Last Stop Canine Rescue - Local canine rescue 
Milkjam Creamery - Ice Cream dog treats

Don't have a dog? Don't worry! No furry friend required for this family friendly event!