Time: 4:30–6:30pm
Location: Minneapolis Central Library, Pohlad Hall
For teens in grade 7 and up. Don’t miss this chance to watch an amazing line-up of Japanese animation on the big screen! Anime Twin Cities and Teen Central have teamed up to offer something for everyone. Cosplay encouraged. Sponsored by the Anime Twin Cities.
Location: American Red Cross Minneapolis Blood Dononation Center, 1201 West River Parkway
Time: Noon-6:00pm
Donation Types: Blood
Phone: 800-448-3543
Location: American Red Cross Minneapolis Blood Dononation Center, 1201 West River Parkway
Time: Noon-6:00pm
Donation Types: Blood
Phone: 800-448-3543
Time: 10:00am - 10:00pm
Location: The Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Northstar Storytelling League presents its tenth annual festival of stories, Tellabration! Over forty local and nationally known performers representing a diversity of styles, perspectives, and cultural backgrounds, are featured. This year's theme, Myth and History, invites participants to explore the way things happened - or could have happened - through story. Programming during the day includes artists paired in hourly sets in the Target Performance Hall; a family friendly room featuring Northstar storytellers; a variety of workshops; open mic and improvisational storytelling; and dinner story swaps at nearby restaurants. The day culminates in an evening concert for adults, "River Journeys," featuring some of the best spoken word artists Minnesota has to offer.
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Time: 10:00am
Tickets: $10 per person; $6 for subscribers, students and seniors.
Backstage tours offer a behind-the-scenes look at how Guthrie shows are taken from script to stage. In 45 minutes, you'll visit the Guthrie's signature thrust and proscenium stages; enter the expansive scene shop where sets are built and painted, and learn how they're transported to each stage; visit the shop where costumes are expertly stitched, fabrics dyed and wigs constructed; and explore the rehearsal rooms where company members prepare for performance.
Backstage tours are scheduled Friday, Saturday and Sundays. Call the Box Office at 612-377-2224 or order online. The Box Office opens for backstage tours and in-person sales at 9:30am on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Hours: Call 612-339-2253 or view the online calendar for hours and public skating dates.
Location: The Depot, 225 3rd Avenue South (Parking ramp entrance is on 5th Avenue South between Washington and 2nd Street South.)
Named one of the top ten best places in the United States to ice skate by the USA Today and MSNBC, The Depot Rink is a historic Downtown Minneapolis train shed that now houses a modern-day, indoor rink with floor-to-ceiling glass walls showcasing views of the downtown city skyline.
Time: Noon Central
Time: 10:00am
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Join us for the most unique holiday shopping in the Twin Cities -- the 9th annual Book Arts Festival at MCBA! Browse hundreds of items made by local artists: letterpress cards and gifts, handbound journals, art posters, prints, artists' books, a Milkweed Editions sale table and much more. Festivities will include demonstrations, free family artmaking activities, and special sales in The Shop. Free and open to the public!
Event Info
Time: 10:30am
Location: Pohlad Hall at Minneapolis Central Library
For kids in preschool (age 3) and up and their families. Children's film curators for the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival will present a pre-show art activity and educational intro for children's film fans before each screening. Admission is free with open seating.
November 20: INSTRUMENTAL MOVIES: Beautiful old-style animated films featuring instruments as characters in musical stories, preceded by an on-stage exploration of real instruments led by Katie Condon of MacPhail Center for Music.
Location: 208 North 1st Street
Hours: 10:00am – 2:00pm
Local D’lish has teamed up with the Mill City Farmers Market to bring you the Winter Farmer-in-the-Market event. This event features about 20-25 vendors, a mix of familiar faces from the Mill City Farmers Market and product vendors here at Local D’lish.
At the Winter Farmer-in-the-Market, customers will find a wide variety of locally grown and produced meats, cheeses, chocolates, breads, sweets, and more! To nurture a strong local foods economy, our farmers and producers must have a stable income year-round, and this monthly event is meant to help in this arena through the winter months.
The 2010-11 Winter Farmer-in-the-Market will be held on the following dates, from 10am – 2 pm:
November 20, 2010
December 18, 2010
January 15, 2011
February 19, 2011
March 19, 2011
April 16, 2011
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum
Fee: $12 adults, $10 seniors and college students, $8 children ages 6-17 and MHS members. Tour includes museum admission.
Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555
Get an in-depth look at the historic Washburn A Mill complex and the award-winning Mill City Museum building. A museum interpreter 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. Also covered will be the challenges of preserving the 120-year-old, fire-damaged building; its art, architecture and interior design; and the St. Anthony Falls Historic District.
Although many parts of the mill can be explored during regular museum visits, this is the public's only opportunity for a guided tour through the entire museum building.
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Mill City Museum
Fee: $25 adult/child pair, $20 for MHS members; $10 for each additional participant. Includes museum admission.
Reservations required, please call 612-341-7555.
Families are invited to Mill City Museum for a series of hands-on adult/child workshops led by educators from the Midwest Food Connection. Participants will discover the importance and delights of eating local foods.
In "Winter Vegetables," discover how some of our most healthful vegetables survive outside in the winter, and how root cellars once kept many others fresh in the coldest months. Families will learn through stories and taste about cabbages, roots and hardy greens.
Time: 8:00pm
Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South
The peerless Zenon Dance Company opens its 28th season with world premieres by New York choreographer Colleen Thomas and the Uruguayan-born, Brooklyn based luciana achugar. Audiences and critics praised Thomas’ 2007 work for Zenon, Catching Her Tears (44 ºN, 93ºW), for its rich, sensuous imagery. The New York Times has lauded achugar’s “sensual, raw and intensely physical” choreography. Brought to life with the stylistic diversity and emotional intelligence of Zenon’s dancers, these powerful new works highlight another signature concert.
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Time: 6:00pm
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Visit the Hamilton Wood Type Museum's expansive collection of wood type and antique advertising plates, without leaving town! A one-hour look at Hamilton's extraordinary past, present, and future. Free and open to the public.
Event Info
Time: 8:00pm
Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South
The peerless Zenon Dance Company opens its 28th season with world premieres by New York choreographer Colleen Thomas and the Uruguayan-born, Brooklyn based luciana achugar. Audiences and critics praised Thomas’ 2007 work for Zenon, Catching Her Tears (44 ºN, 93ºW), for its rich, sensuous imagery. The New York Times has lauded achugar’s “sensual, raw and intensely physical” choreography. Brought to life with the stylistic diversity and emotional intelligence of Zenon’s dancers, these powerful new works highlight another signature concert.
Order Tickets
Time: 10:00am
Tickets: $10 per person; $6 for subscribers, students and seniors.
Backstage tours offer a behind-the-scenes look at how Guthrie shows are taken from script to stage. In 45 minutes, you'll visit the Guthrie's signature thrust and proscenium stages; enter the expansive scene shop where sets are built and painted, and learn how they're transported to each stage; visit the shop where costumes are expertly stitched, fabrics dyed and wigs constructed; and explore the rehearsal rooms where company members prepare for performance.
Backstage tours are scheduled Friday, Saturday and Sundays. Call the Box Office at 612-377-2224 or order online. The Box Office opens for backstage tours and in-person sales at 9:30am on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Time: 10:30am–11:30am
Location: Central Children's Library
Curious George Visits the Library
Preschool-Grade 2. Join Curious George and "The Man in the Yellow Hat" for monkeyshines and shenanigans. Enjoy stories, activities and games!
Time: 10:00am
Location: Children's Library at Minneapolis Central Library
Thursdays through November 18, 2010. For children from birth to 24 months. Delight and stimulate your baby's senses with books and music. Build brain power.
Time: 7:30pm
Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South
The peerless Zenon Dance Company opens its 28th season with world premieres by New York choreographer Colleen Thomas and the Uruguayan-born, Brooklyn based luciana achugar. Audiences and critics praised Thomas’ 2007 work for Zenon, Catching Her Tears (44 ºN, 93ºW), for its rich, sensuous imagery. The New York Times has lauded achugar’s “sensual, raw and intensely physical” choreography. Brought to life with the stylistic diversity and emotional intelligence of Zenon’s dancers, these powerful new works highlight another signature concert.
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Time: 8:00pm
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, Antonello Hall, 501 South 2nd Street
Cost: Adults $10, Students $5
Time:
Q&A with artists 7:00pm–7:30pm
Concert begins at 8:00pm
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, Antonello Hall, 501 South 2nd Street
Cost: Adults $10, Students $5
Jazz Thursdays: Meditations and Revelations, celebrating the works of jazz great Charles Mingus. “So Long Eric” featuring Mike Lewis, saxophone; Greg Lewis, trumpet; J.T. Bates, drums; Adam Linz, double bass; Bryan Nichols, piano.
Half politician, Half musician. Half New World explorer. Charles Mingus set the new standard for intensity in jazz. From wild highs to beautiful lows his music has shaped young musicians all over the world to ask, “Why is Governor Faubus so ridiculous?”
For more information call 612-321-0100.
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