November 8, 2010, Monday - Guthrie Theater Store Holiday Open House

Time: 4:00pm – 9:00pm

The Guthrie Store is hosting a Holiday Open House. Shoppers will enjoy a 20% discount on all purchases during the special event and will have the opportunity to meet celebrated local artist Jill Smith, who will unveil her new jewelry collection inspired by the Guthrie’s signature architecture and Guthrie costume shop designer Laura Adams, who has hand-made a series of unique holiday ornaments. Stocked with many new holiday gift options, the Guthrie Store features unique ideas for everyone on your list. Popular children’s gifts include classic scripts adapted for children’s theater, ‘how to’ theater handbooks and a new 500-piece Guthrie puzzle. True theater enthusiasts will enjoy Guthrie t-shirts and other wearables, scripts of their 2010-2011 productions and hand-crafted wallets made from the programs of past performances.

For more information on this special event, call the Guthrie Store at 612-225-6300 or visit them online.

November 7, 2010, Sunday - Steve Roehm Drumset Master Class “Improve Your Groove” – Understanding your Role in a Band at MacPhail

Time:  3:00pm

Location:  Room 607, MacPhail Center for Music, 501 2nd Street South

Steve Roehm, percussion instructor, will cover the importance of creating balance and synergy between a drummer and their rock band.  Besides laying down the groove, one of the drummers key roles is to bring a feeling of cohesiveness to the ensemble.  In this workshop, Steve will work with students to help them understand how to find balance and play with intention.  Learn how taking cues from the band will not only enhance your fills but also improve the groove. Get tips on how to craft parts which fit within the piece as a whole while showcasing your talent.

Key concepts to be covered: Less is More, Team Mentality, and Crafting Parts.  Steve will ask for participants from the audience, so bring your sticks!

Cost: $5 general admission at the door; free to MacPhail students.

November 7, 2010, Sunday - An evening with Eileen Myles at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft Literary Center, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Eileen Myles was born in Boston and moved to New York in 1974. Her Inferno (a poet's novel) is just out from OR books. For her collection of essays, The Importance of Being Iceland, she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant. Sorry Tree is her most recent book of poems. In 2010 the Poetry Society of America awarded Eileen the Shelley Prize. She is a Prof. Emeritus of Writing at UC San Diego. She lives in New York.

About Inferno (a poet’s novel):

From its beginning—“My English professor’s ass was so beautiful.”—to its end—“You can actually learn to have grace. And that’s heaven.”—poet, essayist and performer Eileen Myles’ chronicle transmits an energy and vividness that will not soon leave its readers. Her story of a young female writer, discovering both her sexuality and her own creative drive in the meditative and raucous environment that was New York City in its punk and indie heyday, is engrossing, poignant, and funny. This is a voice from the underground that redefines the meaning of the word.

“Eileen Myles debates her own self identity in a gruffly beautiful, sure voice of reason. Is she a ‘hunk’? A ‘dyke’? A ‘female’? I’ll tell you what she is––damn smart! Inferno burns with humor, lust and a healthy dose of neurotic happiness.” — John Waters

"I was completely stupefied by Inferno in the best of ways. In fact, I think I must feel kind of like Dante felt after seeing the face of God. My descriptive capacity just fails, gives way completely. But I can tell you that Eileen Myles made me understand something I didn’t before. And really, what more can you ask of a novel, or a poet’s novel, or a poem, or a memoir, or whatever the hell this shimmering document is? Just read it." — Alison Bechdel

Cosponsored with Rain Taxi Review of Books

November 7, 2010, Sunday - Vikings vs. Cardinals at the Dome

Time: Noon Central

November 6, 2010, Saturday - Washburn A Mill Tour

Time: 1pm

Location: Mill City Museum

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.

Fee: $12 adults, $10 seniors and college students, $8 children ages 6-17 and MHS members. Tour includes museum admission.

November 6, 2010, Saturday - Holiday Note Cards (Beginners) at MCBA

Time: 12:30pm-4:30pm

Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), 1011 Washington Avenue South

For families with children in Grade 1 and up.

Jump into the Holiday spirit by making your own cards this season. Each adult/child pair will create note cards with a festive image and letterpress greeting, while learning to use the platen and Vandercook presses. Students will design pressure print images and choose text from a variety of pre-set holiday messages. (Please note that students will not be setting their own type in this class.) Each pair will print 40 cards. Single/additional participants will print 20 cards. Envelopes also will be provided.

This workshop is recommended for those taking the class for the first time and/or for families with younger children. If you've participated in past years, or for older children and teens, see the Advanced session.

Cost: $52 ($48 members) per adult/child pair, $26 ($24) each additional participant.
 

November 6, 2010, Saturday - A Disappearing Number at the Guthrie

Time: 1:00pm

Location: McGuire Proscenium Stage at the Guthrie

An NT Live filmed presentation of Complicite's A Disappearing Number directed by Simon McBurney.

A Disappearing Number weaves together the story of two love affairs, separated by a century and a continent. The first happens now. The second is set in 1914. It tells of the heartbreaking collaboration between the greatest natural mathematician of the 20th century, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a penniless Brahmin from Madras in South India, and his British counterpart, the brilliant Cambridge don GH Hardy.

With a haunting original score by Nitin Sawhney, this piece of startling visual poetry from Simon McBurney and Complicite is a compelling meditation on love, mathematics and the pain of exile in an age when we think we can belong anywhere and have everything.

A Disappearing Number opened in Plymouth in 2007 and has subsequently toured all over the world to New York, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ann Arbor, Milan, Sydney, Barcelona and London. Prior to the National Theatre Live broadcast it will play a limited West End season. Awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2008), the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play (2007) and The Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play (2007).

Cost: $20 ($15 for Guthrie season ticket holders, students, seniors and groups The Guthrie Theater presents).

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November 5, 2010, Friday - Mentor Series: C.J. Hribal at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft Literary Center, 1011 Washington Avenue South

The 2010-2011 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents fiction mentor C.J. Hribal reading with program participants Michael Schurter and Natalie Vestin.

Michael A. Schurter (fiction) has published poetry and short fiction and has produced stage plays in the United States and Canada. A former academic and theatrical producer/director/administrator, Michael has lectured on theatre, film, and cultural history at colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. He is partner and creative lead at Virgo Visions, a Minneapolis-based creative services firm. A Canadian by birth and a Minneapolitan by choice, he lives and farms his backyard near Lake Harriet with his wife Megan and son Tristan.

Natalie Vestin (nonfiction) is a writer and public health researcher who lives in St. Paul. She writes to communicate her love of place and home in all of its complex beauty and ugliness. She has studied nature writing under David Gessner at Orion Magazine’s Wildbranch Writing Workshop, and has studied writing and shamanism with the poet Ruth L. Schwartz. She teaches yoga in the Twin Cities and enjoys incorporating reflective writing exercises into her classes.

C.J. Hribal (fiction) is the author of the novels The Company Car, which received the Anne Powers Book Award, and American Beauty, and of the short fiction collections Matty’s Heart and The Clouds in Memphis, which won the AWP Award for Short Fiction.  He also edited The Boundaries of Twilight: Czecho-Slovak Writing from the New World. He has held Fellowships from the NEA, the Bush, and from the Guggenheim Foundations. He teaches at Marquette University, and is a member of the fiction faculty at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

November 5, 2010, Friday - Lunch with MacPhail

Join us for the best lunch of your week! Lunch with MacPhail is a free, unique look into MacPhail and a chance to meet and talk with our President, Paul Babcock.  Following the lunch, stay for an exclusive performance!

Noon–1:00pm - Lunch and discussion (Room 127)
1:00pm-1:30pm - Private performance (Room 607)

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

Exclusive Spotlight pre-view performance, Copper Street Brass Quintet featuring excerpts from the Jazz Off the Charts, Spotlight Series Concert.

These events are free, but you must RSVP to attend.  Contact Amanda Schroder, 612-767-5343.

November 5, 2010, Friday - Book Release Party at CorAzoN

Time: 5:00-10:00pm

Location: CorAzoN, 1026 Washington Avenue South

CorAzoN will be hosting a Book Release Party for "WHEN WORDS GET IN THE WAY" by John "Charlie" Hanson.

Live music, a book signing, and more!

November 4, 2010, Thursday - Publication Reading: Lucille Broderson at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Publication Reading: Lucille Broderson - But You’re Wearing a Blue Shirt the Color of the Sky.

Poet Lucille Broderson and friends embark on a special event marking Broderson’s latest publication. This veteran poet shares her thoughts on life, love, the passing seasons and her beloved North Shore environs in this collection of poems that spans more than a half century of creativity. Edited by Michael Dennis Browne. Cosponsored by Nodin Press and The Loft Literary Center.

November 4, 2010, Thursday - Baby Storytime at Minneapolis Central Library

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.

November 2, 2010, Tuesday - American Red Cross Blood Donor Center Open

Location: American Red Cross Minneapolis Blood Dononation Center, 1201 West River Parkway

Time: 10:45am - 5:15pm

Donation Types: Blood

Phone: 800-448-3543

November 2, 2010, Tuesday - Minneapolis Central Library Tour

Time - 6:30pm-7:30pm

Location - 300 Nicollet Mall (parking ramp entrance on 4th)

Cost - Free

Tour this stunning Cesar Pelli structure with a green roof, an art gallery, special collections, four-story atrium and much more!

Register online or call 952.847.8000

November 1, 2010, Monday - American Red Cross Blood Donor Center Open

Location: American Red Cross Minneapolis Blood Dononation Center, 1201 West River Parkway

Time: 10:45am-5:15pm

Donation Types: Blood

Phone: 800-448-3543