November 19, 2016, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market in Mill City Museum

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.

2016/2017 Winter Market Schedule:
Thanksgiving Harvest Market – November 19
Holiday Markets – December 3, 10, & 17
January 14 & 28
February 11
March 4*, 11, & 25
April 8 & 22
*At the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen

November 18, 2016, Friday - A Christmas Carol opens at the Guthrie

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Guthrie Theater, Wurtele Thrust Stage, 818 S 2nd Street

A Christmas Carol

November 18 - December 30

 

The Guthrie will present the 42nd annual production of Charles Dickens’ classic. Director and choreographer Joe Chvala will direct the show for a fifth consecutive year.

November 18, 2016, Friday - 2016 ART BLOK Open Studio Tour at General Mills Research Labs (3 days)

Times:
Fri, November 18 4pm-9pm
Sat, November 19 10am-6pm
Sun, November 20 Noon-5pm.

Location: The historic General Mills Research Labs, 2010 East Hennepin Avenue (just east of Stinson Blvd.)

ART BLOK Open Studio Tour is a building-wide studio open house and sale featuring 30 established, recognized artists.

This event will be held in the studios of the historic General Mills Research Labs. Originally building 1928, “The Labs” as the complex was formerly known, was home to General Mills for 50 years. The building now houses a vibrant community of artists, many of whom are award winning and regionally and nationally recognized. The open house will include work in a broad range of media including painting, drawing, pottery, printmaking, metal sculpture, jewelry, textile arts and blown glass. 

Artists include:
Nicole Baxter – pottery, ceramics
Scott Brown – custom cabinetry and furniture
Steve Claypatch – hand blown glass; battuto
Marlaine Cox – metalworking
Edith Dalleska – textiles
Jeanette Papenfuss – sculpture and painting
Barbara Eckley – stained glass
Karlyn Eckman – oil and watercolor, metalpoint drawings
Carlos Espinoza – drawing, comix
Nicole Fierce – hand blown glass
Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts – glass art
Rick Fournier – oil painting
Linda Hatfield – illustrations
Asa Hoyt – metal sculpture
Pauline Jacobsson – knitted wire jewelry, photography
Roger Junk – stone carving and sculpture
Shawn Kearney – hand blown glass, paper art, photography
Heather Kremen – hand blown glass
Connie Kuhnz – jewelry and pottery
Deb Lavoie – watercolor painting
Melissa Nellis – fiber art, quilting
Julie Nester – weaving
Faye Passow – printmaking
Kate Renee – acrylic painter
Larry Rostad – oil and water color painting
Sontag-Sattel – Asian Sumi Ink
Michele and Erik Vevang- wood carving
Morgan Grace Williow – poetry
Peter Zelle – glass art

November 18, 2016, Friday - UZZA CD Release Party at Day Block Brewing

Time: 9pm $5 Cover

Location: Day Block Brewing Company, 1103 Washington Avenue South

Tonight: UZZA CD RELASE W/ AUTUMN AT DAY BLOCK BREWING

Join UZZA as they celebrate the release of their third album, "Elysium". The band will perform many of the album's 13 Brit-pop inspired tracks as well as selections from their first two records and even a few covers. The show will also feature several special guest musicians and vocalists throughout the evening to help commemorate the album's arrival. Joining UZZA on the bill is the spellbinding Autumn. Each of these female-fronted bands are captivating on their own, but together it's a show not to be missed.

w/ Special Guest Autumn

Also performing, Chris Shillock and Ed Wilms

November 18, 2016, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm $7

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE

Tonight: Family Three (Gospel Folk) 

November 18, 2016, Friday - What Fools These Mortals Be opens at The Lab (thru Dec 17)

Times: See show link below

Location:  The Lab, 700 North 1st Street

Interact Theater presents: What Fools These Mortals Be

November 18 – December 17

Since 1996, Interact's mission to create art that challenges perceptions of disability has opened doors for artists with disabilities and audiences eager to experience their work, who might never have seen the arts as a life choice, but who now see the arts as essential to their humanity. With over 125 artists working in theater and/or studio arts, Interact is multi-cultural and intergenerational and embraces the entire spectrum of disability labels. Interact's work is driven by a vision of radical inclusion. Tickets $30 general admission, $50 VIP Cabaret table seating.

November 17, 2016, Thursday - AAA: Emergent Ecologies at Fulton Brewery Tap Room

Time: 7:00p

Location: Fulton Taproom, 414 6th Ave N

AAA: Emergent Ecologies

Join Eben Kirksey, author of Emergent Ecologies, for a conversation about how we can reject climate change doomsday scenarios and instead find possibilities in the symbiotic associations of opportunistic plants, animals, and microbes now flourishing in unexpected places. Emergent Ecologies uses artwork and contemporary philosophy to illustrate hopeful opportunities and reframe key problems in conservation biology such as invasive species, extinction, environmental management, and reforestation. 

Eben Kirksey has published two books with Duke University Press—Freedom in Entangled Worlds (2012) and Emergent Ecologies (2015)—as well as one edited collection: The Multispecies Salon (2014). He was Princeton University's 2015-2016 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor, where he was researching and writing a new book. Currently he is an Australian Research Council Fellow and the incoming Disciplinary Convener (Chair) of the Environmental Humanities program at UNSW Australia in Sydney.

November 17, 2016, Thursday - Preschool Holiday Session: Pressure Printing Greeting Cards at MCBA

Time: 1:30pm–2:30pm

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

Preschool Fall Session: Pressure Printing Greeting Cards

Get a jump on literacy in interactive pre-school book arts classes with Ellen Ferrari. Children and adults work together to make paper, print patterns, shapes and letters and construct colorful books in a fun environment. Each class begins by reading a story and continues by investigating examples produced by working artists. Vocabulary, tools and processes will also be introduced. These workshops emphasize visual decision-making, improving manual dexterity and a love of books and can be repeated over and over again as projects change each session. Dress for mess. For families with children ages 3-5. Register for a single class or an entire six-class session at a reduced rate. 

November 17, 2016, Thursday - Single Shoe Productions presents: Crazy Glue at the Southern Theater (4 nights)

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Ave. S.

Single Shoe Productions presents: Crazy Glue

November 17 - 20

They're a happy couple with a car in the garage, a chicken in the pot and a child on the way. But is that enough to make love stick? Crazy Glue is a wordless play about the messy side of love told through physical comedy, mime and a 1930s soundtrack. 

Admission: $24, student (with ID): $18, ARTShare members free and Tuesday – Pay What You Can.

November 17, 2016, Thursday - East Town Business Partnership Business Forum

The next East Town Business Partnership Business Forum is scheduled forTThursday, November 17, at the Twin Cities United Way - 404 S. 8th Street.  This is another joint event with our partner organization the Minneapolis Downtown Council.

This special forum will focus on emerging trends in philanthropy. Minnesota has earned a reputation of having high civic consciousness undergirded by a robust landscape of diverse philanthropic organizations. Resources are not endless, though, with more and foundations refining their award metrics and businesses reaching for greater connections between gifts and engagement with their employ base, and not merely writing a check.

The panelists will trace the pathways of financial gifts by discussing both broader trends and specific approaches of their respective organizations. Special guest tech sales company, “DIVI UP” will provide a discovery moment about the convergences of technology and point of sale giving.

Please RSVP to mweisberg@downtownminneapolis.com by Monday, November 13, at Noon. There is no cost to attend this business forum. A big thank you to our sponsor for this month's event BKV Group.

November 17, 2016, Thursday - Nodin Press Book Launch with Margaret Hasse at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

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

Nodin Press Book Launch with Margaret Hasse

Margaret Hasse began writing poems when she was a child. She went on to study literature at Stanford University and the University of Minnesota. Hasse is the author of five collections of poetry, including two finalists for the Minnesota Book Award, and Milk and Tides, winner of the poetry prize from the Minnesota Independent Publishing Association. She’s a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, Jerome Foundation, and McKnight Foundation. Hasse’s newest book, Between Us, will be celebrated with a reading and party at The Loft Literary Center on November 17, 2016. 

November 16, 2016, Wednesday - “Heyday: 35 Years of Music in Minneapolis” Exhibit Opening at Mill City Museum

Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd Street

“Heyday: 35 Years of Music in Minneapolis” Exhibit Opening

A free public reception will open a new photography exhibit “Heyday: 35 years of Music in Minneapolis," a companion to the new book from Minnesota Historical Society Press featuring photography by Daniel Corrigan and text by Danny Sigelman. Corrigan has been photographing the Minneapolis music scene since 1981—just as the scene was coming to life. As both a freelancer and the official house photographer for the legendary club First Avenue, he has captured thousands of live concerts, shot countless band promo photos and was behind the camera for many of the best-known and most beloved album covers by local artists. The exhibit includes framed photographs and a slideshow with many unpublished Corrigan photos.

Remarks at 7:00 hosted by Andrea Swensson from 89.3 The Current.

A cash bar will be available, and Corrigan and Sigelman will be available to sign copies of the book.

The exhibit will be located in the museum’s central Mill Commons and is free and open to the public during regular museum hours through April 30, 2017.

November 16, 2016, Wednesday - Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition Northeast Priorities Open House at Maeve's Cafe

Time: 5:00pm - 7:30pm

Location: Maeve's Cafe, 300 13th Ave NE

Northeast Priorities Open House

Stop by during this open-house style meeting to have a bite to eat and talk about current priorities surrounding protected bikeways in Northeast.  Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition staff members will be there to give updates and chat about how you can get involved! Stay for as little or as long as you can.

November 16, 2016, Wedneday - Northeast Farmers Market Winter Market at Solar Arts

The Northeast Farmers Market and Solar Arts by Chowgirls provide the perfect environment for this neighborhood Winter Market.

DATES AND TIMES:
Wednesday, November 16th, 4pm- 7pm
Wednesday, December 21st, 4pm- 7pm
Wednesday, January 18th, 4pm- 7pm
Wednesday, February 15th, 4pm- 7pm
Wednesday, March 15th, 4pm- 7pm

November 15, 2016, Tuesday - Creative City Challenge Open Call Info Session at The Soap Factory

Time: 6pm - 7:30pm

Location: The Soap Factory, 514 2nd Street NE

This optional information session for Creative City Challenge proposal submissions will be on Tuesday, November 15th from 6:00 – 7:30pm at the Soap Factory (514 2nd St SE in Minneapolis).

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The Creative City Challenge is moving in 2017! The annual Creative City Challenge competition will be moving to The Commons, the new 4.2 acre public green space and an anchor in the Downtown East area transformation. The Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy Program of the City of Minneapolis in collaboration with The Commons and Northern Lights.mn and the Northern Spark festival, announce the fifth annual Creative City Challenge based on the theme Climate Chaos | Climate Rising (http://2017.northernspark.org/climate-chaos-climate-rising/).

The Creative City Challenge challenges you to create an installation that explores the effects of climate change on Minneapolis and its residents. The commission for the Creative City Challenge is $50,000. A design fee of $2,500 will be provided to the finalists. Budgets should include everything necessary to present the project from construction to permits to installation/deinstallation to artist fees.

The Creative City Challenge is open to any artist living in Minnesota. For teams, the lead artist and at least 50% of the team must live in Minnesota. 

*Entries are being accepted now through November 28, 2016.*

November 15, 2016, Tuesday - Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition Downtown Priorities Open House at Town Hall Brewery

Time: 5:00pm - 7:30pm

Location: Town Hall Brewery, 1430 Washington Avenue South

Downtown Priorities Open House

Stop by during this open-house style meeting to have a bite to eat and talk about current priorities surrounding protected bikeways in Downtown. Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition staff members will be there to give updates and chat about how you can get involved! Stay for as little or as long as you can.

November 15, 2016, Tuesday: StarTribune Event: Behind the Lens: Photos of the Year

The StarTribune invites you to an exclusive presentation of their 2016 Photos of the Year along with an in-depth conversation Behind the Lens with Star Tribune photojournalists Brian Peterson, who shot this year’s Olympics, and Renée Jones Schneider, who was named 2016 Journalist of the Year by the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists.

Date: Tuesday, November 15

Time: 6-8:30pm
•6pm: Hors d’Oeuvres and Cash Bar
•7:15pm: Presentation Begins
•8pm: Audience Q&A

Location: Walker Art Center, Bazinet Lobby and Walker Cinema

Each guest will receive complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a 5×7 photo reprint of one of the 2016 Photos of the Year. A cash bar will also be available.

Advance ticket purchase for Behind the Lens is required, a limited number of tickets are available. Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate walk-ups on the day of the event.

Brian Peterson: Photographer Brian Peterson was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and has enjoyed a career that allows him to pursue stories he cares most about in his home state and around the world. He’s best known for his work since 1987 for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, but his photographs have also been seen in National Geographic and Sports Illustrated magazines, the New York Times.

Brian has been recognized nationally and internationally for his documentary photojournalism, and has been honored nine times as Minnesota Press Photographer of the Year. He has photographed the Winter and Summer Olympic Games five times and his sports photography has been honored by the national baseball and football Halls of Fame and the National Press Photographers Association.

Peterson has published two books “Voices for the Land and “Minnesota – State of Wonders” and has won three Minnesota Book Awards.

Renée Jones Schneider: Renée Jones Schneider has been a Star Tribune photographer for 13 years and covered some of the company’s biggest assignments, including when a Hmong hunter opened fire, killing six other hunters in Rice Lake, Wis. Her recent long-term projects, shooting both multimedia and stills, include a series on deradicalization of extremist groups locally and nationally, an investigation of farm safety and an in-depth report on the decline of the honey bee. This year, Renee was named Journalist of the Year by Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists.

Before joining the Star Tribune, Renee worked for the Owatonna People’s Press and the Faribault Daily News. In 2004, Renee placed in the prestigious World Press Awards for a photo of a pouty fourth-place wrestler on an awards podium.

Renée was born in Dublin, Ireland and moved to Minnesota with her parents as a child. She attended St. Olaf College majoring in studio art. Halfway through that major that she discovered photography, during two overnights on a documentary project at St. Paul’s famous Mickey’s Diner. It was her first taste of how a camera and observation can introduce you to the most interesting people you would otherwise never meet.

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November 15, 2016, Tuesday - River Matters: The Upper River: Our Next Big Development Opportunity? at CenterPointe Energy

Time: Doors open at 7:30am; Program 8:00 – 9:00am

Location: CenterPoint Energy, 505 Nicollet Mall

Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership presents: River Matters: The Upper River: Our Next Big Development Opportunity?

The revitalization of Minneapolis’ Central Riverfront is one of our city’s great urban success stories. But there is more Mississippi Riverfront — more than five miles of it — above St. Anthony Falls, and it is poised for transformation as well. The City of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board are currently considering plans for the Upper Harbor Terminal, 48 acres of city-owned land near Dowling Avenue. Longtime visions of open space and trails along the Upper River are being realized.

How can this transformation benefit the region, the city and those who live nearby? What can we learn from other cities that have reclaimed their riverfront? Join Peter Hendee Brown, Jim Vos and the Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership for a discussion of the potential and the challenges of redeveloping Minneapolis’ Upper River. Peter authored America’s Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment, an in-depth look at the urban renewal of four very different waterfronts. Jim, with more than 30 years in the commercial real estate industry, is often called upon by the media to provide perspective on economic trends and their impact on corporate real estate markets.

A complimentary light breakfast will be served. River Matters is a quarterly series of discussions among key civic leaders around the opportunities of riverfront revitalization in the Minneapolis' Upper River. River Matters is an initiative of the Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership. Special thanks to their sponsors for this event: CenterPoint Energy and Highland Bank. Free.

November 14, 2016, Monday - Preserve Minneapolis Annual Meeting

Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm

Location: Whole Foods Community Room (2nd floor), 222 Hennepin Avenue

Come to our Annual Meeting! Join Preserve Minneapolis for our annual meeting, as we recap our past year and plan for 2017. This meeting is open to the public, and we'd love to see you there!

November 14, 2016, Monday - Surdyk's Cheese for Beginners Class at Ginger Hop

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Location: Ginger Hop, 201 East Hennepin Avenue

Surdyk's Cheese for Beginners with Courtney Nulicek

Are you ready to take your love of cheese to the next level? This introduction to the vast world of cheese will examine the different styles, flavor profiles, and stories that draw so many of us to this artful food. For thousands of years, people have been making cheese and enjoying it, come see and taste why.