Time: 10:30am
Location: Sheridan Memorial Park, 1300 Water St. NE
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and Commissioner Liz Wielinski invite you to join them for a special Veterans Day dedication ceremony at the Sheridan Veterans Memorial.
Please see the attached invitiation for Monday, November 11, at 10:30am.
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Old Spaghetti Factory, 233 Park Avenue (and Washington Avenue South)
"Best Laid Plans"
Join The Murder Mystery Company as we journey back in time to the glamorous 1930's with, "Best Laid Plans".
Get all dolled up for an evening of "Old Hollywood Style" fun as you mingle with the who's whos of society. Be careful though, as someone in the room is guilty of a terrible crime. Bring your friends, family and don't forget your detective skills to help solve the case!
Time: See below
Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 2nd Street South
Enjoy an afternoon at the theater and leave the child care to us:
Guthrie Theater / YMCA Play Care!
Child care: $10 per child
Area 2 ticket: $25
Area 3 ticket: $20
Finally, the day has arrived when you can escape to the theater for an afternoon of much-deserved grown-up time, while your kids participate in fun and creative activities developed and led by trusted child care professionals of the YMCA -- all under the same roof! It's almost too good to be true!
Here's how it works:
Beginning at 12:30 p.m. on select Play Care dates, bring your children (ages 4 to 11) to the Guthrie's Level Eight Education Suite where they will explore a variety of activities developed and led by qualified and trusted YMCA child care professionals. All activities are tailored to your child's age (ages 4 & 5, 6 & 7, 8 & 9, 10 & 11), including movement, arts & crafts, games and more. Once they're settled in, head downstairs, take your seat and prepare to be entertained!
Fall/Winter 2013 Play Care Dates
All performances begin at 1 p.m., child care drop off begins at 12:30 p.m. Advance reservations are required.
•Sunday, November 10 at 1 p.m. -- Tribes
•Sunday, November 24 at 1 p.m. -- A Christmas Carol
•Sunday, December 1 at 1 p.m. -- A Christmas Carol or Born Yesterday
To purchase, call the Guthrie Box Office at 612.377.2224 or order in person at the Guthrie Box Office.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Clockwerk Men Before Enlightenment: Book Arts Roundtable with visiting artist Timothy Ely
Great change occurred in the book form following the development of steam power and the industrial organizing principals. Timothy Ely will give a very brief overview of the industrial changes affecting the of binding books as well as a history of some influences on his work. From Medieval books to Steampunk futurist dreams of saucers and libraries, Ely will show examples of his manuscript books from over a long career.
Ely has been a student and scholar of the sketchbook form since the late 1960s. He received an MFA in Design from the University of Washington in 1975 and since that time has made over 500 unique manuscript books, sketchbooks & archives and has been active in teaching the art of the book. His books are in public, private, and secret collections planet-wide. He lives in Colfax, Washington.
Free and open to the public.
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Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Loft Literary Center, at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave
McKnight judge Luis Rodriguez reads and discusses his latest book, It Calls You Back, the sequel to Always Running.
Luis Rodriguez is a bestselling author and poet, and is most widely known for his memoir Always Running about his days in an East L.A. gang. Always Running earned a Carl Sandburg Literary Award and was designated a New York Times Notable Book; it has also been named by the American Library Association as one of the nation’s 100 most censored books.
This reading is in association with One Minneapolis One Read. This year’s book selection is Gordon Park’s A Choice of Weapons. Go to oneminneapolisoneread.com for details.
Times: 11:00am to 3:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South
Making Pies Family Day
Fee: Programs included with museum admission of $11 adults, $9 seniors and college students, $6 children ages 6-17; free for MHS members.
Fall is here, a chill is in the air and the holidays are approaching. For Mill City Museum, that mean’s pie making! Families will enjoy a variety of pie-related activities throughout the museum. Young visitors can make their own mini pie with our partners from Bakers Square to bake at home. Enjoy story time featuring Lauren Stringer’s "Winter is the Warmest Season" and a related make-it take-it book project. The entire family can see performances by History Player Mary Dodge Woodward, who baked 22 pies each week as an 1880s bonanza farm domestic manager and meet Mary Pint aka “the Pie Lady” known for her pie trivia and expertise.
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South
Tonight: Viva Knievel
Viva Knievel is a cover band that defies gravity. With no fear of broken bones or loss of limb, we take the stage and attempt feats that seem impossible.
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm No Cover
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Bluegrass Brunch featuring: Roe Family Singers
Time: See below for activity-specific times.
Location: Izzy's, 1100 2nd Street South
The retail shop has been open since July 29th, but this Grand Opening is in celebration of moving the ice cream making kitchen to Minneapolis. Stop by for treats and tours.
Kids Hour: Noon-2pm Activities, cider, caramel apples and fun!
Architectural Tour: Want to know more about the building design and functions? Join owner Jeff Sommers and architect David Salmela for a talk and tour 12:30-1:30 (TICKETS* ON SALE HERE)
Tasting Tour: Join owner Jeff Sommers and enjoy a tasting of some of his favorite flavors with ice cream in Izzy’s new kitchen 3pm- 4pm (TICKETS* ON SALE HERE)
Kitchen viewing and ingredient tasting. 4 to 7 p.m. – Get an inside glimpse of the ice cream kitchen and have the opportunity to taste locally sourced ingredients before and after they are made into ice cream. Local ingredients include cardamom toast from Wuollet Bakery, milk from family-run dairy Sassy Cow Creamery and key lime pie from Birchwood Café. Tastes of Jeff’s signature cold-press iced coffee, made with Peace Coffee Yeti blend and brown-butter sweet cream, also will be served.
Owner’s Tour: 7:30pm-8:30pm – A behind-the-scenes tour of our new facility and a talk with owner Jeff Sommers about what we’re doing here at Izzy’s! (TICKETS* ON SALE HERE)
*Tickets include ice cream cup or cone, too!
Time: 10:00am – 11:00am or 11:00am – Noon (This is a free event.)
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, Antonello Hall, 501 2nd Street South
Sing-a-Long! with the Early Childhood Music Faculty
Featuring the MacPhail Early Childhood Music faculty performing ECM favorites from both CDs!
About Free Family Music Series
A family event for music-loving families, as well as for those who want to explore music for the first time! The centerpiece of this series is a live concert. Before and after each concert, the musicians will give free sample lessons to kids and adults on the instruments featured in the concert. MacPhail Early Childhood Music staff will also be on site to engage families in a music-themed art project. Light refreshments will follow the concert.
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Begins at LaSalle Plaza (800 LaSalle Plaza), located on Hennepin Ave between 8th & 9th Street; ends at Metro Building (80 9th Street S).
While it's chilly outside, join us as we weave our way through the cozy corners of downtown Minneapolis skyways on a food adventure. We will stroll through the "Broadway" Theatre District and enjoy VIP service as we visit some of the newest and hottest award winning restaurants downtown has to offer. The tour includes seeing the Minneapolis skyscraper that was modeled after the Washington Monument and visiting the famous Statue of Mary Richards tossing her hat. Along the way we will also visit quaint eateries that have pride in local ownership; including a favorite since 1932. You will participate in tea sampling and learn the secrets behind the great food you are enjoying. You'll leave the tour with a tasty experience of some of the best food finds Minneapolis has to offer all while learning history of downtown and soaking in the local culture.
•Indoor 3 hour walking tour in the heart of downtown Minneapolis using the skyway system
•Saturdays at 2:30pm; during the Holiday Season Friday and Saturday at 2:30pm
•Flat route with slight inclines and declines, approximately .8 of a mile, bathrooms available at some stops
•5 stops, with 10-12 tastings
•Tour limited to 12 people, advance tickets required. Private tours available for larger groups.
•Begins at LaSalle Plaza (800 LaSalle Plaza), located on Hennepin Ave between 8th & 9th Street; ends at Metro Building (80 9th Street S)
•$45/pp
Time: 10:30am
Location: Central Library, Children's Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
For children age 2 and up. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement with your children.
Friday, November 8: 10am to 7pm
Saturday, November 9: 10am to 5pm
Sunday, November 10: 12pm to 4pm
39th Annual Sale: Weavers Guild of Minnesota Fiber Fair
Location: Northrup King Building, Studio #332, 1500 Jackson Street NE
Enjoy a fabulous shopping experience in a beautiful gallery space. Includes abundant and free parking, ADA accessible ramps and elevators. Free admission.
Choose from an assortment of handmade items such as scarves, shawls, purses, rugs, placemats, wall hangings, handspun yarn and much, much more! These handmade items make perfect gifts for yourself or someone special. All proceeds from Fiber Fair support local fiber artists.
For details visit http://www.weaversguildmn.org/
Time: 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm $10
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Tonight: Tom Lieberman
Those of you with good memories may recall Tom Lieberman as the tallest member of the seminal jazz trio Rio Nido; Those of you who are fans of A Prairie Home Companion may remember him as the voice of El Muchacho Allegre (Happy Boy) Ajua-brand Hot Sauce… Those of you who have (or are) children, may have heard his songs being sung by Sesame Streets Elmo.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Open Book Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Artist talk: Lewis Koch: Bomber, a chance unwinding
Lewis Koch uses photography, found images, maps and text to engage in a critical response to contemporary life and politics. In Bomber, he bears witness to a World War II bomber crash site above the treeline in Wyoming's Cloud Peak Wilderness, a remote area that Koch describes as "almost inconceivably stark and humbling." Linking his own photographs of the site with images from documentary films, details of period maps, and poetry, this installation is a reflection on a particular tragedy as well as a metaphor for the societal devastation and environmental destruction caused by war.
This year marks the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and our nation is still grappling with the process of understanding and memorializing the site of the former World Trade Center. Koch’s exploration of this World War II crash site is a meditation on the ultimate futility of war, as he sees it, and on the importance of memory, grieving, and healing.
In reflecting upon these separate but inextricably linked tragedies -- the deaths of the soldiers whose B-17 crashed on what is now known as Bomber Mountain, and the immense loss of life and environmental impact in Europe and the Pacific, where these bombers were deployed -- Koch’s photographs and text speak to both sides of the conflict and, by extension, to anyone touched by war and its aftermath. At a time of increasingly narrow and shrill public discourse, his work invites us to participate in a moving and substantive dialogue.
The project presents an intermingling of text and various types of imagery (color in situ photographs, black-and-white freeze frames, vintage maps) in an effort to engage the audience in non-traditional ways of thinking about information, in this instance, creating a conversation about the collision of war and nature. The accompanying chapbook (self-published, 2011) was selected for inclusion in the Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition DIY: Photographers and Books curated by Barbara Tannenbaum. The full portfolio is comprised of twenty-four 11x14" pages, individually framed for exhibition. It is one iteration of a larger text-image project, whose other variants include a chapbook, an installation, and performance (a reading with accompanying projected images).
Lewis Koch (Madison, WI) uses photography, text, architecture and found objects to call attention to the often unremarked upon elements of everyday life. Embedded in various aspects of his work is a critique of the long-held concept that war is an acceptable response to conflict. His projects have been shown in garages, on kiosks and billboards, as well as in museums and galleries, with solo exhibitions in New York, London, Brussels, Seoul, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere. His photographs and assemblages are in permanent collections throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, including Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1994, Koch was awarded a Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Arts from the Wisconsin Arts Board, and has received grants from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities and regional arts agencies. A previous text-based project, When Things Dream, was the third installation in Koch’s Garage Trilogy. It can be seen on the web as Garageography 3.0.7, a virtual tour. Developed when he was an artist-in-residence at Copenhagen’s Fotografisk Center, the web project Touchless Automatic Wonder provides an overview of Koch’s work prior to 2001, and was the precedent for his recent book by the same title.
Time: 5:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Northrup King Building, 1500 Jackson Street NE
First Thursdays in the Arts District
A multitude of painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, ceramists, textile and fiber artists, jewelers, furniture showrooms and more open their studios at the Northrup King Building located in the heart of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District.
First Thursdays in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District is an Open Studio and Gallery Tour held the first Thursday of each month. Many NEMAA member artists and galleries open their doors and invite you into their studios. With a more relaxed atmosphere, this mini-AAW is a great experience for the art collector and browser.
Other Open Studios from 5:00 - 9:00 PM at:
•California Building, 2205 California St. NE, Minneapolis
•Casket Arts Building, 681 17th Avenue NE, Minneapolis
•Casket Arts-Carriage House , 1720 17th Avenue NE, Minneapolis
•Grain Belt Studios, 77 & 79 13th Ave. S., Minneapolis
•Q.arma Building , 1224 Quincy St NE, Avenue NE, Minneapolis
•Solar Arts Building, 711 15th Ave. NE, Minneapolis
•Thorp Building , 1618 Central Avenue NE, Minneapolis
•Two 12 Pottery and Gifts - We will offer our usual store discount, and on top of that, all books are 20% off including books on sale! 212 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413, 612.331.1556, two12pottery@yahoo.com
•Who Made Who Design Studio + Screenprint Emporium, 158 13th Ave. NE, Minneapolis
First Thursday Specials
•First Thursdays at the Red Stag Supperclub featuring Happy Hour 3pm - close and late night music at 10pm. 509 1st Avenue NE, Minneapolis.
•First Thursdays at Chowgirls Parlor, 6-11 PM
We open our doors to welcome all, especially those participating in First Thursdays in the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. 1222 2nd Street N.E.
Time: 5:00pm
Location: MPRB Headquarters, 2117 West River Road
Proposed 2014 Minneapolis Park Board Budget Continues Focus on Fiscal Responsibility, Service Delivery and Maintaining Park System.
The Superintendent's Recommended 2014 Budget for the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) focuses on maintaining park services and facilities, strategically addressing financial and operational challenges, improving organizational efficiency and service delivery, and addressing threats to the urban tree canopy.
The proposed budget and budget related documents are available for viewing at www.minneapolisparks.org/budget or by calling 612-230-6400. The public may comment on the proposed budget during the following times:
Nov. 6, Public Comment Session– Administration and Finance Committee meeting,. The Committee meeting will follow the Board's regular meeting at 5 pm.
Nov. 20, Public Comment Session– Regular Board meeting at 5 pm.
Dec. 11, Public Hearing – City of Minneapolis public hearing on 2014 tax levy and 2014 Budget, City Hall, Council Chambers Room 317, 350 South 5th Street, Minneapolis, at 6:05 pm.
Click here for full announcement and details.
Also on November 6:
Public Hearing – West River and James I Rice Parkways Trail Improvements 6:30pm
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) Planning Committee will hold a public hearing for the concept plan for 3.5 miles of proposed trail improvements along West River and James I Rice Parkways. The resolution before the Planning Committee is to approve the concept plan as recommended by a Community Advisory Committee (CAC). The concept plan is based on community preferences received through extensive outreach, including three public meetings, an open house, on-line and in-field surveys of trail users. Included in the plan is new asphalt surfacing for the bicycle trails, adding missing segments of pedestrian trails along the corridor, separated bicycle and pedestrian trails where possible or a widened combined use trail. Improved lighting, parkway crossings and an added rest area at Bohemian Flats are also included in the project scope. You are invited to attend this public hearing where you will have an opportunity to review the plans and share your comments with the Planning Committee.
Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: The Dome (upper level)
This is the last year of Dome Running as we know it. Please join us in the 31st year!
Dome running is every Tuesday and Thursday Starting November 5 through December 26. The Dates for 2013 are: November 5, 12, 19, 21, 28. December 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 26.
Cost is $1. Enter at Gate D, free parking in the upper Dome lot.
For questions contact Rick Recker at 612 375-0805.
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