Time: 7:30pm (no cover)
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE
Geeks Who Drink is a Denver-based company that hosts bar trivia at over 200 pubs and restaurants in 21 states. Their quiz is a collective effort of dozens of quizmasters, writers, fact-checkers, graphic designers and artists.
Time: 1:30pm
Location: Children's Library at Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
Tet: Vietnamese New Year 2013
For families. Kick off the Year of the Snake. Learn unicorn moves and drumming to drive off bad luck. Listen to zodiac tales, watch and dance along with a cultural dance group, and enjoy a martial arts demonstration. Feel free to attend in traditional clothing.
This project is funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Presented in collaboration with Hung Vuong Association of Minnesota.
Time: 9:00pm Cover: $8
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Tonight: Mississippi Peace
Tme: 7:00pm
Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Poetry Reading: Hadara Bar-Nadav, Adam Clay, Michael Robins, and Kristin Naca
Join us for a unique evening of exceptionally enthralling poetry with Hadara Bar-Nadav, Adam Clay, Michael Robbins, and Kristin Naca.
Hadara Bar-Nadav will read from her recently published ekphrastic collection The Frame Called Ruin reviewed as “terse and fiery,” by Publishers Weekly. Bar-Nadav is the author of A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), which was awarded the Margie Book Prize. Her chapbook, Show Me Yours (Laurel Review/ GreenTower Press, 2010), was awarded the Midwest Poets Series Award. She is also co-author, with Michelle Boisseau, of Writing Poems, 8th edition (Pearson, 2011). Her awards include fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and lives in Kansas City with her husband, Scott George Beattie, a furniture maker and visual artist.
Adam Clay will read selections from his collection A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012) reviewed by Publishers Weekly as “a poet that locates himself at the borders between nature and language.” Clay is the author of The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. He co-edits TYPO Magazine and lives in Kentucky.
Michael Robins is the author of The Next Settlement (UNT Press, 2007), Ladies & Gentlemen (Saturnalia Books, 2011), and two chapbooks: Circus (Flying Guillotine, 2009), and Little Felons (Strange Machine, 2013). Born in Portland, Oregon, he teaches poetry and literature at Columbia College Chicago.
Kristin Naca is a Filipina American poet who grew up in northern Virginia, graduated from University of Cincinnati, University of Pittsburgh with an MFA, and from University of Nebraska in 2008, with a PhD Her poems have appeared in Bloom, Harper Palate, Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, Octopus Magazine, Seattle Review, Poetry Northwest, and Rio Grande Review. She has been a member of the Macondo Workshop in San Antonio, Texas, since 2002. She teaches at Macalester College. She lives in Minneapolis.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Time: 10:00am-2:00pm
Location: Local D'Lish, 208 N 1st Street
Mark your calendars for SWEET SATURDAY Local Artist Showcase and Sale on February 2nd from 10am-2pm. Local D'lish will house a variety of artisans selling everything from hats, scarves, and clothing to cards, jewelry and home accessories. Original artwork bought directly from local artists is a great way to shop for Valentine's Day, birthdays, be-here-before-you-know-it holidays (like Mother's Day!) or just a sweet treat for yourself!
Times: 1:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South
Fee: $14 adults, $12 seniors and college students, $10 children ages 6-17 and MHS members. Tour includes museum admission.
Reservations: recommended, call 612-341-7555 or register online
Take an in-depth look at the historic Washburn A Mill complex and the award-winning Mill City Museum building on this guided tour. 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 how the mill ruin was converted to a museum and office building.
Although many parts of the A mill can be explored on a self-guided basis during a regular museum visit, this is the only opportunity for a guided tour through the entire museum building, and the only chance to see some of its non-public spaces. The tour includes admission to the museum gallery as well as the Flour Tower show.
Time: 9:00pm Cover: $8
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Tonight: Caitlyn Smith
Tme: 7:00pm
Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Mentor Series Reading: Jude Nutter
The 2012-2013 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents poetry mentor Jude Nutter reading along with program participants Kelly Hansen Maher (poetry) and Jason Francis O'Keane (fiction)
Kelly Hansen Maher lives in Northeast Minneapolis and attends Hamline University as a part-time writing student while working full-time as an attorney editor for Thomson Reuters. Kelly holds a BFA in theater from Emerson College, and a JD from the University of Minnesota. Kelly’s poems have been published in a handful of literary journals, and her plays have been staged in Seattle, Portland, and New York City. She’s at work on her first full-length poetry collection, and a book of personal nonfiction. She loves garden writing, museums, Lake Superior, and old English pubs.
Jason Francis O’Keane lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three daughters. He received his MFA from Hamline University, where he was an assistant fiction editor for Water~Stone Review. In his earlier life, he was a practicing aerospace engineer, but quit to become a stay-at-home dad and feed his writing habit.
Jude Nutter was born in North Yorkshire, England, and grew up near Hannover, in northern Germany. Her first book-length collection, Pictures of the Afterlife (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), was published in 2002. The Curator of Silence (University of Notre Dame Press), her second collection, won the Ernest Sandeen Prize from the University of Notre Dame and was awarded the 2007 Minnesota Book Award in poetry. A third collection, I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman (University of Notre Dame Press), was awarded the 2010 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and voted Poetry Book of the Year by ForeWord Review. In 2004/2005 she spent two months in Antarctica as a participant in the National Science Foundation’s Writers and Artists Program.
Time: Doors open at 7:30pm, show is 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South
VIBE Twin Cities is a monthly charity concert that showcases local and national music talent. All proceeds from the event will go toward supporting anti-bullying programs in Twin Cities schools.
Mission:
Project Footsteps is a Minneapolis-based non profit whose mission is to inspire, empower and prepare young people and communities to be agents of change and social leaders in action. To learn more, please visit www.projectfootsteps.org.
21+
$20 for cover, 2 drink tickets, 1 raffle ticket and a table.
$12 for cover only.
Additional raffle tickets will be sold throughout the night for $1 a piece!
Check out www.vibetwincities.com for more information!
Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: The Dome
Dogs are invited to the Metrodome for some running and socializing on the lower concourse.
Admission: $5 per dog/owner combo (up to 2 dogs)
Parking: Free in the Metrodome parking lot located on the east side of the stadium.
Entrance: Gate B
Cleaning supplies and water for the dogs will be provided. Vendors and pet licensing will also be available. All dogs must be licensed to participate.
Tme: 5:00pm
Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Minnesota Magazine Mingle
Escape the cold on January 31 for the 10th annual Minnesota Magazine Mingle networking event at the Loft.
Sponsored by the Minnesota Magazine and Publishing Association and The Loft Literary Center, this event provides our community with a great opportunity to spend time with our colleagues, put faces to names, acquaint ourselves with our region’s publications, and marvel at the breadth of publications on display.
Matchmakers will be back to help editors and writers find each other. New will be Editorial Speed Dating where writers can introduce themselves to 10+ magazine editors.
The Magazine Mingle takes place on January 31, 2013, at Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South in Minneapolis. Light refreshments and a cash bar will be provided. Free parking is available at Periscope, 921 Washington Avenue South.
Sign up early for reduced rates (including rates for multiple registrations). Members of the sponsoring and supporting organizations all receive the member rate. Supporting organizations for the event include the America Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), the National Writers Union (NWU) and the Professional Editors Network (PEN).
REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South
After the first successful year of LitPunch, we can all attest to the strength and dedication of our Twin Cities literary community. For our second year, we wanted to focus on celebrating and strengthening our literary community by organizing social and networking events throughout the year.
Our first LitPunch Mixer is January 30, 2013, at Crooked Pint. The five sponsoring organizations as well as many other literary friends, authors, and partners will be there, so please come celebrate with fellow writers, readers, and publishers. There will be previews of upcoming literary events, prizes, punch, and good company.
LitPunch is sponsored by Coffee House Press, Graywolf Press, The Loft Literary Center, Milkweed Editions, and Rain Taxi Review of Books.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Target Field (enter at the Administrative Entrance Adjacent to Gate 6 - meeting is in the Town Ball Tavern.
- Neighborhood Board Elections
- Presentations from Local Officials
- Update on Neighborhood Events & Activities
- Door Prizes
- Neighborhood Volunteer Opps
Time: 7:30pm (no cover)
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE
Geeks Who Drink is a Denver-based company that hosts bar trivia at over 200 pubs and restaurants in 21 states. Their quiz is a collective effort of dozens of quizmasters, writers, fact-checkers, graphic designers and artists.
Times:
Friday, January 25 - 4:00pm-9:30pm
Saturday, January 26 - 9:00am-6:00pm
Sunday, January 27 - 9:00am-4:00pm
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street
White vs. Whole Wheat: A Tale of Two Flours at Mill City Museum
See how history is revealed in food through a baking demonstration focusing on the story behind white and whole wheat flour. Discover how Minneapolis millers perfected a way to make white flour on an industrial scale, hear about the popularity of white flour in the 19th century, what effects this had on nutrition, and why flour today is frequently enriched. Visitors will also learn why Sylvester Graham developed a whole wheat cracker "to improve health and morality," hear the pros and cons of each type of flour, sample baked goods made from each, and take home a copy of the recipes.
Fee: Programs included with museum admission of $11 adults, $9 seniors and college students, $6 children ages 6-17; free for MHS members.
Time: 9:00am - 11:00am
Location: Wurtele Thrust Stage, Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street South
What was the inspiration for the set? Was the play rewritten in rehearsals? Aren't those wigs itchy? Through these eye-opening workshops, you can learn how the Guthrie's artists and staff create a production - from early development and designs to rehearsal, costume fittings and staging of the play.
$15 per person per workshop.
Upcoming 2013 workshops:
Other Desert Cities
Saturday, February 23, 2013
McGuire Proscenium Stage
Twelfth Night/The Taming of the Shrew
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Wurtele Thrust Stage
Nice Fish
Saturday, April 20, 2013
McGuire Proscenium Stage
The Primrose Path
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Wurtele Thrust Stage
Clybourne Park
Saturday, June 15, 2013
McGuire Proscenium Stage
Born Yesterday
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Wurtele Thrust Stage
Time: 10:00pm $5 Cover
Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South
Tonight: Jason Paulson Band
Time: 9:00pm Cover: $7
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Tonight: Bethany Larson & The Bees Knees w/ Adam Levy
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