Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Location: Meet at the Boom Island parking lot.
Take an evening tour of the Mississippi River on snowshoes and see the Minneapolis sky line right across the water. We’ll look for night creatures and watch the sky with the city glowing in the distance. Snowshoes provided.
Register at minneapolisparks.org or call 612-313-7725. $15.
(The Minneapolis Home & Landscape Expo runs January 6-8 and 13-15.)
Times:
Fridays 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Saturdays 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sundays 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: The Metrodome, Gates B, F and H
The 2012 Minneapolis Home and Landscape Expo will kick off a new season of activities at Hubert Humphrey Metrodome with a two-weekend event for homeowners. The Expo offers exhibits, consultations, demonstrations, and other activities related to design and renovation. Expo exhibitors will showcase everything for home interiors including the latest in cabinetry and countertops, flooring, sunrooms and additions, basement finishing, waterproofing, smart, and energy efficient windows, as well as exterior products.
(The Minneapolis Home & Landscape Expo runs January 6-8 and 13-15.)
Times:
Fridays 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Saturdays 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sundays 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: The Metrodome, Gates B, F and H
The 2012 Minneapolis Home and Landscape Expo will kick off a new season of activities at Hubert Humphrey Metrodome with a two-weekend event for homeowners. The Expo offers exhibits, consultations, demonstrations, and other activities related to design and renovation. Expo exhibitors will showcase everything for home interiors including the latest in cabinetry and countertops, flooring, sunrooms and additions, basement finishing, waterproofing, smart, and energy efficient windows, as well as exterior products.
Time: 9:00pm Cover: $8
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Tonight: Natalie Lovejoy and Dana Thompson present: The pursuit of songwriting, a musical kaleidoscope featuring Chris Lynch & Jon Rodine.
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: 10:00am-11:00am or 11:00am–Noon
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, 501 2nd Street South
“Jigs and Jives" - Featuring Willow Brae
Learn folklore, history and hear the dance rhythms of Ireland and Scotland with the music of Willow Brae. The concert will feature airs, reels and jigs played on a variety of wind instruments and harp.
Free Familty 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.
Plus, before and after each concert, kids of all ages will get the chance to meet the musicians and try the instruments featured in the performance.
Time: 9:00pm $5 Cover
Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South
Tonight: The Dollys
The Dollys features three of Minneapolis' most sought after female vocalists: Joanna Jahn, Kari Shaw, and Andra Suchy.
(The Minneapolis Home & Landscape Expo runs January 6-8 and 13-15.)
Times:
Fridays 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Saturdays 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sundays 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: The Metrodome, Gates B, F and H
The 2012 Minneapolis Home and Landscape Expo will kick off a new season of activities at Hubert Humphrey Metrodome with a two-weekend event for homeowners. The Expo offers exhibits, consultations, demonstrations, and other activities related to design and renovation. Expo exhibitors will showcase everything for home interiors including the latest in cabinetry and countertops, flooring, sunrooms and additions, basement finishing, waterproofing, smart, and energy efficient windows, as well as exterior products.
Time: 9:00pm Cover: $5
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Tonight: Andy Elwell w. Jason Roberts
Time: 9:00pm Cover: $4
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Tonight: Molly Maher & Erik Koskinen
Molly Maher and the Disbelievers play roadhouse americana music that will move you to dance and to think and might have you wondering if you went to Austin, Texas, instead of the Aster. Molly and Erik will play most Wednesday nights starting at 9pm.
This evening is supported by 2 Gingers Whiskey and will feature 2 Gingers drink specials. 2 Gingers is about pursuing passions and sharing stories--you will find both in abundance on Wednesdays at the Aster.
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Join us in the paper studio for a day of fellowship and fun as you mix pigments and pattern papers! Fee covers paste, methylcellulose, pigments, and some patterning materials. Supply your own paper or purchase it at The Shop. (Paste paper experience necessary.)
$20 ($15 members)
Location: Spill the Wine, 1101 Washington Avenue South
Seating Times: 5:00pm, 7:00pm, 9:00pm (Call ahead to make reservations, 612-339-3388.)
3 course paired dinner - $120 for 2, $65 for individual.
menu
first course
hot: pork belly, cabbage, smoked paprika, quail egg
cold: shaved apple, mache, 7 - year old cheddar
paired with broglia gavi la meirana (piedmont)
second course
beef
grass fed beef tenderloin, cassoulet, black trumpet mushrooms, white beans, duck confit, lamb sausage, smoked bacon
seghesio zinfandel (sonoma)
fowl
sliced duck, chile glazed sweet potatoes, cranberry currant jam, demi-glace
a to z pinot noir (oregon)
fish
striped sea bass, a la plancha, winter vegetable, saffron risotto, sofrito
pine ridge chenin blanc viognier (napa valley)
third course
local chocolate & cheese plate, ames farm honey
astoria moscato (italy)
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Local D'Lish, 208 N 1st Street
Learn how to throw together a party but make it amazing … … and of course using great local seasonal favorites.
Times (2 Concerts): 6:30pm and 8:00pm
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, Antonella Hall, 501 2nd Street South
Join the party as we celebrate the 10th Anniversary and Reunion celebration of MacPhail’s Prelude Singer-Actor Lab . The concerts will feature current students and alumni. Refreshments will be served, and attendees will have the opportunity to bid on silent auction items to benefit the Prelude Scholarship Fund.
Prelude: Singer-Actor Performance Lab is a year-long program for high school students ages 14-18 who seek an environment where they can experiment and discover new possibilities as performing artists. The program includes theory, sight-singing, vocal ensemble and performance lab training in movement and gestures, plus coaching and networking with professionals in the singing-acting world locally and nationally.
Prelude graduates, many of whom stay with the program throughout high school and mentor their incoming classmates, are receiving top scholarships in Vocal Performance and Musical Theater in conservatories and colleges across the country, such as Eastman, Peabody, Boston Conservatory, and Manhattan School of Music.
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Local D'Lish, 208 N 1st Street
Learn how to throw together a party but make it amazing…and of course using great local seasonal favorites.
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Central Library, Childrens, 300 Nicollet Mall
Preschool-grade 5. Bill the Juggler will amaze and delight audiences by juggling things that just shouldn't be juggled, such as bowling balls, rubber chickens and other odd objects.
Time: 10:00pm $5 Cover
Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South
Tonight: Irresistibles featuring Mick Sterling
Time: 9:00pm Cover: $10
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Tonight: Twas the night before, the night before Christmas with the tex pistols band featuring Mary Jane Alm and Aimee Fischer.
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Open Book, Third Floor, 1011 Washington Avenue South
We hope you will join us to celebrate the culminating exhibition of MCBA Artist-in-Residence Anna Boyer!
Singing / Seeking - New prints by MCBA Artist-in-Residence Anna Boyer
December 22, 2011 - February 12, 2012
"I am interested in the relationship between my work and the breathing functions of the body, the expansion and contraction of the ribcage, diaphragm, muscles and tendons in creating controlled breath. Also the vibration of air in and out of the body. Sites of emotional tension shape the sound and are felt in the body. I develop my own structures of sound. How do I use sound to locate myself? How am I changed by sung song? How does it work in community when song is shared? It is questions such as these that I consider when making my work." -Anna Boyer
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