March 13, 2018, Tuesday - 2018 Minnesota Book Awards: Meet the Finalists at Open Book

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave S

2018 Minnesota Book Awards: Meet the Finalists

Mingle with other readers, writers, and members of our literary community and meet the 2018 finalists for the Minnesota Book Awards. Presented with The Loft Literary Center, the event is free and open to the public. 

Wine and light hors d’oeuvres will be served during the reception and finalist books will be available for purchase. The program will feature panels of finalist authors discussing their work. 

The winners of the 30th annual Minnesota Book Awards will be announced at the Ceremony on Saturday, April 21, at the InterContinental Hotel in downtown Saint Paul.

This is a FREE event open to the public.

Visit the Minnesota Book Awards webiste for more information on the awards and the 2018 finalists: https://thefriends.org/minnesota-book-awards/minnesota-book-awards-winners/

March 12, 2018, Monday - National Theatre Live: Hamlet at St. Anthony Main Theatre

Times: 7:00pm

Location: St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main Street SE

NT Live: Hamlet

Also playing March 14 and 17

Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game, Frankenstein at the National Theatre) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.

Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, National Theatre Live will broadcast this eagerly awaited production live to cinemas.

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.

March 11, 2018, Sunday - Paint Your Pet Special Event II at The Depot

Time: 2:00pm

Location: The Depot, 225 3rd Avenue S

Paint Your Pet Special Event II

March 11, 2018, Sunday - Refind Vintage Market at Modist Brewing

Time: Noon - 5:00pm

Location: Modist Brewing, 505 N 3rd St

Refind Vintage Market

Minneapolis Craft Market is teaming up with vintage boutique THE | KEEP to host a curated selection of vintage traders in a pop-up marketplace at Modist Brewing. The market will feature quality vintage men's and women's wear, accessories, and home goods perfect for Spring.

VINTAGE TRADERS
Arlee Park
Faded Retro
Koda Kin Vintage
Lighthorse Studios
Moth Oddities
Tandem Vintage
The Keep
The Vintage Modern Shop
Wanderlust Vintage Market
Wellie's Vintage
+More coming soon!

About THE | KEEP
Kathryn and Latricia started THE | KEEP to bring a modern aesthetic to vintage clothing. With backgrounds in art, creative direction, and photo-styling their collection of clothing is beautifully curated, contemporary, and timeless. They are experts at finding rare gems and pieces to enhance the modern woman's wardrobe, have an eye for design and fabric, and think that clothing can be the biggest personal outlet for artistic-expression and self-confidence. They believe in sustainability and love to encourage their clients to recycle and reuse AND that the best looks come from mixing the PAST with the PRESENT. shopthekeep.com

About Minneapolis Craft Market
With a rotating selection of designers and makers, Minneapolis Craft Market is a mobile marketplace to discover emerging artists and new design talent of the North. We host more than 60 markets per year at venues throughout the Twin Cities including Linden Hills Farmers Market, the Minne-Mile NightMarket, Sociable Cider Werks, Lakes & Legends Brewing Company and Modist Brewing. View upcoming markets and the 2018 maker application at mplscraftmarket.com. 

March 11, 2018, Sunday - Tales of the Falls, a Storytelling Tour at Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South

Tales of the Falls, a Storytelling Tour

Future date: April 8

The story of the Minneapolis riverfront will come alive in this unique program led by master storyteller Richard Rousseau. Rousseau will spin three tales that weave the history of St. Anthony Falls with the expectations of the present in three different historic spaces within Mill City Museum. Between stories, participants will walk to the next location while learning about the Washburn A Mill, the home of Mill City Museum.

March 10, 2018, Saturday - 2018 Fly Fishing Film Tour at the Machine Shop

Times: 4:00pm and 8:00pm

Location: Machine Shop, 300 Second Street NE

2018 Fly Fishing Film Tour

**Support Your Local Fly Shop!**

The original and preeminent exhibition of fly fishing cinema, The Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T) is a one of a kind experience. In its 12th lap around the globe, the 2018 F3T is packed with remarkable films, topnotch stories and imagery that will fuel your dreams for months to come! 

How are the films this year? Good question. They’re on fire! Wait. No… they’re… on fleek? No, that’s not it either. This year’s lineup of films… would blow the doors off a ’78 Buick.

With an emphasis on the stories, characters and fisheries that help make up the vast world of fly fishing, the 2018 F3T will take you from Michigan to Honduras, from Wyoming to Greenland, from the mind of a child to the heart of a musician, from the edge of your seat to the end of the earth and back. Grab your fishiest friends and we’ll see you at the show!

March 10, 2018, Saturday - I love the 80s/90s Zumba at Zenon Dance

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Location: Zenon Dance Company, 528 Hennepin Ave, Site 400

I love the 80s/90s Zumba

What's Zumba: Zumba is a Latin-inspired dance workout and is one of the most popular group exercise classes in the world. ... You don't need to be a great dancer to feel welcome in a Zumba class.

Come let's get fit and Zumba to hits from the 80s and 90s. As queens we have to treat our bodies right in order to help get our minds right! We were all made to live boldly and fierce, building confidence and loving the skin you're in is what it's all about.

Let's burn those calories and work on our lovely silhouettes! Summer will be here before you know it. We've got work to do.

March 10, 2018, Saturday - Spotlight Series at MacPhail

Time:  8:00pm, Pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m.

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

MacPhail Spotlight Series: Virtuoso Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi was one of history’s most prolific composers, with his best works hitting the classical top-ten charts for centuries.

Enjoy the colorful ingenuity of his Four Seasons, performed by two virtuoso MacPhail violinists and the MacPhail Chamber Orchestra. Highlighting the music’s shifting textures and moods will be projected images by Minnesota photographers Alice Gebura and Layne Kennedy, who capture the four seasons in all their glory.

The Vivaldi is paired with its 20th-century counterpart, The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires by Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla. This 20th-century work borrows themes from Vivaldi and mixes them with the irresistibly sultry harmonies of Tango tunes.

Vivaldi: Concerto for Oboe in F Major
Carrie Vecchione, oboe; Gail Olszewski, harpsichord
Vivaldi: Il Furore
Andrea Leap, soprano; members of the MacPhail Chamber Orchestra
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Stephanie Arado and Marc Levine, solo violin; MacPhail Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Mischa Santora

March 10, 2018, Saturday - Familiar opens at The Guthrie

Time: 7:30p

Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street S

Familiar  March 10 - April 14, 2018

There’s something old, something new and something borrowed in this feisty, heart-warming play about a Zimbabwean-American family preparing for their daughter Tendi’s wedding. Marvelous and Donald have built their American dream in Minnesota, so when Tendi requests a traditional African blessing before marrying her white fiancé from Minnetonka and a surprise guest drops a bombshell, the rehearsal dinner can’t come soon enough. Family fireworks are interwoven with questions of cultural identity in this acclaimed play.

March 10, 2018, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market at the Mill City Museum

Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm

Location: Winter Markets are held inside the Mill City Museum, 704 S 2nd Street

Additional Mill City Farmers Market 2017-2018 Winter Market dates:

March 24 and April 14, 28

March 9, 2018, Friday - MN Book Artist Award Winner Reception & Artist Presentation

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave S

MN Book Artist Award Winner Reception & Artist Presentation

Erica Spitzer Rasmussen is the 2018 Book Artist Award recipient for her piece The Love Affair, a mixed-media sculptural book handcrafted from pieces of old family letters.

View the award-winning piece and hear the artist discuss her work at this special reception, hosted by Minnesota Center for Book Arts. This event is free and open to the public. 

Rasmussen will also be recognized at the 30th annual Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony on Saturday, April 21 at the InterContinental Hotel in Saint Paul. 

Sponsored by Lerner Publishing Group, this annual award is presented as part of the Minnesota Book Awards with the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA), and recognizes a Minnesota book artist or book artist collaborative group for excellence of a new artistic work. The Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota, is a statewide, year-round outreach program of The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. 

This event is FREE and open to the public.

Visit www.thefriends.org/MNBA for more information about the Minnesota Book Awards.

March 9, 2018, Friday - Almighty Voice and his Wife opens at Southern Theater (3 nights)

Times: see show link below

Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

Almighty Voice and his Wife presented by Turtle Theater Collective

March 9-11, 2018

Turtle Theater Collective presents the U.S. premiere of Almighty Voice and his Wife, an iconic text of the Native theater canon by Delaware playwright Daniel David Moses. Almighty Voice and his Wife tells the true story of a Cree man arrested for killing a cow. Under threat of hanging he escapes, unleashing a year-long manhunt that gives rise to his status as a martyr and a legend. The work consists of two vividly contrasting acts that explore Almighty Voice as both victim and hero. The first act is a tender and intimate portrait of him and his wife in life; the second is an outlandish white-faced vaudeville routine of the two in the afterlife.

March 9, 2018, Friday - Topshelf Comedy And Spoken Word Competition at The Pourhouse

Time: 7 PM - 10 PM

Location: The Pourhouse, 10 S 5th Street

Topshelf Comedy And Spoken Word Competition

This event is part of the most funniest thing happening in the comedy realm in MN .
You don't want to miss the must see event once a month hosted at the Pour House located downtown mpls .
Comedians have a chance to win $500 !!!!!
The audience has a chance to win a 50" Plasma TV as a door prize!

March 8, 2018, Thursday - Gin & Jazz at Day Block Brewing

Time: 9pm Music | 21+ | No Cover

Location: Day Block Brewing, 1105 Washington Avenue S

Gin & Jazz

Our monthly cocktail and jazz night returns with a new round of gin cocktails for you to enjoy. Local Jazz music paired with gin cocktails from local and regional distilleries. 

March 8, 2018, Thursday - Poetry Out Loud: Minnesota State Competition 2018 at The Loft

Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm

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

Poetry Out Loud Minnesota State Competition 2018

The Loft Literary Center proudly presents the 2018 Minnesota Poetry Out Loud state finals. Come and watch teens compete for the chance to represent Minnesota at the national finals in Washington, D.C. One teen from Minnesota will advance from this competition to the national finals, where the teen will compete with champions from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.

March 8, 2018, Thursday - Alchemy Turns 3! at Aria

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: ARIA Mpls, 105 N 1st Street

Alchemy Turns 3! 

We opened our North Loop flagship location three years ago this March. To celebrate, we’re bringing it back to where it all began. We’ll celebrate where we’ve been and where we’re going this year. Join us for an A10 with live DJ Jonathan Ackerman. Stay after for drinks, bites, giveaways and more! 

Secure your spot by 2/28 for a free drink ticket!

Doors open at 5:45PM, BYOM (Bring Your Own Mat)!

March 7, 2018, Wednesday - Dan Navarro at Aster Cafe

Time: 8:00pm 21+ Tickets $18 Advance / $20 cash at the door

Location: Aster Cafe, Historic River Room, 125 Main Street SE

Tonight:  Dan Navarro

For over thirty years, Dan Navarro has written, sung, played and acted his way through a rich and varied career…

Dan’s started as a songwriter, most often with Eric Lowen, for artists as diverse as Pat Benatar (the Grammy-nominated “We Belong”) , The Bangles, Jackson Browne, Dave Edmunds, The Temptations, Dionne Warwick, The Triplets, Dutch star Marco Borsato,  and Austin outlaw legend Rusty Weir.

In the 1990s and 2000s, he and Eric recorded and toured as the acclaimed acoustic duo Lowen & Navarro until Eric’s retirement in 2009. Dan has transitioned smoothly into a busy solo career over the past decade, touring nationally almost constantly.

He has a parallel career as a voice actor and singer, in films like  Pirates of the Caribbean 5, The Book Of Life, Rio (on the Oscar®-nominated “Real In Rio”), Happy Feet, The Lorax,  Ice Age (2 & 3) ; TV series Turbo Fast, Prison Break, Family Guy and American Dad; records with Neil Young, Andrea Bocelli, Luis Miguel, Jose Feliciano, Janiva Magness, and Jon Anderson of Yes; hit video games Fallout 4 and Uncharted 4, and hundreds of TV ads for Subaru, Shakey’s, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Honda, Nationwide and more.

He has appeared in Washington on artists’ rights and intellectual property issues, on behalf of Nashville Songwriters Assn Int’l, SoundExchange, SAG-AFTRA, musicFIRST Coalition, BMI and NARAS, including testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Copyright Royalty Board. Dan also serves on the boards of SAG-AFTRA and The Levitt Pavilion Pasadena.

In 2009, after 22 years and 12 CDs with Lowen & Navarro, Dan released the spirited “Live at McCabe’s”, backed by his pals, Austin’s now-disbanded Stonehoney. His next album,“Shed My Skin”, releases this year. He is the father of a 20-year-old son and a known abuser of acoustic guitars.

March 7, 2018, Wednesday - EO Entrepreneurs Rally 2018 at Aria Event Center

Time: 5:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Aria Event Center, 105 North First Street

EO Entrepreneurs Rally 2018

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a non-profit global organization with over 10,000 member with the mission to engage leading entrepreneurs to learn and grow. Our local Minnesota chapter comprises 100 members.

In 2011 a member and member of the board, Cem Erdem, created the concept of Entrepreneurs Rally to fulfill EO’s global vision and mission at a local level. The event brings together accomplished entrepreneurs and early-stage entrepreneurs for no holds barred speed mentoring. It has proven to be a dramatic success attracting 70+ mentors and 150+ mentees every year since its inception.

Join us for our 7th Annual evening designed to inject cutting-edge business thought into the Twin Cities entrepreneurial scene. It brings the entrepreneurial community together for an evening of old fashioned neighborliness, giving back to those who may need guidance, connections and some fresh inspiration.

There’s no other event like this in the Twin Cities where so many accomplished entrepreneurs have gotten together to help the next generation of entrepreneurs.

March 7, 2018, Wednesday - Minneapolis Park and Rec Board Meeting

Time: 5:00pm

Location: Minneapolis Park and Rec Board, 2117 West River Road

Click here for a link to tonights agenda. 

Stream Live Meetings Online or watch on TV on Minneapolis 79.

March 6, 2018, Tuesday - Paint Nite at Geno's

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Geno's, 12 4th Street SE 

Cruise Through the Galaxy

Paint Nite is invading bars and restaurants near you with everything you need to create a one-of-a-kind painting. We’ll guide you and your friends through two lively hours of creativity, drinking, and laughing ‘til your cheeks hurt. The best part? You don’t have to be an artist to have an amazing time.