November 23, 2016, Wednesday - Transmission Thanksgiving Eve at Mill City Nights

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Mill City Nights, 111 5th Sreet N

A Transmission Thanksgiving Eve

Transmission has been honored to do opening sets for such artists as Peter Murphy, Adam Ant, Gary Numan, Garbage, Mazzy Star and more at Mill City Nights, and now it's time to host a dance party there (before the venue closes just days later).

Announcing Transmission's annual Thanksgiving Eve featuring 100% music videos and 0% turkey!

Tickets and info: http://m.axs.com/events/326866/transmission-tickets

* You can avoid the service fees by purchasing in advance at The Electric Fetus for $8 or at the door on the night of for $10.

These events have sold out the past five years, so advance tickets are suggested, but if you arrive to Mill City Nights within the first hour, you should still be OK.

What is Tran...smission? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxjW6OpFldk 

November 23, 2016, Wednesday - WinterSkate Rink Opens in Loring Park

Wells Fargo Minneapolis WinterSkate offers you a chance to skate under the downtown Minneapolis skyline. Join us for one of Minnesota's favorite winter activities. The skating rink opens November 23 and will be open daily through the winter skating season.

Skating on the rink is free, and complimentary skates are available during warming house hours on a first-come, first-served basis. Sizes and quantities vary. 

Warming House courtesy of CenterPoint Energy Hours Include:

Monday-Friday: 3pm - 9pm
Saturday: 9am - 9pm
Sunday: 10am - 6pm

**Minneapolis WinterSkate special hours: November 23: 1:30 pm-9 pm; Thanksgiving: Closed; December 24: 12 pm - 4 pm; December 25: Rink Closed; December 31-January 1: 12 pm-6 pm

Free Cocoa & Stagecoach Rides At Wells Fargo Minneapolis WinterSkate Opening

Join us on Wednesday, November 23 at 1:30 pm for the Wells Fargo Minneapolis WinterSkate ceremonial opening and ribbon cutting! WCCO-TV's Mark Rosen and BUZ'N 102.9 FM's Paul Koffy will be on hand along with members of the local hockey and figure skating community as we officially kick off outdoor skating in Downtown Minneapolis!

Stop by and meet Miracle on Ice Gold Medalist, former NHL Star  and Warroad-native Dave Christian during the ribbon cutting ceremony! He'll be there along with captains and coaches from the defending Class 2A high school state hockey champions (Wayzata boys & Eden Prairie girls), Minneapolis DinoMights urban youth hockey players, Figure Skating Club of Minneapolis skaters and more!

Wells Fargo will provide complimentary hot cocoa and Stagecoach rides through Loring Park as part of the grand opening, and the Warming House courtesy of CenterPoint Energy will also be open for use. Bring your own skates or borrow a complimentary pair on site, then join us on the ice for a fun afternoon of skating underneath the downtown skyline! The Wells Fargo Minneapolis WinterSkate is free and open to the public.

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, November 23!

Free Programming Throughout The Winter

Join us at the Wells Fargo Minneapolis WinterSkate for fun, free activities on the ice throughout the winter including: 

• Every Friday in January: Musical Skate (These nights will also include different rink lighting colors and techniques each night)  
  • Jan. 6: Throwback Night
  • Jan. 13: Disney Night
  • Jan. 20: Country Skate/Military Appreciation
  • Jan. 27: Top Hits
• Every Wednesday in February: After School Skate (each Wednesday has a theme but we don’t know the exact order yet)
  • Learn how to skate
  • Free figure skating lessons/ demo
  • Snack & skates
• Movie Skates:
  • Jan. 21: Mighty Ducks
  • Feb. 2: Ground Hogs Day

For more information on Wells Fargo Minneapolis WinterSkate, visit www.downtownmpls.com/winterskate or follow @MplsDowntown on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #MplsWinterSkate.

November 22, 2016, Tuesday - Temporary Action Theory at Southern Theater

Times: 7:00pm and 9:30pm

Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue S

Laurie Van Wieren presents: Temporary Action Theory

With over 40 years of performance history, Temporary Action Theory is a mining of Van Wieren’s personal dance history, her influences, her relationship to the audience and the space around her. “I’m going back to improvising as performance and I’m working with text,” she notes. “I went in the studio and thought what’s here, what’s in me right now, and what’s in from doing work for so many years, what is there?”

General Admission: $15; ArtShare members free.

November 20, 2016, Sunday - Swing Brunch at Aster Cafe

Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Today: Swing Brunch with Patty and the Buttons

November 20, 2016, Sunday - Dangerous Man Brewing Beer Run

Time: 11:00am

Location: Dangerous Man Brewery, 1300 NE 2nd St

Beer Run - Dangerous Man Brewing - Part of the 2016 MN Brewery Running Series

It doesn’t get more simple than this: walk / jog / run … drink beer … and raise money for local non-profits!

Join us at 11AM on SUNDAY, Nov 20 at Dangerous Man Brewery Co and enjoy a fun-run 5k throughout the surrounding neighborhood & parks! Walk, jog, run… no one cares! Consider this a relaxing way to ease into Thanksgiving week! Whether the relatives are already in-town (bring them with), or you need to de-stress prior to them arriving, it will be a great day for a casual fun-run and BEER!!!

We’ve mapped out a course that starts and ends at the brewery and our guides along the way will make sure you know where to go. Cross the finish line and celebrate!

All participants receive a FREE craft brew from Dangerous Man and get to take home a collectors pint glass or seasonal swag item. Bring the whole gang!

Registration is limited, so sign up today!

Let’s consider this an “un-race” as it goes against many principles of those fancy 5k races you may be familiar with. This is not timed and you will not get a medal when you finish. What you will get is an excuse to enjoy the great Minnesota outdoors, FREE beer and swag, and the wonderful feeling that you are supporting our local community. Remember: a portion of all proceeds go to benefit MN non-profits. Visit our website to see who we support and why: www.breweryrunningseries.com

November 19, 2016, Saturday - Dinner Detective at Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown

Time: Doors open at 6:00pm

Location: Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown, 1500 Washington Avenue S

Dinner Detective Minneapolis

The Dinner Detective is America’s LARGEST, award-winning interactive comedic murder mystery dinner show! Our high-energy, modern-day whodunit is combined with a full four-course meal.

Our immensely popular murder mystery shows are set in the present day. Unlike other murder mystery dinner shows (or just dinner shows in general), with The Dinner Detective, you and your guests will not find themselves staring at cheesy costumes, there will be no recited campy dialogue and certainly no hokey song and dance. Our performers are dressed just like everyone else, leaving all of the guests to suspect who is a part of the show and who is not! All scripts are based on actual cold cases and are created in house. From the get go, the guests are seated with the performers and most likely will not realize it! Our Detectives enter the room, proceed to interrogate guests, find clues and start the investigation. This allows our guests to socialize with and interrogate each other, while deciphering real life-based clues. At the end of the night, prizes are awarded to the Top Sleuth who solves the crime!

November 19, 2016, Saturday - Thanksgiving Paper Dinner at MCBA

Time: 10:00am-Noon

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

Thanksgiving Paper Dinner with Ellen Ferrari

Celebrate the colors and aromas of Thanksgiving dinner by “cooking” up some paper. Start by pulling sheets of white paper, then add onion skin yellow, cabbage purple, cranberry red, orange orange and more! Use herbs and spices, such as crumpled sage, grated cinnamon and nutmeg, too. Waterproof shoes are suggested. Join Ellen Ferrari for family book arts fun! Each workshop starts off with a story and game to warm up your creativity and then dives into a book arts project. Workshops accommodate a range of developmental levels so that adults and children (or) adult/child teams may choose to work together or side-by-side. Each participant receives supplies to use during the workshop, but may choose to bring one set home if working with his or her partner. Ellen will provide older children with suggestions for extending their learning.

For families with children ages 2 and up. Adult/child pair: $38 ($35 members); additional participant (adult or child): $19 ($17.50 members). 

November 19, 2016, Saturday - Washburn A Mill Tour

Time: 1:00pm

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

Washburn A Mill Tour

$16 adults, $14 seniors and college students, $12 ages 5-17, $4 discount MNHS members, includes museum admission

Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555

Take an in-depth look at the historic Washburn A Mill complex and the award-winning Mill City Museum building. A guide 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. This is the only opportunity for a guided tour through the entire museum building and the only chance to see some of its nonpublic spaces.

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.