Time: 9:00pm
Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South
Tonight: Hookers$Blow
Rocking dance grooves from 60s and 70s R & B. With a rotating cast, the band is literally a super group of Twin Cities musicians.
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Dowling Studio, Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street South
Time: 9:00pm $8
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Tonight: Nolan John
Future Friday nights in May:
Dick Kimmel and Company
May 16 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
|$10
Tom Lieberman
May 23 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
|$10
Falderals CD Release
May 30 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
|$10
Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Dirt Sticks
by Kira Obolensky
directed by Michelle Hensley with music by Peter Vitale
The dead don’t rest with an untold story. After Rose Wand falls to her death, her bones go missing. Now, 20 years later, a mysterious Peddler has come to town selling glimpses of the past and stirring up thoughts about second chances. But before they can imagine a new future, Rose’s son Henry Wand, Mother Spindle and the orphan Miss Laurel have to face the stories—told and untold—that hold them captive. Dirt Sticks was written as part of a three-year playwright residency funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Produced with assistance from The Playwrights' Center. Featuring Stephen Cartmell, Sun Mee Chomet, H. Adam Harris, Thomasina Petrus and Kimberly Richardson.
For information and tickets: http://www.tenthousandthings.org/.
Dates and Times:
Friday, May 9th
Saturday, May 10th
Sunday, May 11th
Friday, May 16th
Saturday, May 17th
Sunday, May 18th
Friday, May 23rd (Audio-Described)
Saturday, May 24th
Sunday, May 25th
Friday, May 30th
Saturday, May 31st
Sunday, June 1st
Friday and Saturday shows at 8pm. Sunday shows at 4pm.
Show Dates & Times:
Thursday, May 8th @ 7pm
Friday, May 9th @ 7pm
Saturday, May 10th @ 7pm
Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South
Spring Awakens, Summer Reflects
Main Street School of Performing Arts' Dance Department presents "Spring Awakens, Summer Reflects," an intimate evening of choreography that will usher you into the spring that we are so longing for, yet remind you that as we traverse through summer it will provide us with many moments of reflection amidst the carefree and playful freedom it allows.
Tickets & Info:
Tickets will be available at the door
$10 for Adults
$5 for students under 18 with valid ID
For more information, contact the Main Street School of Performing arts at (952) 224-1340 or visit their website: www.msspahs.org
Join Hennepin County and Three Rivers Park District to provide input and get an update on the county-wide bike plan. The City of Minneapolis is considering adding more protected bikeways to our streets and would like to hear from the public about where new bikeways should go. This open house is scheduled to hear public input as part of a planned update to the Minneapolis Bicycle Master Plan.
Time: 4:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: Minneapolis Central Library (Doty Board Room), 300 Nicollet Mall
The city is working with the Minneapolis Bicycle Advisory Committee to develop a protected bikeway master plan update.
Find more information about the Hennepin County bike plan at www.hennepin.us/bikeplan.
Find more information about the City of Minneapolis projected bikeway plan on the city website.
Sign up for alerts about the bike plan.
Protected bikeways are areas for bicycles that are physically separated from motor vehicle traffic. Off-street bike trails are the most common type of protected bikeways. However, protected bikeways may also be located along street corridors as long as they are separated from traffic lanes. This can be done with parked cars, curbs, medians, flexible traffic posts, planters or other vertical features.
Although the current Minneapolis Bicycle Master Plan addresses a broad range of bikeway facility types, it does not specifically address on-street protected bikeways. The City is now planning to update the plan so it includes that information. The City’s Climate Action Plan already recommends the implementation of 30 miles of on-street protected bike facilities by 2020, and there’s growing interest in implementing protected bikeways in Minneapolis and throughout the country.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Loft at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave S
Motherhood & Words Reading
Join us for Kate Hopper's 8th Annual Motherhood & Words Reading, a showcase of excellent literary nonfiction about motherhood, featuring Tami Mohamed Brown, Susanne Paola Antonetta, and Marcelle Soviero.
So often in our society, writing by a group of people is lumped together and dismissed. This has certainly been the case with motherhood literature. In 1976, Adrienne Rich began Of Woman Born with this: “We know more about the air we breathe, the seas we travel, than about the nature and meaning of motherhood.” Almost four decades later, we have made progress: there are several stellar literary journals that feature fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that grapple with the dark and beautiful truths of parenthood; motherhood scholarship has found a place in some academic settings; and a number of fine memoirs about motherhood have been published. Yet, motherhood literature is still largely ignored, and motherhood memoir, christened “momoir,” is routinely dismissed.
But like all great writing, literature about motherhood, is, as Patricia Hampl says about memoir, “an attempt to find not only a self but a world.” Motherhood literature is not about motherhood; it uses motherhood as a lens through which to see the world.
Tami Mohamed Brown received her MFA in creative writing from Hamline University. She has been the recipient of a Blacklock Nature Sanctuary Fellowship, a Loft Mentor Series Award, a MN Emerging Writer Grant, and an artist residency through the National Park Service at Devil’s Tower. Tami writes regularly for the Minnesota Women’s Press, and her work has recently appeared in Brevity, Mizna, Sweet, Literary Mama, and in the anthology, The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home. She is finishing work on her memoir, The First American Wife: Barefoot and Pregnant in the Nile Delta. She lives in Bloomington with her Egyptian husband and teenage daughter, and finds inspiration on her daily bus commute to her 9–5 office job in downtown Minneapolis.
Susanne Paola Antonetta’s most recent book, Make Me a Mother, a memoir and study of adoption, was published by W.W. Norton in February of 2014. Awards for her poetry and prose include a New York Times Notable Book, an American Book Award, a Library Journal Best Science book of the year, a Lenore Marshall Award finalist, a Pushcart prize, and others. She is also coauthor of Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining and Publishing Creative Nonfiction. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Parade Magazine, Orion, and many anthologies. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, with her husband and son. Her website is www.suzannepaola.com.
Marcelle Soviero is the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, an award-winning literary magazine for mothers. She is the host of Carousel, a 22-year running Cablevision/Internet interview-style talk show, and the author of An Iridescent Life, Essay son Motherhood and Stepmotherhood. Marcelle’s essays have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Huffington Post, Babble.com, Salon, Literary Mama, Eating Well, New York Metro, and Brain, Child. She has also appeared on American Public Media’s radio show, The Story. Marcelle lives in Wilton, Connecticut with her husband and five children.
About Kate:
Kate Hopper is the author of Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood and Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers. She teaches writing online and at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. Kate holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, two Minnesota State Arts Board Grants, and a Sustainable Arts Grant. Her writing has appeared in a number of journals, including Brevity, The New York Times online, and Poets & Writers. She is an editor at Literary Mama. For more information about Kate’s writing and classes, visit www.katehopper.com.
Join Hennepin County and Three Rivers Park District to provide input and get an update on the county-wide bike plan.
Wednesday, May 7 – Bike to School Day
4:30pm to 7:30pm
Minnetonka Community Center (at City Hall)
Thursday, May 8 – Bike to Work Day
4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Minneapolis Central Library (Doty Board Room)
Hosted by Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis
The city is working with the Minneapolis Bicycle Advisory Committee to develop a protected bikeway master plan update.
Find more information about the Hennepin County bike plan at www.hennepin.us/bikeplan.
Find more information about the City of Minneapolis projected bikeway plan on the city website.
Sign up for alerts about the bike plan.
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Minneapolis Park and Rec Board, 2117 West River Road
Meeting are broadcasted live on the City of Minneapolis Government Meeting Channel 79, or online at http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/tv/79. Those interested in viewing the MPRB meeting are encouraged to attend at MPRB headquarters, located at 2117 West River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55411, or view during the 10:30 p.m. Monday (12/3) rebroadcast on Channel 79.
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm
Location: Bridgewater Lofts community room, 215 10th Avenue South (metered street parking)
Forty Press is hosting a launch party for WHO BOMBED THE TRAIN?, the third Skeeter Hughes mystery by Mill District resident, Judy Borger.
Meet Judy, enjoy a short reading, Q&A, book signing and refreshments.
Electronic copies of WHO BOMBED THE TRAIN? can be downloaded from Amazon. If you don't use a Kindle, you can read books from Amazon on your iPad or computer by downloading the free Kindle app to your device, buy the book, and it will be delivered to you immediately.
Time: Noon
Starting location: Meet us on the steps in front of Northrop, on the East Bank of the UMN campus.
Join artist Emily Johnson on a participatory walk with the Mississippi River. Emily creates work that engages us within and through environments – connecting to and interacting with place via imagination, memory, sights, sounds, smells…
Emily has planned a walk with the Mississippi River that includes the movement of our walking and the flow of the river. There will be story and silence. We will get off the sidewalk. We will imagine our connection to the entire length of the Mississippi by paying close attention to the amount of water we can hold in our hands.
The walk begins on the steps of Northrop and ends at East River Flats Park though an optional volunteer return-trip trash-pick-up walk is also planned. Students, staff, faculty, and friends all welcome!
Come with questions!
For more information and to RSVP if you’d like, send a message to the River Life Program rlp@umn.edu. Students, staff, faculty, and friends all welcome!
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30 pm
Location: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Headquarters - Board Room, 2117 West River Rd N
Minneapolis Central Mississippi Riverfront Regional Park Master Plan Update CAC Meeting #10
The Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board (MPRB) will host the tenth Community Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting to gather public input for the Central Mississippi Riverfront Regional Park Master Plan. The MPRB encourages the public to attend CAC meetings to share ideas, concerns and priorities with the design team.
The tenth CAC meeting will include finalization of the Master Plan’s Vision Statement, and discussion of the Guiding Principles and Programming. For more information, please go to the Central Mississippi Riverfront Regional Park Master Plan project page.
Time: 2:00pm
Location: The Loft at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave S
Second Story Reading Series: Coe Booth, Patrick Jones, Swati Avasthi
A panel featuring Coe Booth, Patrick Jones, Swati Avashi, and others, will discuss race in Young Adult Literature as part of the Loft's Second Story Reading Series.
This event is sponsored in part by The Friends of the Hennepin County Library.
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South
Tonight: Rolling Stoners
Beware, these red-blooded ramblers have the goods. In short, a manifest revelation of early era Stones style calamity.
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm, Free
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Today: Bluegrass Brunch with Adam Granger
Time: 8:00pm
Location: The Loft at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave S
Equilibrium: Spoken Word at the Loft presents Janet Rogers and Alex Jacobs with Marcie Rendon, Jay Bad Heart Bull, and DJ Nak
$5/$3 Loft members
Two Loft Spoken Word Immersion fellows, Janet Rogers and Alex Jacobs, present a spoken word and performance poetry show centered around Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture. With special guest performances by local Native American artists Marcie Rendon and Jay Bad Heart Bull.
DISCLAIMER: Smoking: There will be a brief period of smoking on stage during the very last segment of performance for the night. A performer will be rolling loose tobacco into cigarettes, throwing them out to members of the audience but will only light their own cigarette and take a total of 4-5 puffs before the end of the performance piece.
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street South
by Beth Henley
directed by Marcela Lorca
In this deeply touching Southern Gothic screwball comedy, three young Mississippi sisters gather in their hometown to await news of their hospitalized grandfather. With troubles in life and with the law, the Magrath sisters navigate their pasts to seize the future in an imaginative and touching story for which Henley won the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award (and which also became an Academy Award-nominated film starring Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek). The New York Post noted, “It has heart, wit and a surprisingly zany passion that must carry all before it … it would certainly be a crime for anyone interested in theater to not see this play.”
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: required, 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. 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.
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, Baking Lab, Water Lab and Flour Tower show.
Time: Pre-Nosh starts at 3:30pm; Main event starts at 5pm. Unless the event sells out, tickets for the Nosh will also be for sale at the door for $30. No tickets for the pre-Nosh will be sold at the door.
Location: The Soap Factory, 514 2nd Street SE
North Coast Nosh is The Heavy Table's gathering of some of the latest and greatest names in local food and beverage for one big sipping and sampling session.
We're pleased to team up with The Soap Factory, and our sponsor Peace Coffee, to present more than 30 local purveyors of artisan-made food and drink.
The secret behind the Nosh is simple: We fight to ensure that guests and purveyors have a great experience. That means we limit the number of tickets sold and we hand select the purveyors to feature the best of creative, local food. Guests can sample freely and comfortably, and purveyors can actually meet our guests and talk about their food and drink. The North Coast Nosh was named “Best Foodie Event” in 2012 by Minnesota Monthly, which praised the event as a “cozier” alternative to big food fests, with “small, local, upstart” vendors.
PRE NOSH VENDORS INCLUDE:
Fulton Beer
Meadowlands Chocolate Company
Phillips Distilling Company
Prairie Dogs
MAIN NOSH VENDORS INCLUDE:*
Alemar Cheese
Badger Hill Brewing
Birchwood
Chowgirls Killer Catering
Fulton Beer
Gerhard's Brats
Gray Duck Chai
Just Add Beer Bread
Kalona Supernatural
Kyatchi
Meadowlands Chocolate Company
Patisserie 46
Peace Coffee
Petite Sweets Pastries
Philia Foods
Phillips Distilling Company
Prairie Dogs
Red Stag Supper Club
Schell's Brewery
Shepherd's Way Farms
Sociable Cider Werks
Sweet Jules Caramels
Sweet Science Ice Cream
Triple Crown BBQ Sauce
Verdant Tea
*This list will change (generally, expand) up until the event.
Time: 10:00am and 11:00am
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, Antonello Hall, 501 2nd Street South
Around the World in 80 Beats - Featuring the Minnesota Percussion Trio
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.
This is a free event.
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