June 15, 2013, Saturday - How'd They do That Workshop at The Guthrie: Clybourne Park

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

Location: McGuire Proscenium 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 workshop:

Born Yesterday
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Wurtele Thrust Stage

June 15, 2013, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market:  Bluegrass Father’s Day

Produce Planner: At the Market this Saturday, you will find sweet sugar pea shoots, micro greens, MORELS, herbs, arugula, kale, Swiss chard, spinach, asparagus, fresh mushrooms, baby bok choi, nettles, cilantro, carrots, rhubarb, red and golden beets, tomatoes, mesclun mix, radishes, cucumbers, turnips, starter plants, hanging baskets and patio pots, lots of bedding plants, plenty of seed starts: summer squash, melon/watermelon, heirloom tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and more!

Mill City Cooks, 10 am: Market Chef Heather Hartman is joined by Birchwood Cafe Chef Marshall Paulsen.

Live Broadcast, 8am – 11 am: KBEM Bluegrass Saturday Morning will be broadcasting live from the Market today!

Live Music, 11am – 1pm: New Distractions

Art Market, all day: Featuring Hmong ABC, Cracked Clay, Spring Finn & Co., and Woodsport.

Sponsor: Prairie Vodka. Prairie Organic Vodka is at the market this week with fresh lemon & thyme infused cocktails!  Handcrafted in Benson, MN from organic corn grown by three family farms and distilled using leftover corncobs as biofuel.

June 15, 2013, Saturday - Stone Arch Bridge Festival

250 Artists - 3 Performance Stages - Family Art Park - Father's Day Car Show - Food!

Admission into the Stone Arch Bridge Festival and all Concerts is FREE!

Friday, June 14
6pm – 10pm: Riverfront Concert on Water Power Park presented by MN Lottery

Saturday, June 15
11:00am – 7:00pm: Art Booths and Live Music
7:00pm – 10:00pm: Riverfront Concert on Water Power Park presented by MN Lottery

Sunday, June 16
11:00am – 5:00pm: Art Booths and Live Music
5pm – Festival Closes – Artist Load Out

June 15, 2013, Saturday - Midwest Photo Safari "Minneapolis Nights" Mill Ruins Park/Guthrie Theatre

Midwest Photo Safari "Minneapolis Nights" Mill Ruins Park/Guthrie Theatre

This Photo Safari takes place on the West end of the Stone Arch Bridge. We photograph Mill Ruins Park, then walk up to the  Guthrie Theatre and photograph this fabulous buildings exterior from all angles..We conclude the tour at the well lit I35W Bridge Memorial Site.

Before we begin, we will have a short presentation covering basic principles of low light/night photography. When darkness sets in, this area comes alive with interesting lights. We will help you capture stunning night images you are sure to want to frame.

This safari is best done with a digital SLR or a better quality digital point and shoot with advanced scene modes. Your Safari guide / photographer will be carrying a Sony digital point and shoot to demonstrate the techniques we will be covering. For this safari, a sturdy tripod an absolute necessity... Midwest Photo Safari can provide pro-quality rental tripods on request. A remote shutter release is also very handy to have along, or you may use the "self timer" feature of your camera.

Pricing for this Safari is $74.00 (tax included, not including gratuity) per person with discounts for multiple purchases.   More Info.

This Safari runs most Saturday Nights April 20th  through October 12th.

June 15, 2013, Saturday - Engineering the Falls: History Player William de la Barre Tour at the Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Engineering the Falls: History Player William de la Barre Tour

Take a walking tour of St. Anthony Falls led by costumed History Player William de la Barre, the Austrian engineer who spent half a century developing Minneapolis flour milling and waterpower. Participants will visit the Minneapolis Riverfront, the west side milling district and the Stone Arch Bridge, and hear about the many ways the falls has changed over the years. The tour will begin and end at Mill City Museum, where participants can visit the museum's gallery (included in the price of the tour).

Fee: $14 adults, $12 seniors and college students, $10 children ages 6-17 and MHS members. Includes museum admission.

Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.

June 15, 2013, Saturday - Act Out for Kids: Creative Movement at Central Library

Time: 1:00pm–2:00pm

Location: Children's Library at Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Act Out for Kids: Creative Movement

Registration required, begins May 18. Register online or call 612-543-8000.

Entering grades 1-2. Learn how to walk like a bear, creep like a tiger or be like a tiny fly! An experienced Guthrie teaching artist will show you fun and creative ways to use imaginative movement. See related materials for further information. Find more by searching the library catalog or Ask Us.

This project is funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Presented in collaboration with Guthrie Theater.

June 15, 2013, Saturday - Solstice River XVII at Stone Arch Bridge

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Stone Arch Bridge

The 17th annual site-specific performance at the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis, as part of Global Water Dances.

Global Water Dances is a series of dances performed on the same day through out the world, bringing local and global attention to water quality issues.

Minneapolis is one of over 60 cities on six continents creating this year's event.

Come to the Stone Arch bridge and watch as the whole surrounding landscape comes alive with dancers on rooftops, kayaks, and riverbanks for Solstice River XVII.

Free and open to the public, the event will be held rain or shine. Click here for more information on the Minneapolis Global Water Dances event.

June 15, 2013, Saturday - Resonating Bodies Opening Reception at The Soap Factory

Time: 7:00pm-11:00pm

Location: The Soap Factory, 518 Second St. SE

The Soap Factory Presents: Resonating Bodies

Opening reception: June 15th, Exhibition Runs: June 15 - August 11, 2013

A group exhibition featuring new work by 6 American sculptors, curated by Shannon Stratton.

Featured artists: Sara Black & Jillian Soto, Ben Fain, Conrad Freiburg, Kelly Kaczynski, Judith Leemann
 
Listen to a Soapcast interview with curator Shannon Stratton.
  
“A body of work that offers something for others to share is a resonating body that makes the voices of many others resound.” – Jan Verwoert
 
How does sculpture, a practice always situated at the boundaries of spectacle, architecture, installation, monument, landscape and machine make sense of itself as a multivalent ‘platform’ whose defining features are continually re-evaluated and re-defined? Participatory and relational practices, collaboratives, platformist practices, conceptual curatorial work and artist as facilitator or organizer are lines that intersect and blur as performative, interactive and multi-vocal practices become the norm in contemporary art practice. Resonating Bodies, an exhibition of work by 6 American sculptors, takes up the condition of contemporary sculpture under the influence of these conditions for practice, ultimately proposing the spectrum of ways sculpture operates as performative.

June 14, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight:  The Jimmys

June 14, 2013, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $7

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight:  Maeflies

June 14, 2013, Friday - What's in Dragonfly's Box? at Central Library

Time: 11:00am

Location: Central Library, Children's Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

What's in Dragonfly's Box?

For families. Join us in the Children's Library to see what crafts or activities the dragonfly has in its box!

June 14, 2013, Friday - Live Music Friday at Aloft

Time: 9:00pm-11:00pm

Location: WXYZ bar, Aloft, 900 Washington Avenue South

Fridays (except July 5) thru August 30, enjoy live music in the courtyard (or inside if the weather doesn't cooperate).

June 14, 2013, Friday - Stone Arch Bridge Festival Kicks Off with Concert at Water Power Park

250 Artists - 3 Performance Stages - Family Art Park - Father's Day Car Show - Food!

Admission into the Stone Arch Bridge Festival and all Concerts is FREE!

Friday, June 14
6pm – 10pm:  Riverfront Concert on Water Power Park presented by MN Lottery
 
Saturday, June 15
11:00am – 7:00pm: Art Booths and Live Music
7:00pm – 10:00pm: Riverfront Concert on Water Power Park presented by MN Lottery
 
Sunday, June 16
11:00am – 5:00pm: Art Booths and Live Music
5pm – Festival Closes – Artist Load Out

June 13, 2013, Thursday - Jackson Street Village Student Reading at The Loft

Tme: 6:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

For five months, The Loft has been working with two spoken word artists, Tou Saik Lee and Chaun Webster, who have taught three creative writing classes concentrating on the areas of poetry and spoken word, for underserved low-income youth of color in collaboration with Jackson Street Village in St. Paul. The mission of Jackson Street Village is to offer an affordable, sober, and supportive housing community to families transitioning out of homelessness into stable, healthy, productive lives. Their goals for the project include providing youth activities that are free and on-site, support self-expression, and help participants build self-confidence. The youth have written phenomenal poetry during their time working with Tou and Chaun, and now they’ll be coming to the Loft to perform their original poems, and to celebrate the launch of an original chapbook written by the teen poets, entitled “Poetic Rebels.” Please come hear these brilliant young people give voice to their phenomenal poetry!

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided by the Loft!

June 11, 2013, Tuesday - DMNA Board Meeting at Central Library

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Central Library, Room N-202, 300 Nicollet Mall

Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association and Agenda.

June 11, 2013, Tuesday - Music & Movie in the Park at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park

Time: Music - 7:00pm,  Movies air 15 minutes after sundown.

Location: Father Hennepin Bluffs Park (East Bank of the Stone Arch Bridge)

Tonights entertainment: See website.

What to bring: Blanket or chair, sunblock and bugspray, picnic basket.

Reminders: Watch our facebook or twitter page for weather cancellations of the evening festivities. Post photos on our facebook page of you enjoying the concerts. Support the artists by picking up a CD or other merchandise.

Future dates:

June 18
June 25
July 2
July 9
July 16
July 23
July 30
August 6
August 13
August 20
August 27

Music & Movies in The Parks is produced by the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board. Enjoy more than 250 FREE concerts and movies in Minneapolis parks this summer!

June 11, 2013, Tuesday - Talk of the Stacks With David Rhodes at Central Library

Time: 7:00pm (Doors open at 6:15pm)

Location: Pohlad Hall at Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Talk of the Stacks With David Rhodes

Rhodes published three acclaimed novels (“The Last Fair Deal Going Down,” “The Easter House” and “Rock Island Line”) before a motorcycle accident in 1977 left him paralyzed from the chest down. In 2008, Rhodes returned after a 30-year silence with the award-winning "Driftless." His newest, "Jewelweed," features several characters from "Driftless" and a protagonist struggling to adjust to life after a period of incarceration. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Seating is first-come, first-served.

A program of the Friends of the Hennepin County Library. Presenting sponsor: The Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank. Additional support: Dorsey and Whitney LLP, MinnPost, Magers and Quinn Booksellers and the Marquette Hotel.

June 10, 2013, Monday - Music in the Park at Nicollet Island Amphitheater

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Nicollet Island Amphitheater

What to bring: Blanket or chair, sunblock and bugspray, picnic basket.

Reminders: Watch our facebook or twitter page for weather cancellations of the evening festivities. Post photos on our facebook page of you enjoying the concerts. Support the artists by picking up a CD or other merchandise.

Tonights entertainment: See website

Music & Movies in The Parks is produced by the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board. Enjoy more than 250 FREE concerts and movies in Minneapolis parks this summer!

Future dates:

June 17
June 24
July 1
July 3
July 8
July 15
July 22
July 29
August 5
August 12
August 19
August 26

June 10, 2013, Monday - Till Death Do Us Part Murder Mystery at Old Spaghetti Factory

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Old Spaghetti Factory, 233 Park Avenue (and Washington Avenue South)

Till Death Do Us Part

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to dig those fancy frocks and snazzy suits out of the back of your closets and head out to the little white chapel as The Murder Mystery Company presents, Till Death Do Us Part. You'll play detective in this engaging mystery. Will the bride and groom live happily ever after? Or will this wedding end in disaster? Bring your friends, family and don't forget your detective skills to help solve the case!

Information and tickets.

Upcoming dates:

June 11, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
June 16, 2013 @ 5:00 pm
June 17, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
June 18, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
June 20, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
June 25, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
June 27, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
June 30, 2013 @ 5:00 pm
July 2, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
July 5, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
July 9, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
July 11, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
July 14, 2013 @ 5:00 pm
July 18, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
July 21, 2013 @ 5:00 pm
July 28, 2013 @ 5:00 pm
August 1, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
August 4, 2013 @ 5:00 pm
August 6, 2013 @ 7:00 pm

June 10, 2013, Monday - Food Truck Monday in the Mill District Featuring Chef Shack!

Time: 11:00am - 1:30pm

Location: Look for Chef Shack to be parked at 709 2nd Street South, in front of the Cynthia Froid Group office.

Also, Cynthia Froid invites you to stop in her office to check out the work of artist Mike Welton thru the end of June.  Per Cynthia, his paintings of beloved Minneapolis landmarks are top quality!