September 28, 2012, Friday - Choreographer Penelope Freeh and Composer Jocelyn Hagen at Southern Theater (3 nights)

Dates and Times
September 28 - 30
Fri & Sat 8p
Sat 5p
Sun 2p (Slippery Fish only with post-show discussion)

Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

Choreographer Penelope Freeh and Composer Jocelyn Hagen

Slippery Fish and other offerings of New Music and Dance

Inspired by the instability of collaboration and other hard-to-define relationships, Silppery Fish harnesses sounds and images form the natural world. A dancer clings like moss while another becomes a heron-cypress hybrid. A voice creates a breather and wordless watery soundscape while a viola scrapes and plucks, upsetting the surface.

Also on view are short works by Jocelyn and Penelope including a new duet for themselves that will open the show. Among other offerings are Jocelyn's ...and then we were left, a song cycle about the Lost Boys of Sudan, commissioned and performed by Virginia-based baritone Tadd Sipes with video by Justin Schell; and Penelope's Paper Nautilus, the critically acclaimed solo for 2011 McKnight Dancer Fellow Nic Lincoln.

Slippery Fish is a quartet for two dancers and two musicians. In addition to Penelope Freeh, the cast includes NYC-based Bessie Award winner Patrick Corbin (dancer), local McKnight Musician Fellow Carrie Henneman Shaw (soprano) and MN Orchestra violist Sam Bergman. 

Tickets
Fri & Sat night ($25)
Sat 5p Pay as Able
Sun Afternoon $15
Student discount: $5 off any ticket
612-343-3390 or www.ticketworks.com
(Tickets on sale Aug 1) 

September 28, 2012, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 10:30pm $5 Cover

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight:  Soul Tight Committee

September 28, 2012, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: mary jane alm

September 27, 2012, Thursday - 2012 Twin Cities Black Film Festival at St. Anthony Main Theater (4 days)

Now celebrating its 10th year, the 2012 Twin Cities Black Film Festival promises to bring the excitement of independent film to a whole new level.

This year the Twin Cities Black Film Festival is hosted and sponsored by The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul and will showcase cinemas' most provocative work at the St. Anthony Main Theater, September 27-30.

For the full lineup click on the Press Release link below, or visit the web page link below:

Twin Cities Black Film Festival Press Release

Twin Cities Black Film Festival web page

Twin Cities Black Film Festival official site

September 27, 2012, Thursday - Ten Thousand Things' Measure for Measure at Open Book (4 nights)

Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Four weekends:  September 27 – 30, October 4 - 7, October 11 - 14, October 19 - 21

Times:
Friday and Saturday shows start at 8:00pm
Sunday shows at 4:00pm

Ten Thousand Things presents Measure for Measure

Fourteen years ago, Measure for Measure was Ten Thousand Things’ first Shakespeare production. Now, after a successful co-production of the play with The Public Theater in New York in 2010, the company brings a new production to new audiences in the Twin Cities in fall 2012.

The show begins its tour to prisons, low-income centers and shelters September 13 and concludes with four weekends of public performances at Open Book September 27–October 21 (exception: October 18 at Plymouth Congregational Church). Artistic Director Michelle Hensley directs Shakespeare’s look at the inadequacy of human efforts to render good justice. Featured in the cast are Luverne Seifert, Sonja Parks, Suzanne Warmanen, India Gurley, Nathan Barlow, Karen Wiese-Thompson, Zach Curtis and Kurt Kwan. Peter Vitale is the music director.

Sets are by Stephen Mohring and costumes by Amelia Cheever. For tickets: http://www.tenthousandthings.org/measure.

September 27, 2012, Thursday - Midwest Photo Safari: "Minneapolis Nights" Mill Ruins Park and the Stone Arch Bridge

Time:
This safari begins 30 minutes before local sunset (your tour confirmation will have an exact time). We meet at Mill Ruins Park on the west bank of the river. The Safari runs about 90 minutes on Thursday and Friday Nights.

Location:
This tour begins at Mill Ruins Park on the west bank of the Minneapolis riverfront.  We start by photographing  this interesting park,  then walk across the famous Stone Arch bridge to photograph the Minneapolis night skyline. We will learn the principles of low light settings on your digital SLR's or the various "scene" mode settings of your digital point and shoot camera.

More Information and Registration.

September 26, 2012, Wednesday - Nicollet‐Central Transit Alternatives Project Open House at Central Library

Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm

Location:  Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Nicollet-Central Transit Alternatives Study Public Open House - Tell us about the corridor needs.

The Nicollet‐Central Transit Alternatives Project will identify a preferred transit enhancement which could serve as a first phase of a longer‐range vision for transit service throughout the 9.2‐mile corridor, which extends from the 46th Street/I‐35W Transit Station and Nicollet Avenue on the south, through Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, and to the Columbia Heights Transit Center on the north via Central Avenue. The Project will determine the benefits, costs and impacts of implementing a variety of transit modes and service types, including streetcar and enhanced bus options, to identify a locally preferred alternative for inclusion in the Metropolitan Council’s 2030 Transportation Policy Plan.

During a one-year process, the project will:

•Identify a series of performance measures including mobility needs and land use/economic development goals to be supported by the preferred alternative
•Compare different transit modes and service alternatives (including streetcar and enhanced bus operations) and alignment termini to identify the best alternative for the corridor
•Provide a transparent and inclusive public engagement process that will involve all stakeholders in the decision making process
•Facilitate a local decision making process that identifies a locally preferred alternative that can attract federal transit funds

September 26, 2012, Wednesday - Kathleen Jesme & Kate Lynn Hibbard at The Loft

Tme:  7:00pm

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

Kathleen Jesme & Kate Lynn Hibbard

Kathleen Jesme will read from her latest collection Meridian and Kate Lynn Hibbard wil share work from her recent book Sweet Weight.

About Meridian:

Winner of the Tupelo Snowbound Award, Meridian is a meditation on the death of a mother, measuring the hours and reflecting on how experience collapses and elongates time, creating a lens through which we can look at how we’re connected and separated. The poet asks – is music our best refusal to accede to the irrationality of death?

About Sweet Weight:

In this remarkable second collection, Kate Lynn Hibbard has brilliantly created a lexicon of arguing and art, religion and women's lives. In precise language and varying forms, Hibbard digs into the meaning of words, loss, and love in he keen observations of flowers, neighbors, birds, condoms, snow, and parents. Not afraid of traditional forms, the detritus of sex, or a stray pantless Barbie, Hibbard's poems shimmer with heat like a car stalled on the side of a summer freeway, surprise with their fresh images, such as comparing an artichoke to Marilyn Monroe. Spontaneous and researched, pruned yet wild, edited but honest, wise but playful, this book celebrated the generosity of the female body, our joyous but flawed gardens, our unresolved and naked pasts.

Kathleen Jesme is the author of three previous collections of poetry, The Plum-Stone Game (Ahsahta, 2009); Motherhouse, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize (LSU, 2005); and Fire Eater (Tampa, 2003). She holds an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College.

Kate Lynn Hibbard is the author of Sleeping Upside Down (Silverfish Review Press 2006) and Sweet Weight (Tiger Bark Press 2012), as well as the editor of When We Become Weavers: Queer Female Poets on the Midwestern Experience (Squares and Rebels 2012).  She teaches writing and women’s studies at Minneapolis Community and Technical College and lives in Saint Paul with her partner Jan and many pets.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

September 25, 2012, Tuesday - One Minneapolis One Read: The U.S.-Dakota War at Central Library

Time: 7:00pm–8:00pm

Location: Doty Board Room, Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

One Minneapolis One Read: The U.S.-Dakota War

Senior historian Stephen Osman at historic Fort Snelling for three-plus decades will discuss the 1862 Dakota War using original artwork to study the questions of how we should remember these tragic events 150 years later.

Presented in collaboration with the City of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Public Schools in support of the annual "One Minneapolis, One Read" event.

September 24, 2012, Monday - St. Anthony Falls Historic District Design Guidelines Public Hearing

Time:  4:30pm

Location: Room 317 of City Hall, 350 South 5th Street

The Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC) will hold a public hearing on the adoption of new Design Guidelines for the St. Anthony Falls Historic District. The public hearing will be held on Monday, September 24, 2012 at 4:30 pm in room 317 of City Hall, 350 S. 5th St., Minneapolis, MN.

Interested parties are invited to attend and be heard. All neighborhood representatives are encouraged to attend.

Design guidelines are a set of design standards that are created to protect the integrity and character of the district. The design guidelines are adopted by the Heritage Preservation Commission for historic districts to be used in reviewing applications for new construction and alterations to existing properties.

More information on the public process to develop design guidelines for the St. Anthony Falls Historic District and previous drafts of the design guidelines can be found on the project’s webpage. A copy of the final draft of the design guidelines is also available on the project’s webpage.

St. Anthony Falls Historic District Design Guidelines project webpage: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/hpc/hpc_st_anthony_falls_historic_district_design_guidelines

The final draft of the St. Anthony Falls Historic District Design Guidelines can be found here: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/www/groups/public/@cped/documents/webcontent/wcms1p-097595.pdf

Public participation in the hearing is welcomed.  All interested parties should be present. If you have questions about the project, please contact the City staff person listed below.

If you would like to submit comments, you can make them verbally at the meeting or submit them in writing to:

Brian Schaffer, AICP, Principal City Planner
250 South 4th Street, Room 110, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: 612-673-2670
Fax: 612-673-2526
E-mail: brian.schaffer@minneapolismn.gov

September 24, 2012, Monday - 3rd Annual Riverboat Tour

Time: 5:30pm-8:00pm

Whether you are an environmentalist, a river enthusiast, or simply enjoy great company and wonderful scenary, you should consider joining Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership for the 3rd annual rivervboat tour! Celebrate the arts, entertainmentm restaurants and unique retail shops of our urban riverfront neighborhoods!

We will board the Minneapolis Queen from Boom Island Park for a sunset cruise on the Mississippi River!

The event includes:
- River Storytelling
- Silent Auction
- Live Music
- Door Prizes
- Great local food and cash bar will be avilable.

Tickets are available for $20.00.  Registeration is very simple. You can easily register by purchasing your ticket on our website.

Space is limited and registration is required. We suggest you order your ticket online or mail a check and make it payable to the order of Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership and a spot will be reserved for you.

September 24, 2012, Monday - Olivia Newton-John at The Guthrie

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Guthrie Theater, Wurtele Thrust Stage, 818 South 2nd Street

Olivia Newton-John’s appeal seems to be timeless. With a career spanning more than four decades, she is still a vibrant, creative individual that is adored by fans across the world. Olivia’s U.S. album debut, Let Me Be There, produced her first top ten single of the same name, with Olivia being honored by the Academy Of Country Music as “Most Promising Female Vocalist” and a Grammy Award as “Best Country Vocalist.”

This proved to be only the beginning of a very exciting career. In 1978, her co-starring role with John Travolta in the movie Grease catapulted Olivia into super-stardom. The film’s best-selling soundtrack featured the duets You’re The One That I Want and Summer Nights, with Travolta, as well as her mega-hit, Hopelessly Devoted To You. To dateGrease remains the most successful movie musical in history. With more than 100 million albums sold, Olivia’s successes include four Grammy Awards, numerous Country Music, American Music and Peoples Choice Awards, ten #1 hits including Physical, which topped the charts for ten consecutive weeks, and over 15 top 10 singles. In September 2008, Billboard Magazine listed Physical at #6 on their “Top 100 Songs Of All Time” list and in 2010 named it “The Sexiest Song of All Time.”

http://www.olivianewton-john.com/

September 24, 2012, Monday - Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission Public Meeting

Time: 4:30pm

Location: Room 317, City Hall, 350 South Fifth Street

More Info

September 23, 2012, Sunday - Music Tells It All at Central Library

Time: 2:00pm

Location: Pohlad Hall, Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Music Tells It All
 
Award-winning singer and classical guitarist-composer Dat Nguyen will perform. Blind from birth, he began his music studies at 11 playing drums, and devoted his life to studying and performing on the classical guitar after hearing recordings of Andrés Segovia.

September 23, 2012, Sunday - Vikings vs. San Francisco 49ers

Time:   12:00 PM CDT at the Dome

TV: FOX KMSP - 9
Radio: KFAN (FM 100.3)

Additional information is available at vikings.com.

September 23, 2012, Sunday - Minneapolis Riverfront Tour at the Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00pm

Location:  Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Minneapolis Riverfront Tour

Walk the Minneapolis riverfront and learn about its dramatic past and bright future. Participants will visit the historic district at St. Anthony Falls, which was once the milling center of the world and is now a growing cultural, recreational and residential neighborhood. A guide from Mill City Museum will lead visitors onto the Stone Arch Bridge for a spectacular view of the falls, the historic buildings surrounding it and downtown Minneapolis and tell stories of the people who have worked and lived in the area and how it has changed over the years. The tour begins and ends at Mill City Museum where participants can visit the museum gallery (included in the price of the tour) and enjoy refreshments at the Mill City Museum Café.

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

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

September 22, 2012, Saturday - What's in Dragonfly's Box? at Central Library

Time: 11:00am

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

What's in Dragonfly's Box?

PreK-entering grade 3. Visit the Children's Library to see what crafts or activities the dragonfly has in its box. 

September 22, 2012, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market: Bread Festival!

Mill City Farmers Market and the Mill City Museum are teaming up again to create an exciting celebration of bread-baking in America! This event will be the second annual event spotlighting the healthy goodness and nourishment of bread-baking.

Baking Contest: Calling all Bakers!
Enter your home-baked bread in our first ever bread-baking contest! Enter in the Quick Bread or Yeast Bread categories and have your goodies judged by a panel of experts. To pre-register and get more info follow this link.

Mill City BAKES, 9:30AM and 10:15AM:
Be awed by the wholesome goodness created by local baking masters, Zoe Francois and Jeff Hertzberg, authors of Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day and Salty Tart’s, Michelle Gayer in outdoor ovens courtesy of Lorenzo’s Ovens. You can find their recipes from this demo and previous Mill City Cooks recipes in our Recipe Archive!

Crop Art Activity for Kids in partnership with the Walker Art Center, 10AM – 1PM (while supplies last): Were you inspired by the crop art at the MN State Fair? Try your hand at this historic craft and learn more about whole grains!

Community Booth:
Compatible Technology International is a nonprofit organization that alleviates hunger and poverty in the developing world by designing and distributing simple, life-changing food and water technologies. They will demo grain grinders, their “tools for harvest, hope for the hungry.”

Sponsor:
The Gold Medal brand’s heritage and quality have earned the trust of both scratch and professional bakers alike. For over 125 years, they have remained dedicated to sourcing and milling top-grade wheat. Gold Medal is committed to delivering the best quality flour for your home-baked breads, cookies, pie crusts, cakes, and brownies.

Live Music, 11 am – 1 pm:
Gypsy Mania. You’ll feel like you’re shopping on the streets on Paris as you listen to these lively and talented gypsy-jazz artists.

Art Market, all day:
Featuring Ink Orchard: Kendra Gebbia, Matthew Krousey, Annika Kaplan, and Woodsport.

September 22, 2012, Saturday - Equilibrium: Patricia Smith and Anis Mojgani at The Loft

Tme:  8:00pm

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

Equilibrium: Patricia Smith and Anis Mojgani 
 
Equilibrium, the Loft's spoken word series dedicated to artists and audiences of color as well as Native American artists and audiences, celebrates its tenth year! We welcome spoken word superstars Patricia Smith and Anis Mojgani, who will perform alongside local treasures Hieu Minh Nguyen, Mankwe Ndosi, and EQ DJ Nak.

Food and beverage provided with ticket price. $5/$3 for students and Loft members. No advance tickets - first come first serve.

Patricia Smith is the author of six books of poetry, including Blood Dazzler, chronicling the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and one of NPR's top five books of 2008; and Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection. Her latest is Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Tin House and both Best American Poetry 2011 and Best American Essays 2011. She is also the author of Africans In America, the companion book to the groundbreaking PBS series, the children’s book Janna and the Kings and the editor of the upcoming crime fiction anthology Staten Island Noir. She is a 2012 MacDowell Fellow, a two-time Pushcart Prize winner and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. She is a professor at the City University of New York/College of Staten Island, and is on the faculty of the new low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.

Anis Mojgani is a two time National Poetry Slam Champion and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam. A TEDx Speaker and former resident of the Oregon Literary Arts Writers-In-The-Schools program, Anis has performed at numerous universities, festivals, and venues around the globe. He has performed for audiences as varied as the House of Blues and the United Nations, and his work has appeared on HBO, NPR, and in the pages of such journals as Rattle, Used Furniture Review, Muzzle, and The Lumberyard. A founding member of the touring Poetry Revival, Anis is also the author of two poetry collections, both published by Write Bloody Publishing: Over the Anvil We Stretch (2008) and The Feather Room (2011). Originally from New Orleans, he currently lives in Austin, TX in a little house with his wife.

September 22, 2012, Saturday - The Science of Wheat and Flour at Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00pm

Location:  Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

See how Minneapolis' tradition of high-quality wheat flours, begun in the 19th century, continues today as members of the Grain and Flour Quality Lab of General Mills perform demonstrations about wheat and flour quality testing and its effects on baking. The presentation will cover the role of the Grain Lab in the wheat and flour industry, followed by a baking demo featuring bread samples. The presentation will include time for questions.

This presentation is part of the Mill City Farmers Market’s 2nd Annual Bread Festival.

Fee: Programs included with museum admission of $11 adults, $9 seniors and college students, $6 children ages 6-17; free for MHS members.