Time: 7:30pm
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, Antonello Hall, 501 South 2nd Street
Cost: Free
MacPhail holds four honor recitals per year to celebrate its students demonstrating the highest performance level. Performers are selected through competitive auditions and are honored by formal invitations and a special reception.
Time: 6:00pm Reception
7:00pm Dinner and Program
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, Antonello Hall
Cost: $75 per person, Cash bar
Gather with friends of MacPhail for an intimate evening of music, awards and recognition.
Toast David O’Fallon as we honor his eight years of leadership. Join us in celebrating the high notes of the past year at MacPhail.
RSVP to Amanda Schroder, Schroder.amanda@macphail.org or 612-767-5343.
* * Space is limited, please RSVP by November 29, 2010 * *
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Minneapolis Central Library, Pohlad Hall
Explore the issues of identity, citizenship and how we relate to others. Photographer Jila Nikpay will discuss her portrait project of immigrant youth. Moderator Marlina Gonzalez will lead a discussion with adolescents whose portraits are in the exhibit about their immigration journeys and the struggle for acceptance in America.
This project is funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Presented in collaboration with the MELSA (Metropolitan Library Service Agency).
Time: 10:00am
Location: Minneapolis Central Library, Children's Library
For children from birth to 24 months. Delight and stimulate your baby's senses with books and music. Build brain power.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South
The Loft presents a publication reading by 2010 Minnesota Writers’ Career Initiative Grant winner Keith Hollihan for his debut novel The Four Stages of Cruelty.
About Keith Hollihan:
Keith Hollihan lives in St. Paul, where his wife, artist Rosemary Williams, is a professor at a local university. After ending a short career as a business analyst, Hollihan works as a freelance writer and ghostwriter, and has produced over a dozen nonfiction business books.
About The Four Stages of Cruelty:
Ditmarsh Penitentiary holds many secrets within its walls, and the inmates aren’t the only ones who keep them. Given absolute authority, the guards often slip across the divide from law enforcement to criminality. Officer Kali Williams tries her best to stay on the right side of the law. Then she meets an inmate named Joshua who claims that another prisoner has drawn an elaborate comic book that holds a guide to Ditmarsh’s criminal underworld. Intense and arresting, The Four Stages of Cruelty is a powerful debut for fans of Umberto Eco and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
“This is one intense book—brutally sad and heartbreakingly brutal, and filled with precise, vivid detail that brings the world of Ditmarsh Penitentiary vividly to life. I found it impossible to put down, not only because the plot is kinetic but because of Hollihan’s deep understanding of moral and emotional complexities.” – Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply and Among the Missing
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Mill City Museum
Come learn how a “new” waterfall can be restored to the Mississippi’s East Bank near downtown and be the first to see inside the mysterious, magnificent tunnel under Main Street. A lot is happening on the riverfront, and you can be part of it. Convened quarterly by the Minneapolis Riverfront Corporation, the Central Riverfront Forum engages people to help shape a vibrant, vital community in the St. Anthony Falls Heritage Zone.
Time: 8:00am to 9:00am
Location: Mill City Musuem, ADM Conference Room (6th Floor)
Join Preserve Minneapolis for their Annual Year End Invitational: Standing Out in the Open But Who Sees It (an ordinary building you particularly appreciate).
Following on their successful “This Place Matters” presentation from February, they need your participation for thier last BWAP of 2010. It may take you a bit of time to recall “that building – or place” which somehow appeals to you, seems to have a place in its surroundings, but has no public-recognition. BWAP is asking you to send them the modest and humble place that appeals to you. Email them a picture of that place, or give them an address and a name, and they will gladly go out and shoot it.
They will present an array of images, selected by people just like you, along with your fave. They will ask each person who submitted to describe why their building or place appeals to them. Please send your place or building to: egales@preserveminneapolis.org by Wednesday, December 1, 2010. Parking is available at meters on neighboring streets and in a parking garage across from the museum.
Cost: Free
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Cost: $12 General, $6 Students
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1981 and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, from the age of 11, Imani has worked as a multidisciplinary artist since 2000. As a performer, teacher, radio presenter, author, producer, recording artist, and cofounder of the Slam Africa Movement, Imani has played an integral role in the spread of the spoken word art form in East Africa. She is the author and producer of two poetry books and spoken word audio albums, Morning Rain (2006), and Pearls (2009).
Portion of proceeds go to the nonprofit organization, the KGSA Foundation, which provides free secondary education, artistic programming, and athletic opportunities to young women living in the slums of Kibera Kenya.
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Aster Café, 125 SE Main Street, St. Anthony Main
A Sip of Science: A Science Happy Hour - Weather vs. Climate: A local perspective.
This series, featuring discussions on the second Wednesday of every month, bridges the gap between science and culture in a setting that bridges the gap between brain and belly. Food, beer and learning are on the menu in a happy hour forum that offers the opportunity to talk with researchers about their current work, its implications, and its fascinations.
The December topic will focus on weather and climate. Are summers in Minnesota really getting more hot and humid? Are we experiencing more frequent thunderstorms than we used to? If so, what does it all mean? How do we put our day-to-day weather experience into the context of a changing Minnesota Climate? University of Minnesota Climate Professor and State Extension Climatologist/Meteorologist Mark Seeley has the lowdown on the differentiation between weather and climate and what climate change has in store for the state of Minnesota.
Join us for happy hour at Aster Café to learn the local perspective. No cover charge; food and drink will be available for purchase. Click for more information.
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
Tour this stunning Cesar Pelli structure with a green roof, an art gallery, special collections, four-story atrium and much more!
Register Online, or call 952-847-8000.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Headquarters, 2117 West River Road North
The public is invited to provide input to the four design teams working on proposals for the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition through an on-line or printed survey, as well as at the above community meeting.
Location: American Red Cross Minneapolis Blood Dononation Center, 1201 West River Parkway
Time: Noon-6:00pm
Donation Types: Blood
Phone: 800-448-3543
Time: 3:30pm-5:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum
You are invited to attend this public meeting of Saint Anthony Falls Heritage Board.
A note of interest is that this will be the final meeting for Chair Nina Archabal. She will be honored for her 22 years of exceptional service to, and accomplishments for, the Saint Anthony Falls Heritage Board.
There are several exciting updates planned, including a presentation of the East Bank visualization project, consisting of a computer fly-through model and photographic documentation of the Pillsbury A Mill tunnels.
Please RSVP to Pat Naidl at patrick.naidl@mnhs.org to confirm your attendance.
Meeting Agenda:
I. Welcome and Call to Order
II. *Approval of the June 28, 2010 minutes (Addendum I)
III. Report on Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition
IV. Presentation of East Bank Energy Center Documentation Project
V. Brief updates on projects
a. Greening the Riverfront Series
b. East Bank Coordination
1. East Bank Falls
2. Dakota Conference and Consultation
c. Timeline for Historic District Design Guidelines
VI. Farewell to Nina Archabal
VII. Adjourn
Time: 9:00am–1:00pm
Our Lady of Lourdes Church, One Lourdes Place
Our Lady of Lourdes Church, the oldest continuously operating church in the city, invites you to their annual Bake and Craft Show. This event will feature their famous French Meat Pies for sale, baked goods, crafts, silent auction baskets and a raffle. You can enjoy your meat pie there or take it “to go.”
There will be free parking in the Riverplace underground ramp. Call 612-379-2259 for information.
Time: 4:00pm–7:00pm
Our Lady of Lourdes Church, One Lourdes Place
Our Lady of Lourdes Church, the oldest continuously operating church in the city, invites you to their annual Bake and Craft Show. This event will feature their famous French Meat Pies for sale, baked goods, crafts, silent auction baskets and a raffle. You can enjoy your meat pie there or take it “to go.”
There will be free parking in the Riverplace underground ramp. Call 612-379-2259 for information.
Time: 3:00pm–5:30pm
Location: Minneapolis Central Library, Doty Board Rom
Grade 7 and up. Get your gaming fix... 3 hours, 5 consoles, 15 video games, 8 laptops, 6 board games! Bring your friends, meet other gamers, or see if you can beat the librarian at Guitar Hero!
Time: 10am-noon
Location: 1011 Washington Avenue South
For families with children age 2 and up.
Kate Spohn’s Snow Play will get us ready to build a blizzard of books: a soft fluffy snowball book... a sled book with runners... a snowfort book that sparkles in the sun... and a warm mug-of-hot-chocolate book! We provide the "snow" and you write the snow stories.
Join Ellen Ferrari for Saturday mornings of 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.
$30 ($27 members) per adult/child pair, $15 ($14) each additional participant.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Second Story, the Loft’s reading series for writers of young adult and children’s literature, curated by Swati Avasthi and Heather Bouwman, presents authors Pete Hautman and Steve Brezeno
Pete Hautman is the author of more than twenty novels for adults and teens, including the 2004 National Book Award winner Godless, and three New York Times Notable Books: Drawing Dead, The Mortal Nuts, and Rash. His young adult and middle-grade novels range from science fiction (Rash, Mr. Was, and Hole in the Sky) to mystery (“The Bloodwater Mysteries” and Blank Confession) to contemporary drama (Godless, Sweetblood, Invisible, How to Steal a Car, and others). Hautman lives with novelist, poet, and occasional co-author Mary Logue in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and Stockholm, Wisconsin. His latest book is Blank Confession (Simon & Schuster). Learn more about Pete Hautman on his website.
Steve Brezenoff has written dozens of chapter books for young readers, and The Absolute Value of -1 is his first novel for teens. His second novel, Brooklyn, Burning, will be out in fall of 2011. Though Steve grew up in a suburb on Long Island, he now lives with his wife, their son, and their terrier in St. Paul, Minnesota.
No plans for 10:00am to 11:00am on Saturday, December 4? How about some fresh air and exercise!
Experts are studying whether a waterfall may be restored to St. Anthony Falls’ East Channel, just below Main Street. Join the Minneapolis Riverfront Corporation for a walk and information on this topic.
Restoring the East Channel Falls: Shaping our Riverfront Future
Guides:
David Wiggins, Park Ranger National Park Service
Cordelia Pierson, Minneapolis Riverfront Corporation
On this walk, we will look closely at the limestone faces proposed for restoring a waterfall to the East Channel of the Mississippi River. We will review historical photographs and maps to understand the channel’s natural and industrial past and its possible future.
Meeting Place:
300 Main Street Southeast, by the “Lower Trail” sign on Main Street, across from the Pillsbury A Mill, a National Landmark. Off-trail shoes are required.
Registration:
Please register today: Email Cordelia.pierson@gmail.com with your name and number of people with you to receive confirmation by email. Program is free; donations are welcome to the Minneapolis Riverfront Corporation, a charitable organization.
This walk will help orient you for a public meeting:
December 9, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., at Mill City Museum, you can learn about the proposal from Barr Engineering, and learn about other current riverfront projects. All are welcome.
The Minneapolis Riverfront Corporation: A Great River for a Great City.
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