Event Calendar
Benefit Events
Beach Party Bonanza at Lyric Arts Main Street Stage
Grab your beach ball and sunscreen and get ready for the Fishing Widows' Cabaret! Lyric Arts' annual fundraising event is reminiscent of all your favorite 1960's beach party films.
5/9/2008 - 4/10/2008
Comedy
Brave New Workshop at 50: Old Enough to Know Better at Brave New Workshop
(THEATER ALL YEAR PRODUCTION) In celebration of our 50th Anniversary, this production will feature the best, most beloved sketches and songs from the Brave New Workshop, along with backstage stories and hilarious "mockumentary" style tidbits.
2/8/2008 - 5/17/2008
Family
Run! Jump! Fly! Adventures in Action at Minnesota Children's Museum
Work up a sweat as you encounter a diversity of ways to move, try activities and measure the movement's impact on your body.
2/23/2008 - 9/7/2008
Film
The Alps at Science Museum of Minnesota
Only the nine-story domed Omnitheater takes you up close to the breathtaking beauty, perilous avalanches, and irresistible allure of The Alps.
1/18/2008 - 6/12/2008
Galleries
Exploring Asmat Culture: A Walking Tour at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Campus at American Museum of Asmat Art
Selections from the collection are on exhibit in the O'Shaughnessy Educational Center first floor gallery, the Brady Educational Center lobby gallery, and the first floor hallway in the John R. Roach Center for the Liberal Arts.
12/1/2007 - 6/30/2008
Life Through the Magic Lantern: The Victorian Home at O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Lobby Gallery
4/1/2008 - 5/17/2008
MCAD Senior Show at The Soap Factory
Reviving a tradition from the mid-nineties, The Soap Factory will host the Senior Show at MCAD, giving artists their first taste of working in a real gallery environment.
4/19/2008 - 5/17/2008
David Malcolm Scott: 150 Anniversary in MN at Nina Bliese Gallery
5/5/2008 - 6/13/2008
Artists del Norte at Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
Spring juried show
4/19/2008 - 5/10/2008
Normandale Student Art Show at Normandale Community College
Featuring various media
4/9/2008 - 5/16/2008
Women and Girls at Mhiripiri Gallery
Zimbabwe Shona Stone Sculpture by Colleen Madamombe
5/1/2008 - 6/30/2008
Anne DeCoster at Groveland Gallery
4/18/2008 - 5/24/2008
Carl Oltvedt at Groveland Gallery
4/18/2008 - 5/24/2008
The Wedding Party at Susan Hensel Gallery
An installation of wearable books by Betsy Dollar
5/2/2008 - 5/30/2008
In Full Bloom...a garden captured in clay at Gallery 360
Local mother and daughter ceramic duo, Norma Hanlon and Kirsten Walstead join forces to celebrate the long awaited launch of spring. This show inspires even the most novice of garden enthusiasts to get out and enjoy the nature that surrounds us.
4/26/2008 - 6/1/2008
Venus Reconsidered: Nudes Past and Present at Water and Oil Art Gallery
Featured artists include figure painter Susan M. Davies, sculptor Pauline Mitchell, and tattoo artisan Koré Grate.
5/9/2008 - 5/18/2008
Creation-Re-Creation at CorAzoN paper+art+gift+home
Featuring photography of American divergence by Alan Mathiowetz
5/1/2008 - 5/24/2008
Spheres at The American Association of Woodturners
40 plus international artists create a galaxy of spheres. All six inches or less in diameter, each sphere is a singular statement of artistry and vision.
- 6/8/2008
Spheres at The American Association of Woodturners
40 plus international artists create a galaxy of spheres. All six inches or less in diameter, each sphere is a singular statement of artistry and vision.
4/13/2008 - 6/8/2008
Rounding the Four Corners at The American Association of Woodturners
Drawing from turners in New York, Florida, Hawaii, and Alaska, the exhibit showcases the work being done across the nation. Many of the pieces chosen are created of wood representative of the artist's region.
5/9/2008 - 8/8/2008
Contemporary Turns in Clay at The Grand Hand Gallery
Featuring work by Sequoia Miller, S.C. Rolf, and Jason Trebs
5/9/2008 - 6/15/2008
Museums
Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection at Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Approximately 75 works of art from the collection of John C. Weber, spanning major aesthetic trends in Japanese art from the 12th to 20th centuries.
2/24/2008 - 5/25/2008
Electrifying Minnesota at Bakken Museum
The exhibit recounts the history of electricity in Minnesota since one of the nation's first hydroelectric plants whirred into action 125 years ago at St. Anthony Falls.
9/29/2007 - 8/30/2008
Portrait, Identity, Culture at Tweed Museum of Art
This exhibition assembles ninety artworks from the Tweed Museum of Art permanent collection around the theme of portraiture. Created between 1500 and 2007, works chronicle significant changes in what portraiture has and does mean to us.
9/4/2007 - 8/10/2008
Larsen Design Studio: Part IV, Paul Gedeohn at Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The design studio is the heart and conceptual essence of textile production. For five decades Larsen directed his design team as well as all the concerns of the exceptional company he founded.
2/9/2008 - 7/13/2008
Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing at Walker Art Center
Brown presents a particular occasion to consider the lesser-known visual arts practice of one of the most acclaimed contemporary choreographers at a moment of increasing interest in the broad sweep of her work and its influence.
4/18/2008 - 8/17/2008
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes at Walker Art Center
The intention of Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes is to demonstrate how the American suburb has played a catalytic role in the creation of new art.
2/16/2008 - 5/18/2008
From Peasants to Presidents: Sweden's Greatest Etcher at The American Swedish Institute
This exhibit of works by Anders Zorn (1860-1920), one of Sweden's most internationally well-known artists.
2/6/2008 - 6/1/2008
Swedish Immigrant Spaces in Minnesota at The American Swedish Institute
Mike Melman's photographs present a personally evocative and nostalgic collection of Swedish immigrant spaces in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota.
4/2/2008 - 5/25/2008
Music
Military Special at Uptown Bar and Cafe
With Barfly, and The Sota
5/9/2008
Operation: Payback at First Avenue
Featuring wrestlers Arya Daivari, Ryan Cruz, Aaron Corbin, and Darin Corbin
5/9/2008
Polara CD Release at Varsity Theater
With The Alarmists, Mercurial Rage, and Mood Swings
5/9/2008
Roster McCabe at Bunker's Music Bar and Grill
With Nathan Miller
5/9/2008
VHS or Beta at 7th Street Entry
With Tigercity, and Maps of Norway
5/9/2008
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony at Orchestra Hall
With the Minnesota Orchestra
5/8/2008 - 5/10/2008
The Out To Lunch Quintet at Artists' Quarter
5/9/2008 - 5/10/2008
Performance
Circus Juventas' Spring Celebration Performances at Circus Juventas
Circus Juventas, a performing arts circus school for youth, is dedicated to inspiring artistry and self-confidence through a multi-cultural circus arts experience.
5/8/2008 - 5/18/2008
Readings
Elizabeth Berg at Barnes & Noble Booksellers Galleria
Author of The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: Stories (reading, discussion, and signing)
5/9/2008
Pen Pals Author Lecture Series with Robert Alexander at Hopkins Center for the Arts
For more than 30 years, Robert Alexander (a.k.a. mystery writer R.D. Zimmerman) is the bestselling author of The Kitchen Boy and Rasputin's Daughter. His newest book, The Romanov Bride, tells the tragic story of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth.
5/8/2008
Special Event
Summer Flower Show in the Sunken Garden at Marjorie McNeely Conservatory
The Summer Flower Show displays the greatest plant diversity of any of the Sunken Garden Flower Shows, as well as the longest season.
5/3/2008 - 10/5/2008
Sports
Minnesota Twins Vs. Boston Red Sox at Metrodome (Twins)
5/9/2008 - 5/12/2008
Theater
The Magic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle at Children's Theatre Company
THEATER ALL YEAR PRODUCTION
4/22/2008 - 6/15/2008
A Midsummer Night's Dream at Guthrie Theater
THEATER ALL YEAR PRODUCTION
4/12/2008 - 6/22/2008
Gem of the Ocean at Guthrie Theater
THEATER ALL YEAR PRODUCTION
4/22/2008 - 5/18/2008
These Shining Lives at History Theatre
(THEATER ALL YEAR PRODUCTION) You're 19. You're in the prime of your youth and beauty. Your life shines with happiness and prosperity. But you're troubled by the shine on your hands--it won't wash off. Then you and your colleagues start to get sick.
5/8/2008 - 6/1/2008
Honk! at Howard Conn Fine Arts Center
THEATER ALL YEAR PRODUCTION
4/30/2008 - 5/18/2008
The American Pilot at Minneapolis Theatre Garage
THEATER ALL YEAR PRODUCTION
5/2/2008 - 5/24/2008
Long Day's Journey into Night at Theatre in the Round
THEATER ALL YEAR PRODUCTION
4/25/2008 - 5/18/2008
Anansi the Trickster Spider at SteppingStone Theatre
(THEATER ALL YEAR PRODUCTION) The colorful carnivals of the Caribbean are the backdrop to the magical adventures of Anansi. Enter this delightful character's world full of fantasies and legend as Anansi the Spider saves the rainforest.
5/9/2008 - 6/1/2008
The Hollow at Mounds Theatre (Starting Gate Productions)
(THEATER ALL YEAR PRODUCTION) This rarely-produced work has all the classic ingredients: love affairs, secrets, and the requisite, apparently murdered corpse.
5/9/2008 - 6/1/2008
Beyond the Rainbow at Pioneer Place on Fifth
THEATER ALL YEAR PRODUCTION
4/24/2008 - 5/18/2008
waterBRIDGE at The Southern Theater
ARENA Dances waterBRIDGE portrays the struggle of the human spirit as Janczweski and his dancers are released into an unknown and dreamlike world inspired by Gustav Klimt's painting of water sprites.
5/8/2008 - 5/10/2008
Song of Singapore at The Lowry Theater (Actor's Theater of Minnesota)
Get ready to travel back to Singapore in early December 1941 to dine, drink, and dance at Freddy's Song of Singapore Cafe. Enemy troops are massing on the border. A customer has been murdered, and priceless jewels are missing.
2/22/2008 - 8/31/2008
Mom's the Word at The Lowry Theater (Actor's Theater of Minnesota)
A wildly funny and sometimes touching collection of monologues, skits, song, and dance about motherhood.
4/25/2008 - 6/8/2008
The Reluctant Dragon at Stages Theatre Company
This original commission by Stages Theatre Company from 1993 is one of the most-requested, well-remembered musical comedies in our history. The performance is based on the book by Kenneth Grahame.
4/18/2008 - 6/18/2008
Wine & Dine
WineFest No. 13 – A Toast to Children's Health at The Depot
Don't miss WineFest—a gathering of community leaders, medical professionals, and big-hearted wine lovers for a two-day celebration in support of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota.
5/9/2008 - 5/10/2008