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Pop up: #BlackPoetsSpeakOut at the Penumbra

Feed your inner activist with some radical readings The Heart of a Woman by Luba Lukova For those looking for an artistic outlet from the recent shootings, look no further: the Penumbra has got you. They are hosting a free event called #BlackPoetsSpeakOut, featuring a community reading with “voices committed

Tosca is Quintessential Opera

Pavorotti would have loved this production Photo courtesy of the MN Opera. In fact, I’m pretty sure that Dominick Chenes, who plays Mario Cavaradossi, stole his playbook straight from under Pavorotti’s nose. His powerhouse tenor rips through the role and shatters every glass in the house, without even sounding breathless.

A Reminder: Anyone Can Make Art

I’ve had this on the brain all weekend… So I had to share briefly. A good friend of mine invited me to a performance this past weekend. She didn’t even know much about it, so my date and I walked in blindly to the experience, completely unsure of what to

Hala Carnaval! with Carnaval Brasileiro

Bringing the tropics to the Twin Cities It’s pretty well known that Minneapolitans like to party, and equally well known that our weather at this time of year is completely antithetical to the party instinct. So what to do? If you’re Robert Everest, you organize a Brazilian style carnaval, fly

Blue Man Group Lights-up the Orpheum

[View the gallery of the Blue Man Group teaching percussion at The School of Rock in St. Paul]  Irreverence: there could be no other take away from watching the aptly named Blue Man Group’s latest show at the Orpheum. A 21st century mime trio, Blue Man Group mixes cerulean body paint with

The Tortiose and the All-Stars

Fusion is still in. Like a kimchi Reuben or steak sushi, Tortoise + Minneapolis Jazz All-Stars merged two disparate groups of musicians from two different cities (Chicago and Minneapolis) into one large superband last weekend for a special performance at the Walker Art Center. The idea sprouted from a similar

Collaborative Carmina: Carmina Burana a fitting tribute on Minnesota Dance Theater’s 50th anniversary, and another sign that Cowles Center breeding creativity

Although brief, the performance ofCarmina Burana, at Minnesota Dance Theater’s 50th Anniversary Gala last weekend showed how vital having a dedicated dance space like the Cowles Center is to generating an enormous variety of creative and interdisciplinary art. Carmina mixed the Minnesota Dance Theatre with the Carmina Burana Chorus, along with a few local actors

Lofty Goals: Former pro athlete Tony Sanneh uses soccer to empower at-risk youth

The principle of karma dictates that good deeds beget more good deeds (we’re paraphrasing centuries of philosophy here, but you get the idea). As wallets get thinner and demands on our time multiply, it’s easy to forget that doing good is more than just another thing to put on our

Separate and Unequal Parts: Walker Art Center’s 802 Tour combines genres, talented musicians, but blend falls short

It’s not every day you come across a Phantom of the Opera-meets-Appalachia performance, but that’s what arrived at the Walker Art Center last week. Unfortunately, the sum of this eclectic mix wasn’t quite as wonderful as each of its parts. The 802 Tour, billed by the Walker Art Center as a bluegrassy

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotype is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. they make one story become the only story.

– chimamanda ngozi adichie

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