This weekend, for the third annual Early Music Festival, Zeitgeist (a Knight Arts grantee) will celebrate the pioneers of electronic music: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steve Reich, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Michael Oldfield, Charles Dodge. I spoke with percussionist Heather Barringer by phone yesterday and asked her about the idea behind the ensemble’s mini-festival. “From pop to more […]
Article · April 3, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
Detail from the forest scene, installation view. Photo by Susannah Schouweiler Despite the surprising news in mid-January that College of Visual Arts would need to close for good in June 2013, the verdict on that is still out, as it turns out, thanks to ongoing efforts by faculty and alumni to raise funds and community […]
Article · April 1, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
With all the snow on the ground, I’m finding it hard to believe we’ll ever be going outside just in shirtsleeves again— nonetheless, it’s time to start thinking about summer. Indeed, savvy parents of school-aged kids are already deep in the process of cobbling together their plans, aware that spots in many of the plum […]
Article · March 27, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
Satish P. Jayaraj, founder of the Cracked Walnut literary series, shown reading at the Little India grocery store in November 2012. Photo courtesy of Cracked Walnut It’s a good time to be a bookish sort in the Twin Cities. From March 18 to April 12, the Cracked Walnut Lit-reading Festival is holding readings by local […]
Article · March 25, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
Regardless of what the calendar says, it sure doesn’t feel much like spring in the Twin Cities yet. If, like me, you’ve been poring over seed catalogs and dreaming of warmer days since February, the coming weekend’s “Spring Fling” at Como Zoo and Conservatory will be a welcome tonic for the mid-March blast of snows and sub-zero […]
Article · March 20, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
“It’s been a hard year,” said Penumbra Theatre founder Lou Bellamy as he thanked the well-heeled crowd of stalwart supporters and theater fans who turned out for the opening night of “Spunk” last Thursday. The play they all came to see is a blues-soaked adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s “Three Tales” by George C. Wolfe. […]
Article · March 18, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
Full disclosure: I’m (tangentially) affiliated with what I’m writing about today, but it’s significant enough to the St. Paul arts-and-culture scene that I’m going to mention it anyway. The Walker’s hugely popular Internet Cat Video Festival (a.k.a. #catvidfest) is returning for a second year, and the festivities will be held at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand on […]
Article · March 13, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
Arts Advocacy Day 2009. Photo courtesy of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts Hundreds of arts-friendly folks are expected to descend on the capitol this Thursday to lobby their legislators on behalf of Minnesota artists and arts funding. The statewide advocacy organization, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts (MCA), expects more than 700 people to turn out […]
Article · March 6, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
John Middleton as “The Father” in Alan Berks & Co.’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author.” Photo courtesy of Alan Berks. “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” playwright Alan Berks’ new adaptation of the Luigi Pirandello’s classic 1921 meta-theatrical “comedy in the making,” opens in a television editing room, mid-season of a hit […]
Article · March 5, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
Cheryl Wilgren Clyne, “Air Sweet Air” — the gallery’s namesake. Image courtesy of the artist “We Have All the Time in the World,” Air Sweet Air’s last show of 2012, was also the gallery’s final event in its Lowertown space. It was a joint exhibition, by gallery proprietor and multimedia artist Cheryl Wilgren Clyne and […]
Article · February 27, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler
Andy Sturdevant, writer, arts administrator and artist, and host of Works Progress’ monthly Salon Saloon. Photo courtesy of Works Progress Salon Saloon is a monthly “live action arts magazine” put on by the interdisciplinary collaborative team at Works Progress and hosted by Springboard for the Arts staffer, artist and raconteur Andy Sturdevant. The show is […]
Article · February 25, 2013 by Susannah Schouweiler