Weekend Arts Roundup for 8/26-8/29
Posted at 9:40 AM on August 26, 2010
by Steve Seel
Our Senior Weekends Arts Correspondent Marriane Combs checks in, as always on Thursdays:
When the weather is so lovely, and summer is so short, why go indoors for your art? Here are a few options on offer this weekend that let you enjoy art and the great outdoors simultaneously.
Rather than wander from room to room in a museum this weekend, why not wander from studio to studio? This weekend 84 artists in the lovely Longfellow neighborhood will show off their talents as part of the LOLA ("League of Longfellow Artists") Art Crawl.
Why sit on your duff in an over air-conditioned theater when you can watch a movie while on a bike ride? Andrea Steudel and Luke Anderson of "Urban Caravan." ride on a specially equipped bike with turntables and a projector, creating soundtracks on the fly and screening films on the sides of buildings and bridges. They'll be meeting Saturday night at 9:45pm at the Martin Olaf Sabo bridge on the Greenway.
What better setting for opera than a garden? Mixed Precipitation presents the Tales of Hoffman in Twin Cities community gardens during the harvest season, and promises "artfully created locally sourced food samplings are prepared fresh and served to translate events of the story." Performances start at 4pm; this Saturday they'll perform in Birchwood Community Garden, and Sunday they'll be at the Children's Garden in Theodore Wirth Park.
Why confine yourself to a black box for your theater when you can enjoy drama while strolling the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum? TigerLion Arts presents 'Nature,' a "walking play" featuring the great nature lovers and philosophers Emerson and Thoreau.
Whatever your preference, there's lots to take in this weekend accompanied by sweet fresh air, and not even a hint of a deep-fat fryer.
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