State of the Arts: September 17, 2009 Archive
Art Hounds: Breaking, popping, and styling
Posted at 7:27 AM on September 17, 2009
by Marianne Combs
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Filed under: Art Hounds, Events
Image courtesy of Intermedia Arts
Each week Minnesota Public Radio News asks three people from the Minnesota arts scene to be "Art Hounds." Their job is to step outside their own work and hunt down something exciting that's going on in local arts.
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Art hound Betsy Altheimer is the development program director at Springboard for the Arts in St. Paul. She's really looking forward to the B-Girl Be Block Party taking place at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis on Saturday, Sept. 19.
Betsy thinks this afternoon of music, dance, art and film will appeal to everyone, from b-girls steeped in hip-hop culture to newbies seeking an introduction. She also loves the strong sense of sisterhood created at this gathering of female hip-hop artists from around the world.
Chris Bates is an engineer and visual artist in Sioux Falls. Chris wants to let you in on a little secret: Sioux Falls is home to some really fine jazz.
Every weekend, Touch of Europe features local and touring jazz musicians. Chris loves listening to the different styles of the artists who play there and the music helps him as he plans his own abstract visual artworks.
Laura Bidgood is a spoken word artist, storyteller, and freelance director in the Twin Cities. She was blown away by the Lyric Arts' production of Doubt, A Parable, which runs through Sept. 27.
She says she was nervous that this production wouldn't be able to live up to the big names and big budget of the recent movie, but she was amazed by the skill and talent on display on this Anoka stage.
Meanwhile, Accordo, a new Twin Cities classical music ensemble, featuring some of the finest talent from both the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, performs at the Southern Theater this weekend.
The Walker Art Center launches its Coen Brothers film retrospective tomorrow night with "Blood Simple."
And in "Rise!" Twin Cities actor-vocalist-educator T. Michael Rambo take its audience on a centennial journey of African American culture, literature and civil rights activism, drawing from the writing of Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois and Martin Luther King Jr., and incorporating the music of Billie Holliday and Nat King Cole, among others.
What's on your bookshelf?
Posted at 11:02 AM on September 17, 2009
by Marianne Combs
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Filed under: Books, Technology
A friend of mine recently convinced me to check out Shelfari, the website for book lovers. Shelfari was inspired by the simple pleasure of perusing your friends' bookshelves. The website allows you to do this virtually, so you're not limited to what they own. You can see what they've read, what they're currently reading, and what's on their "to read" list.
The site is also incredibly useful to people who want to chart their progress on their own reading lists, or who are interested in seeing just how well-read they are. Readers can post reviews about a book, or partake in an online discussion.
There are a couple of downsides to the site: there are many different listings for the same title - one for each edition. This can make navigating what you have and haven't read tedious (I know I've already clicked on Wuthering Heights three times!). The site also requires a pretty steep initial time investment, as you try to remember just how many of those classics you read in high school and college.
Have you tried Shelfari out? If so, what do you think? Any tricks or features I should know about?
Minnesota Shubert Center announces groundbreaking
Posted at 12:16 PM on September 17, 2009
by Marianne Combs
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Filed under: Dance, Funding
Many arts reporters wondered if this day would ever come. For ten years now, local dance advocates have been working hard to raise the money and clout to rehabilitate the old Shubert building into a center for dance performance and education. Now it looks like they're going to have their way. According to the Center, construction will begin on November 19, with a ceremonial groundbreaking.
The Minnesota Shubert Center project began when the Shubert Theater was moved from its historic location on Block E. The move, which was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records, placed the Shubert Theater 50 feet away from what is now the Hennepin Center for the Arts (an 1888 building originally built as a Masonic Temple). Work on the Shubert is expected to be completed by early 2011.
The Laramie Project: 10 years later
Posted at 3:30 PM on September 17, 2009
by Marianne Combs
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Filed under: Theater
How much can one town learn from a brutal hate crime in a decade?
Audiences will find out on October 12th when more than 120 theaters - including the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis - present a simultaneous staging of "The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later."
The piece is meant to serve as an epilogue to "The Laramie Project," a play created entirely from interviews with the residents of Laramie, Wyoming in the wake of the brutal murder of 21 year-old Matthew Shepard. Witnesses to Shepard's murder say it was motivated by hatred for gays, and the media coverage of his death brought attention to the need for hate crime legislation.
Now Tectonic Theater has returned with "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later," a look at how the murder continues to reverberate in the community. The play includes new interviews with Matthew's mother Judy Shepard and Matthew's murderer Aaron McKinney (currently serving dual life sentences), as well as follow-up interviews with many of the individuals from the original piece.
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