The Knight Arts program is now seeking grant opportunities in St. Paul that can create transformational and sustainable change through artistic excellence and collective cultural experiences. If you’re interested in learning more about working with Knight in the arts, please contact Program Director Polly Talen.
Minnesota Opera is on a roll. Just a few weeks ago, it was announced that this year’s Pulitzer for music was awarded to Kevin Puts for “Silent Night,” a Minnesota Opera-commissioned work that premiered before sold-out audiences in St. Paul this past November. And now, to close out its critically acclaimed 2011-2012 season, the Knight [...]
By Teatro del Pueblo This weekend (April 26-29) is your last opportunity to see “The House on Mango Street,” the latest collaborative production between Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea World Theater. You won’t want to miss it! For individual ticket sales, please go to www.brownpapertickets.com. For group sales (10+), call Al at 651-224-8806. This heartwarming and eye-opening [...]
By Jane Ramseyer Miller, One Voice Mixed Chorus I just spent the morning working with students at Gordon Park High School (University Ave in St. Paul) in preparation for One Voice concerts there next month. This first rehearsal was a little chaotic. When I announced that I conduct a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight allies chorus, [...]
By One Voice Mixed Chorus On Thursday, April 19, OVation (the portable version of One Voice Mixed Chorus) performed at the Twin Cities Annual Yom Hashoah Commemoration service at Congregation Beth Jacob in Mendota Heights, MN. Yom Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as a worldwide day of commemoration for the approximately six million [...]
This weekend’s a big one for the St. Paul arts scene. The days have turned warmer, lilacs are blooming and the trees are leafing out — all cues that it’s time for another Saint Paul Art Crawl. Friday through Sunday, thousands of visitors will traipse through hundreds of galleries and artist studios, browsing through some [...]
Matt Mauch, the founder and host of a yearly blowout in honor of National Poetry Month, calls the Great Twin Cities Poetry Read a celebration of community and of poetry, “although I’m not sure in what order. It’s what the poet Lucille Clifton called ‘a gathering of the tribe.’” And based on what I saw [...]
By Tessa Retterrath, Theoroi Theoroi is a project coordinated by The Schubert Club which consists of 26 young individuals (ages 21-35) who attend a curated schedule of various Twin Cities arts performances and share about the experience using their choice of social media. Each event consists of an arts performance, an educational event, and a social gathering. This project [...]
By Kirstin Wiegmann, Forecast Public Art Olga Zoltai is a Twin Cities resident who originally emigrated from Hungary after World War II. Olga’s story, excerpted below, is one of 58 that will be installed as part of the Speaking of Home-St. Paul public art installation, a project by Nancy Ann Coyne. “Right before the Second World [...]
Minnesota Opera’s artistic director, Dale Johnson, must be feeling 10 feet tall this week. Composer Kevin Puts was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for “Silent Night: An Opera in Two Acts,” which was commissioned and premiered by Minnesota Opera (a Knight Arts grantee) this November as part of company’s New Works Initiative. “Silent [...]
Update: Please click here for videos from the night’s performances Saturday night’s “We Are Here” concert in The Lyric at Carleton Place, off University Avenue, was more than just a rock show. It’s “creative placemaking” in action, part of a program which aims to galvanize artist-led economic development along the city’s six-mile stretch of “Central [...]
