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.
By Elizabeth R. Miller, Knight Foundation From her office in St. Paul, Laura Zabel is creating tools to help artists across the country better connect with their communities and get resources The Community Supported Art program, for example, operates like Farm Share – except that instead of people buying shares of fruits and vegetables they get a bushel of locally-produced art. With a [...]
By Lydia Lui, American Composers Forum On two wintry evenings this past March, Mathew Janczewski’s ARENA DANCES closed out their seventeenth season at The Cowles Center for Dance & Performing Arts in downtown Minneapolis with the world premiere of a new work, entitled version, commissioned by Live Music for Dance Minnesota, sponsored by the American [...]
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 support to continue the institution. Given CVA’s persistent and steep budget [...]
By Elissa Weller, VocalEssence For South High School 9th Grader Shameelah Abdullah, apprenticing with the VocalEssence Chorus on the WITNESS Concert is just the challenge she was looking for. 1 of 8 students in the Talented Tenth Apprentice Program (TTAP), a program for urban high school students who may not otherwise have such opportunities to [...]
By Katherine Bergman, Zeitgeist With their third annual Early Music Festival, Zeitgeist examines the profound impact of the electronic signal on music-making, revealing electricity’s transformative power with regard to how we create, how we listen and how we perform. The festival will include influential works from Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alvin Lucier, John Cage, and [...]
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 [...]
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 writers at coffee shops across St. Paul and Minneapolis (with one stop in Duluth) almost daily: four weeks, 21 readings in 21 different venues, featuring more [...]
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 [...]
By Connie Shaver, Festival of Nations Festival of Nations, Minnesota’s largest multi-cultural celebration, returns to Saint Paul RiverCentre Thursday, May 2through Sunday, May 5. Thousands of students from around the region attend on Thursday and Friday, the public is invited Friday afternoon through Sunday. Enjoy delicious food from around the world served at 37 ethnic [...]
“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. [...]
