Art
Jeredt Runions’ art at J. Lydia Salon
Artwork by Jeredt Runions. Live music by Marc Gartman, Hattie Peterson, Ashley Northey and Shaunna Heckman. Fire dancing from the Spin Collective, hors d’oeuvres from Lave Avenue Café.
Are you thirsty?
“Are you thirsty” for a performance by In the Heart of the Beast (HOTB)?
Great Lakes Aquarium will present puppet show performances of “Are you thirsty?” by Minneapolis-based HOTB’s puppet and mask theatre. Celebrate Earth Day on April 22-23 with this performance, which explores issues involving a glass of water.
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Earth Day Arts Festival on April 16 at Washington Studios
Washington Studios Artists’ Co-op is hosting an Earth Day themed Arts Festival, which will feature an entire day’s worth of local entertainment and a member’s exhibit in the Washington Gallery. Handmade art and crafts varying from hand blown glass and jewelry to crocheted hats will be for sale from 11 am – 5 pm. The event coincides with Duluth’s 21st Annual Art for Earth Day Gallery Hop, which offers a free trolley service running between thirteen Duluth galleries.
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The Odyssey at UMD
The Odyssey by Homer
Adapted by Tom Isbell
Based on a translation by Samuel Butler
Music by Louis Dunoyer de Segonzac
April 21 – 23 & 27 – 30, 2011 @ 7:30 pm
April 24, 2011 @ 2 pm
Mainstage Theatre, Marshall Performing Arts Center
Directed by Ann Aiko Bergeron
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A Bloody Good Time
Renegade Theater Company presents Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutentant of Inishmore. (more…)
Old Timey Portrait Jamboree at the DPI
On Tuesday, April 12, at the Duluth Photography Institute (halfway between the Brewhouse and Carmody) I’ll be setting up to do a free portrait for anyone* who shows up between 5pm and 7pm.
The awesome point of interest is that I’ll be using a giant wooden camera manufactured about twenty years before the Hindenburg popped. It is guaranteed to be the most authentic modern vintage photo experience you’ll be able to find.
*Disclaimer: Please don’t bring five children and expect a whole set of family portraits. Everyone who you bring that you’d like a photo of gets stuffed into a single frame. If you do bring kids and have been feeding them sugar all day, expect blurry results. This is by no means an instant process.
April in the Paris of the North
Artist’s Reception
Saturday, April 16
From 1 to 4 pm
It goes without saying that there will be lautitious xylotypography! Acrographis amphigory! Tasteful incongruities!
Join us and, like a snowbank melting in July, let your winter-benumbed and color-starved senses begin to thaw in the warmth of our Annual Earth Day show with the salutiferous prints by Rick Allen and works by other brilliant artists of the magical region.
Sivertson Gallery
361 Canal Park Drive
218.723.7877
Lake Superior Surfing … Hang Ten!
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Team Red Bull finds some nice waves on Big Sexy (aka Lake Superior). Never under estimate Big Sexy, she can be a real bitch.
Duluth Photographers Guild Photo Exhibit
(photo by Emily Rose)
Saturday, 5-8pm, come one down and enjoy the more than 40 works from this local photography group as you enjoy refreshments and good company. Exhibit runs through April at the DPI, 405 E Superior St. in Duluth. For more information on the Guild, go to flickr.com/groups/duluthphotographersguild. For more info on the exhibit and the DPI, go to duluthphotographyinstitute.com or call Brian at 393-2468.
Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Band
Sunday, April 17, 2011 – 3 pm
Weber Music Hall
Symphonic Wind Ensemble – Mark Whitlock, director
Concert Band – Daniel W. Eaton, director
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
UMD Chamber Orchestra
Saturday, April 16, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Weber Music Hall
Chamber Orchestra – Jean R. Perrault, director
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
Pizza Luce Friday: Zoo Animal, The Half Hearts, Honey Vein (feat. Ariane Norrgard)
Who: Zoo Animal, The Half Hearts, Ariane Norrgard & Honey Vein
Where: Pizza Luce, Duluth
When: April 8, 9:30P.M., $5
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New Music Festival: Vocal Music Recital
Friday, April 15, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Weber Music Hall
Regina Zona, coordinator
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
New Music Festival
Thursday, April 14, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Weber Music Hall
The New Music Festival features the internationally acclaimed Duo Gaetesi-Bezerra return after their stunning concerts at UMD five years ago, which showcased the best of current piano ensemble music from around the globe.
Justin Rubin, coordinator
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
Jazz Combos
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 – 7:30 pm
Weber Music Hall
Combo I – Tom Pfotenhauer, director
Combo II – Ryan Frane, director
Combo III – Billy Barnard, director
Combo IV – Gene Koshinski, director
Adult $8 – Senior $7 – Student $5 – UMD Student $3
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
Homegrown Music Video Festival
Call for music!
Call for filmmakers!
We’re doing another Homegrown Music Video Festival this year. Filmmakers draw a song at random from a beautiful top hat, then make a music video from said song.
Here is the PDD link to last year.
Would you be willing to donate a song or two to the cause?
Would you like to make a music video for a free pass to Homegrown?
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Exercises in Style: An art show by Rob K-S
Local artist Rob Kaiser-Schatzlein will be opening his exhibition entitled Exercises in Style on Tuesday, April 5, from 4-6pm.
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Vocal Jazz Cabaret – “Workin’ 9 to 5”
April 7-9, 7:30 pm
Clyde Iron Works
2920 W. Michigan St., Duluth
A new venue serves up hot vocal jazz entertainment with dinner option at Clyde Iron Works. Dinner includes Italian Pasta Bar with homemade penne pasta with alfredo and marinara sauces, Italian sausage, meatballs, and grilled chicken, classic garden salad with balsamic vinaigrette and fresh baguettes. Price includes pasta bar, beverage and gratuity; dessert may be purchased separately at the event (wood-oven baked New York style cheesecake.) If selecting the dinner option, please note dinner seating is general admission with eight per table with dinner served from 5:45 pm – 7 pm.
Lake Effect and Chill Factor
Tina Thielen-Gaffey, director
Concert only: Adult $15, senior/student $10, UMD student $5 Dinner & concert: Adult $35, senior/student $30, UMD student $25
Tickets: 218-726-8877 or tickets.umn.edu (online tickets incur an additional $1 fee.)
Heaven Nowadays: Review of the Duluth Playhouse Production of Chicago
The gin may not be cold (or available), but the dancing is certainly hot in the Duluth Playhouse’s production of Chicago. Set in a Prohibition-era Windy City, Chicago is inhabited by irredeemable (yet likable) hucksters and hustlers, all dancing for their lives. The bondage-lite costumes and the spare, gritty set only rarely hint at the Jazz Age, but that’s just as well: the story at the heart of Chicago, about crime, corruption, sensational journalism, the cult of celebrity and all that jazz, feels contemporary and relatable. (more…)
Lake Superior Watercolor Society Show “Close Up”
April 1-30
Opening Reception Thursday, April 7, 4-7PM
Just for the Season Gallery
207 W. Superior St. in the Holiday Center
BOLD-choice Theatre presents The Peach
Battling Obstacles Living with Disabilities provides a unique style of theatre performance that exposes community and student audiences to the talents of individuals with disabilities, opening new channels for dialogue and providing a venue to “talk” across barriers. BOLD-choice Theatre Company is created by Choice, Unlimited.
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More Tweedy for Less Bucks
Problem: Too Many Tweedy’s
I have too many Jeff Tweedy tickets than required. The show is tomorrow (Tuesday, March 29), 7:30pm in Rochester, Minn.
Solution: I am offering the tickets at nearly half off … say, $25 each … for the best music related haiku (as judged by Paul Lundgren).
Haiku entries accepted until noon on Tuesday, March 29.
In Need of Rakes (again)
It’s that time of year where I’m in need of your retired steel-tined leaf rake. It cannot be plastic or bamboo- it must be steel. I chop the tines off for thumb piano keys and I need a whole lot of them for a music program/workshop I’m doing later in the spring. If your rake is missing all but one of it’s tines, I’ll still take it. You can contact me through yelling loudly or the internet thingy.
An Evening of Art: Furniture Music
I posted about a week ago about the exhibition titled Furniture Music which will be held at the Old European Bakery in Duluth, and I just wanted to write an update.
The event will be held on Friday, March 25, from 7 to 10pm, during which there will be free food, beer and best of all … art!
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4th Street Arts
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth is beginning an arts-based revitalization along East 4th Street. The first step in this exciting process is by adding new artist-designed banners along the corridor and replacing the existing banners. NHS will be paying a commission to the selected artist(s) as well as the fabrication of the winning design. Visit the news tab on nhsduluth.org or click here. Any additional questions, contact Dan Ollhoff with NHS at (218) 727-8604 ext. 207 or email him at dollhoff @ nhsduluth.org.