Art
Paul Lundgren’s Happy Hour and a Rubber Ball Fetish Redux?
The Grand Entrance and Opening Monologue
Later, when Paul asked for audience participation… did Bob Boone seem over-anxious to slash at the rubber ball??
It seems as if he's done this before??
MN / WI
Also, I am considering printing t-shirts of the best Rainbow Rescue Beam cartoon ever (below-image intentionally low rez). Orders would have to be in advance and would need to meet a minimum number so I don’t have to lay out big ching ahead of time on mats. Contact: adam [at] transistormag [dot] com.
Call for Entries: Glensheen Festival of Fine Art and Craft
Artistic? We’re sending out applications for Glensheen’s 16th Annual Festival of Fine Art and Craft. Drop us an e-mail if you’d like one – info@glensheen.org (No kits or molds, please. We like original material.)
Art aficionado? Save the dates: August 14 and August 15, 2010. (Two days this year!)
Paul Lundgren Happy Hour
No, I haven’t formed an angry heavy-metal band, although this photo might suggest otherwise.
I’m hosting three happy hour events at Teatro Zuccone. Each show features a special guest performer (or member of my angry band).
All three shows are on Wednesdays. They all start at 6 p.m. and will be over by 7 p.m. so you can socialize at the Zeitgeist Arts Cafe afterward and still be home well before bedtime.
Admission is free. Don’t thank me, thank ARAC.
The first show will be Feb. 10 and will feature musician Rachael Kilgour. The Feb. 17 show will feature actress Christa Schulz and the Feb. 24 show will feature poet Ryan Vine.
Did I mention I have a book now? It’s called The Spowl Ribbon. You can purchase it at any of my various performances, or rip me off and read the PDF for free.
My name is Paul Lundgren; I’m here for your amusement.
Rudy Carlson art opening tonight
Rudy Carlson’s show opens tonight at the Carnegie Center for Visual Arts (ye olde library, Second Street and First Avenue West), 5-8 p.m. Rudy’s sense of humor is the connecting thread across the wide range of his work, from intimate portraits to absurd political sculpture. The Duluth-based artist is also a teacher in a Duluth Heights one-room schoolhouse and father to three smokin’ hot ladies.
(Photo swiped from mnartists.org.)
Echo & Lightning: Poetry/cello performance
Sheila Packa and Kathy McTavish
Feb. 20, 8 p.m.
Red Mug Coffeehouse, Superior, WI
“These poems are the story of following one’s own instincts to, in one way or another, migrate. They bring us to the exact moment when we surrender to our truest selves, when we allow ourselves to be transported, transformed, and resurrected. In these poems this occurs with the ease and necessity of taking one breath, letting it go and then receiving another. These are ecstatic poems. They are at once ethereal and profoundly grounded in the body. This has always been one of Packa’s greatest strengths and every piece in this collection is an awe-inspiring testament to that gift. These poems can help us find our way to the places we most need to go, to where ‘…music you haven’t heard/didn’t know you needed/opens deep.'” –review by Ellie Schoenfeld.
Sheila Packa is the author of The Mother Tongue (Calyx Press Duluth, 2007) and she has had her work read by Garrison Keillor on Writers Almanac (NPR). She has had her work featured in Finnish-North American Literature in English: A Concise Anthology (Mellen Press 2009), Beloved of the Earth: Poems of Grief and Gratitude (Holy Cow Press, 2008), and To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Times to the Present (New Rivers Press, 2006)
Kathy McTavish is a recipient of an American Composers Forum / Jerome Foundation Commission for new solo work premiering Oct. 2010. She also received an Arrowhead Regional Arts Council grant.
Lundgren won a thing
Congrats to Mr. Lundgren for winning this thing.
I like the part where Enger seems to think Goggleye is a made up character.
Renegade Theater Company Grand Re-Opening
A new year, a new name, a new look. Renegade Comedy Theatre is changing its name to Renegade Theater Company. Please join us to celebrate! We’re having a party and silent auction fundraiser to coincide with the opening of our first show of our 2010 season, The Sparrow, on Thursday, Feb. 4. (more…)
Andrew Hudgins at St. Scholastica
The College of St. Scholastica’s Warner Reading Series presents:
Andrew Hudgins
Friday, Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m. – Free
Somers Lounge, College of St. Scholastica
Author of six collections of poetry, including the National Book Award finalist The Never Ending: New Poems and the Pulitzer Prize nominated Saints and Strangers, Andrew Hudgins is an indispensable voice in contemporary American letters. His awards and honors include the Witter Bynner Award for Poetry, the Hanes Poetry Prize, fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hudgins holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and teaches at Ohio State University.
Funding made possible by the Lee and Rose Warner Foundation.
Urban Explorers at Beaner’s
Tuesday, 7pm
Beaner’s Tuesday Film Night will feature “Urban Explorers” this week. The documentary, by Melody Gilbert, gives us a glimpse into an international subculture of fearless thrill-seekers who lurk beneath city streets and venture into long-abandoned buildings, defiantly searching for unseen treasures of modern civilization.
Get out of the house and join us for a free movie in a relaxing environment!
Free ticket to Cracked Egg Improv — Thursday, Jan. 28 only!
Free ticket! This Thursday, Jan. 28 only!
Mention this Super Secret Email and get TWO tickets for the price of ONE!
Cracked Egg Improv, a tiny wing of Rubber Chicken Theater, is back to making it up as they go along this Thursday at 7pm at Dubh Linn Comedy Pub, 109 W. Superior St. in downtown Duluth.
Five dollars gets you TWO tickets to this week’s shows. Plus, hold onto that ticket stub for a half price drink after the show.
See both you, and your friend, there!
Artists Consignment Available
Bashful Blooms is now seeking local artists interested in selling their items in the newly designed retail space. Very low consignment rates, and in the process of branding the business as a destination store. Seeking glass, textile, candles, cards, pottery, etc. If you or anyone you know is interested they can contact the store, or stop in any time during business hours with a sample of work.
Bashful Blooms inventory will not be from South America, China, Taiwan etc….
Bashful Blooms is the only gay owned and operated florist in the Twin Ports.
204 3rd Ave, Proctor, MN
218-624-3355
Women Stand Up and Shoot: A Comedic Film Competition
“Women Stand Up! A Comedy Cabaret” & IFP Minnesota are pleased to announce…Women Stand Up and Shoot: A Comedic Film Competition!
The purpose of Women Stand Up and Shoot is to promote and encourage women writers, actors and directors in film comedies. Send in your best woman-made, woman-starry short comedy films!
Films will be judged by our amazing panel of nationally-known funny Minnesota-bred women: Lizz Winstead, Jackie Kashian, and Mary Jo Pehl!
The submission deadline is April 21, 2010. Films will be screened at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater in May 2010. Prizes will be awarded for the first, second and third place. (more…)
Barbarous Hospitality
Ellen Sandbeck’s new book “Green Barbarians” is having its book launch at the Spiritual Deli at 3 W. Superior St. It’s fine, bold foray that turns away from ecological no-saying into ecological yes-saying. It’s also illustrated with Sandbeck’s elegant black and white papercut images, and with her great little “barbarian” glyph–just made for a tattoo.
It’s a costume party: come as a Green Barbarian (or for you Avatar fans, a bluegreen barbarian) and Win Fabulous Prizes. It’s Fri., January 22 at 6 pm.
Eat, drink, and be merry in good barbarian style (you might even find out about “bread napkins”). Northern Lights Books will be there with copies of the book to buy.
Artist’s Way
Come Walk in this World
FREE ARTIST’S WAY GROUP
Starting January 30, 2010
2:30-4:30 pm
at Jitters
102 W. Superior St. (more…)
Creative Cello Flow with Kathy McTavish
What happens when an improv cello musician, a creative genius, and a yogi get together? Join Kathy McTavish, Kim Luedtke, and Jodi Christensen for Creative Cello Flow~The Web of Life at the Spiritual Deli, Friday the 15th, 6-8pm. Listen to beautiful, improvisational cello music as we glimpse, reacquaint ourselves with, reaffirm, embrace, or savor our oneness with all living things by creating a collective piece of art.
Spiritual Deli, 6-8pm, $15
“Robin Hood” at the Duluth Playhouse
A cast of 47 children takes over the Duluth Playhouse for two weekends in “Robin Hood.” (more…)
Heads up to Diorama enthusiasts…
Plug those glue guns in and start looking for the perfect box. The time has come again for the Diorama-rama! This year’s festivities will be held at Sacred Heart on Saturday, March 6. The Diorama-rama is a community art show of dioramas and is open to whoever wants to participate. Music and merriment will abound. The event will be 21+ If you have any questions/comments you can e-mail Sarah Heimer at caradiabolica @ hotmail.com
Manufactured Reality at Washington Gallery
Washington Gallery presents “Manufactured Reality,” a photo/video exhibit by Jacob Swanson.
Washington Studios Artist Co-op
315 N. Lake Ave. – Duluth
Showing Jan. 8-30 [fri 12-4] [sat 3-6]
Penguin at the Bar
Art by Adam Swanson at the Red Mug Gallery. Reception Friday, Jan 8th 6-8pm with music by Matt Ray. Penguins, bikes and various anachronisms of existence.