Saturday, November 8 2008

The hyperkinetic local favorites play Bunkers.

Absolute Pulp
Trashy Stories from Cheap Magazines

WHEN: Nov. 8-23
Thursdays & Saturdays at 7 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m.

WHERE: Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, 810 W. Lake St., Mpls

TICKETS: $14-$18 (pay what you can), $12 with Fringe button
for reservations, call 612.825.8949 or visit www.bryantlakebowl.com

CONTACT: Ryan Ripley, Assistant Producer, ryan@hardcovertheater.org

Have you heard about the Summit Hill
Association’s Progressive Supper? It’s been
a neighborhood tradition for over twenty
years. Twice a year, in April and November,
the Summit Hill Association sponsors this
wonderful event. The evening consists of
four courses, each of which is served in a
different home. Neighbors visit a different
host home for social hour (appetizers), soup
or salad, main course, and dessert. Each
participating household serves one course to
six to twelve guests.

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
hosts editor/publisher and author of “Take the Streets” Ed Felien, talking
about “Post-Election: Where Do We Go from Here?”

Van Cleve Community Center,
901 – 15th Ave SE, Mpls.

http://www.wilpfmn.org or 612-922-79993.

10/4 to 11/11 (Tuesdays 7 to 9 pm or Saturdays 10 to noon), Conflict Competency for Everyday Life with Transformative Mediator and peace educator Carey Heart Borne, in South Mpls. $60 to 120 sliding scale.

Call 612-721-6787 to register or with questions.

free workshop “Muslims and Islam in Minnesota
Schools: Dialogue, Resources and Community,”
CEUs available for K-12 teachers.

Registration required at
http://www.igs.cla.umn.edu (Lunch provided, also free.)

Introduction to Renewable Energy (RE) technology alternatives and options, including solar PV (electric), solar hot water and space heating, passive solar and active solar hot air heating, wind energy, energy efficiency, RE environmental issues, RE costs, rebates and incentives, finance options, and green and RE career opportunities.

Saturday, November 8, 2008
8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Coffee Hours take place from 10-12am at the Resource Center of the Americas

John Peterson, National Secretary of the U.S. Hands Off Venezuela Campaign, will bring us up to date on the latest developments in Venezuela, including the economic situation, the question of the state, the role United Socialist Party of Venezuela, and the attitude of the new U.S. administration toward Latin America as a whole.

A retrospective exhibit celebrating 15 years of Kulture Klub Collaborative, a non-profit pairing artists with homeless youth. Click here for details, and here to read Sheila Regan’s feature on the exhibit.

An exhibit of Polaroid photography by Sean Tubridy. Click here for details.

The annual fall open house at Northeast Minneapolis’s Northrup King Building. Read the Daily Planet profiles of Northrup King artists Sean Tubridy and André Salvadore.

Artist Greg Lindquist will unveil a painting of the 35W bridge rebuilding when his exhibit “Remembrance of Things Present” opens at Bethel University’s 9th Street Entry Gallery on November 7. Details of the event are below.

Intermedia Arts presents
Naked Stages 2008
Bold New Performance Art for Adventurous Audiences
October 16-18 & November 6-8, 2008

WHAT:
This season’s Naked Stages series draws on the artists’ personal journeys of finding, nurturing, and celebrating their authenticity. Through the use of projected images, recorded music, scripted and improvisational text, the four performances explore the kaleidoscope of experiences that make up our lives.

Back by popular demand, The New York Times calls Wicked “Broadway’s biggest blockbuster,” and when it first played Minneapolis in 2006 it broke box office records and sold out in record time. Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for “the most complete, and completely satisfying, new musical in a long time” (USA Today).

Explore the traditions associated with Saint Lucia, from her origins as a fourth-century martyr to the legends of her appearance in Sweden.

There are many legends associated with Lucia starting in fourth century Sicily. A young woman gave her dowry away to the poor and confessed herself a Christian. For this she was accused of witchcraft and put to death. Another legend tells of a famine in medieval days. A glowing figure dressed in white, Saint Lucia came across a great lake in the province of Värmland, Sweden.
She brought gifts of food to the starving people.

Class Title: Body + Identity: An Exploration
Dates: Tuesdays, Oct. 28, Nov. 4, 11, 18
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Intermedia Arts
Instructor: Jila Nikpay
Fee: Based on a household-income based sliding-fee scale

This fall, look at yourself with new eyes in Body + Identity, a creative and cross-cultural approach to examining our perceptions of ourselves as women. Led by renowned photographer Jila Nikpay, this class will open our eyes to the ways in which we view our bodies, our selves, and the women around us.

series of 5 Monday evenings titled “My Truth and Your Truth: Absolutes and Openness in Our Religious Traditions”
in 5 different houses of worship, beginning with Dr Anant Rambachan (Hindu) at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church

http://www.spacc.org/spin or or 651-789-3840 or register
at http://www.interfaithings.org

A major exhibit of contemporary art from India, at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

“Irreplaceable: Wildlife in a Warming World” is a national campaign and travelling photo exhibit that raises awareness about plants and animals threatened by global warming. Featuring work by award-winning wildlife conservation photographers, the 40-print exhibit brings the public face-to-face with the wildlife most threatened by climate. Included in the exhibit are species that Earthjustice, the nation’s leading public interest environmental law organization, are fighting to protect from global warming.

NIcademus Art and Framing is proud to announce their first art opening. Local artist Booka B, aka Adam Booker, has been around the Twin Cities art scene for years and is excited to show. Paintings on canvas paper canvas and found objects exhibit a tribal feel mixed with an urban flair.Come and discover Saint Paul’‘s newest Art Gallery and meet the artist on opening night.

Bethel University’s Olson Gallery pleased to present new works by Bethel University Associate Professor of Art Jeff Wetzig.

Jeff Wetzig’s collection of prints transform their traditional roots in Japanese woodblock prints to explore the medium as a means of installation. He investigates the idea of boundaries and borders as they relate to themes such as mass communication, repetition, and fear. The delicate nature of line and color in his woodblock prints are an interesting contrast to their subject matter.