Wednesday, November 12 2008

Joe Dowling’s new production of Shadowlands at the Guthrie Theater.

Support: All That Remains, Gojira, 36 Crazyfists
Price: $22.50 ADV, $25 DOS (GA)
Get your tickets at Ticketmaster or Myth Box Office
All Ages Event
For more info call 651-779-MYTH

This one-stop housing crisis center is offering mortgage loan counseling and foreclosure prevention services to individuals and families who have fallen behind on mortgage payments, or are facing possible foreclosure. Center hours: Tuesdays from 6-8 pm; Saturdays from 10 am – noon. Walk ins are welcome.

The center is located at the Minneapolis Urban League’s Glover Sudduth-Center, 2100 Plymouth Avenue N., Minneapolis, 55411. To make an appointment, call (612) 827-9299. (The center is a joint venture between the Minneapolis Urban League and Minnesota ACORN).

Joe Dowling’s new production of Shadowlands at the Guthrie Theater.

Toastmasters is the world’s largest organization devoted to developing communication skills. It now has some 200,000 members in 10,000 Toastmasters clubs in about 80 countries. In the Twin Cities and surrounding metro area, there are over 200 clubs!

Discovery Toastmasters Club meets every Wednesday at the Imation World Headquarters (Discovery) Building in Oakdale. For directions and more information about the club, please visit the club’s website at http://www.orgsites.com/mn/discoverytm. Meetings are open to the general public and there is never a cost to check out a meeting.

Panelists:
Toni Carter, Ramsey County Commissioner
Peter McLaughlin, Hennepin County Commissioner
Sarah Mullins, ISAIAH
Tim Mungavan, West Bank Community Development Corp
Vic Rosenthal, Jewish Community Action

Moderator:
Andy Driscoll, host of “Truth to Tell” on KFAI 90.3 & 106.7

Join Community Shares of Minnesota for “Transportation: What does $6.6 billion get you?” our third community engagement event celebrating our 30th anniversary year.

Talk about a hot date! A La Salsa has teamed up with the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts to offer a night of authentic entertainment featuring the most popular Latin jazz musician in the world, Poncho Sanchez.

Poncho Sanchez is a storyteller who leads his jazz ensemble in paying homage to Afro-Cuban rhythms. His particular brand of world-fusion music and his ability to narrate stories with his congas have contributed to his remarkable fame as a bandleader and recording artist.

11/11 to 11/12, conference “The Road to Reconciliation” in St Paul and Oakdale, concerned with bridging misunderstandings and healing trauma when conflicts turn violent

Contact Deacon Mickey Friesen at 651-291-4445.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.