Art
Toast the Arts ~ Taste the Wine
Choice, Unlimited’s 3rd Annual “Toast the Arts-Taste the Wine” Fundraiser will be held this Friday, May 13 at Clyde Iron Works Restaurant & Bar. The Wine Tasting event will also include live and silent auctions, live music, and hors d’oeuvres. All Proceeds benefit Choice, Unlimited’s Arts Program.
Choice, Unlimited is dedicated to supporting individuals with disabilities and persons who are experiencing barriers to employment and community inclusion.
For tickets or more information, call 218.724.5869 or visit choiceunlimited.org. Become a fan on Facebook at facebook.com/choiceunlimited.
Free Photography Exhibit of the Duluth-Superior Camera Club
Photo by Joe Kubala
Opening reception 5-8pm Saturday at the DPI, 405 E. Superior St. Refreshments and great photography conversation! For more info on the club and the DPI go to:
duluth-superiorcameraclub.org
duluthphotographyinstitute.com
Review of 13 at the Duluth Playhouse
This review is not targeted at the (justifiably) proud parents of the cast of 13, nor anyone else who has tickets to the show in hand. Rather, this review is targeted at those of you who, like me, peruse the schedule of Duluth’s many arts events and consider a Children’s Theatre productionas something to skip. Which would be a shame, because to miss this show is to miss one of the true delights of this year’s theatre season.
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Seeking Duluth breast cancer survivors
Duluth artist Lisa McKhann (Project Lulu) is looking for breast cancer survivors to participate in a journaling project. Participants must be at least one year ‘out’ from diagnosis. This is a 6-week, online journaling group, called JOMMA – Journal of My Medical Associations. Convenient internet access is required.
Interested? Please call or email Lisa today for a full project description.
Click here for a quick project information
Lisa McKhann
lisa @ projectlulu.com
218/349-9121
“Gone from Minnesota,” by Loup-Garou
Created for the 2011 Duluth Homegrown Music Festival. Featuring the song “Gone from Minnesota” by local talent Loup-Garou. Starring Tonya Porter and Abraham Curran; directed by Erin McConnell.
Tea Time Art Auction and Open House
Join the Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs for the Tea Time silent art auction and open house on Thursday, May 5, from 4-7pm. The silent auction will be held at the Center for Nonviolence at 202 E. Superior St. and will showcase all varieties of local art: felting, rosemaling, print, ceramics, jewelry, photography, paintings, and more! A tea leaf reader will be on hand to tell what your future may hold and many varieties of eclectic teas and gourmet desserts will be available. Spoken word, live music, and stories from adult and child survivors of domestic abuse will be featured throughout the evening. Show your support for this important community resource!
Tangier 57 will be flowing at Homegrown
Tangier 57 at the Red Star, Friday, May 6, 11 PM
DPI Photography Contest!
Open to everyone; over $1,500 in prizes!
Enter the Duluth Photography Institute‘s first annual 2011 Photography Contest. Five categories. Early bird registration discount ends soon.
Homegrown Banners
It’s that time of year again, the time when we magically change the secret folder that makes random silly pictures appear at the top of the PDD page. We’re looking for your Homegrown photos! So follow the same guidelines for submitting photos, but send us Homegrown-related images. You know, people drinking beer, playing rawknroll, hanging out, scans of your long-form birth certificate, and so on. We’ll rotate homegrown images during next week’s festivities.
Free Family Day — Tweed Museum of Art
Saturday, April 30, 2-4 p.m.
All ages welcome!
Free and open to the public.
What do you see?
Artists interpret the world in many ways. Explore the museum with a family activity guide to discover a variety of works of art, participate in a large group drawing activity, and create your own art work to take home.
More info…. contact Susan Hudec, Museum Education, 218-726-8527, [email protected]
Tweed Museum of Art
University of Minnesota Duluth
1201 Ordean Court
Duluth, MN 55812
Duluth Photographers Guild Photography Exhibit Closing Reception
(photo by Emily Rose)
Come on down for a last look at the DPG’s wide variety of photographic styles at the Duluth Photography Institute, 405 E. Superior St. on Saturday, April 30, from 5-8pm. Feel free to use the parking lots behind the building off of Fourth Avenue East. Call Brian at 218.393.2468 if you have any questions. Feel free to get more information at duluthphotographyinstitute.com or flickr.com/groups/duluthphotographersguild.
Empty Bowl, good feeling inside
17th annual Empty Bowl
Tuesday, April 26 – 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The Depot, 506 West Michigan Street, Duluth
Empty Bowl benefits Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank, providing food for more than 3 million meals annually to people in need throughout northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. $15 includes a handmade bowl and a simple, delicious soup meal.
Call for Photos – Homegrown Photo Show
For those of you who have been waiting and wondering… will there be a Homegrown Photo Show (it was inadvertently left out of the schedule)…
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Video Sessions with Charlie Parr and the Fontanelles
New local videos from North Shore Sessions featuring Charlie Parr & Lane Prekker, and the Fontanelles.
Two Many Banjos featured by Macedelic Studios
Duluth’s own Two Many Banjos were featured this week by Macedelic Studios. The piece included live music and conversation with singer/songwriter Marc Gartman.
You can listen to ‘An Evening with Two Many Banjos’ and get more information here. Be sure to see them performing at Duluth Homegrown!
Two Many Banjos is a dynamic and engaging band out of Duluth, MN. Producer Doug MacRostie joined singer/songwriter Marc Gartman before the performance at Terrapin Station to talk about the band’s latest release Fatwa.
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.