Art
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.
First meeting of Duluth Photoshop Experts
No, you do not have to be an expert! Come on down to the DPI, bring your laptop with Photoshop (if you have one) and join in the discussion! Wednesday, March 23, at 6:30pm. 405 E Superior St. For more info, go to duluthphotographyinstitute.com or call 218.393.2468
Travis Melin Exhibit Closing Reception
Friday, 5-8pm at the DPI — 405 E. Superior St. Free!
How many Minnesota artists are there?
The Minnesota State Arts Board is conducting a census to find out just how many Minnesotans are “engaged in creative expression.”
Starting last week, the state agency has been encouraging people to fill out an online survey indicating whether they are an artist, work in the arts, or help facilitate or promote creative expression. The state legislature directed the State Arts Board and the state’s eleven regional arts councils to conduct the census to help measure the influence of arts in the state.
Brian Strub, communications & government relations director with the MN State Arts Board, explains the parameters this way:
We are asking participation from anyone state wide who, professionally or personally, sings, acts, dances, writes, draws, paints, sculpts, illustrates, photographs, films, knits, weaves, directs, plays an instrument, composes, shares stories, designs, or any other form of creative expression; and any agency, business, facility, or organization that produces, presents, or promotes creative expression. I’ve been telling people, “If you’re creative, be proud. Be counted.”
Strub says the MN Arts Count will continue through the end of April. You can participate in the survey here.
Furniture Music
Hello all! I am pleased to invite you to a wonderful, spectacular art opening on Friday, March 25. The exhibit will be open from 7-10 pm at the Old European Bakery on West First street. This event is free and open to the public!
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Photography Workshop to Sax-Zim Bog!
Photos by Erik Bruhnke
This Saturday the DPI is hosting a field workshop to Sax-Zim bog that teams up with local birding guide Erik Bruhnke as well as Ryan Marshik of iRentPhoto.com who will have big lenses for those to try out! To sign up and for more information, please go to duluthphotographyinstitute.com!
Goin’ Mad at the Rad
DAI FUNDRAISER APRIL 2
HCIS presents Illusion Theater’s award-winning performance My Antonia
Harbor City International School will present My Antonia on Wednesday, March 16, at 7 PM. The theater is located on the second floor of the school at 332 W. Michigan Street. Admission is a free-will donation!
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V-Café Art Show
An art show and silent auction displaying art of all mediums- photography, painting, drawing, performance art & music all related to womens’ bodies, lives, and experiences.
Friday, March 25, 6-9PM
Teatro Zuccone (Downtown Duluth)
Free to attend
All proceeds will benefit women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
If you are interested in performing or contributing a piece of art to display please contact vdayumd @ yahoo.com.
Brought to you by V-Day UMD, the Women’s Resource & Action Center, the Queer & Allied Student Union & the Alworth Institute.
Best cheap date in Duluth
The following items will be free this Thursday at the Duluth Art Institute from 5 to 7 pm:
wine
appetizers
art making
art viewing
live music by Portage.
