Art Posts

The Chicken Hat Plays, sponsored in part by Pizza Luce!

Jun 07, 2011 No Comments

This Saturday, come see 8 plays that don’t exist right now.

Eight writers draw their prompts from hats full of suggestions on Friday night. (Odds are pretty good that someone will get “wiener.”)

Eight directors and a bunch of actors show up Saturday morning. Each director draws a script from a hat, then their cast from a hat, then they all go away.

Saturday is spent memorizing lines, finding costumes and props, and general cramming.

Saturday night at 7pm, you get 8 original world premiere plays from the area’s bravest theatrical artists.

All of this for ten bucks.

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Art, Events

Duluth Int’l Film Festival This Week

Jun 07, 2011 No Comments

A friend of mine said that when he went to the Duluth Film Festival last year he was blown away. His expectations were modest, but after the first film he couldn’t believe what he just saw. Then he took in the second, and the third. Ultimately he attended 11 films and participated in many of the dialogues with directors that can be part of a film festival experience.

Two weeks ago I met Richard Hansen, director of the event, and was sufficiently impressed with his vision and enthusiasm to make sure we had lunch together last week. I now understand why an international film festival would make its home in Duluth. It’s my hope that Hansen and associates are sufficiently successful to make this the next Sundance.

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Four Poems by Ray Smith

Jun 06, 2011 4 Comments

Four poems by the late Ray Smith, director of the Superior Public Library, 1971-75, and visiting lecturer in English at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, 1975-83, have been posted by the Wisconsin Academy Review.


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Mayor’s Mix: 17 pretty great local songs for $5

Jun 06, 2011 13 Comments

So yeah, you can find it at the Electric Fetus. If you’re like me and you think it’s pretty neat that our little city produces so much incredible talent, maybe you should buy this CD. It has a low-key vibe to it, good for your family BBQ this summer …

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Art, Music, Politics

Proctor artist Scott Murphy’s Duluth Public Library mural

Jun 06, 2011 15 Comments

The artist who created the Duluth Art Institute rotunda mural in 2010 is at it again!


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Bob Dylan Manhole Design Contest

Jun 02, 2011 14 Comments

Common Language is sponsoring a competition for an artist interested in designing Bob Dylan-themed cast-iron manhole cover for Bob Dylan Way in Duluth, Minnesota. The manhole cover will be cast at the 10th North Shore Iron Pour, which will be held this summer in Duluth.

The artist selected will be given free instruction at the North Shore Iron Pour seminar and an honorarium of $300. They will see their cast iron manhole cover installed on Bob Dylan Way.

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Sound Unseen Duluth Festival Trailer

Jun 02, 2011 1 Comment

Coming June 8-12 at multiple locations around the Twin Ports. Visit soundunseenduluth.com.


Art, Events, Videos

Review of The 39 Steps at the Duluth Playhouse

Jun 02, 2011 No Comments

I won’t go into a lot of detail about the intricately convoluted plot of The 39 Steps, largely because the plot resists description, but also because part of the delight of this cinematic play is to see how it all unfolds. Needless to say, it involves the usual trappings you’d expect of Hitchcockian suspense and film noir: a femme fatale, foreign espionage, and false murder accusations. With a cast of four playing innumerable characters, The 39 Steps lovingly lampoons the genres of noir (and even, at times, screwball comedy), with many winking references to Hitchcock’s oeuvre.

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The Life of Riley – Trailer!

Jun 02, 2011 6 Comments

Sneak Preview
Monday, June 13
7:15 p.m.

$10 suggested donation – RSVP on the FaceBook Event Page or by emailing [email protected]


Art, Events

Dark Winter Nights Vol II.

Jun 01, 2011 6 Comments

Has the summer heat possibility of it someday being warmer than 70 degrees been getting you down? I thought so, so why not think back to better months and come to my art exhibit of winter photographs this Friday?

The opening runs from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Duluth Photography Institute. 405 E Superior St. Or for those of you who do better with landmarks, halfway between the walk from Fitger’s to Carmody. I know you’ll be going to one or the other, so you might as well stop in and grab a free cup of cheap wine or good beer.

All the images were created in the dead of night on Zenith City streets and alleyways using World War II camera tech. Make it even more fun and turn the evening into a hip live-action version of “Where in Duluth?”. If you are thinking that “On the shore of Lake Superior!” will get you any points, you won’t.


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END:CIV with Director Franklin López

Jun 01, 2011 No Comments

END:CIV
This culture will eat you alive
Fight back; resist & survive

Screening at Zinema 2 on June 7 at 7pm.

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Free Youth Design Workshop

May 31, 2011 2 Comments

This Saturday the Duluth Art Institute and the Southern St Louis County 4H program are teaming up to bring Jeff Johnson to town. Jeff is founder of Spunk Design Machine based in Minneapolis and New York and he is giving a free workshop on design for youth grades 5-12.

Saturday, June 4
1 – 3:30pm
Duluth Art Institute Depot
Call to register: 218-733-7562


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Haiti Worthy Cause Concert

May 29, 2011 No Comments

Haiti Worthy Cause Concert – Music! Storytelling! Food! Free! Donations accepted!
June 5 @ 3 p.m. – Chester Park United Methodist Church – 819 N 18th Ave E – 724-4969

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Opening Night of Reasons to be Pretty

May 24, 2011 No Comments

Opening night of Reasons to Be Pretty is Thursday, June 2, at 8pm. Stick around after the show for the after party in the Zeitgeist lobby featuring food from the Zeitgeist Cafe and music by Mae Martin. Then, stick around for a free Long Form Improv set from the newly formed Long Form Team of Renegade Improv.

And if all that wasn’t enough, opening night is pay what you can! Only have $1? That’s fine! Feel like the show is worth $100? We will totally accept!

But come out and celebrate with us. Whatever you decide to pony up to see Reasons to Be Pretty also gets you free food and music, plus a free late-night improv set. Because we think you are all awesome and we like hanging out with you.


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Call to Duluth Artists! Ideas!

May 23, 2011 4 Comments

NHS is looking to pay some artists up to $750 for each design if they’re selected.  We’re looking to get some bike racks, public benches and trash cans.  All of these will be placed along Fourth Street between Mesaba Avenue and Seventh Avenue East.  More information can be found by clicking here.  Where would you like to see a bike rack, bench or trash can in this area?  I can think of a few…


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