Art Posts

Storytelling/Poetry Open Mic Night

Monday, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m.
Teatro Zuccone

Cheryl Skafte IS Don Ness!

Cheryl Skafte as Don Ness.
John Munson as Rockin’ Johnny Rocker, Morning Drive Homicide Detective.
Christa Lawler as Christa Lawler. And music from Sara Thomsen.

That’s a lot of entertainment for just five dollars.

The Rubber Chicken Radio Hour, broadcast live on KUWS 91.3FM this Thursday at 8pm. (But all the fun is had in the live studio audience at The Shack in Superior…) Call (218) 213-2780 for tix.

Poet Lucille Clifton Dies at Age 73

“homage to my hips”

these hips are big hips
they need space to
move around in.
they don’t fit into little
petty places. these hips
are free hips.
they don’t like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to go
they do what they want to do.
these hips are mighty hips.
these hips are magic hips.
i have known them
to put a spell on a man and
spin him like a top!

*This is one of my favorite poems. Ms. Clifton. I have yet to develop an opinion on her last book of poetry, “Voices”. But she left many great works before her death.

Saturday, Feb. 20 | The People Say Fox & Tiny Moving Parts

Tiny Moving Parts (math rock from Benson,MN)
The People Say Fox (local alt favorites)
Lions & Creators (first show, members of Road Warrior and Infected Wednesday w/ special guest; Greta Konkler)
Leif Hinkel (acoustic positivity)
5 p.m. | $4 | All Ages
@The Encounter | 201 E. First Street

“Gaining Perspective” Opens Friday, Feb. 12, 6-8pm at Washington Gallery

Duluth nature photographer Ryan Tischer showcases new photographs

Local photographer Ryan Tischer is unveiling new work from the past year in an exhibit at Washington Gallery, which opens Friday, Feb. 12 from 6-8 p.m. The show features photographs of the Lake Superior region stretching from the Twin Ports to Michigan’s upper peninsula.

Paul Lundgren’s Happy Hour and a Rubber Ball Fetish Redux?

The Grand Entrance and Opening Monologue

Later, when Paul asked for audience participation… did Bob Boone seem over-anxious to slash at the rubber ball??

It seems as if he's done this before??

MN / WI

Also, I am considering printing t-shirts of the best Rainbow Rescue Beam cartoon ever (below-image intentionally low rez). Orders would have to be in advance and would need to meet a minimum number so I don’t have to lay out big ching ahead of time on mats. Contact: adam [at] transistormag [dot] com.

Call for Entries: Glensheen Festival of Fine Art and Craft

Artistic? We’re sending out applications for Glensheen’s 16th Annual Festival of Fine Art and Craft. Drop us an e-mail if you’d like one – [email protected] (No kits or molds, please. We like original material.)

Art aficionado? Save the dates: August 14 and August 15, 2010. (Two days this year!)

http://www.d.umn.edu/glen/visit/calendar.html#fineartcraft

Paul Lundgren Happy Hour

AngryBandPhotoNo, I haven’t formed an angry heavy-metal band, although this photo might suggest otherwise.

I’m hosting three happy hour events at Teatro Zuccone. Each show features a special guest performer (or member of my angry band).

All three shows are on Wednesdays. They all start at 6 p.m. and will be over by 7 p.m. so you can socialize at the Zeitgeist Arts Cafe afterward and still be home well before bedtime.

Admission is free. Don’t thank me, thank ARAC.

The first show will be Feb. 10 and will feature musician Rachael Kilgour. The Feb. 17 show will feature actress Christa Schulz and the Feb. 24 show will feature poet Ryan Vine.

Did I mention I have a book now? It’s called The Spowl Ribbon. You can purchase it at any of my various performances, or rip me off and read the PDF for free.

My name is Paul Lundgren; I’m here for your amusement.

Snowball Fight

Imagine < 2% of Duluth in a snowmobile-suit-and-moon-boots epic throwdown.

Three Nights in Six Dimensions

JillEllenHall2 John Heino3 alan Chani Becker3

Multimedia performance art in the Venue at Mohaupt Block – Feb. 26-28

Rudy Carlson art opening tonight

rudy

Rudy Carlson’s show opens tonight at the Carnegie Center for Visual Arts (ye olde library, Second Street and First Avenue West), 5-8 p.m.  Rudy’s sense of humor is the connecting thread across the wide range of his work, from intimate portraits to absurd political sculpture. The Duluth-based artist is also a teacher in a Duluth Heights one-room schoolhouse and father to three smokin’ hot ladies.

(Photo swiped from mnartists.org.)

Echo & Lightning: Poetry/cello performance

Sheila Packa and Kathy McTavish
Feb. 20, 8 p.m.
Red Mug Coffeehouse, Superior, WI

“These poems are the story of following one’s own instincts to, in one way or another, migrate. They bring us to the exact moment when we surrender to our truest selves, when we allow ourselves to be transported, transformed, and resurrected. In these poems this occurs with the ease and necessity of taking one breath, letting it go and then receiving another. These are ecstatic poems. They are at once ethereal and profoundly grounded in the body. This has always been one of Packa’s greatest strengths and every piece in this collection is an awe-inspiring testament to that gift. These poems can help us find our way to the places we most need to go, to where ‘…music you haven’t heard/didn’t know you needed/opens deep.'” –review by Ellie Schoenfeld.

Sheila Packa is the author of The Mother Tongue (Calyx Press Duluth, 2007) and she has had her work read by Garrison Keillor on Writers Almanac (NPR). She has had her work featured in Finnish-North American Literature in English: A Concise Anthology (Mellen Press 2009), Beloved of the Earth: Poems of Grief and Gratitude (Holy Cow Press, 2008), and To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Times to the Present (New Rivers Press, 2006)

Kathy McTavish is a recipient of an American Composers Forum / Jerome Foundation Commission for new solo work premiering Oct. 2010. She also received an Arrowhead Regional Arts Council grant.

Lundgren won a thing

Congrats to Mr. Lundgren for winning this thing.

I like the part where Enger seems to think Goggleye is a made up character.

Renegade Theater Company Grand Re-Opening

A new year, a new name, a new look. Renegade Comedy Theatre is changing its name to Renegade Theater Company. Please join us to celebrate! We’re having a party and silent auction fundraiser to coincide with the opening of our first show of our 2010 season, The Sparrow, on Thursday, Feb. 4.

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