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Your Weekend Entertainment, December 11-13
December 10, 2009
There’s a very busy Lake Street arts scene this weekend. Let’s start with In the Heart of the Beast. Their yearly production of La Natividad actually starts tonight (Thursday), but is also on Friday and Sunday nights. “Much more than a straightforward enactment of the Christmas story, La Natividad unites evocative theater with an open-armed community celebration of inclusion and generosity. It has become a tradition for many in the Twin Cities who wish to push beyond the commercialism that abounds during this season and experience the essence of the holiday.” Buy tickets
To the east, Patrick’s Cabaret hosts Kinetic Kitchen on Friday & Saturday night. Featuring Cade Holmseth premiering “Just One More”, Jennifer Glaws’ Jagged Moves, Sarah LaRose-Holland’s Kinetic Evolutions dance company, and youth group The Phipps Dance Company.
Over in Lyn-Lake, it’s the penultimate weekend for Jungle Theater’s play The Seafarer. “A collection of Irish misfits lay their cards – and their souls – on the table in this tale of a poker game played on Christmas Eve. A wonderful exploration of passion, provocation, and the potential for redemption, The Seafarer showcases one of today’s greatest storytellers, and an all-star cast of local favorites.” Buy tickets
Up the street at Intermedia Arts, they’re hosting Dance Film Project, their annual festival “for dancemakers and filmmakers to collaborate and create original short works for the camera. The project aims to explore choreography through a cinematic language.” Click here for a full schedule of events. Intermedia Arts also continues its Dimensions of Indigenous exhibit, which just got a nice write-up at the TC Daily Planet.
And Bryant Lake Bowl has a very merry weekend in store. Friday night it’s Inappropriate Laughter III: Merry Sketchmas and Happy Ha-Ha-Ha-lidays at 7 PM and The Santaland Diaries at 9:30. Saturday it’s Creative Laughter Club House at noon (a show for kids K-6), and then Letters to Santa…Postage Due! at 7 PM and another round of The Santaland Diaries at 9:30. Then on Sunday, it’s one more Letters to Santa at 6 PM followed by A Christmas Carol: The Golden Girls Remix at 8:30.
And that’s just the theater spaces! How about live music? At Sauce Spirits & Soundbar, it’s local indie-rock group Pictures of Then on Friday night, and a CD release party for Al Church & State on Saturday night.
In a Scandinavian frame of mind? Come in to Ingebretsen’s on Saturday 11 – 1 for a Santa Lucia celebration. “December 13, is a celebration of light in Sweden, and all of Scandinavia; countries that are very dark in the winter. Join Ingebretsen’s to share the tradition of this special Swedish holiday with holiday music and pepparkakor served by Lucia and her attendants.”
And finally, Powderhorn residents and others may be in Getting to Know Project 8. This will be “a community event to discuss the concerns of youth in the neighborhood, to eat a free meal, and to enjoy free youth entertainment. Project 8 recognizes that there are an infinite number of things the people in our community are good at. Whether it be cooking or teaching math or giving free law advice, we want to show the youth of the Twin Cities that the support is here for them to succeed. This is a family event so bring your kids!”
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