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Your Weekend Entertainment, January 29-31
January 29, 2010
This looks to be quite a busy weekend indeed. We start with a few exhibition openings. The American Swedish Institute opens its new exhibit 17 Swedish Designers at 6:00 PM on Friday. The exhibit “showcases exciting examples of the most recent work from these seventeen designers, spanning a wide variety of design fields including glass, ceramics, textiles, architecture, furniture, industrial design, interior design, and graphic design,” and “suggests a flavor of contemporary thoughts and solutions for developing good design for every day use.” It runs through the end of May.
At Highpoint Center for Printmaking, it’s the opening of Select Impressions, which features 50+ images from 29 local printmakers. See this Star Tribune article for all the details. The exhibit runs through March 13, and the opening reception is from 6:30 – 9:00 PM Friday.
Anyone who likes soup is sure to want to be at the Midtown Global Market on Saturday. It’s the third incarnation of the Global Soup Cook-Off, and the competition will be fierce! Over a dozen soup recipes will be available for sampling. Market visitors are invited to vote for their favorites and take the recipe home.The event is open to the public. A donation of $3 per person is suggested with proceeds benefiting Perspectives’ Kids Café.
On the theater scene, Patrick’s Cabaret has a new version of Elements in Translation this weekend, Friday & Saturday at 8:00 PM. “An evening of hip-hop, breakin, waacking, house, poppin, tap, african, bellydance, spoken word, singing, and modern dance. Local urban talent with local urban style.” MPR recently paid Patrick’s a visit to learn more about this show so be sure to have a listen!
At Bryant Lake Bowl, Party in the Rec Room raps up its long run with four shows over the course of Friday and Saturday. And Sunday night, it’s The Rockstar Storytellers: Erotica & Romance, “a smokin’ hot lineup of stories that’ll make you feel all warm and gushy and… and perhaps other unmentionables.”
Pangea World Theater hosts a Benefit for Haiti on Saturday night. Performers include: Khary Jackson, Ayanna Muata, Gabrielle Civil, Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe (more will be added soon) Hosted by Juma B. Essie. All money raised will go directly to Paul Farmer’s organization Partners in Health.
And Magers & Quinn has a couple book events this weekend. Friday at 7:30 PM, four Twin Cities authors read from Interfictions 2, a genre-spanning collection of short stories from 21 authors from around the world that included these four locals. William Alexander, David Schwartz, Kelly Barnhill, and Alan DeNiro. And Sunday at 2:00 PM, Former Minnesota Viking Todd Kalis will sign copies of Pigskin Dreams. Special guests will include Hall of Famer’s Paul Krause and Randall McDaniel, The Power Trip (KFAN) host Mike Morris, Bob Lurtsema, and John Randle.
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