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Weekend on Lake Street 2/19-2/21
February 19, 2010
Photo used under a Creative Commons license from flyingturtle
We start today with some calendar-specific events. It’s Chinese New Year, the Year of the Tiger, and Midtown Global Market welcomes it in style tonight (Friday). Starting at 5:00 PM, members from the Chinese Heritage Foundation will be on-hand for fortune telling and distributing red envelopes that are traditionally believed to usher in good luck for the New Year. Children can also take home their name written in traditional Chinese calligraphy. A donation to the Chinese Heritage Foundation is suggested for these services. And a traditional Chinese Lion Dance will commence at 7:00 PM, circling the Market with graceful movements and magnificent colors.
If Christian tradition is more your thing, how about a fun & delicious Friday fish dinner at the Church of St. Albert the Great? They’ll be serving award winning baked and fried Alaskan pollack, potatoes, meatless spaghetti, cole slaw, rolls, desserts and beverages. For entertainment, there’s bingo, as well as having dinner with a great crowd. These dinners start on the 19th and will happen every Friday until March 26th. 4:30 – 7:30 PM, $10 tickets for adults, $9 for seniors, $5 for kids 6-12, and free for kids 5 and under.
Lake Street theaters are humming with activity. Over at Bryant Lake Bowl, it’s one dose of Master Works: the Rembrandt plays (six of Rembrandt’s works translated to the stage) on Friday, two doses of Dykes Do Drag (“a Savers fashion show in Genderbenderville”) on Friday and Saturday, and another two doses of From Here to Maternity (a look into the bedroom of an average married couple with sketches, songs and at least one interpretive dance) on Saturday and Sunday.
Patrick’s Cabaret hosts Queerographer’s Evening on Friday and Saturday nights. It’s curated by Matteo Kelli-Halbesleben and features dancers & artists Jeremy Bensussan, Jaime Carrera, Renee Copeland, Joe Chvala, and John-Mark Hostetler.
In the Heart of the Beast Theatre has activities for kids and adults both this Saturday. At 10 and noon, their Saturday Puppet Shows for Kids series continues with Serious Nonsense, brought to you by Theatre of Fools. “A vaudeville show for the 21st century specializing in physical comedy, magic and absurd theatrics.” And later in the day, from 2 – 5, is a workshop with Kurt Hunter on exploring marionette movement. In a playful atmosphere, participants will work with simple marionettes. The workshop begins with a ball suspended by a single string and moves into two and three string abstract marionettes. More advanced techniques will be explained and demonstrated. That class is in Plaza Verde, across the street from HOBT.
For more entertainment for the kids, take them down to East Lake Library, where the Kids Jr. Book Club convenes on Saturday. This month’s book is Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat. Stop by the library and ask at the desk if you need the book. That’s from 2 – 3 and is intended for kids in 2nd – 5th grade.
And speaking of books, Magers & Quinn has two events this weekend as well. Friday night, author Jennifer Salima Holt discusses her book Sacred Gateway of Grief and Loss: Freeing the Imprisoned Soul, which “describes the breakthroughs Jennifer witnessed by leading grief and loss groups for women prisoners.” And Sunday afternoon, Minnesota native Dr. Paul Linde reads from his book Danger to Self: On the Front Line With an ER Psychiatrist, which “takes readers behind the scenes at an urban psychiatric emergency room, with all its chaos and pathos, where we witness mental health professionals doing their best to alleviate suffering and repair shattered lives.”
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