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Your Weekend Entertainment, October 23-25
October 23, 2009
One play closes, another play opens. This is the last weekend for Mary’s Wedding at Jungle Theater. Meanwhile, a few blocks north of Lake Street, Open Eye Figure Theatre’s newest show, Elijah’s Wake, is just getting started. “A visual poem by Michael Sommers. First created in 2003, Michael Sommers revisits this groundbreaking work to be staged in the Open Eye Theatre. ‘…a piece of art the stimulates through visual action, this is an extraordinary work.’ Star Tribune”
As always, Bryant Lake Bowl has multiple shows to see this weekend. This time around, it’s two doses of Vampires Suck: The Vilification Tennis Halloween Show (Friday and Saturday), and the last chance to see Master Works: The Goya Plays (Friday), In the Weeds (Saturday), and The Importance of Being Earnest (Sunday).
And there’s plenty more happening to satisfy your artistic cravings. Friday and Saturday, Intermedia Arts hosts Singing the Legacy of Sekou Sundiata: The America Project Twin Cities, a series of community events including Brown Bag Dialogues, Citizenship Dinners, a Film Screening, Potluck Dinner and Community Sing, all designed to inspire and ignite our passionate ideals around citizenry, civic work, and active engagement in civic life. Friday night, Pangea World Theater hosts Hyphe-NATIONS Performances/Art Installation & Community Dialog, which deals with immigration migration and displacement in our diverse Twin Cities communities, nationally and globally. And Saturdays at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre, it’s puppet shows for kids! This Saturday is Tiddalick the Frog, an Australian Aboriginal story of a grumpy frog who drinks all the water and a little eel who makes a difference.
There are now just a few Midtown Farmers’ Market days left this year, and this Saturday it features an Energy Fair. October 24th is Day 350: the International Day of Action on Climate Change. This Saturday, market hosts Metro Clean Energy Resource Team, Do It Green! Minnesota, and the MN Energy Challenge will give you ideas on ways to save money on your utilities bill while saving energy in your home!
Sunday brunch? Midtown Global Market has you covered. This week it’s Cafe Finspang serving up Swedish meatballs, sausage, pancakes, lingonberry jam, Danish rye bread, and other Nordic treats.
And for the readers out there, Magers & Quinn has three weekend author events. Friday night, Karen Casey reads from Cultivating Hope : Weekly Readings to Open Your Heart and Mind, Saturday night Rachel Coyne reads from her novel Whiskey Heart, and on Sunday Miles Proctor and his vampire posse present The New Vampire’s Handbook: a Guide for the Recently Turned Creature of the Night.
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