Events Posts

Three Nights in Six Dimensions

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

Boomchucks CD Release Friday @ RTs

only $3. so for $8 you will have to opportunity to stroll from RTs to Luce and see a ton of local music while prepping your calves for Homegrown. Todd Gremmels will also be filling in for Jason Wussow in “Pillow Talk”.

Rudy Carlson art opening tonight

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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.)

Uptown Boys at Pizza Luce Feb. 5

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Uptown Boys * The Acceleratii * Anthony Bennett
Humanoid (Solonoid) and DJ Horsefist

Friday, Feb. 5, 10 p.m.
Pizza Luce, $5
Proceeds benefit Clubhouse Studios

Join us for Latino Voices: Immigration in our Community

Monday, Feb. 8, 2010
Noon – 1:15 p.m.
Duluth Technology Village, Center for Economic Development
Brown Bag Lunch
Or
4 – 5:30 p.m.
University of Minnesota Duluth
The Rafters, Kirby Center

The Program will include:
– introduction of immigration issues
– moderated panel with Latino immigrants from our community
– dialog to promote mutual understanding
– action steps to move forward in immigration reforms

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.

Bowling for Autism

Feb. 20, 2-4 p.m.
Incline Station
$8 per child, $10 per adult

Tickets include: 2 hours of bowling, shoes and automatic scoring.  Food and beverages available for purchase. All proceeds benefit the Autism Association of Northern MN.

Excited for Beargrease 2010?

Argos Pulls Galynn in the Otter Sled

Don’t forget to watch one of the Northland’s most amazing tributes to our cultural heritage (in my opinion, at least): The John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon!

With You, Haiti Cherie: Benefit concert for Haitian relief

The College of St. Scholastica is hosting a benefit concert for Haitian relief on Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m in the Mitchell Auditorium on campus.  Doors open at 6:15 p.m.  Seating is limited, so please arrive early.  The event is free but a goodwill donation is requested.   A silent auction begins at 6 p.m. in Mitchell’s upper and lower lobbies.  T-shirts, books, CDs, etc. will also be for sale.

Performers include “Bonga and the Drums of Haiti,” Echoes of Peace Choir, First Lutheran Church Choir, CSS Hand Drum Ensemble, storyteller Elizabeth Nordell and a slide show accompanied by music from violinist Rudy Perrault.  Michelle Lee from KBJR-TV will emcee.

Proceeds will benefit the American Red Cross, Catholic Relief Services and Partners in Health.  For more information see haiti.css.edu.

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.

Andrew Hudgins at St. Scholastica

The College of St. Scholastica’s Warner Reading Series presents:

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Andrew Hudgins
Friday, Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m. – Free
Somers Lounge, College of St. Scholastica

Author of six collections of poetry, including the National Book Award finalist The Never Ending: New Poems and the Pulitzer Prize nominated Saints and Strangers, Andrew Hudgins is an indispensable voice in contemporary American letters. His awards and honors include the Witter Bynner Award for Poetry, the Hanes Poetry Prize, fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hudgins holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and teaches at Ohio State University.

Funding made possible by the Lee and Rose Warner Foundation.

Ryan Van Slooten CD Release

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I’m happy to announce that my new album “All But My Soul” is now available on my website ryanvanslooten.com It will also be available on itunes in the next week or so, and down at the Fetus sometime next week. To hear a few tracks from the album, please visit my myspace site.

The CD release show will be this Saturday at Luce with Cars and Trucks also on the bill. I will have a backing band with me for the first time so it should be a good night.

Finally, tune into 91.3KUWS on Thursday night, 10:00 p.m., for Walt Dizzo’s weekly radio show. I’ll be performing tracks from the album live, in-studio, as well as playing tracks from the new album.

Hope to see you all this weekend!

Turbo Rathvon Live at Norm’s

Saturday, Jan. 30 at Norm’s Beer and Brats, 10 p.m.

Turbo Rathvon (indie rock)
with Twin Cities bands Unexpected Guests (pop punk) and Not Like This (good ol’ rock ‘n roll)

Urban Explorers at Beaner’s

Tuesday, 7pm

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Beaner’s Tuesday Film Night will feature “Urban Explorers” this week. The documentary, by Melody Gilbert, gives us a glimpse into an international subculture of fearless thrill-seekers who lurk beneath city streets and venture into long-abandoned buildings, defiantly searching for unseen treasures of modern civilization.

Get out of the house and join us for a free movie in a relaxing environment!

Pride Country Keg Party

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