AUSSI: JT Bates appears in Taylor Swift’s “Folk Music”; “Not in our neighborhood!” History Theatre; And more.
The Bell Museum will reopen its Whitney Planetarium and Elizabeth MacMillan on Thursday, August 6. Now we know the exercise: limited days and operating hours, limited capacity, advance reservations, scheduled tickets, physical distance, and all over 2 years old have to wear “a mask that covers the mouth and nose”.
(The language turns out to go from “mask” to “face mask”. Whatever your call, use it. Since July 22, Governor Tim Walz has ordered the mask to be used in Minnesota’s indoor public spaces.)
The planetarium will open with two systems for all ages, “Minnesota Night Sky” and “Out of This World!” As NASA’s Perseverance rover heads for a landing on Mars in February 2021, the Red Planet will be in the middle of the program.
The Bell Planetarium is the only public planetarium committed to Minnesota. There is a popular planetarium in the former Central Library of Minneapolis, but when the library was demolished in 2003, the same happened with the Minnesota Planetarium. Plans were made for a new planetarium on the roof of the new library, but this never happened. In 2011, the Minnesota Planetarium Society merged with the Bell Museum, and when the new Bell was built, the Twin Cities subway had a planetarium, after 15 years.
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Denise Young, Bell’s executive director, said in a statement: “For me, going to the planetarium is a possibility to marvel at our universe and Earth and explore those wonderful questions of life that we all ask each other from time to time. opportunity to take a step back and enjoy something bigger than me, to see the interdependence of all things.”
IMF and tickets (gallery $12-9, UMN academics with loose identification; planetarium $8-6; combo $17-12).
Guitarist Zacc Harris had not played on a date with other musicians since March 15, when he, bassist Matt Peterson and drummer Pete Hennig gave their maximum pre-COVID functionality at the Riverview Café, their normal Sunday concert for thirteen years.
Two nights ago, on Sunday, the 3 met in Zacc’s backyard in Minneapolis for a night of live music. The audience, which was far from friends and neighbors, was about 70. The music was a set of standards, melodies by Ornette Coleman and Thelonious Monk and Harris originals. This has caused us to miss each and every concert, plays, opera, dance, musicals and readings that the virus has stolen from us for the last 4 and a half months.
Photo MinnPost through John Whiting Pete Hennig, Matt Peterson and Zacc Harris played at Harris Court on Sunday afternoon. Artists and venues (Crooners, Icehouse and others), continue the concerts so that we can buy souvenirs like tears in a bottle.
The Joyce Awards of the Joyce Foundation are the program committed to supporting color artists in major cities of the Great Lakes, adding Minneapolis/St. Pablo. To do this, it budgets collaborations between artists of color and leading arts, cultural and network organizations.
Starting in 2021, the Joyce Prize will accumulate up to $7,500,000, of which at least $2,500,000 will pass directly to the artists. This resolution recognizes the continuous critical paintings of BIPOC artists and the demanding situations faced by artists and cultural organizations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. New applicants should plan to attend a webinar on Wednesday, August 5 at 1 p.m. Register here.
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We have noticed the American Alliance of Museums (AAM)’s dark prediction that a third of American museums will not pass the year. How many are a third? Twelve thousand, if you count history museums, children’s museums, science centers, herbal history museums, arboretums and zoos, as well as art museums. There are 12,000 positions with ordered collections, cultural importance, educational value, economic importance and employees. Children’s museums and science centers are the highest on display.
The Minnesota Historical Society is much more than the Minnesota History Center on Kellogg Blvd. St. Paul’s. The company owns and operates nearly 30 historical sites and museums in the state. Which ones are open, who is looking to reopen, and which won’t open in 2020?
Birch Coulee Battlefield (Morton), Lower Sioux Agency (Morton), Marine Mill (Marine in St. Croix) and Traverse des Sioux (Saint-Pierre), all self-guided sites, are open to visitors. The same applies to Split Rock Lighthouse (two ports) and Jeffers petroglyphs (consuelda), although in limited quantities, and tickets must be purchased online in advance.
MNHS is about to announce a public Saturday series at Oliver Kelley Farm (Elk River) from August to October. And he hopes to open the Minnesota State Capitol (St. Paul) in September for self-guided visits. He plans to reopen the St. Paul History Center and the Mill City Museum (Minneapolis) in 2020.
Historic Fort Snelling (St. Paul) and Thousand Lakes Indian Museum and Trading Post (Onamia) are closed in 2020, but have limited offers, adding systems that can accommodate visitors to the site.
But Alexander Ramsey House (St. Paul), James J. Hill House (St. Paul), Charles Lindbergh House and Museum (Little Falls) and 11 other MNHS sites will be open to the public by 2020.
IMF, the opening/closing grid of the Historical Society and create a link to express sites.
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You may have heard of “Serial,” the 2014 public radio podcast “This American Life” that “exploded the media” (by Vulture) and attracted many others to podcasts. (We’re late for podcasts, but we’ve just finished the original “Serial” and we’re halfway to “Caliphate” and we’re passing by never to go back).
“Serial” continued for two more seasons and was recently acquired through the New York Times. The most recent series, “Nice White Parents”, premiered on Sunday, July 30. Talk about inequalities in education.
And there’s an added bonus for music fans: the original score written and made through The Bad Plus. It’s Reid Anderson’s bass you hear, Dave King’s drums and Orrin Evans’ piano. (Evans joined Bad Plus in 2018 after original pianist Ethan Iverson left the band).
Another advantage for music fans: Taylor Swift’s hit CD, “Folk Music”, features a drummer that many of us know very well: JT Bates. Who didn’t realize it, when Aaron Dessner (The National) asked him to “record drums on some songs” that the songs were from Swift, who ran with Dessner, who wouldn’t let him say it.
Photo of MinnPost through John WhitingJT Bates “It was very quiet, everything and obviously no data was revealed about who that user was or anything like that, so yes. Bates told Jill Riley in an interview last week. Listen and/or look at it here.
Taylor Swift is Bruce Springsteen’s millennium? We have an opinion one way or another. But sure, JT Bates is the only JT Bates, fierce, flexible and enjoyed by many.
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Tonight (Tuesday, August 4) at 7 p.m.: launch of the virtual eebook “Owls of the Eastern Ice”. The e-book through wildlife and Minneapolis biologist Jonathan Slaght explodes, with rave reviews in the Wall Street Journal, the Star Tribune, the Times (UK), the Guardian and more. Tonight’s official launch will be organized through the Museum of Russian Art (TMORA), the only Museum in North America committed to Russian art, which is appropriate, as Slaght owls have given years of their life in the Russian Far East. Register here. PD By Monday afternoon, nearly 400 other people had registered, adding several from Russia and Canada. TMORA expects a “foreign virtual meeting”.
Photo Mariah CrabbCody McKinney in studio Wednesday, August 5 at 1:30 p.m.: The Walker’s Instagram Live Artist Talks: Cody McKinney. The Minneapolis-based composer and musician will speak with Doug Benidt, Walker’s associate acting arts curator, about how musicians from dual cities adapted to artistic creation in the COVID era. The Walker recently commissioned McKinney to score silent short films for his show “Sounds for Silences”. On Walker’s Instagram. Free.
Wednesday 5 August to Sunday 23 August: Music in the vineyards. Every summer, SPCO violinist Daria Adams and her husband, the violist Michael Adams, organize and host a chamber music festival in the Napa Valley. This year, Music in the Vineyards will be virtual and everyone will be able to watch it from anywhere. There will be concerts, interviews with musicians, conversations of winemakers and videos of vineyards. Here’s the schedule (think about adjusting for CST) and here are the concert systems. The artists are from the SPCO, the Minnesota Orchestra and everywhere. On Youtube.
Thursday, August 6 at 7 p.m.: First North American screening of “The Wild.” Michael Titus’ most recent and award-winning documentary (“The Breach”) chronicles the race opposed to time to save America’s last position in wild salmon. The virtual projection will be followed by a celebrity roundtable. IMF and notes (sliding scale; $12 is suggested). Proceeds will be shared with the Parkway Theatre.
Starts Thursday, August 6 at 7:30 p.m. and continues until Sunday, August 16: Illusion Theatre: “In This Moment.” The series of new works of illusion, a 32-year tradition, has been brought online. “In This Moment” stars T. Mychael Rambo, Aimee K. Bryant, Brittany Delaney, Kimberly Elise, Michael Keck, Peter Macon, Katie Robinson, Lester Purry and Regina Marie Williams, reacting from the bottom of their hearts to the existing business climate. We have to book. Free, with welcome donations; $15 suggested. IMF and reserves.
It begins on Friday, August 7 and continues until Thursday, August 13: Hitale Theatre: “Not in our neighborhood!” In 1924, William and Nellie Francis, civil rights activists and prominent citizens of the african-American community in development of St. Paul, left Rondo for “the house of their dreams.” Neighbors burned a cross in their front yard. Directed by Richard D. Thompson, these ongoing paintings through Tom Fabel and Eric Wood tell the story of housing segregation in St. Paul’s Groveland Park. Part of the uncooked scenes of the hitale theatre: Festival of New Works 2020. IMF and banknotes ($15 to $50).
Pamela Espeland writes the Artscape column for MinnPost. He also writes for Star Tribune, NPR and mnartists.org, blog on bebopified.com, and is Art Hound for Minnesota Public Radio. It could be [email protected].
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