Festival of Lies

Art meets life in this informal, party-like performance replete with food and drink from the Cedar-Riverside area’s Tam-Tam’s African Restaurant, and a locally produced soundtrack of African music. But the main attraction is Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula and his troupe of dancers and actors,who move within a shifting installation of fluorescent light fixtures,electrical chords, and other detritus to communicate, with movement andspeech, stories both personal and political. The catch: Some of thesetales are true, some lies—Linyekula’s reflection on the collectiveamnesia that tends to plague citizens of a corrupt, turbulentnation—and it’s the audience’s job to discern the difference. Presentedby the Walker Art Center.

8 p.m., Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-375-7600; $25.