ART AND NIGHTLIFE
Gallery Grooves
Join us for Gallery Grooves, The Rake’s monthly art, jazz, and wine event. Socialize and discuss the latest jazz with Kevin Barnes from KBEM. Enjoy free libations compliments of The Wine Company and airforce Nutrisoda, and hors d’oeuvres. Featured jazz selections include the Turtle Island String Quartet’s A Love Supreme, Kurt Elling’s Night Moves, and Dean Magraw’s Unseen Rain. Your Arts Desire hosts an eclectic mix of Twin Cities artists, including Sara Rosenblum Jennifer Nelson, Linda Mix, Steven Lang, and Tanya Garvis.
7 – 9 p.m, Your Arts Desire, 12928 Minnetonka Blvd., Minnetonka; 952-988-9772; free.
MUSIC AND ART
Open Art-A-Whirl with a Little Music
Today marks the unofficial start of the Northeast Minneapolis Art-A-Whirl weekend, and what better way to start it than with the Heliotrope music exhibit, which begins this evening and goes all weekend. Heliotrope aims to bring some of the area’s most interesting and exciting musical artists together in a theater setting. Psychedelia, free jazz, damaged folk, sound collage, no wave, improv, noise, instrumental rock, and even some Tin Pan Alley influence will all be on display this year. As in the past, film projections will also be featured throughout the festival.
7 p.m., Ritz Theater, 345 13th Ave NE Minneapolis; 612-623-7660, 612-871-6659; $8.00 per night, $15.00 for two nights, $20.00 for all three nights.
DANCE
Tradition or Truth?
This weekend, you’ll have an opportunity to see Ballet Minnesota’s rendition of Swan Lake at the Fitzgerald Theater — and there are few traditional ballets as beautiful as this one. But start the grand fantasy off with some real tradition — commerce and colonialism. Get a little truth in the form of beauty, with Faustin Linyekula’s performance. Dancer/choreographer Faustin Linyekula of Kinshasa, Congo, is both a powerful dancer and a powerful advocate. His 30-minute solo installation/performance piece deals with themes of displacement and circulation that reference the dark part of his heritage and the commerce of colonization, decolonization, and organized tourism. Don’t miss this. It’s a one-night-only deal. And follow if up this weekend with SwanLake at the 19th Annual Minnesota Dance Festival.)
7 p.m., Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis; 612-375-7600; free.
THEATER AND PERFORMANCE by Christy DeSmith
The Savage Joy of Breaking Things
“David Lynch meets Mother Goose“: That’s the vision Hardcover Theater’s writer/director Steve Schroer has for his new play, inspired by an obscure Victorian fantasy called The New Mother. This source material was written for children — it’s a fable that warns, with rich imagery and plenty of fright, against being naughty. And yet Schroer insists his play is for grownups. He lists a secondary source of inspiration as Edgar Allan Poe’s essay, “The Imp of the Perverse,” which allows him to riff on the human compulsion to behave badly at any age. Schroer also has layered in enough sexual tension and bone-chilling ambience (via set, sound, and lighting designs) to turn this creepy kids’ story into a hair-raiser for adults.
8 p.m., The Playwrights’ Center, 2301 Franklin Ave. E., Minneapolis; 612-581-2229; $18.
And this is also the final weekend to see Future Perfect: A Genetically Modified Musical at the Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, 212 N. 3rd Ave, Suite 140, Minneapolis, 612-339-5145; $15.
FILM
The Imaginative Mind
This weekend, the Walker is running a few Michael Gondry films as part of their Michel Gondry: The Science of Dreams film retrospective. Jumpstart the weekend with a look into the filmmaker’s creative process in the documentary I’ve Been Twelve Forever — a look at some of Gondry’s memories and dreams. The documentary will be accompanied by as number of his eclectic music videos
7:30 p.m., Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis; 612-375-7600; free.
Filmmakers: Today is the deadline to register for the Minneapolis Film Race. On May 19th you’ll have 12 hours to write, shoot, and submit an original four-minute film with a pre-determined theme and surprise element.
Share your secrets. If you know of any interesting upcoming events, let me know (cristina@rakemag.com).
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