SPECIAL EVENT
All the World’s a Stage
Join us tonight for what might be our best 10,000 Arts party yet (and believe me, that says a lot). The evening’s music and art extravaganza offers a flashy, live 2008 Voltage: Fashion Amplified preview, with performances both on- and off-stage. Meet
the artists featured in the new issue of 10,000 Arts, Minnesota’s creative quarterly. Sample fine complimentary foods, spirits,
wine, and beer (plus cash bar). And enjoy the musical stylings of MC/VL, the 7 Corners Quartet jazz ensemble, and Scott Mateo Davis’s flamenco guitar. You’ll get a little bit of everything this evening – seriously – with the addition of 7 Deadly Sins by the University Opera Theatre, and yes, the Authur Murray Dance Center. All for the low, low price of… your company.
7 to 10 p.m., Northrop Auditorium, University of Minnesota, 84 Church St. S.E.; Minneapolis; free.
MUSIC
Celebrate the Spirit of Carnival
Black Blondie brings you a night of music celebrating Pan-African, Caribbean, Balkan, and American rhythmic musical roots with performances by the Brass Messengers, Maria Isa with full band, and the sexy slick chicks themselves. Dj Shannon Blowtorch, former dancer for local glam metal band All The Pretty Horses, will be spinning between bands. You won’t know whether you’ve stumbled into the French Quarter, the Puerto Rican streets, or the Côte d’Ivoire, put it won’t matter one bit, since you won’t be able to sit still for long anyhow.
9 p.m., Pi Bar,
2532 25th Ave. S., Minneapolis; $6.
THEATER & PERFORMANCE
Checkit, Chekhovians
Fans of the Russian dramatist will find plenty to like about the first-ever Twin Cities Chekhov Festival, including a full production of The Seagull and Mu Performing Arts’ excerpt of Three Sisters with an all Asian-American cast. But two plays (on a double bill) are sure to suit the tastes of Chekhov lovers and haters alike: A Rain of Seagulls and Our Vanya, Ourselves, presented by the Ministry of Cultural Warfare and directed by former Fringe Festival executive director Leah Cooper. Rain of Seagulls—get it? In other words, the cast is packin’ and taking all manner of sloppy shots. —Christy DeSmith
7 p.m., Bryant-Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St., Minneapolis; 612-825-8949; $10-$15 (pay what you can); also on February 22 and 28.
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