![]() “We had maybe 80 artists the first year, so it wasn’t quite full. (Uptown celebrates its 54th anniversary this year Powderhorn turns 26.) There were a few challenges in the early days. The Loring Park Art Festival debuted in 2000, on the same weekend as Powderhorn and the Uptown Art Fair, both well-established by then. By the next year, we had our first festival, and now it’s the 18th.” “We talked to the director at Loring Park, and he was very receptive, and we just kind of went from there. By 1999, Parnow and fellow Powderhorn artists Carol Haubner and Mary Ann Wunderlin were ready to go out on their own. In 1991, she helped start the Powderhorn Art Fair. As a photographer, she had years of experience showing her own work at art fairs. Parnow was a good judge of potential sites. “I would drive past Loring Park and think, ‘That would be a great place for an art fair.’ ” “I drove Metro Transit bus for 34 years,” Parnow said in conversation last week. How hard can it be? Pat Parnow makes it sound easy. Let’s say you want to start an art fair in downtown Minneapolis. JThe Metro Transit bus driver who started an art fair The Capitol Steps at the Ordway The Metro Transit bus driver who started an art fair The Capitol Steps at the Ordway The Steps are out with their latest album, “Orange Is the New Barack,” and they are equal opportunity offenders, so don’t expect either side in our fractured political world to get off easy. Saturday at the Ordway: The Capitol Steps Live: “Orange Is the New Barack.” Claiming “we put the MOCK in Democracy,” the Capitol Steps – a comedy troupe originally formed in 1981 by a group of Senate staffers – still pulls from the headlines for its fresh and irreverent brand of political satire. Across the river, the History Center’s “Then Now Wow” exhibit will show the emergency exit door of a school bus involved in the collapse, signed by all the children and adults on board. It will be in the Commons, and you can see it for free through Aug. Has it really been 10 years since that impossible, tragic and pivotal event? The Minnesota Historical Society has documented the disaster in its collections, acquiring several post-collapse pieces of the bridge including one of the too-thin gusset plates the NTSB determined were responsible for the collapse. Most of us still have clear images in our minds of the bridge going down. Suggested donation.įriday at the Mill City Museum: Opening of the 35W Bridge Collapse display. Come say goodbye to Reverie, hello to HEHY. Filled with real melodies, storytelling, thoughtfulness and sass, it’s well-written and well-played, with staying power. From start to finish, it sounds like music of heart and soul. (UNT has a highly respected jazz program.) The first half of the album is compositions by Hedenstrom the second is a suite by Evens, inspired by his 3-year-old daughter. (Reverie will close at the end of the month.) HEHY is a collaboration among Minneapolis-based saxophonist Aaron Hedenstrom, Louisville pianist Gabe Evens, bassist Jack Helsley and drummer Matt Young, all University of North Texas alums. ![]() The final show in the Steve Kenny-curated “Thursday Night Jazz at Reverie” series sends a fine new jazz album into the world. Thursday at Reverie: Hedenstrom, Evens, Helsley & Young “The Living Room Sessions” Album Release Party. FMI and tickets ($10/8 Walker members, student and seniors). Tonight’s program is five recent short films (2012-15) from Northern Iraq, Libya, Yemen and the Golan Heights, all with English subtitles. Tonight (Wednesday, July 26) at the Walker: “Trapped in the Scene: Short Films.” In response to the travel ban, the Arab-American arts organization Mizna and the Walker are co-presenting a film series that puts a human face on shifting landscapes and displacement. 140 artists from 19 states will show and sell their original work at this juried event. The 18th Annual Loring Part Art Festival takes place Saturday and Sunday, July 29 and 30, at Oak Grove Street and Hennepin Ave. Dunwoody is a little farther to walk, but it’s also free.” But people can park for free in the MCTC ramp, and it’s just a block from there to the park. There’s going to be a metal pour, puppet shows, and an artist in residence who will demonstrate inking prints.”Īnd if you plan to drive: “One of the perceptions is that we don’t have any parking. They’re very supportive.”įor this weekend, Parnow promises “lots of benches and shady trees, and picnic tables to sit at. They’re tweeting and Facebooking for us, and we’re doing the same for them the following week. “We all met together and talked about it. ![]() Meanwhile, the other festivals weren’t mad. More artists applied and attendance jumped to over 25,000, breaking past records.
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