April 2010
Apr 1st- Apr 30th: Art for Hire: Prints from Minnesota WPA
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Art for Hire: Prints from the Minnesota WPA presents lithographs by Minnesota artists employed by the Works Progress Administration, 1933-43. Artists from all over the state participated, and received weekly paychecks to produce paintings, prints, murals, sculpture, and to teach classes and workshops.Free admission. Held at the Lecture Gallery at Tweed Museum of Art.
Call (218) 726-8222
http://www.d.umn.edu/tma
Apr 1st- Apr 30th: Flow of Ideas:Selections from the Permanent Collection
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The Tweed Museum of Art annually exhibits a broad selection of artworks from its collection of 6500 objects. This year features 70 artworks that demonstrate how related works of art, when viewed together, may best reveal common themes. Free admission. Held at the Alice Tweed Tuohy Gallery at the Tweed Museum of Art.
Call (218) 726-8222
http://www.d.umn.edu/tma
Apr 2nd- Apr 3rd: Easter Bunny
Time: Fri 2 pm-7 pm/Sat 9 am-2 pm
Visit the Easter Bunny, get your photo taken and participate in activities! Face painting, coloring contests, egg hunt and a real live bunny! Free activities, photos are $4. Held at The Skyline Room/Comfort Inn West.
Call (218) 628-1464
http://www.comfortinn.com/hotel-duluth-minnesota-mn017
Apr 6th: Moose Lake Area Historical Society Antique Appraisals
Time: 1:00 pm
Local auctioneer appraises items brought in by community members. We have had a wide variety of very interesting items. A donation of $2.00 and no more than two items is requested. There is no charge for members of the MLAHS. Please come and join us with your items of interest. Held at the Moose Lake Community Center.
Call (218) 485-4159
Apr 7th- Apr 11th: 44th Annual Arrowhead Home & Builders Show
Time: Wed-Thurs 5 pm-10 pm, Fri 12-10 pm, Sat 10 am-10 pm Sun 11 am-5 pm
Everything you need to build, decorate, landscape, repair or remodel your home at one giant event. In addition, there is great food and entertainment plus a variety of unusual products that can only be found at this show. $8 adults/$4 students 6-17/5 & under free. Held at the DECC.
Call (952) 431-9630
http://www.shamrockprod.com
Apr 8th- Apr 10th: Vocal Jazz Cabaret
Time: 7:30 pm
Lake Effect and Chill Factor • Tina Thielen-Gaffey, director
Adult $12 • Senior $10 • Student $7 • UMD Student $5. Held at the Weber Music Hall/UMD
Call (218) 726-8877
http://www.d.umn.edu/music
Apr 8th- Apr 11th: Duluth Playhouse presents "Rent"
Time: Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm/Sun 2 pm
A Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical, Rent integrates dance, pop, rock and roll, R & B, and salsa to tell the emotional saga of a community of impoverished young artists. Set in New York’s East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, the plot follows the play’s colorful characters as they love, fight, and celebrate life, while struggling to survive and create their own one moment of glory.
A rock opera for a new generation, like Hair was in the sixties, Rent reverberates with joyful energy and an affirmation that the “season of love” are all there is with “no day but today.” $23 adults/$21 seniors (65+)/$15 youth & students/$19 Groups (15+). Held at The Duluth Playhouse.
Call (218) 733-7555
http://www.duluthplayhouse.org
Apr 9th- Apr 11th: Change of Pace Productions presents "Are We There Yet?"
Time: Fri & Sat 6:30 pm dinner/ 8 pm show, Sun 12:30 pm brunch/2 pm show
Musical Comedy. The joys and potholes of the typical and not so typical American family, set to music! From the pre-pre-School Screening (Inutero Interview) to the retired couple leaving the nest and everything in between, every conceivable experience a family undergoes is hilariously brought to life. You’ll leave the theater laughing, humming, and feeling better about being human. Fri-Sat $41/Sun $31/ Show only $15. Held at Midi Change of Pace Dinner Theater/ Fitger’s Complex.
Call Midi Restaurant at (218) 727-4880 for dinner theater tickets/ For show only tickets call (218) 525-2045
http://www.midirestaurant.net/theater.htm
Apr 12th: Faculty Artist Recital
Time: 7:30 pm
Gene Koshinski, percussion
Adult $10 • Senior $8 • Student FREE. Held at the Weber Music Hall/UMD.
Call (218) 726-8877
http://www.d.umn.edu/music
Apr 14th: Living Well Show
Time: 9 am-6 pm
Held at the Miller Hill Mall/Center Court.
Call (218) 733-9101
Apr 14th- Apr 16th: Minnesota Council of Airports
Time: All day
Held at the DECC.
Call
Apr 14th- Apr 17th: Hawk Migration Association of North America
Time: All day
Held at the Radisson Hotel Duluth Harborview.
Call
Apr 14th- Apr 18th: Duluth Playhouse presents "Rent"
Time: Wed-Sat 7:30 pm/Sun 2 pm
A Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical, Rent integrates dance, pop, rock and roll, R & B, and salsa to tell the emotional saga of a community of impoverished young artists. Set in New York’s East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, the plot follows the play’s colorful characters as they love, fight, and celebrate life, while struggling to survive and create their own one moment of glory. A rock opera for a new generation, like Hair was in the sixties, Rent reverberates with joyful energy and an affirmation that the “season of love” are all there is with “no day but today.” $23 adults/$21 seniors (65+)/$15 youth & students/$19 Groups (15+). Held at The Duluth Playhouse.
Call (218) 733-7555
http://www.duluthplayhouse.org
Apr 15th- Apr 16th: Minnesota Dietetic Association
Time: All day
Held at the DECC.
Call
Apr 15th- Apr 17th: Renegade Presents "Dead Man’s Cell Phone"
Time: 8 pm
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. This wildly imaginative new comedy from MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, will amuse, delight and move you. A work about how we memorialize the dead –and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world. $15 for adults, $12 students/seniors. Held at Teatro Zuccone; 222 E. Superior St. in downtown Duluth.
Call (218) 336-1414 for reservations
http://www.renegadecomedytheatre.com
Apr 16th: Chamber Orchestra
Time: 7:30 pm
Chamber Orchestra • Jean R. Perrault, director
Adult $8 • Senior $7 • Student $5 • UMD Student $3. Held at the Weber Music Hall/UMD.
Call (218) 726-8877
http://www.d.umn.edu/music
Apr 16th- Apr 17th: Knights of Columbus
Time: All day
Held at the DECC.
Call
Apr 16th- Apr 18th: A Weekend with the Masters
Time: Friday 3:00 p.m. through Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
This specialized art and lodging weekend experience offers you the opportunity to spend time in the studio of award winning master printmaker, Cecilia Lieder, learning about and creating your own prints, along with the unsurpassed hospitality and luxurious accommodations of The Firelight Inn, and delicious food and wine. Your weekend includes a welcome reception to meet the artist, with appetizers and wine on Friday night at The Firelight Inn. On Saturday after a full breakfast you will spend the day at the Northern Prints Gallery for professional instruction in printmaking. You will enjoy a delicious box lunch at the artist's studio and gallery. On Saturday evening, a local gourmet chef will prepare dinner at The Firelight Inn to be served in the Firelight dining room. On Sunday after breakfast you will return to The Northern Prints Gallery to finish your project and/or experience a gallery tour. $995 (for two) includes two nights lodging at The Firelight Inn B&B, Friday night reception, two breakfasts, Saturday box lunch, Saturday night 3-course gourmet dinner, in studio printmaking workshop, materials and artist’s fee, and all taxes.
Call (218) 724-0272/ (218) 724-0273
http://www.firelightinn.com
Apr 16th- Apr 18th: Change of Pace Productions presents "Are We There Yet?"
Time: Fri & Sat 6:30 pm dinner/ 8 pm show, Sun 12:30 pm brunch/2 pm show
Musical Comedy. The joys and potholes of the typical and not so typical American family, set to music! From the pre-pre-School Screening (Inutero Interview) to the retired couple leaving the nest and everything in between, every conceivable experience a family undergoes is hilariously brought to life. You’ll leave the theater laughing, humming, and feeling better about being human. Fri-Sat $41/Sun $31/ Show only $15. Held at Midi Change of Pace Dinner Theater/ Fitger’s Complex.
Call Midi Restaurant at (218) 727-4880 for dinner theater tickets/ For show only tickets call (218) 525-2045
http://www.midirestaurant.net/theater.htm
Apr 17th: 13th Annual Cabin Fever Reliever “Polka Jamboree”
Time: Noon
Full day of polka music and dancing featuring talented musicians from around the area. $5. Held at the Moose Club in Superior, WI.
Call
Apr 17th: 21st Annual Fitger’s 5K
Time: 9 am
The Fitger’s 5K has become one of the largest 3.1-mile races in the Northland. It’s a great way for runners and walkers to start their spring training. All net proceeds benefit the Young Athletes Foundation.. The 3.1-mile race begins at the historic Fitger’s Inn, and runs along the streets of downtown Duluth and Canal Park before finishing back at Fitger’s. $25. No race-day registration.
Call (218) 727-0947
http://www.grandmasmarathon.com
Apr 17th: Art for Earth Day Gallery Hop
Time: 11 am - 5 pm
Various galleries each with their own show.
Call (218) 722-1451
Apr 17th: Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra-Vivaldi. Live.
Time: 8 pm
From the chirping birds of spring, through the buzzing insects and summer storms, through the inebriated fall festivities, to the icy chill of winter, Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons performed by the Milwaukee Symphony's brilliant concertmaster Frank Almond highlights a program of three perennial favorites. The Impressionistic French Claude Debussy's masterpiece of orchestral colors, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is followed by Sir Edward Elgar's compelling set of 14 variations, each one a tongue-in-cheek musical depiction of one his friends. Elgar took the meaning of the 'enigma' to his grave with him. Can you tell what it is?
•Vivaldi The Four Seasons (Frank Almond, violin)
•Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
•Elgar Enigma Variations
Held at the DECC Auditorium.
Call (218) 623-3776
http://www.dsso.com/
Apr 17th: The Four Seasons. Live.
Time: 8pm
From the chirping birds of spring, through the buzzing insects and summer storms, through the inebriated fall festivities, to the icy chill of winter, Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons performed by the Milwaukee Symphony's brilliant concertmaster Frank Almond highlights a program of three perennial favorites. The Impressionistic French Claude Debussy's masterpiece of orchestral colors, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is followed by Sir Edward Elgar's compelling set of 14 variations, each one a tongue-in-cheek musical depiction of one his friends. Elgar took the meaning of the “enigma” to his grave with him. Can you tell what it is?
Call (218) 623-3776
http://www.dsso.com
Apr 17th: Very Nearly True Tales of the North
Time: Artist reception 1 pm-4 pm
Celebrating 15 years of Sivertson Gallery and 20 years of Art for Earth Day Gallery Hop. Held at Sivertson Gallery, 361 Canal Park Drive.
Call (218) 723-7877
http://www.sivertson.com
Apr 17th- Apr 18th: Twin Ports Pet Expo
Time: All day
Held at the DECC.
Call
Apr 17th- Apr 19th: Minnesota Teachers of English
Time: All day
Held at the DECC.
Call
Apr 18th- Apr 19th: Spring Fling Quilt Show
Time: Sat 9 am-4 pm/Sun 9 am-3 pm
Quilt show, vendors, demos & door prizes. Held at Barker’s Island Inn in Superior, WI.
Call (715) 398-0150
Apr 20th: Ovation Guest Artist Series
Time: 7:30 pm
Nicolas Mallarte is the winner of several international competitions, including the Chamber Music, Harmony and Counterpoint Awards from the CNSMD Paris. He has also been honored at the Pinerollo, the London Parkhouse Awards, and the Viotti. He has played with many renowned French performers and as a soloist with l’Orchestre des Pays de Savoie and l’Orchestre Ostinato.A multi-talented musician, Mallarte is a professor of piano at The Regional Conservatory of Boulogne-Billancourt, France.Adult $19 • Senior $17 • Student $5. Held at the Weber Music Hall/UMD.
Call (218) 726-8877
http://www.d.umn.edu/music
Apr 20th: Second Harvest Food Bank 16th Annual "Empty Bowl" Fundraiser
Time: 10 am-6:30 pm
Duluth’s premiere charitable arts and hunger event, which benefits Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank. Choose a handcrafted bowl produced by area artists, school children and community members. Dine on delicious soups, bread and beverage donated by the areas best purveyors. All for a nominal $15.00 which helps fight hunger throughout NE MN and NW WI. Held at The Depot.
Call (218) 727-5653, #118
http://www.northernlakesfoodbank.org
Apr 20th- Apr 21st: Society of Mining Metallurgy & Exploration (SME)
Time: All day
Held at the DECC.
Call
Apr 21st: Jazz Ensembles
Time: 7:30 pm
Jazz I • Ryan Frane, director
Jazz II • Tom Pfotenhauer, director
Adult $8 • Senior $7 • Student $5 • UMD Student $3. Held at the Weber Music Hall/UMD.
Call (218) 726-8877
http://www.d.umn.edu/music
Apr 21st: Wine & Chee’s
Time: Wine & Chee’s
This is a great chance to sample wines, nibble on hors d’oeuvres, and bid on all sorts of items: prints by famed watercolorist Cheng-Khee Chee, who will be on hand for signing, plus fun opportunities, great merchandise, and gourmet gift baskets. Proceeds benefit the Minnesota Ballet.
Call (218) 529-3742
http://www.minnesotaballet.org
Apr 21st- Apr 25th: Duluth Playhouse presents "Rent"
Time: Wed-Sat 7:30 pm/Sun 2 pm
A Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical, Rent integrates dance, pop, rock and roll, R & B, and salsa to tell the emotional saga of a community of impoverished young artists. Set in New York’s East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, the plot follows the play’s colorful characters as they love, fight, and celebrate life, while struggling to survive and create their own one moment of glory. A rock opera for a new generation, like Hair was in the sixties, Rent reverberates with joyful energy and an affirmation that the “season of love” are all there is with “no day but today.” $23 adults/$21 seniors (65+)/$15 youth & students/$19 Groups (15+). Held at The Duluth Playhouse.
Call (218) 733-7555
http://www.duluthplayhouse.org
Apr 22nd: Hartley Nature Center Benefit Auction
Time:
Our only true fundraising event, the purpose of this special evening is to raise funds for Hartley’s School Scholarship Fund and the general operation of the center. The scholarship fund that results from sponsorships like yours is accessible to the area schools that have over 55% of their children on the government’s free and reduced lunch program. Last year’s recipients included Stowe, Laura MacArthur, Lincoln Park, Raleigh-Edison, Nettleton, Grant and Northern Lights Elementary Schools.
The evening features gourmet desserts, fine beers and wines, as well as silent and live auctions. This year’s event will feature a large tent for the live auction and entertainment as well as wine and beer. The event is always hosted by a local television personality and music is provided by one of the areas most talented musicians. The 2008 event was hosted by Michelle Lee of KBJR Channel 6 and the music was provided by national recording artist Sara Thomsen.
Held at the Hartley Nature Center.
Call (218) 724-6735
http://www.hartleynature.org
Apr 22nd- Apr 24th: Renegade Presents "Dead Man’s Cell Phone"
Time: 8 pm
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. This wildly imaginative new comedy from MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, will amuse, delight and move you. A work about how we memorialize the dead –and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world. $15 for adults, $12 students/seniors. Held at Teatro Zuccone; 222 E. Superior St. in downtown Duluth.
Call (218) 336-1414 for reservations
http://www.renegadecomedytheatre.com
Apr 22nd- Apr 25th: UMD Theatre Department presents "Is He Dead?"
Time: Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm/ Sun 2 pm
Jean-Francois Millet, a young painter of genius, is in love with Marie Leroux but in debt to a villainous picture-dealer, Bastien Andre. Andre forecloses on Millet, threatening debtor's prison unless Marie marries him. Millet realizes that the only way he can pay his debts and keep Marie from marrying Andre is to die, as it is only dead painters who achieve fame and fortune. Millet fakes his death and prospers, all while passing himself off as his own sister, the Widow Tillou. Now a rich "widow," he must find a way to get out of a dress, return to life, and marry Marie. Don't miss this hilarious unburied gem by Mark Twain, brought to life in a new adaptation by David Ives. $17 adult/ $13 senior & student/$8 child/ $6 UMD student. Held at the Mainstage Theatre, Marshall Performing Arts Center/UMD.
Call (218) 726-8561
http://www.d.umn.edu/theatre
Apr 23rd: New Music Festival
Time: 7:30 pm
The New Music Festival celebrates its first decade of annual events with the arrival of the Luna Nova New Music Ensemble. Based in Tennessee, the group will perform selected multimedia works with projections that provide a breadth of styles that has enticed and engaged audiences across the nation.
Adult $8 • Senior $7 • Student $5 • UMD Student $3. Held at the Weber Music Hall/UMD.
Call (218) 726-8877
http://www.d.umn.edu/music
Apr 23rd- Apr 25th: Change of Pace Productions presents "Are We There Yet?"
Time: Fri & Sat 6:30 pm dinner/ 8 pm show, Sun 12:30 pm brunch/2 pm show
Musical Comedy. The joys and potholes of the typical and not so typical American family, set to music! From the pre-pre-School Screening (Inutero Interview) to the retired couple leaving the nest and everything in between, every conceivable experience a family undergoes is hilariously brought to life. You’ll leave the theater laughing, humming, and feeling better about being human. Fri-Sat $41/Sun $31/ Show only $15. Held at Midi Change of Pace Dinner Theater/ Fitger’s Complex.
Call Midi Restaurant at (218) 727-4880 for dinner theater tickets/ For show only tickets call (218) 525-2045
http://www.midirestaurant.net/theater.htm
Apr 24th: Momsense Event
Time: Mall Hours
Held at the Miller Hill Mall.
Call (218) 733-9101
Apr 25th: Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Band
Time: 3:00 pm
Concert Band • Daniel W. Eaton, director
Symphonic Wind Ensemble • Mark Whitlock, director
Adult $8 • Senior $7 • Student $5 • UMD Student $3. Held at the Weber Music Hall/UMD.
Call (218) 726-8877
http://www.d.umn.edu/music
Apr 25th- Apr 27th: MN Association for Children's Mental Health
Time: All day
Held at the DECC.
Call
Apr 28th: Percussion Ensemble
Time: 7:30 pm
Percussion Ensemble • Gene Koshinski, director.
Adult $8 • Senior $7 • Student $5 • UMD Student $3. Held at the Weber Music Hall/UMD.
Call (218) 726-8877
http;//www.d.umn.edu/music
Apr 28th- May 1st: UMD Theatre Department presents "Is He Dead?"
Time: 7:30 pm
Jean-Francois Millet, a young painter of genius, is in love with Marie Leroux but in debt to a villainous picture-dealer, Bastien Andre. Andre forecloses on Millet, threatening debtor's prison unless Marie marries him. Millet realizes that the only way he can pay his debts and keep Marie from marrying Andre is to die, as it is only dead painters who achieve fame and fortune. Millet fakes his death and prospers, all while passing himself off as his own sister, the Widow Tillou. Now a rich "widow," he must find a way to get out of a dress, return to life, and marry Marie. Don't miss this hilarious unburied gem by Mark Twain, brought to life in a new adaptation by David Ives. $17 adult/ $13 senior & student/$8 child/ $6 UMD student. Held at the Mainstage Theatre, Marshall Performing Arts Center/UMD.
Call (218) 726-8561
http://www.d.umn.edu/theatre
Apr 29th- May 1st: MN Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Time: All day
Held at the DECC.
Call
Apr 29th- May 1st: Renegade Presents "Dead Man’s Cell Phone"
Time: 8 pm
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. This wildly imaginative new comedy from MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, will amuse, delight and move you. A work about how we memorialize the dead –and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world. $15 for adults, $12 students/seniors. Held at Teatro Zuccone; 222 E. Superior St. in downtown Duluth.
Call (218) 336-1414 for reservations
http://www.renegadecomedytheatre.com
Apr 30th: Change of Pace Productions presents "Are We There Yet?"
Time: 6:30 pm dinner/ 8 pm show
Musical Comedy. The joys and potholes of the typical and not so typical American family, set to music! From the pre-pre-School Screening (Inutero Interview) to the retired couple leaving the nest and everything in between, every conceivable experience a family undergoes is hilariously brought to life. You’ll leave the theater laughing, humming, and feeling better about being human. Fri-Sat $41/Sun $31/ Show only $15. Held at Midi Change of Pace Dinner Theater/ Fitger’s Complex.
Call Midi Restaurant at (218) 727-4880 for dinner theater tickets/ For show only tickets call (218) 525-2045
http://www.midirestaurant.net/theater.htm
Apr 30th- May 2nd: Gingerbread Show
Time: Mall Hours
Held at Miller Hill Mall.
Call (218) 733-9101
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