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Free Thursdays CHANGE YOUR THURSDAY-NIGHT PROGRAMMING A WEEKLY SAMPLER OF FREE TOURS, FILMS, TALKS, AND MORE THURSDAYS, FEBRUARY 6, 13, 20 AND 27, 2003 FREE |
THIS WEEKLY SAMPLER OF FREE EVENTS INCLUDES TALKS BY INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS FEATURED IN THE EXHIBITION HOW LATITUDES BECOME FORMS, FREE GALLERY ADMISSION, TOURS AT 1 AND 6 PM, AND MORE. THE GALLERIES ARE OPEN UNTIL 9 PM, SO STAY LATE TO TAKE IT ALL IN.
FEBRUARY
6
ARTISTS IN ACTION: AFRICAN INFLUENCE ON CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS AND
PERFORMANCE ART, 7 PM AUDITORIUM
Join prominent artists and curators who are creating their work in South
Africa or who actively work with African artists. As they explore their
perspectives on the contemporary aesthetics in performing arts and performance
art, they discuss how their practice has been influenced by their experience
in Africa. Participants include Baraka Sele, Director, New Jersey Performing
Arts Center World Festival; Walker Chakela, Director, Windybrow Theater,
Johannesburg, South Africa; and Walker artists-in-residence Robin Rhode,
South African visual artist, and Ralph Lemon, American choreographer.
Moderated by Philip Bither, Walker Performing Arts Curator. Presented
in conjunction with the exhibition How
Latitudes Become Forms.
FREE
TOUR: 1 AND 6 PM
Tour a different Walker exhibition
every Thursday at 1 and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby. Pick up a complete schedule
at the lobby desk.
 CD Wright |
FEBRUARY
13
FREE
VERSE: CD WRIGHT, 7 PM, AUDITORIUM
Originally scheduled for October 2002, this evening with CD Wright features
readings from Steal Away: New and Selected Poems, along with excerpts
from her recent collaboration, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana,
a highly charged meditation on incarceration, with photographer Deborah
Luster. Wright is a professor of English at Brown University and editor
for Lost Roads Publishers.
FREE VERSE IS COSPONSORED BY RAIN TAXI REVIEW OF BOOKS.
FREE
TOUR: 1 AND 6 PM
Tour a different Walker exhibition
every Thursday at 1 and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby. Pick up a complete schedule
at the lobby desk.
 OPUS |
FEBRUARY 20
WALKER ON WHEELS, 5-9 PM, MINNEAPOLIS SCULPTURE GARDEN
Try out OPUS, the interactive Web site created by the New Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective. OPUS (short for Open Platform for Unlimited Signification) is a participatory, public space where many ideas are in play and anyone can modify anything. Interact with a larger community as you learn how to manipulate music, text, and visual files, and upload your own material. Join students from the Perpich Center for Arts Education who have created their own project using OPUS.
FREE TOUR: 1 AND 6 PM
Tour a different Walker exhibition every Thursday at 1 and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby. Pick up a complete schedule at the lobby desk.
FEBRUARY 27
WALKER ON WHEELS, 5-9 PM, MINNEAPOLIS SCULPTURE GARDEN
Try out OPUS, the interactive Web site created by the New Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective. OPUS (short for Open Platform for Unlimited Signification) is a participatory, public space where many ideas are in play and anyone can modify anything. Interact with a larger community as you learn how to manipulate music, text, and visual files, and upload your own material. Join students from the Perpich Center for Arts Education who have created their own project using OPUS.
FREE TOUR: 1 AND 6 PM
Tour a different Walker exhibition every Thursday at 1 and 6 pm. Meet in the lobby. Pick up a complete schedule at the lobby desk.
FREE THURSDAYS ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY GENEROUS SUPPORT FORM
THE LILA-WALLACE READER'S DIGEST FUND.