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A Letter to Cynthia Hopkins
The Green Room
Mar 7
How are you doing? I’m really looking forward to seeing your performance this weekend. Did you know that the first show I saw in conjunction with the Walker was Accidental Nostalgia? It was part of Out There in 2005 and I was 14. I participated in theater at school, but Accidental Nostalgia broadened my sense of what theater could be. It was a bit different fromAnn of Green Gables or The Hobbit: a…
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LISTENING MIX // Cynthia Hopkins
The Green Room
Mar 5
LISTENING MIX provides a musical preview for artists visiting the Walker. Combing their work with sounds from a variety of contextual sources, LISTENING MIX can be experienced before or after a performance. Before Cynthia Hopkins brings This Clement World to the Walker this weekend (March 7-9), get to know her musical side with this week’s […]
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How to balance on a strip of Möbius: Insights 2013
The Gradient
Mar 4
Above: Trailer for the lecture series. Best viewed at 720p Above: The main print run of the poster was printed in CMYK. Pictured is one of five limited edition prints with combinations of ink channels turned on/off, here in black only. The identity for Insights: Surface Readings—as detailed here—employs a collection of Möbius strips […]
Above: Trailer for the lecture series. Best viewed at 720p
Above: The…
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Cynthia Hopkins: The Luxury of Inaction, the Ease of Destruction
The Green Room
Mar 4
In an interview with Tom Michael for Walker magazine, Cynthia Hopkins described becoming aware of her own human fragility while on a trip to the Arctic with Cape Farewell, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness around climate change to spur cultural shifts leading to sustainable practices. Without markers of scale, distance became difficult to gauge, […]
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Dear Cindy,
Field Guide
Mar 2
Valentine’s Day coincided with the last chance to see the Cindy Sherman retrospective on Target Free Thursday Night, so we made a party of it and called it “I Heart Cindy.” One of the activities that evening encouraged visitors to write love letters to their favorite “Cindy.” Early on in the planning stages I realized there needed to be […]
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Meet the Minnesota Artists of This Clement World
The Green Room
Mar 1
Cynthia Hopkins has invited a slew of talented Twin Cities musicians to perform beside her in next week’s Midwest debut of This Clement World. This part-music, part-theater performance investigates expansive issues of climate change and more personal struggles with addiction. Pulled from various music scenes of the Twin Cities, Cynthia brings these twelve musicians to […]
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Headline Rewind: WikiLeaks and All the President’s Men
Crosscuts
Mar 1
On weekends when the Walker Cinema is empty, Walker Staff will point you to other films pulled from a headline in the week’s news in a series called Headline Rewind. News Event: Pfc. Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks Appearing before a military judge yesterday for more than an hour, Pfc. Bradley Manning confessed to supplying a […]
On weekends when the Walker Cinema is empty, Walker Staff will point you to…