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Alternative Labeling: Jane Addams visits the Walker
Field Guide
Feb 8
Picture twenty museum professionals sitting at a board room with their eyes closed, mouths full of chocolate and listening to the mellifluous voice of a French chocolatier telling us how to taste it. How to listen to it and hold it in our mouths. How to warm it, how to feel its character of flowers, […]
Picture twenty museum professionals sitting at a board room with their eyes closed, mouths full of…
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Fritz Haeg: Suburban Front Lawn Wanted for Edible Estate #15
Field Guide
Feb 8
Dear Twin Cities, I grew up in your suburbs and am returning this spring to plant the last in the series of Edible Estate Regional Prototype Gardens commissioned by the Walker Art Center. Today we begin the search for a site with an open call. Edible Estates brings visible food production to cities, working with […]
I grew up in your suburbs and am returning this spring to plant the last in the series…
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LISTENING MIX // Ben Frost
The Green Room
Feb 6
Australian/Icelandic musician and producer Ben Frost creates music having to do with contrast, repetition, and sensory perception. His sound world exaggerates extremes of frequency, texture, and intensity while drawing influence from classical minimalism, computer music, and punk. Co-presented by the Walker and SPCO, Frost performs at the Amsterdam Bar & Hall (St. Paul) on February […] Australian/Icelandic…
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Chris Sullivan on Michael Jordan, Jean Piaget, and The Sopranos
Crosscuts
Feb 6
I met Chris Sullivan quite by accident at the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival. My friend and I had settled in for a screening of Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt when the guy next to us struck up a conversation about the good crowd for the screening. He mentioned he was a filmmaker visiting with his […]
I met Chris Sullivan quite by accident at the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival…
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The Evolution of a Symbol: A SpeakEasy for Ganesh Versus the Third Reich
The Green Room
Feb 4
A SpeakEasy is an informal audience discussion facilitated by a Walker Art Center tour guide and a local performer or choreographer. Today’s edition highlights themes shared during a conversation on Saturday, February 2, about Back to Back Theatre‘sGanesh Versus the Third Reich. This SpeakEasy was led by tour guide Mary Dew and local arts and culture guru from Salon Saloon, Andy Sturdevant.
A symbol…
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Smash Cuts: Django Unchained
Crosscuts
Feb 1
Smash Cuts is a continuing series in which two members of the Walker’s Film & Video department go head-to-head on a divisive film, debating its various faults and merits. For our inaugural edition, Jeremy Meckler and Matt Levine discuss Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Warning: here be spoilers!
Matt: Obviously if you’re going into a Quentin Tarantino movie, you know you’re going to get graphic…
