July Target Free Thursday Nights feature Vogue Night, Sculpture Garden Workout, and DJs on the Terraces
Target Free Thursday Nights
For Fun. For Free. For Everyone.
July 11, 18 & 25
Free Gallery Admission 5–9pm
Get into your groove on the Walker’s rooftop with hot music, dancing, fashion, and more. Terrace Thursdays showcase a diverse lineup of inspirational individuals breaking boundaries in art and identity. Meet your people, meet new people, grab a drink, and make the more of summer!
Can’t handle the heat? Cool off in the galleries while you draw on the walls in Allora & Calzadilla: Chalk or stroll through Five Ways In.
Programming for Terrace Thursdays 2019 was designed in collaboration with a committee of local artists, activists, and community organizers. Thanks to Scott Artley, Machen Davis, Anthonia Eboreime, Nicky Leingang, Yoni Light, Oskar Ly, Meena Mangalvedhekar, Wintana Melekin, and Taja Will.
Terrace Thursdays: Vogue Night, July 12, 2018. Photo by Bobby Rogers for Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Terrace Thursdays: Vogue Night
Thursday, July 11
Garden Terrace Room & Terraces, 6pm–11pm
Vogue. Fashion. Runway. Realness. The LOVE and the SHADE. Are you ready? Once again, the Walker’s rooftop terraces will transform for a spectacular evening under the sunset for the Twin Cities Ballroom event of the year! With giveaways, competitions, and your host-with-the-most, 2019 Midwest Awards Ball Commentator of the Year Nominee, Fatha Jazz Bordeaux. Dress to impress and you may just be crowned the Best Dressed Spectator in town. Will we see YOU on the runway? With lighting design by video artist Hal Lovemelt.
Vogue Night Sunset Ball Competition (Hosted by Fatha Jazz Bordeaux)
7:30 pm
Terrace 3
Music: DJ Madre T. Rosa
6–7:30 pm
Garden Terrace Room
Music: DJ Niesha
9–11 pm
Garden Terrace Room
Fatha Jazz Bordeaux hosted his first ball in Minneapolis in 2011, as a response to LGBTQ+ youth homelessness in Minnesota, in partnership with Tongues Untied and Youth and AIDS Projects at the University of Minnesota and RARE Productions. By career, Fatha Jazz works in youth homelessness as the program manager for the nation’s first culturally specific LGBTQ+ Rapid Rehousing Program. He has partnered with many organizations and venues in the Twin Cities to provide access to spaces for various LGBTQ+ communities in Minnesota to come together and RESIST systems of oppression out loud through the runway.
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Dance Workout. 2018. Photo by Bobby Rogers for Walker Art Center.
SculpTour
Thursday, July 18
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, 6 and 7:15 pm
Abigail Johnson and Annika Hansen will lead you on a (literally) breathtaking Garden tour with workouts inspired by sculptures in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Get ready. Get sweaty. Get SculpToured. All ages and bodies welcome.
Terrace Thursdays: July 25
Garden Terrace Room & Terraces, 6pm–10pm
Get into your groove on the Walker’s rooftop with hot music, dancing, fashion, and more. Terrace Thursdays showcase a diverse lineup of inspirational individuals breaking boundaries in art and identity. Meet your people, meet new people, grab a drink, and make the most of summer!
Music: DJ Chamun
6–7 pm & 9–10 pm
Terrace 3
Music: The Florists
7:15–8 pm
Garden Terrace Room
Music: Seaberg & the Black Velvet Punks
8:15–9 pm
Terrace 3
Performance: Taja Will’s Blood Language
Garden Terrace Room & Terraces 1, 2 & 3
Seaberg & the Black Velvet Punks is a hip-hop, jazz punk, and neo-soul band fronted by black genderqueer guitarist Taylor Seaberg, with drummer Traiveon Dunlap (Traiveon and Candi) and bassist Roderick Glasper (Blvck Madonna). Seaberg has also performed at an album release show for Chastity Brown’s Silhouette of Sirens at the Fitzgerald Theater, a Greenroom Magazine–sponsored show for Oshun, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s Third Thursday Art + Lit events.
DJ Chamun is Chamindika Wanduragala, a Sri Lankan American visual artist, stop-motion animation filmmaker, and puppeteer based in Minneapolis. She is also the founder and director of Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop, which supports Native people and people of color in developing creative and technical skills in contemporary puppetry. DJ Chamun spins everything from roots reggae, Latin, Arabic, afrobeat, and bhangra to soul, funk, R&B, hip-hop, electronica, and jazz.
The Florists are Minneapolis-based pop performers Jo Kellen, Jared Hemming, and Luke Michaels. They recently released their debut LP Prayer Starter dropped on Active Lutheran Stoner Records. Combining spastic arrangements, catchy, rhythmic hooks, and an intense live presence, this trio storms the stage with manic glee.
Taja Will’s Blood Language is a new contemporary dance that creates a ritual of identity that centers on experiences of otherness and belonging and is authored by black, Indigenous people of color, queer people, and artists with invisible disabilities. Queer Chilean choreographer Taja Will and collaborative performers bring audiences an immersive performance meditation on power, privilege, stress, love, wisdom, seduction, servanthood, judgement, detective work, trauma, and healing.
OTHER FREE EVENTS AT THE WALKER THIS MONTH
Public Tours
June–August
Garden Tours
Saturdays & Sundays, 12 noon, Free
Gallery Tours
Saturdays & Sundays, 1 pm, with gallery admission
Garden Tours in Spanish
Saturdays, July 3, August 6, 1 pm, Free
Drop-in public tours are available every Saturday and Sunday. Tours of the galleries begin at 1pm and tours of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden start at 12 noon. Each tour is led by Walker Tour Guides, they provide an overview of an exhibition on view and are included in the cost of admission. Tours of the Garden are free.
Teen Workshop: Intro to Performance Art
Saturday July 27, 1 pm, Free
What even is performance art? How do you create a performance piece? Explore ideas and building blocks with multidisciplinary theater performer Marcela Michelle.
Esker Grove
Sitting at the base of the Walker Hillside, Esker Grove provides Walker visitors a chance to relax indoor or outdoor on the patio, chat, and enjoy chef Doug Flicker’s cuisine along with craft beer, artisan cocktails, and Spyhouse Coffee service. Walker members save 10% on food and nonalcoholic beverages.