October Target Free Thursday Nights feature Artist Talks, Pop-Up Tea Room and Halloween Arty Costume Party
Target Free Thursday Nights
For Fun. For Free. For Everyone.
October 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31
Free Gallery Admission 5–9pm
Special Events Below
Pop-Up Tea Service
Thursdays, September 5–January 9, 6–9 pm Free
Gallery B
Join us Thursday evenings for a complimentary cup of tea and conversation in Theaster Gates’s ceramics room. Bring your friends with you to relax and unwind as you encounter the artist’s ceramic pots and other wares.
Gallery Talk: Visual Histories
Brad Ogbonna, October 3, 6:30 pm
Join artist Brad Ogbonna with Walker photographer Bobby Rogers as they discuss ways they reimagine the Black Is Beautiful aesthetic through their work as social influencers and contemporary visual historians. Presented in conjunction with Theaster Gates: Assembly Hall.
Gallery Talk: Remember, Forget
Thursday, October 10
6:30pm
Remembering and forgetting are rituals of our everyday lives that shape our social, political, and spiritual worlds. An archive can be seen as an accumulation of memory and forgetfulness. Artist and black feminist scholar Tia-Simone Gardner (Juxtaposition Arts) hosts a discussion on archives across the Twin Cities, particularly in relation to the lives of African Americans, people of color, and Indigenous individuals. She will be joined by Twin Cities–based artists, collectors, and librarians to talk about the joy and conflict that emerge from the desire to document, organize, and collect the past. Presented in conjunction with Theaster Gates: Assembly Hall.
American Sign Language Exhibition Tours
October 17 & November 21, 6 pm
Each month this fall, the Walker will offer free ASL-guided tours of a different exhibition on view, led by a Walker tour guide and ASL interpreter Mary Catherine.
Arty Costume Party
Thursday, October 31
Spend Halloween at the Walker this year. Get inspired by art, show off your Halloween costume–finest across the Walker Cinema stage, and catch Jim Jarmusch’s vampire flick Only Lovers Left Alive at 7 pm.
Cocktails and Costumes
5–7 pm
Groove to spooky jams from MAKR in the Main Lobby and prepare to show off your haunted look on Walker Cinema stage before the film screening at 7 pm. Need some inspiration? Check out Hyperallergic’s round-up of the best costumes inspired by the art world.
Twin Cities–based Mark McGee (MAKR) is a key creative contributor to multiple musical projects, including Father You See Queen, RONiiA, and Marijuana Deathsquads, as well as his recent collaboration with Channy Leaneagh (Poliça), Mina Moore, and Alex Nutter (Boyz Noise) called Ringing Bell. MAKR, McGee’s solo project, is designed to explore music though repetition. McGee also wrote an original score for Lotte Reiniger’s silent film The Adventures of Prince Achmed as part of the Walker’s Music + Film series in August 2015.
Haunted Garden Tour
6 and 7:30 pm
Dangerous Linda from American Ghost Walks takes you on a haunted walking tour of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden at 6 pm and Susan Rotilie guides you through the Wurtele Upper Garden at 7:30 pm. Hear tales of haunted history, ghost stories, local folklore, and recent reports of paranormal activity in the garden, once the site of the Guthrie Theater.
These are outdoor walking tours, so please check the weather beforehand and dress accordingly. Tours will run approximately 45 minutes to an hour.
Stick around for Jim Jarmusch’s lush and critically acclaimed tale of love between two coolly-cultured vampires in the Walker Cinema.