Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers
Through March 16
Katherine E. Nash Gallery
Regis Center for Art
405 21st Avenue S
Free
Dreaming Our Futures marks the opening of the University of Minnesota’s George Morrison Center for Indigenous Arts, and features work in a wide variety of painting media and esthetic approaches by 29 artists including Frank Big Bear, David Bradley, Awanigiizhik Bruce, Andrea Carlson, Avis Charley, Fern Cloud, Michelle Defoe, Jim Denomie, Patrick DesJarlait, Sam English, Carl Gawboy, Joe Geshick, Sylvia Houle, Oscar Howe, Waŋblí Mayášleča (Francis J. Yellow, Jr.), George Morrison, Steven Premo, Rabbett Before Horses Strickland, Cole Redhorse Taylor, Roy Thomas, Jonathan Thunder, Thomasina TopBear, Moira Villiard, Kathleen Wall, Star WallowingBull, Dyani White Hawk, Bobby Dues Wilson, Leah H. Yellowbird, and Holly Young. For more information, related programming, and gallery hours, go to cla.umn.edu/art/galleries-public-programs/katherine-e-nash-gallery.
Community Puppet Building Workshops
Saturdays, March 9, 16, and 23
11 AM – 2 PM
Midtown Global Market
920 E Lake Street
Free
In The Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater invites YOU to join us for free all-ages puppet building workshops with artists Stayci Bell, Felicia Cooper, Ifrah Mansour, Jake Quatt, Lu Calvo Searle, and Fletcher Wolfe. Come meet other neighbors as we build a GIANT BEAST puppet. All are welcome! Workshops are held in English and Somali, and a Spanish interpreter is available. For more information go to hobt.org.
We Hear You—A Climate Archive
Thursday, March 14
7 PM
American Swedish Institute
2600 Park Avenue
Free – Registration Required
Join director Caitlin Nasema Cassidy and Swedish Counselor for Cultural Affairs Helene Larsson Pousette for a conversation about the global performance project We Hear You—A Climate Archive, exploring youth perspectives on the climate emergency.
In this lecture performance, Caitlin and Helene reflect on the project’s three year journey. What is climate storytelling and how can it shift our relationship to the environment? How can a university, a national theater, an embassy, and individual artists work together? What wisdom can young people offer us in this pivotal moment? Drawing on the fields of science, arts, and diplomacy, Caitlin and Helene share what they have learned through their collaboration. To register for this free event, go to asimn.org/event/we-hear-you-a-climate-archive.
The Doctor Wee-Woo Show
Open Eye Theatre
506 E 24th Street
March 15 – 24
$25 General Admission
$20 Students
March 18th: Pay-What-You-Can
An original comedy by an alleged Theatre Company, The Doctor Wee-Woo Show follows the eponymous Doctor Wee-Woo and his friends as they perform their award-winning and long-running children’s television program.
But something feels… wrong. Haven’t they done this before? Who are they performing for? And why does Doctor Wee-Woo keep yelling? Featuring physical comedy, puppetry, and original music, it’s like Mister Rogers meets Samuel Beckett. Note the performance is a dark comedy and not intended for children under 15. Find tickets and information at openeyetheatre.org/doctor-wee-woo-show.
Holi Celebration
Saturday, March 23
12 – 2 PM
Midtown Global Market
920 E Lake Street
Free
The Holi Festival of Colors in India is a celebration of the victory of good over evil. Join the Midtown Global Market and the Hindu Society of Minnesota for a narration of the Holi Festival expressions, with classical, semi classical, folk and Bollywood dance, traditional music, singing and more!
Okizi (To Heal)
Through April 13
All My Relations Arts
1414 E Franklin Avenue
Free
Okizi (To Heal), is a partner exhibition with the American Swedish Institute in response to the traveling exhibition, Arctic Highways: Unbound Indigenous People. Okizi highlights the revitalization efforts that reconnect this generation and future generations of Native peoples to our language, land, and culture as a means of healing. For more information, gallery hours and related programming, go to allmyrelationsarts.org/exhibitions-events/exhibitions/okizi-to-heal.
Arctic Highways: Unbounded Indigenous People
Through May 26
American Swedish Institute
2600 Park Avenue
$6 – $13
Free: Thursdays 3 – 8 PM
Arctic Highways shares stories of Indigenous People who live on different continents yet regard themselves as kindred spirits. Each artist tells their own stories, through their own forms of expression, inviting opportunities to explore what it means to be unbounded—not just for Indigenous People, but for all of us. For more information and related programming, go to asimn.org/exhibition/arctic-highways-unbounded-indigenous-people.
