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Weekend what's what: DIY or die!
by l’etoile magazine staff • July 10, 2008 •
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Arts Orbit is a multisource blog about the local arts scene, featuring both original contributions by Daily Planet writers and entries reprinted from partner blogs and online publications.
THURSDAY JULY 10TH
Creative Context
@ The Guthrie’s Target Lounge
818 2nd Street S
Downtown Mpls
10pm-Midnight / Free
Come check out our new monthly post-show party in The Guthrie’s Target Lounge, hosted by a rotating cast of amazing women in Twin Cities arts and media! Happening each 2nd Thursday of the month, Creative Context will feature killer tunes by Jonathan Ackerman and DJ Bach, happy hour drink specials, and an opportunity for you to pick the brains of some of the most influential and creative women in the city – or just sip some vino with your friends while enjoying the view! This month’s guest host is Emma Berg, Director of mplsart.com and head curator for the Gallery at Fox Tax.
You do NOT have to see the play to come to the party, but we encourage it! This week, l’etoile readers can enjoy $20 tickets to the Guthrie’s comedy “The Government Inspector” on Thursday, July 10 at 7:30pm! Call the Guthrie Box Office at 612.377.2224 and quote price code “AH” to receive this discount. For more information about the show click the link below! Offer not valid online or with other offers.
CLICK HERE FOR THE GUTHRIE SITE
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Bad-ass beyond belief! This rabble rouser illustrates dirty thoughts, gender and class, and imperfect relationships. Road has bragging rights to two graphic novels, record album art, concert posters, and magazine illustrations. Sexually and politically charged work makes her colors that much brighter. Priced for the masses, Road’s work makes the perfect backdrop for your next manifesto-writing meeting.
CLICK HERE FOR THE CRISTY C. ROAD SITE
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Basilica Block Party
@The Basilica of Saint Mary
Hennepin Ave between 16th St. and I-94
Minneapolis
5pm-10:30pm / $30-$250 / All Ages
Have you been craving the likes of Ziggy Marley, Gavin Rossdale and (admit it) the Gin Blossoms? Get your fix at the 13th annual Basilica Block Party. Two days of music and people watching (around 20,000 people to be exact). By partying on its grounds, proceeds fund the ongoing restoration of the Basilica. Jesus is watching, so get down there and have fun!
CLICK HERE FOR THE BASILICA WEBSITE
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Zine Fest
@ Stevens Square Center for the Arts
1905 3rd Ave S
Minneapolis
Saturday 11am-5pm & Sunday 11am-4pm / Free
Whatcha’ mean, what’s a zine? This two day extravaganza devoted to independently published and DIY books (zines) is getting all the art kids in a frenzy. Over 30 exhibitors will be selling and swapping zines while you eat Food Not Bombs deliciousness, peruse vintage Minneapolis zines, hear Mr. Mike of Mt. Holly reminisce about Mpls zine history, and see demonstrations and documentaries. Buy a Britney zine or one about roommates directly from the artists, usually for under 5 bucks, and own a piece of pop culture.
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Doomtree fans keep your ears peeled!
The Doomtree family is one that cannot be effed with. On the cusp of dropping their self-titled debut record, Doomtree is finally about to blow up. With one of the toughest work ethics in local music, the Doomtree crew dominates the market on backpack rap and DIY production. Each member of the crew is charismatic and talented, but taken as a whole, Doomtree is much more than the sum of its parts. Their genre-bending styles balance one another out flawlessly, with vivid rhymes filled with intelligent lyrics and fearless messages laid against a backdrop of primal beats and intense rhythms. These guys just keep getting stronger.
Their soon-to-drop 21-track album will be the first released to feature the entire collective, complete with guest appearances from the mighty I Self Devine and Kill The Vultures’ Crescent Moon. Be prepared for the Doomtree craze to take over the city come the end of the month!
WATCH THIS VID FOR A SNEAK PEEK!
SUNDAY JULY 13TH
Bastille Day
@ Outside Café Barbette
Irving & Lake Street
Uptown
4-10pm / All Ages / Free
Café Barbette is celebrating France’s Independence Day with a rockin’ block party complete with organic French food and drink, plenty of live music from Sensational Joint Chiefs, Faux Jean, Romantica, Black Blondie and One for the Team; and a wide array of events happening throughout the evening, including a the North Star Rollergirls Mini Derby and Aerialist Jim Domenick, and a flea market.
CLICK HERE FOR THE BARBETTE SITE
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mnartists.org seeks new short-short fiction for the summer round of this literary competition and publication series for Minnesota writers. Submission deadline has been extended to July 13!
mnartists.org presents miniStories, a quarterly flash fiction competition coordinated by Electric Arc Radio’s Geoff Herbach (author of The Miracle Letters of T. Rimburg,Three Rivers Press). This new literary series showcases previously unpublished short stories by Minnesota writers which are selected by authors, editors, and publishing industry veterans from across the country. Winning stories are then published on mnartists.org and in the e-magazine access+ENGAGE. One grand-prize winning author will be selected from each quarter’s miniStories winners by series coordinator Geoff Herbach to receive a paid commission for a longer-form short story which will be published on mnartists.org.
There are readings at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis at the end of each quarter’s contest cycle, at which miniStories winners and judges will read their fiction. The next miniStories reading by the summer quarter’s winning authors will be held at the Ritz Theater, July 28. An anthology collecting the inaugural year’s miniStories winning fiction will be published in April 2009 and available for sale at area bookstores.
CLICK HERE FOR THE MNARTISTS SITE
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