Sunday, December 7 2008

Circus Minimus Puppetry and Dreamland Arts present
THE PUGGLES —- A PLATYPUS ADVENTURE
Recommended for ages 5 and up

The musical tale of a brother and sister platypus making their way in this big, big world. THE PUGGLES combines hand, shadow, blacklight puppetry, masks and live music. Performed by award-winning puppeteers Shari Aronson & Chris Griffith and musician Dave DeGennaro.

Theatre in the Round stages this rediscovered 1950s gem. Click here for tickets and information, and here to read Dwight Hobbes’s Daily Planet review.

Circus Minimus Puppetry and Dreamland Arts present
THE PUGGLES —- A PLATYPUS ADVENTURE
Recommended for ages 5 and up

The musical tale of a brother and sister platypus making their way in this big, big world. THE PUGGLES combines hand, shadow, blacklight puppetry, masks and live music. Performed by award-winning puppeteers Shari Aronson & Chris Griffith and musician Dave DeGennaro.

Santa Claus is coming to breakfast on Sunday December 7, 2008, at Saint Bernard’s Parish Center located at Rice and Geranium in the North End of Saint Paul. Children can visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus and they will have a chance to enter the contest to win his special chair. There will also be a coloring contest and drawings every half hour for toys.

Pancakes, scrambled egg ,and sausage will be served from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.. Ticket prices are $6, and $4 for children four years of age and under. Photos with Santa are $2.

Read Amy Danielson’s Daily Planet review of Six in Paris.

7 & 9pm Nightly w/Sat & Sun Mats 5pm

Director: Chabrol, Godard, Rohmer, Rouch, Douchet & Pollet

Paris of the late Sixties, as seen by six acclaimed French New Wave directors, is recalled in this long unavailable, newly struck 35mm omnibus film, each depicting a different Parisian neighborhood.

10% Off Most Items at Uncle Edgar’s and Uncle Hugo’s bookstores.

WHAT:
> Celebrating its first holiday season in Minnesota, Holiday Lights in
> the Park is a new community event that focuses on raising funds for
> local charities and providing an impressive and affordable means of
> holiday entertainment for people of all ages. Visitors will enjoy a
> spectacular array of holiday lights and animated displays as they take
> an evening drive through Phalen Park in Saint Paul. The delightful
> tour is approximately 0.6 miles in length along Lake Phalen and Phalen
> Golf course.

Andrea Carlson
EARTH DIVER

EARTH DIVER features new works from Andrea Carlson’s ongoing series that both challenges and champions issues of cultural appropriation, assimilation and consumption. Drawing heavily on contemporary museum studies, Carlson’s new paintings on paper reference cannibalism as a metaphor to describe the commodification of culture and cultural tourism in museums and on film.

Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, noon to 5 pm

With surreal beauty and deliberate ambiguity Megan Rye’s paintings encourage viewers to see the Iraqi War through the eyes of those who’ve witnessed it firsthand. Her works in “Long Night’s Journey into Day” explore her ongoing fascination with images taken primarily by her brother, Ryan Nosek, while stationed in Iraq as a U.S. Marine. Rye has based her work off her brother’s photographs since 2005, the year he returned from duty.

An exhibit of Polaroid photography by Sean Tubridy. Click here for details.

A retrospective exhibit celebrating 15 years of Kulture Klub Collaborative, a non-profit pairing artists with homeless youth. Click here for details, and here to read Sheila Regan’s feature on the exhibit.

Artist Greg Lindquist will unveil a painting of the 35W bridge rebuilding when his exhibit “Remembrance of Things Present” opens at Bethel University’s 9th Street Entry Gallery on November 7. Details of the event are below.

Explore the traditions associated with Saint Lucia, from her origins as a fourth-century martyr to the legends of her appearance in Sweden.

There are many legends associated with Lucia starting in fourth century Sicily. A young woman gave her dowry away to the poor and confessed herself a Christian. For this she was accused of witchcraft and put to death. Another legend tells of a famine in medieval days. A glowing figure dressed in white, Saint Lucia came across a great lake in the province of Värmland, Sweden.
She brought gifts of food to the starving people.

A major exhibit of contemporary art from India, at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Bethel University’s Olson Gallery pleased to present new works by Bethel University Associate Professor of Art Jeff Wetzig.

Jeff Wetzig’s collection of prints transform their traditional roots in Japanese woodblock prints to explore the medium as a means of installation. He investigates the idea of boundaries and borders as they relate to themes such as mass communication, repetition, and fear. The delicate nature of line and color in his woodblock prints are an interesting contrast to their subject matter.