Sunday, December 21 2008

At the Cedar Cultural Center’s Winter Solstice Drum and Fire Jam, local drummers and professional fire dancers will perform on December 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Gather with friends and neighbors to light a candle for peaceful solutions to world problems at the 6th Annual Winter Solstice Peace Vigil on December 21 at 5:30 p.m. on the corner of Snelling and Summit Avenues in St. Paul, sponsored by Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace.

Cost: $8/advance $10/door

Description:This is an ALL AGE show, so you can bring whoever you’d like to bring. Tickets in advance are $8 and at the door is $10. If you’d like to reserve your tickets please contact Lady Ice, management, either by phone or email. Her phone is 651-780-7827, when you call please leave your name, number and how many tickets you’ll like to purchase and she’ll get back to you ASAP or email her at ladyice@kstyleridaz.com So everyone is welcomed to come out and show their love to the K-Style Ridaz.

PS. There will be other performers there as well!!

Ballet Minnesota’s classic performance of the seasonal favorite.

Arise! Books offers free food, including vegan chili and cornbread, and sales on their books. Food will be served at 11 a.m. and bands will start playing at 6 p.m.

A theatrical concert and musical radio drama created by playwright/director Peter Rothstein from Theater Latte Da and featuring three local actors and the singers of Cantus, one of America’s finest professional male vocal ensembles, All is Calm is based on real stories from an extraordinary time around Dec. 24 during World War I when men from opposing forces on the Western front lay down their arms in a spontaneous truce.

The countdown to the holidays is upon us and we at Nicademus Art are proud to announce our new show Home for the Holidays on December 13th 2008 starting at 7:00pm. John Grider (Broken Crow) and Mike Fitzsimmons (Paint Goggles) have been working steadily over the past year and are taking over Nicademus Art to bring you all fresh new art.

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.

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.