Giant mushrooms and an open bar

by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet • July 22, 2008 • As Minnesota’s application for statehood sat waiting on President Buchanan’s desk in 1858, across the pond Lewis Carroll was taking this photograph of Alice Liddell, the Oxford brat who would become the inspiration for the eponymous heroine of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Stevens Square Center for the Arts is celebrating the sesquicentennial of Carroll’s strange odyssey with The Alice Project: An Exhibit of Curious Proportions. We’re promised “Alice-inspired art from over a dozen artists”; art that will include “a maze of giant props.”

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Could be awesome, could be terrible, could be both…but if you show up at this Saturday’s opening-night party, you’ll also have the opportunity to enjoy snacks, chess-croquet, costumed characters (!), and a cash bar. Perhaps they’ll even try to invoke the dramatic-performance loophole in the smoking ban and sneak a hookah in there somewhere.